Dark Magus Returns

Chapter 965: Getting To The Bottom Of It

Since the three could see the Church ahead, it was time for a slight change of plans. There were a few church members that were outside, but since this wasn’t located in the major part of the village, there looked to be few members that were going in and out.

“We can do things a bit differently this time,” Safa suggested. “We know the Rylon Religion is up to no good. I doubt that it was a one-off considering the linked deaths here as well.”

Using her god eyes, even from this distance she could see a vast amount of mana coming off from the building.

“What we do know is they have to use those strange vials to use magic, so let’s try to get them before they can do that. But be careful-we know that the Lux spear I have was from the religion as well, so there’s a good chance that they could have other weapons like this as well.”

“Alright, but how are we going to sneak up and into the building then?” Liam asked.

Safa pulled out her spear and swung it in a circular motion.

“I can use light magic to cause a reflective effect. As long as we move slowly and are in the sunlight, we will practically be invisible to them.”

The spell had been cast, and Safa needed to keep a constant flow of magic to use the spell. It wasn’t too much of a problem for her though, since her special circumstances allowed her to essentially meditate and draw in constant mana and Qi as she moved.

The amount of mana she would take up using the spell and regain was essentially the same, so it was perfect for them.

“Wow, this is amazing!” Liam whispered. “We’re practically walking right by them, and they can’t see us at all. Right now I just want to kick them in the balls or something.”

“Will you shut up!” Simyon whispered aggressively. “Although they can’t see us, they can still hear us.”

Thankfully, the group weren’t talking or close enough for the people to hear them, and they eventually made it until they were around the right back side corner of the large church-like building.

Standing in the shadow of the building, the spell would no longer work.

“Alright, let’s climb this and enter from above. We should be able to stay hidden…and let’s take them out silently, but we need to make sure to keep one of them alive-we need answers.” Safa wanted to correct her own words; it wasn’t **we**, it was **her**.

She wasn’t doing this to be some hero of justice saving people from the Rylon Religion. Otherwise, they would have traveled to several other churches in the other Dark Faction cities. Maybe Safa could have informed Rayna to do the same to them as they had done to the churches. She was doing this because she needed to find out the truth and she felt like she was so close.

As powerful Pagna warriors, climbing the jagged-shaped church was relatively easy. They would only need a small point that was sticking out to lift their bodies up and ascend the side of the church.

When they had reached the very top, there was a balcony of sorts linked to the outside, along with a door. Liam walked forward and broke it with ease, and in a way that made practically no noise.

As they moved into the building, they now could see everything from above. They could see the familiar large reception hall, but it was several feet down to the bottom.

All three of them kept hunched up and decided to split up. While Simyon and Liam walked around the edge of the balcony observing the situation, Safa took a different tact; she waited for the right time when no one was looking and dropped down onto the ground.

She saw one of the orange-robed men walking down the hallway, and she had decided to keep up with him.

She continued to follow the man going to who knows what.

Seeing this, Liam quickly hurried to where Simyon was making a complete circuit of the balcony that went around the main area of the room.

“Hey, she’s gone off on her own. I thought we would try and take out everyone in this room first,” Liam whispered. “Should we follow her, see if everything’s alright?”

“Let’s just wait and see. If she isn’t caught or there’s no trouble, then we will continue and take on the others as well,” Simyon said.

It was a strange feeling, attacking people from the shadows rather than head-on. It wasn’t what they were used to, but they understood why it was necessary in this situation.

It was at the same time, though, that just outside of the Church, two individuals were walking up and appearing.

“So this is the place, kid?” Anna asked.

“That’s right, they took Charlotte. She has to be in there-all of them…they all used these strange powers to attack us, you have to help her,” Sunder said.

There was one reason why Sunder went on to trust this stranger he had met. When Anna had asked him about the missing girl that she knew, she had said **orange hair**.

Sunder had seen Charlotte with her orange hair rather than black. He imagined it was something that few people knew. At first, he was reluctant due to the people that were after Charlotte-she seemed to be on the run of sorts.

