Chapter 107: Separation

"MASS TELEPORT!" Zeta finally finished his casting.

"No you won't! Sprint!" That voice...

I looked back and saw him push Fafnir out of the teleportation spell. But if you do that Zieglind then... "ZIEGLIND, NO!" before I could say anything more, I was teleported right back to Polk. "Zeta, teleport us back!"

"I don't have mana left..."

"Argh!" I began running towards the exit of the castle.

"Wait no! Barrie-" Before Zeta could finish speaking, a large explosion surrounded the castle blowing everything up.

I was hazy and my head was spinning. "It... Hurts..." I grabbed my head out of pain. I finally opened my eyes but everything was a blurry mess. I looked over to the right and I saw the terrain be perfectly incapacitated. To the point that we could see Fafnir over a thousand kilometers away. "He did... All of this?"

I looked around and everything was rubble. The whole kingdom of Polk has... fallen.

I then remembered that we were all caught up in the blast. "Greta! Rize! Everyone! Where are you!?" I began shouting while clearing out all the debris in our area.

All I could dig out was the dead bodies of people working in the castle. "AH! The kids Zieglind saved... Where are they!? No... No! Anyone, respond! Please!"

"Young woman." An old voice was heard. I looked around and saw a tall old man carrying Zieglind in his hands.

"Zieglind!" I tried to reach over to him but the old man simply backed away.

"I'll be taking him."

"You think you can just say that and get away? Gazer Armor!" As soon as I called out my equipments, blood spurted out from my mouth.

"You're exhausted. You took the full attack of Fafnir."

"It..." I wiped the blood off my face. "It doesn't matter. I'll get him back!"

"That's... That's right..!" Zeta got out of the rubble he was buried in. "I absorbed some mana while I was out... Give him back right now old man."

"Gazer Armor, Hunt!" Greta rised from the rubbles and had her weapond ready.

"Heart...piercer! Bullet Hell!" Rize fired a barrage of bullets to the old man but the old man simply dodged everything.

Yefa jumped out of the rubbles and then fired multiple attacks, "Fire Barrage!" But it didn't matter since the old man simply took everything and wasn't even damaged.

"Duel!" Afal jumped to her aid and began to attack with his insane swordplay. But the mysterious man matched his speed and blocked every single one.

"Useless struggle I tell you."

"Even... Even so! Our master needs our help! Barrier! And this! Buy me some time!" Zeta raised his hand and began chanting.

The old man was interested in the way Zeta casted his spells. "Double Casting? Interesting."

"Bullet Hell!" Rize casted.

"Supersonic Blade Dance!" Afal buffed himself up.

"Explosive Fists!" Yefa readied her weapons.

"Metal Macabre, Rage, Beast Hunt!" Greta buffed herself up.

I got near him and activated, "TAUNT!"

"Dispel." All of our spells instantly got dispelled by this old man.

"Seven spells in an instant!?" We couldn't help but be amazed.

"No... That's... 9 spells." Zeta said while he lowered his hand.

"Young man... you're going to use The Scorching Black Flame right? Don't give up your life that easily." This old man knew about Zeta's spell.

"Who are you!?" Zeta asked. "What I casted was an ancient spell, long forgotten. To dispel a spell you need to know everything about the said spell."

"It doesn't matter. I'm taking your master."

"Over my dead body!" We all shouted.

"Then please sleep for me."

He disappeared right in front of our eyes. Afal was there, sweating, despite Afal being the fastest in our team, I knew he couldn't follow the old man's movement.

The last thing I saw, was the dust blown away by the old man as he moved.