Battle War; Magic, Sword and Dragon

25. Serious Fashion

Elsewhere, Kuro ran towards the rock area. This is the only rocky area on the edge of Lake Limph. And this is where Knox, Ken and Suburo wait for Kuro with sneaky smiles.

They were very confident in the plan they had made to stop Kuro.

They could have fought 3-on-one like Jinn, Ishi and Seta did, but they knew it would be useless if Kuro had no intention of fighting them and just passed by.

Besides, they weren't too sure they would win against Kuro in the usual way. It was of course because Kuro had abnormal speed and strength.

But, Kuro's abnormal speed and power in the magic world was actually a matter of course.

Magicians can accelerate their run by using Rt Leap magic and various other types of speed-type magic arts. For power, witches simply use power-type magic arts like Jinn's.

But not only Kuro, there are actually many ordinary people (non magicians) who have speed and strength like Kuro and are able to fight equally or even win against witches.

But such people were mostly adults or elders who were experienced in fighting and practicing special techniques such as sword techniques (Blade Art) or martial arts (Martial Art).

That is the reason why the F rank is so special and unique.

Rank F. A rank given to a teenager who has the equivalent power of a witch and is able to win against a witch.

Knox turned his head towards Ken who was located beside him.

Ken nodded his head in understanding Knox's intentions.

The two of them then joined hands like lovers, even so, they actually intended to use the combined magic arts.

The technique was one that had a high level of difficulty and a small success rate, but they still had to do it. They should.

"Knox, are you sure we can do this?"

Ken looked nervous because this was the first time he would use a high-level technique, but it seemed different from ordinary-looking Knox.

"Don't worry, we can do it. I used to be successful, and after that it turns out this technique is not so complicated, it just requires certain conditions for this technique to work."

At first Ken didn't understand, but after thinking for a while, he knew what the terms meant by Knox.

"..... I see, so the reason why you're taking me is because we have so much in common."

Knox nodded.

They were both Contractors-type magicians and were equal to A-rank. Plus their elements are also the same, namely earth/land.

Although Jinn was also a land element, she was different from Knox and Ken.

If Jinn is the type of person who is easily excited like Kuro, meanwhile Knox and Ken are the type who calm down and analyze the situation before acting.

"All right, we're gonna start!"

"Yes!"

The two of them looked ahead.

They looked at Kuro who was running towards them with a leisurely run. Although it looked relaxed, Kuro's running speed was faster than it seemed.

"....."

Meanwhile, Suburo who saw the two men holding hands only smiled bitterly. It's a ridiculous sight at once disgusting.

In the end, Suburo could only sigh deeply and pray that he would not perform such complicated and disgusting techniques.

Currently the distance between the three of them and Kuro was over 250 meters. This is a distance that can be said to be close.

And it is at this distance that Knox and Ken will begin the combined magic art.

""......""

They both closed their eyes and concentrated. After that they both squatted together and put one of their hands to the ground.

Knox left hand, and Ken right hand. Meanwhile their other hands still joined hands as a liaison.

A yellowish-brown aura emanated from their bodies as a sign they were activating magic arts.

Suburo broke out in cold sweat as he felt the overwhelming mana pressure from the two of them.

""Sacred element art ... Labirinth""

They shouted and at the same time, a magic circle appeared under their feet and enlarged to 2 meters.

After which, the magic circle changed shape to be like lightning and moved at high speed towards Kuro.

The lightning moved like a snake that crawled and stopped just below Kuro's feet.

"!!"

Realizing something was strange, Kuro stopped running.

It was then that the magic circle suddenly appeared under his feet and enlarged to a diameter of 50 meters.

"?"

But the magic circle disappeared like smoke and nothing happened.

It made Kuro confused and astonished. Are they going to use useless trap magic like that?.

That question had appeared in Kuro's mind, which was why he decided to run again and did not care.

Two steps forward, he was struck by the ground that suddenly shook like an earthquake.

"?!"

Then arrived the wall came out of the ground rocks and blocked his view. Not only from the front, from the back and sides, but also the same wall.

