Chapter 34 - The fruit of their training 1

The explosion was 6 meters wide and destroyed everything in its way, making an alley in the ground with Kasai standing in it with his earth armor cracking little by little before falling off his skin.

"Oh, you are alive? Great!" Marc felt his foot he used to kick the little *Ursus Shock* tremble.

Kasai wasn't happy with the situation at all, so he called his right-hand man and made a change of plan. "Oga, boost me one last time with everything you got and retreat!"

The white-haired man who was now being called by his name opened his usually knit eyes, showing how troubled he was with the order, but it quickly disappeared and a resolute expression took over.

"Understood!" Oga ran over to Kasai and wanted to put his hand on his shoulder like they have done multiple times now, but suddenly he found himself in another place and Rofta was in front with his long katana nearing his neck.

"You think I will let you touch him again?" While Marc wouldn't bother stopping him from buffing Kasai, Rofta didn't feel the same, so he used his magic without them knowing to end the support character first.

When Oga realized his situation, he quickly took out two knives from the coat he is wearing and used Multiply to enlarging them, making them duel swords, and blocked Rofta's sword by positioning them in an X.

He was a little surprised by the small knives growing bigger and blocked his slash, but got over it instantly and removed a hand from his sword to punch Oga in the gut. In reality, it hit Oga in the back, messing with his already unstable footwork. This is what Rofta wanted, so he continued his combo and placed his hand on a cane that's hanging in his belt.

*Swish*

Near soundlessly Rofta pulled the curved handle on the cane, revealing a short thin blade, ready to pierce. While Oga stumbled a little from the hit on his back, Rofta thrust the blade forward intending to pierce his heart. This is Rofta's fighting style he has begun honing these 6 months. A style that possesses powerful strikes with equally impressive speed behind them. One that can perform attacks with perfect precision and stop them in an instant. A style that can be changed on the spot as to not be predictable by battling and striking from various angles to confuse and catch his opponents off-guard with sneak attacks.

"Shit," thought Oga before he quickly abandoned his enlarged knives, pulled out a little square piece of iron, and used Multiply once again on it.

*Cling*

Rofta's strike didn't manage to go through his heart because it was stopped by a big shield.

"Tch!" He was not happy with the outcome, so Rofta clicked his tongue.

On the other hand, Oga felt cold sweat running down his spine. In this short exchange, he felt like he was being controlled and followed Rofta's pace. He backed off while still holding the shield he enlarged, and Rofta let him do it.

The other mages who just saw the short exchanges between their superiors, saw them having a hard time and was about to shoot rays at Marc and Rofta but before they could, a purple slash cut half of the men in half and the other half got bombarded with small paw bubbles, crushing their internal organs. Naturally, it was Marc and Rofta who stopped them from intervening. Marc just used *Pressure Shots* but Rofta used a new spell he has been working on to get a long-range attack called *Reversal Slash*. What it does is reversing the wind flow around his sword, stopping his sword from going through the wind when he slashes. Instead, it goes with it, sending a purple wind slash towards his enemies.

The poor mob mages got what they deserved and died before they knew it. When Kasai saw it, his eyes got bloodshot out of rage, because he's practically high on the feeling of being boosted didn't make it better. Oga on the other hand didn't really care, as he didn't bother thinking about others' safety when his own is compromised right now.

*Clap**Clap**Clap* "Now that the mobs are out of the way, let's have some more fun!" Marc made a gesture as he just took out the garbage.

"You motherfuck-" Kasai didn't get to finish his sentence as Marc interrupted him.

"Don't like my attitude? Report me at fuckyouself.com!" He said while giving Kasai the finger. Oga got it too as it's not nice leaving others out while having fun right?

The ground under Kasai began cracking and two three-meter-high Earth Elementals began coming out. They were near three meters wide too and had a big round head with a hunched back, only four fingers, and were made out of hardened earth.

(A/N: Reference here.)

After using a spell to make these Earth Elementals, Kasai should have felt drained of Magic Power, but because of his circumstances, he couldn't feel it.

"You think you can just kill my men in front of me without paying the price?" Kasai said with a dark expression with the two elementals beside him

"Well, I'm pretty good at eating without paying!" Marc bragged while rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.

"Die!" Not wanting to hear any more crap, he attacked.

One elemental charged toward Marc with a decent speed, while the other jumped on the air, intending to crush Marc beneath it. Behind the charging one ran Kasai, intending to take Marc off guard when he gets the chance.

Instead of waiting for them to come to him, Marc made his move.

*Boom*

Marc used repel with his feet to fly up to the falling elemental with great speed. Before he reached it he spun around and kicked it with both of his feet, destroying half of its lower head. But he was not done yet as he grabbed its arm and used his momentum to turn it in the air and stand on its chest.

"…Fall," Said Marc, before the elemental was blasted to the ground making a crater and destroying all its limbs. He didn't see it as the other elemental and Kasai was coming towards him by raising the earth, but the beaten elemental began regrowing its damaged parts.

The other elemental reached Marc in the air and threw a punch at him. He wanted to try to take it head on, but just before it reached him, Marc felt his *Panthera Disaster* warning him. The earth fist transformed into a spike and he just stopped it with his hand before it tried to do the same with the other, but it was stopped the same way.

Both Marc's hands were occupied at the moment, and Kasai that still stood behind his elemental took this opportunity to seemingly go through it and appeared in front of Marc's stomach with a spear in his hand, surprising him. He used this moment to make the elemental grab Marc's wrist to hold him in place, before thrusting the spear at his stomach.

To stop the spear, Marc used the elemental who's holding him in place to pull himself upwards before he kicked the spear down into the raised platform. But before he knew it, the previously destroyed elemental appeared at his side striking with its arm transformed into an ax. With no other choice, Marc quickly fired a *Pressure Canon* with his hands in the face of the elemental who's holding him in place by the wrists, so it would release him.

It released him, and Marc quickly raised a leg to meet the incoming ax with his paws on his foot.

*PA…!!!**Boom*

As he didn't have enough time to make a good stand to take the strike, Marc was blasted away. Although his *Panthera Disaster* warned him, Marc is in the end limited by his speed of action, so it doesn't make him invincible at all.

Marc coincidentally got blasted into the only decent house in the village that hasn't been destroyed. He had multiple bruises and his clothes aren't worth being called clothes anymore. They weren't high quality anyway as they couldn't afford it, and he doesn't really care about it.

The thing he was troubled about though was "I don't have to pay for the damage right? Well, whatever, I will just ask Lisa to help me out…"

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In the distance, the villagers had already begun running away from the fight, but they still can't leave because the big earth wall is still surrounding the destroyed village. It wasn't dependent on Kasai as he and his men used Lacrimas to power the wall with Magic Power making it able to stay up until they don't have any power left.

Gina though was still sitting on her knees in a daze, watching the fight absentmindedly while still thinking about the little blonde boy's words.

"You don't look like a monster to me?"

She felt like she was asked, "Are you a monster?"

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(A/N: What do you think of Rofta new spell *Reversal Slash*? Does the principle about how it works hold? The slash is purple because it's the opposite color of green like sword slashes usually are in other anime.)

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