Nial and Mathias had fought together very often. Their teamwork might not be perfect, but it was very good.
Mathias knew that Nial wanted to take one opponent at a time which was why he created a gap within one of the frontal Earthen walls.
Through this, Nial appeared in front of Tessa, who had been forced to stop so that she wouldn't run straight into the thick Earthen wall.
While facing Tessa, Nial merged his dark energy with the black miasma before he continued to release it.
Simultaneously, he released the merged dark miasma into the ground, dying it pitch-black.
Nial released his pseudo-domain slowly and steadily. As the surrounding was shrouded in darkness, it was impossible for anyone to notice that the ground was dyed in pitch-black ink.
Even the Earthen walls created by Mathias were slowly taking on a dark black color. However, it possessed far less mana than the dark miasma Nial released.
Thus, not even the Elves were able to detect that anything was off with the ground they stepped on and the walls around them.
Only after Nial activated the pseudo-domain would the mana sealed within it be released to the outside. Until then, it was nearly untraceable as long as something else covered the areas of the pseudo domain.
'Now, let me feel how powerful Elves truly are!!' Nial nearly shouted out loud as he lashed out with the Dragonflame Spear.
Tessa had lost her momentum when she was forced to slow down. Both the Elves had been smacked with the Earthen walls that had hit them hard, taking them by surprise.
However, despite having lost her momentum, Tessa didn't need much time to regain it, either. She quickly manifested wind out of mana, and it swirled around her.
The dark miasma slowly deteriorated the strength of her wind and mana but the effect was not strong enough to prevent her spear from accelerating at a terrifying speed.
In an instant, Tessa's spear lunged forward and collided with the tip of the Dragonflame Spear.
The dark flames on the Dragonflame spear sizzled loudly and the sound of metal colliding could be heard in the surroundings as well.
But even if the sounds were clear to discern, nobody was able to see anything.
Nial's dark miasma blocked everyone's vision, which forced the Originals to use their range of mana perception to perceive what was going on.
However, even then, only the strongest were able to pass through Nial's dark energy, and sense something.
As for the others, they could only grumble and wait until the dark miasma would disappear.
"Nial, you're on your own, the other one is coming for me!" Mathias suddenly shouted out.
He didn't want to distract his friend but Mathias could tell that Bilarn was not in a good mood. He used his wind affinity precisely to avoid the earth spike that pierced out of the ground, the holes in the ground, and the water jets that blasted forward.
Bilarn even evaded the Earthen and Water walls, which Mathias had manifested to prevent the young Elf from reaching him.
Clearly understanding that it was impossible for him to focus on the control of the people around him and to act defensively, Mathias stored the Tier-1 Blackwood wand in his spatial ring.
He replaced the wand with a huge battle-axe, which he swung at his opponent while activating his water affinity the moment Bilan appeared right in front of him.
'You might be faster than me and better in terms of combat techniques, but I can still narrow your paths of retreat!!' Nial thought while gritting his teeth. He then created a huge flood of water behind Bilarn, followed by two walls of water, one on each side.
There was no way for Bilarn to retreat, which was how Mathias was confident that he could defeat his opponent as he cleaved at the young Elf, using the huge battle-axe he was wielding.
'Your only retreat is to launch ahead…come and try me!!' Mathias thought, his brown eyes turning fierce.
From the moment the spar started, Mathias had forgotten everything around him. His timid behavior disappeared into thin air, and a confident and battle-loving personality replaced it.
This had happened often enough for Nial to know that he didn't have to worry about his friend.
However, at the same time, Nial could clearly tell that Mathias had no idea how to fight an Elf.
It was only obvious, but it was the first time Mathias fought an Elf. Nial couldn't have given him a warning because the memories of the Late God of Darkness were a little bit wishy-washy.
Sometimes, it was impossible for Nial to remember anything, and on other occasions, he remembered everything the Odyssey seed had already transferred in his mind with exceptional clarity.
He was extremely annoyed at this, but it was not as if he could change anything.
"Above you!!! Retreat!!" Nial could barely shout when he perceived what was going on at Mathias' place when an emerald razor-sharp blade brushed past his face.
His cheek was faintly scratched and if it wouldn't have been for Nial's subtle motion, his entire cheek would have been cut open.
'They really don't hold back.' Nial thought in wonder, and his expression changed when he noticed what was going on in Mathias' direction.
Bilarn had used quite a bit of mana to turn the ground below him into a springboard. He had catapulted himself in the air, narrowly evading the battle-axes cleave.
Mathias' battle-axe cut in the ground due to its heavy weight and the strength Mathias had used to initiate the attack.
However, instead of letting go of the battle-axe, Mathias' first reaction was to attempt to pull it out of the ground. He even used his earth affinity to retrieve his weapon.
