Malacus

Ash then along with Mercedes reached the top of Mountain and found the abandoned Mine as described in Diary, "its yellow mithril"

Mercedes said and then Ash nodded " It can be used in Alchemy" 

"how about we take this place for ourself?" Mercedes said and then Ash couldn't help but thought Mercedes idea is indeed great.

"We can talk to King of Eternal about it, they have already abandoned Reidan anyway, we will told him to sell this land to us" Mercedes said.

Ash nodded and then together they decided to got to Eternal capital but after meeting Piaro.

***

As Ash was on his way to kesan Canyon along with Mercedes, while crossing Rolf Mountain, he spotted a pair of Regas and Grid, the protagonist of this world.

And right now, while regas is treading the mountain calmly, Grid is panting like a dog while moving.

Ash then searched him memory and remembered it is a significant event location, where Grid first met tzedakah guild while hunting Malacus.

"it seems, I came at right time" Ash couldn't help thought, he isn't interested in Irene who is trapped by malacus but in Marie Rose, whom Grid will meet while wearing Malacus cloak.

'Sorry, grid but I am interested in Marie Rose' Ash thought and moved towards them.

Regas who was walking forward looked back and saw, a Black Horse coming towards them, he looked at the riders and found a handsome guy and girl riding it together.

Soon they reached them, and then Ash asked, "Do you guys need help?" Saying so, he snapped his fingers and two more Phantom horses appeared.

It was due to the Phantom Steed spell reaching level 4 after continuous usage. Now, he could now summon 5 Phantom horses, and they even had two skills.

One is relentless charge, that ignores and knock back all obstacles in his way while charging in straight line, and other is sky jump, a massive leap that easily covers 200 m.

"thank you" regas nodded and then said " lets' add each other as friends, I will return them after using it" Regas said.

"its okay it's magic spell actually, they will vanish after 24 hours on their own" Ash waved his hand and said.

"oh! what a great spell" Regas said while Grid exclaimed as he looked at their stats.

"this horse is so great" Grid muttered in envy as relentless charge also deals 100% of rider physical and magic damage upto 10 enemies while charging.

while Sky jump push back enemies and deals 100% physical damage after landing.

Regas looked at the horses stats too and then asked Ash " Would you like to help us?" 

Grid frowned hearing this and thought why is he involving others.

"what's the situation?" Ash asked.

Regas then started explaining how grid's shield was stolen and the culprit is likely yatan church.

"we will help" Mercedes the moment she heard yatan church said.

"she is ?" Regas who was going to thank her, seeing her Npc name tag exclaimed and asked,

"My wife" Ash said and Mercedes blushed, 'we are still only engaged' she couldn't help but thought while Regas and Grid jaws drop to floor.

"your wife?" Regas asked once again.

"yes, I know she is Npc but we fell in love and now we are going to marry soon, after completing our business in Eternal Kingdom"

"Plus we have personal vendetta against yatan church so we will help" Ash explained and Regas nodded and congratulated them too.

Ash looked at Mercedes and couldn't help but think of quest where the reward was potential marriage with Irene.

"lets go" Ash said and then all of them rode Phantom Horse, thanks to attached riding skill on it.

after some time, Regas shouted.

"This is the place."

Grid turned his gaze towards where Regas was pointing. He discovered a large cave guarded by Yatan followers.

"The numbers aren't a joke... Aren't there at least 30 of them?"

While Ash and Mercedes felt nothing, they have defeated more powerful monsters after all.

"Bring it on! You evil people!"

"Heok."

Grid was shocked. He wanted to move as secretly as possible to avoid the enemy's gaze, but Regas shouted loudly and jumped into the middle of the enemy.

'He is crazy!'

Regardless of whether Grid cursed him or not, Regas was very excited.

"Isn't this quite good? Gale Attack!"

Chachak!

Regas' legs sprang up as quickly as the wind. The Yatan followers near him collapsed. Regas was even more delighted when he saw a follower hit by him get up.

"Okay! These guys are strong! Bring it on! Force Palm!"

Pepepepeng!

The 30 against 1 fight started.

"shouldn't we help him?" Grid asked Ash and Mercedes,

"he seems to be enjoying it" Ash said and Grid nodded and decided to not to intervene.

After killing the 30 yatan mages, Regas gestured them to follow, Ash de-summoned the horses and then both of them followed to Cave.

The moment they stepped inside the Cave.

"I don't like uninvited guests."

A bizarre voice was heard inside the cave, giving the illusion that two voices were simultaneously talking. Then a notification window popped up in front of them.

[God Yatan's Sixth Servant, Malacus has appeared.]

[The mighty dark power has applied a fear, weakness and immobilizing effect.]

[Malacus has unleashed a surprise magic attack.]

Kwa kwa kwa kwang!

"...!"

Grid noticed the black blades flying from the cave and quickly escaped thanks to his legendary abnormal status resistance.

However, Regas was different. Despite being outside the cave, he was overwhelmed by Malacus' magic power and stood still. Therefore, he couldn't escape the flying magic but he didn't suffer any damage as Ash used reflective shield to protect him as Mercedes too stiffened for a moment.

Clang 

Clang

the blades colllided with shield but wasn't able to break it..

"Kuk... I didn't think someone like this would be here."

Regas took a potion to restore his health and immediately changed his system setting.

"Whisper unblock. Guild chat unblock."

Then...

{Hey you! You will die if you don't find Regas today!}

{T-Take it easy, Master.}

{Yes, excitement isn't good for your skin. Isn't Master a woman as well?}

{Shut up... All of you, shut up! If you have time to chat, look for that bastard Regas!}

"..."

The guild chat window was filled with chaos. Jishuka was reacting worse than Regas expected, so he hesitated for a moment before typing on the keyboard,

{The slope of Rolf Mountain. Please send support.}

The chaotic chat window became more frenzied.

{Regas!}

{Hey, Regas! What have you been doing all day? Why did you block the chat? Answer me!}

{You don't know how we have been tortured because of you!}

{Rolf Mountain...? I will visit you soon. ^^}

Kwa kwang!Kwang!

Regas avoided the black magic that the followers were shooting from all directions, elbowed the face of the closest believer, and typed in the chat again.

{Come prepared for battle. Malacus has appeared.}

The chat window got crazy once more.

{Malacus? The Sixth Servant?}

{Eh? Why is he on Rolf Mountain? Shouldn't he be with the other Yatan bastards?}

{What... Where have you been wandering around? ㅡㅡ}

{Why is Malacus there?}

{Isn't he a monster that is level 310?}

....While Regas was chatting with his Guild members Ash looked at Malacus and summoned kelly and Randy.

Kelly is now, level 151 thanks to constant hunting and Ash have given her two skill of his namely, Blink and Achilles' doom, along with other basic warrior as well as good swordsman skill books he got.

if not for the restriction of not being able to pass Class skills , he would have given her Madra's Swordsmanship.