Dark Magus Returns

The hooded man, who was able to go toe to toe with Beatrix, his hood had finally fallen down revealing his face to all.

To many that were present, he was a face that they all recognized because he was a somewhat big figure in the world of Pagna.

Right now, they were looking at Dame Narfous. The son of Belil Narfous, the clan head of the Never Fall clan, one of the most powerful clans in the Demonic Faction.

It was hard to say that this had come as a big surprise to the group, after all, they had all assumed that the ones that had planned this attack was none other than the Demonic faction in the first place, so to see another member here wasn't a complete surprise, but it was for others.

Tears had come to Simyon's eyes, while Safa and Liam were ecstatic to see the Dame still there. The last time they had seen him, he had fought against Murkel to help them.

He had fought and taken a direct blow falling off the cliff. They were sure that Dame had lost his life, in protecting them all.

Simyon had been thinking about Dame constantly, who had been his mentor in helping him grow, wondering if he could have done anything that day to save him, and now seeing him alive was a large sense of relief.

"So he did manage to survive after all…that's great," Simyon said.

"It's good, but why did he come here, and why did he intervene with the fight to help Mantis?" Safa asked.

They knew that Dame was originally part of the Demonic Faction, but when working with Raze he had recently decided to abandon his clan.

So why would he help someone like Mantis, something was going on, and it was something that they didn't understand.

Regardless, others like Murkel had their own thoughts.

"That young man is still alive," Murkel said. "It seems he really was a spy for the Demonic Faction back then. I should have made sure to get rid of him. I will just have to allow the pleasure of letting the Light Faction take care of him instead."

Now in the arena, Beatrix was getting a good look at Dame, who wasn't wearing the special mask that changed his face. It had been destroyed in the fight with Murkle, showing how strong his attacks were.

Thankfully, the special Gauntlets that he had made from Raze were still working as intended.

"It's you, you are getting involved again, why is it that you are always standing in my way!" Beatrix shouted, charging forward with her sword again.

Now, Dame was jumping back and swinging his fist in the air. A Qi blast would leave and crash into Beatrix, she needed to swing her sword to fight against the Qi since the attack wasn't weak by any means.

Right after, Dame was behind his own attack, and had punched right in her side. He then went to hit her head but the attack was blocked quickly, and another strike was swung down before Dame caught it with his gauntlets and fired off another Qi blast with his fist hitting her in the stomach again.

A bit of blood was seen trickling down the side of her mouth.

"I beat you last time, and now I'm even stronger than I was before, you don't have any chance," Dame suggested, thinking back to their last fight.

He could tell that Beatrix had improved quite a bit since the last time they had met, but it was the same for him as well.

Beatrix came back rushing with a half swing over her head. It clashed against Dame's blocking the attack with both hands.

When the sword had hit, an explosion of light dust appeared in the air.

The crowd had never seen such beautiful visual Qi being produced before.

"Gather!" Beatrix said.

The dust of light energy had gathered in her sword, as she pulled it away she went to thrust the sword toward Dame's center once more.

He had pulled back and swung both of his fists once again, throwing out a Qi blast. Before it hit Beatrix this time, there was almost a barrier of Qi that had caused the attack to go to the side.

The powerful strike had then hit Dame right in the stomach, and sent him skidding back. His hand covered his wound and looking at the palm of his hand he could see quite a large amount of blood.

"This is nothing to worry about," Dame said to himself.

"Yes, go on Beatrix!" Hannah said, giving out a slight cheer as the strike had landed.

"Dame…he is also someone who has helped me greatly, if his life is at risk, then I at least owe him some help," Raze said to himself.

This didn't go unheard by Hannah, and now she was worried. When Mantis was getting hit, the student known as Jake didn't join in, so why was he planning to help this person.

Yet, Raze still didn't move because he felt like there was more.

'This can't be the extent of their plan, all variables must be considered first before I need to move.'

Not just that but elsewhere there was one more person that wasn't finding it easy going against the Dawnblade Clan.

Ricar was fighting against the transformed Mantis who was exceptionally fast and had a high healing rate, but Ricar had gotten into somewhat of a groove.

Each time he clashed against Mantis with his sword, his Qi would pulsate. An orb-like structure would appear around the sword, damaging more than just the area it struck.

Mantis would back away, but now Ricar was the one on the attack. He was tracking Mantis down, hitting him with his pulsating sword.

It flung Mantis against the arena wall. Then when Mantis slightly jumped up in the air, it didn't take long for Ricar to be over him and swung his sword hitting the entire of Mantis's body sending him to the ground.

A skilled warrior was playing with a beast, that was all it looked like. While Ricar was in the air, he started to spin his body and then held his sword up.

It was clear he was gathering his Qi for a final strike to finish the injured Mantis on the ground.

'For one that heals incredibly fast, I just need to get rid of you in one strike!'

Kicking the air as if there was a platform, Ricar rushed toward the ground with his sword. It was shining down like a shooting star ready to pierce through Mantis's head.

A large amount of Qi exploded in the center as the sword dropped down, blowing the dust everywhere and causing the audience members to turn away.

When the audience looked back, they

could see that the sword had failed to pierce Mantis, instead, it had only pierced the ground. Cracking the foundation deeper underneath.

Instead, Mantis's body had been moved and now there was another person stood in their place.

"I thought I would have to get involved, it's a shame things couldn't be so easy."

There was an older man with dark hair stood in the center, and there were those that recognized him.

"You, aren't you from the Amir the vice principal of the Dark Faction Academy, what are you doing, what is the meaning of this!" Ricar asked.