"All in all, we aren't going to be your experiments. Understood?" Ren responded now, glad that the other two Gamers felt the same way he did. Of course, who wouldn't in this situation? They had heard absolutely horrible things about hunters, one of them being if they were captured, death would be the best outcome. Normally such an expression would be an exaggeration, but in a world of supernatural powers such as this, it would be hard to say whether or not that expression truly was an exaggeration. Regardless of the case, Ren had no intention of joining or being experimental material, even if the experiments were supposedly going to be 'painless'. Taichi was silent, for all of a couple of seconds, before he suddenly burst out laughing, nearly falling backwards out of his chair in the process. "Oh my god... t-that's... so precious". He couldn't stop laughing, Ren clenching his fists. It was a good time to attack, but he held back. The man teleported in front of their faces in a matter of moments. It was clear that they were somewhat outmatched here in terms of ability, plus Ren wasn't sure if the man would just absorb his magical attacks as he did that Mana Bolt. After a few more long seconds of laughing, he wiped a tear from his eye. "Oh... ohh... ugh, sorry bout that". He sighed heavily, regaining his composure a bit. "Damn though, that was hilarious. I haven't had a good laugh like that in a while". Taichi grinned, but that grin turned into a small smirk. "I mean, the fact that you guys think that you have a choice. That is utterly priceless". He stood up, and with a snap of his fingers the chairs and tables vanished, Ren managing to stand before the chair fell. Luckily the reflexes of the other two as well, albeit barely for Lucian, allowed them to stand and not fall on their asses. "You are all so naive. You come here, with little power and some big friends and suddenly think that you can talk terms with me?" At this point he was looking at Lucian. "Seriously, what's up with that shit? Its a great joke, but if you're trying to be serious, your just shit out of luck". He was pretty much mocking their negotiation attempts now. Still, if anything these attempts did buy time. Some time for hopefully others to show up and help. "Nonetheless, if its a battle you want... its a battle you shall have..." The man smirked and suddenly snapped his fingers after teleporting back a few yards away from their small group. --- Magic Attack (Target- Lucian): 25 (Hit!) Damage Dealt: 133 Magic Attack (Target- Mike): -40 (Max Damage Hit!) Damage Dealt: 150 Magic Attack (Target- Ren): -32 (Max Damage Hit!) Damage Dealt: 150 --- Before the three of them could even blink, green swords of energy just like the one the Spatial Mage used, only a bit more powerful, were sticking out of all three of them. Lucian's, however; missed his vitals just by a little, sparing his HP bar from hitting 0 by a mere 2 HP. A little more though, and it would have cleaved straight through Lucian and straight up killed him. "See what I mean, no means of defending yourselves. You're just a buncha weaklings..." He snapped his fingers once again. --- Magic (Lucian): 26 (Hit!) Resistance: Failed Magic (Mike): 30 (Hit!) Resistance: Failed Magic (Ren): Fumbled --- The flashes of light that appeared from his hands were chains, leaping out and moving. Unfortunately, neither Mike nor Lucian were swift enough to dodge them, nor were they strong enough to break the chains of magic that suddenly just appeared, the chains cold like death, their bodies being immobilized and unable to move. Ren got lucky though. Instead of a third set of chains attacking him, the ring on his finger, similar to the ones the Spatial Mage and Necromancer possessed, sent a strange, ugly, black glow up his arm, making him shudder for a moment and grit his teeth, as if he was stunned for just a moment. Ren took this as a chance and began preparing the Healing Wave spell, something that took a bit of time to perform, but they all seriously needed the healing, especially Lucian. Fortunately though, both being stunned and their negotiation attempts did, fortunately by some incredible grace of luck, by them time. Suddenly, from nowhere, a blur sped past the three Gamers and struck the blank mage straight in his stunned face, dealing a whopping 200 damage and throwing him into the opposite wall. With a big smirk on his face was Touma Urameshi, one of the enforcers, the Grappler. That punch had also made something around him shatter like glass, which was probably why it didn't deal as much damage as it should have as the force of that flaming punch broke whatever barrier was around him most likely. Touma had some wounds on his body and a few burns probably from other fights in this place, but couldn't look more excited. "Finally, an opponent who ca--" Before he could either finish or throw another punch though, he suddenly vanished, just as Henry and Keiko did when they arrived in this room. Following that, right as he managed to stagger up, was a shadow rising from the floor, and a pair of black claws racking across his back, making the man cry out loudly as they tore his robes a bit and left several bad looking, black gashes across his back now, his clothes torn slightly. That was another 300 damage, a bit deeper of a strike this time that had some dark power behind it. Nero was standing there, behind him, having risen up from his shadow, literally. Unfortunately, before he could make an instant followup attack, he too vanished. Finally came Keiichi, who broke the chains on the Gamers, but before he could lift another finger, he too vanished, all three of them having technically arrived at the same time. Ren, at this time, completed his spell, the casting of it anyway, making the incredible damage all three of them had suffered vanished, the Healing Wave spell targeting Lucian to make his wounds vanish, but Ren and Mike still had some damage, having only healed 49 HP from the Spell's power, but still, they were better off than Lucian was after he had gotten hit. "Dammit... damn it all. Your friends may have helped you, but no one else can help you now, in fact, without that... interference... you would have been at my mercy!" He seemed a bit pissed now, his cool a bit gone by this point. Fortunately for the Gamers, he was just about to come out of being stunned, so they would have ample opportunity to strike, Ren taking the few seconds he had after his spell's completion to summon his demons and begin casting of a different spell. The others would get their moment to strike now. With 500 of his HP, or 1/3rd essentially, gone and whatever barrier was around him down, the Gamers would stand a bit of a better chance all thanks to Lucian buying them time by getting him to negotiate and him stunning himself just then with his own magic, something he was just beginning to come out of.