Chapter 23: Tier 1 Mage

Jay watched Isaac's magical power rise with anguish. He had only fought weaklings his entire life, and when faced with such raw magical power radiating off of a three year old child, he wanted to run and escape. What Jay didn't know that Isaac had copied the same magical pressure technique that Kanade had used on him, but it's less refined as he couldn't completely control the pressure for a long amount of time, and he leaked too much magical energy then he would have liked. But it still got a scare out of Jay so Isaac was pleased with it. Jay faced Isaac with a hardened stare, and then immediately took out his sword from his back.

"You think because you brought me here you can kill me!? I didn't want to waste this on some brat from some small unknown town, but now you've pissed me off"! He screams in rage as he grabs a vial of red liquid from his sleeve. Jay drinks what's in the vial, and suddenly, his muscles bulge, as if he had been taking steroids for a year straight. His veins bulge along with his muscles. He couldn't put Bruce Banner to shame, but the transformation surely wasn't just some small power boost. Jay stares at Isaac with a fiendish smile before saying in a bruteish voice, "It's time to die kid"!

Jay rushes directly at Isaac with his sword in hand before bringing it down towards Isaac. Isaac who was standing there, spins his weapon around in hand before slashing to meet the blade. When the blades clash, a force swept pass the grass in the clearing in a ring from the epicenter of the clash. Under the dazzling moonlight, multiple slash noises could be heard. One slash, two slashes, four slashes, 16 slashes. Blades of grass would be slashed and drift into the air around them. As Isaac's weapon moved through the air, a purple trail was left behind by both his blades. Though Isaac's polemanship was nowhere near the stage of a master, barley understanding the basics, the purple glow following the blades of his weapon created a cosmic scene that could leave anybody wide-eyed at. Although from an outside perspective, it looked like Isaac had the advantage in the battle, Isaac knew better himself. When they both clashed their weapons, Isaac's weapon was closer and closer to not being able to sustain itself. Due to the energy that Isaac was outputting for his weapon, it was even stronger before, including the blades that were on the ends of the pole, but even with the enhanced strength of the blade, it still couldn't resist the strength of this shadow mage berserker.

"You're time will soon be up brat"! Jay says as he realizes the same thing Isaac realized and begins to pressure Isaac more by engaging him more aggressively. Isaac is getting pushed further and further back.

"This guy is no joke, even with me using everything I have learned and then some, I'm still getting pushed back. It seems like I'll have to try a different approach". Isaac thinks as he begins to jump backwards to give himself some space.

"You can't escape from me brat"! Jay yells as he rushes towards Isaac at blitzing speed, Isaac sidesteps slightly to the right while aiming his blade towards the abdomen of Jay. "EXTEND"! Isaac shouts as his weapon grows by .3 meters in a instant and shortens the time he needs to pierce his abdomen. Jay just barely dodges the blade by twisting his body at the last second, but the slash of Isaac's was just a diversion. With a twist of his own body, Isaac's weapons momentum doesn't slow down not even a bit as it went for the slash, but came back even faster and slashes down at Jay's eye. A pitiful scream surges from the throat of Jay, as he holds his bleeding eye with one hand while throwing a insane glare with his other eye. Isaac smirks and the smirks sends Jay over the top. Jay immediately charges at full speed while slashing so hard, blades of wind are actually launched through the air. Isaac being so shocked isn't able to dodge in time, and with every blade of wind that hit him, flashes of blood would sail through the air. Isaac while still standing, is so bloodied, he looks like he will fall over at any minute. Jay is breathing heavily, but smirks thinking the battle was practically over, and moves in to kill Isaac once and for awhile. As Isaac stands there as if accepting his impending doom, something changes in the atmosphere. The moonlight had created such a pleasant mood in the clearing, but now beautiful was the last thing to describe it. The blood dripping from Isaac's body, melds within his purple weapon, slowly changing it red. When the weapon fully becomes a scarlet red, two red arms appeared from Isaac's body, and within those hands, spawned another red dual bladed polearm. On the precipice of death, Isaac enters a break through, and his power surges to even greater heights than before.

Inside Isaac's magical tree, a branch leading from the foundation spell to a an even greater purple sphere is now revealed, but even weirder is, not connected to any orb whatsoever, is a single red orb. Though when in comparison to the huge connection of purple orbs that created a grand scene. This single red orb gave off the feeling of a sheathed blade, it may not look deadly when hidden, but when the sword is drawn, a great sharpness reveals itself. Without even needing to think, with a cross slash of his blades, he counters and even throws off Jay's balance.

"How the hell did you become this strong"!? Jay shouts in fear, as he looks towards Isaac who looks like the reincarnation of the Asura demon. Isaac slashes towards Jay and a red energy leaves his blade and heads towards Jay at speed surpassing anything either Isaac and Jay have seen. This one slash cut off all routes of escape for Jay, in that moment, there was nothing but blood, the slash, and Jay. The sequence of events happened so quick, but Jay tried to block this slash with his sword, but the sword couldn't resist this level of force, and directly broke. The slash continued its travel right into Jay, unleashing a cut directly on his chest, spraying blood everywhere, while simultaneously sending him through multiple trees back in the forest. When this slash took Jay's life, it was like anything resumed focus of itself again. The red arms and weapons disappear and Isaac's dual bladed polearm regains its mystic purple color. Panting hard, Isaac using his blade to prevent himself from falling to the ground.

"So this is the power of a tier 1 mage? It's amazing", he thinks, as he falls to the ground in exhaustion not able to move his body whatsoever. After falling to the ground, Isaac realizes that he can't afford to stop moving yet, as he is in the middle of the forest and could be easily killed if any group of flamvell wolves happened to smell his scent. Crawling on the ground, he heads in the direction of his house, though not covering much ground at all. Even though Isaac doesn't get as far as he would if he had full energy, he leaves the clearing and renters the forest. 20 minutes later, a cyan lion with a lightning bolt on it's forehead emerges on the scene before looking around at the carnage of the clearing.

"It would seem that my competition has fled". The lion speaks ina regal voice, and releases a discharge of energy before it leaves the area soon after arriving, because it didn't find what or who it was looking for.