The Magician of Sound

"Now, it's time to fight." Kai smiled, planning to buy time for the avalanche to get down.

Tasha suddenly appeared again as the others regrouped with her almost instantly as though they had planned this. Ayaka flew to the sky while Tasha teleported the others to the top of the mountain, free from the avalanche.

"Since you like it that much, I will let you have fun with it alone." Tasha smirked as they disappeared.

"Tch." Kai realized he was getting tricked by them. They, in fact, wanted him to create this avalanche himself, especially because Tasha stayed on top of the hill. Just the possibility of her creating this alone already forced him to make a move first.

And if he went to the sky, he would face Ayaka that was ready to blow him back to the ground.

At the same time, Sofia created a slide toward the bottom right above the avalanche. Michelle also rode that slide while activating her Shadow Possession, boosting her power.

Meanwhile, Evan seemed to follow the slide but by running on the snow instead to maintain his speed. It was obvious that he tried to use the avalanche to create a cover for him, so Kai didn't break through and hit him.

Kai looked at Ayaka above him and used his Sound Blast.

Ayaka's face turned serious as she created a magic circle between them, trying to blow him away.

"Scarlet Explosion."

"Sound Blast." Kai decided to use two Sound Blasts. The first one flew toward the explosion, penetrating Ayaka's fire, albeit he found that the shock wave was entirely engulfed by that.

Knowing the power of the shock wave was not enough to penetrate that blast, he used the second Sound Blast to launch him in another direction, avoiding the fire.

"Lightning Piercer." Tasha released her arrow before it suddenly sped up by turning it into a lightning bolt.

Kai realized that the speed was far faster than him using the Sound Blast. He shifted his body slightly to the side, dodging this arrow, but it was Ayaka's turn to attack him. She went around her own explosion and struck the arrow using the momentum just like a baseball.

The arrow flew toward him again while she swung her spear in another direction.

Because of this, Kai was forced to use both swords to stop these two attacks. However, this might probably be the first time he experienced Ayaka's real power.

Although it wasn't that far, it managed to win against his strength that had been boosted by the exoskeleton.

Kai obviously didn't let this go according to their way. When he spun in the air, he didn't forget to stretch his right foot to the side and kicked Ayaka.

Her Fire Wing suddenly closed up, protecting her body from the kick, but the power was still enough to blow her to the ground.

Unwilling to go down without a fight, Ayaka created a Fire Net behind him.

With that signal, Sofia made a magic circle as hundreds of small ice cubes flew toward Kai. The amount was also enough to send all of them in all directions other than Kai's back.

At first, Kai could escape from the Fire Net by launching himself at Ayaka before striking her. Due to these ice cubes, he only had one way to go, it was to the front where Michelle waited for him.

If he went to the right, the left would also chase him from behind and vice versa. The same applied to the bottom and top.

The only way he didn't need to worry about the ice coming from behind was to go forward.

Without a doubt, he needed to fall right into their trap.

Kai gritted his teeth and used his Sound Blast while using his Oscillation Shield to block all the ice cubes from the front.

As soon as he went out of that trap box, Michelle appeared before him as she swung her sword.

Kai used his Vibration Sword but ended up making a Sound Oscillation Shield instead. When the sword struck, her Shadow Slash went around the magic circle, slashing it into pieces. At the same time, Kai waved his sword toward her, trying to use the most vulnerable moment to inflict damage to Michelle.

Michelle easily put her swords in front of her to stop that attack. They never fought against each other anyway, so they didn't know whether Kai's Vibration Sword or Michelle's Shadow Slash would win if both clashed.

However, what she never expected suddenly happened. Her vision was suddenly shaking as she miscalculated the distance and the direction for a split second. She immediately pulled back because of that, but it was too late.

Kai's sword had arrived, creating a quite deep graze on her right arm while using the other sword to slash in a completely different direction where he suddenly heard a gunshot.

"Oi, oi. You are very merciless to me." Michelle pouted. "I am the first to get injured."

