The Mysterious Black Magician

After Cinde finished her training, Yman went inside to train himself too. Rea and Cinde were coming together with him to watch him in training.

They were sitting inside the spectator area. The spectator's area was separated by a glass window.

He was waiting for the enemy to appear. Cinde already told him that the enemies would appear three minutes after he entered the room. Though there was no need for her to tell him as there was an instruction or guidelines beside the door.

At the moment, Yman was standing about 5 meters away from the magic circle. Three minutes later, a rank D dummy materialized from it.

It was the Dummy of the Pale Toad!

"Why Crimson with that kind of face?" Cinde noticed something and asked Rea.. But Rea just shrugged her shoulder as she too was wondering.

Rea and Cinde noticed the stare on Crimson's face. From their perspectives, he was staring at it with familiarity, like remembering something from the past.

Yman's mouth was hanging open. He remembered that time when he got his deity and skill.

He ran outside the town to try accumulating combat experience and trying to loot for gold points. But unfortunately, it was spoiled when Kiko and his gang showed up.

And now, he was facing its kind. The real and the copy was having identical color; the dummy had a plain gray color and the Pale Toad had a dirty white color.

Also, its feature was a little identical to the real Pale Toad.

After materializing, the dummy toad glanced left and right, seemingly looking for its enemy.

But it immediately noticed the person standing opposite of him.

The dummy narrowed its eyes at him, and without a warning, it rushed forward to attack the enemy.

After huge strides, it leaped high in the air and sent a kick at him.

Yman gawked at it.

He never thought that the dummy Pale Toad had such ability. Well, when he fought the real Pale Toad on the pond outside the Sitona Town, it only used its tongue-whip and pound at him.

"Why is Crimson just standing there?" Cinde asked again. Then again, Rea had no answer with it.

But in the next second, the toad dummy's attack was spoiled when he caught the leg and smashed it to the floor. 

The crash caused a loud bang that shook the entire room.

Cinde and Rea gaped at him.

"What a merciless man…" Rea mumbled.

"Ahaha, I always knew that he was like that," Cinde laughed descendingly and agreed at Rea.

In Rea's mind,' Is there a need to be merciless against it? Maybe this Eyma is a psychopath?'

But Rea did not voice it. 'But this guy brings trouble to himself!' Rea mumbled in her mind.

After killing the first dummy in domineering performance, the next dummy followed after.

But for some reason, Cinde almost dropped her eyeballs. On the contrary, Rea sighed at him.

"This person unlocked the highest difficulty," Rea questioned.

"Highest difficulty? What do you mean, Ella?" Cinde glanced at her and asked Rea about it.

"When you kill the first dummy in such a way as he did, the highest difficulty will unlock by itself. It's like a secret switch. But that psychopath smashed the pitiful dummy on the ground. Like he is having a huge grudge towards it." Rea explained while knitting her brows towards the guy who was currently grinning like an idiot inside the training room.

She sighed at him. And Cinde giggled at her for calling him a psychopath.

In front of him, ten rank C dummies materialized.

They didn't waste a second and directly raced towards him.

Yman was wondering why it was different from what was written in the direction and from what Cinde told him.

But, it was better for him.

Yman slapped the incoming claw of the dummy that neared him first.

He then followed with a straight punch using his other hand. The dummy was sent flying back when his fist had landed accurately on its face.

When it crashed on the floor, the dummy already had it's skull broken. It immediately turned into light particles and disappeared.

The other one waved the mace in its hand towards him. He swayed his body and successfully evaded it. Then he followed by a kick.

The dummy was sent rolling like a bowling ball. It turned to light particles after.

A dagger user tried to stab him, but he caught the dagger in his hand and smirked.

"He's insane," Rea commented.

Then he used his elbow to hit it in the jaw.

Gwadar! The dummy copied a groan.

He did not stop and continued getting rid of the other dummies, using his bare strength and basic fighting style.

