When Zac approached gan and Sabelio, he found the two exchanging attacks without rest.
gan was using her dagger while Sabelio controlled the umbra around him to protect himself and shoot out spells.
The old man's umbra control wasn't as refined as Dante's, but it was still enough to halt gan's blade from reaching him.
Zac noticed that Sabelio was only using the "shadow bolt" spell, which he had seen Dante use before, and knew that it was ant to be a low-rank spell.
He was a bit more afraid at first since Sabelio was a forged warlock, so he didn't know if the old man would cast the overwhelmingly powerful spells that Dante used. Still, seeing that he was solely relying on shadow bolts made him relieved.
As gan and Sabelio kept releasing a barrage of attacks that were almost too quick to see, the redhead waited for the perfect opening.
If he barged in the middle of their onslaught, he could get caught between their attacks, so he patiently waited for a few seconds for the old man to make a mistake.
At one brief mont, Zac spotted Sabelio's arm going a bit too far up, which left him with the perfect opening, bolting at high speeds toward the man and slamming his ribcage with all of his might.
Sabelio covered his side with umbra to cushion the strike, but the force still sent him flying to the side.
"Did that work?" Zac pondered aloud.
When Sabelio rose from the dust cloud with a frown, his demon heart pounded a few tis and regenerated his broken bones, making him let out a tired gasp.
"I was not expecting this…" The old man muttered under his breath.
Suddenly, the umbra around Sabelio abruptly powered up, making gan and Zac brace their weapons as they could see the old man's energy violently flowing around him.
His arms were turning into an obsidian color while claws grew on his fingers. His eyes had turned wholly red, and his posture seed much better than before.
"Only by making these risky decisions, we'll have enough power to defend ourselves…" Sabelio muttered.
In an instant, several pentagrams appeared in the air around Sabelio, glowing brightly with a red hue as the man opened his arms widely.
"Shadow Bolt Barrage!" Sabelio shouted, releasing dozens of shadowy projectiles from his arcane pentagrams.
gan and Zac bolted away from their positions in opposite directions, avoiding the explosive bolts that were landing on the ground.
As the redhead rushed around the plaza, waiting for another opening, he noticed Sabelio's glare directed at him, pointing one palm at Zac.
"Vile Taint," Sabelio said, creating a shadowy circumference beneath Zac's feet, covering a small area around him.
Zac took a split-second decision and stepped to one side, barely managing to get his body out of the darkened area before it blew up and unleashed a shadow explosion.
The shadows grazed Zac's body and flung him against the obelisk, making him quickly stand up and prepare himself for a follow-up attack.
However, gan had intercepted Sabelio, forcing him back while unleashing a barrage of slices with her dagger, hitting his arm and generating a kindle of sparks that shocked the brunette.
'His skin got much tougher…' gan thought.
Sabelio's close-combat experience wasn't enough to hold himself against gan, so he knew that his best choice against her would be to get more distance from her.
The old man had focused on Zac at first, as his strength and ferocity were too unpredictable for Sabelio. Nonetheless, he was starting to fear gan's combat experience much more.
At one mont, gan's quick attacks made Sabelio tumble—an opportunity that Zac didn't miss, appearing right beside the man with his bat tightly grasped with both hands.
Still, right as his strike landed, Sabelio protected his head with his strengthened forearm, taking the hit that didn't move him from his spot and producing a shockwave at the point of impact.
As Sabelio used the umbra to propel himself back away from his opponents, Zac rushed towards him head-on, making the old man point his palm at the redhead.
"Creeping Death!" the old man shouted.
Zac covered himself with his bat, focusing his umbra on his front side to protect himself from the spell. However, he suddenly felt an excruciating pain that made him feel as if he was being skinned alive.
The redhead's physical body wasn't going through any visible changes, but Sabelio's spell made their opponents feel like it was real.
When Sabelio thought that he had a brief mont to breathe, gan appeared rushing from his flank, using her dagger to 'cut' the arcane pentagrams floating around her opponent.
Sabelio quickly pointed his hand at gan to cast another spell, but his palm was stabbed through by her dagger in an instant, brutally slicing to the side and taking three of his fingers.
'What…!? My skin is supposed to be as strong as steel!' Sabelio desperately thought, wondering how the woman was able to cut through his defense.
Moreover, she had used her umbra to shatter half of the arcane pentagrams that Sabelio was using to cast his multiple spells, leaving the old man perplexed at her level of umbra control.
It took him years to materialize any kind of spell after making a contract with Astaroth, and while gan wasn't casting any, she was still capable of stopping him with only a few months of experience under her belt.
'Coating her physical attacks with umbra isn't sothing you can just learn without guidance… That man,' Sabelio thought as he grunted, releasing a wave of umbra around him to push gan back a few ters.
"Who is he…?" Sabelio asked under his breath.
"Hmm?" gan humd.
"Who taught you how to control umbra!? Was it that 'Hellslayer'!?" The old man exclaid, sowhat agitated.
"Where did he even co from!? How did you summon him!?" He continued, losing his mind by the second.
gan gazed at the man with a cold, unchanging glare, stating that she didn't know any 'Hellslayers,' nor did she know how to summon anyone.
"Liar!" Sabelio shouted, noticing a fluctuation of umbra in the woman.
Of course, gan knew that demons used the term 'Hellslayer' when referring to Dante, and that lie was detected by Sabelio. However, she genuinely didn't know how to summon anyone.
"I was just lucky I made a friend…" gan replied, crossing her arms with her dagger in hand, preparing for another advance.
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