The starting line.

Ikaros looks up at the rift made by him which revealed the clear sky and reminiscence about his 1000 years of life.

But the battle still continues. Jay Garrick crashed like a meteor into the ground and digs himself a hole which was relatively deep. But he manages to save Ragnar from any major Injuries.

Both of them climb out of the hole to find themselves at the mercy of the asuras surrounding them all over.

They were surrounded by asuras at all sides. Now it was not the time to think but to take action. After all it's not like an rpg where you can think your actions forever.

There were only three path that Jay could think up.

One was to fly deeper into enemy territory.

Second was to fight the demons.

And the third was to return to the start once again.

The first and the second were just suicide. So when Jay took Ragnar and tried to fly away. An asura grabbed Jay's leg and threw him on the ground.

From the mob a large asura showed himself before Jay.

Asura : points all of his fingers at Jay.

I know you.

Asura :

You slained my sworn brother Swa ra mka

Mar ra ka :

I Mar ra Ka will take revenge in the name of my sworn brother.

Mar ra ka :

Prepare to die.

Mar ra ka wields two broadsword in both of his hands. And his stature was almost 8-10 foot tall.

He swung his broadswords on a scissor like technique each closing in on Jay on a subsequent direction.

Jay's instincts told him that they would be most likely made up of mithril.

Instead of dodging by moving out of the range Jay slid under the blades and he knocked on one of the blades through which he confirmed that these were indeed not earthly metals.

Next from the ground Jay launched an attack with his spear aimed at the Asuras stomach. But was blocked on the nick of time. By a third broadsword and he used a fourth broadsword to fend him off.

MA ra ka :

Did you just think that I'll be using just 2 weapons like a human.

He ran towards Jay and spun his body as he aligned all of the blades in one direction forming a wall of blades on one side.

Jay recognized the pattern and quickly reacted to it.

He quickly raised a bar of iron shooting from the ground and off centering all the blades as they moved upward. The Asuras flinched for a moment but it was enough for Jay to finally make a strike and pierced the Asuras stomach with his spear but it did not completely pierce through the head was stuck in the spear.

He tried to punch Jay off from the spear but suddenly his legs lost strength and he was forced on this knees. He started bleeding from his mouth and fell sideways.

And MA ra Ka took his final breath. Jay was flabbergasted as how could a single stab kill a demon. As when he first fought them they were really strong it took all of his strength just to bring them down.

The reason was simple Jay had grown stronger than he had imagined.

And partly the demon spear was also involved. But more on that later.

Jay :

What? Asuras are this weak. He just died in one hit.

And as always having ran off his mouth without thinking of the consequences. Jay got in trouble once again.

As his words angered the other Asuras.

Not using the joke once more Jay understood that he had wronged himself. And taken his situation in an unfavorable direction.

The angered asuras rushed at Jay with their weapons showing no mercy. It felt that the weapons were coming from all sides. He was surrounded by asuras at all sides and even if he moves an inch he will get stabbed.

So what should he do?

He ensured that Ragnar was still underground. And he used a fire element technique which was less refined. When he used it at first.

The Sea of Flames. At first when he used the asuras remained unscathed during the dungeon run.

Because at that time Jay was lacking the man thing. Knowledge about the mechanism of the flame.

But after training under the fire King his situation had changed . He had become much more enlightened and armed with his knowledge he let out the flames put once more.

He pored mana outside from every part of his body at an extreme pressure and lit it aflame. Resulting in a massive fire which spread throughout the field. The heat was so strong that it started melting the weapons of the asuras.

The asuras which were genetically strong and had good heat resistance felt the heat and got 3rd degree burns.

The fire was emitted was blue in color and much hotter than his regular flames. The heat from the lava in which Jay was thrown multiple times showed him the true meaning of heat.

And finally when the flames stopped there weren't even skin of asuras that remained there was only soot and bones.

And a gross amalgamated of different weapons which somehow got into contact with each other. Being melded together by the intense heat.

Around 5 meters worth of asuras had been cleared. While the other asuras in 2 meter range had gotten 2nd degree burns on thejr body. To relieve that pain of burning they mindlessly dived within the seas at their sides.

And die to the intense currents and whirlpools shifted to the sides they eventually drowned.

Jay grabbed Ragnar and retreated to the starting line because his plan had failed and also on the way Jay had realized something even more amiss.

Of he had somehow reached the island he would be somehow be even more of a target and would be surrounded by even more enemies.

And it would be even more of a problem if there was a general nearby.

Now it was a fact that Jay would have to work his way through the starting line. Rather than skipping halfway through.