After Knight Cedric and Theo managed to avoid the huge explosion from the mage Daria, the surrounding area that was previously full of trees became scorched and only the land or soil was burned. This made their fight clearly visible because there were no obstacles from the surrounding trees.
Theo could only take cover behind Knight Cedric, as he had no fighting skills whatsoever.
Then the mage Alden gave an attack by making hundreds of small rocks made of soil feel like they were floating in the air, at that time the ground began to shake and suddenly hundreds of small rocks were launched quickly towards Knight Cedric and Theo. However, Knight Cedric closed his eyes and said to Theo,
"Young master, I will show you a technique I created that perhaps not everyone can see the movements of." Cedric said to Theo as if instructing Theo to see the technique as motivational material.
When Knight Cedric closed his eyes, a blue and powerful aura suddenly appeared on his sword, and his sword felt like it was distorted by space itself. Then Knight Cedric's eyes began to open again and with a single breath, he performed Voidstep.
"WOOSH!"
Voidstep is a technique with ultra-fast movement that can eliminate traces of its existence for a split second, at that moment all the rocks appear to slow down in Knight Cedric's eyes.
"CLANG!"
And quickly Cedric swung his sword as if creating a horizontal crescent of empty energy that cut and crushed the small rocks like paper.
Theo couldn't even see Knight Cedric's movements, he only saw Knight Cedric draw his sword and didn't move at all, just standing in front of Theo.
"This is a technique of my invention sir, it's called Voidstep Severance Arts." Said Knight Cedric proudly showing his technique to Theo.
"Hoho, truly amazing Knight Cedric, if only I had the talent of a swordsman, perhaps I would also try that technique." Theo said with a sense of admiration for Knight Cedric and also a little disappointed in himself.
"Don't worry young master, after this is done, I will try to train you to be able to use a sword as your protection in the future." Knight Cedric said again seriously wanting to train his young master.
After that, the mage Daria launched another attack by creating a large number of fire spears floating in the air, then the mage Alden also took out hundreds of spears made of earth and rocks and floated in the air as well.
The two mages combined their enormous attacks, and threw them at Theo and Knight Cedric.
"Fwoosh!"
The earth and fire spears were launched quickly which could destroy the surrounding land, but Knight Cedric gave his attack back with the same technique, namely 'Voidstep Severance Arc' by increasing its level to level two. Knight Cedric jumped in the air and swung his slash bigger until destroying all the flying spears with his bigger swing, it looked like a sparkling blue aura enveloped the attack and even bigger than the mage Daria and Alden's spear attacks.
"CLANG!"
The clash between Knight Cedric's sword strike and the Scorched Pillar's attack caused the surrounding area to be even more destroyed, and the explosion was also heard in the city next to this forest. At that moment, there were troops from the noble families who were in the city who seemed curious about the explosion, and they began to rush towards the direction of the explosion.
"You really are a great knight, Cedric! It turns out that this great knight has a young master who can't do anything." Said the mage Alden with words that provoked Knight Cedric.
"Heh! You're just a newly famous mage, talking like this. But I admit that if you two join forces, it will really make things difficult for me."Said Knight Cedric who seemed to be slightly intimidating the two mages.
Then Knight Cedric immediately gave a counter attack to both of them,
"Alright, now it's my turn to strike back." Knight Cedric said with a serious attitude and also gave off a terrible aura.
"Voidstep: Shadow Reaver!"
When Knight Cedric uttered Voidstep, he moved quickly from left to right as if moving in the void until he headed towards the mage Alden and Daria. Then attacked with shadow reaver, which is a fast series of attacks that appear to issue consecutive slashes to the two mages.
The mages Alden and Daria looked surprised to see Knight Cedric's movements so fast, it seemed like the direction of his movement was undetectable, because this technique was different from the shadowstep that was generally used by a swordsman. The two mages tried to defend themselves by combining fire and earth magic which then formed a shield of fiery earth.
"Heh, is this the only ability of the mage who earned the nickname Scorched Pillar? that's so ridiculous!" said Knight Cedric, slightly provoking the two mages to break their concentration.
