It didn't last long until dozens of ground elementalists gathered to raise the dirt walls around the city. Radu, seeing that his plan worked, simply leaves, allowing them to do the job for him. Suddenly, Radu has a thought.

“Hmm, what if I return to the Sun Temple and I enchant a weapon for myself? Oo, what I'd do to be as cool as stefan3B, with that shiny, sparkling yellow aura... That's it then, I'll steal a sword from the grand wizards, then proceed to the sun temple!” said Radu himself, enthusiastic.

He quickly digs his way to the top of the hill, but then he gains a sudden realization.

“Wait… How will I be able to… Steal a sword? I can't enter there, they might give me another boring task and kick me out…” said Radu in his mind.

Suddenly, an entity unknown to Radu appears behind him.

“I can help you with that.”

Radu gasps out loudly and quickly moves away, it was Cat.

“And you are?...”

“Your friend's best friend, in short. Anyways, I can distract them, meanwhile, you can silently infiltrate and steal a sword.”

Radu is confused by the cat's words.

“W-what… What do you…”

“I can read your mind, I know what you're up to.”

“A-alright I guess… But… I'm brown, they'll see me…”

“You really know nothing about the ground element, do you?”

“Huh? What do you mean?”

“You can camouflage yourself by copying the color pattern of the altar. Once your coat gets used to them, they'll automatically change to the environment you're in.”

Radu is flabbergasted by the sudden realization.

“Is it for real?” asked Radu, curious.

“Yes, it is for real. Now go and convert your elementalist coat, I'll go talk with them.” said Cat before floating down to the altar.

Radu doesn’t wait for any other command and so rapidly goes to the altar and puts his palm on the wall. He tries to focus on the color pattern for a few seconds, then his elementalist coat slowly converts its colors. Radu is absolutely amazed by his new discovery.

Cat arrives, once again, at the door of the wizard's altar, then knocks on the door. Radu instantly hears him do that and rushes, all camouflaged. The first wizard opens the door.

“What is it?” asked the first wizard.

Radu takes the opportunity and swiftly slides right past the wizard without being noticed. He looks around the building in search of a sword. He sees a pile of random weapons and decides to approach it in order to scavenge through it. Suddenly, the entire altar starts to shift and shake, with a third of it modifying itself into a larger zone. Radu is left absolutely discombobulated on the floor as he looks at the new chamber. After a few seconds, the shaking ended, and the root of a tree quickly branched forward towards him at unrecognizable speeds, instantly wrapping itself around his forearms.

“What the-?!” said Radu in pure confusion.

“Hey, stop it, it's just the ground elementalist.” said the second wizard.

The tree roots went away slowly, and the altar returned to its initial form. The third wizard comes out of the chamber as the altar shapes back. Cat notices Radu fucked up while he tried to keep the first wizard with a useless chat.

“Oh fuck…” said the cat.

“What the absolute hell are you doing?! Why are you here- How did you even get inside?!” shouted the first wizard.

Radu quickly spots a sword in the pile of weapons, plucks it out, and then rushes outside.

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“What the hell is his problem?...” said the third wizard.

“Meh, I don't care.” said the cat before teleporting itself away.

The wizard remains silent for a few seconds, but the first wizard breaks the silence.

“Did that thing just-”

“Yes, it did.” said the other two wizards in unison.

As soon as Radu was out, his camouflage vanished, and he burrowed himself in the dirt.

“Time to visit the temple!” said Radu in his mind happily.

In just a few minutes, Radu arrives at the Sun Temple. He happily hums a song to himself as he goes inside the temple and then puts the sword in the temple's yellow burning light, smoothly enchanting it as well. He slowly pulls it out, then wields it with both of his hands, giving it a stare full of interest. He waits and waits… But nothing happened as he wielded the sword. He then squirms and lashes out, stomping the floor in anger.

“Ugh! Why can't I have super magic fancy powers too?!” said Radu with anger.

After a few seconds, he calms down.

“Ugh, I think I'll just give this one to that guy Stefan, I can't even wield a sword after all.” said Radu before getting out of the temple.

Radu looks up in the sky, his expression shaping into one of disgust as he sees the cube.

“Ugh, I despise that thing…”, said Radu before burrowing himself back into the ground.

As he is digging, he realizes that the soil is way more cracked than usual, so he decides to go check it out. He finds the crater which stefan3B caused in order to enter the cube. He follows the path carved by stefan3B, eventually finding himself inside the cube.

“What… Is this…?” said Radu to himself.

After a few moments of looking around, he decides to enter the hallway.

“Hello~? Is anybody here?” said Radu.

He looks around a bit more before finally focusing on the end of the hallway, in the other room. He saw stefan3B standing straight with the sun blade in his hand, but he was just... Idle.

“Hey! Hey!” said Radu as he started running towards him.

Suddenly, stefan3B tries to parry an attack, but the blade breaks in two, and he gets impaled by a shadow spike. Radu is left in awe by the setting, which he thought he'd never see. He starts sprinting.

