Jack felt the floor beneath him trembled before several large spikes burst out. He jumped at the last minute, evading the spikes, and fell to the floor rolling. In his hasty move, he glanced at Soundeffect who also activated another magic scroll. The spell formation on Jack's staff was completed as the Barrier spell took effect just as a sea of flame erupted around him. He felt the flame did continuous damage but his Barrier held. From within the flame, he saw Gridhacker also took out another magic scroll. 'Crap! These guys were as spendthrift as him!' Jack exclaimed in his mind. The scrolls he had left were only Wind Jet, recovery ones, and Haste scrolls. He was completely at a disadvantage here. But before Gridhacker could activate his scroll. A Magic Bind restricted his body, Jack looked at the entrance and saw that Trinity Dawn was there. His reinforcement had arrived! Thank goodness it was not Bowler, Jack secretly celebrated. Trinity Dawn could see the situation and the urgency in Jack's party chat that these people were not friendly, so she took action once she arrived. Spell formations continued to form one after another as she sent them to Gridhacker. Her speed of casting was marvelous. Arcane Turbulence, followed by Ice Nail, followed by another offensive spell which she had not revealed before. A rotating wheel of blades materialized and advanced towards Gridhacker, attempting to cut him in half. Gridhacker had cast a spell that was capable of freeing himself of the Magic Bind. He then cast Barrier to defend against Trinity Dawn's Arcane Turbulence, before it was shattered by her Ice Nail. He was now back to using Magic Shield again to defend against the Wheel of Blade. As Gridhacker was occupied by Trinity Dawn, Jack was freed from his hassle. Not letting go of the chance, he dashed out of the flame. His target was still the rogue, Soundeffect. The Knight's HP and armor made him a more difficult target to kill. Soundeffect felt humiliated by Jack's attempt in targeting him. It gave him the feeling of being underestimated, so he also ran forward to meet Jack in a frontal clash. Soundeffect clashed using normal attacks, utilizing only martial expertise, Jack returned in kind. But after fighting someone like Red Death, Jack found fighting this guy was less challenging. Perhaps unbeknownst to him, his own martial skill had improved. Apart from that, Soundeffect enjoyed using large movements, in line with his boastful personality. Such large movement was a bane in true combat, it left the practitioner with large windows of weakness. One such move was when he jumped up and made a roundhouse slash with his dagger, which Jack conveniently dodged by ducking and using the momentum to send an upward kick at him. Jack's strength stat caused the kick to throw Soundeffect all the way up almost hitting the ceiling which was around twelve meters in height. Their clash had been going on for only a short few seconds due to both of them had high Dexterity. GraphicZ had just arrived by Jack's side when Soundeffect was thrown high in the air. He used a Swing at Jack who was still low on the ground after kicking Soundeffect. Jack pushed on the ground and hung in the air as the horizontal Swing went past under him. He cast Energy Bolts while spinning in the air. The eight bolts flew all around as he was not aiming at all when casting the spell. But it doesn't matter, there were enemies all around him, so the bolts simply looked for the closest enemies autonomously. GraphicZ was rather shocked to see that many Energy Bolts, it implied his opponent had leveled up that spell to the highest level. He twirled his broadsword around skillfully, cutting the bolts that come at him and at Jack's sword that cut down. GraphicZ suddenly felt himself getting grabbed on his left shoulder. Jack had stored his magic staff and used his free left hand to grip his shoulder. Then he felt the guy kicked on his leg. No, not a kick, it's a step. Before he knew it, the guy's other feet had gone up to his shoulder as well. 'F cking monkey! He was using me as a stepping stone!' GraphicZ cursed. Jack kicked again downward and his body went up high into the air. Soundeffect who was falling down was in shock seeing Jack getting closer. Even as he clashed with the Knight, he was still targeting Soundeffect. In his panic, Soundeffect used his Throwing Weapon skill. Jack ignored the incoming weapon and ate the damage as his magic staff reappeared and he shot Mana Bullet at Soundeffect. Both ranged attacks hit, but obviously, Soundeffect suffered more damage. As his thrown weapon reappeared on his hand, his distance from Jack had shortened. Jack's sword was swinging at him from under. Soundeffect thrust his dagger forward to mitigate some of the damages. Their weapons collided and Soundeffect could feel his body got pushed up into the air again. 'F cking a shole was juggling me!' Soundeffect screamed internally in frustration. Jack had used Power Strike to keep Soundeffect in the air. As he went down, he made continuous shots at the helpless Rogue. He had activated his staff's burst attack. Each of his shots sent out three energy balls. GraphicZ tried to save his comrade by sending continuous slashes at Jack but Jack expertly used his swordsmanship to keep GraphicZ at bay, while his left hand continued to shoot at Soundeffect. Soundeffect himself tried desperately to slash at the range attacks coming his way, but his attack was not enough to offset Jack's damage. Not to mention how difficult it is to do such a maneuver in the air without any footings. Sunset had tried to cast Heal again at Soundeffect, but Jack used Shredding Fang at an angle that hit both him and GraphicZ, hindering them both as he continued to shoot at Soundeffect. In the end, Soundeffect lost his life before he even landed back on the ground. Seeing the situation, Gridhacker gritted his teeth and called for a retreat. He, GraphicZ, and Sunset regrouped together at one corner. Jack had been waiting for them to bundle together. He took out a Disruptive Bomb and threw it at them. But before the bomb exploded, Gridhacker activated a magic scroll and they disappeared. 'Where are they? Did they use an invisibility spell again?' Jack asked in his mind. Peniel responded to his question, "no, if it was an invisibility spell, it would have been dispelled by the bomb's explosion. That was a Teleport spell." So they really had withdrawn. Too bad, if he could just kill one more and threatened the others, he might be able to get more information about their purpose and also about this Master they kept on talking about. He expected these guys would be troublesome opponents.
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