In the end though, she was already captured, so why not at least give it a chance.

Back inside the Church itself, Safa had continued to follow one of the orange-robed men who took a turn and went inside his room. He had gone to close the door by just pushing it behind him, but Safa had grabbed it before it shut.

Not hearing the familiar bang, the man had turned around and saw Safa. She lunged forward at that point and was ready to stab him with her spear.

“Safa…” the man said, frightened and startled, moving back.

Safa quickly closed the door behind her and continued to move.

“How…how do you know my name?” Safa asked.

“Of course I know your name,” the man said. “Your brother…Raze, right? He would talk about you all the time.”

Dark Magus Returns

Chapter 966: Everyone Colides

Inside the main church hall, both Simyon and Liam were observing the situation. They were counting how many members there were and waiting for the perfect chance to take them out. It was Liam who was doing the calculations in his head as he sorted through everything he could see.

“It looks like there’s no perfect option either way,” Liam stated. “Due to the amount of them there are, and the angles, if we take out two of them at the same time, someone will spot us. So we’re just going to have to go with it.”

“Or we could be a little patient and wait. It seems like Safa hasn’t acted yet, and who knows if these religion members are going to leave the room or not.”

They waited for the perfect chance. There were around eight members dressed in the colorful clothing. The good thing was there didn’t appear to be any worshippers or ordinary citizens inside the building at the moment.

But they all wouldn’t stay in one place for long, Simyon was sure of it. Regardless, though, it wouldn’t matter. A loud slam was heard, and the doors from down below were swung open.

Due to the position both Liam and Simyon were in, they would be seen by anyone who entered, so they quickly moved together from above to the side closer to where the door opened.

“This church seems to have a problem on its hands, and because of it now I’ve gotten involved,” a woman’s voice was heard. “You might have gotten away with things for a long time, but you just happened to capture the wrong person this time!”

All of those in the room had turned around, and Simyon and Liam wondered who was mad enough to just wander in like they had done.

“Wait, that’s Sunder!” one of the men said. “He escaped and he’s come back with some type of help. Everyone, ready yourselves!”

Immediately, many of them had grabbed the vials inside their robes and gulped down the liquid, while some had even pulled out small glowing daggers that were glowing with energy. Anna, seeing this, went to charge ahead towards one, and that’s when one of the Rylon religion members threw out both of his hands and a beam of white energy hit Anna right on her body. She could block the hit with her body and some of her own red beam of energy coming from her hands. But she felt her body soon being attacked in several different other areas as well.

‘I expected some of them to have magic, but I didn’t expect it to be like this!’

It wasn’t so much that the magic attacks were hurting her but they were annoying; every time she attempted to move she would be hit, and she couldn’t move too easily due to the particular boy who had come in with her.

“I… I can help as well,” Sunder said as he pulled a dagger and started to charge to the side. He had run behind a pillar, making it hard for them to attack him. Then when he was ready he charged forward at one of the men in orange robes.

Sunder went to strike, but before he could reach the man, with one hand holding the dagger, it started to light up and shine brightly until it had completely blinded Sunder and he had no idea what he was running into.

“We’ve been prepared for an attack for a long time, you thought we wouldn’t be ready!” the man said as he faced one palm of his hand right toward Sunder, ready to light him up.

Anna was still far too busy with her own situation, that she wouldn’t be able to reach the kid in time. She felt bad, but there was nothing she could do. With him gone as well, she thought she could actually get rid of these guys.

The beam of energy was shot out towards Sunder, and as he was gaining his eyesight back he saw it coming towards him, until a flash of blue light and the hairs on his body stood up.

His view was blocked by the blue image in front of him and so was the attack.

“Don’t worry, you can stay behind me and you’ll be okay!” a voice said.

Right after, Simyon had grabbed part of the wall to the side, and pulled it out and hurled it right toward the warrior. The warrior attacked part of the wall, disintegrating it to bits, but he could no longer see the intruder, because Simyon was right behind him.

