Dark Magus Returns

Chapter 1004: Compelty Trapped

The four were getting themselves ready and prepared to fight for their lives against Mosak. They still felt like he had shown little effort in his attacks and his fighting. Perhaps on guard from the fact that all four of them were attacking him at the same time.

When suddenly, after just delivering a single punch against Zon that seemed ineffective, his whole tune had changed. He stood there on the tree branch, looking at all of them.

“You are free to go ahead,” Mosak said.

Beatrix and Ricar looked at each other.

“Is this some type of trick?” Lince asked. “It has to be. Why would you suddenly let us pass? Are you going to attack us from behind? Attack us when our guard is down, and we think we’re safe?”

“I would do no such thing,” Mosak said. “I have weighed up how much effort it would take to get rid of you four and have decided it’s best to just let you pass. You can believe me or not, but I will no longer be stopping you.”

Mosak didn’t stay for conversation, and just like that, he had left. They couldn’t see which direction he had gone, whether it was back over the bridge in some way or further into the jungle.

Making them even more unsure about what to do.

“I can confirm that he is no longer in the vicinity,” Zon stated, thanks to his system.

“Can you also tell about what he said just now, about letting us go further or not, whether it was the truth?” Lince asked.

“I believe it is the truth,” Ricar answered. “If I’m right, that man was a Divine being, a person who was from the Light Faction at one point. I could tell his techniques were from the Aurora Clan. We from the Light Faction wouldn’t go back on our word or attack from behind.”

“Yet you are willingly able to destroy the whole of Pagna because of your stubbornness,” Lince commented, saying the words loud and clear.

This was the second time they had met someone who had said the same thing, which was why rather than arguing back, Beatrix and Ricar stayed silent, as they were unsure about all of this that was happening.

“We will continue to travel with you,” Ricar said. “Our deal was to continue to work together until we found the Golden Globe.”

Lince and Zon didn’t argue about this. With everything they had run into so far on the island, they thought it might be the best decision for all of them.

Mosak was rushing back through the jungle, and he had gone back instead of forward over the bridge and was just by the area where the jungle started to turn dark yellow. He stopped for a moment before going left and was now running in seemingly a big circle around the area. ‘Those four were a bit too rash rather than thinking things through, but I hope I haven’t made the wrong decision,’ Mosak thought. ‘The bridges-I noticed before that there is more than one entrance into the central area. Each bridge is protected by a white-furred monkey. If I’m right, then all of the bridges will lead to the same area either way.’

Mosak continued to run around until he had eventually come across a bridge, and he was quite surprised to see that there was no white-furred monkey-at least no monkey that was alive. Coming across its body, he could see that there were several holes in it and slashes made across its entire body.

“Is this something a sword could do?” Mosak wondered aloud. “More importantly, this might mean someone has reached the center before me. The area I went through-there was a large, powerful beast, which would have been painful to beat.”

“Now the others are going to have to deal with it. I thought maybe the beast would be protecting something important, but maybe that was just an unlucky bridge to cross.”

Mosak would find out eventually by exploring, so he decided to cross the bridge. He went further in, exploring the yellow-colored area. Following whatever path felt the most natural and void of plants and large trees.

He saw no other powerful beast like he did on the other path, and eventually, he was led to a large opening. Ruins that were covered with moss were part of a giant mountainscape. Walking forward, he went inside and continued to follow the path.

The path then opened up into a giant hall, and Mosak could see it. Strange tiles on the floors were covered in markings he didn’t see before, nor did he understand. They were spread out wide in a circular shape on the ground.

Even more important, though, was that there really was another person who had arrived before him.

“Huh?” The man with red hair said. “Who are you? You’re not someone from the Light Faction. Why are you here?”

Mosak sighed.

“Why is it that everyone I meet on this island is rude?”

Paying close attention, he noticed the black tight suit the red-haired man was wearing and could see it was very similar to the last man.

“What, you like what you see? Well, this is my body, man, and you ain’t touching it with your filthy hands!” Red shouted.

The vein on Mosak’s head was starting to grow even larger.

‘Maybe I should just teach this man a lesson or two,’ Mosak thought.

He moved in and stepped into the circle to get closer to the red-haired individual. The moment he did, though, a strange sensation was felt throughout his entire body. It was almost the exact same sensation as when one went on the island-only even more forceful and disruptive to one’s body.

“This… is even affecting me?” Mosak looked at his hands.

“Haha, haha! Look at that, I tricked you!” Red said. “Now you’re in the same situation as me. You’re trapped in this place, just like I am.”

“Trapped?” Mosak said, turning around and making a fist. He tried to throw a punch right

where he came in from. His fist didn’t go past the area where the circle was drawn on the floor and instead had hit some type of barrier, not activating the Qi in his body at all.

“It looks like I really am trapped,” Mosak said.

