COI C28
In the VIP city guild hotel, the employer and his companions are having a brunch while watching a match. Myrrkei and U'ecin are having the time talking about the previous match from Gordon. Myrrkei knows about the disease
"It's Mflaiesh and rarely been seen so. Alga's light should have eradicated it, I don't know if they still exist in other region"
"How do you know it is the same disease?"
"It is a rare phenomenon that harms neutral mana, recorded on the archives of Eldesune's library"
"Hmm Eldesune, which means the enders archives"
"If you can read Eldesune writings then yes, it is in the archives"
The employer's friends heard the two talking about the disease
"You mention something about a disease, can you explain?"
Myrrkei is willing to explain, but he better off explaining on the Kes'thar first.
"First, I should explain how did it get the disease within the ritual. May I answer that first"
The employer's friend gives a good impression by the rat's intention, Myrrkei, and good manner as the employer let them do as they like.
"Ok, tell me"
"Rituals preserve curses, including the plagues, are dangerous for you people. Since you don't have an immunity in this foreign world, but you can use magic to cleanse it away . . ."
". . . Unless it is a mana disease, then it's better off be careful"
"Is it lethal?"
"Less lethal but annoying to the frequent magic users, it is like a wound that won't heal because the mana is used, even a slight of it will never heal properly"
"How about mages with a high mana capacity?"
"That's a good question that most goblins and dwarves always ignored it"
The employer and the other viewers are busy watching the new challengers against a team of dolls. As for U'ecin and the employer's friend are listening a new finding to a forgotten disease. Myrrkei recollects his thoughts of such a rare study.
"That's a great question, if my studies are correct, then the lethality will be proven but I remember it only gives dangerous effects"
"Like what?"
She stares at him some kind of a doctor as he thinks through it and thoroughly.
"The disease can spread the entire body with the right mana fluids that can be contagious, causing a new form of host for other symptoms to grow. Then the rest talks about sprouting an unfamiliar decay on someone's skin . . . oh my words, am I ruin your ethics?"
She is intrigued instead of disgusted
"No! but I'm more curious now. Then how about the cure?"
"Medicinal or the natural one?"
"Medicinal"
The two are having a nice chat regarding about the diseases for some reason while U'ecin sees the other adventurers comes forth on screen. U'ecin watches it and sees the stick doll who uses a stick that glows by the end of its tip. U'ecin interrupts the two
"Myrrkei look, it’s the Edan's stick"
The employer's friend asked
"Stick? What is he talking about?"
Myrrkei sees the stick doll for himself as it is collecting the Alga's light, he answers her
"Can you please let this chat end for a bit? My friend shows me something historic"
"Really?"
"Watch it for yourself, you might learn the absurdity of shamanism"
She giggles then watches the match.
"Do you have any idea how to fight them?"
Thean asks them where they only stay cautious and keeps following his orders. Altair keeps absorbing the light slowly gaining knowledge to use it later, Silfa is experiencing a shield leeching doll where she senses it using her own mana against her and the staff doll has its own way to fight like a magic swordsman, and Bass has no possible way to handle something that disrupts his abilities. Bass explains Thean about the dancing doll
"That doll keeps disrupting my abilities like it using it like a drum, do you know how to handle it?"
Thean sees the dancing doll always performing around and acting up on the magic with its rituals.
"Yes, it's better to take a risk now, we have no other types of mana"
Altair hears him and follows along the new abilities he learned from him during the day of the first match. The sole reason of why he is willing to join his team to beat Sork's monsters, never would have thought he persuades the others by different conveniences after a few accidents in the hotel. Thean nods at him and giving the signal as Altair casts an unfamiliar spell. Thean turns around and face the dolls with Bass has kept an eye on them. Altair places his fingers on the side of his lips and wipe it and his mouth is gone then reappeared, he casts a switch between him and Thean’s mouth. Silfa sees it then she asks.
"What happen to your mouth? It disappears and reappears from all of a sudden"
Altair didn't reply and his mouth starts to bite his lips and moving it freely.
"Altair?"
She questions him again where he gives unnatural expression, a serious look to his mouth moving where he opens his jaw wide then suddenly close it. She starts creeping out by his bizarre expression, and Altair says to her with a different voice.
"Ok Altairrisck, ready the spells"
"Altair!? Why are you sounding like Thean?"
Altair's first time to switch mouths and he is trying to talk to her but his mouth is on Thean's. Thean is already headed to the dolls alone as he already sends the signal to Bass to not interfere.
