"Ahhh! My eyes, my eyes ahahaha..."
"Boom!"
With a squelch, the unknown Mage, who had only managed a single line, had his head crushed and was thus disposed of.
The Green Ogre beside the corpse wiped the brain matter off its thumb and, with one large hand, dug out the blood-sucking Grimoire along with the heart and lungs of the dead body. It handed them over to the Onmyoji guarded by the Yellow Springs Ninjas.
"Hmm... Picking up stray Monsters, gaining some Supernatural Powers, and then selling your soul to the company to debut as a Mage.
No guidance, figuring things out on your own to get this far—sacrificing plenty of humans along the way. You do have talent and resolve.
But alas, battles between spell wielders are unforgiving..."