Dark Magus Returns

Chapter 1005: Belil’s Power

Inside the jungle, after defeating the beast, Raze was able to sense something from his side. It wasn’t just Qi that he was able to sense, which was why he knew there was a fairly large group of people not too far from him.

“He knows we’re here, which means we only have one choice now,” Krynic said as he gripped onto his spear firmly. “We have to take him out!”

Krynic rushed out, and in doing so, the rest of the Light Faction warriors decided to follow, thinking it was their time to move. They knew who the individual with white hair was.

It was all anyone talked about these days, and at the end of the day, this was their enemy-the leader of the Dark Faction and ally to the Demonic Faction. This was the man who had also climbed his way to the top of the Dark Faction.

If they didn’t eliminate him, then he would eliminate them. With these thoughts in their heads, they willingly charged with Krynic.

“Wait!” Impress shouted. She didn’t think it was a good idea. She thought everyone had gone mad. Didn’t they just see what that individual had done to the beast, and so effortlessly as well?

Raze stood his ground as he saw the group of people run towards him.

‘Judging by their clothes, all of these guys are from the Light Faction, and they don’t exactly seem to be giving me a friendly welcome, which is understandable. So far, I’ve been going through this jungle aimlessly. If they’ve spent a day more than me here already, then it might be best to use their knowledge first.’

The other thought going through Raze’s head was what a pain it would be that he couldn’t use magic, so there was only one thing he could do. He lifted his foot, gathered his Qi, and slammed it onto the ground.

‘The first Descending Step!’ One of the fundamentals that Raze had known for a long time sent a powerful wave of Qi at all of the Light Faction members, making all of them stop dead in their tracks.

They could feel the Qi entering them, making them feel almost sick and unable to move. Some were staring at the ground, covered in their own sweat, wondering what had happened, until they heard the cry of a fellow member.

“ARGHH!” A man shouted at the top of his lungs as a sword was struck through his body. The man fell on the ground, bleeding from part of his neck, until he was lifeless on the ground.

The others looked at the fallen warrior, a middle-stage warrior, but they could only do so for a moment because it only took a second before another was struck.

They could see Raze moving to each one of them, swinging his sword. Some could finally move and had lifted their swords, pouring all of their Qi into the weapons, but Raze struck, breaking right through the swords.

Four men had already been taken down.

“This is taking far too long,” Raze thought as he jumped through the air and landed several feet away from them. “Belil said I have his power now… I haven’t had a chance to really use it, so let’s see what it can do!”

Raze lifted his hand in the air, and the Demonic Qi started to swirl from within around his fist. It felt like a great weight was in his hand, and it was only getting heavier and denser as he lifted it.

Those that came close, including Krynic, felt as if their own footsteps were getting heavier as well. It was the first time they had felt so much pressure from Qi before.

‘He can’t have gotten this powerful, could he, in such a short amount of time? This isn’t the power he had at the Martial Arts Tournament!’

The next thing Krynic knew, Raze had thrown out his fist, and several ripples of explosions were seen through the air. The punch had ripped the grass from the ground, including several trees in the area.

As the attack hit several of the Light Faction warriors, they were lifted off their feet and sent flying with the grass-if they didn’t pass out beforehand, anyway.

Krynic eventually found himself falling to his knees. He felt pain in his entire body as he had used every inch of his Qi to just stay standing in front of Raze, the Dark Magus. He, a high- staged middle warrior, wasn’t even able to get close to the person in front of him.

At that moment, he felt very, very foolish about his actions.

“It seems it worked out well,” Raze said to himself, looking at his fist as he walked over to Krynic. “I controlled my Qi so it would go around you and not hit you directly. I needed one of you alive to tell me what you’ve found so far. So, tell me are you going to speak?”

Krynic was still in shock, and he had only just turned his head to see the chaos and destruction of the jungle that had been caused by one person. A whole section had been uprooted and destroyed. A place that was terror and an island of hell for them was nothing to this man.

Not just that, he was thinking of the answer that Raze had proposed to him. What was he meant to tell him? That they had been cowering on the island away from the beasts like those he had just defeated?

That they had yet to find anything of worth? It would sound like a lie even if he said anything.

“I don’t want to waste my time,” Raze said once again and placed his sword on the shoulder of Krynic. He started to press down, placing his Qi into him, and Krynic felt his knees sink as they were pushed and breaking part of the floor.

“Wait!” Impress called out, running. “We can work together… we can help you.”

Dark Magus Returns

Chapter 1006: Don’t Waste Time

Never did Raze think that he would be traveling side by side with two of the Light Faction members, and he didn’t even know the positions of the two members. It just fit the situation of him needing to find the Golden Globe as soon as possible.

Currently, Impress was leading the way with Krynic by her side, and Raze was following slowly from behind. The truth was, Impress had revealed that she would lead them to a location that looked suspicious in her eyes, as long as Raze didn’t harm or get rid of Krynic.

