The Mysterious Black Magician

For some happenings that he could not explain, their comrade Mr. Ult turned into something akin to a drug addict.

Even the green bar floating on top of his head had turned into a red bar. It also meant that he became a hostile person towards them.

"Ehehehe-hehehehehe..."

Impish glee reverberated inside the cold room.

It was a kind of laugh stimulating everyone who heard it to succumb to their fears.

Not even the two Elites trainees with him were immune to this kind of intent..

Almina and Maena wore scared faces. It was clear that they were under the enemy\'s spell. Though they were wearing scared faces, they tried to fight it while on their knee, really two persistent girls.

The enemy was planting fear and a whole lot of intimidation into their hearts and minds. But to his experience of being the subject of the repeated experiment, ironically because of it — he developed high immunity towards these kinds of attacks. Merely biting his lips could dispel it.

However, the oppressive aura it exuded made him down onto his knee as well as the others.

Yman used his right hand to support his body and not to fall down.

Beside him, he noticed the Ace of academy knitted her brows. Yman was surprised that she seemed to be alright even with this overbearing aura exuded by Mr. Ult.

Yman had no idea what was going on. But his intuition was urging him to run. However, he could not even lift a single finger.

Whatever was that that possessed Mr. Ult, it must be some kind of entity that could crush them into tiny pieces in just a little lift of his finger.

To maintain his visibility, he had no choice but to close his left eye to add more strength to the right.

He took a glance at Almina and Maena, he saw that both of them were in pain and their bodies were shaking.

The enemy continued laughing sinisterly while covered by crimson aura; even his skin changed color akin to that of a monster, a currant red color.

Suddenly, he felt a tag on his left arm. He glanced and saw a pale face, Miss Ice.

"Help your friends..." she whispered weakly.

He narrowed his eyes, "How about you?"

"I can move on my own..."

He wanted to ask why she was in that state a while ago, and where is her deity, but now was not the right time for it.

On the other hand, Ice was wondering. Even though she could not feel a strong aura to this person beside her, he was not affected by mental attacks of such caliber coming from the enemy. 

On the contrary, the two girls that she felt having strong auras within them, were clearly affected by it.

Then Ice realized something. How did they manage to enter this place? If she wasn\'t wrong, she cast a high-level spell on the wall-door. Did the Demon of Possession do it, while she was under the process of completing the seal?

The seal she was working weakened her inner self. Because of this, the demon took advantage and possessed her body. She knew that it would happen so she set-upped and locked herself on her own before the demon possessed her. In this regard, she could only wait until the demon successfully sealed in the grimoire.

Yet, when she woke up, she saw some stranger around her, and the grimoire was already in the hand of one of them. So she had no idea what happened before that.

...

Yman stared at her and similarly was shocked that the mental attack and oppressive aura were not able to affect her; in any case, based on what he saw within her eyes, it seemed like — she had a plan.

Suddenly, he felt a tickle under his palm. He darted his eye towards it and saw some specs of light particles. The sensation when it touched his skin was very familiar to him. If he wasn\'t wrong, "This is..."

He glanced back at Ice and did not decide long when he nodded.

The long euphoria of being freed had finally stopped as black pupils of his eyes bore to the insects in front of him.

"Ehehe..." his shoulder shook as his mouth broke into a toothy grin.

Looking at her looks so weak at the moment, Ultima who was now possessed by the Demon of Possession, taunted her with a mocking grin.

"Alas, I can punish you finally, Little girl. Ehehehe..."

He said as his sneak like pupils were bored on Ice alone.

Then he lifted his palm facing the ceiling. The extreme heat of crimson fire coagulated into a ball. First, it was as big as the golf ball, then its size deliberately increased until its size grew into a 1-meter radius.

Seeing the enemy lifted his palm above his head, Ice squinted her eyes. Then she shouted, "Now!" After it, four-pointed crystallized ice jolted from the floor of the altar and rapidly shot to the enemy.

"Heh, so you still have energy left? As expected of someone who almost sealed me. Ehehehe..."

He said as he made a huge leap backward to evade the attack.

"Do you think you could catch me again, huh, Little girl?" The demon Ultima mocked her.

After the enemy leaped away, the effect of the intimidation and fear had lessened and also the pressure. It was because the nearer the caster, the stronger the effect, and vice versa.

When Yman was finally able to move, he directly rushed and grabbed the two girls who were still groaning in pain.

Then used Rapid Leap skill to escape.

"Yman?"

"You! Ugh."

The two girls are finally able to get back to their senses when Yman successfully distances at above 20 meters away. He didn\'t even notice the redness on Almina\'s face as he was grabbing them by their waist.

