While Mallory and Chiki were fighting Absko and Joe was fighting August, Blake and Abel remained to fight Michael.
Michael had used his mana to boost a jump and keep a great distance while shooting the undead hobgoblins that were surrounding him.
By the time he shot four hobgoblins, Joe asked Blake and Abel to take care of him together.
Blake reminded again that Michael was the one who shot Vasha but controlled his emotion.
Blake looked at Michael with his abyss eyes and ordered all his mosquitoes to bite him.
Michael panicked for a second, but then calm down.
Both of them realized that the mosquitoes weren't strong enough to pass the mana shiel Michael have around him.
Michael then continued calmly in the air while shooting the hobgoblins.
"Abel! Send me on him!" Blake screamed to Abel.
Abel did not hesitate and started to accumulate mana on his hands' palms.
Meanwhile, Blake ran in Michael's direction, counted to three, and jumped.
Abel prolonged Blake's jump with his wind magic and sent Blake at Michael at a high speed.
Michael saw Blake coming with his abyss eyes focused on him and shivered.
Blake's eyes caused Micheal to develop so much fear that he couldn't think as rationally as usual.
While Blake was in mid-air, he got one of his undead leaves from his pocket and smashed it with his hand.
When Blake was already near Michael, Blake controlled the undead energy and, subconsciously, he control a bit of mana, which he learned how to control from Vasha, both to envelop his fist.
Blake's fist was covered in dense energy, but also volatile.
when Blake hit Michael's Barrier, his fist exploded, causing a huge hole in Michael's barrier, and the undead energy penetrated it.
Michael's life energy started to be corroded.
He was continuously losing life energy.
Meanwhile, Blake, who was falling, ordered his mosquitoes to get to Michael from the barrier's hole.
As Abel used his wind magic to stabilize Blake in mid-air. He also used his magic to stabilize Blake's landing.
The mosquitoes were all flying at Michael at once.
Michael organise his thought and created a great explosion from his body, which killed most of the mosquitoes, but also cause great damage to himself.
Michael had used a great deal of his spiritual energy already and wasn't able to keep himself in the air anymore.
Michael started to freefall from that high.
He still managed to skillfully posicionate his body to facilitate the use of mana to soften his landing.
However, the moment he was about to land, Blake got under him with his fist charged as last time.
Michael then stepped on air sideway and dodged Blake, But couldn't soften the fall too much and Broke his arm when he fell in a bad position due to that side step.
Since the step was made horizontally and not vertically, the pressure on his leg was not enough to harm him.
Michael stood up and found himself surrounded by undead hobgoblins, a few undead mosquitoes sucking his blood and life energy, and Blake with his potent fist and terrifying eyes.
Moreover, Michael was with only a little spiritual energy left. The mana bullet may be very strong, but also very consuming, and the spiritual energy to keep himself in the air wasn't low.
Michael looked at Blake and couldn't see any sign of mercy. He knew that no matter what he said, that guy wouldn't listen at all.
Michael just used the last of his spiritual energy to expel the rest of the mosquitoes from him and heal his barrier.
The hobgoblins' captains surrounded Michael closely and waited for Blake's orders.
"Ter off his legs first," Blake ordered.
The hobgoblins did it.
However, since Michael had already lost a lot of blood from the Mosquitos, just the leading from tearing the legs off was enough to make Michael be forcibly teleported.
Blake was surprised and depressed by the outcome, he felt like he didn't do the person, who harmed his woman, suffer enough.
'I will hunt him down again later,' Blake thought.
Blake then looked around and saw the intense fighting happening around him.
He could see that thanks to Chiki's skills, to change her capacities, and Mallory's ability, to inutilize Absko's skills by giving him an apparent misfortunate, both of them were winning the fight.
However, Joe looked to be played by August.
Blake knew about Joe's capabilities and refused to believe he would lose. So he decided to keep watching.
Blake's eyes then went back to normal as he calmed himself.
...
The first fight to come to a conclusion was Joe's fight, in which Joe ended up victorious.
Not long after, the girls finished their fights.
Tansy and Aurora didn't participate because they didn't feel the need to.
Even though they also saw Joe being played, they were in the alliance because of Vasha, and did not have the slightest loyalty to Joe or anyone else except Vasha, so they didn't help.
Michael, who was the one who attacked Vasha was already being massacred by Blake, and both of them knew how terrifying Blake could be.
So, they didn't want to interfere and be Blake's target afterward.
All the members hiding came back to the camp.
Joe then stepped up and said.
"Today we had a victory against The Rankers and the Duble Kings.
But remember that The Ranker still has much more members than us and they didn't use it to attack us today.
Otherwise, the outcome might be different." Joe announced. He said so but in reality, he was thinking very arrogantly about his alliance since the Poison Demoness and Seductive Demoness didn't have to participate, their strength was even higher than what they just displayed.
While Joe continued his speech to motivate the alliance members to work hard, Blake was checking his system, since he improved a lot during the fight but did not feel the promotion.
'System' Blake thought.
[ System Window:
Name & Level: Blake - Starter Tier 6
Class: Necromancer
Passive skills:
Life and Death Energy Perception (20%)
Mana perception (5%)
Undead Energy Manipulation (20%)
Death Energy Manipulation (5%)
Mana Manipulation (1%)
Active skills:
Undead Creation (40%)
My Undead Creation (30%)
Abyssal Eyes (0.5%)
Undead Explosion Fist (0.5%) ]
'Those new skills... 'Abyssal Eyes' and 'Undead Explosion Fist'...
I guess the fact that they are displayed as only 0.5% means that I didn't fully activate it.
It makes sense since I used both of them mainly by extinct.
The first one was my attempt to understand Vasha's skill previously. I probably instinctively activated this badly comprehended skill.
However, in the end, I could make it work, I don't really know why it worked. I got to research it too.
The second skill was just me trying to increase my physical strength with undead energy. I used to do it in the game, so I thought it would work during the fight.
But I still need to investigate what was that explosion. Based on the game, It shouldn't have occurred.
I guess I really need to focus a bit more on increasing my own strength instead of only my undead.
Are necromancers usually useless without their undeads?
I don't know the answer, but I know I won't be. Blake's emotions fluctuate during his thoughts. But in the end, he was with a clear face of determination.
...
Meanwhile, in the castle hall.
Someone was just teleported out of the castle.
John and Julia were still supervising the training.
After the person was teleported, Julia signed.
"They are already starting to have faction clashes between themselves..."
"That's good, we already expected that.
The factions will increase their affinity with one another and help each other develop faster.
The faction clashes also serve as motivation to continue to work hard." John replied.
"It is still too cruel... We are all from the human race. Why do they have to fight so childishly?" Julia said with sad eyes.
"Anyway, at least this clash helped the arrogants at the top of the ranks realised that if they stop to work hard, even for a second, they might be surpassed."
"I agree about that...
Those ranked 1 and 2 diminished their peace in developing their classes over the past few days. Hope they understood their lesson now," Julia declared with a less sad face.
"What I hope is that they don't waste their time in useless revenge..." John signed after saying those words with worried eyes.