But Krynic and she both knew this was a lie. They had found nothing but beasts since they got there and only knew of two locations.

Both of them were constantly looking at each other, wondering what the best thing to do was, as she was just aimlessly walking through the jungle right now.

‘Maybe if we keep walking, we might run into an even stronger beast, one that even the Dark Magus will have trouble with. At that point, the two of us can run away,’ Impress thought. ‘My way wouldn’t let me leave Krynic behind when I knew I could do something to help him, so I had to step in. But this might be the best chance if we’re both alive to survive as well.’

Impress did feel somewhat bad because leaving with Raze meant the two of them had left the group of Light Faction members behind. Some no longer had life after being hit by the Dark Magus’s attacks.

Others had been badly injured to the point they would struggle to move. It usually wouldn’t be so much of a problem, but on an island like the one they were on now, it most likely meant death with no one there to protect them.

Meanwhile, Raze had his own thoughts going through his mind as he trodded behind the others.

‘These two could be leading me aimlessly around this jungle. It doesn’t seem like they’re high up in the rankings of the Light Faction. I need to find the real people in charge if I want to get somewhere.

‘The Light Faction and Alter wouldn’t have sent such a small group. I wonder when I should ditch these two in front of me,’ Raze thought, blatantly unaware of those he was traveling with.

When thinking about the punch he had unleashed, the power he had witnessed was subpar to that of Belil. He remembered the conversation. According to Belil, the method he had used to give his power to Raze allowed a more direct transfer of Qi and energy.

It wasn’t like the extraction technique. So not only did he have a large percentage of Belil’s Qi, but he had his own now as well. So Raze figured that his strikes when gathering Qi should be even stronger than Belil’s, and yet they weren’t.

The only reasons he could think of were that Belil had used some type of technique when throwing his fist, or Raze wasn’t best at utilizing the Qi, or his body wasn’t yet adapted to the Qi completely that was within him.

The destruction he had caused with his fist was something he could have done with his second formation—the Eclipse Strike.

What Raze didn’t know, since he had rushed onto the island, was that everything was different. The terrain, the strength of the beasts, the ground, and the trees themselves. All of this and the experiences he had so far with the beasts and the warriors he met made him have a lackluster experience when he expected more.

While walking around, Impress did notice a change in the scenery. She had continued to head straight and noticed a change in the jungle’s colors, deciding to head there. Eventually, all three of them went into an open area where they could see a long wooden bridge.

It was a strange place to put a bridge because it didn’t go over a trail of water or a big cavern, but a bridge that just went from one rock to the other-something Pagna warriors could get across with relative ease.

Only, there was also something directly in front of the bridge. There was a large, giant white- furred monkey with four arms and four tails. On either side of the bridge, there were two piles of black coconuts.

Immediately, the monkey picked up one of the black coconuts and hurled it toward the group. Both Impress and Krynic pulled out their weapons to defend themselves. The spear and sword, filled with Qi, clashed against the black coconut, and the two of them were being pushed back through the ground.

They were moving further and further until they had nearly reached Raze’s position as well.

‘What is with these two? I thought they would send strong Light warriors to this place, but they can’t deal with a beast like this?’ Raze thought.

He had seen various sizes of beasts in different areas, and the size didn’t always mean strength. But this beast didn’t look too intimidating, nor did it seem to have any special traits, unless a person counted throwing coconuts as one of them.

Eventually, the coconut fell to the ground, and Impress and Krynic looked at each other. They could tell from the coconut throw alone that this was the strongest beast they had come to face.

“We will need to go all out to take out this thing!” Impress claimed.

“I will go from the right, and you go from the left. Otherwise, the beast will hurl all of those coconuts in one direction,” Krynic said.

Both of them were ready as they nodded at each other, prepared to go, until Raze walked forward and headed straight in the center of the two.

The monkey, seeing Raze with his white hair, picked up one of the black coconuts.

“I already told you guys that I’m in a rush,” Raze said.

The monkey hurled the coconut again at Raze, and he was ready to swing his sword.

“Crimson Slash!” Raze used his most common but helpful technique, one he usually used magic with, but this time he just used Qi, and it stretched out.

The coconut was split in half. And shortly after, the beast’s body was split in half as well. “I can’t waste time,” Raze said to the two.

Dark Magus Returns

Chapter 1007: 10 Times More Powerful

After debating the situation for a while, the group had come to a decision that the man known as Mosak had told the truth, that he truly let them go ahead. Although they were suspicious, the fear that maybe someone else would get to the Golden Globe before them had pushed the group forward.

The main fear being pushed by Zon who had already started to walk ahead and the rest somewhat followed.

The group went on ahead, traveling through the dark yellow area of the jungle. The terrain was starting to change, as the large trees were becoming fewer and the area they were walking in was becoming more open.