With an attack right to the back of his neck, the man had passed out falling straight to the ground. At the same time, Anna suddenly was feeling she had a lot less pressure on her, as attacks were dwindling one by one.

She could hear loud groans and when she saw what happened, she could see several swords had been thrown and were now lodged into the enemies’ backs. Eventually dropping down onto the stage was a person she recognized.

“Liam… and Simyon, what are you two doing here?” Anna asked.

“We actually wanted to ask you the same thing,” Simyon said. “It’s good you came though, that was a lot easier than we thought because you two were such a big distraction for them. We worried that would actually be hard work.”

The two had eventually gotten into the center, and as they moved Liam pointed toward the dead bodies and raised his eyebrows. Simyon knew what he was getting at; Liam had once again taken out more than him.

“Man, how can he even compare like that? In the first place I’m a defense person not an offense person,” Simyon sulked.

“About your question… we’re looking into matters with Safa, which is why we’re here,” Simyon answered.

“Oh… I’m on the trail, looking for Charlotte,” Anna replied. “That’s why I’ve been away. It’s quite a coincidence we’ve both ended up here in the same place. The world is truly small. But I have to ask, if Safa is with you, where is she?”

Both Liam and Simyon had a worried look on their faces; Safa had been gone for a while now, and they had no clue what was going on.

Dark Magus Returns

Chapter 967: Her Borther’s Dark Secret

Inside the Rylon church, down the hallway in one of the secluded rooms where the core members could have time to themselves for changing or praying as well as other activities, Safa had entered the room following a single member.

She didn’t quite trust that Simyon or Liam would be able to keep someone alive for questioning, so she decided to take it into her own hands and saw the perfect opportunity. When she had been caught stopping the door from closing, she never expected to hear words come out from the Rygon religion member’s mouth.

“Safa!” the man said, startled, a bead of sweat dripping down his face as his eyes stared at the spear in her hand.

Using her foot, she reached out and closed the door before asking her own question.

“How… how do you know that name, how do you know my name?” Safa said, making sure the tip of the spear was pointed at the Rylon religion member. She was well aware of what they were capable of, so she wanted to have his hands up where she could see them.

“Of course I know you,” the man said with a smile, and gulped down his saliva to the point his Adam’s apple was quite prominent when sticking out. “I know you because of your brother; he would often talk about you.”

“You look just as he said you did—a silent beauty with long black silky hair. The two of you also have a similar resemblance.”

If it was any other person, or any other time, Safa might have let her guard down and dropped her spear slightly, but she knew fully what these people did, what they were capable of doing.

She then decided that it wasn’t time to be playing games and shoved the spear right through the man’s shoulder.

“Ahh!” the man screamed.

“Shut up, or the next one goes through your head!” Safa claimed, which made the man instantly shut up.

“I know you Rylon religion members, what you do, and the strange magic you use. Why do you think I’m even here in the first place,” Safa said. “Right now, I want to know, how do you know my brother, how were the two of you close.”

“If you don’t tell me, I will make your death as painful as possible.” At that moment, the tip of the spear lit up, and the wound was seen healing on his shoulder. The skin scabbing over and from the naked eye real progress was made.

Yet, Safa turned the spear and dug it in deeper, causing the same pain to vibrate through his body again. Healing him, and doing the same damage over and over.

“Alright, alright!” the man said. “But you have to promise to let me go if I tell you anything.” Safa was ready to turn the spear once again at that answer, until the man started to speak.

“The Rylon religion picked him up and brought him from the streets,” the man explained. “Raze said he was a runaway from his family, so we decided to look after him and in turn we got close to each other-that’s how I know about him.”

Safa then twisted the spear and shoved it through; now the point could be seen on the other side of his body.

“Why were our parents killed, what is all of this that he was involved in!” Safa asked.

“After bringing in your brother, he became part of our religion, part of our goal, and became a dedicated member to serve our sun god.”