Kuro had experienced this before while fighting Jinn, but there were different ones.

On top there is no wall that pops, behind it there are also no walls and bends visible.

Kuro realizes that this is a labyrinth.

"........."

Then Kuro was silent for a long time. After that he sighed deeply.

Wh why?

This is indeed a great magic art and requires a large amount of mana to create a labyrinth.

But again this is a useless and futile technique if faced with Kuro, but why do they still do it?

"..hmmm"

Kuro walked over to see if the labyrinth that was blocking him was a trap or not. And he finally found no trap.

If you think about it again, it's natural. Earth element magicians with high abilities can create a labyrinth with a variety of complicated traps to defeat the enemy. But right now Knox and Ken are just young witches who are still inexperienced.

If you look now, there is a possibility that someday they can make a better maze.

Kuro walked a few steps, he looked up at the sky. Then he checked the layers of the wall that were blocking him.

Strenuous. That's what Kuro thinks.

But with a few punches, he could definitely destroy it, but it was just a waste of time and manpower.

But if it goes to find a way out, it will be the same, so there is only one option, which is the upper pass.

He then jumped up using the wall as a foothold.

Although the labyrinth wall was quite tall, which was about 10 meters, but it was easy for Kuro. The problem is that he didn't find any traps on the walls of the labyrinth.

Bizarrely.

Knox must have realized that the technique was actually free against Kuro. In other words Knox created a labyrinth for a specific purpose, but what?

Kuro then saw the view from above the labyrinth wall. He was just standing on a wall that was not wide, but he had no difficulty in having difficulty balancing his body.

"This reminds me of being trapped in the labyrinth 4 years ago in Foresia. But this labyrinth really sucks.."

Kuro felt nostalgic. He was recalling his past while traveling around the world.

Yep. He has been traveling the world for over 1.5 years.

At that time he was only 11/12 years old, but he decided to leave the Rukia forest and travel the world. He did that to perfect the technique used when fighting Jinn. In other words it was a time where his strength was not yet perfect.

For a normal boy, circling a world filled with monsters and evil witches was a foolish and unthinkable act in their minds, but Kuro was not a normal boy.

She's special.

As a child, he thought like an adult and had strength equal to that of a normal adult. Many people thought that he was a boy, but they also knew that Kuro was special.

Then one day something happened that changed his whole life.

It was actually a memory that Kuro did not want to remember, but that was the reason why he was the way he is today.

Regretting was too late for Kuro, which was why he decided to gain strength so that he would not have to feel regret again.

That's the source of Kuro's power. Power that comes from regret and hatred.

That is why he will never doubt or fear. He kills if it's necessary. And he won't regret it.

"................"

So what should he do now?

Of course keep moving forward.

He closed for a while. He was concentrating and felt a strong gust of wind.

His dark black hair decomposed and became messy, but because his hair was soft, then his hair quickly returned to how it was.

And finally he opened his eyes.

He showed a gaze like the moment he came out from inside the box that Jinn had created. In other words it was a gaze that was a sign that he was ready to fight.

He clenched his hands and ran.

He ran at high speed and jumped many times.

Thanks to his incredible balance he had no trouble running and jumping on the small, thin wall.

And in the end he reached the end of the labyrinth and jumped up high.

His jump was even 25 meters high.

"Sacred magic art Spear Cannon"

Suburo is a C-ranked User-type magician. He was a water element like Ishi and his magic arm was a cannon.

Suburo fired his cannon at full power, but the target was not Kuro.

That was because after observing Kuro's strength, Suburo knew that Kuro could dodge even in midair.

In addition, Suburo's sacred magic art doesn't have to hit the target.

The blue light shot out from Suburo's cannon just above Kuro, but it did not go straight up and disappeared like smoke.

It was at that moment that a 25 meter magic circle appeared.

Then water appeared and formed hundreds of ice spears. The ice spear descended at high speed right towards Kuro.

".........."