“Can I ask a question?” Beatrix asked, and instantly Ricar turned, scowling at her, almost wondering why she would even speak.

She knew this would be the case. Ricar was the elder of the Clan, he had authority over her in the clan, and had been there longer. Although the two of them carried the same rank, there was still a level of authority between them.

“Our agreement didn’t include questions between us?” Lince joked. “But feel free to go ahead.”

“The Golden Globe, this item that Alter is after, what is its use-or let me ask, what is your use for it?” Beatrix asked.

A question that had been bugging her for a long time. In her mind, Ricar had been blinded by trying to revive the clan to the position that they were before, and by it, he was blinded to what the Aurora Clan and Illumination Clan were doing with Alter.

If anything, Beatrix was annoyed that they were being led by the Alter Clan and wanted answers herself.

“What I’m going to do with the item? Maybe throw it in the sea so no one can get their hands on it,” Lince said.

Judging by Lince’s answer so far, Beatrix had no clue if he was lying or not. So she decided to maybe talk to the other individual who was far more straightforward.

“To go this far for an item just to chuck it away makes no sense. Do you follow the same view as your friend?” Beatrix asked. “It seems that you two aren’t from the same Faction… your powers don’t seem like a warrior’s either.”

“I can tell your reason for asking these questions,” Zon replied. “Your intentions are to find out the use of the item. For me, it’s very foolish to blindly follow orders and not know the

cause.

“I will not use the item to have an effect on Pagna, but I wish to use it myself. However, I won’t do so until I finish my business that needs to be dealt with here.”

Beatrix didn’t say anything else, because the answers were so vague they didn’t really make any sense to her, and she felt like asking further wouldn’t lead to anything else. They had said what they wished to say-one speaking sarcastically and one speaking in riddles.

As they moved closer, Beatrix noticed something else. The ground beneath her feet was vibrating slightly. It wasn’t strong, and it didn’t feel like the normal energy that came from someone using an attack of Qi or some sort.

Since it was just a small rumble, they all figured it was something to do with the island and continued, but the rumbling of the floor could still be felt.

“There’s no volcanic activity up ahead, and the island itself is not vibrating off in the distance. It appears that only our area is being affected,” Zon explained.

They hadn’t mentioned it, but Zon’s words had just made them all worry even more than they did before.

“Do you know what’s causing it?” Ricar asked. He was still thinking back to why Mosak had let them go through. Although the Light Faction was honest, they had their ways of getting around the truth, which was what worried him slightly.

When Zon stopped dead in the jungle, the others stopped as well.

“The terrain-it seems to have changed,” Zon answered.

“What do you mean?” Beatrix asked.

“The land around us, the trees, and everything else. This whole island’s landscape has been weird, with plants and the ground giving off the same heat signature as the beasts we’ve come across,” Zon explained.

“Wait… wait, the land is changing?” Lince said. “And the plants are giving off the same heat signature as beasts. Has it been the whole island or just this new area?”

“Just this new area,” Zon answered.

Collectively, the other three wanted to slap their heads at the same time. Zon was the one able to gather the most information. He was straightforward and seemed to know what he was doing-or so they thought-but he wasn’t reliable when it came to putting information together to draw conclusions.

Now, all of them started to notice the trees and the flooring seemed to be moving. Large giant mounds were forming, and the movement was picking up speed. Along with it, the vibrations on the floor were growing more violent.

As they looked up ahead, just shy of the large mountain that was in front of them, they could see another large mound rising up in the sky. Dirt and leaves were falling from the mound, and a clearer picture of something else was forming high above the island.

Three separate, long, large serpent heads had emerged, with several yellow, golden piercing eyes staring down at the ground. As for the rest of the area that had been moving along their side, it was the legless limbs of the large giant creature they were now looking at.

On top of the limbs, on its body, and even on its neck, several of the trees they had been seeing in the jungle were attached to the top of its skin. They didn’t appear to just lay on top of the body, but to be part of the beast’s body.

“This creature… looks around ten times stronger than that monkey,” Lince commented, and The feared he was right.

Dark Magus Returns

Chapter 1008: The Storngest Beast

The ground continued to shake in the area of the island where they were. The rumbling had spread wide and nearly affected the whole island. The crew that were on the shore could feel the rumbling, but when looking into the jungle they were unable to see further and deeper within.

As for Lyon and his group of Light faction warriors, they had been spending some time in the darkened green area of the island. Lyon quickly climbed up one of the tree’s, jumping to the very top.

He had expected to see a spewed volcano, maybe lightning or some sort of attack nearby. Instead, far off in the distance several miles into the island, he could see three large separate- like heads.

They were darkened green in color, and each of the separate heads that floated up had several eyes coming out from them.

“It’s a beast…and a giant one at that… for a beast that size to be on an island like this….how old would it have had to be? How many hardships would it have had to have gone through to fight against so many enemies to be able to get to the sheer size that it is now.” The thought of such a beast sent shivers down his spine.

