VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?

-Oooooooooooooooong!

The mages created a barrier around the shield holding knights in the front, while at the same time, buffing them with strongest grace spells that they could.

There were twelve people in the guard captain's party: Three knights, six mages, himself, and two archers who could wield Mana.

The arrows that fired all contained Mana and some arrows that they had were even enchanted with the spells of the mages.

They were in no way a weak party. Perhaps, among all the parties currently fighting the force of evil, they are alone with the strongest ones.

The only thing that made even their composition futile though, was the one that they were facing right now.

[ "Boring…" ]

The assault started with the guard captain holding his greatsword at the very front of the group.

-Oooooooooong!

The mages fired their spells, the archers fired their Mana imbued arrows, while though the knights wielding the shields waited for the attacks of the mage, the sword of the guard captain was aiming for the Neck of the enemy.

-Snap.

But, unbothered by it all, he merely watched them with a bored look and snapped his finger.

-Sprrrrk.

-Oooooooooooooong!

And when he did, red-black sparks appeared in the air, a red shield that materialized right before the sword of the guard captain threw him off, and at the same time, dark smoke rose up from the ground.

"Ughhhh!"

-Tsssssss…!

The mage wanted to take care of just one person here– The guard captain who held more strength than the others.

He was the only one that he even wanted to kill. The rest of them were merely standing sacrifices in his way.

"Captain!"

When the guard captain was thrown back because of the shield of the dark mage, he carefully handled his large body even though it was covered in heavy armor.

From his one attack alone, he knew that the opponent that he was facing was much stronger than what they had initially expected.

The spells of the mages did not work on him either.

The red barrier covering him completely blocked off the spells and it seemed like the black sparks that were covering the shield were eating away at the spells on contect.

-Ooooooooooooong!

But the mage still covered the guard captain and continued attacking the mage with strong spells.

-Swish! Swish! Swish!

The guard captain was not going to be enough to deal with this dark mage. He was too strong. So, the knights summoned their Aura power and joined them as well.

-Swish!

-Booooooooom!

Just one sword slash from the knights' Aura covered weapons created a kind of destructive force that the area they were in, the ground beneath them was all turned upside down.

-Thum! Thum! Thum!

-Swiiiiiish!

-Boooooooooom!

The power of Aura by nature was destructive.

When it hit the ground beneath them, it created craters that seemed to be results of some strong destruction spells.

They were the only things strong enough to affect the strong shields of dark mage. With their attacks, the shields somehow got cracks and were almost on the verge of shattering.

[ "Hun." ]

But the mage was still unbothered by all of it.

-Oooooooooong…!

He just continued attacking the knights with the dangerous destructive attacks that they could barely survive thanks to the buffs and shields of the mages from the back.

-Ooooooooong!

If it weren't for the strong mages, they might have lost the battle in a matter of moments.

And, perhaps after exchanging a few blows and losing one of his shields, the dark magician seemed to have realized it as well.

-Ooooooooooooong!

With a strong blow of dark winds, he first threw every one of them away from him and covered himself in a new shield.

[ "Flies should just die." ]

-Snap.

Then, he gazed at the mages at the very back with his impure black eyes, freezing the blood running through their bodies with his evil powers.

"Aghhhhhh!"

The sudden chills that they felt were not merely something imaginary that they were feeling in their heads.

That was not the case here. The blood running through their vines had actually frozen due to the dark magic of the evil mage.

The clash of the pure mana of the mages and the dark powers of the mage was chaotic. He was not affected by their Mana but the same was not true for the mages on the guard captain's team.

"Ughhhh!"

When the evil Mage directly used a lethal spell to actually freeze their blood, he was aiming for the Mana vessels in their body as well.

-Oooooooooong!

The sudan injection of the dark energy into the body of someone who possessed Mana vines without a strong enough mental fortitude to handle his presence was the same as the most lethal poison was to the humans.

-Ooooooooooong!

The Mana inside of their bodies went berserk all of a sudden and became so uncontrollable that…

-Pu–tchak!

First the eyes, then the head, and then the rest of the body of the brave mages who had assisted the guard captain and the rest of the knights until now popped off like a balloon… spraying the now black insides, frozen body parts and, their last bit of pure crystallized Mana that had become the reason for their deaths.

[ "Now that the flies have fallen quiet..." ]

With a simple movement of his hand, the mage summoned a minion of darkness that the players all around them were fighting against now, and then turned the evil creature into something that resembled a sword.

[ "Guard captain? How about you get serious?" ]

With a simple movement of his hand that did not even alert the knights with the power of Aura and heightened superhuman senses, the dark sword floating right beside the mage moved at a speed unbelievable to human eyes.

-Srrrush. Srrrush. Srrrrrrush.

And, in just a few blinks of an eye, this sword came back to his side…

-Thud. Thud. Thud.

Just that when it reappeared, there was blood dripping down its blade.

"...?!"

From how the strong knights who had trained their bodies and minds with years and decades of training fell to the ground lifelessly, the guard captain instantly knew what was going on before him.

He was not facing an opponent that he could fight while holding back.

There was no way to defeat this opponent. He would destroy this town if things went just like they were going as well…

"You… Evil…"

It was his duty to protect the people of this town as well as the town itself.

As the guard captain, he must not let this evil mage get past him.

"Skill…"

The brave knights and the mages that had passed while protecting this town– he had to honor their sacrifices and deal with this evil even if he had to pay a great price for it.

"{Guardian spirit manifestation}."

He was prepared to die here, on this very battlefield.

Revealing the secret that he had been hiding for a long time was no big deal in this situation anymore.