Sasha Observation: 15 - 29 = -14 --- It didn't take too long actually. As Sasha examined the wall from top to bottom, eventually she was able to find the thinnest of cracks in the wall. Furthermore, she was also able to see a tiny button on the base of the wall that would practically be invisible to those who weren't searching over the wall with a fine toothed comb. Pressing the button, a click could be heard as within the next moment, that part of the wall gave way, revealing a long corridor that most likely went to the other side of the building, this being their ticket past the barrier and to the place where Keiko and the others had gone. With this, they could easily and quickly go through to the other side, up the stairs that Henry and company had gone up, and then begin making their way to the room where the fight was taking place, sounds of fighting as they got to the top floor able to be heard and thus able to be their guide to where the action was taking place. --- In the meantime, the three other Gamers were still fighting the Blank Mage, who they seemingly had on the ropes. Mike went for two Tamashi no Ha's on the downed Taichi as they needed to act quickly indeed before the man could get back up and cast more spells, especially since he could use that same sword spell that the Spatial Mage could use, one that was also more powerful and thus capable of killing Lucian in one shot even as it seemed to ignore defenses. --- Attack 1: 89 - 23 Seishin no Ken (DEX) - 25 Distance Bonus - 18 Skill Bonus = 23 (Max Damage) Damage Dealt: 87 Attack 2: 80 - 23 - 25 - 18 = 31 (Hit!) Damage Dealt: 75 --- Melee really was the best way to go on this guy. He seemed to have less physical resistance than he did mystical resistance. In fact, the extra spiritual damage from the Tamashi no Ha was seemingly not doing anything to him. So in reality, it just wasn't high enough level of a skill yet to actually deal any damage to a person of this level, making Mike just better off smacking the man repeatedly with the high powered spirit blade then waste more MP on the Tamashi no Ha. Still, Mike was able to get in two good strikes regardless, probably due to the fact that he was on the ground nearly paralyzed. Gnome, following Lucian's orders, attempted to grab the Blank Mage with her Earthen Hand ability while Rai moved in closer to try and get his lightning bolts to hit. --- Gnome Earth Hand: 0 (not Critical) (Hit!) --- The hand was successful in grabbing the mage, having quite the firm grip on him, meaning he would have to try and break free the next opportunity he had. This allowed Rai to easily move in closer to try and lightning bolt him, but with Mike and the Earth Hand both right there, plus the man being on the ground, ranged attacks would have a bit of a harder time hitting their mark. --- Bolt 1: 34 (Max Damage) Damage Dealt: 44 Bolt 2: 36 (Max Damage) Damage Dealt; 44 Bolt 3: -26 (Max Damage) Damage Dealt: 44 --- Again, he had some pretty high resistance to that sort of magical damage, but it still did a nice bit of damage despite all of that. Normally Rai would have needed to keep his distance, but he was able to get up right close and personal and fire three bolts directly into the man. MP was starting to run out for Lucian though, probably only one more barrage of those bolts manageable before he would need to try and replenish his MP. The Blank Mage, unfortunately, got over being stunned quite quickly and first had to deal with breaking free from the earthen hand. Lucikly he had just the trick for that, as his ring suddenly shone a bit, he suddenly teleported free from Mike's and Galkyr's reach and the earthen hand, but that still consumed a bit of time that he had, time he spent suddenly doing something completely different. A smirk appeared on his face as he snapped his fingers twice. "Lets get rid of these pests first!" Suddenly arrows of water, much like Ren's, appeared, but they suddenly turned into arrows of wind instead, six of them appearing with a single snap of his fingers, all of them quickly condensing into one much larger arrow which flew at Gnome at a high speed. Earth was weak against Wind, so if it hit, it could be deadly. --- Wind Arrow: 9 on the dice (Max Damage) Damage Dealt: 480 --- Unfortunately, the high powered Wind Arrow was more than enough to shred apart Gnome's entire earth essence composed being, this man able to use and change spells at will in various ways as it looked like first a more powerful version of Ren's Aqua Arrows. Nonetheless, Gnome had been destroyed, leaving them down one powerhouse of an elemental. He would have gone after the humans, but taking care of the summons first was a higher priority on his list, as suddenly with his second snap he suddenly seemed to move alot faster than normal. The next snap after that sent three arrows condensed into one at Rai, only they looked like ones more or less made of earth. The other three that appeared were condensed down and sent at the blasted back Lilim. --- Earth Arrow (Rai): -19 (Max Damage) Damage Dealt: 200 Earth Arrow (Lilim): 2 (Critical) Damage Dealt: 265 --- Rai was outright decimated by the high powered Earth Arrow, and Lilim seemed to take the blow head on as well. She already had been damaged by her own power backfiring, now she had taken on a full straight to the center blow as well, her HP looking pretty worse for wear. The man was moving faster than he had before though, but at the same time it was as if he was moving like this all at once rather than in succession, like as though space itself were distorting around him to let him move twice in a single few seconds. Which was bad, as he sent a blackish lightning bolt, which looked and felt similar to Lilim's, only more powerful, straight at Lilim. --- Lightning Bolt: -20 (Max Damage) Damage Dealt: 165 --- Unfortunately, as the bolt seemed to come the instant after the arrow did, Lilim wasn't able to stand that instant barrage of spells, crying out as she was also destroyed. This man was aiming for their Summons, which was the brunt of their combative force and also gave him the number's advantage. He seemed to have no intention of stopping Ren's Giga Spiral Bolt, which made Ren feel heavily uneasy. Well, even if he could somehow use the Giga Spiral Bolt like he did with Lilim's Demonic Lightning, he would have to charge it for ten seconds just like Ren had to, the charging of which was nearly done. The man didn't stop there though. With one final, instant succession snap towards Galkyr, he used a different spell this time. Bones suddenly erupted from the ground with sharp looking, bone like blades all over them. Unfortunately though, Galkyr wasn't swift enough in that moment to get out of the way, now effectively being trapped inside of a large cage of bone that emanated an aura of death, several bone like blades stabbing at the trapped Galkyr. --- Stab 1: -12 (Max Damage!) Damage Dealt: 55 Stab 2: 27 (Miss) Stab 3: -38 (Max) Damage Dealt: 55 Stab 4: -41 Damage Dealt: 55 --- "This is my power, as a Blank Mage, I can pretty much take anything you dish out, and throw it back with more power, including the spells of those last two you fought". Whether or not he was bluffing or telling the truth was uncertain, but he seemed quite confident with this as he had a smirk on his face. The space around him though seemed to cease its distortions now so his movements returned to normal. The group was in some serious trouble now. With Galkyr trapped and the other Summons all gone, they would have to rely on their own basic ability to defeat this man. Still, it wasn't like they hadn't done any damage to him. Galkyr was stuck fighting the cage he was trapped in, looking quite pissed as its eyes glazed over and he gnashed his teeth in a feral rage, his body seemingly rippling with more raw physical power now as though he was going berserk. Next, his claws suddenly became encased in flames, and then his body seemed to rippled with more physical power as in a frenzy with great speed, he seemed to strike at the cage multiple times, attempting to bring it down. Luckily the cage was a stationary object, so hitting it was no trouble. It seemed quite resilient though, but the fire that Galkyr had on his claws was seeming to help. A total of 110 Damage was dealt with each of the high speed strikes of its mighty claws, there being three of them in total. Still, that didn't seem to cut it as the death cage was still entrapping Galkyr. Around this time though, Ren completed the charging of his Giga Spiral Bolt. He poured every all but 100 MP into it, knowing that he had no choice but to do so, meaning he had poured 498 MP into the gigantic bolt, well 50 of that being needed to use the Skill itself, so in total he put in 448. They needed to take this Blank Mage out and soon, and Ren wanted to chuck as much raw power as he could at the man. If one little Mana Bolt could be stopped, then he thought an incredibly gigantic one spinning with tremendous force would deal some incredible damage, especially with that barrier around him broken. He only had nearly a fifth of his HP left, so Ren hoped that this would finish him off. --- Giga Spiral Bolt: 38 + 25 Skill Penalty - 37 Projectile Weaponry = 26 --- Unfortunately, it just was too hard of a skill to aim, Ren cursing as the man deftly dodged the gigantic, fast moving bolt. Ren would be panicking right now, but as he felt that panic rise, the Gamer's Mind skill appeared in his mind and he was calmed down. It truly was a special Skill. Ren was indeed a gamer, and all he had to do was just take a Mana Potion the next chance he got, and he still had 100 MP to fall back on. Their enemy was only at just above a fifth of his health, so they could win this as long as he had no way of healing. "Such a powerful attack... might have even did some serious injury if it had hit, too bad that it was just a bit too slow eh, ya brat". Taichi mocked right after he dodged the giant bolt. This battle was still in full swing, and right now had just taken a turn for the worse. Hopefully Silas and Sasha would be able to get there soon, as the three Gamers were most likely going to need their help now.