When looking down, Lyon could even see movement through the forest. They were too far away for it to be from the beast, instead they were from several large creatures, around 6 meters in height, of all shapes and sizes.

One with large two yellow heads that were attached to a long neck ran in their direction but completely ignored Lyon and his group of men.

“For the beasts to even be scared and not want to be anywhere close, it looks like I might be right.”

It was at that point that Lyon had decided to make a decision, he jumped down from the tree branch landing on the ground and looked at his men.

“We’re heading back to the ships! This island is far more dangerous than we expected, and the beasts don’t seem to be so terrifying with what is above.” Lyon explained.

“What is above, sir!” A warrior asked.

“We need to trust that the others will deal with the task, and we shall protect the ship to give them safe passage. If we were to head in, then all of us will die.” Lyon explained.

Looking up, there were four individuals that were staring at the neck of the three heads. The large body was away from them, and all of the trees that surrounded them had practically vanished, but they were only starting to realize that it was part of the beast’s body, or they had grown on top of the soil that was now attached to the beast’s body.

“The honorable Light faction.” Lince said. “The man was so honorable I think he allowed us to fight this cute beast all by ourselves!”

Ricar and Beatrix knew Lince was being sarcastic but they couldn’t really say anything instead they were just stunned by the sheer size of what was in front of them. Now they knew why the man had suddenly allowed them to go first.

It was at that point that the three heads turned and looked down at those on the ground. Straight away, fighting from other parts of its body were several large vines that were on the side, and then, all three mouths opened wide, and a yellow energy was forming inside of them.

Moments later a beam struck out from the mouth aiming toward the group of four. Naturally, Lince and Zon had jumped in one direction, while Beatrix and Ricar ran the other way.

The large beams of energy were following them, as they were moving forward they were doing so in such a way so they could run towards the beast’s body, and go for an attack. One had turned to look at the destruction of the beams to try and gauge how powerful of an attack could be made.

But the strangest thing was he could see that no harm was done to the ground or the grass that was still intact at all.

‘Will we be okay if that hits us?’

Two beams were going towards Lince and Zon since there were three heads in total, and deciding to risk it he ran in another direction and then stopped holding out his hand. He waited for the beam to continue to follow him and eventually it touched his outer skin.

In moments the black suit of his started to act strange, it didn’t hurt nor did it feel like it was getting destroyed. He quickly pulled his hand out, and started to move away and noticed that grass was growing on the outside.

Parts of his black suit were green, and he could feel a throbbing pain on the inside of his body. He used his system to deactivate part of the suit, breaking down nano parts, and he could see that it looked almost like grass was growing out of his skin.

They had lodged deep inside, and blood was dripping from his arm. Thankfully though, Zon could also tell his system was healing and the grass was falling off. It was slow process compared to usual but still a process.

‘This beam attack is certainly strange, if it wasn’t for the nanobots in my skin, then I’m not sure how easy it would be to recover from something like this. If the others get hit it might be the end for them.’

Lince no longer had either dagger in his hand, but with his wraps he was able to twist them around his whole hand in a pointed shape, and used his Qi outside to make it just as sharp as a

weapon.

Of course a strong powerful weapon would be even more helpful for him, but he was doing the best that he could in this situation.

‘Do I attack its head and try to slice it off? Or do I go for its body to see just how hard doing something like that would be?’ Lince thought.

Yet he soon noticed several things moving across the ground, and eventually through the air.

A green object came at him like a whip, and Lince had reacted slicing it apart with his hand and

cutting it.

The sharp sounds continued to be heard and Lince had a clear picture of just what was attacking him. From the skin of the beast several large long and thick vines nearly the size of one’s wrist were being flung at him in every direction.

They were just as fast as an advanced middle stage warrior, so Lince had to stop his advancement, as he focused and attacked the several vines coming towards him, but he also noticed the beam of energy coming his way.

He continued to move attacking several more getting close to the body, until those on the ground had wrapped around his legs and fought him in the air. Instantly several more vines came lashing out rather than attacking him they wrapped around his thighs and then around his arms and held him up in the air.

There was no chance for Lince to beat the beast’s vines just with his strength, the vines weren’t even part of the real body of the beast and this was starting to worry him. With his arms tied up, he was unable to cut the vines as well.

“This isn’t good, the beam of energy is coming towards me…maybe I should have stayed back and let one of the others attack first…I just thought, this island and Belil has made me crazy.” Lince was starting to wonder if these would be his last thoughts.

Before he knew it though, he saw a red beam of energy slash above, cutting the vines from above and Zon slid in front of him, Zon turned around and used both of his hands to fire out red lasers shooting at the bottom vines.

It had freed Lince, who quickly moved from where he was and went to Zon and swung his arms in the air cutting several vines that were already, ready to attack him from the back.