Before he ran towards the opened wall, he glanced at Ice. He saw her jumping high in the air and rapidly came closer to their direction, while her white dress embroidered by black was fluttering. She looks like she was flying, but actually some transparent slab of ice appeared in mid-air and she was using it as a foothold.

On the other hand, the Demon Ultima was being surrounded by sharp-pointed crystal ice.

"Don\'t stop!" He heard Ice shouted.

Yman without minding the two girls quickly ran towards the passage.

When he finally neared it, he suddenly felt a bad foreboding at the same time that he heard Sistela\'s warning.

Yman immediately stopped on his feet but because the floor was littered with ice, he slid for a couple of steps.

A crimson fireball passed at a palm-size distance away from his face. The fireball continued towards the entrance. And it was followed by an explosion that shook the entirety of the underground channel. Even the people on the surface felt it.

Those living at a relatively close in the area rushed outside while shouting, "Be careful there\'s a quake!"

"Noooo, maybe some terrorist group were attacking the city again!" 

"Call the soldiers! And the guards!"

"Romeo? Where is Romeo?"

"Careful everyone, thieves may take advantage of the calamity!"

"Hide your husband!"

"Oh no, Juliet was still inside the house!" 

"Yamete kudasai!!"

"Dang, those people are idiots, I would rather take a video for this. I\'m sure to get more subscribers later in YT if I made a live coverage!" One person was able to think rationally. Then he took his MTMD to start recording the scene.

Some poorly-made houses showed cracks. And some people kneeled on the ground while praying to the sky.

Moments later, because the title of the video was very catchy, which was \'The City Of Zone 7\'s Demise!\', the viewers started to appear one after another.

A  girl of about six years old was crying on the roadside while looking for her parents. Then a shady man came near to the kid and asked her.

The angry shrill of the vlogger named \'NoToPedopie\' could be heard in the video. He was shooting the shady person who came to the lost child.

After seeing the vlogger recording a video, the shady person rushed rapidly to who knows where.

Jarring shouts from the rattle crowds could be overheard in the area near the Underground Channel.

All of these scenes were caught in the video. Sooner or later, some random explosion could be overheard also. And the quaking of the grounds followed closely after the explosion.

Inside the underground channel, in the cold room, Yman and the others had no choice but to face this so-called Demon of Possession.

Some parts of the ceiling had crumbled and a segment of it blocked the passage.

"What is he?" Almina asked while wiping the blood on her mouth.

"That is one of the Demon of Possession," Ice replied.

"So he possesses the Junior trainee," Maena said.

"Mhm, you guys must be careful not to enter his range. With your current strength, you won\'t last long. Forgot even lasted longer, you couldn\'t even move near him."

"Miss Ice was right," Yman agreed to her while readying himself at the next attack of the enemy.

"Okay!"

"Tis."

"Ehehehe, insects....." The demon Ultima sneered at them.

He was currently standing on the altar facing towards them. And on his palm was a bigger crimson flame that coagulated into a fireball.

Ice stepped on the front, while Yman was a little on her back, Almina was on his right and Maena on his left. Both of them were gasping for breath already.

Never did Yman imagine that something like this would happen in this underground channel. Now he was facing a being that way above their strength.

"Heeeh!" The demon Ultima sneered, showing his pointed teeth. Then he lifted his hand and threw the Crimson Fireball.

It was rapidly approaching them.

Seeing the fireball that rapidly approaching, each of them grimaced.

Yman knew that even if they successfully avoided it, the demon would soon follow up with another attack. So basically, they become a live target.

At this thought, he ran on the front and extended his palm pointing at the coming fireball.

"Yman!" Almina shouted.

His left hand was supporting his right arm.

Then his eyes glinted while gritting his teeth.

And in his mind, he shouted, \'This time, I will not make a blunder of myself!\' He shouted inwardly.

"Watch out!" Ice shouted, but it was too late.

In a split second, the fireball that was shot had hit him, which followed by a dazzling explosion.

"Ehehehehe….ahahaha such idiot ahahah…" the Demon laughed at the person who sacrificed himself.

Almina and the others were shocked at what Yman did. She was staring at the place where he was standing a while ago, but right now it was enveloped by blinding lights.

Tears flowing at the corner of her eyes. Even Maena and Ice gaped in surprise. Never did they imagine that Yman was so courageous.

Yet a moment later.

"Heh!" They heard a snort.

Everyone turned silent and stared with wide-eyes.

Even the demon was no exception.

When the blinding light dissipated, they saw him standing still at his original position.

But, who is this in front of them? He seemed to be different.