The pillars had disappeared and between the bright sun, the black armor, and the violet aura, tracking the knight's movements was supposed to be easy. Yet he was as quick as lightning and each of his strides brought the noise of thunder.
Where he stepped, a crater would open, scattering dust and pebbles around. The former clouded his position while the latter had the kinetic energy of a bullet, dealing damage even to those who wore enchanted armor.
The black knight appeared in front of the soldiers before they could come to a halt and close their ranks. He swung his blood-red blade in a wide horizontal movement, giving the soldiers the time to raise their shields. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com
War cut through the metal as if it was paper and the strength behind the slash was so strong that it generated a wind blade. Those who took the hit directly died on the spot, cut asunder at the waist.
Those behind them lived a few seconds longer, noticing how Mogar had started to spin and the air had become filled with a red rain. Then, they landed on the ground, understanding that Mogar stood apparently still while their heads had flown off.
The shield bearers who only took the wind blade had their arms shattered, but they survived thanks to the impact sending them away. The others weren't so lucky and died on the spot.
A single slash of the angry blade had killed dozens.
"Don't stand like that! Regroup!" The general said while Lith took another step forward, piercing through the ranks like a human cannonball and turning the soldiers on his path into living projectiles that crashed against their comrades in the backlines.
The deeper Lith went the more the formation crumbled. The soldiers used their wands and unleashed a barrage of tier three spells, but they aimed to where he had been instead of where he was, his movements too quick to follow.
Once he reached the heart of the central wing of the army, Lith had already finished body casting the tier Four War Mage Spell, Plague Tempest. Countless bullets of darkness erupted from his body, each one of them twice as strong as a Plague Arrow.
They were still comprised solely of darkness so they were slow. Yet from point-blank range and with serrated ranks there was no way to avoid them. To make matters worse, Lith had replaced the unused second element with willpower.
War Mages learned the trick from Tier Four, allowing their spells to home onto their targets. Plague Tempest came out of his feet, emerging from the ground, and also from his shoulders and head, darting upwards for a few meters before coming down.
The darkness bullets struck their mark ignoring their enchanted protections and moved on to the next even if they barely had a shred of energy left.
The well-oiled machine that the army was supposed to be stuttered in front of overwhelming power and Lith exploited the brief pause to cast with his mouth, hands, and mind as well.
He had prepared no spells to create the worst-case situation possible for himself and now he was casting three spells at the same time.
"Don't let him finish! Deploy the elemental sealing arrays!" The mage commander yelled from the sky.
Based on the reports, they were expecting to deal with a creature of darkness so they had prepared accordingly. The area around Lith became filled with elemental sealing arrays to which he replied with the spell he had cast with fake magic.
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