“Don’t let that beam of energy hit you no matter what.” Zon said.

With everything that was happening, and how the enemy was attacking them, Zon thought that it would have been a good opportunity to use the item he had received from the Delter. In this situation he could have teleported himself right to the beast’s head and finish it off.

“That’s what I was trying to do.” Lince said.

The beam of energy then stopped going towards them, and instead had gone over the several vines that had been cut up, and as it did, the vines started to regrow connecting to each other

and were on the move again.

“This is not going to be easy.” Zon claimed.

Sorry for lack of updated Chapters. I am currently away for 5 days at a ReadNovelFull Event.

I have made this chapter slightly longer to make up for it, but will get back on track soon!

Dark Magus Returns

Chapter 1009: Zon’s Last strike

The strange energy being shot out from the large beast was not only damaging them in some way when being used, but it also appeared to be healing its own body, or doing something of that nature.

The vines that came off from the beast’s body had reconnected themselves, twisting from the ends and growing at a fast pace, and all the work that both Zon and Lince had done, and gone through felt useless to them.

Watching all of this were Beatrix and Ricar. Luckily, the two of them only needed to deal with one energy blast, but they had stayed together just in case. In case the blast was pure energy, they were afraid that the two of them would be needed to stop the attack.

However, while running away, Ricar had been keeping an eye on the others. Seeing the results of what had occurred, he had hid behind a tree. He was the test subject in this situation. When the energy beam had hit the large tree he was hidden behind, he could see that it had done no damage whatsoever.

The beam continued to hit the tree doing nothing to it. It didn’t blast it away, but only made some part of the tree darker with green growing on the very edge. Seeing this, Beatrix had done the same, moving to a tree next to Ricar, to make sure that the concentrated blasts were coming their way.

They had stayed quite a distance away from where the other two were, and the least they could do if they weren’t attacking the beast was making sure that at least one of the heads wasn’t too busy.

“What are we going to do!” Beatrix shouted.

The moment she did, the beam of energy blasted from Ricar and had moved to where she was. She somewhat flinched for a moment, but the energy did the same thing, not doing anything to harm them.

It was strange because she could still see parts of the energy going by her side and hitting the ground. A part of her wanted to reach out and touch the attack since it had done nothing to the surrounding area, it certainly was a strange phenomenon.

Ricar took a peek from his tree, and at this time he could see the vines being healed right after Lince had been freed.

“I stayed back because of those vines in the first place,” Ricar stated. “They’re too fast and strong and we haven’t even gotten close to the body of the beast. Although it might not be strong in its physical state, we can’t be so sure with a creature so large in size.”

“So you want us to just wait, and continue to let the others fight. Is that really what we should be doing as members of the Light Faction?” Beatrix asked. “As a warrior, as an elder of the Dawnblade Clan, is that what you really think we should be doing?”

“We have to admit in this situation that we are not the same as them,” Ricar replied back. “We can only wait and see in this situation at the moment.”

The vines immediately after regenerating were starting to attack the two. With Lince and Zon back to back, they had a much easier time avoiding the vines. Using his two red blades, Zon was able to input more energy into them, extending the red blades in length.

As he did this, he swung them in a circle motion, cutting several of the vines too close but even those from behind. While this was happening, Lince had stopped any from coming to him just like those that had got to him, but regardless of how well they acted, there was one thing that they couldn’t avoid, and that was the two energy blasts that were coming their way. ‘If only I was able to use the new item I had received, it would make things several times easier,’ Zon thought. He still hadn’t really had much use of the item, and it felt useless with him, so he could only do one thing for now.

“I need you to distract the two energy blasts for a while. I need it off my back.”

“I can do that,” Lince replied. “I can try to, but what about the vines then?” Lince asked. Immediately, Zon disregarded the red energy swords in his hands and started to blast several lasers out of them. They hit the vines at several points and burnt several parts. A large number of the vines were no longer in commission, and the energy blasts started to move from the two of them, and started to move towards the vines to repair them just like before.

Zon moved, and Lince rushed ahead towards the energy blasts. Right after the energy blasts had recovered the vines, they both started to come from Lince as Zon was practically no longer in view.

‘I hope he has a good plan to deal with this thing, because I don’t,’ Lince thought.

Zon had analyzed what he could using his system, moving in a way that would allow him to avoid the eyes of the beast as much as possible. He knew it would be a hard task with the beast having three heads and several eyes.

It was most likely that the beast would have peripheral vision to see from its side, but it was the only thing he could do. Eventually running from the side, Zon started to place both of his hands together.

The red lines on his black suit all started to light up and the energy was shifting to the palm of his hands. The laser, rather than coming out from the palm of his hand like it would do, a large handle was being made coming towards the back of his palm.

Right after that, the energy blade started to thicken and come out, turning into what looked like a giant greatsword being held in his hands. The red energy swords weren’t thin like the ones he would usually use.