"I ah? Thean! Silfa is asking me about the mouth switch, please tell her"
Thean says it in front of the dolls like he is acting crazy. The dancing doll is confused but gives a chance to use his voice on its rituals. Thean is facing the four dolls alone where he stands, the battle starts again with only Thean upfront. The first attacks are coming from the dolls where the staff doll opens its already prepared rituals with dancing doll's assistance. Thean pulled out his own fists infused with mana on his hands. He parries at the best he could without saying a word but his habit of breathing is coming from Altair.
The dancing doll uses the same skill as Bass uses his barrier. It lunges up where the staff charges to his feet, where the two collide to hit him. The parries persist again, where the attacks push them away further with the skills they have. Thean only confront the two leaving the backlines to prepare on both sides. Thean and the dolls are battling it out as normal as neither of them opens up their actual powers. Leaving no weakness until the light is used. Thean keeps dodging and parrying where the two starting to stall until the stick doll bless them with the ritual from the careful attempts.
Altair's breathing is getting all weird where Silfa and Bass heard him breathe in a pattern. Bass could explain as he knows Altair's spell but seeing Silfa confused like some innocent woman as he somehow adored her cute expression, but feeling mix when he sees Thean fights. Silfa breaks it off and focus on the enemies.
"What are we doing? We should help Thean"
Bass is giving the order from Thean is not to interfere and Altair is waiting for Thean to do with the switched mouths. Thean however, manages to block, dodge, and swiftly turns to counter the dancing doll's initiation. The only dolls are not joining yet are stick and shield doll.
The staff doll starts to get disrupted by Thean, the dancing doll is replicating Bass’ magic as the soundwaves blocking the direction to the stick doll, the stick doll with the sphere finally unleashed its spell through its team, and the shield doll suddenly starts to ram to Thean as he reacted to the light.
"Damn it Thean!"
From Altair's remarks as he is the only one will be idling for now, his words are used by the dancing doll's rituals. The dolls didn't recognize his voice and starts to fight without realizing their tricks. Thean holds up the shield attacks but that face is appearing and eating off his mana. He backs down a bit and barely hold on with the other two dolls.
Altair's mouth shouts from Thean's voice
"Tell her she has the puma!"
Thean's mouth reacted by Altair's words
"Puma!? she has what!?"
The shield doll hears him about the puma, while it rams with its shield, it suddenly drops it. It leaps over Thean into his team and faces Silfa again. Bass and Silfa are surprised by the sudden jump into here. Thean is in trouble but the shield doll is here and talks to her.
"You have Pu'Ma?"
Thean is now fighting the two dolls with a relief on his mind, where they listen to him rambling on stuff and heard another bizarre thing
"What the hell!?"
Stick doll is confused but its rituals are already casts into them and misses the shield doll.
Altair's mouth moves again where Silfa and Bass heard him in such a confusing matter.
"This is going to be good"
Altair ignores the shield doll where his team is getting are confused by all this, sounding like Thean as his voice. The shield doll is with them asking for Pu'Ma as she is getting to lose her mind from what's going on. Altair can't waste time as he sees the fight between Thean and the dolls. The dancing doll keeps on to Thean where its dancing is now looking like a fighting stance. Thean blocks the kicks where it twirls around the air and the staff doll's rituals are chanting on its body, forming tattoos. The dancing doll finally hits Thean and knocking him away.
He sees the staff doll is imprinting rituals on its body. The stick doll is using the light to grow them in size in a unique way of carving the rituals. Silfa is setting in to help Thean but the shield doll is here, staring at her. She feels her magic is going to be consumed by it and, fear or caution in its wake, she can't describe how eating her low graded sword and her magic being devoured that will strengthening the monster of its shield. Bass sees her in a stalemate, he uses his strong tunes of instruments to keep the doll away from her. The waves come to it then it raises it shield and blocks it. The shield's face appears again as it deflects then counters it back to Bass along with the rituals.
A horrific scream of sound wave comes to him and intentionally misses Silfa where it casts in between. Bass' magic is being corrupted by the rituals without anyone to witness such a fast counter. Altair is in a safe distance idling due to the drawback of switching mouths and only watch them. The sound waves become the horrifying screams reach Bass and the fear clouded his mind as he begins to run.
"Aaah!"
The screams coming from him shows the curses of the doll's power, she stares at it cautiously. A gang of hordechiefs with so many abilities in a form of a doll. She remains idle and figure things out to deal a shield doll who consumes mana and its durable piece of wooden shield.
