Dark Magus Returns

Chapter 388 Magic Is Stronger Than Marital Arts

An announcement had been made by Amir, and it was trickier than they thought. Tinson and his group now needed to believe in their own individual strength more than ever. After going through each of the tests together, they now would be going through it alone.

Then there were the others. So far, only Raze had been made a target of Feebie, due to his run-in with Lisa and claiming he was the one who had finished her, but there was a worry on his mind.

A worry about a threat Feebie had made, how she would get rid of all of those who were close to him. To make him feel the same pain as her, as they would enter each of these portals on their own, it would be the perfect opportunity for her to get rid of them, or at least him.

“Amir said something important that day, while in the academy, they must abide by the rules. He seems to be a person who is willing to uphold them no matter what, even at the cost of going against the clans,” Raze thought. “It must be the reason why Feebie didn’t attack back then either. The two of them must be at a similar level in terms of strength.

“Maybe Amir is even stronger, but in the dimensions, although owned by the academy. Since no one is observing and it’s off the academy grounds, I have a feeling she might act.”

Raze had already done a lot in his current state. He thought with how dangerous everything was going to be, it was time for him to get Safa to heal him. He started to move slightly, inching forward toward her, the moment he took a step though.

One of the men in the large tooth-like mask, and dressed in black stood directly in his way, and shook his head.

“The next test will be starting immediately,” Amir claimed. “As I said, you will not be going to the library just yet. Each of these men here, they will be escorting you to the portal expeditions.”

Dame looked at the others and looked at Raze as well. What was the best solution, should they act now, try to kick up a ruckus, and then get Raze healed? That didn’t make sense while only one side was really viewing them as the enemy.

The main issue was that portals in Pagna couldn’t be moved. They just opened wherever they were in the world and stayed there. Then depending on where it was, a clan was more likely to claim territory to it.

Which meant that the group would be split up even more as each of them went through the different portals.

“Stay strong, and if you make it through this, all will be well,” Amir claimed.

Standing now behind each of the ten students were the men with the strange masks on their faces. They then started to move, and when the students didn’t follow them, they turned around staring directly into their eyes.

They quickly got the message that they were meant to follow along.

“We just have to get through the first day,” Liam thought to himself. “If we do, then we will all be able to meet up again and come up with a plan.”

All of the students were escorted out of the academy, and even when escorted, they had headed off in different directions from each other. Not knowing where the other would be, and all they could do was wish each other luck.

Raze had crossed the large stone bridge and continued to follow one of the Erupting Fist Clan members. He was walking ahead and would turn his head once in a while to check on Raze.

The two of them had entered a valley of sorts, westward from the academy. It was an area made out of large grey rocks that were slanted and curved upward like waves. It was hard to see where one was, and it was an area that was devoid of life.

“Not getting Safa to heal me before this assessment starts might cause some issues,” Raze thought to himself. “When going through this dimension I need to be ready for anything. I’m not even sure how strong this guard is.”

If they were from the Erupting Fist Clan and trusted to just escort them on their own, then Raze believed they had to have some level of strength. His hand was twitching as he kept moving.

“Should I attack him now and get rid of him? If I do that, I don’t have to go through the portal?” Raze thought to himself.

“What’s wrong with you!” The masked man eventually shouted, noticing that Raze was walking slowly behind.

To which, Raze’s response was to point at his neck and tried to take in a deep breath. The pain could be felt with that alone.

After a short break, they continued to move ahead. ‘It’s best not to, the test will last for another month, and the Crimson Crane, they should be gathered up and on standby at the moment, ready to be called if needed.’

Finally up ahead, standing next to the portal were five men who were from the academy. Raze knew they were from the academy due to the headbands they were wearing.

They were grey in color. It was the color of those who were staff in the academy but weren’t part of teaching the students. These could mostly be seen in the main academy and had appeared during the attack as well.

There were also higher position figures like Gunther that didn’t wear any such headband and were part of the academy.

The academy personnel were aware of what was to come and stepped aside, including the masked man, who had gestured with an open palm toward the portal.

“You can come out of the portal when you wish, only after at least 2 hours of exploration has been done. If you wish to improve your strength in this test, then stay as long as you can,” the masked man informed.

Reluctantly, Raze walked past the others. He felt like he could get stabbed in the back, sliced from the others at any moment, and what about on the other side of the portal, what if the entire Lethal Bite Clan was waiting for him, all of it worried him.

Still, he had no choice as he was cautious and stepped through the portal. ‘I’ll make it out alive no matter what because there are still a lot of things I need to do.’

Stepping through the portal, Raze’s body shifted, warped, and he felt his whole body appear on the other end. Immediately, he could feel the atmosphere and heat hit him, the humidity that was in the air could be felt.

The sun was shining brightly, and the terrain around him, it all showed that he was in a different world. There were buildings made in round shapes out of a type of sandstone.