Zon looked up at the beast as he started to move in a zigzag pattern towards the beast. ‘This is not big enough to take down a beast of this size. But if we were to take out such a large beast, especially one that has this kind of power, then using its crystal maybe I would be able to grow stronger than before, and even stronger than him!’ Zon thought.

With this in his head, the sword was growing larger in size. It was growing longer and the end of the blade was growing even thicker, till the sword was nearly five meters in height.

The red from the black of his suit was starting to fade and as it did, the black part of his suit around his arms started to disappear as well. Instead, it was forming by the handle of the red blade. It encased around it, making a solid firm handle for Zon to hold.

“Alright, I’m ready!” Zon thought to himself as he rushed out and started to run towards the body of the beast, the large energy sword being dragged through the ground by his side. It cut the grass and ground freely as he continued to run.

When running forward, Zon knew what to aim for.

‘With this attack I might not be able to take out three of the heads in one go, but I’ll at least take out one of them!’

While rushing forward, Zon was focused as much as possible on the head. With his legs, he could jump up to the head height in one go. He moved closer and close and was ready until a wall of vines raised in front of him.

There were like smaller versions of the large beast itself, or twisting at the top looking toward

Zon.

‘I can’t swing my arms right now! If I do, they’ll get me, the beast will notice me as well. I thought the vines would take longer to heal than this!’ Zon thought.

From the corner of his eye, he could see Lince was already dealing with two of the blasts. He was doing the job as tasked but despite him being close, none of the vines were going after

him.

‘I have no choice, I have to just swing the sword and hope I still have enough energy for another attack!’ Zon thought.

He tensed his hands around the grip of his weapon until he saw one individual right in front of him. Her sword was glowing white, and she swung it in a crescent shape, cutting the heads of

all the vines in front of Zon.

“Get that thing!” Beatrix shouted.

Zon didn’t expect this, nor was it variable he thought about with his system, but it was a welcome one. His feet closed off the floor, and he was equal height to the beast in front of

him.

Then with the strength of the nano machine in his body, he swung it from his side, swinging at the beast’s head. Immediately after the beast’s head moved, the blast from its mouth had stopped as it snapped, opening its mouth and biting right onto the energy blade.

At that moment, Zon could feel its strength. He could feel that there was nothing he could do. The strength of the beast was enough to stop its attack completely, and it had done it with ease. Zon felt at the mercy of the beast.

With a snap of its head, it could fling it to the ground, but instead one of the heads turned to

face him, and the yellow energy beam was gathering in its mouth.

‘I can’t…die here,’ were the thoughts running through Zon’s head.

As the energy blast grew larger and larger, it was ready to burst out from its mouth. Out from

the top of the beast’s head, a large force enclosed on the top, snapping the head closed, stopping the energy blasts.

Immediately, the powerful force had forced the head of the beast down until it crashed into

the ground.

Zon had been saved, and all he could see was a white-haired figure falling down to the ground where the beast’s head was.

Dark Magus Returns

Chapter 1010: Raze’s New Power

Everyone who was close to the area felt the ground rumble once more, but this was different from the times before. They could feel a new energy spread out into the ground and under their feet, causing everyone to turn to look at what happened.

One of the three large snake heads had been slammed into the ground cracking the floor beneath. It wasn’t just any beast but one of the largest beasts in the area, that no one had success getting close to.

Now standing right next to its head was a man in a special colored blazer with white hair, and in an instant everyone recognized who this person was.

‘The Dark Magus…so he really is here.’ Ricar thought, still staying behind compared to everyone else.

He was side by side with Beatrix, staying at the back just getting the focus of one of the beast’s heads, but in the end Beatrix had decided to break away from Ricar, believing that it wasn’t right and their duty to help out, and had helped Zon in his attack, little did they know that it would end in failure.

‘I expected with the appearance of the others that the Dark Magus might be here…but what is this strength?’ Ricar thought. ‘He’s far stronger than I am, and the other Elders. I knew about him besting Sha Mo, but has he really grown this much?’

What was even more worrying for Ricar was the fact that he could only see Qi being used, and no form of technique. It was almost just a simple punch, which reminded him of a particular monster in the demonic faction could achieve.

At the same time, Zon had also noticed the man that had arrived and there was relief on his face.

‘I knew that he would have gathered information on his own and known about this island, although he is here a little late, it seems he has managed to change once again.’ Zon thought.

He was perhaps the only person that had a good idea of the real strength of the beast. Having swung using all of the muscles in his Nano Machine body, as well as the great weapon he had. Yet it hadn’t caused a single scratch on the large beast’s body, it had no effect at all and the beast’s strength was enough to throw him to the ground completely.

‘This strength, is it part of his magic, or some type of artifact he has? No, artifacts don’t work on this island, so it can’t be that?’

