And so when that dark angel mage took the wisest decision he ever made in this entire war, everyone didn't hesitate to turn around and start to run.
"Don't let anyone escape!" Doaf shouted at once while seeing this as the final show of this long and exhausting war.
"Kill them all!" The crow was the fiercest of them all at this moment. He was also the angriest and most eager to kill. He instantly turned around when he heard the words of the dark angel mage.
And then his forces followed.
As for Amera, she believed words had no value compared to actions at this moment. She didn't get how Arthur did it, but she was too proud of her man at this moment.
He was unstoppable! Unreachable! A mighty mage standing all alone in front of such a giant army and such scary dark angel mage all alone and above all.... he was winning!
Even their entire combined forces who fought from the first of the war till this moment couldn't achieve anything closer to this result.
The war drew close to its final moments. "Why are you in a hurry?" Arthur sneered as he spoke for the first time, "you won't live long anyway. So why not die at my hands?"
"..."
Arthur couldn't see the features of the dark angel mage, however from the change in the energy connected to him he knew his words shocked the dark angel mage more.
The dark angel mage didn't think such a low realmer would be so much versed in his techniques, in his secretive clan techniques.
It wasn't well known to many that whenever a dark angel mage failed any of his techniques he would have a backlash. However Arthur's words told him he knew about this, which made him wonder about the real identity of him.
After all what Arthur did so far transcended any logic related to his low realmer identity. He couldn't be someone from such sh*tty place, that was what the golden dragon thought about.
"Who... exactly are you?" the dark angel mage couldn't help but ask.
"The one who is going to kill you," and yet Arthur pushed him further back and he also cursed two more of these portals.
Now all that remained after this long battle was four portals only. The dark angel mage took a rapid glance at these before he could only sigh.
Arthur felt a sudden change in the dark energy behind the dark angel mage. "Planning to run this fast?" Arthur smirked before he suddenly hit the empty air on the side of the dark angel mage, missing him.
This sudden change in Arthur's fight style startled the dark angel mage and took him by surprise. He planned to let Arthur do what he used to do since the beginning, throwing him backwards like a useless rock.
Like this he would simply fall directly inside the portal he was summoning and would vanish off Arthur's sight.
But Arthur had another opinion regarding this.
As he missed his enemy on purpose, the balance of the dark angel mage was lost. The dark angel mage feared Arthur's swords and thus he kept swinging his own saber all around with no aim.
He just wanted to protect himself until his body stabilized.
However Arthur never intended to kill him right here. He saw in him a mine of precious knowledge about everything related to the dark forces.
He planned to capture him from the start and slowly take his time interrogating him.
He knew the dark angel mage would pose no threat at all whenever he got his backlash. But Arthur feared he would slip away if he was thrown inside his garden world.
According to the golden dragon's words, there was no world that dark angel mages couldn't escape from. There was no single prison that could hold them captive.
And so Arthur had to bide his time and slowly fight this mage and keep him trapped in here with him. He waited patiently for that backlash to happen.
The moment it would happen would be the moment that mage would be done for.
However the dark angel mage never expected any of this. All he feared was for Arthur to come and kill him now.
At this moment he felt real fear towards Arthur. He didn't know how he fought, and he didn't know if the death coming from his hands would be normal death or true perish of his body and soul.
That scared the sh*t out of him and made him drop his suicidal attitude.
He wanted to live! Even if he would be crippled for the rest of his life, even if he would be on the run thanks to Arthur and the loss he suffered today.
He wanted to live and not die and risk losing even his soul and reincarnation.
As he kept waving his saber desperately, Arthur moved towards the swirl of energy up front. All he needed to do was to wave his phantom sword at it and the next moment this about to be summoned portal was absorbed by his light energy.
"So you can hold your own energy in front of mine," Arthur slowly muttered while realizing this point, "that's quite interesting."
"W... What?!!" as the dark angel mage regained his balance, he found out what happened to his portal. "H... How could this... be?!!!" he was shocked again by what Arthur just did, making him realize there was no way out for him from here.
Even if he tried to run, Arthur would simply keep chasing him. As far as he could notice, Arthur didn't get tired from overusing his technique all this time.
But he was.
In addition to that, he also knew his backlash was just around the corner.
"Wait... is he trying to capture me?" At this moment he suddenly realized what Arthur was really after. Arthur could easily deal a couple of deadly wounds to him just now.
However Arthur was caring more about the portal the dark angel mage summoned. He wanted to trap him here and not let him escape.
He wasn't interested in killing him, he wanted to block all ways of retreat for him.
And that realization scared the sh*t out of the dark angel mage. However he got it late, too late.
"Yeah, so be a good kid and stop fooling around," Arthur stood in his place while his own eyes were beaming with terrifying threat, "stop playing with that sharp toy of yours. Kids shouldn't get near knives, y'know."
And that carefree tone of Arthur made the dark angel mage drop any idea of trying to escape. His foe was totally sure about trapping him that he was thinking this was a game for him.
And such a thing never ever was heard of before. It never happened to him, it never happened to any dark angel mage throughout the ancient history of the clan.
The dark angel clan was always feared and respected. This was the first time to see someone seeing them as no threat and was having fun toying with them.
"Just who on earth are you?!!!"
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