Chapter 35 - The fruit of their training 2

After Rofta used *Reversal Slash* to instantly kill half the mobs while Marc took out the rest, Rofta sheathed his cane and held his katana with both hands before charging with it in. Long arc over his head.

Oga got his bearing back after getting some room to breathe after nearly dying twice in a row. Marc's middle finger might have helped a little too.

He went inside his pocket once again and this time took out a little bow with arrows before using Multiply to enlarging it to his size before pulling and aiming with it at the incoming Rofta.

On the other hand, when Rofta saw the bow he began channeling the biggest spell he currently can without letting Oga know it.

Then he released the arrow before saying "Delayed Multiply". The arrow suddenly began growing bigger, faster, and even more durable. The last one Rofta didn't know. It was good he was readying his spell because the now 30 cm wide arrow was way too fast for Rofta to dodge. He would surely die if he doesn't dodge quickly.

Suddenly lines began to show everywhere in the 30 meters wide half-sphere domain Rofta has set up before the fight even began. The lines quickly moved like a Rubik's cube and the incoming arrow abruptly changed its course by rotating 90 degrees and flew in Kasai's direction. He just dodged it as he had enough distance to do so.

Rofta's domain rotated and was turned into a full sphere where the two are now standing. But the weird thing is that they weren't standing on the ground but in the air with their feet in different directions.

For Rofta's feet, they turned 90 degrees to the side like the arrow, while Oga turned 180 degrees, making him stand upside down without falling on his head.

This is Rofta's most complex spell to date called *Axis Reversal*. It works by imagining the domain has three axes. X, Y, and Z. By picking two coordinates he can reverse them. By reversing them, the grid changes. This is practically Rofta's world he can rotate as he wants. The only weakness it has is that Rofta is no exception when the domain rotates and experienced mages would quickly adapt to the changes like when he changes people's sense of direction.

Oga who saw how the scenery didn't change at all but his position did, had his guard up for any move Rofta would make, but to his surprise, Rofta slashed with his sword and send a *Reversal Slash* to his left. A premonition came to him when the purple slash went further and further away from him.

The slash that got fired in the wrong direction and Oga's position moved in a matter of seconds in each other's way and it slashed him diagonally over his body, making blood splatter out of the wound.

The fight was already over…

Or so thought Rofta, but before he knew it, the wounded Oga appeared before him with a dagger in his hand. He let his guard down, that's what Oga thought.

Think over again, Rofta let his guard down on purpose. The dagger that was about to go through his throat didn't manage to reach as he moved his position backward to a coordinate he set behind him. Though not before slashing the same place his attack hit earlier, finally hurting Oga badly.

Before Oga Multiplied the durability of his leather armor he has under his cloak to save himself and make a counter-attack by using Multiply on his speed and doing the same with his weight but instead multiplied with 0,5, making him weightless by half.

"Dammit!!" Exclaimed Oga. Using his magic on himself has its prize.

More blood splattered out of his wound and it hurt very much. He didn't have much time to think about what happened because Rofta changed their positions again, making them clash against each other from above each other. Oga had canceled his spell on his dagger and put it into his coat before pulling out a knife before making it a sword to stop Rofta's strike from cutting his arm off.

*Cling**Cling*

The swords met each other, making a metallic sound, and sent sparks flying when hitting.

This time Oga was the first to abandon a hand on his sword and touch Rofta long katana before saying "Multiply!"

As for the sword it shrunk to a little knife much to Rofta's pain.

"Nooooo!!" Rofta cried out after seeing his dearest sword shrunk to less than a dinner knife in his hands.

"HUHAHAHAH, now what can you do without your sword?" Oga laughed loudly when he saw Rofta's pitiful display.

Rofta's expression turned really dark when he heard his opponent mocking him and said darkly "I'm going to kill you with this dinner knife!!"

*Snort* "Dream on, as if you can do that!!" Oga was trying to stop him from using the cane Rofta sheathed earlier and slowly made his way out of the domain as he was at a disadvantage inside it. But alas would never let him get out and immediately moved him into the middle of the domain by placing two coordinates and inverting the X-axis.

They then began clashing in close combat again. Rofta with his little knife shocked Oga after he saw how it didn't get damaged even after multiple hits with his own boosted sword.

After taking some distance from each other again, Oga asked "Where did you get that sword, and what's it made of?"

"As if I would tell you!" Rofta said and looked at the man as if he was stupid. Rofta was actually very happy at the moment. He actually thought the shrunken sword would be cut mid over after a clash or two, but to his surprise, it didn't even get a single chip.

"Then I will just take it from your corpse!" Oga threw multiple darts around after he enlarged them to confuse Rofta, but it didn't work, not before the darts suddenly exploded because they had small smoke bombs on them that Oga used Delayed Multiply on to make them big.

White smoke filled Rofta's domain making it impossible for him to see anything, so he had to use another one of his senses. His sense of hearing. As he altered his approach and changed to the sense of hearing instead of direction. His image of axes disappeared and he twisted Oga's sense of hearing.

Oga who felt the weird changing 'walls' he was walking on disappear, landed on the ground before he sneaked in on Rofta's position by following a threat that was connected to a dart near him. Unknown to Oga though was that his sense of hearing was messed up and he wasn't silent at all.

When he was just behind Rofta he stabbed him right through the heart.

*Puchi*

Rofta turned his head and looked at him with terror on his face, making Oga smirk and look at him like he was a loser.

Then Rofta's terrified face turned to a grinning face.

*Puchi*

A knife went into Oga's heart. Their expressions reversed, Oga was scared shitless, while his image of Marc suddenly changed. Instead of being behind him, he was in front. The dagger that he seemingly went through Rofta heart was in his right chest, missing the heart.

As Rofta can't locate people in his domain, he messed with Oga's sense of hearing. Heigh is low, low is high. He reversed that so he could plan ahead. He stopped messing with his sense of hearing when he got the general location of him before he turned his body and reversed his sense of direction.

Instead of sneaking up on Rofta, Oga 'sneaked' in front of him and stabbed the wrong side of the chest.

*gore*

Not wanting to delay anything, Rofta rotated the dagger that was in his opponent's heart, killing him.

*swoop*

Suddenly Rofta's shrunken sword turned big again after Oga died. "Eh? So it's not a permanent effect! I'm so happy to see you back to normal. I thought I lost you forever…"

While Rofta finished his fight and tended to his wound, he walked over to Gina and hugged his sword beside her, watching Marc having the time of his life while fighting Kasai.

"Uhm, who are you?" Gina asked him.

"Rofta," he said shortly.

"I'm Gina, ehm…" Gina wanted to know more, but she didn't know what to say as her social skills are at rock bottom.

"I have a question of my own. Why are people scared of you?" Rofta got curious as a family member of his is being looked at like that too. Only his grandfather is unafraid. Rofta's afraid of the person too, but because of the person's personality, not ability.

"!?" Gina was greatly surprised by the question and didn't really feel like telling it. But she decided to do it after thinking "Maybe they are different?"

She took a deep breath before almost yelling in Rofta's ear "…I have the evil Sand Devil Slayer Magic!"

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(A/N: I know Rofta's *Axis Reversal* spell might not be totally correct in the math world, but I couldn't help include it. Let me know if you get it, as it's pretty hard magic to write about I have chosen for Rofta.)

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