VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?
Chapter 54: True powers of a skill

[ "You insolent insect!" ]

Even though she told him she would buy him three minutes, the dark mage ended up seeing how the boy that was with her a moment ago was now doing something with the guard captain that he had almost crushed.

They had given him some trouble already, time was being wasted, there was a lot that was happening right now and, despite her consecutive attacks, the evil bastard was fine even right now.

Thanks to the spells that he used to counterattack and block the many attacks that she was using with the help of her costly items, she still could not manage to deal any damage to the dark mage.

She just ended up angering him further.

-Ooooooooooooong!

He was enraged now that he had also figured out she was merely playing with him all this time.

Elio was doing something important but even she did not know how he would wake him up and give all those things to him in the short time they had.

-Boooooooooooooom!

She was betting a lot on him right now, so even when the dark mage got enraged and used a strong spell to attack her, she barely managed to survive the attack by evading most of the fatal impact and blocking it with all the charges of her consumable Mana shields that she had.

-DHUM…!

She crashed in a tree trunk. And even though the shields absorbed some impact, she still was hurt.

"Alex…!"

Elio rushed to her side, knowing full well she had not only exhausted herself in that short instance, she even used a lot of things that she initially did not want to.

[ "Futile efforts…" ]

The dark mage frowned at the two of them, the disgusted look on him an evidence of his dislike towards their kind and their pureness.

[ "One cannot step away from the perpetual bounds that THEY are the masters of." ]

He did not think anything special about this person. The girl merely used some tricks and jumped around a little so there was nothing too special about her.

She was just trying to trick him, distracting him so that the one insignificant insect with her could do something that was also just going to be as futile as anything else they would do.

Their fates were sealed the moment they came here. Nothing but a painless, blissfully dark death awaited them…

"Ahem!"

"Bastard…!"

"Miu!"

"Muuuuuu…!"

The three of them around her could do little to comfort her and ease the deep pain she might be feeling after that impact.

There was a chance that she must have also received some dangerous internal injury because of the shock but Elio only had some normal potions to help her in that condition. Nothing else.

"Did you… do it?"

She was hurt, but even in that condition, even with blood coming out of a corner of her mouth, she was asking if he succeeded or not.

It was her typical serious behavior. Not caring about herself in situations where much more was on the line.

She would not have anything to worry about if he had succeeded.

"Yes. He took it."

The guard captain had already take the things from him, which meant he she had succeeded with what she needed to do.

"It's alright then…"

-Oooooooooong!

[ "Foreigner insects." ]

The Dark magician was done preparing the next spell that would most definitely kill them this time.

This was the end for both of them. There was no card left up their sleeves.

[ "Tsk." ]

Even though the dark mage was looking at them with the disgusting intent to kill them, they just stayed there.

She had no reason to move anymore since she had already used up all the cards she had, and since she was there, he could not just get up and avoid that attack by himself.

He hid Az under his shirt once again, even though he knew it would be of no use, even though he knew it was just a dumb thing to do, but he still did it since he also knew they weren't going to get hurt anymore.

[ "Just die." ]

-Swiiiish…!

-Boooooooooom!

A strong black condensed ball of wind came at them with a boom, and they were just there.

He was hugging her, but he was still afraid so his eyes were closed. On the other hand, even though she was hugging him back, she was looking straight at the ball of wind coming at them.

{ "[{(Prakriti)}]… that's what they used to call nature in the primordial language." }

A strong, very strong Mana voice resonated throughout the area around them out of the blue, and a smirk appeared on her face.

"There it… is…"

{ "Do you know why they called it as such, follower of evil?" }

-Ooooooooooong!

A green energy surrounded both of them, as well as the black ball of winds that came stright at them.

[ "...?!" ]

The demon was stunned by what had just happened.

The kind of force that he had used in that attack was something meant to kill even someone far stronger than those children.

It was meant to obliterate them… yet, it just vanished?

{ "Do you know, oh miserable hater of nature… what [{(Purush)}] meant in THEIR time?" }

That green light was something he had already witnessed a few moments ago.

The guard captain had used it as some kind of secret weapon of his, but in the end, it was just some petty tricks.

It was nothing compared to the great power bestowed upon him by THEM.

Yet… now, that great power just disappeared?

And that too, by the same strange green power that he had already defeated once?

{ "Do you know… oh mortals." }

The evil dark magician was confused, so it turned his head to the direction of the center of that strange echoing voice.

{ "Do you know what a [Truth] is?" }

And at this moment… for the first time he had been here, for the first time after killing all those players, natives, and things… for the first time, there was an emotion other than joy or happiness in those completely white eyes.

And this emotion…

[ "...how?" ]

Alex knew very well how it was called 'primal fear'. Something an 'evil' would always recognize instinctively.