He could see a black form of mana shot toward a being radiating bronze and topaz energy. He couldn’t see how strong the shadowswarm was, but it was clearly stronger than the earth bear since it had been the one controlling the fight from the start. It was the only one pushing forward, and from the darkness aura it released, Silas assumed it hadn’t even been hurt yet.
The bear, on the other hand, was shooting around. It wasn’t nearly as fast as the bat or Silas, but it was much faster than Silas expected. The bear was essentially a walking tank, after all. The bear’s energy fluctuated, but Silas saw something else.
When he narrowed his eyes, he saw something inside the beast. It looked like-…
‘Is that a life force?’ Silas widened his eyes.
He had enough experience and knowledge of life forces from his past life to know a life force when he saw one. He just hadn’t expected that mystic eyes would have the ability to see them yet.
Shaking his head, he turned his attention to the last mana signature. It was one filled with bloodlust, and it was the only mana signature that worried him.
He knew that the bear was intelligent enough to not attack him when there was a more serious threat at hand. However, the mistwalker was another problem all on its own.
Silas could see its mist moving in a circular pattern, creating icicles and shooting them at both the earth bear and the shadowswarm.
“Hmm.” Bending his knees, Silas shot himself into the air and flipped off the branch he was standing on.
In that moment, an enormous bear crashed through the tree he was standing on while breaking through several others.
At the same time, a monster covered in mist shot into the air. It left a trail of mist behind that froze everything in its path.
Now that there was far less mist covering it, Silas could see that it had a topaz core, too, just like the earth bear.
‘Do beasts and monsters awaken their affinities once they reach the Topaz core? No, right? The bat didn’t have an affinity, and the thundertusks technically manipulated the elements inside their bodies to create lightning. But technically, the thundertusks didn’t have an affinity. Lightning isn’t an affinity, and they had mana coursing through them even though some of their organs used elemental energies.’ Silas thought while creating a silver circle under him that continuously blew air at him. This allowed him to glide down at a sensible rate.
Within an instant, black tendrils that looked like lightning shot out of the shadowswarm’s body, shooting into the ground like a sapling planting its roots.
A black tendril shot toward Silas and the mistwalker, yet while the mistwalker simply created a mist in front of it, thick enough to slow down the tendril, Silas created an air blast spell that blasted him to the side and toward the ground.
Spinning mid-air, Silas created two orange magic circles and pointed them toward the shadow swarm. For some reason, the speed of his spell creation was much faster than before… Sure, it was a split-second difference, but that split second would have taken master magicians several years to produce.
*Bang Bang*
Two tier 2 fire bolts shot out of Silas’ magic circle, piercing through the air and appearing before the shadow swarm in an instant.
*BOOOOM*
Landing on the floor, Silas slid a few meters before pointing his palm toward the shadowswarm.
Glancing to the side, Silas made brief eye contact with the earth bear.
At that moment, an understanding appeared before the two. They simply nodded at each other, but while that nod didn’t seem like much, it was as if they understood each other’s thoughts and processes of thinking. They became one and in sync with one another in order to take down the shadowswarm.
Looking back, Silas held his right hand’s forearm and breathed out.
‘I saw how the mistwalker did it… If I just.’ Closing his eyes, Silas created a blue magic circle in front of him.
Imagining a waterfall spinning into a water vortex; Silas created the runes needed before unleashing a torrent of water in front of him. This torrent spun at high speeds and slowly turned into a spear.
Then, he breathed and thought of freezing lakes and ice cubes. blizzards, tundras…
He thought of the atoms slowing down while the sound of water being rapidly frozen entered his mind.
The runes changed on their own to fit his desire. Runes were a language. A dead language, but still a language.
It was a little like Latin or Coptic. No one spoke it, but many could read and write it.
Runes were a language, and even though Silas’ understanding of them might have been considered intermediate, he had cracked the life equation before.
The life equation was made up of hundreds of thousands of runes. Sure, they weren’t the same runes as the ones seen on Gilea, but they were runes, every single one of them having a different purpose.
Silas poured an enormous amount of mana into the spell, yet for some reason, he didn’t feel like he was becoming mana fatigued.
*BAAANNG*
The ground beneath Silas shattered due to the spell’s recoil.
A spear made of ice shot through the air at astronomical speeds, and before anyone could understand what had happened, a hole appeared in the abdomen of the shadowswarm, causing it to suddenly freeze in place before-
*SCREEEEEEEECH*
An inhuman screech came out of the shadowswarm’s mouth before a tsunami of bloodlust erupted out of the shadowswarm’s body.
At the same time, the bear and the mistwalker both unleashed the full power of their killing intent.
‘Let the battle of titans begin, I guess…’ Silas grinned and allowed his own killing intent to erupt out of his body.
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