?Eston continued his barrage, and he had done so from a distance. Every time he used his powers, wind magic would be forced out of his body, making it hard for anyone to approach him easily.
The ten swords flew away, and Raze immediately swung his sword before the swords came to him. In doing so, a large red slash had come out.
"Crimson Slash!"
Raze was using the Devil's Formation with his wind magic to create a strong wind attack of his own. When it hit the sword, it had broken it apart, but there were more swords on his way.
Raze continued to swing his sword, creating Crimson Slashes of his own, and then with the remaining swords, he swung his arms, hitting them away. The ten swords had become next to nothing, and now he had directed a Crimson Slash right at Eston.
Seeing this, Eston flew forward, and a large cannon of air came out from his hands. It had destroyed the Crimson Slash instantly, and the air had hit Raze, sending him flying off his feet.
Right from above, another large cannon of air was shot out; Eston was above. Raze tried to cover himself with his sword, but his whole body was chucked into the ground.
A loud bang was heard, and vibrations shook the floor as Raze's body indented the floor, creating cracks around the area.
"What a foolish, foolish child, I am a commander in Idore's Noble Guild for a reason! I'm sure you know of me; I am Eston, the only person who has ever left the Ortian Guild. You never had a chance against me, even with your martial arts and Dark Magic," Eston claimed.
Lifting both of his hands in the air, two more vortexes were growing in his palm. It was the large move that was used against Amir that had pinned him into the floor, and unlike Amir, Raze, although a magician and a Pagna warrior, was not a hybrid; this attack could very well kill him.
Alba was grinding her teeth when she saw this. So far, Raze was putting up a good fight, and a better fight than any of them could do in their condition.
"Haha, it looks like your only hope is going to die, and then the same will happen to all of you!" The squad leader stated.
Out of anger, Alba jumped up in the air with her swords. Seeing this, the squad leader reacted, firing out two lightning bolts from his hand. Alba was able to block one of them, but the other had hit her.
It caused her to wince in pain, but she bore through it as she slashed her sword down. In doing so, it was met with an electrical current that was created by the squad leader's two hands.
Both of his hands were producing an electric current, and both of Alba's blades were stuck in it.
'My Qi, it's almost completely gone; otherwise, my sword strike would have gone right through this!' Alba, still angry, lifted up her foot and kicked the mage in the stomach, sending him tumbling in the sand.
She then turned to look and could see the large attack being prepared. Raze looked like he had tried to move, but he had been picked up by wind and had completely been surrounded in it.
He was swinging his sword trying to attack the wind that was keeping him in, but it wasn't working.
'I thought he had a plan when the sword reached his hands.' Alba thought. When looking at the Dark Magus and the sword in his hand, an image had appeared in her mind.
There was a time when she had seen him do a devastating attack; it was against the Dimension boss they had gone up against. It was clear Raze had more power than this before, and he was stronger now, so why wasn't he using such things?
The answer had soon become quite clear. Raze, wishing to get out of the trap that he was in, just waiting to be destroyed by a large attack from Eston, he desperately held up his sword and gathered his Dark Magic.
He surrounded it with his Qi, using both, but before he could even swing the sword down, it had crumbled; the Dark Magic powered with Qi had completely destroyed the sword, making it fall apart.
'Wait, is that it, is it his power, is his strength too strong, that the sword can't handle it?' Alba thought.
Images of Raze talking in the cave underneath came to her head. When he had obtained a special material, he had asked for a new sword. There was a reason he had asked; there had to be one.
It was as if he could foresee this happening, his weapons not handling such strength. It wasn't a common thing to happen to warriors, but Raze was not a regular warrior.
Scanning the desert floor though, that's when she could see it, the sword that they had created for Raze. It had moved quite a distance away because of the constant attacks, but it was right there.
'I need to get him that sword!' Alba ran straight to the cloth in the sand.
While doing this, the mage could see her, and with his hand out, he activated his lightning attack hitting her bottom right foot. She was too weak, and tumbled to the ground at that point, rolling over.
"It seems like you have something planned; did you think I would just let you do what you want?" The squad leader stated.
Alba was reaching out to the weapon ahead of her. She needed to get it to Raze, but if she turned her back again, then the mage would continue to attack her.
While looking at the weapon wrapped in cloth though, a certain individual had picked it up from the ground.
"It seems you were after this," Amir said, pulling out the Dark sword that was pulsating with power up and down its center.
"I assume, this is for him," Amir said as he turned around, his arm had transformed into the large black mass it was before, and with the power of Qi, he hurled it right at Raze.
The sword flew through the air and broke through the tornado that was surrounding the area.
Noticing the large amount of energy, Raze had turned, and just in time, he grabbed onto the hilt. His feet were dragged across the floor a bit, but now he had the sword in his hand.
"This is… the ghost blade… the new ghost blade," Raze said, as a smile started to appear.