Thean takes a quick glimpse of Silfa having trouble against the shield doll. He hears of it talking about pumas, but he didn't understand shamanism and keep guessing. Staff doll is pulling itself on to him where the dancing doll following up after the other swings around. The staff doll swings again as its rituals appear to be a scythe coming at him, his spells block it with force magic where the scythe is closing in to his head. The tip is so close to his head and the extending use of the force to block it makes the staff doll more eager to repeat. The dancing doll acrobatically moves around him and hitting him on the legs to lose balance.
Thean uses the dancing doll attacks to maneuver it into the air where the scythe swings to his direction, he flew away and dodges it but gets caught where the heel of the scythe formed staff casts vines and entangles him. He quickly cuts it off but the vines are persistent to get a hold of him, he casts force blast knocking back the attacking dancing doll. The stick doll finishes enhancing the two and turns to the shield doll, where it casts a bind to pull it back to them. The shield doll is caught and pulled to the stick doll, and it's Silfa's opportunity and initiates. She looks back at Bass, the horror still in the effect on him and tells Altair what to do
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"Cleanse that fear Altair, I'll help Thean"
Silfa is closing in to help Thean, the staff doll intervenes her pursuit to use her spell. Silfa casts down lightning bolts to pierce through the doll. The staff doll got caught by her in range. It breaks through her magic and bind it with its power and direct it to the dancing doll's abilities, seeing its power through the Alga's light in a flash. The alga's light infused on them, where Silfa's attacks are being nullified as each damage is being healed by the light. Thean is overwhelmed by getting caught by vines and attacked by the dancing doll with the chances of hits he must endure. The Alga's light stops their chances to take them now.
Altair is waiting for him to say something, but he quickly says to him while is being tangled up in the air.
"Bass is in fear and Silfa is facing their Alga's light rituals, cast the spell Thean!"
He says it while Thean being stomp on by the dancing doll to use him as trampoline. Thean couldn't help but to do it, in the middle of a beating, he is preparing a forbidden daemos magic. He steadily made a proper chant as Silfa held on with the staff doll as it heals and raging at her. Altair's mouth begins to move and focus on Bass, he says his first spell in the voice of Thean's, where Altair’s mana is the main source to cast it. A special skill that most Agatheans thought by a specific daemos.
"Hungr ygghas"
A magic channeling is heard around them, where everyone is having difficulty understanding it and with their own devices can't identify what is trying to say. Slow and loud, the magic is unleashed by Altair's hand with Thean's voice. Giving away to the dolls that a familiar magic from a daemos, they begin to get serious except for the shield doll. The spell casts on Bass where he is shrouded by the horror. A burst of fumes comes around him and starting to absorb the curse from him and pulled back to Altair. Altair feels his mana growing once the fumes goes to him while casting. Altair sees the three dolls charging at him in a threatening speed without the shield doll as their front.
Isekais can see auras showing their intention, and Thean and the other Horsin people didn't have any idea what they have except mana intended auras. Thean is still tangled by the vines where he can only sense the dolls movement. They are approaching to Altair, and Thean's magic force only works around him. It is a bad time for Thean to cast a spell through Altair himself. Where the vines are covering his head, but letting one of his limbs free. Thean's mouth is covered by the vines but Altair's ability to silent chant while Thean feels a magic is casting through him, he redirects it through his swords. Quickly binds together, he throws at them by the senses of their presence.
"Restraint! Disarm! Stop!"
A multi casts are thrown in mid-air of Thean's sword, where the dolls are not affected by it. Silfa is facing all three in a sudden attempt to protect her team but they changed to Altair where she faces again with the shield doll.
"Thean! You should know that status effects won't work on rituals"
She burst out on him but was Altair the one who did it out of impulse, even Thean won't let that spell setback on him, yet Altair casts more magic. The dolls see another sword and dodge it, they continue on to attack Altair. Thean resummons his weapons then he waits, where Altair closes to danger and it is time to use it before the dolls realized it.
Silfa is about to make her move at the same time with the shield doll. She tries to use force field and the doll use its shield to consume it. Silfa's struggling to help her team but this doll keeps her hesitating. The doll stares at her with great motivation with its shield shows an expression of don't give up. Her mana is consumed by that same shield she casted and showing it to her the wooden shield of a face. They heard another loud slow spell from Altair again, she never knew this spell than the last time.
"Mawlwin Egne"
Altair chants those words where the dolls are rushing him. Bass recovers and quickly helps him as he casts another barrier.
Altair heard Thean's whispers before the spell.