Although Raze had come in and punched one of the beast’s separate-like heads. It wasn’t out, and it was far from dead. It quickly got up and swirled across the ground snapping right at Raze.

Its head and body had pushed Raze lifting him up into the air. It continued to but Raze still had one hand held on its snout. Using a surge of Qi, he pushed it to the side, and the large head with the rest of the body was flung into the jungle and crashed into several of the trees.

“This large beast is faster than it looks, what power stone level is this at, a 5 or a 6?” Raze said to himself, still unaware of the real strength of the power stones.

Having just thrown one of the large serpent’s heads into the ground, the other two heads had ignored the others, and now all of them were turning to Raze. Two of them had opened their mouths wide, and the yellow energy was starting to gather ready to blast right at him.

While the third head had lifted from the ground and was ready to physically go after Raze, along with several vines extending out of its body.

Raze started to run forward the moment the energy blasts blasted out of the Beast’s mouth and avoided the two attacks letting them hit the floor. He jumped up and swung his sword at the third head that was swung at him like a giant sword.

A large clash as well of shaking Qi disrupted in the air. The giant snake’s head continued to go back and forth, swinging its large and heavy body fast at Raze who would use his sword to deflect it, and once in a while leave a cut, slashing it apart.

Still, it looked filthy and difficult for Raze as he was also avoiding the attacks from the two other heads.

“He’s not using his magic…I would think this would be a situation for him to use his magic.” Zon said as he observed the situation. He had already used a lot of power in his last attack, and he needed time to recover himself.

“Didn’t you feel that strange feeling when we first entered the island, I’m sure you noticed something was up.” Lince said having returned by his side. He was just watching what Raze was doing with awe.

“The power he has is magic, right? Well, right now, he and everyone else, no one is able to use magic. Which means everything he’s doing right now, to combat the beast, it isn’t using magic, nor is he using any artifact or any sort, he is just using pure Qi.”

It was easy for Zon to confirm it with his system, that there were no traces of magic at all. In fact, that was why he had asked the question in the first place, but only now he was realizing, how was it that Raze was able to have this much amount of Qi in such a short amount of time.

“What happened to Raze when he left everyone for the Demonic Faction? Did he break through another stage? Is he now a Divine Stage warrior? But then he still wouldn’t be able to stay down here.” Zon perplexed in his own mind.

It wasn’t just the two of them, but Beatrix and Ricar had managed to rendezvous with each other and were watching Raze deal with the beast heads.

The beast heads were becoming more coordinated, with now two of them attacking physically and the third shooting a beam at the right moment. Raze was just too fast with his movements and since he could deflect their large bodies and heads with his swings, he was able to deal with the full situation at hand.

What the four of them had struggled with Raze was doing better than them on his own.

In the middle of watching Raze, that was when they could hear the sounds of others coming through the forest from behind. Ricar had turned his head with his sword in his hand ready to strike.

He was partly worried that maybe Mosak had returned and part of his plan was to have the four of them weaken the beast that way he could deal with it himself after, but as soon as he saw who had entered, the Qi filling his sword had weakened.

“Impress, you made it here!” Ricar said surprised.

It wasn’t just Impress though, as by her side there was also Krynic from the Aurora clan. Based on what he and Beatrix had been through and the beast now in front of him, he wouldn’t have been too surprised if all of those that had come had perished.

However, it was quite saddening for Ricar to see only the two of these with no one else behind them. Meaning the chance was quite high that no one else had managed to survive.

“How did you get here, what are you doing here?” Ricar asked flabbergasted. “It’s not safe, we should try to find another route to the center of the island.”

“Actually, we came here because he rushed off in this direction.” Impress said with her eyes and head pointing toward the white-haired man.

“Right, he ran off suddenly, and it made sense when we could see what was happening. Since he wasn’t there we were worried that it might have been other Light Faction members in trouble.” Krynic explained. “The issue was, with just the two of us we didn’t think we could do much, so we thought it was best to stay close to him.”

“Wait, so you were traveling with the Dark Magus?” Ricar asked flabbergasted. At least at first. When he thought about it more, he realized that maybe just like them there might have been a set of circumstances that had led to the situation.

“I’ll be honest, we might have only survived this island because of him. That man, the Dark Magus, is incredibly strong. We saw him take out beast after beast like they were nothing.” Impress explained. “If we hadn’t run into him, then I’m pretty sure we might have never

made it this far.”

Ricar had the same sentiment towards Zon and Lince. Without them, they would have been killed by the man known as Mosak. Still, the Dark Magus was a different matter.

It was then that Raze had struck two of the heads down, knocking them to the side. He had finally found the opening he had been waiting for, and ran up one of the trees before kicking off from one of the thick branches and was now in the air directly at one of the beast’s heads.

It had opened its mouth and energy was charging up ready to fire out. “You will be the first to experience the full power of my Qi!” Raze said lifting both hands

above his head. “The second formation, Eclipse Strike!”

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