The answer wasn’t satisfying to Safa; she wasn’t sure if this was what she wanted to hear, but she needed to, and wanted him to go on.

“The goal of the Rylon religion is to harvest energy from the realm above-the Divine realm. Through rituals and incantations along with sacrifices, we summon Divine warriors into bodies down below into a host.”

“When a host is forced from the realm above they are usually weak but their energy is strong. We then harvest the energy from the host and pass it on to our sun god.”

It looked like Safa was ready to turn the spear again, and the man could tell she was getting impatient.

“Your brother, he agreed to become a host in the end, he agreed to use your family as sacrifices, but I don’t know what happened, whether he got cold feet or changed his mind, because you are still alive.”

“The ritual, it must have ended with failure with everything that happened.”

Safa thought about it; the attachment that was currently on Raze, was that a Divine being? Was that something that came from the realm above that attached to her brother’s body? Was The then going to go back to the church?

Or was it that the ritual had failed, and in turn rather than a Divine being taking over her brother’s body, instead, the current Raze from Alterian had done so?

With it all though, she couldn’t imagine it, her older brother doing that?

“You tricked him, you tricked him into doing it, you sick people!” Safa shouted.

“No, we didn’t trick him!” the man pleaded. “We informed him of what needed to be done, we informed him of it all. He agreed to help us if we completed his request; for just a month he wanted to live a life of luxury.”

“A life where he could eat what he wished and not go hungry, a life where he could buy any items on the streets that he wanted, and not worry about where the next coin would come from.”

“We provided it for him, and he decided to be fully committed to the goal of our religion as a host!”

“Shut up, shut up, shut up!” Safa said as she pulled her spear out and then shoved it right through the man’s head, killing him on the spot.

Was this the truth she sought? That her brother had given up her family’s lives, and everyone else just for that? Was that all their lives were worth to her brother, who she saw in a good

light?

‘Why Raze… why am I the only one left alive?’

The sound of the door creaking was heard, and Anna, along with the others, had entered from behind. They saw Safa turning her head to look at them with tears falling down her eyes.

Dark Magus Returns

Chapter 968: Pure Panic

In the underground cellar, Carl was making a few last touch-ups to his preparations. Charlotte was still tied up to a chair with the magic circle beneath her, and then there were the two other so-called volunteers that were placed in their own magic circles as well.

He carried several large glass jars and placed them just behind where Charlotte was sitting.

“This bit will hurt slightly,” Carl said with a smile as a needle was placed into the top of Charlotte’s hand and then some sticky substance on top of it. Oddly, the flow of blood didn’t come down the tube that was currently inserted into Charlotte and into the containers.

The same was then done with her other hand. Not too far off to the side, Charlotte had also noticed other containers with strong glowing magical energy.

‘These aren’t regular containers, have they been enchanted with a spell, or some type of magic to keep the energy in, and that energy doesn’t feel normal either; it’s the same stuff they used in the small vials, but it looks like several litres of the stuff are inside.’

Looking around, Charlotte couldn’t find what she was looking for. Judging by what Carl had said earlier, she gathered that the energy had to be transported elsewhere but how. Was it through another magic circle, a portal elsewhere, or were they to be physically transported? ‘I don’t know why I’m trying to figure out what’s going on here, when I have a bigger problem. How am I going to get out of this situation myself!’ Charlotte thought.

Carl, after setting all the preparations, then stood there for a few moments; he looked at Charlotte and was tapping his foot.

“What is taking them so long?” Carl said out loud. “All they need is two more people. Is it such a hard thing to do? If they are slacking, then I will just use one of them myself.”

It was quite clear judging by the dynamic she had heard them speak of since her captivity, Carl was somewhat of a higher-ranking member.

Charlotte then witnessed Carl walking off, and heading into the darkness and eventually the sound of him ascending the staircase.

‘Come on! Come on, I have to do something right!’ Charlotte thought. She moved her fingers slightly and was able to cast a small amount of wind magic, but it did nothing to break the glass jars away from her.