"Use the ring and see what you never use besides your own powers. Fused them well and remember not to fear, once you understand the reality of this world when your people soon realized. Then . . ."
Altair's mouth stops and is already preparing the incoming attacks. Silfa is stuck with the shield doll, Bass recovered with limited time to stop them, and Thean ended his chat with him as his body is covered with vines with no sight of breaking free. The audiences are watching, with Cecilla and the other announcers witnessed the dolls' powers.
The staff doll quickly breaks through with the Alga's light. It transforms itself and change its aura to become an upright beast. its body is transparent and remained its ritual tattoos. Altair breaks out from his silence where his mouth is still on Thean's.
"That is one powerful monster I’ve ever seen"
Thean senses closely when the magic to activate. The staff doll is morph into a monster they can't recognize, and Thean senses it as it has plague within its body. The Alga's light is reversing the dead plagues back to its former glory and ironically the one it destroys. Thean hears the tunes of instrument from Bass.
Bass plays the instrument in such a strong sound to force back the dolls. The bard is raising the volume in such a rhythm trying to confuse the dolls as they are getting close. Altair's spell felt no magic being used, instead it restores his mana. Silfa watches the scene and prepares for the worst when they take out Altair and Bass. Bass' magic was broken by the dancing doll and it is surfing the sound waves and manages to pushes his magic out of their way. Bass is adding more music to his instruments, more instruments are summoned as he keeps playing. The dancing doll starts having trouble where the instruments cause illusive debuffs on them. It didn't weaken the dolls but Bass is distorting the frequency around them to hide what is coming.
Altair watches Bass with all the skills he had with an expressive song he's playing. Mostly heard in electronic music mixing up with pop and classical music, it is kind of surprising to fit so well as the staff and dancing doll tries to disrupt it but the other tunes keep them in multiple sync. The stick doll tries to redirect the sound waves like some conductor and counters the waves of music away. Stick doll is trying to use it as a weapon, but if those sound waves bounce one another of itself, it will cause an echo large enough to their surrounding as it endlessly creating a vibration of irritating sound.
The stick doll redirects around its team where the two sticks together, the dancing doll stomping the ground like a drum and tapping away like a dancer with every steps. The staff doll in a monster form breathes in with anonymous power where the waves are collecting and distributing by the stick doll. Bass didn't think it will do something like that, he has nothing to fight against with his abilities. Bass' music still keeps going while they are absorbing it. The high volume keeps them away in a safe distance but it was gathered into the power of the dolls against them, it makes Altair ready to use it.
Thean waited and sense the situation. Altair finished his chanting secretly part of the spell and says to Bass.
"Sir En, keep it going to the last strength of your music"
Bass keeps his music in sync as long as he could. He didn't even question what he is thinking and hoping Altair would do anything in this situation, he knew from the beginning but what. The voice switch put him in mind as well of what magic they can do from the Horsin themselves, yet he couldn't believe there are more than that. The dolls reach to its unbelievable range where their powers suddenly rose up as the staff doll attacks with its roar. The dancing doll corrupts the waves quickly guides it to the monster.
Bass stops so suddenly and moves himself back with his instruments behind him vanish when his magic cursed. Altair and Silfa couldn't believe the sudden blink of mana to disappear like that. The stick doll uses the sphere of Alga's light to empower the staff doll's monstrous attack where the waves around it turns into a deadly breath. Waves are turning into the air and the roar into a fiery light of a shout. The speed of the attack in a pace of sounds, they sense its tremendous destruction towards them. Altair stands still where the magic he possessed and the ring he has with the Alga's light. Quickly reacted and cast as the Thean's voice opens.
Thean's sense his reaction, and he shouldn't give him the signal right away but his mouth moves before the roar even starts.
"Thean, that thing is starting to attack. Cast the magic now!"
"Damnit Thean, BASS IS . . . AAAAH!"
Altair's quick reaction causes the ring to be use and the magic to release. He never felt this kind of fear approaching him. Comparing to be prepared and the sudden terror made him realize his faults. Thean knew their weakness, without fear to the unknown, it could be difficult to real threats like that. Once Altair casts the ring magic, Thean finally speaks
"Agruga Nazarah"
The true weakness in daemos magic is fearing it as they use it.
Mawlwin Egne . . . Agruga Nazarah, both spells together where Altair didn't release the first spell. Not knowing the use of daemos magic made him instill with confusion. Thean knows as well that he will never use this kind of spell. The limits of his resolve won't handle that mix with overconfidence, unless for an Isekai to use it. Altair would be able to use the most fictional magic he thought of or it will never appear out of doubt. The daemos who made this magic is gives a powerful wonder. Such moment like this, Thean will soon hear it with his co-workers especially Quail.
