End of the trio’s fight

Chapter: 36

End of the trio's fight

Richard, Kyle, and Sniffy were confused for a moment when the ground changed. Sniffy could react in mere moments since she was more in tune with earth and transformed the ground under Richard and her feet into a flat but steady surface.

On the other side, Kyle was heading for a stone area a few meters away from himself and could also avoid being submerged in the swamp.

The wizards, who were searching for them, had the same problem and were transforming the area where they stood into something to stand on. No one had any other time to do anything else, and Kyle was quite lucky for the time being, but he knew he needed to get away from them.

The enchantment on his clothes was deactivated as long as the residing magic from the revealing spell was still latched onto it. It would take some time for it to fade before he could reactivate its invisibility effect again.

They now needed to deal with another 3 wizards, and one of them was Brian. Now that they knew where Kyle was, it was much easier for them to capture him.

Richard and Sniffy saw this and cursed at their bad luck. It would only have taken a couple of moves to take out one more of them, but now they had to think of something to assist Kyle. Kyle steadied himself on a stone and then got out more of his metallic spikes and shot 8 of them at the nearest wizard.

All eyes were now latched onto him and the wizards were much better prepared. The one that Kyle was attacking swished with his wand and in front of him appeared a thick earth wall. The spikes could not get through int and got stuck in the wall.

At the same moment, as the earth wall appeared, Brian and the other wizard shot spells at Kyle. Both of them shone in a menacing light, and Kyle could only evade them by jumping away onto the next stone.

Richard used the moment when the one wizard was behind the stone wall, and he could see the person completely since he was standing quite the distance behind him. He took out a potion bottle and cast wingardium leviosa onto it. The bottle now floated in front of him and he used a banishing charm to shoot it at his target.

Sniffy was now gone from his side to get a better look at Kyle. She looked with concerned eyes in Kyle's direction while she sent her magic to create more stones for him to step on. With these stones appearing, Kyle could get around the attacks much easier.

Constant booming sounds echoed around the area, and the swampy ground was in a mess.

The potion bottle arrived behind the wizard's back and collided with his shield spell. Not able to force its way through it, it burst apart into pieces and white fog shrouded the whole place around the black-robed figure.

The normal shielding spells had quite a few weaknesses, and they only shielded against physical and magical attacks. However, these shields let air through, or else the people inside would suffocate in due time. Richard used this and shot a bottle of sleeping potion at him. He had tried to find some poisonous ones on his shopping spree but was not able to get any of them. Therefore, he bought a few different ones that could come in handy.

This sleeping potion was not meant to be used in this way, but he improvised and it worked.

The wizard could not be seen by his allies because he stood behind the wall. He also could not react in time and only used a wind spell to disperse the fog after he inhaled a mouthful. This amount was enough, and he slumped to the ground. His shield spell fizzled out of existence, and Richard shot another bottle at him to make sure he would not be recovering soon. A normal sleep could be easily countered with an enervate spell to wake him up.

Flying through the air, the second bottle shattered directly on top of his body and he got completely drenched in a pink-like substance. This was a paralytic, and it was used to help and treat people in hospitals.

Even if he could wake up now, his whole body would not regain the feeling of touch for at least a day.

"Sigh, two people left here. I hope we can get out of here and take no serious damage." Richard let out a sigh and said to himself in a quiet voice. He then refocused himself and went towards Brian. He knew this opponent would be the most difficult to deal with, and he needed to adapt his tactics.

Meanwhile, Kyle was having a hard time. Spell light flew past him and he was dancing amidst the swamp gracefully but also awkwardly to avoid all of them. He thanked Sniffy for helping him out here, without her stones, that appeared all over the place. He would have been definitely hit by now.

Drenched in sweat, which was absorbed into his clothes and then vanished because of the enchantments. He knew he needed to do something. If this went on for longer, he was sure that he would be hit by something eventually.

The last spell of Brian was a transformation spell that transformed the muddy swamp water into a 10 m long snake that was attacking him left and right. It was annoying how agile this creature was and it was having no trouble moving in this area. That made it really hard for Kyle to avoid all of its attacks. He was getting ready to evade another bite from the snake, but he somehow slipped on the stone he stepped onto and could only twist his body in an uncomfortable position to avoid being hit in a vital area.

Grazing Kyle with its stone-hard body, he was flung away from the collision and landed in the swamp some distance away. Glee appeared in Brian's eyes when he saw this and excitingly licked over his lips.

