C176. Loyalty in Despair
After receiving Zomatsu's advice to learn some illusion magic that would complement his swordsmanship and fighting style. Albert considered doing just that but had failed to find any suitable mid-tier spells that could help him in a fight and had thought learning low-level illusion spells would be a waste of his limited spell count and would end up being useless to him. He had then decided to focus on improving his secret techniques as well as his stamina instead.
However, his mindset had changed when he suddenly remembered one of his first Secret Technique, the Mirage steps. It was a technique that allowed him to create an afterimage of himself and imbued his presence and aura into that image, temporarily giving it back to his own will for a few seconds while his real body is hidden by a mirage so it could launch a surprise and critical attack.