Chapter 302: 2nd Night

[Deep Underground]

It has been quite a work for Cedric, Wendy, and Aria to find an entrance deep within the earth. After using tracking magic on the huge crack on the ground after avoiding a stampede, they soon then found out about the Underground passageways and concluded that Sephiria might have fallen into one of these holes.

Quite a stretch for a search area, who knows how long it would take for them to find Sephiria. With that thought in mind, Cedric and the others decided to take on the gamble and search for her. But first they must find an alternative way of going down aside from the hole where Sephiria fell. After all falling to such depths is practically dangerous for any individual.

With that they figured out that there may be an entrance towards this place somewhere in this island and it could be in any form they could possibly imagine.

Soon after in the amidst their search Aria found a magic circle near the creek of the river, as she called out Wendy so that they can examine what the magic circle could do. After through examination, they found out that the magic circle would lead them deep into the underground once it is activated.

Upon learning that the group was both elated and wondered who would enter the magic circle and voluntary search for Sephiria. After all they can't afford to have all of them stuck deep underground and at most they will need people to protect this magic circle so that the possibility of being trapped and ambushed most likely will not happen.

At first Aria volunteered to search for Sephiria, after all she is the closest girl there is that is connected to Sephiria, however Wendy found out that it needs two magic users energy to activate the portal at the very last minute. Since it needed two magic users, Wendy has no choice but to convince Aria to stay put and guard the magic circle with her. Which then left them with one choice, the crown prince himself, which then turned up into this situation.

Upon realizing that Lorius has noticed his intention or somewhat, Cedric then pulled Sephiria up her feet and used a movement spell to quickly make his escape.

"Flash Step!!!"

Using the spell while carrying Sephiria, Cedric then heads towards the magic circle which became the focal point of his attention, as he plans to escape through the magic circle while running away from Lorius. To be exact he knew just how strong Lorius is, he is the only guy who puts pressure on Shun so much that his mere existence made Shun gets his attention. What's more he was also strong enough to counter both Shun and Akito all by himself.

For a fact Shun and Akito were already strong people, perhaps one of the strong individual he had met, but in comparisonto Lorius both Shun and Akito clearly pales in Comparison. Shun's victory last year agaisnt Lorius was simply a fluke or per chance which he took advantage off, but overall among the three of them, Lorius is the strongest based on his knowledge.

With that he would try as much as possible to avoid fighting Lorius unless necessary. Truth be told he was quite surprised that Sephiria was fighting Lorius and manage to hold on this long. By looking this at things, he was quite confident that Sephiria must have gotten stronger and the reason why she grew stronger in comparison to her other versions he had met during his past lives was all due to one abnormal variable and that is Shun. Thinking the changes that happened that wasn't in his past life, Cedric felt the change of times and wondered if things could change for the better this time.

Unfortunately despite Cedric's will to avoid Lorius, the person himself kept on chasing them and somewhat managed to catch up to them in quick movement.

"Accel!!! Accel!!! Accel!!!"

Upon seeing this Cedric conjured a sword made out of light, as he sent a sword wave towards Lorius direction, before casting a spell to follow up his attack.

"Luminous Rain!!!"

In response towards Cedric's attacks, Lorius then quickly made a mana sword using his own mana as he sent a sword wave to counter Cedric's initial sword wave, and using Accel combination with blink to blitz pass through Cedric's follow up attack.

After that Lorius stretch out his arms into a throwing position, as he casted another spell from his hand.

"Giga Blaze!!!"

Throwing the spell towards Cedric and Sephiria, the latter himself tightened his hold unto Sephiria as he conjured 10 sword of light in the air and aimed it towards the hot blazing magma ball that Lorius had thrown.

"Sword of Light Ceremony! Launch!!!"

The moment Cedric Launched the group of swords towards Lorius spell. A massive explosion then rung out towards the whole area, causing some of the rock spikes hanging from the ceiling to fall and obstruct Lorius way.

But unknown to Lorius, this simple distraction which momentarily caught his attention, had given a chance for Cedric to use a specific tactic to let him and Sephiria use the magic circle nearby to escape.

Amidst the smoke that the explosion had caused, multiple light shining bright like a star appeared before Lorius eyes, as they soon exploded in a chain of dazzling light, causing Lorius to be momentarily blinded by the attack as he screamed in pain.

Using this tactic that Lorius didn't expect, Cedric then carried Sephiria towards the magic circle and quickly activated it in order to escape. However due to what he did, Lorius immediately sense the sudden shift of mana into the air, as he tracked where the mana is gathering and noticed someone activating a magic circle through his mana sense alone.

Not relying on his sight and instead faced the enemy with his heightened senses, Lorius then charged towards Cedric in quick succession as he raised his sword into the air and unleashed an attack which shook the earth.

"Overlord Slash!!!"

Unfortunately before his spell could hit its target, Cedric manage to escape out of the underground area together with Sephiria with the difference of 1.8 seconds before collision. With that lucky escape, they were able to avoid being hit by the attack while at the same time trapping Lorius in deep underground due to him unintentionally destroying the magic circle in his previous attack.

Just like that the 2nd night came for everyone on the island.