The power of time, a unique type of magic that mages were just born with. This was a type of magic and talent that wasn't given to Raze. He wasn't meant to be someone great, but there was one thing that he had learned in Pagna that might have given him an advantage.

That was the Demonic Extraction technique. He had used this skill before on mages, and in doing so, he was able to increase the power and affinity in his mana core. Not just on people, but he also could use this skill on power stones, and depending on their affinity, he would be able to unlock new affinities or increase his strength.

It was how he was able to gain new affinities so far. So the question came to his mind: what if he were to use the extraction technique on someone with a unique type of magic?

He was unable to do so with Garlon due to nothing being left of him, but with Heino, would it allow him to unlock a new type of magic? Would Raze also be able to use Time magic?

If he did, the combination with his powerful items that he created, which would often have a curse involved, would be negated. This thought, this power, was exactly what he needed to allow him to fight off those like the Grand Magus.

In the middle of his thoughts, Raze had mostly been using his earth magic to set up barriers between the two. It was most effective at stopping the gunshots, and also, it didn't matter if Heino would freeze these targets.

The main issue was there wasn't much in terms of his earth ability that he could do to fight and battle against Heino.

Now though, he was ready with another thought in his mind. As Raze lowered both of the walls he made, his hands no longer held any sword, and he just had Dark Magic grasped in them.

He saw the bullets coming ahead, and Raze had decided to match them. He fired with his hands, and as the Dark magic reached the bullets, it was destroying them before they even had the chance to explode.

Dark Magic was constantly swirling around Raze's palm and firing out small projectiles. This wasn't quite the dark pulse; it was weaker, but it didn't matter.

Raze's dark magic had reached a high level. He was now a seven-star mage, and the amount of death that was in the surrounding areas, the amount of death he had caused at the start of his life before, despite Heino's power, it had all gone to his ring, adding the affinity to his Dark Magic, making it extremely powerful.

While firing off Dark magic, Raze didn't stop using his foot techniques that he had learned along with his lightning powers to move him from location to location.

Raze was fighting with what only looked like magic, but even now, he was using Pagan techniques.

"You might be able to block my bullets for now, but I can do something more powerful in mind, but before that, there is something else I need to do." Heino stopped firing both of his guns.

He quickly froze them in the air by his side as he went and reached for the necklace around his neck. While holding it, he activated it and said a few words.

"Destroy, that Blazer!" Heino claimed.

Right at that moment, Raze's blazer had broken off from his body. It shattered instantly, breaking off into nothing but small particles.

This was the power of one of the artifacts that Heino held with him. Now, Heino grabbed the guns and placed them both together.

Right at the tip, the condensed energy was charging into a larger beam and shot right out toward Raze.

As Raze stood there, he also placed both of his hands together and fired out a large dark pulse. The two energies collided with each other, exploding. When the area cleared up, Raze could see that Heino was no longer in front of him.

He had done the same thing again, disappearing and reappearing back where he was not too long ago, with his Mana intact.

"That doesn't matter to me," Raze thought as wings started to spread out, made from his Qi, from his back, and on the ghost blade which was in his hand.

Not only that, but Heino noticed something: his Blazer, it was back on his body. It was there again as if it had never been destroyed in the first place.

'Impossible…how was it able to do such a thing, unless that item's effect is even greater than the power of mine…that can't be possible though,' Heino thought.

Before Heino knew it, Raze was moving even faster than before, using the Dark Wing formation. It was allowing him to travel through the air even faster. As he moved, he was leaving a trail of darkness behind him.

Raze, constantly moving, was swinging his sword out toward Heino, who was reacting as he fired and would freeze the attacks, but now the dark magic was lingering in the air as well, blocking his view as he had frozen several of the attacks.

"Haha, you think this is enough?" Heino asked as he placed his hand around his necklace once more. "Maybe I can't get rid of that blazer, but I can get rid of other things."

Raze had appeared right behind Heino with the sword in his hand.

"Get rid of that sword!" Heino claimed, and right after saying those words, the sword had disappeared, turning into nothing but particles.

The ghost blade that Raze had with him for so long, made from special materials, was now gone just like that, but Raze didn't care as he reached out and grabbed Heino right at the back of his head.

"Got you!" Raze claimed.

"Wrong decision," Heino replied as he still had the time ring on his finger. "Let me, get rid of your damn soul!"

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