The Mysterious Black Magician

When The Mysterious arrived at the battlefield, "what do you think he will do?" Suddenly asked the empress.

Ella glanced at her before opening her mouth, "hmm, I think— err, seeing that he already had some allies with him, I think it's better if he tried to expand his group by persuading those scattered participants. Then force their way to the northern part together, and reunite with the group of Hilion Gustav. Together with his White Leo Knights and those two experts from the Lupine family, they will have a bigger chance of breaking the enemy's defense and destroying the gate that is heavily guarded by demons, monsters, and undead," Ella's reply impressed the empress.

However, it was the obvious answer, because there was only one entrance. So everyone would probably gather in the northern part at the end.

Even the participants in the southern part were starting to force their way towards the eastern part.

Empress Elleanna smiled, "Fufu, as expected of my niece. That is indeed a good choice. I wonder if he did the same. Even Roman at the eastern part was having difficulty to advance because of the enemy's number.. He too is surrounded by allies by now. Well, Roman is truly a charismatic youth that everyone automatically gathered around him. He's strong in both range and melee and has high stamina. I wonder if that Mysterious person can handle the monsters in melee as well. He most of the time used range attacks."

"I think he is more of a defensive type."

"Defensive?" The empress was a little doubtful. After all, based on his previous fights, he seemed to be an agile type or more of an attacker. Like an assassin.

"Well, he can cancel an opponent's spell. I mean, the thing he used when he pro-protected me…"

"Fufu, I see. But… that skill will be useless in this kind of battle."

"Do-Do you mean because of the enemy's number?"

Ella was unaware that Yman's [Time Modifier] skill was unusable inside her world of painting.

"Mhm. But not only that. Those pagodas as well. It will be a headache for all of them. Fufu, let's see how he does his battle as I am as curious as well. Hopefully, he will join forces with the other experts."

Every audience was watching attentively at the ongoing battle. Excited for the outcome. Everyone was hoping for their favored participants to succeed.

The old noble who bet to 'The Mysterious' person was watching it in pure enjoyment only.

Right at this moment. Another person bet on 'The Mysterious'. Seeing him arrive at the battlefield as well, it gathered some favorable attention to him.

It's already commendable that they arrive in the last part. So eventually, some showed respect for him by betting on him. But no one expected him to win. His points were already left behind by others.

And if they based him on his latest fight, his capability wasn't that awe-inspiring, to be honest.

Unlike the domineering performance of Roman and the others, his performance from his latest fight was so lacking with dominance.

But right at this moment,

(DUGUDUGUDUGUDUG!!!) The ground trembled and everyone saw some demons, mutated beasts, and a group of undead sprinting towards the group of the newly arrived 'The Mysterious'.

They totaled 100+!

Some skeletons raised from the gravestone and rushed with the others. There was even a skeleton who mounted on the Mutated Boar.

Yet, that guy and his allies did not bother moving. Even that enthusiastic expert from the Lupine family is weirdly standing still.

A moment before the clash, everyone fell silent!

(RAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRR!)

Loud howls suddenly reverberated inside and outside the world in painting. The owner of these howls were the 10 creatures that suddenly appeared around the group.

From their mouths, flames were overflowing. A second later,

(WASSAAAAAAH!!!)

(FWOOOOSSSSH!!!)

(BOOOOOOOMMM!!!)

Spraying sounds which followed by explosions reached their ears.

In the distance of about 30 meters away from their mouths, each of them sprayed flames and incinerated all the monsters in front in an instance. Leaving only a few numbers in a daze.

The monsters never even have the time to cry as they were turned to ashes in a moment.

A few seconds later, blazing burn marks were visible on the grounds.

Everyone was silent, even the participants and the monsters who were supposed to be battling in the area not too far away from them. They were all wearing a face that wanted to question, 'what was that just now?!' But none of them could explain. 

After a few seconds, (WOOSH!) A silent gust of wind made its way across the battlefield which is now enveloped by solemness. Taking away with it some of the smokes and mists.

In the next second, outside the painting, jarring voices of whispered slowly become louder. Some were asking what those black creatures were. While some failed to grasp what just happened.

"Look, those creatures, they look like Venomous Mouse!" Someone from the audience identified the image of the black creatures. 

On the balcony of the palace, "don't tell me those are Venomous Mouse?!" The empress exclaimed. "In any case, why are they black and tall? How come there are ten of them and uniform in color? Plus, how come they are so powerful that even the demons turned to ashes in the instance?!" She fired many questions in one go.

But Ella and the Knight-Captain had no way to answer even one of those questions. Because they too have questions. 'What are those creatures?' Ella could sense that they were not the real Venomous Mouse, not even a Spirit Beast! But she believed that those creatures were the same as those two birds awhile ago.

"No, your Majesty, sorry for the intrusion. But  the most important issue is, they almost wipe out the charging monsters of 100+ in total in just a second!" Even the Knight-Captain Borge Bergal beamed in surprise.