Same as the last one, slow and loud, is in the middle of the ritualistic roar. Altair is distracted by the dolls instead of what he felt from the spell he casts. A sudden stop of motion where the roar closing in to their direction, where it is slowly starts to touch on their skin. A slight of pain but quickly dissipates when the word is chanted.
"A . . . GRU . . . Ga"
the rituals started to light up as it fused in instead of breaking it. None of the Isekais would ever witness a daemos magic as the Horsin saw it in a rare event. As the chant is complete, it fits the pace into reality and counters it back at the dolls.
Altair was shock at the moment from the monster’s roar. He casts the magic with the ring forming together, improving its potential. The magic he casts starts to burn the corrupted sound wave of Bass and the roaring sounds turns into a demonic laughter. Replicating the same attack what the monster did but in tremendous power. The mix and deluded sound are into one simple laughter. He can't figure out who's voice was that, and Bass is creeped out from what he sees.
"Altair!? Are you using demonic magic?"
Altair couldn't respond where he asks the same thing to Thean.
Thean says to him where Altair could answer Bass' question
"If the rituals reach you, it will be the same thing you saw or hear. But yeah, it's demonic magic and it mimics any magic but the main element I use is fire"
The rituals are in flames and burned with no hope to ignore the effects of the spell as it is overpowering. The Alga's light is fused with the demonic magic and it becomes the eternal flames. The only way to break the eternal flames is by ending the Alga's light embrace. The stick doll didn't have the chance to withstand the fire and becomes useless where it is being eaten.
The rest of the two burns more ferociously where the flames feast off the rituals put together. Sork smirks a bit and stares at his fellow gobins. A thump up is there and the chance for him to win big on the bets.
"I still going to prison, but that trick by the Agathean gives them the confidence they need to survive this world. But they should know that it wasn't pure power, it was the weakness on Alga's light"
The three dolls fell one after the other where the light infused within the rituals are dying out. One of the shaman's source of rituals will never recover after this. Sork knows a way to fight this but it's just a match anyway.
Silfa is horrified of the magic was cast down on them. She looks at the shield doll and it just clapping besides her. It didn't have to say anything but it looks in awe at the damage Altair casts. Silfa shouts at Altair
"What in hell was that?"
Altair pointed at Thean where he too got burn into the flames. Silfa turns to Thean and shock to see him in a blaze of fire. Thean breaks free from the vines and crashing down to the ground. He lands like a cat where he flexibly placed on his feet. He wipes off the flames like some kind of dirt on him. Thean sheathed his swords and walks to Altair.
Silfa joins as well letting the shield doll continue to praise the flames. Altair removes the switch where Thean gives him the signal. The three fell down showing their defeat as it turning to ashes. Thean says to her in a most scum way possible.
"Kes'thar's weaknesses are easy to come by but . . ."
The shield doll is still with them, ready to fight where it still stands and still staring at Silfa.
". . . but one of them survives which means"
Silfa looks at the shield doll still applauding the destruction of its team. She has mix feeling, but never underestimate what a hordechief can do.
The audience where horrified and surprised that it manages to destroy the three dolls. The stick doll didn't show more what it can do but countered by demonic magic infused with Alga's Light. Altair and Bass couldn't believe of what they saw. There is still one left, and they stand there as Thean and Silfa are rallying together.
"Thean, why are you pulling me all of sudden? I didn't do anything on this match"
"And you save a lot of trouble having a leech joining the fight, and that's how I respect you more"
Silfa pulls out her real weapon where they are facing the last opponent.
"Seriously? I can't even lift a finger when that doll can use my mana!"
Thean nods at her and gives his final words to her.
"Yes, and please be serious on this one. I managed to trick them by your cooperation but now . . ."
The shield doll stops applauding the destruction where the remains of the dolls are there. Lifeless, by the sudden counter attack, it sees the other four with their powers in their full potential except for the Agathean. The team turns to it with the only one standing with a board of wood. The shield doll raises it shield like it prepares for the last stand, even still it acted rudely to its defeated team.
The audience are cheering after a powerful attack in each team. The Horsin didn't expect for a daemos magic, but never seen a fused magic with an Alga's light. They never heard such combination existed because daemos magic are pure neutral mana and won't combine other types of mana such as the Alga's light . . . Except one, the forgotten mana of Archscience. The audience on the pedestrian overpass are in questioning among the other Horsin regarding of what Altair casts on the dolls. Believing it was his magic, but it was a replica of the shamanistic rituals.