"Doesn't that mean you are the weakest one?" Kai smirked.

"What did you say?!" The one who shouted this wasn't Michelle. Instead, it was Nathan. "You bastard! How dare you hurt my granddaughter first! You should hit that Sofia first before hitting the others!"

Nathan usually watched this in silence. It was just he couldn't ignore the last thing he said, which completely destroyed her.

"Father… Chill! He is only taunting her." Michael restricted him.

"Even if he doesn't mean it, he can't say it! I need to beat that bastard! Let me join!" Nathan shouted. "I will teach that little bastard!"

"Father. Silent or leave?" Daisy stopped him as she said with a cold voice. She had complete control in this room because no one could enter without her operating the machine. If Nathan actually went inside, she could make him stay in a certain world in their database for a period of time. In other words, he wouldn't be able to watch this fight anymore.

Knowing all of that, he looked down and closed his mouth.

Daisy smiled. "Just watch the fight first."

"Uhm." He nodded as Michael finally released him.

Meanwhile, Kai was searching for an escape route as it was completely dangerous for him to fight them without a trick.

'Teacher, can you hear me?' Kai asked.

'Yes. I can hear you. Do you need anything?'

'When is the avalanche going to arrive right below me?'

'Calculating…It's seventy seconds.'

'Thanks.' Kai nodded before assessing his situation once again.

With Tasha sniping him from afar, fighting in the sky would be a foolish move. However, the others were trying to keep him in the air as long as possible, so it might be their strategy.

Tasha released another arrow to the sky, which turned into a magic circle. A lightning bolt then struck forth.

Kai used his Sound Blast to avoid this. It was annoying to keep dodging this because Tasha's attacks were mostly to make him unable to dodge another strike. In other words, it purely tried to restrict his movement.

Even if he knew the attack would strike with his hearing ability, it was still hard to avoid it.

Kai thought for a moment and saw Sofia sending a few big ice spikes toward him. At the same time, Evan mixed his attack in the gaps between the ice spike. And there was even Tasha's Lightning Piercer. Everything was mixed into that combination attack, making the attack even more complicated in Kai's ears.

Not only that, he could see Ayaka preparing another Scarlet Explosion that would surely blow him away when he was busy dodging their attacks.

There were still twenty seconds before the avalanche arrived, so he needed to stay in the air for that period of time before going down since it would be a more effective way to destroy these five people.

Even so, dodging these attacks to maintain his position would be a bad decision, so he decided to retreat.

"Scarlet Explosion!"

"Boom!"

An explosion suddenly occurred on top of his head, preventing him from going up to escape. This way, he would either go to another place to escape or fight them on the ground.

To their surprise, Kai decided to go for something more extreme and unpredictable. He used both Sound Blast and Oscillation Shield before charging at the incoming attacks.

The Oscillation Shield broke when Tasha's Lightning Piercer hit it, and his Sound Blast broke after successfully deflecting the bullet. Unfortunately, it shattered the edge of the magic circle, so he couldn't use it anymore.

Due to that, he used his Vibration Sword instead to block all of these and failed to block one of Evan's bullets, piercing his right arm.

After checking it was alright, he finally broke free from the combination attack and headed straight to Evan, their weakest link.

"Not good!" Sofia immediately leaped to space between them to stop Kai.

"You are going to move." Kai took a deep breath as he swung both swords. "I didn't do this to our last battle, but I don't mind killing you today."

Sofia saw the incoming Vibration Swords and smiled. "Is that so? Then try me."

A pair of huge ice hands suddenly formed from her back as it tried to flatten Kai.

When he saw this, Kai simply used his Sound Blast to get past through it.

"Got you." Sofia smiled as she already threw her punch from below. She already moved even before Kai used his Sound Blast as though she believed Kai would do something like that.

"!!!" Kai looked down at the hand that almost reached him. To her surprise, Kai suddenly smiled and said, "No, you."