Is there a need to run?

As the atmosphere of the dark forest lingers under the trees. The aura of the bloodlust of the demon in front spreads even toward the sky.

Sensing the awry aura Zhang Xiu commanded her group to run away. And of course, everyone in her group followed her instructions and started running away in opposite directions.

As the backs of the group that ran disappeared into the darkness, one person remained.

'Why are they running? No matter how you look at it this monster is not worth running away for. This demon maybe is high-tier, but his body for some reason does not belong in that tier. Plus, his weapon is completely unorthodox, the control of such a weapon should be pretty hard for a demon like him.'

That one person of course was Mary.

'Could it be? From what I've heard from Zhang Xiu, his father should be the feared tier that I felt a while ago outside of the forest. And that feared tier is a buffer and a debuffer, then that would only mean he would have the same type of power his father has, no?'

"Kekeke, just like how I like it." As the demon laughed and was about to hunt its prey. He stopped in the presence of the person in front of him. He observed the boy in front of it and became confused as to why his not scared and pissed himself as he ran away.

"You're not running?" asked the demon.

"Do I have to run? From what I can see your body is worth nothing. And, there's one thing that I want to confirm too." Mary answered as he stretched his body to prepare for the fight.

"Uh... If you say so"

BAM! A scythe fell downwards at a fast speed towards Mary's location.

Because of its speed, it went into the ground and it got stuck.

Thankfully, Mary managed to dodge that fast-speed attack as he sensed it was about to come.

Mary stared at the stuck scythe. He noticed that the scythe was faintly glowing.

"Hm? So I was right? Thank goodness it got stuck so I could observe it."

Mary became complacent and kept observing, all of a sudden the ground exploded and caused a shockwave that blew the trees away. Of course, only the trees got blown away and Mary dodged that explosive attack.

As the dust cloud from the explosion settled. The scythe got unstuck and flew towards the head of Mary. But as usual, Mary simply ducked a little and it went just above his head.

The scythe then flew in a circular motion back to the demon and then wrapped around its arms.

"You're good," said the demon

The scythe, which wrapped around the arms of the demon started glowing into a muddy dark red color. Instead of throwing the scythe tied at the chain. This time, the demon moved together with it.

The dark muddy color that glowed from the scythe started erupting from the feet of the demon. Or more specifically from his sole.

The ground beneath the demon exploded and the demon that was standing there disappeared.

Mary stood there shocked. But with the help of his battle experience, his senses catch up to his mind and immediately sensed the overflowing muddy aura of the demon.

"Fu~" Mary dodged. A flying scythe which flew towards his direction passed above his hair. Noticing a slight change on the air, Mary ducked to the ground.

All of a sudden a flying fist emerged out of thin air and punched the area on which Mary ducked. Then with a swift maneuver, Mary made space just like a gust of wind.

Making space that easily, the demon stood there with his hand still in the position of his punch. Mary who noticed the unchanging position of the demon stayed on guard.

'Something is missing' Mary mumbled. Immediately after that, something caught his eyesight. It was the chain on which the scythe was tied.

"Crap!"

The reason the demon stayed in position was so that he could make the scythe fly unnoticed.

The scythe flew towards Mary like a bee. And just like a person who is hunted by a bee, their best bet is to use fire. That's what Mary used. However, with his little amount of mana, he barely had enough the conjure a spell that could be used to stop the scythe. But for him, he was never lost.

There is no need to use spells to stop the scythe. In fact, if you're strong enough physically, it could easily be stopped.

As the scythe was about to scratch Mary's head off. He quickly raised his hand as if to sacrifice it. But with a quick bright light, the scythe seemed to stop in contact with his hand. Sparks were burning at the touch of the scythe and Mary's hand. On the skin of Mary's hand, a fiery orange-red glowing scriptures ingraved on his hand was visible.

"Why do you know about that?" The demon was taken aback when he noticed the tattoo. "I was informed by an informat demon that you are only a skilled mage. There was no information that you are able to have that skill..."

"Does this make your ability seems familiar to you?"

"You?!?! Could it be, a primordial skill like mine!"

"HAHAHA, no way. For me, it's just an ordinary plain skill. Enchantment s is way easier than you think." Mary grinned

Enchantments. A skill that uses the mana of the user to imprint or coat an object or in this scenario, a living being with mana. It would provide the given an enchantment that would give some improvements or upgrades that could potentially make it stronger and fiercer. It's a skill that requires little to no mana. Heck even a small drop of it is fine.

Most of the time, enchantments are a primordial skill that are given to those that require, acquire, or birthed it. Being able to use it as a skill, that could be easily learned is unheard of but not rare.

Mary is just different.

'To think I would use enchantments this early... Not just that, this is my final emergency ability that could help me in a fight, and I'm using it already on a high tier...'

The enchantment that Mary used is called the blazing skin. It surrounds the casters arm with flaming hot blaze that any attacks would melt or bounce back as it can't handle the energy of the heat.

'I need to end this fast'

A glowing white enchantment covered Mary's feet. It covered his feet to make the enchantment look like a boot with no cover but the outline. The glowing white rune shimmered and blasted with power. A gust of wind was blown off his feet and made him float on the air.

This enchantment gave Mary the ability to Air walk, turning his movements unpridectable and agile.

The demon noticing the sudden change of of speed, manipulated his scythe to go tree after tree to form a wall with it's chains.

However, with Mary's speed and agility. The wall couldn't finish covering every inch and he simply passed through scraping a part of the chain. Mary then felt a jolt of pain from the part that scraped the chain and stopped

"You even enchanted your chain with sharpness huh. Should have known."

Hearing Mary talk about the sharpness of his chains, the demon grinned. He then blasted his foot to reposition.

'To think he would use an enchantment on the chain, I have to really be careful about it. His even grinning about it. Seems like I have to lock in.'

With the enchantment on Mary's foot, he moved through the air, as if running on it.

The demon noticing, slashed towards Mary's location, changing the chains angles to make it hard for Mary to dodge.

However, Mary's enchantment on his foot blasted a strong gust of wind making him do a front flip on the air, dodging the attack that the demon made.

With the scythe now behind his enemy, the demon was open for any attacks. So, he jumped in the air to get away from Mary. But unbeknownst to him, it was his biggest mistake.

Mary dashed on the air and sticked his foot on the demons chest. The white enchantment that covered his foot suddenly turned into a mix of yellow, orange, and red. The Air walking enchantment was no more and all was left was fire.

The enchantment shined brightly on the darkness of the forest, and the heat on the demons chest rose up as it shined.

'I wanted to use so much fire enchantments... After all, the element of fire deals more damage and more explosive. But, I suddenly thought about the fact that I am currently on a forest, which sucked. But then, as I was casting the fire skin on my arms, a thought came in mind. "I just have to be really close so that the fire on spread on the forest."'

The heat on the demons chest was spreading all around it's body, from head to toe, from the left arms finger to right. The body of the demon not being able to handle the heat exploded with no fire nor smoke. Just his insides scattered across different trees.