In the room, there was nothing else, apart from the bodies of others as well.

‘Is it just because I’m me, that this has happened, being cast into this world alone! Why was I sent to Pagna! I can’t deal with this like Himmy can, I just can’t, I can’t!’ She wanted to cry, and in the end she felt like she needed to give up, it was the only thing she could do.

Carl reluctantly dragged his feet as he walked up the stairs; he did so ready to give a mouthful to all of the members. They were one of the top-performing churches, and they needed to keep it that way.

When he reached the top of the stairs and looked down the hallway, he felt like something was up. He tilted his head and tried to look straight ahead, and that’s when he could see something in the main hall.

A head was lying on the marble flooring, blood spilling from the person’s mouth.

‘A member has been killed, what is going on!’ Carl went to rush forward, but after taking one step, a realization had come. It was silent, it was deadly silent. Someone else should have noticed something was going on, which made him come to the realization that maybe everyone had been killed.

Looking closer, Carl had noticed something else on the floor-a broken vial-and it was completely empty.

‘They had consumed the substances and still this is the result. This is bad, this is bad, what can I do… what can I do.’

Turning around, Carl felt like there was only one thing he could do. He turned and decided to run right back down the stairs where he had come from.

“Hey, there’s one more!” Liam called out, as he looked back into the room with the others. “I’ll go get him.”

Carl had quickly descended down the stairs, and when he entered the cellar, he pulled out a dagger. He wasted no time, as he then used it to slit one person’s throat. They collapsed on the floor, and blood filled the formation on the ground.

Moving to the next person, he had done the same.

Charlotte started to panic seeing this; her heart was beating at an incredibly fast speed. She wondered if the dagger was going to be used to slit her throat next.

Instead though, she saw that Carl had headed straight for the jar of energy. He lifted it up and turned around.

“I said stop!” Liam shouted as he threw his sword.

The others following him had entered right after seeing Liam’s sword in the air.

The sword continued forward until it had pierced the jar. The substance inside spilled all over Carl, while part of the sword also went into Carl’s body. The substance fell all over, and then dropped to the ground.

“Wait, we were meant to keep him alive,” Simyon said. “What are you doing?”

“Don’t worry, I made sure not to pierce him that deep and missed his vitals. These guys are a piece of cake to deal with.”

However, a strange sound and energy was being felt from everyone, and Safa could see it- the energy was spreading through the room from the jar.

The strange substance then leaked into the magical formation on the ground, started to light up, and it continued until it had completely surrounded where Charlotte was.

When she looked up, Charlotte’s eyes had met with Anna’s, someone she knew, but the fact that the formation was lit up, there was pure panic running through her instead.

Dark Magus Returns

Chapter 969: A Costly Mistake

Liam was enjoying the little friendly competition that he was having with Simyon in his head. He had a tally of how many more members of the Rygon Religion he had taken out over his partner. In his mind, it made him a stand-out figure, and he would stand out in Safa’s eyes.

So when he saw another man wearing orange, he thought it was his time to shine and rushed off after him. He had become incredibly skilled at duplicating and throwing his swords, taking out his opponents, and he had done the same rushing off after Carl.

Liam was so focused that he didn’t even have a chance to look at the condition of the cellar or what was in it, and had just thrown the sword out.

‘Even though this attack won’t kill him, I’ll still count it as an accomplishment over Simyon!’ Looking deep down, maybe it was the fact that Simyon had done a better job when it came to taking on Sha Mo.

How he had used his body to protect everyone, where his attacks were useless, whereas right now they were working. There was still a smile on his face as he saw the sword pierce through the strange jar and stab Carl in his stomach.

“What is going on in this place?” Simyon asked.

The main thing he noticed weren’t just the dead bodies and foul stench, but how fresh two of the bodies were that were in the room, blood was still dripping out of their bodies.

“Charlotte!” Anna called out, as she had finally found her target as well.

