Back in the real world, the Grimoire of Darkness was shaking. Lira's life force was getting very weak, similar to what was happening to Gabriel before.
Fortunately, there was a silver lining in the sand for Lira. It was that her soul was still inside the Grimoire of Darkness, where she had the strongest connection with the Grimoire.
Meanwhile, it has been quite different for Gabriel, who had been quite far from his real Grimoire.
The Holy Grimoire of Darkness also started taking matters into its own hands to protect its owner. For that, it first needed to break the control of Gabriel on the Realm of Darkness.
An incredible amount of Dark Energy started flooding the Realm of Darkness which Gabriel had taken into his control. The realm, which had turned all red thanks to the red mist, again started turning dark.
The Grimoire of Darkness needed immense energy to regain the control. Lira was already very weak, so the energy couldn't come from her soul. Fortunately, she had been carrying high-grade soul crystals in her bags, which came in handy at the moment.
To have an additional boost, the Grimoire of Darkness utilized the spiritual energy from the Spiritual Crystals.
Immense amounts of Dark Energy rushed inside the Realm of Darkness, further boosting Lira's strength. Gabriel lost the control of the realm of darkness, which went back to Lira.
He tightened his grip, not wasting a single second. However, just as Lira's next was about to crack, she turned to pure darkness and disappeared.
In another part of the Prison of Darkness, the darkness started gathering, forming the figure of a woman.
As the Darkness disappeared, Lira was revealed, standing there. She was coughing intensely, and her face was still pale, but at least she was alive, and she had control of the Realm of Darkness once again.
Lira stared at Gabriel as she tried to gather her breath. She didn't know what had happened to him, but he had become very strong suddenly. She knew that he was too dangerous. If he was this strong in her Domain, he could only be stronger if he possessed this kind of strength in the real world.
"I can't let him leave. I have to stop him here, or he'll be too dangerous when he's outside!"
She didn't know what happened to Gabriel in the Academy of Element to make him this strong, but she knew she had to kill him here!
Gabriel also glanced back at Lira, who was standing in the distance. The realm was out of his control, but he didn't seem to care. It was as if this wasn't his concern. He could still use his own powers in the Realm of Darkness.
"Come out of the depths of the Darkness and slaughter my enemies!" Lira didn't dare get close to Gabriel this time as she didn't want to be caught. However, she still had some options to kill him without getting close.
She raised her hand, using the Realm of Darkness once again. The excessive darkness that had rushed inside her Domain had made her even stronger.
As if answering to Lira's calls, around ten Knights appeared around Gabriel, each carrying a heavy Sword. All the knights were made purely from the darkness. They looked humanoid, but they didn't have any faces. It was just dark energy that had the shape of humans.
The Darkness Knights surrounded Gabriel from all sides. All the Knights of Darkness attached at the same time, some going for his head while others were going for his chest.
Lira remained in the distance, seeing her Knights attack Gabriel. As the Knights got closer to Gabriel, her view of Gabriel became obstructed by them, making her unable to see if they succeeded or not.
She soon received the answer as she saw all her Knights of Darkness being pushed back. Shockingly, they weren't being pushed back by Gabriel!
"How... is... this... possible?" Lira took a step back subconsciously as she noticed just what had pushed her Knights back.
She had summoned ten Knights of Darkness with her spell, but at the moment, there weren't ten... Instead, there were twenty Knights of Darkness there!
Each of her Knight of Darkness was being held back by another Knight of Darkness. Meanwhile, Gabriel stood completely unharmed.
The other set of Dark Knights were completely identical to Lira's Dark Knights, but she had no control over them. They definitely weren't hers. Then whose? Did Gabriel call them? How could he use her spells? It was understandable that he had some unique spells of his own, but he shouldn't have been able to use her spells!
In her mind, there was no doubt that the Dark Knights he called were called through her spells, and they were made purely from her darkness and not the red mist like those chains from before.
Gabriel wasn't even looking at the battle of Knights of Darkness as he started stepping toward Lira.
For each step he took toward her, he felt a heavy pressure over him, as if the gravity kept getting stronger under the pressure of this prison, but unlike before, he didn't fall to his knees. He was able to completely ignore this gravity.
He also began to chant another spell that was different from any he had used before. It was also in the same incomprehensible language, but it was not the same spell as before.
Lira didn't know what spell Gabriel was casting, but she also started casting her strongest offensive spell. She knew Gabriel could disappear when she was near him, so fighting him at close range was the worst option. The best option was to destroy his soul without getting close to him.
Both the mages were casting their spells at the same time, and it was unclear what each of the spells was going to do. However, Lira was much faster in casting her spell. Gabriel was only halfway through his spell when Lira had already finished her spell.
"Dark Oasis!"