While large green trees were seen peeking up high above in different areas. What was strange is even just up ahead, he could see a river that looked to block the path between two areas, and the top of two houses visible.

‘The portal leads straight into a past civilized area. This is not good; there are plenty of areas and places where one can attack.’ Raze stopped in his tracks, and then turned around he could hear it, the portal activating again. freēwēbnovel.com

Appearing from the same place Raze was in just moments ago, was the masked man that had been following him.

‘I’m going to go ahead and assume that these guys weren’t meant to follow us in here.’

“She said this would be an easy job,” the masked man claimed. “But, she told me to be careful. I will see this as doing you a favor and ending your pain!”

After finishing his words, the man dashed forward and pulled out a small dagger.

‘Who are you to decide that!’ Raze thought as he swung both of his hands. Push of the wind spell was activated and the sand on the ground lifted up like a wave, and pushed forward right at the warrior.

‘Dark Pulse!’

Raze attacked with not one, but both of his hands, emitting a large beam of Dark energy through the sand. It broke through creating a hole, but the man hadn’t been hit by the attack, he had already moved to the side.

‘He’s fast.’ Raze thought.

“What type of strange tricks are you using!” The man shouted as he swung his dagger down.

Raze was able to perform a two-step shift right at that moment.

‘The kid, he avoided it, he’s fast… wait what stage is he at to avoid that?’

The attacker’s Qi was extended out through the dagger and slashed against his uniform, it cut through, but stopped short, not able to cut through Raze’s body for some reason.

“What, it felt like the dagger slipped off!” The man thought.

To which Raze smiled and managed to grab the man with both his hands. ‘For a limited amount of time, I can fight at the full six stage level, and my magic has never been affected by any of this.’

The man’s whole body started to spark up, his body was being fried hitting all over, his muscles unmoving, and at the same time, Raze was using the extraction technique taking his energy and adding it to his own.

Eventually, Raze dropped the man to the ground, and looked at his dead body.

‘His speed, his strength, if I was to take a guess was he a stage 5 or 6 warrior?’ Raze thought. Noting what dangers the others would be in.

“I thought there was something strange about you, it looks like you’re quite different after all,” a calm voice said from atop one of the round buildings.

Looking up, Raze could see it was Feebie, the leader of the Lethal Bite Clan.

Dark Magus Returns

Chapter 389 A Clash With The Clan Head!

Since the beginning, Feebie had been inside the dimension. The dimension in which she knew a certain someone would be appearing. The thing was, she was hesitant to act against the boy himself.

The encounters she had had with Raze were troubling her. For one, how was a no-name able to best all of the main disciples back then? She had seen it herself and it still didn’t make sense.

If someone had explained what had happened, she would have thought it was a mere exaggeration or they were crazy, but it was true, and those events were what gave him the nickname of the White Dragon.

If it was one of the other main disciples, then she could have accepted it; they were students that had learned techniques passed down from the strongest clans with the largest amount of history.

Yet, it wasn’t; it was a no-name who had used Demonic Faction techniques. Not even one bell pointed into the Dark Faction. To her, it was a humiliation to the Dark Faction as a whole and wondered why the principal was so accepting of this person.

If a no-name was able to rise above them all, it would ruin the status quo, the status that her clan had managed to earn, rising to the top.

In her mind, she needed to get rid of Raze, and she had the perfect way. The upcoming assessment, where death was expected, she had decided to give her own clan member Lisa an edge, yet somehow, even after everything that had occurred, Raze was still alive.

Something felt wrong, even when Feebie had punished Raze, crushing his throat and breathing, to make sure he wasn’t able to fight back, he was still able to survive multiple situations.

So she needed to see it herself, see how he was able to get out of tough situations, and now, watching him from above, she had seen it with her very own eyes.

“I knew something was strange about you; I saw what you just did,” Feebie exclaimed as she lifted up her fist in the air; it was wrapped in oddly green-colored wraps, from her forearm all the way down to her knuckles.

“I could sense it, what you did with the sand, and that strange attack that came out of your hand, and then the lightning, none of it was Qi techniques. Although there are some clans that can specialize in certain Qi-like attacks that look similar, no one would be able to do such diverse things.”

“It was no wonder you were able to beat the main disciples; you are a cheat.”

In this situation, Raze really wondered if that mattered or not. Wasn’t it the Dark Faction’s philosophy to win a fight regardless of the cost? Then everything he did was just fine.

If they wanted a fair fight, then all clans should be open to everyone’s techniques, to learn and use. In his case, it was the same; he was just using the knowledge he had.

“What are you, some type of beast! Yes, that’s exactly what you are, just a beast in human skin!” Feebie threw out her fist right from where she was, and the wraps on her hand started to unravel.

They were coated in a type of Qi, stretching out and snapping, aiming right where Raze was currently.