Yet it almost felt like it was too late. The strange magical energy that was kept in the jar had spilled onto the ground and touching the magical formation it had activated it.

“ANNA!” Charlotte wanted to scream, but her voice came out weak. How was she meant to tell Anna to stop the formation?

Regardless it didn’t matter, Anna was already charging forward.

‘I don’t know what’s happening but it’s not good. I wasn’t there to help when Himmy needed me. I have regrets that I didn’t spend more time with him when I should have. I have so many regrets that I was too focused on my task. When I lost him it was only then that I realized what I lost.

‘I was never really close to Charlotte, but if Himmy asked me to save her, I’m worried that I might have that regret again, when she’s right in front of me.

Due to her work with Alter, Anna had come across a few magic formations before. Although activated, it didn’t seem to be working straight away, and afraid she would get caught up in the spell, instead she positioned her hand opening up her palm.

A red beam was starting to gather and she fired out toward the floor. She was just going to destroy the formation itself.

Before the red beam hit the floor, a strange glowing white orangish energy had come out and hit the beam instead. It was the same attack that she had experienced before above ground, only this one was far stronger.

The moment it met with the red beam of energy it had consumed it completely and pushed back. It then hit Anna’s hand and caused it to be flung back with a large burning sensation going through her body.

Before she knew it, she was lifted off her feet as another beam hit her in stomach and she landed on the ground now staring at the ceiling.

The others looked ahead and could see where the attack had come from. It was from the individual who Liam had attacked.

“He seems a lot stronger than the other ones.” Simyon gulped, placing his hand on his beads ready to transform his body.

For the Rygon religion member known as Carl looked incredibly different. There was a glow that was surrounding his entire body, the wound that had been made on his stomach had completely disappeared.

Yet the energy was flowing from all over to the point where the pupils in Carl’s eyes could no longer be seen, they were completely white and filled with energy.

When Safa used her god eyes, it was blinding in the cellar; the energy was rampant all over the

room.

“So this is it,” Carl said looking at his hand. “This is the energy that we pass on to the sun god. For how long have we passed on this power to him, with us only dipping into this nectar now and again.

“If that container contains this much power, then our god must truly be the strongest individual in existence, we have served him well,” Carl said with a smile.

“It’s the same stuff that was in those small vials, but it seems the container of the stuff has taken over his body completely. He has an immense amount of power,” Safa explained. Carl then looked at the formation that Charlotte was in, and he scorned slightly.

‘It’s running quite slow. Is it because of the lack of sacrifices, is it not enough to call someone? But this time we have a mage, so there is a good chance that more of the person’s power can be drawn down.

‘I’ll need to get rid of them all.’

Liam was ready with his blades, and Simyon had already activated his lighting body. Safa had drawn out her spear, hoping she could draw some of the energy out of Carl, but it was a long shot due to the large amount of energy, and finally, Anna had gotten back up off the ground, looking at the frightened Charlotte who could feel the formation doing something, incomplete but the fear of a ticking time bomb going off at any moment was causing her to panic.

They all lunged toward Carl but with a smile on his face he had pulled out a silver orb in his hand. It lit up, and exploded.

A bright flash filled everyone’s eyes but when it hit them they felt no pain. When the flash disappeared though something very odd had occurred.

Simyon’s lighting body was no longer working. Safa couldn’t feel the energy going through her spear, and for Liam and Anna both of them had received the same messages from their

system.

[Error, Error, System is unavailable.]

“What just happened?” Simyon asked.

“I think… we might have just lost our powers,” Liam answered.

Dark Magus Returns

Chapter 970: Losing all Power

With Safa’s god eyes, there were a few things that she was able to see: the large flow of mana in the room, the flow of mana around certain individuals and devices, and in particular, what type of mana was being used.

All of the vials that the religious members were taking, including the energy and powers they were using to attack them-all of it was light magic. It was why her Lux sword was acting up as she entered certain places and why she was able to even counter and control other magics that were being used her way.