Silfa takes the first initiative while Thean follows up what she fears off, Bass buffs everyone with his songs and increasing their maneuverability, and Altair reviews for the next plan with his ring. The greatest opportunity they ever have with only one standing, and it pulls out again with its face shield. Silfa attacks to the other side where Thean is behind and charges in. Thean faces the shield as it started feasting on his mana. It starts absorbing, but he pulled his mana at will. Breaking away from its consumption. Thean manipulates his mana again, the same trick he did with the knives chains.
The shield doll pushes to him where it is persistent to feast his mana. Silfa moves around it and strikes at the back. The shield doll turns around to block her, yet it got pulled by Thean's mana. Although the face shield lets go but the mana it consumed are retract and pulled by him. Silfa finally hits it at the back with exerted force with her magic and buffs by Bass. Her first strike tripled in attempts by the buff and she is missing Altair's buffs. She ignores what she really needed and continue the pressure. The doll endures everything with or without its shield.
Thean holds tight with his mana where the shield persists to pull its shield back. He keeps his distance and holds on where Silfa has her chances to attack. The shield doll didn't flinch and bears all the damage she could make. Thean is expecting this doll to be in a different role of a shaman, he thinks the other three dolls. One who uses ritual items like the the staff doll, one who summons things like the light within the match is the stick doll, which is kind of lucky that they never face its powerful summons, and that dancing doll is sure to be like the staff doll. He remembers that there is a special horde chief neither in those both roles and only opens when they become chiefs.
Silfa stops and observes the damage she puts into that doll. Nothing had change like that the shield is healing it. Silfa uses her skills to see what goes through while Thean is holding it. She sees that Thean's mana is still being consumed slowly and healing the doll
"Thean, that thing is still holding up. Break off your magic and . . ."
Silfa's eyes are seeing some weird light, familiar light from the doll where Gordon is fighting the elemental. She knew as she watched the match earlier, never would have thought to return.
"Wait, it's starting to!"
Thean talks to her in a loud tone
"SILFA! Tell the others to go on, and tell Altair seriously"
The shield doll opens up a familiar ritual where Thean mistakenly got caught by letting his mana connect to it for too long. Silfa didn't feel the familiar ritual but she sees it before during Gordon's images sucking into one place. Thean's voice is weighing down as he said being quieter than he actually says to her.
"Silfa! Run!"
The loud voice of her name then a sudden soft tone to tell her made her realized something is strange. A powerful circle appeared, the same ritual that Gordon experienced. Thean unleash his mana to force out Silfa from the circle. She quickly dashes back and place a forcefield. She sees her shield consumed fast as useless than it appears. She run back where Altair finishes reviewing and casts
"IDENTIFY!"
It was too late, but Altair seems have done what he was ask from Thean's plan. The magic extends the stat board about Thean and he sees the rest of his abilities, tricks, and especially the tactics he used. Silfa makes it to them where Bass opens his barriers again as the blast cause a commotion on the ring.
"Silfa, what happened to Thean?"
Thean is suck into the circle. The overwhelming ritual where it consumed Silfa's mana, Thean never would have thought that a Horsin can use their powers equally. His time is up and pulled into the portal and loses consciousness. The supports tried to rescue him, all protective and rescues, but was pulled into the ritual portal.
Altair opens up Thean's stat and shows it to the others while surprised that a new stats appeared.
"What the?"
"Altair, is this Thean's skills"
"How did you get it?"
The two only asks him of how he got it. The identify magic he used is an improvement, not only it shows the precise capabilities but also the techniques and mindset of the person. Thean taught him where he can master it for this special match, yet Altair thinks there's more to it. He succeeded and sees Thean's most of his battle habits. Then he says to them
"I will tell you guys later. Silfa, what did Thean says to you?"
Silfa repeated told them what he said to her.
"He said: Tell the others to go on, and tell Altair seriously"
Altair gets it and he opens up his inventory for the first time picks out an item. The ritual exploded where the barriers are enduring the corrupted mana of Thean. They take a look what happen after the ritual circle. The shield doll disappears and the other dolls are gone as well, but there's no declaration yet. The stat shows that the doll is still alive, and Thean is standing as they see only his back. Aura of rituals and the air colored by smoke matching the same aura as the doll used before. Thean turns around to face his team with a mask covered his face as he is ready to fight . . . them.