Based on their attacks and body structures, It seemed like these dummies were modeled from goblins. After all, goblins were known for attacking their enemy using their numerical advantage. And on top of it, the way they attack was so identical to it. And goblins were also rank C creatures. So Yman believed that these dummies were the copy of goblins.

The goblin dummies fell one by one in his hand.

One of them stepped on the other and leaped higher in the air while pointing its spear in hand towards him.

Yman grabbed the other goblin dummy near him and threw it to the leaping one.

In just a few seconds, he already cleared up all the goblin dummies.

The next to appear was 7 rank B dummies.

Rea and Cinde already fell silent with beads of sweat on their heads.

They were wondering how he was still wearing a grin on his face even in the face of multiple enemies! Even Cinde had hard times dealing with two rank B's. But this person was grinning in the face of 7 rank B!? 

"W-well, it's Crimson after all," Cinde muttered.

The seven rank B dummies sent multiple vines to bind him. He evaded it by twisting his body left to right.

No need to guess what kinds of creatures these dummies modeled after.

<The Lousy Trents!> Sistela's voice was heard by him.

As he was evading their attacks, more and more vines keep growing from the floor ground.

It wasn't all, they  also whip him with their vines. He jumped and managed to evade the 5 pairs of vines that they sent to him.

When his feet landed on the floor, he sprints towards the enemies. He caught a glimpse of a little opening to one of the Trent dummies.

Seeing him approaching hastily, from the dummy's body, vines were coming out and formed into a big drill to attack him from above.

He made a hasty leaped forward to dodge it. The vine drill passed at hairsbreadth distance away from his face.

(Crissscrassss!)

Yman skidded his feet. He used the friction of his shoes and the floor to balance himself, and to remain his stable footing.

(Owoooooooorrr!) The dummy Trent howled.

He found himself near the enemy. About 10 steps away from it. But it wasn't alone. It was together with 2 other trends.

He summoned a sword from his storage.

"Fufu, let's cut some woods," he said but except for him, there was only Sistela who heard him.

<Woods are much expensive in the empire, you know!> Sistela stated. <Besides, it will turn to light particles when you defeat them. So it's useless partner > Sistela continued.

He wondered why she took his words seriously. It was a joke though. He was just kidding.

Anyhow, he continued charging to the nearest dummy. As expected, it reacted fast and sent a branch whip to him.

Yman hopped and brandished the sword downward. It immediately sliced the branch in two.

After cutting its branch, he proceeded to cut its trunk, but the other branch smashed into him.

He stopped for a bit. He noticed the other dummies scurried towards him.

Yman holds the hilt of the sword in both hands while pointing the tip of it towards the dummy with the cut branch.

A moment later, 

"Sudden Charge -- Immediate assault!" He spoke the name of the skill.

It was the same as what Almina used on the cliff when they were fighting against the mini golems.

A large hole was visible on the dummy's trunk. And Yman appeared at the back of the dummy.

He created his version of that skill by executing his Rapid Leap skill together with his quickest charge.

The accumulation of speed from his charge together with his Rapid leap had resulted in Almina's technique. This was what Yman wanted to try.

However, he noticed that it wasn't as good as her.

He also noticed the hole in the dummy's trunk had been restored. Well, he already expected it to happen.

Yman squinted his eyes, if only he could use freely the crimson mana, it was easy to defeat them all at once, by burning them to cinders. Unfortunately, he couldn't waste that mana anymore.

Crimson took his gauntlet and gloves from the Cyber Storage and wore them.

"Fufu looks like he's starting to get serious," Cinde laughed and commented when she noticed the slight change in his countenance.

"Of course, those dummies are the copies of the trents. Their vine attacks are troublesome. Not even the like of Crimson can handle them alone without using his fire element," Rea added to Cinde's words.

Rank B creatures were not even his match. But it's different when there are several of them. And when they were having troublesome abilities.

Yman's mouth extended to a smile. 

This time he will try adding more strength and speed. He thought.