Without a word, he turned his head up and paid no attention to Ken, Knox and Suburo who were already gasping for air from exhaustion. This was normal considering they were already using their strongest techniques.

Kuro is in a desperate situation. He was in the air and was the target of hundreds of ice spears.

He would definitely die if hit by two or three ice spears.

This is really bad.

........But if hit by a spear.

"..........."

Then dozens of spears came towards Kuro, but before the spear hit his body, he spun around in the air and kicked the spear to the upside and blocked the other spear from attacking him.

Crash.....

The sound of cracks and broken spears rang out in both of Kuro's ears.

Unfortunately it's not over.

There were dozens more spears attacking him the moment he fell as the spears continued to fall right towards him.

"............."

Kuro calmly caught the two ice spears in the air when it almost hit his body, then he used those two spears to destroy the remaining dozens of spears hitting him.

He managed to survive, but he had wounds all over his body in the form of small scratches. His uniform was torn here and his face was also slashed to the blood.

But the widest wound was the wound on both of his hands from holding a sharp ice spear.

The spear in his hand had now become a bloody spear and was also crushed to pieces.

"What!!"

Suburo widened his eyes when he saw Kuro doing all that in the air.

After all, Kuro's actions were almost impossible for humans to do.

"............."

But for Kuro this was an easy act even though he had to suffer a lot of incision injuries. Wounds are better than dead.

And after surviving Suburo, this is the time for a counter-attack.

The three of them were already helpless, so Kuro would definitely easily defeat them, or at least break one of their bones.

But, somehow Knox actually smiled when he saw Kuro survived and intended to strike back.

Realizing the oddity, Kuro looked at where he landed.

"....?!"

He saw the ice spear thrust deep enough into the hard layer of soil, this was not normal.

Kraakk...... Kraakk.. Crack

Then the ground where Kuro's footing cracked and shattered into pieces like glass. And after that appeared a hole 35 meters wide on the ground and 50 meters deep.

Not only that, under the hole there is mud that looks sticky like glue. It was mud made from the combination of water and earth element magic.

"That's how it looks.-"

Kuro understands that this is their real plan.

Kuro finally fell into a hole full of mud.

Meanwhile, Ken, Knox and Suburo smiled in satisfaction as Kuro could not avoid their trap.

They were currently standing right at the edge of the hole and saw Kuro fall down.

(The purpose of the labyrinth is not to lock you up or mislead you, Kuro, but to make you jump up. After that Suburo will attack you with sacred magic art that makes you think that there are no other traps, but the real trap is the mud hole that we made by utilizing the time stretched by everything.)

And with the detailed element art, Knox created a thin layer of soil so that Kuro thought that the land was solid soil.

(But I didn't expect him to survive hundreds of spears in the air, he was a monster.)

Yep. It was amazing because Kuro did it without using magic.

But it was something normal for a magician as they could use Shield's magic arts to survive Suburo's attacks.

(Saft, don't let us down because I don't know how long to hold the monster back)

Knox smiled and eventually fell to the ground from being too tired.

Today he used sacred element art twice, to create holes and create mazes. So this is normal.

He had already reached his limit and could only pray that Saft could carry out the most important part of their plan, which was to finish first and get a ticket before Kuro.

This was the reason why Saft ran without using magic.

If using magic will get an additional 50 km, so it is impossible to do by 11 men who have used magic, but this rule does not apply to Saft who does not use magic.

From the average speed of Saft's run, Knox can guess Saft has run as far as 65 km. It was 26 km away from where they were currently.

Thank you to all who sacrificed for Knox's plan.

(But I didn't think we could all just hold Kuro and give Saft 25km to go)

But now Kuro is trapped in a mud that's like glue. How fast and strong Kuro is, he won't make it out so easily.

"All right now we're taking a break for kh!!"

It was at that moment that the three of them felt a strong gust of wind from within the hole, this glance was just like a storm.

Then the three of them were startled by a figure that suddenly jumped high up from the middle of the hole.

"What!!"

Suburo could not hide his surprise when he saw Kuro jumping up to 50 meters.

