[@Lugubrious][@Amaya Tamashii][@BrodZ11711]

Kaso's edge cut deep into Bert's flesh, not deep enough. Before Nolan could even cut further into Bert's stomach, the sand mage used his sand to protect his hand and pushed the blade away, leaving a gash of blood spurting out onto the sand. There wasn't even a chance to follow up with an attack; a vortex of sand surrounded Bert and Nolan leaped back to not get caught in the attack.  The s-ranked mage appeared only a few meters away with sand acting as a makeshift bandage to keep himself from bleeding out. [color=00746b]"Clever bastard."[/color] It was foolish to assume that it would be so easy to take his opponent down, an s-ranked mage, with only one strike. It was going to take a lot more than burying a sword in this man's gut to take him out, a lot more. Nolan swiped his blade against the air, leaving splatters of blood against the sand. Now that introductions had been made, the real fight was about to begin.

The desert was turned into a child's dream; a giant sandcastle. The desert was already his domain, but now he truly made a place that was fit for sand mage. Bert had slammed Fleo into a wall hanging face first and hung from it the waist up and pillars of sand flew at Amaya and Lucas before being blown to pieces by Lucas' Crash Magic. This guy was taking all four of them on, four powerful mages, with relative ease. When Fleo pulled herself out of the wall she sent blasts of dust balls at the sand mage only to be blocked by a shield of sand only to be froze and shattered by Amaya's Ice Dragon Slayer Magic. She had the upper-hand for that one moment, but she was blasted away by a sandstone pillar. 

Dammit, what the hell was he doing just standing there?! Ashes collected around Nolan's hands and feet and with a burst, he leaped high into the air with the ashes propelling him higher than he could on his own. He kept leaping from pillar to pillar until he was of equal height to Bert. [color=00746b]"Just die you nutcase! Ash God's Bellow!"[/color] Nolan breathed out a massive swirling blast of ash, searing hot ash that had enough force to obliterate hard objects with ease.