Richard and Sniffy saw Kyle fall into the swamp and Sniffy immediately cast a spell to bring him up onto the surface. Kyle was grasping his right hand as it hung lifelessly from his body. It looked like his shoulder was broken by the snake's attack and he was injured.

The snake was right on his heels, and he could only speed away and avoid the attacks. However, now he was much clumsier with this. Losing his right arm cost him dearly, and his agility went down a notch.

Sniffy was now completely concentrated on Kyle and helped him in any way she could. Sometimes she moved stones around with Kyle on top to avoid attacks. Sweat appeared all over her face and her concentration was at its peak. Richard was seeing this and changed his target to the one remaining wizard beside Brian. He knew he could not do much to Brian in a short amount of time and wanted to get rid of this nuisance first.

He trusted his friends and hoped that they would be able to hold on for the time being. Richard knew he could not handle the wizard with the same ease that he had the last one. Brian could help him out in time, he was sure of it.

Gradually, he got closer to the wizard and took out a handful of white round balls. He cast the Illud charm and let his voice appear beside Kyle and Sniffy.

"Look for a way to retreat in a second. I will distract them."

Kyle and Sniffy knew of this magic as Richard used it quite a lot of times to scare them and prepared themselves.

Richard took these balls in both hands and threw them all over the battlefield. The instant at which they landed onto the ground, thick smoke was released and the whole surrounding area was shrouded in a thick smokescreen.

He was right behind the black-robed person and sent out one banishing spell after the other in a wandless fashion. They were sent out at the same time the smoke bombs went off and his enemy saw none of them coming. The first two damaged the shield and the third one destroyed it.

Before he could react, Richard sped up and closed in on him. He was now right in front of his enemy and used his material arts training to land a few hits on his wand arm.

"Crack, Ahhhhhh"

A cracking sound could be heard, followed by a shriek as his hand got broken in a few places and his wand ended up in Richard's hands, who broke it apart in an instant and threw it away.

He then attacked his opponent, and after a few moves, only a sobbing mess was left behind. Richard thanked himself for training in Jiu-Jitsu. It came in quite handy at such times.

Thanking his foresight to cast a silencing spell before he attacked him, to not let any sound get out of the ground they fought on.

Right after he dealt with his enemy, he retreated and it took only a few seconds till he was gone. Remembering a safe route out of this area was handy at a time while seeing nothing.

Brian needed some time to realize what was going on and after that, he let go of his transfiguration spell and created wind to carry the surrounding smoke away. He didn´t know how much smoke there was around him, therefore he needed some time and after casting another 5 spells of the same type, he got rid of the smoke.

Looking around the area, he could not find any sign of the young vampire's whereabouts and shouted. "Damn, search for these little maggots. I want them found right this instant."

Waiting for any response but not receiving any of it, he then searched around for his colleagues and was stunned. Seeing all the downed bodies lying all over the place, some more injured than other ones. Most of them were half sunk into the swamp already, as they couldn't stop the swamp from advancing anymore.

Brian was so focused on his fight with Kyle that he only noticed 2 of his underlings being injured, but he shrugged that off at the time he saw it. He thought they would be able to join him in time and that the brats just got lucky by taking them out, but from the looks of it, they had played them big-time.

Fury could be seen all over his face and he swore he would track them down and kill all of them after he tortured them in the most gruesome way he could imagine. Some fear could also be found in his expression after he remembered his mission and he frantically searched all over the place for the three of them.

Richard, Sniffy, and Kyle had made their way towards the woods and met each other along the way. The enchantment on Kyle's clothes was fixed in an instant by Sniffys hands and he got invisible again. Sniffys spells of seeing each other were marvelous beyond belief and they found each other through that. It looked to them like they were beacons of light inside the fog.

After the fog was cleared away by Brian, they were long since hiding themselves in the woods and looked with concerned faces in the direction where the major fight was still going on.

They knew they could not interfere any longer because Kyle was injured and exhausted beyond belief and Richard and Sniffys magical reserves were almost totally spent.

"I hope dad will be ok and find a way out of here." Kyle muttered while he was focused on the central area.

／(^ x ^)＼

Meanwhile, in the central area of the fight.

Rodolfo's blood-red light surrounding his body had dimmed badly, and he knew he could not go on for much longer. He had killed another few enemies in the last moments and nothing seemed to stop him, but Kellam knew it was only a matter of time.

He lagged behind his brother and waited for an opportunity to strike, but was not able to find any till now.