Then the mage Daria looked a little angry because of the provocation, and she released her signature technique, Solar Nova, a technique that relies on the fire element and forms it into a large ball, at that time the air around it seemed hot, Theo and Knight Cedric felt the heat from the ball. However, Knight Vedric did not want this opportunity to be lost, he quickly moved towards Daria by slashing in succession, but Knight Cedric's attack was thwarted by the mage Alden. Alden tried to hold back Knight Cedric by using the Stone Knuckle technique, a battlemage technique that makes his hands covered in hard stone, so he can attack with his stone fists.
"CLANG!"
There was a clash between Knight Cedric's sword and the mage Alden's stone fist that had been covered in hard stone. The clash continued until the surrounding area seemed to be destroyed because the sword technique and stone fist from them really gave off a terrible aura.
At that time, Knight Cedric looked exhausted with his face covered in sweat from continuously casting his own technique. Mage Alden also looked exhausted from using so much mana to fight against Knight Cedric.
Meanwhile, Theo, at that time he could only watch and hide, he felt very disappointed with himself who could not help at all. Theo could only trust Knight Cedric, but at that time Theo also could not take his eyes off the mage Daria, Theo saw the mage Daria as if she was holding back her pain because she gathered so much mana to make the big fireball.
However, when Theo looked curious, suddenly the mage Daria lost control of herself, the fireball grew bigger and even hotter.
Meanwhile, the mage Daria immediately fell to the ground due to being unable to control her mana, she felt pain throughout her body, for Daria this was a much stronger pain than before.
"THUMP!"
The sound of Daria falling was heard by her brother Alden, and Alden immediately rushed to Daria.
However, the large fireball that was seen floating in the air lost control and fell straight to the ground, creating a huge explosion.
"BOOM!"
This huge explosion was very loud, even louder than the previous explosion. Luckily Knight Cedric, Theo and also the mage Alden and his sister Daria, they managed to survive the explosion. At that time Knight Cedric used his voidstep technique to head towards Theo and also the direction of the two mages, then saved them all.
Then Theo was also a little curious about the previous system information. He used his 'Omni Analysis' skill again to see other information from the mage Daria.
"Omni Analysis"
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[System Information - Architect Origin] - v1.0
[Names : Daria Earthflare]
[Female gender]
[Age : 25 Years]
[Race : Human]
[Class : Mage]
[Tier : 5-Star, A Rank]
[Job : None]
[Other Info] - (Requires 10 SR to unlock.)
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"Okay, looks like I have to use my SR." Theo also used his SR points to read more detailed information from Daria.
And after using that SR, other information appeared,
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[System Information - Architect Origin] - v1.0
[Names : Daria Earthflare]
[Female gender]
[Age : 25 Years]
[Race : Human]
[Class : Mage]
[Tier : 5-Star, A Rank]
[Job : None]
[Special Information]
[User has mana control disorder] - [Arcane Decay]
Which is difficult to control67% risk of magic failingThe risk of death from a counterattack is 71%
[System Note]
(Arcane Decay Disease Detected)
[Recommendation : Use the Elixir of Aetherheart to cure the disease]
[Side Mission Detected]
[Side Mission: Cure Mage Daria from Arcane Decay Disease]
[Recipe Information : Elixir of Aetherheart] - [Locked]
(Requires 35 SR points to unlock the information)
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After seeing the information, Theo finally got an idea. He approached the two mages while saying,
"Forgive me, mage Alden and Miss Daria, for you still do not trust me."
"Then I will make you an offer."
"I know, your little sister has Arcane Decay disease, well maybe everyone already knows that."
"But I am different, I can cure your sister's illness until she is completely cured."
Then the mage Alden was initially a little hesitant about Theo's words, but seeing his sister's condition who looked in pain, Alden finally agreed with Theo. They rushed to Theo's area to immediately provide first aid. Because Theo happened to have an alchemist and a fairly talented herbal worker, the two of them were able to make a temporary elixir to relieve Daria's illness.