‘Crap, I didn’t expect her to attack from so far, especially since she has no weapons!’ Raze thought, holding out his hand.

‘Dark Shield!’ freēwēbnovel.com

Dark Magic was meant as a destructive force. It wasn’t meant to be used for defense, but the spell Dark Shield unleashed his Dark Magic from the palm of his hand, forming a barrier.

Unlike other magic that could create a more solid shield, the Dark Magic Shield was used as a way to destroy anything it came in contact with. As the wrapping of the Qi smashed into the Dark Shield, the Qi exploded, bouncing the Dark Magic in all directions.

The shield had been destroyed in a single hit, and before Raze could react, he saw another wrapping come from his side and wrap around his leg.

His whole body was lifted into the air and was thrown off to the side; his body crashed into a building. The rocks fell from the building on top of him, but Raze was soon seen getting up from the floor, holding onto his chest.

As he stood up, the school uniform, the clothes he had been wearing, was disintegrating from his body, and now being revealed underneath was the special Mythical-ranked blazer, black in color with a white trim around it.

‘The blazer took some of the damage, but that was still a powerful physical hit which hurt me more. Still, the effect of the blazer will let me heal a bit as well while I’m wearing it.

‘I need to get out of this situation; with the way I am now, I’m not really sure I can beat her, even with all my items and skills!’ Raze thought.

Carefully watching her, he needed to plan ahead; this wasn’t a fight where he could just do as he wished. In his current state, he could fight rather well but only for a limited amount of time.

Was this someone he could beat in one hit, like he had done against the member of the Behemoth Clan? It might be his only chance.

“Look at that,” Feebie said as she jumped down landing on the ground. The sand was pushed to the side revealing the flooring underneath.

“You used those strange powers again and managed to block my attack. This is very interesting, maybe I should dissect your organs and try to find out how you’re able to do this! No, but then I wouldn’t get the pleasure of killing you.”

Feebie clicked her fingers. “Ah, I know, I wonder, can any of your friends do the same thing. Those that are around you all the time. The fact that they have gotten this far is also a surprise. Well, we will soon find out if they are like you or not.”

“Just in case you don’t understand what I’m saying, just like with you now. I have instructed high members of the Lethal Bite Clan to enter every single one of the dimensions and to deal with all of the old students regardless of who they are!” Feebie smiled.

Hearing these words, Raze’s eyebrows furrowed in anger.

“Haha, look at the expression on your face; I can tell you’re annoyed and worried,” Feebie laughed. “I told you before that I will get rid of everyone that you care about. I don’t know who they are, so why don’t I just get rid of everyone who is even close to you, that way I’m sure to ruffle a few feathers, right?!”

Lifting his hand, Raze placed it around his throat; for a moment, he focused as he activated the effects of the Blazer he wore, while at the same time, forced his Wind Magic out and his Qi around a certain area.

“Do you think,” Raze managed to say; it was cracked, but the voice was now loud enough for Feebie to hear from where she was. “Do you think I’m really worried about them?”

“Attacking me today, you have no idea what you’ve done. Once I’m done, no one will even know the Lethal Bite Clan ever existed!”

Dark Magus Returns

Chapter 390 Vice Head Trouble

The strange guard had escorted Simyon away from the others. He was worried about what could happen to him, but more than the rest of the others, a certain person would appear in his mind again and again.

Her large round eyes, her long perfectly brushed black hair.

‘She’ll be okay, right? I mean, Raze took her under his wing and taught her magic. She also has the other items on her. If Raze had given us these strong items, then surely he would have given her something useful as well.’

No matter how hard he tried, he kept envisioning himself jumping in front of her, saving her from a vicious beast attack, and each time his face would turn a shade redder.

“Students, stop wasting time and enter the portal, or I’ll have to push you through!” The masked man shouted.

Seeing the portal in front of him, and with his resolve ready, Simyon had jumped in. When coming out on the other side, the planet was filled with a fluorescent green color, but it wasn’t green from the trees and such.

Instead, it was strange green glowing slime that was running through the cracks of the ground. The planet itself was shrouded in darkness apart from this fluorescent green slime.

‘I really want to touch it, but I have a feeling that if I do, something strange will happen to me. But with this being the planet, I wonder what beasts are going to be in this area.’

Walking across, Simyon’s eyes looked for any sign of life, but he couldn’t find any so far. Instead, he just followed one of the green streams of slime on the floor until he had reached a large stream like that of a river.

It was a thick substance, and even more so now, Simyon just wanted to place his hand in it.

“I mean, I have a harder body than most, right, so it shouldn’t affect me as much?” Simyon thought as he reached out to touch it, but before he did, he thought it might be best to find a stick or something.

Standing up, he turned around, and immediately a sword swung at him. At the last moment, Simyon managed to raise his hand and a clang sound was heard.

