The Runic Alchemist

Even with the hoverboard cut in half, the side with Damian's generator had survived and Lifewarden had already used the crown as they landed. Damian had to lift the hoverboard and ignore his fall as he continued channeling his aura inside the generator.

Runefather had taken out a massive shield before, and now in the dark of night, the runes on it started glowing as a charge of mana filled it with energy. Worldscribe was also ready with the laser cube, Hellseeker powered the whole armor and was instantly surrounded by red menacing aura that flared double the amount Damian could normally manage. Along with mana, the aura mastering also mattered with that spell.

The lady beside Lifewarden powered up the massive chainsaw-like moving air blade sword, while Bloodedge coated his simple, slick grey sword in his golden aura. Every third ranker landed on their feet and readied themselves for the battle, even though the man in the center clad in black was a monster unlike any they had ever faced before.

"Commander? Can you hear me?" Hellseeker said, for the first time, his voice showing some hints of emotion.

Land Breaker did not answer, though, and once looking all around, as their weapons powered up, he put his long sword down, burying it in the sand. Raising his hands, he unleashed the power of his full presence, immediately forcing everybody to feel a mountain pressing down on their shoulders. Then, in his deep, curcush voice, he said,

"Followers of that bastard Sun God.? What miserable place is this.? Where is your kingdom?"

They all froze just like Lifewarden and he had before.

Damian, however, still continued using his aura to produce the mana liquid without stopping. Suddenly the laser spell caught the edge of his eyes as it landed square on Land Breaker's chest, the weight of his presence losing a little from their shoulders. Still, Damian couldn't even move a finger. His mana sense was so messed up because of the massive quantity of mana inside Land Breaker, it felt like he was drowning in mana that was just leaking out of his abyssal body.

The Highswords were faring better than him as at least they could move their limbs. Still, the presence of a fourth ranker with no restraints on his power was too blinding for any of them.

The voice in Damian's mind spoke again, 'Use mana coating full of light attribute and tell others to do the same..'

Damian hesitated for a second before obeying the random voice in his head, there was no other choice—he was going to die anyway if he didn't do it. The second he used light attribute mana to coat all his body, a golden glow surrounded him and finally he was able to move a little. It was still not his normal speed, but at least with this, he could move around with some difficulty.

He immediately shouted, "Use full body mana coating with light attribute! Use all kinds of light attribute attacks you have!"

One by one, the Highswords' bodies started glowing golden and they regained their freedom of movement. They were moving much better than Damian, almost at their normal speed—they were third rankers, after all. Without a single word, all spellswords coated their swords and spears golden and jumped towards the tall dark figure who was still taking the full force of the laser without moving in the slightest.

Land Breaker muttered something in a weird language and a dark rustic big runic circle became visible near his outstretched hand. Immediately following, the dark smoke emanating from the runic circle seeped into the sand, and a humanoid figure made of sand, with red eyes and dark, curly, sharp horns, rose from the ground, attacking Worldscribe.

Worldscribe had to move away to dodge, which broke her mana input slightly, and the laser got weaker. Land Breaker then used his arm to block the laser and stepped aside.

The many spellswords finally landed their attacks on Land Breaker, but as if the man had an armor made out of pure darkness, not a single blade touched his real body. The golden weapons did seem to fight a little against the darkness, though.

Suddenly Land Breaker released a solid black wave of energy, throwing all of them ten meters away in all directions. Leaving them on the ground, Land Breaker levitated up with the help of his sheer energy—Damian could see no runic circles. Then he called his sword and flared a massive amount of pitch-black aura into it, the sword growing over seven meters big.

Without giving a single second to breathe, Land Breaker disappeared and suddenly a blood-curdling scream echoed from the side. Damian looked that way, his movements painfully slow under Land Breaker's presence. It was Gravebreaker! The black sword was through his pugilist body and Land Breaker was standing behind him, holding it while smiling menacingly. He did not have a face—just pitch-black abyssal fire rising, meters-long dark smoke above it. Only by the two twisting and moving red slits could anyone even tell that the creature had a face.

"Cowards and weaklings.. Just like your God.." The demonic screeching voice was heard once again.

Land Breaker pulled the sword not backwards but upwards, splitting Gravebreaker's top half like it was paper. That was a goddamn pugilist body of a third ranker!

Before everyone could even register what had happened, Mindseer screamed, "No!" Read exclusive adventures at My Virtual Library Empire

In the next moment, a few of the spellswords just getting up—among them the woman Damian had given the sword and two more spellswords from Sunkeeper's section—were slashed in half, blood spurting everywhere, the white sand in moonlight painted red. Every Highsword, no matter from what section, who saw it turned their face away—the scene was just too gross to even look at. Mindseer was near the three, she saw it before others and still couldn't even warn them before they were dead.

Immediately in the next second, a roar of pure rage was heard from Sunkeeper as her whole golden armor started glowing, and in the next second, a massive, intense stream of fire launched at Land Breaker, engulfing him entirely. Hellseeker and Bloodedge also shouted loudly and released aura blades after aura blades, numbered over hundreds in a few seconds.