VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?

Darkness from the dark minions was a fragment of the power of those evil beings but it wasn't something that could grant one the power of darkness.

"Let's get out of here, El."

The mage must be someone who wanted to become a follower of evil and was helping the dark mage with something.

She did not know for certain yet, but he must also be someone responsible for the dark mage's presence in this town.

"...let's go."

From what they understood, the mage that was helping the dark mage wanted to become a dark mage and was serving him. He might have pointed him to this town, thinking it did not have many strong individuals and was an easy target.

Then when the dark mage went to deal with the town people, he must have stayed behind.

It takes a lot of sacrifices and conductors to open the windows on the other side and produce a fellow dark mage artificially.

The birth of a dark mage is a natural process, but there surely is a way to obtain that abundant power of evil.

And this one might have been after that as well, and the dark mage must have done all this to make him a follower as well, since it would prove his faith and grant him greater powers.

"...Miu recognizes him."

"Then it makes more sense."

The mage wanted power, for that the dark magician needed to succeed, for his success this circle was important, and he thought he could prevent it from being destroyed.

That did not happen. And seeing him with the magic circle, the Minions instinctively attached themselves to him in an attempt to 'help' the process… or in an attempt to be one with the darkness that they had come from.

They did not have anything like intelligence so instincts were everything for them.

In this instance though, their instincts made them do something crazy.

"Did you kill the Crystal lizards?" Alex looked at the mage who was being consumed by the darkness of the minions, the darkness that was purely an energy, something opposite of the Mana.

[ "Ughh…!" ]

The mage was dumb to think he could handle the dark magic circle as merely a (tier-4) mage. And the minions were dumber to unanimously attach themselves to the mage.

"Doesn't seem like we will get any answer from them even if we talk."

"..."

What they did made the energy inside of the mage's body clash with the darkness. The class of two energies created an unstable environment that produced strong power.

This at least gave the mage the power to stop the spell circle from falling, but at the same time, the darkness that overflowed in him was corrupting his body.

He would die soon, and that death would be more terrifying than he might have ever thought about.

'Dying from the powerful darkness. He sure would experience the worst pain in his last moments.'

Alex did not spare him any more glances and walked out of that place.

He wasn't even a dark mage that was trying to repair the spell circle but merely a dumb mage that would die a horrible death.

And since the darkness would slowly corrupt his pure soul as well, even though he was a native, he might never experience a peaceful afterlife.

These were his last moments…

"Miu."

"Muuu."

And even though Elio wanted to kill him with his own hands for being the one to kill the geckos of this cave, he walked back with Alex and got out of the cave.

[ "Hey…! Wait…!" ]

Neither of them looked back at the mage… and the darkness continued surrounding his entire being.

The spell that he was maintaining was now working with him as the core, but that lasted only for another moment as the darkness had turned the body of the human mage into something that resembled charcoal.

-Ooooooooooooooooong…!

He had stopped breathing a while ago, but now that his lifeforce was exhausted as well, nothing was left of him.

His position as the spell circle's core had become useless as well. So…

-BOOOOOOOOOOOOM…!

When they came out, a ground shaking explosion boomed from deep inside of the cave.

The dungeon's core was completely destroyed.

The cave must have fallen down, and from the sheer force of the explosion that must have been perceivable even far away from here, they knew what they were here for had already been achieved.

Now, all that was left was for them to defeat the dark mage and protect the 'certain' special individual in the process.

"Get ready-."

"I know what I have to do. Don't tell me every little thing."

"Oh?"

She looked at his confident and angry expression.

She didn't know where his 'not wanting to kill anything' spirit was since she could clearly see killing intent in his eyes.

But, it seemed pretty valid for her at this point.

He had friends that had been with him for special reasons and if he didn't do anything, there was a good chance that he would lose them.

He had to become stronger. Perhaps so strong that even while not killing anything, he would be able to protect everything that was his.

This was just a game for them, but for the creatures of this world, this data world was their reality.

And their artificial intelligence was their real selves.

-Boooooooooooom!

The matter with the dark mage's magic circle, an element of his boosted strength from the evil side was already taken care of, so they thought they would be able to take down the dark mage with the help of the guard captain and the knights.

The mages would play a big role in her plans and since they were strong individuals who possessed certain great qualities, they were going to be a great assistance to her.

She was confident that under her assistance, they would win this battle. It wouldn't be that difficult for them to take down someone like that dark mage if they utilize their power in a proper manner.

She was confident…

[ "Oh? Was there someone still left?" ]

But when they reached the area where the most commotion was happening, they witnessed a scene that almost froze both of them in their place…