His affinity made things much easier, but the time he had required to retrieve his weapon had been too high nonetheless.
Bilarn had created a platform of compressed air to change his trajectory instantly. He had landed on the ground behind Mathias, and the tip of the emerald spear cut into Nial's neck.
A few droplets of blood trickled to the ground, but that was already everything.
"Game over, you're dead," Bilarn stated before he removed the emerald spear. Mathias' legs gave in a moment later, while Bilarn dashed towards Tessa in an attempt to support her.
However, just when he left Mathias' side, he heard the young man saying something.
"You shouldn't have wasted that much time defeating me. You allowed your teammate to 'die' as well."
Mathias smiled faintly. He knew that he still needed to improve a lot in close combat. His combat awareness was not perfect yet, and there was too much for him to learn.
However, what Mathias was very good at was stalling time.
And that was exactly what he had done for Nial.
Suddenly as if Nial acted on Mathias' command, the entire black miasma disappeared. It was pulled to the ground, which made it seem as if a tremendous gravitational force acting in a large radius around the battlefield of Nial and Tessa.
Both the Elf and Nial were moving rapidly, piercing and slashing out with their weapons.
While their blades collided with each other, Tessa's higher speed and her higher combat experience were quickly discerned.
Nial might have learned to move rapidly, but he had not learned a combat technique with the focus on spear-wielding. He might have learned how to wield a spear, and the Elementus Mylee technique was exceptional to allow the wielder to fight with both melee weapons and their affinity, however, that was something Elves learned from their early days.
For them, using their affinity in battle was something perfectly natural, just like breathing. It was almost impossible for them to consider something a fight without the wind around them. Some Elves were so close to the wind affinity that the surrounding winds would pull toward them the moment they emerged in its surrounding!
If possible, they would even use the nature all around them to their benefit.
However, in this fight, Tessa and Bilarn could only make use of the wind affinity because the flourishing nature around them was not enough to make proper use of it.
But that was already more than enough to overpower Nial simply because Tessa was more proficient in fighting with her affinity, and because she had learned a spear-wielding technique for more than 20 years.
It was only obvious for her to be stronger than Nial, and the same was even more so the case for Bilarn. He was at a higher rank than both Tessa and Nial, and his experience was even firmer than the two.
Yet, the moment Bilarn entered the battlefield where Tessa seemed to be at an advantage, he noticed that something was odd.
'Why do I feel so sluggish all of a sudden?!' Bilarn asked himself while narrowing his eyes before looking at the ground.
Right at this instance, a bright expression appeared on Nial's face.
"Finally, you're here." He said in an exhilarated tone, unleashing the pseudo-domain he had laid out to catch and defeat both Elves at the same time.
All of a sudden, the pitch-black ground began to bubble. The entire battlefield looked like a black ocean all of a sudden; an ocean where huge waves broke out, creating a big stir.
Without a sign of warning, hundreds of darkness ropes shot out of the ground and the Earthen walls. They caught both Elves unguarded.
In a matter of seconds, both Tessa and Bilarn's legs and arms were completely restricted. Even their necks and heads were tightly bound in the darkness ropes.
Hands of darkness crawled out of the darkness on the ground, trying to pull the two Elves into it.
The battlefield turned into an eerie territory that was filled with nothing but gloominess, fear, and the feeling that death was waiting for them.
"Argghh!!!" Tessa screamed out just before his mouth was covered by more and more darkness ropes.
At this moment, many Originals were subconsciously retreating. Even the Prometheus Originals swallowed their saliva, while their gazes flicked to Nial, who was breathing heavily.
It was obvious that he had just used his last ounce of Mana. However, he was more than satisfied with the result.
'They're still not defeated?!' Nial suddenly noticed that Bilarn was still moving, and circulating mana through his body
Crescent wind blades that were barely traceable to normal Originals could be clearly perceived by Nial.
They shot straight at him, forcing Nial to lift the Dragonflame spear and slash them against the wind blades, using the dark flame at the spear's tip to obliterate the attack completely.
Bilarn didn't seem to be done yet. Thus, Nial didn't hesitate to dash forward and lash out at the restricted Elf before declaring him dead and emerging in front of Tessa.
"You're also dead," Nial merely stated, gently piercing the spear in her abdomen, not hurting her at all.
After he announced both his opponents 'dead', the pseudo darkness domain he had manifested disappeared in an instant.
The darkness he had used dispersed into thin air. It had been used up completely, and a deep sigh escaped Nial.
He had just won the spar, but Nial didn't feel as if he had won anything. Rather, he was utterly dumbfounded because he could clearly tell that there was still a little bit of mana left in his body. And this was not something that was supposed to be the case after what he had just delivered…
'Did I improve so much that I could restrict two Elves with such terrifying combat prowess?!'
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