Master Sage lifted his wand and brought up a giant magic circle that was probably 2km in diameter that floated straight up in the sky, then he tapped his wand on the ground and again brought up an equally large magic circle.
"haaaah... still want to continue?" said Master Sage with heavy breathing.
Lucan grinned putting up his stance with a fiery aura, "are you crazy? If it's for power and extending life why not!"
"yes? But the price for that great power is also your eroded soul, isn't it? You're just slowing down your own death" said the Master Sage whose eyes glowed white.
Hearing this answer Lucan smiled with eyes that were now also glowing dark red, "yes, but those who said that and my enemies have all died first"
Finished replying to Master Sage's words, Lucan immediately shot at a speed that could hardly be seen by the eye to slash Master Sage.
However, Master Sage did not immediately stand still as a magic circle appeared behind him and when he felt a sword almost hit him, he jumped backwards through the magic circle.
Lucan's sword slash was only a few milliseconds away from Master Sage but the trail of the sword slash was still streaking, but at the same time Master Sage's body had completely passed through the magic circle he created and instantly his body disappeared.
When his opponent disappeared Lucan turned his head to look around, but when he looked up his eyes immediately widened. What he saw now was not only a giant magic circle but Master Sage's body that was now floating behind him was not only a giant magic circle but also a collection of thunderclouds that continued to strike.
The Master Sage's cold gaze could be felt by Lucan, and he could feel the imminent danger. He immediately plunged his sword into the ground and immediately a dome of aura appeared and protected him.
At about the same time, Master Sage waved his hand which made the two magic circles he had prepared activate. Iron thorn trees suddenly emerged from the ground and towered as if creating an artificial forest, while in the sky lightning clouds instantly released hundreds to millions of lightning strikes that directly hit the thorn trees below.
The once green and cool forest is now replaced with iron trees flowering with lightning. It's not an exaggeration but as soon as one lightning bolt strikes one of the trees, it flows out on other branches and even into the branches of other trees.
Even though the lightning is weakened because it also flows to the ground, the barrage of other lightning strikes and the unceasing voltage makes the iron tree seem alive (of course if you touch it, you will immediately become ashes).
Don't even ask about the impact, even the soil where the iron tree grew could not contain the scattered electricity, resulting in not only iron trees but lightning/electricity trees now also growing in the area.
"Can it still survive? It's troublesome dealing with someone who uses a cursed weapon!" said Master Rocky at a high altitude when he saw Lucan taking cover from the unending lightning strikes.
Lucan was now protected by a dome made of blackish-red mist that occasionally gave rise to the silhouette of a tormented human being, although it looked like a thin mist but the dome could withstand and deflect the lightning that struck him.
Master Sage didn't want to waste any time he now cast 5 magic circles as big as himself in preparation, on the other hand Lucan gritted his teeth angrily, he scratched his palm on the sharp blade of the sword in his hand.
As the blood flowed, as if sucked in by something the blood that should have fallen to the ground instead went to the hilt of the sword and seeped into it. At the same time the engravings on the sword blade lit up and a silhouette of armor appeared all over his body, the longer a semi-transparent red and black armor was put on by Lucan.
At this moment he immediately pulled out his sword while making his protective dome disappear slowly, lightning immediately struck his body but it seemed that the lightning chain was no longer a threat.
A pair of bat wings consisting of a pile of rotting hands appeared on his back, the pair of wings flapped and carried Lucan flying towards where Master Sage was.
Seeing his enemy coming towards him Master Sage controlled the magic circle that he had prepared to float towards him, a blue magic circle appeared and immediately gave rise to a creature.
"GAAAAH" shouted a shark-shaped creature whose entire body had tattoos or patterns that kept moving like waves as if its body was made of water, the shark immediately released 5 other sharks but what came out was a shark made of water.
The master sage waved his magic staff and brought up 5 gray magic circles that instantly entered the body of the water shark in front of him, the magic circles slowly turned into iron skeletons.
Now the water shark with iron teeth and bones instantly slid over and immediately opened its mouth to prepare to bite Lucan, while the shark that emerged from the magic circle swam (or flew?) around the Master Sage who was still floating.
"Yikes! Experienced wizards are troublesome! DAMMIT!" cursed Lucan as he faced the sharks attacking him.
