'What a strong Wind Spell.' Vale thought as he looked above to see the floating perpetrator. At this ti, he already had his Human Shapeshift Spell activated and didn't look like his original appearance at all.
Nevertheless, he still looked young similar to Philip's age.
At this ti, he wasn't in a hurry to either escape or fight. He wanted to see if he could actually extract this person who managed to evade the natural detection of his Extrasensory Perception Spell.
The only reason he felt that sothing was off just now was because of his unnatural high intelligence. Having 100 Intelligence Points or 50 Spirit Strands seems to have increased his sensitivity in the surroundings.
"This… Should we not run away, Vale?" Philip softly asked while looking at the man floating above the village.
The villagers also witnessed this scene as they started panicking and running away. Seeing soone flying might be quite an aweso sight, but it was also terrifying from another perspective.
Nevertheless, Vale didn't feel the pressure facing this man for so reason. Right now, with his current set of spells, he just can't think that soone could defeat him alone. Perhaps he would consider running away if there were a dozen of them.
"Haa… So they have to send
to chase after a kid? Tsk…" Sherman said with a frown as he fixed his top hat while floating.
"Hey, are you the Masked Devil?" He added.
"Masked Devil?" Vale couldn't help but smile after hearing this. He certainly heard about this nickna after staying here for a while.
"Yes, the one who destroyed the Murton Castle? Are you his apprentice or sothing? You don't look that impressive." The man said as he briefly glanced at Philip before shifting his gaze to Vale.
He could guess that Philip was the one who had been rescued from the castle. On the other hand, Vale seed too young to be the notorious Masked Devil he heard from his employer.
Since the Devil Incarnate could summon lightning and defeat the previous Headmaster of the Vermont Academy, he was expecting sothing more.
He was expecting a mysterious man with a deathly aura surrounding his body, holding a skull cane, with a devil-like face, sinister eyes, and evil spirits surrounding him…
However, Vale's appearance disappointed him.
In the anti, Vale was also assessing the man. He used his Divine Sense but to his surprise, he didn't get a feedback!
The man must have a powerful Mystical Artifact to avoid the Divine Sense's detection!
Vale took a deep breath as he considered a few things for a mont before deciding not to answer the man's question. He didn't see the benefit of answering him for now.
Instead, he raised his hands and opened his palm.
'Traceless Shift…'
Vale triggered his spell as he targeted the man's top hat. He knew that it was a Mystical Artifact, so he didn't hesitate to take it. That would surely surprise the man, and Vale wanted to see how he would react once it was stolen.
However, sothing unexpected happened when he triggered his spell.
For the first ti, he felt resistance using the Traceless Shift!
He saw how the top hat only shook for a mont before stabilizing again.
'This guy is too mysterious… This is dangerous.' Vale silently thought as he looked at the person above them with a serious look on his face.
"Ho~ What did you just do?" The man squinted his eyes as he asked curiously. He touched his top hat and inspected it briefly but didn't find anything wrong.
He was confused.
"What you did seed harmless, so my defensive spell didn't activate. I'm curious…" He muttered.
Vale frowned at this since the man didn't seem to notice what he just did! It ans his Traceless Shift was resisted without much effort!
Then, he also tried using his Spirit Vision, and once again, he actually failed to see sothing abnormal in the man even though he was literally floating in the sky!
After so thought, Vale decided to change his tactic.I think you should take a look at
"I'm Eustace. Who are you? Why are you doing this to us?"
He needed to know the person before him, so he decided to engage in a conversation.
"Eustace, huh… That's a rare na. Are you from the western region?"
"What if I am?" Vale asked.
"Mhmm… I just want to know my enemy. You can call
Sherman. I'm an Arcanist hired to chase after the Masked Devil, not you and your friend. Now, tell
where the Masked Devil is, and I promise as a respected bounty hunter, you won't be involved in my hunt."
He paused for a mont as he seed to have realized sothing and said, "Oh, did he leave the two of you after sensing my presence?" Sherman added as he started descending.
"He must've fled by now, huh…"
With his current strength, he can't feel threatened by a couple of kids, so he appears quite relaxed.
Well, considering he was sent here to chase after the Masked Devil Incarnate, it was certain that he had the strength to back his confidence.
Vale decided that it was enough to probe this man.
He summoned his three Ghost Hands before Sherman could land beside them.
Sherman smirked, seeing the three giant Ghost Hands that Vale had summoned.
He also used a similar technique, but in his case, he used three human-sized Fire Hands to stop his Ghost Hands!
Vale felt it was a ridiculous match, but to his surprise, the Ghost Hands barely lasted for a couple of seconds before being destroyed!
"Hmm?" Vale was montarily surprised, but he quickly collected his mind.
Whoosshh~
The three Fire Hands didn't disappear yet as they started getting closer to him.
'So Ghost Hands are a bad match against these flaming hands?' Vale furrowed his brows as he looked at the Spells coming at him.
He decided not to dodge this spell since Philip was behind him.
Instead, he confidently used his Spell Dispersion Spell to remove the Fire Hands in his sight. He even used his Shadow Soldier Spell at the sa ti and made it appear below Sherman while he was descending.
However, another unexpected thing happened.
'W-what? Isn't this a bit too tough?!' Vale thought as he gathered his Dark Energy in his palm and slapped the weakening Fire Hands.
Poof! Poof! Poof!
The Elental Spell was finally dealt with.
That's right, his Spell Dispersion just now didn't disperse the Fire Spell but only weakened it to the point that he could just slap it to disappear.
The Spell Dispersion was still working, but it didn't seem effective against the man's spell!
'What's going on?'
Vale then shifted his attention to his Shadow Soldier and realized that a hand-sized mirror, held by Sherman, was beaming light on his soldier and made it unable to move!
It was even slowly lting away!
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