[Kevin’s POV]
‘He just up and leaves huh, some things don’t change, do they..’ Kevin reminisced about the past and controlled his shadow puppets to do his bidding.
The battle was by no means difficult, they were all pretty weak.
Gazing up at the very top of the mountain he could feel an enormous amount of mana being unleashed.
It was so much that he could even feel it down here and so could the others.
‘Just who is he fighting?’ Kevin thought with a frown, capturing more and more people with his shadows due to them being distracted by the mana pressure.
By now, he had most of the people under his control, he let Chloe deal with some of them while flashing a smirk at Elizabeth.
As boring as this battle was, she was still a competitive person at heart, seeing her rival dominating the battlefield while she was guarding 4 immobile inmates, made her eyes shake with rage.
‘Pft.. she’s funny’ Kevin glanced around him, most of the cultists had already died, however, what troubled him the most was the fact that this battle did not happen in his memories.
Back when he was in the academy, Michael was just barely qualified for the Elite class, even then, he was the weakest of the bunch.
Nothing had changed as the years went by, he was just a slightly above-average healer.
It all changed in the 4th year when all of a sudden, he began improving at drastic speed, by the end of the year, even catching up to Kevin, that’s when they became friends.
‘3rd year.. our combined levels were under 400… I suppose it made sense why we didn’t get this particular assignment’ Kevin thought with a small smile.
The party remained the same for the most part, Michael was not there back then either, it was the current Saint, Tony and he was not very high leveled.
‘He’s a scumbag in both worlds as well..’
Just as those thoughts finished, a wave of mana bore down on all of the people present, it seemed like the fight up there was coming to an end.
However, he didn’t have time to celebrate as in the next moment, he heard a cracking sound, followed by Elizabeth flying past him.
The armored van slightly distorted, revealing 4 of the inmates who for some reason, now had white eyes and long white hair.
Kevin looked on with a serious expression ‘Are they.. members of the Evangelist?’
They existed even in the past, however, their roots were too deep in society as at any moment, someone could turn into an Evangelist.
‘Disgusting dogs..’ Kevin took a deep breath and prepared to fight them.
Chloe also came up to him and stood a bit behind him, with her style of battle, she could potentially take one of them out.
However, Kevin was not too optimistic, after all, he could feel that every single one of them had a Mana Core, they were basically the peak of this particular world.
He could only rejoice in the fact that in exchange for power, they give their sanity and rationale up to the demons which their power comes from.
That is the case for most of the Evangelists however, Priests and above can control those said demons, borrowing their power without a cost.
“Liz, you alright?” He turned to the limping Elizabeth and called her a pet name which made her brow twitch in annoyance.
“Don’t call me that.. I am fine, I only dislocated my knee” She said as she started wiggling it around, eventually popping it back into place and standing straight.
“Good, listen, we can’t win this fight, we have to head over to Michael, he’s the only one who can defeat them” Kevin said, not taking his eyes away from the 4 inmates who were staring at him with their creepy blank white eyes.
He noticed the guard from earlier in one of their hands, his body torn apart, only the agonizing look of pain remained.
‘…’ Kevin began moving at a safe distance with the 2 girls behind him, trying not to make too much movement as that would likely cause them to attack.
‘They are like rabid dogs..’
He noticed the mana intensity spiking at the very top of the mountain before it finally disappeared entirely.
However, that was enough to startle the 4 inmates as they immediately began running to the peak, completely ignoring the 3 people in front of them.
‘Well.. Sorry Michael, good luck…’
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[Michael’s POV]
‘Fuck you.’
He wiped the blood off of his face, it took him all he had and half of his mana to deal with this annoying swordsman.
Every single time he sent a Sword of Light, he was met with a block and counterattack, even as he sent hundreds of them like earlier, for some reason, the man was left unscathed.
That was until Michael went close range and began unleashing all sorts of attacks, be it Swords of Light or simple melee combat, it seemed to get the job done.
He also figured out how the man managed to block his attacks, as the Swords of Light approached him, a black color enveloped his swords for just a mere moment, dispelling Michael’s mana.
However, it seemed to have a cooldown of some sort, he was still getting injured despite having that ability.
Michael guessed he could only do it once every 10 seconds.
That was nothing to Michael as he could attack thousands of times in 10 seconds.
‘Glad that’s over with’ Michael finally stood up from the ground, the caved-in face of the man lying right below him.
Past a certain point, it became hard to converse with him and his attacks became wilder, maybe that’s why the fight didn’t last any longer.
Good job, you killed him.
‘Thanks..’ Michael dusted himself off and noticed his robe had been ripped up.
Don’t worry about the equipment in this world anymore, none of them will give you any buffs.
‘Is that so.. I kind of liked this robe though…’ He sighed and suddenly straightened his back.
A few strong presences were heading his way.
‘Did the 4 inmates escape? What about my party?’ Michael quickly spread out his Detection and heaved a sigh of relief after finding out they were safe and moving towards him.
He began stretching, however, as he was doing so, he noticed the hair of the man he had just killed turning a black color, the white completely disappearing.
‘Too bad I can’t see his eyes, maybe they changed color too’ Michael snickered as he finally saw the 4 inmates in the distance.
They did not seem nearly as strong as the one he had just fought, however, as they had Mana Cores, they were to not be underestimated by any means.
The moment they were only around 30 meters away from him, Michael began casting Swords of Light before sending them at incredible speeds towards them.
From the battle he just had, the deadliness and speed of his skills increased further.
However, his brow twitched as he noticed their appearance, it was the same as the man’s he just killed.
And just as expected, the Swords of Light approached them and their bodies were enveloped in a black aura, dispelling Michael’s attack completely.
‘…’