What was difficult was not landing attacks on the sharks coming at Lucan, but how to finish off the aquatic sharks in one hit while anticipating the lightning that suddenly struck from above and below.
Remember the lightning still continued to strike fiercely from the sky and the shark made by the Master Sage was also struck and made it contain electricity, but it was not a big problem for the knight who touched the title of Master.
Even though Lucan had to spend extra energy by lengthening and condensing the aura to be made into a blade on his sword, but with that he could make the water shark that attacked him just split.
But unfortunately that wasn't enough of an advantage because the iron frame didn't perish immediately, it was immediately controlled by the Master Sage to make lightning strike Lucan. And if the iron frame is not too much damage the shark called Master Sage will make other aquatic sharks on the frame make a chain of non-stop attacks to make the opponent exhausted.
Now the battle became a battle of endurance between Lucan who ran out of power or Master Sage who ran out of Mana, but it seemed that Master Sage could not wait that long.
His current battle was bound to be noticed by others, and if a third party joined he couldn't be sure of the course of the battle. So instead of waiting for time he deployed the 4 magic circles he had prepared.
The magic circles were colored; golden red, whitish blue, silver, and semi-transparent. All the magic circles immediately surrounded Lucan from 4 different sides.
Master Rocky positioned his magic staff in front of his chest and held it with 2 hands, he closed his eyes and recited an incantation.
As soon as the spell was finished giant hands appeared from each circle with different elements; hands made of multicolored crystal stones, ice hands that froze the surroundings, fire hands like the sun, and transparent hands that could bend anything that passed through them.
The four hands headed straight for Lucan who was still busy with the water sharks that had not disappeared as if they wanted to grab and crush him, until "BOOOM" an explosion once again occurred where Lucan had previously stood.
The giant hands influenced and controlled each other, like an ice hand that tried to freeze the other hand, a semi-transparent hand that warped space and made anything that touched it perish and crumble and so on.
Master Sage watched from his place with a flat but sharp gaze his eyes now slowly dimmed and convinced himself that his opponent was dead, although he could see Lucan's body being hit by his attack but as a wizard he could not let his guard down especially since his opponent was also at the master level like him.
"Is it done?" he thought to himself.
He strengthened the magic staff in his hand until his hand trembled and occasionally stroked the shark that kept spinning around him.
But just as her heart began to ease, "CRAS!"/ "GAAAA..." a hand pierced through her summoned shark and pierced her right shoulder.
A black hand that although it looked like a human hand, its form was more like a demon's hand, with only pointed fingertips and skin in the form of fingernail-sized scales.
Master Sage's summoned shark slowly ran out of steam and slowly stiffened indicating that, not only that the shark's figure also slowly became grains of light that floated somewhere.
Master Sage widened his eyes in disbelief and with a mouth that spit out a mouthful of blood he said, "only a demon can kill a spirit directly!...."
He tried to look back and see who owned the hand that stabbed his chest, "DEG!..." Master Sage's heart seemed to stop. Not without reason, he saw that someone he knew had now grown two horns that coiled like sheep horns.
"You... you are now a demon!?" he said to the figure.
The figure who was none other than Lucan smiled triumphantly, he also brought his mouth close to Master Sage's ear, "you think, how can I use that sword without becoming a full-fledged demon? Hahahaha...."
Master Sage glanced down at where Lucan had been standing, and he only found that only the armor was moving by itself with a merchant in its grasp.
"Damned!... you... Lucan!" he said heavily.
At that moment Lucan laughed triumphantly, "hahaha.... thanks for the compliment"
"heh..." but at that moment Master Sage was still able to laugh briefly which made Lucan flinch, but it was too late. Master Sage who had no idea when took out a scroll with a magic circle that activated immediately.
Master Sage's body was immediately burned by golden flames and made him disappear without a trace of even a speck of dust, there was only a voice echoing in the air saying, "I was careless... next time I will really not hesitate anymore Lucan!"
But hearing that voice, Lucan laughed weakly, pulled out the golden sword on his necklace and covered it with Master Sage's blood. As soon as the golden sword ornament was exposed to Master Sage's blood it floated above Lucan's palm and revealed a compass-like device.
Seeing that it was working Lucan smiled with his elongated canines while staring at the direction the small sword was pointing, "next time?, unfortunately there is no next time! Hahaha"