The round sphere-like device in Carl’s hand, she also knew that it was a device that was powered by powerful light magic. Knowing a few light spells herself, she had assumed that the flash of light was to blind one’s opponents and then give them the chance to attack.

All of them had been blinded by the magic that had come out of the spear. It had a wide range of use, and they felt no pain. This was the case with many light magic spells, as there weren’t too many that could be used as an attack.

Even the beams of energy that the Rylon religion members were using were more like pure forms of mana to attack rather than light magic spells.

So then Safa was wondering why, currently she was struggling to gather her mana. She could see it flowing around her, but it was almost as if she couldn’t use her mana core to control it.

With her mana not working, she next tried to summon her Qi as well, yet this was doing nothing as well.

She opened her mouth, ready to call out to the others to inform them that something was wrong with her, when Liam spoke instead.

“I think… we can’t use our powers,” Liam stated.

“What do you mean we can’t use our powers!” Simyon called out, and when he turned his head, Carl had dashed toward him.

Carl himself didn’t look to be using the magic energy, but his body was still glowing with power. The way he moved was much more like that of a Pagna warrior. He had burst over and with a fist punched Simyon in the stomach as hard as he could.

“ARGHHH!” A scream came out of Carl’s mouth. “How is your body so hard… I took away your Qi!”

Simyon could feel it; he no longer had Qi in his body that he could use to power himself. His lightning body and his forms of magic were gone, but his body was reliant on the item he wore. Although he could use Qi to strengthen his body.

Simyon’s body was completely refined anew and was more like that of a weapon. So even with strange things happening, his body was incredibly hard even to a warrior’s fist. Out of everyone, Carl had chosen the worst opponent.

With Carl in front of him, Simyon threw his fist down, but it completely missed as Carl moved out of the way.

‘My fists are so slow without Qi… I’m just using my regular body strength!’

Liam had come and tried to attack from the side, even throwing out his weapon, but Carl shot out a beam of energy from his hands, hitting the duplicated weapon away, then hitting Liam in the stomach and sending him away.

Safa and Anna, using this opportunity and not worrying what was going on with their bodies, had decided to pincer in Carl, attacking him from both sides.

‘Even though I don’t have the system to help me out at the moment, I can guess what Safa is doing from all my experience of fighting!’

The fist and spear were thrown toward Carl, but with both of his hands, he had hit the spear or the sword away, and knocked the fist of Anna away. It had knocked their bodies slightly off balance. Now Carl’s hand was beaming with energy again, and it burst, hitting both of them. Anna was flung back just like Liam, and the sensation and power was hurting her body a lot more as well. She eventually crashed into the wall, her body feeling sore.

‘I can tell the nanobots in my body are still working. I don’t have the body of a natural human, but something is definitely up with them. That shouldn’t have hurt as much as it did. Will things be back to normal, and how much longer until they are?’

However, there was one person who hadn’t been hit back as far as he would have liked; instead, he was right next to her, swinging the spear again. She swung it, hitting the back of Carl. His body jolted slightly but it didn’t hurt much.

Before Safa could pull it back and thrust the tip, Carl then held onto the spear itself.

“I see you weren’t affected by the hit from before; was it because of this spear? I feel like I recognize it,” Carl said, with a large smile.

With the great strength in his hand, Carl knew he could still use Qi, while the girl, although having survived the hit, she would be in no way able to help but forcefully allow for the spear to be taken.

“Don’t let go of that spear, Safa!” Liam shouted and launched himself, grabbing onto part of the body of the weapon. Liam started to pull, as well as Safa, but Carl was still too strong. Carl was ready to yank the weapon when another pair of hands had landed on the weapon; these were firm.

“I’m here as well… if he gets this, along with that strange orb he has, who knows what he’ll be able to do!”

All three of them were pulling as hard as they could but despite that, with no Qi in their bodies, it was a losing battle for them. Carl yanked the spear, causing the three to topple over each other, and when they looked up they could see that Carl now had the Lux spear in his hands.

And Safa could see the energy shining from his body into the weapon.