However, the empress's attention was taken by another thing. She noticed something on the monitor. Two-people rose in points after killing most of the charging enemies.

Her eyes widened. These two were also part of those suspects for killing the Demonic Beast!

A feeling of curiosity and excitement rose within her soul. Finally, she could eventually guess that one of them was responsible for those weird summoned creatures and the killing of the Demonic Beast!

Then she saw that person raise his hand higher. After waving it in front of him, those 10 Black Venomous Mouse creatures rushed forward towards the remaining enemies.

A glint was visible in the empress' eyes.

The battle wasn't finished yet. It's just started.

Looking ahead, Yman grinned. This kind of battlefield was unexpected to them. But it was the kind of field that excites him. Thanks to his mana source for having a unique Fire Element. These demons and undead that are supposed to be headache opponents could be dealt with easily.

A field that littered with countless monsters. Those countless monsters for him… were like countless attribute points!

He noticed the other participants were doing all they could in different ways they wanted. Especially experts. No one was bothered to cooperate with the others.

"Heh," a scoff escaped from his mouth as he was watching the battle in front of him.

His eyes landed on the weird Skeleton, it was wearing a tattered dark cloak. 'An Elder Skeleton.' His initial thought upon seeing it. He only read about it in some books before. Regardless of what he learned, this type of undead was hard to deal with.

The Elder Skeleton was waving his bony hands in the air. Some participants tried to attack it, but the attacks that were supposed to hit the Elder Skeleton were stopped by a thin layered transparent magical shield.

Narrowing his eyes, Yman noticed that the one who cast the shield wasn't the Elder Skeleton himself. He was protected by someone.

His eyes wandered on top of the wall. There, he saw some Spell Caster Skeleton together with archers. 'Looks like those guys are responsible for the Elder Skeleton's defense,' he said in his mind.

The wall was towering, but most experts could certainly jump on it. However, no one was blind enough to do it as long as those Skeleton Marksmen and Spell Casters were guarding it.

But not just that, in the sky, some bird-type mutated beasts also rained attacks on the participants below.

"Crimson!"

Cinder beside him called out. He understood what she wanted to tell.

"Mhm," he nodded.

"Hehe." Ember grinned. He was eager to rush in. He could not let those mouses shattered the last bit of his pride.

Each of them forced a dry laugh upon seeing those 10. To be honest, when they saw the countless charging monsters: Aegor, Taflas, and Tiafel wanted to run and hide. But when they noticed Crimson and Miss Cinder's confidence, they decided to stay.

The mouse is supposed to be gross. But those 10 looked cool. That even Ember and the others couldn't help to feel a chill from how domineering they look.

After he replied a nod to her, 3 [ Fire Dolls] materialized in front of him.

Same with the Venomous Mouse model, this time, the Hell Chaser bird model [Fire Dolls] also in black color. And their bodies were trailing with red-orange lines, forming like veins in their bodies. The same with Venomous Mouse, their eyes were blazing with fire also.

These models of [Fire Dolls], he called them as [Enhance Fire Dolls]!

Seeing the Hell Chaser bird model [Enhance Fire Dolls], without a second thought, Cinder hopped on top of one of them. Tiafel and Taflas also took one each.

They will be their aerial support.

The three immediately hovered up in the air. 

After they left, Yman summoned another [Enhance Fire Dolls]. 6 Bat models appeared from thin air. Two of them hovered near Ember, and the other two were guarding Aegor.

These Bat-model [Enhance Fire Dolls] were to counter the Demons. Of course, each of these [Enhance Fire Dolls] held the mana and Holy Flame of Cinder. 

Not just that, they were enhanced using the Black Miasma. Although their supplies were limited, their magical powers were as strong as a Real Path Expert.

Ember immediately rushed forward, he didn't want to lose again. He must surpass these Mouse models [Enhance Fire Dolls].

He activated his [Partial Transformation] Artefact. Then leaped to the group of undead ahead to shorten their distance rapidly.

Before he landed, he swung his massive right hand with razor-sharp claws.

It immediately pulverized their bone bodies without the chance to retaliate.

From his left, (GWAAAAARR!!) a demon roared and charged rapidly towards him. However, before it could reach him. (Woosh! Woosh!) Two [Fireballs] were shot towards it from the Bat-model [Enhance Fire Dolls].

It immediately turned to cinders.

"Gyahahaha!" Ember laughed heartily.

The same thing happened to Aegor.

After learning that all of the [Enhance Fire Dolls] was working fine, he also started to move.

From his back, a skeleton warrior made its way into him.

"Watch out!" From the palace, Ella subconsciously screamed.

However, it was futile, before even the sword reached him. The Skeleton Warrior's knees were shaking terribly.

Intimidation from a Higher Rank demon was shot on it. Yman slowly looked behind and tapped its head. With a glint in his eyes, "It's futile, heh," he said before crushing the head using his bare strength.

"Eh!?" Ella was surprised but she soon remembered that he has this High-level skill that usually only a Real Path Expert could achieve.

"What was that?!" Everyone was dumbfounded again.