Fighting in the Darkness

When the man hidden in the dark mist felt the dozens of eyes fixed on him, his expression changed.

'They can see me!? How?'

He could not afford to think about the reason, though. The man quickly moved back, evading tens of magical bullets coming in his direction.

He could feel that the magical bullets were very threatening. Although he was not sure how a group of Rank 5 individuals' attacks could feel so dangerous, he was not planning to test his doubts with his body.

But at the moment he evaded the bullets with ease, his expression changed.

Rain of magical weapons were launched closely above him after the first shot. He has been completely focusing on dodging the barrage of bullets, so he had been unable to notice them.

And they were launched towards below where he was at Mach 10.

"Dammit!" The man cursed loudly. He hurriedly twisted his body weirdly, finally avoiding all of the weapons safely.

And then...

Swish!

A pair of daggers cut towards his neck and heart. It was Julian. Finally, he had made his move.

'When did he...!?' 

The man was astonished. He was unable to figure out how Julian had moved behind him. How could he know that Julian had trained in the darkness since he was a child? For him, fighting in this environment was the same as fighting normally.

In fact, when the man appeared and started to speak, it was not that Julian failed to notice that the man was buying time for the dark mist to spread completely. Instead, Julian was also plotting against the man.

The dark mist was the man's domain, but it was also Julian's. And the man did not know it, resulting in him being unable to predict Julian's sneak attack.

Both Julian and the man were both Rank 8. Their abilities were around the same. Thus, now that Julian managed to sneak attack him successfully, he had the advantage.

Spurt!

A dagger pierced the man's shoulder. In the end, the man was also a Grandmaster like Julian. At the last instant, he managed to block one of the daggers with his knife while twisting his body to receive the other dagger with his shoulder.

"You bloody protestant whore!" The man bellowed. Instantly, strong ice-cold mana surged from his body then into his knife, which the blade of it suddenly elongated into a sword.

"[Severing Blade]!"

Massive dark energy was released from his sword's blade as he swung down a vicious killing strike at Julian.

"Rahhhhhh!"

The dark energy from the sword seemed to even engulf the dark mist, as though a shadow was cast into darkness itself. And the next second, the man brought it down viciously.

Julian seemed to be caught off-guard. However,  instead of feeling panic, he quickly brought his weapons up to defend.

Clang!

The blades clashed, and Julian was quickly overwhelmed as his opponent's black blade smashed through his twin weapons and headed towards his head straight on.

Boom!

The floor gave away from the impact with the power enough to collapse an entire building within seconds. A deafening explosion followed by dark energy leveled almost every corner of the underground areas and kicked up a dust storm.

As the dust cleared, it was revealed that the man's dark sword was only penetrating the ground with Julian no longer in sight, the dark mist he created was split into two as a result of his attack. However, in a matter of seconds, the dark mist that got split was regenerating at tremendous speed, before it returned engulfing the whole area into complete darkness where light sources were no use, almost as if the attack he unleashed had never happened.

With an annoyed look, he pierce his gaze through the darkness where he clearly sees Julian in the darkness.

"You..."

Before the man could say more, Julian spoke indifferently, "Both of us are at the exact same rank, but I specialize in speed. Now that you are unable to move one of your arms, the advantage is completely mine." he smiled as he decided to not need to rush it and kill his opponent while risking an injury. Instead, he prefers to tire him out slowly, until he is unable to continue fighting.

The man gritted his teeth in anger, "Bastard, you fooled me!"

In response, Julian just shrugged, "We are enemies after all, this is no fair game."

The man's face flushed in anger. He then raised his hand and shouted.

"Fire everything!"

As soon as he spoke, a rain of magic arrows came from the entrance.

Julian's expression changed. Even although he could avoid the arrows in the darkness, it was not the same for the others.

But when he was going to warn them, he saw a very peculiar scene.

"Hup!" Nogla yells as he throws something on the ground, a strange object lit up and creates a protective dome around the group.

'Weird, didn't feel a slight trace of mana within it. Very elegant artifacts these guys have.'

Meanwhile, the group looked at the other enemies with disdaining expressions.

"Xavier, protect everyone here!" The mask man ordered his Golem with a smile.

"Hey guys, what is happening? This damn fog!" Ellies asked, irritated, but everyone ignored her. But one of them, though, decided to give her a special visor with night and infrared vision later, in case something like this happens again.

The next instant, Vanoss kicked the ground and rushed towards the enemies.

"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

"Evan, you stupid bitch! Hold up! We didn't plan anything yet!" Basically shouted at his self-proclaimed leader as he rushed out of the dome.

In normal circumstances, the dark mist would have been a perfect strategy against invaders. The enemies were already trained to fight in the dark mist. Thus, although their combat level would not be as good as in normal conditions, it would be enough to overwhelm the invaders that had never fought in this kind of condition.

And in fact, Ellies was almost completely powerless in this kind of environment.

But the Banana Bus Squad were different.

With infrared goggles, Vanoss did not have any problem seeing through the dark mist as he charged crazily through it. It could be said that for him, it was the same with or without fog.

His friends were the same. Thanks to Terroriser's Workshop System, he could buy anything in both Minecraft, Gmod, Tf2, Apex Legends, Fortnight, and other things they could buy, especially the goggles, now being able to battle in any environment was no problem.

But there is also a drawback for the System within Terroriser, he can purchase anything unless he has enough cash to get it, and the only way to get it is to just sell some items he has. The more expensive the object was, the more credits he will receive. Example like a nuclear bomb such as Tsar Bomba, it will give him over a million.

Back to the fight, like wolves in the middle of a herd of sheep, the group of idiots attacked their enemies fiercely. Strangely, the dark mist ended up working in their favor and impeding the enemies' vision instead, allowing the group to kill them more easily.

Three Masters and six Intermediate individuals. Nine enemies in total were killed by them in less than ten seconds.

Meanwhile, Julian sighed in relief and looked at the pale face of the injured man.

"It looks like your plan failed."

Then, he walked backward and disappeared in the shadows, appearing again behind the man.

"Kuh!" The man grunted. He tried to use his dark sword to stop the daggers, but with a shoulder injured, his movements were compromised.

Thus...

Spurt!

He suffered another stab, this time in his abdomen.

"Good job, you blocked an attack." Julian mockingly smiled, "Let's see how long you can last."

He then twirled his daggers playfully and disappeared in the shadows again.

Legs, arms, chest, back. Julian continued attacking the man repeatedly. He never went for a decisive blow, instead, he recurred to small attacks with the purpose of sapping the enemy's strength.

Slowly, his enemy became weaker and weaker, and his mind was invaded by despair.

"This is some cat playing with a mouse shit." Terroriser, who had already finished his enemies, walked beside his friends and opined about Julian's fighting style.

Moo nodded, "Yup, such a scary fighting style."

Julian's battle did not last much longer. Two minutes later, the man was unable to continue resisting until finally, the catkin stabbed him right in the heart.

When Julian finally killed his enemy, He walked towards the others and said, "Let's go. We don't know if they still have reinforcements. We need to rescue the prince quickly."

"Right. Let's roll out, boys!" he gazes at Ellies, "...and girls."