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Fat Snake motioned to stop any more of his men to rush at him. He waled in front of him and cracked his neck joints.

"It seemed that you have some skill. If you kneel down and beg me, perhaps I will let you join me! Ahahaaa...!"

"..."

Lance didn't say anything as he calmly stepped over the bodies as he slashed at Fat Snake.

Just when he thought that the sword would slash Fat Snake's head off, he felt something incapacitating him from pushing further.

"Ahaha... You really thought that I was easy to defeat like this trash!"

Fat Snake laughed as he kicked the bodies of his former goons. He really didn't care about anybody except himself as he made his way towards Lance. Lance looked at the barrier stopping his sword.

'Mana Barrier, uhn? Well, I will be my first fight against an actual mage...'

Lance stepped away from him, creating some space between them. Fat Snake smirked and moved his hands as he said, "Push!". Suddenly all the bodies laying on the ground between them were pushed aside like mere rags.

Fat Snake opened his hands in Lance's direction while he opened his mouth, "Mana Missile!". After saying that, four balls of mana appeared beside him, hovering.

"Let's see if you can dodge this. Go!"

Lance looked at the movements of Fat Snake dodging to the side just when he finished talking. Right when he stepped aside, one of the mana missiles collided with the spot where he was previously. He dodged the missiles like they were nothing but what really made him frown was although the missiles never touched him, the force from the explosion still managed to throw him off some times, forcing him to deflect the following attacks with his sword.

It seemed that Fat Snake wasn't really adept at controlling the missiles so much that after about 50 missiles not even one had touched Lance.

After a while, Lance found a narrow spot. Without any kind of fear he stepped on that spot dodging three missiles and launched himself directly towards Fat Snake. Fat Snake didn't even flinch at the sight of Lance escaping his attacks.

Once again before the sword manages to touch him, a mana barrier appeared, covering him from any possible attack. But right when the sword was about to slash at the barrier, the sword began to emanate large amounts of heat. Like an explosion, the sword suddenly accelerated and like a hot knife cutting a piece of butter, the barrier couldn't stop the sword.

Panic flashed in Fat Snake's face as he shouted, "Earth Shield!"

A round piece of rock rushed from the ground shielding him from Lance's sword. Lance frowned but he didn't panic as he circled the shield and slashed one more time.

Fat Snake didn't have any choice but to continue to summon more shields as his mana barrier couldn't even take one strike from the sword.

What he didn't notice was that with every earth shield that he summoned, Lance's smirk became wider. Only after many attacks did he notice that something was wrong. Although each and every slash was targeting him, it didn't target any of his vitals.

He looked around him and that was when it struck him. He only noticed now, but after summoning so many earth shields, he locked himself in a rock dead end blocked in every way besides one, giving him no way out. He gazed at the only way out seeing that scary man there with his sword pointing at him.

A sudden feeling of impending doom struck him as he began to try to launch more spells to break those walls. But when he reached for more mana he noticed that the amount that he had was not enough to even make a single dent to those walls.

Panic filled his body as he began to shout like a man searching for the life-saving rope, "You guys, attack him! Attack him now! Don't let him kill me!"

The people from the Raging Snake Gang that were watching the fight between them hearing the terrified shouts of their leader didn't even dare to move. If boss couldn't even defeat him, how would we even slow him down!?

With this though not even one of them dare to move. Lance smiled at the sight of terror in their faces as he turned his focus back to the frightened little snake.

"No... no pleas-please don't kill me! I... will give everything you want!"

Fat Snake kneeled down begging for Lance to spare his life. Lance didn't even move as he only said, "You know. You were my first enemy that was a mage and so I was expecting a real fight against you, but after that sorry sight I see that you can't even be considered a proper mage."

"I was hoping to find an opportunity to use a new attack that I created especially to deal with mages but you couldn't even deal with my sword."

With every word that came out from Lance's mouth, it was one more nail for his coffin. He turned around and like a trapped rat, he tried to dig through the walls to escape.

Seeing that Lance raised his sword above his head, "But still I know that there are many spies from other gangs among your lackeys."

He raised his voice so that anyone in the room could hear him, loud and clear, "Tell your masters that this will happen to them if they dare to oppose me!"

He dropped his sword, "Kirin!"

Like a raging beast coming from the depths of hell, am enormous lightning dragon came out of the sword, trashing everything in its way towards Fat Snake. Fat Snake saw that sight his survival instincts quicked in as he began to dig faster in hopes of surviving through this.

But it seemed like nobody answered his prayers as the lightning dragon reached him almost at the same time Lance dropped his sword. He only felt in slipt second an insurmountable amount of pain and then nothing.

After the dust settled, when once was a rock alley now there was a massive pit going from Lance through the hole building managing to destroy some of the building beside the Headquarters of the Raging Snake Gang.

After a while, Felicia appeared behind him, afraid that something had happened to him after that large noise. But seeing him in the place was the massive destructive attack started she felt that the person she offered her all to was nothing but a God. A God that will bring destruction to anyone that stood against him.

Lance looked backward and said, "Leave no one alive."

"Yes, master."

Lance flashed and disappeared from the room. Felicia looked at the frightened mob while she licked her lips and took her daggers out. Nobody in the surrounding building saw what happened inside, other than the reaping of many souls and the destruction of the Raging Snake Gang.

.....

Inside of the secret room in Ragnarok's Headquarters, Lance was gasping while sitting crossed-legged on the ground. Although Kirin seemed to be effortlessly used by him, only he knew that for the moment this kind of attack was a one time shot as it would cause damage to his body along with the severe depletion of his mana.

After using that attack, he would have to rest for at least a day before he could fight again, and another day before he could use it again.

.....

Inside of the 'Atrium of Desires', Smitty was kneeling down before a dark figure when they heard of the destruction of the Raging Snake Gang.

"Sir, from our spies we are sure that the one that destroyed the Raging Snake Gang and killed their boss, Fat Snake, is none but the mysterious leader of the new gang, the Ragnarok Group."

The figure remained quiet as he heard Smitty recount all the information he had about that mysterious leader. On how he was one of their most close customers and on how he never directly oppose their rule in the city.

"Very well! Smitty from now on, till further notice, continue to treat them as one of our customers and don't antagonize him on anyway. I will relay this information to the higher-ups."

The figure got up from the chair as he said in a monotone tone to Smitty. Smitty felt like a mountain was on his back while the figure looked at him. When the pressure suddenly disappeared he knew that he had stepped out leaving him alone.

Smitty cleaned his forehead only to drench his sleeve with sweat. He sighed, as he looked in the general of the Headquarters of the Ragnarok Group.

'This keeps getting more dangerous... Leader of the Ragnarok Group... Who are you exactly?!'