First Sasha had to get out of the back yard she was in, which involved a quick climbing over the fence. --- Sasha Climbing: 31 - 12 Climbing = 19 --- The fence was relatively easy to climb once again mainly thanks to Sasha's new physical strength. While she was no super strong star athlete, she was certainly much stronger than she used to be by a long shot. Next though was the sneaking over the mage as he was chanting his spell quickly. --- Sasha Sneak: 48 - 32 Stealth - 4 Skill Bonus = 12 --- Luckily the mage was still chanting and distracted by Ren, so he did not see Sasha sneaking over quickly, her good Dex and even the Ban Family Foot Technique let her stealth the several yard distance between her and the mage a bit quickly, Sasha even being able to take the extra risk to move quickly in this case with how stealthy she was being, able to get an attack off with her Tanto without the mage seeing it. --- Sasha Assassination: 78 - 20 Melee Weaponry - 5 Skill Bonus - 25 Distance Bonus = 28 Hit! Damage Dealt: 42 --- If it wasn't for Sasha being able to get up close, then the attack wouldn't have even connected as the mage didn't notice it until it was too late. Sasha wasn't able to perform an attempt for his vitals, but she was able to get in close for a quick and stealthy slash. Unfortunately Sasha met the same problem as Ren. Despite the attack hitting, the Tanto seemed to bounce harmlessly off a barrier of some kind that was invisible the moment it hit the mage. Damage seemed to be dealt, but not to the mage, but to something else probably. Unfortunately the mage finished chanting his spell right there as well, aiming it at Ren as he now knew Sasha was there with the sword, but knew that the barrier around him would protect him from her attacks. --- Mage Spell: 25 --- He barely managed to pull it off, whatever Ren did to him only making him barely succeed this time instead of fail as it did before. He finished chanting his dark spell, calling out a couple of words in a powerful tone and foreign language as suddenly a beam of dark, magical energy shot from the head of his staff and headed straight towards Ren. --- Mage Projectile: 21 Hit! Damage Dealt: 105 --- A pretty bad looking 105 appeared above Ren's head as he was blasted by the beam, its power throwing Ren backwards and onto the ground, the young boy crying out very loudly in pain, even his usually quiet, soft voice cracking a bit here, the spell being very powerful indeed, his own MP Armor barely doing anything to reduce the brunt of the blow of the dark spell's incredible force. Ren's HP was now really low, for even him as he had a pretty good amount of HP, but in this fight with HP that low it would probably be the difference between life and death here. Ren got up, clenching his teeth as his entire body hurt, but he glared now at the mage, knowing that they had to take down the monster first. Luckily though, in terms of Ren's HP, the small girl who looked like she was made of water who everyone there could see, who had the following above her head in green text that only the Gamers could see, 'Undine Lv 10, Ren Hitori's Basic Water Elemental', waved her hand at Ren, a small wave of water washing over him that seemed to glow softly for a few moments, a green 50 appearing over Ren's head as the water faded while Ren quickly stood up, the power that Undine used apparently healing Ren for a good chunk of HP. Of course, it took a good bit of Ren's MP in the process, but HP was worth sacrificing MP for. "You'll pay for that. [i]Power Siphon![/i]" Ren aimed his hand towards the mage as he quickly got up whilst speaking and as the water washed over him. Suddenly a slightly darkish yellowish aura appeared around Ren's hand as it seemed to move from that to the mage, but instead hit the mage's invisible barrier. However, Ren's strange skill literally seemed to be sucking out some of the energy from the shield as it transferred the shield's power over to Ren who smirked. While it seemed like Ren was just going to absorb the MP, instead the power that was drained transferred into Ren's hand as he said [i]'Capture"[/i], and the moment he did a very weak barrier shimmered around him for a moment before turning invisible, in the same manner that the mage's did as if Ren captured a very, very weak version of whatever shield was around the mage, the mage seeming to notice this and be somewhat surprised, the mage also having moved forward a few steps forward after Sasha's attack and after he cast his spell, taking note of both Sasha and Ren now, mainly Sasha though since she was right near him. Still, Silas could now counterattack still after that large bear man did, and the mage was also open to attack from Sasha, taking down his shield probably being the best course of action so that he could be harmed, as was making sure that he couldn't cast anymore of his apparently very powerful, and painful, spells.