Arriving in front of another wizard who was fully shielded and casting spells at his evading body in close range, Rodolfo was kind of smirking at his opponent, and then sped away. The wizard was confused when he saw this, but right when the vampire sped away, he could understand the reason for the smirk.

Countless spell lights flew in his direction and impacted on him after a mere moment. His shield could not hold on for even a second, and his body was enveloped by countless spells. His body was mangled beyond belief, and he could not be more dead than this.

At the same moment when the wizard was turned into mush, Rodolfo regained the function of his arm and wielded now two swords. He could now exhibit all of his abilities and, with more energy to spend, his strength soared. Now that he didn´t need to focus himself on healing his arm anymore.

He used this newly gained strength and moved more and more of his energies into his swords. Both of them lit up and became deep red. It was almost black. He then jumped from a stone and attacked with his swords. Two sword attacks could be seen flying through the air and in the blink of an eye, they sliced a wizard in two and disappeared into the swampy grounds.

The surrounding no-name wizards were dumbfounded after they saw this and stopped their attacks for the moment, they didn´t wish to die like that. Kellam could only shout at their faces.

"What are you all stopping your attacks for? If you don´t hinder him, then you will all die in a mere moment." He was cursing at the fearful looks on their faces, but after they heard him, they started their assault again.

Kellam also was sure that his brother was at his last steps and could not hold on for much longer.

Rodolfo knew he needed to disrupt Nefarion from finishing his spell and was thinking of anything he could do while evading incoming spells.

It took him a few moments, but he remembered something and sheathed one of his swords. The other one deflected incoming spells or sliced them apart with his blood-red energy. Now having a free hand, he grabbed into his pouch and took out a handful of the strange metallic weapons that he had gotten inside the mountain.

Stepping onto a stone in front of him, he jumped high into the sky and let go of his other sword for a second. He took these weapons in both hands and spun around. It took him a second to see all his targets clearly, and Rodolfo shot ten of them at the wizards all around him.

"Booooom"

A deafening sound was heard and most of the wizards could not react in time and were pierced through. These metal knives cut through their shields like butter and went in and out of their bodies in an instant.

The wizards, who could react in time, were only able to erect an earthen wall in front of them but that didn´t help them as they also got sliced through without slowing down. Most of the hit wizards succumbed to the attack right this instant, and those who lived through it got killed by the poison.

Rodolfo caught his sword again and, after he saw how effective these weird weapons were, he sheathed it too. Coming into contact with the ground again, he sped up to get rid of the next wave of spells and attacked with his newfound weapons.

Wizard after wizard died in his hands, and they could do nothing to hinder him at all. They tried to transform earthen walls around them into metal, but it helped them in no way. The knives just went through everything in its path. They were also not fast enough to evade them.

Kellam began to sweat all over his body in the instant he saw one knife fly in his direction. He then erupted with all of his strength and put it into his ax and tried to deflect the knife, as he could not evade it in time. At the moment the ax collided with the knife, he heard a crushing sound, and the blood-red light on his ax got destroyed in an instant.

That was the difference of Rodolfo's strength added with his blood-red energies. It was able to pierce through almost everything.

Kellam got lucky and at the moment when his ax shattered, he could divert it off its path and it went by his head by almost a mere margin.

Rodolfo had only a few of them left and focused himself on his front. Nefarion was emanating a terrifying wave of energy, and he knew he needed to stop him from finishing the spell. He directly shot 6 of these knives at him with his full strength and hoped to wound him as he was closing in on him.

It would be his win when he would reach him. No wizard could beat a vampire in close combat.

The knives flew at an unimaginable speed, and they were in front of Nefarion in an instant. The moment they reached a distance of about 1 meter in front of him, something peculiar happened. It was like an invisible ripple that moved forward and the knives were flung away after they contended a moment against this ripple.

In the next moment, Nefarion opened his eyes and looked in a smirking manner at Rodolfo. "You truly think that I was not prepared for something like this. You will die here today. I will show you my new spell. That will be your end."

Nefarion said arrogantly, but cold sweat appeared all over his back. The artifact, which he had found in some ruins and somehow repaired to a functioning state, had now cracked all over it. These attacks had almost shattered it and he would have surely died if that was the case.

But he lived through it, and his spell was ready.

Magical energy roared out from Nefarion. A tornado formed around him.

"Let's see if you can do anything to this." He shouted and laughed creepily. The magic took place, and the swamp shook fiercely.