Simyon’s body was still lifted off the ground as he skidded across the floor. Looking at his arm, it was slightly bleeding. He soon could see his attacker, who was staring at his own sword as if he was surprised.

“How could a student survive a strike from behind like that?” An older woman, who looked to be around her fifties, wearing long clothing, was standing there.

“I guess there was a reason why the leader told me to get rid of you.”

“Hey, this isn’t part of the test, right?” Simyon stated as he stood up and took a fighting stance, reforming his Qi.

“Test,” the woman laughed. “This is no test. I don’t know what you did, but the Lethal Bite Clan head has ordered your death.”

Hearing these words, Simyon knew something didn’t feel right when he was having those images flash through his head. Gulping, he needed to focus on his own situation for now, because this person was strong.

Liam, who had survived many attacks, could hardly put a mark on his arm, yet this woman had done so on the first strike, which meant she was quite strong.

Simyon’s bad feeling was right, because he wasn’t the only one that had a surprise attacker on him.

Both of the other two main disciples, Mada and Ricktor, in the dimensions they were in, they had met those dressed in martial arts clothing, appearing in front of them, attempting to take their lives.

Ricktor had come unscathed by the surprise attack and just smiled at the situation. While in Mada’s case, he had been hit, a slash across the chest, before he was aware of what was happening.

At the same time, similar things were happening to Tinson and his group of friends as well, and then there was Safa.

She had entered a dimension that looked as if she was walking on clouds. The area was dense not with fog, but a thick material similar to it. It was filled in patches of the area.

Because of this, she was using her god eyes skill, and although she didn’t see anyone with Mana, through one of the clouds, she did manage to detect something strange.

So she hadn’t suffered a surprise attack, but knew what was coming. She needed to decide whether or not it was best for her to run in this situation, or try to get the upper hand against whoever it was trying to attack her.

Dame had similarly had an attacker in his dimension, a land that was filled with shallow water, and waterfalls that were falling from large rocks that floated in the air.

It was as if he was walking through a giant cliffside with water that would go up to one’s ankles. When his enemy had jumped at the chance to attack him from behind, though, he had dodged the hit and grabbed onto the enemy’s arm.

Then, lifting his own hand in the air, the black gauntlets were revealed before he twisted his hand and punched directly in the gut of his attacker with a powerful Qi technique.

The attacker’s body spun in the air before it crashed into the rocks, and he fell into the water. Before the attacker could fully get up, Dame had already lifted his body by his throat and slammed him into the wall.

“I thought this might happen; I just didn’t expect you guys to attack so soon,” Dame stated. “Let me guess, you’re from the Lethal Bite Clan, right?”

The man smiled in response even with the tense situation at hand.

“You know that much; you must have all really upset the clan head then.”

“That stupid B*tch?” Dame replied. “So she was the one that ordered you to do this. I bet she never expected someone like me to be here, huh?”

The man started to laugh, but he was struggling through Dame’s heavy hand around his throat.

“You are a strong one. It’s a shame that we didn’t really know who would go through which portal, apart from the White Dragon,” the man stated.

Dame expected as much. Feebie would want to deal with Raze herself; it was best he got out of this place quickly and went after him.

“Tell me, which portal is the White Dragon in, which portal is your leader in!” Dame tensed harder around his throat, yet the smile on his face still persisted.

“Do you really only care about the White Dragon, and not the rest of the students?” The man stated. “As I said before, it’s a shame we didn’t know who was in which portal and the strength of your group. If we did know, our vice head would have been here to deal with you.”

Dame’s heart sank slightly.

“I see you get it now. If the Vice head isn’t with you, then it means he is with one of your other friends. So let me ask you, are your friends at least as strong as you, can they deal with someone at the middle stage?”

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Entering his dimension, Liam was quite pumped up. He was ready to take on any beasts that came his way, and when he entered his world, it was a world filled with four full balls.

The grass had these strange large

balls on the end of it, while at the same time, there were giant tree-like structures, but instead of leaves, there were large balls on them.

“What did look nice about the place was how colorful everything was. All of the balls were different colors and were quite bright.

‘Is there really going to be beasts in this world?’ Liam thought.

As he continued to walk, he soon noticed something on the ground. Painted on top of the ball-like grass were streaks of blood. They were splattered on the top. He followed where the blood went, and a large bug-like beast was lying there on the floor.

‘What killed this?’ Liam thought.

Looking around more, he could see that there were several large bug beasts killed all over the area, having fallen on the grass.

“Yhaa!” A voice from above came. “Alright, it looks like you’re finally here; let’s get this job done, so I can head back to the clan.”

Looking above, a man wearing a pointed straw hat could be seen sitting on one of the large tree structures wearing martial arts clothing.

“Wait, I recognize you?” Liam couldn’t quite put his finger on where.