But he was startled again as Kuro moved forward zigzagously in midair.

"He kicked the air!!?"

This time Ken was struck by a technique that even magicians find difficult to do.

Kicking air.

It was a technique that Kuro mastered while traveling around the world, but he could perform this technique only when he had already taken off the weight on his body.

"I'm impressed by your trap, honestly I didn't expect you guys to make such a complicated trap, which is why I'll show you my technique as a gift, hopefully you'll still be alive after receiving this!"

Kuro smiled like a demon and stopped kicking in the air and floated not far above Knox at 25 meters.

After that he spun 4 times in the air and kicked the air towards Knox, Suburo and Ken.

"Don't tell me..."

"my me.."

Knox's guess was right, Kuro created a scythe made of wind by kicking the air.

This was no different from the wind scythe that used to be a wind elemental magician attack.

But Kuro's attack was not magic, and their uniforms were only capable of neutralizing magic, so if they were to be hit by Kuro's wind scythe, they would actually be cut into chunks of flesh.

Realizing the danger from Kuro's attack, Knox directly activated the Earth Wall's magic art.

"Ken, Suburo, hurry behind me if you want to live!!"

They both obeyed Knox and took refuge behind him.

At the same time he put his hand to the ground and a magic circle appeared. And it was from that magic circle that a wall of earth appeared that protected them from the Kuro wind scythe.

"UGH...!" "Kkk." "Damn..."

The three of them received dozens of Kuro wind scythe until their hands bled and their clothes were torn. They realized that if it wasn't for Knox, the three of them might have died.

After a while Kuro's attack stopped and they heard the sound of objects falling behind them.

It was Kuro who stood his back to the three of them.

Reflexively, the three of them turned towards Kuro and saw the demonic smile of Kuro turning towards the three of them.

Buuukk.

"?!"

From behind, they heard Knox's earth wall cut neatly and crumbled into small chunks.

This is not normal considering that the earth wall should not be easily cut off by wind scythe.

But Kuro didn't attack the origin. That was what caused his wind scythe to be able to cut through the earth wall.

(He attacked at the same point, ..this is impossible.)

Knox realized Kuro's attack also had high accuracy, which was what caused his earth wall to be neatly cut off.

But he also realized that this was not the time to think about it.

Their current situation was more dire than they thought.

Kuro still looks fresh even though he has a lot of injuries and is full of incisions, but Knox knows that there are still many killer techniques that Kuro has not released.

And of course all of his techniques were not magic.

Knox realized that if Kuro intended to kill the three of them, he could do it easily because the three of them had already reached the limit.

Moreover, Kuro's gaze was one that showed no mercy and was so cold. He looks more like a demon than a human or a monster.

"Huhh. You're still alive apparently, thank goodness I didn't overuse my powers. Then I'll see you."

After that Kuro ran over and left the three of them. He even waved his blood-filled hand.

"You must be kidding, right?"

Ken widened his eyes because he had just heard something impossible.

"...He said that he still hasn't taken out all his abilities?"

".........."

Knox was silent, but he knew that Kuro wasn't lying.

He then sighed deeply and was grateful to realize that all his efforts were not in vain. He now had a lot of data telling him how powerful Kuro was.

So he decided to take a break to recover their strength.

But when he stepped his foot.

Kraaaaac.

"uh?"

Then he felt his body fall down.

Not only Knox, Ken and Suburo also fared the same fate.

They were currently falling into the trap hole they had created.

"Ahhh... shit!"

Knox was only able to resign because he realized that he was also exposed to his own tricks.

From the beginning Kuro had no intention of attacking the three of them.

He attacked for them to gather in one place and he cut off the ground where they stood, which was at the edge of the hole.

And that was the end of all three of them.

The three of them survived, but they could not move.

They could easily escape by using element art, but the three of them had already run out of mana.

So eventually they can only be patient until their energy is restored.

In the sticky mud.

But the one who suffers the most is Knox because he hates dirty things.

(I'll get you back!!)