It was unfortunate that Raze no longer had his Ghost blade on him; it was a weapon he had used throughout his time in Pagna, something that went hand in hand with his Qi, giving him even stronger strikes.

But instead, he used the thinner wind-enchanted sword. It was lighter than the others and silent when it struck. Now having activated the seventh formation, runes started to appear on the edge of the sword.

They formed using his dark magic.

'When Shay used this, it had a completely different effect, but I figured out why that was. It's one of the few skills that are meant to be used with magic rather than without, so she had somewhat adjusted the move. It was also why I had difficulty trying to learn how to use the formation.

'I had always learnt how to use the formation without magic first and then added in the magic part after, perfecting the technique, but that wasn't the case with this one.'

The sword started to vibrate after the runes activated on it, almost like a hum. Raze swung the sword by his side, and then he rushed forward, charging straight ahead, and on the other side, Murkel had done the same.

Enaxx had positioned himself so he equally had three of himself facing Murkel and the other three facing Raze.

On the side of Raze, there was a lightning mage, a fire mage, and a lightning mage. The three of them were quite a deadly combination, and Enaxx was making full use of that.

First, lightning fired at Raze's feet, but Raze had quickly avoided all of the strikes, moving side to side.

Seeing this, instead, a large tornado of wind was summoned, and then adding to its devastation, fire magic was included in it. It created a large fire tornado with extreme heat.

While the other Enaxx was firing powerful lightning spells, directing where Raze would go right into the flames, but he didn't care, Raze ran straight ahead and swung his sword right into the storm of magic.

"Being on this land has turned you into a fool," Enaxx claimed. "That is 9-star magic, just swinging your sword with Qi is not going to get rid of it!"

When Raze swung his sword, all of the runes started to light up, and dark magic expanded out from the blade. It broke through the wind and fire like a pulse. The dark magic and formation broke the magic spell completely.

It made it as if the spell had never been used in the first place, and then Raze landed right on the ground.

'It's a skill that works a weird way, pulsing out dark magic only in one instance in such a way it can disrupt certain Qi and magic, so it wouldn't have really worked on Heino, but in this situation!'

Raze landing on the ground stretched out his hand and moved the floor underneath one of the Enaxxs, pulling him towards him while Raze himself ran right at the man.

With his sword, he swiftly attacked, but noticed that it had hit a barrier of sorts.

'Oh, it's the first time the barrier activated on the blazer, is he the real one? Was my theory wrong?' Raze continued to swing his sword and attack, but he noticed the barrier was made of lightning.

It wasn't quite the effect of the blazer. Instead, it was activating with his magic, but due to Raze's own blazer effects, he was unable to feel it.

Enaxx quickly used lightning on the ground, aiming to stun Raze, but he had shifted his position, appearing from behind. With one hand, he then pressed on the lightning barrier.

He could feel the current go through his body, but breaking through, he quickly stabbed his sword right through Enaxx's head, finishing yet another one, turning them into nothing.

With the Enaxx killed so quickly, Raze now was looking at the other two, the fire and wind mage that were stood next to each other.

"I was a fool," Raze commented. "Truthfully, when I saw you, I wanted to best you with my magic. All the times our fight got interrupted, there was some pride I had as a mage.

"When I was in my breakthrough as a nine-star mage, it gives me more options, but I can see now. To all of the mages, fighting with magic and Qi, it's a great weakness for you all.

"I want to thank you, Enaxx, because of you, I know full well that I will be fine when it comes to fighting the rest of the Grand Magus."

Enaxx shoved both of his hands forward, and rather than a tornado of wind, this time it was countless sharp strikes of wind magic. Each one had the power of a powerful strike that was dealt with a sword.

Using the same formation as last time, Raze simply swung his sword in the air, the runes activating and breaking the entire spell all at once. It didn't just stop at the first but had stopped them all.

Enaxx was taken aback as he saw this.

"The Dark Magus…is nothing like he is before," Enaxx claimed.

The other issue was, it wasn't just Raze that was doing a good job. Now that the five elements weren't being used to keep Murkle contained, he had also forced himself, defeating another Enaxx, leaving him with four of himself.

Although his method was far more rough, covering almost his entire body in the red sharp crystal, then when getting close, cutting and breaking free from that crystal to reach his target.

"I will get the last strike, and I'm going to savor every moment of it…for Jake," Raze declared.

Enaxx smiled as he heard those words.

"I never thought I would have to use it…but I'm not going to die in some foreign land, where my body will never be found, no way!"

Enaxx then reached and placed his hand across his chest, not just one of him, but all four that were there.

"Breakthrough!"

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