Chapter 128 - Russell' Second Secondary Ability
Third person POV
"You little prick!" Elai shouted at James for doing that.
"Hey, what you're doing to Russell is not good," responded James back with seriousness while approaching the scene. "Also, you and your party are in serious trouble with the law."
Because of this, the Elai party decided to fight him alongside Russell.
And so, as a result, the party is now fighting both Russell and James. Elai lunged at James with her flaming sword. James dodged that and used his Water magic to fire a stream of Water Bullets, an A-ranked water magic, at her. Elai got struck hard and almost had her Flaming Sword's fire extinguished by it. Hans then tried to retaliate against James with his sword, but Russell struck him with his lightning magic through his metal door shield. Hans was partially down. And then, Aeri snuck behind him in an attempt to shoot his back, but when she did so, Russell's uniform prevented her arrow from inflicting any pain on him. This stuns her, and Russell notices and fires a Lightning Throw at her for doing that, electrocuting her severely. "That's stupid, you know," he said to her. As Aeri collapsed to the ground, Russell looked back at Elai, who was even more furious at him.
James is now up against Belius and his summoned Water Serpent.
"Attack him!" Belius said to his Water Serpent.
His Water Serpent then charged at James, prompting Russell to use his Lightning Throw at it.
It did the trick, and the Water Serpent is now weakened to the ground, much to Belius' shock.
At the same time, Nathan and Azalea are having their evening meal when both of them hear the battle's noises from the distance. Curious, both of them stood up and went to check it out, only to see the fight from the trees. Both people were shocked.
"Russell-kun?!" Azalea gasped.
"Wait, those people…" Nathan responded with shock, before hiding behind a tree and using his Photography ability to take pictures of the fight just in case it would be turned into evidence.
Azalea, on the other hand, stood next to him and stayed vigilant just in case Russell would give up and lose the fight.
Back at the fight, Elai wielded her sword and lunged at Russell again. Russell then dodged that with his Flash Speed ability fast but received a cut on his arm and uniform sleeve from her sword. He then felt in pain, but it was manageable for him though. Belius then tried to hit James with his magical staff, only to get struck with James' Printer ability, which also can fire a stream of pieces of paper as a distraction and there is a low chance that the opponent could receive a paper cut or two from it. So, Belius was struck by it and had a few paper cuts on his arms. Seeing that made Elai even more furious at Russell and James for messing up her reputation and party so much. As Belius collapsed to the ground in cut pain, Elai summoned a Flaming Phoenix using her fire magic.
"What the…?" Russell was shocked in disbelief. With a smirk, Elai said to him, "You will pay for your insolence to us."
She then commanded her Phoenix to attack Russell, and her Phoenix did so by lunging at him.
James saw that and was about to use his Water Bullets at it when Russell's metal door shield started to act by itself and fired itself toward the Phoenix, striking it with power. This shocked Elai a lot. "What the hell?" she commented.
Her remaining party members were shocked in disbelief upon seeing a strange-looking metal object hitting a summoned beast and floating in the air.
Her Phoenix got a hit but managed not to fall to the ground.
James saw that, too, and was shocked while being dumbfounded.
Russell was about to fear for the worse when he heard something and lowered his guard down, only to see that his metal door shield was out of his hand and was now floating in the air.
Seeing that made him stunned.
"Woah, what?" he commented.
Nathan and Azalea saw that and were stunned by it.
Little did Russell know that he had managed to discover and unlock his second magic, which is called Metal Manipulation.