“STEFAN3B!!”

Radu throws the sword as a last resort in order to save him, and like a magnet, it goes right into his hand. Yellow Blitz activates once more, then, in a split second, all the spikes shatter and scatter across the panopticon, quickly fading into total oblivion. Radu breaks a sweat, terrified of stefan3B. He smiles faintly and frowns, then gives him a thumbs-up before running away.

“Heh, heh, heh… If I'm going to stay there, he won't be the only one to be impaled…” said Radu to himself as he ran away.

. . .

Ares was using bursts of flames to remain midair, looking at the new encounter. The foreign elementalist was rising from the bottom of the cube with his back arched forward. He swung back, obtaining a straight posture, then slowly pulled himself out of the cube.

“You have made the greatest mistake noted in history. I will turn over the earth a thousand and a million times before your worthless putrid waste of life, which you call a ‘hybrid’ body, is put to the eternal sleep you love calling ‘death’.” said the darkness elementalist.

The man looked like someone in their early 20’s, the elementalist coat had a deep accent of black and his sight was sharper than a razor, screaming out an insane lust for vengeance and bloodlust. He was standing upside down on the cube. Ares quickly gasps, then propels himself down, having a rough time landing. The elementalist crouches, then boosts himself into the ground, straight up him. Ares quickly takes notice and barely manages to dodge the insane rush. The elementalist raises his guard and punches straight with his left and right hands, blows that Ares manages to dodge. He sends another left punch, which Ares is forced to block, then he throws a right hook, which Ares manages to parry, but the elementalist gets mad and pushes himself into Ares, both pushing into each other's hands, making Ares slide back. Ares revs up his elementalist coat as much as he can, but all of his efforts were in vain. He starts to groan, then headbutts his head, with no success whatsoever, as he gains damage himself meanwhile the elementalist isn't even phased in the least. He throws a quick but powerful punch right at Ares’ face, who braces himself and takes the punch, knocking him back a great distance. With his forearms weakened, Ares runs away back to the wizard's altar. The elementalist watches as Ares runs away and does nothing. He looks around, then sees the cube above the ground and Darius jumping out of it. He is seemingly pissed off by this as he frowns and grunts.

stefan3B gets out of the underground chasm together with the sun blade meanwhile in Yellow Blitz mark 2. Ares was zooming past him, saying it in a rushed tone.

“Run!”

“W-what?!”

stefan3B looks the other way, and he sees the darkness elementalist kilometers away, staring right into his eyes. His legs instantly freeze, making it way past impossible to run away. He moves them just so slightly for him to strike his pose and prepare for anything. Darius sees stefan3B and the darkness elementalist but he decides not to interfere, so he rushes as well back to the wizard's altar. All three of them arrive at the same time and knock so hard on the doors that they almost break them down, and they all start speaking at the same time.

“Let me in!” said Ares.

“Let us in, please!” said Radu.

“I hate this world!” said Darius.

The third wizard quickly opened the door.

“What the hell is up with all of you?!”

All three of them start speaking rapidly in gibberish, scared to the bone.

“Whoa whoa whoa, calm down, calm down, come in, what's going on?” said the third wizard before allowing them to step in.

Darius goes to a corner of the altar, with his hands extended and held against the wall, looking down and repeating to himself, “I hate this world”. Ares is zoning out, most likely thinking about everything that has happened until now. Radu breaks the ice and starts explaining to the wizards what is going on.

“Alright, so we don't really have much time since stefan3B might be fighting someone, but we succeeded in destroying the cubes, thankfully, but now we don't know what to do.” said Radu, trying to keep a calm demeanor.

The wizards look at each other for a few seconds before replying.

“Us three cannot do much about it, we don't know what advice to give you.” said the first wizard.

Those news sent a sharp chill down Radu’s spine, instantly losing most of his respect for the “grand wizards”. Radu grows angry at the incompetence of the wizards, he clenches his teeth and frowns, then grabs Darius's arm while groaning and walks towards the exit.

“We're gonna end this, once and for all.” said Radu with pure anger in his tone.

Right before he was about to exit the altar, Cat appeared in front of him, wearing a full-body humanoid cyborg suit. Radu is taken aback, and Darius just doesn't know what to think anymore. Ares sees the cat and grows pissed off as well.

“We don't need your help.” said Ares, looking straight into its eyes.

“Aww, why the demeanor? Don't you have nostalgia for an old friend?” said the cat in a teasing tone.

Ares summons a spear and throws it at him, then dashes past him. The spear is absorbed into the suit and converted into energy.

“I know you'd have heat absorption systems.” said Ares in a low tone before skipping once more past him and blasting himself into the sky.

The cat looks at Ares with a bored expression as he flies up and far, then turns around to Darius and Radu.

“Are y'all ready for the brawl?” asked the cat.

“Yes, sir!” said both of them at the same time.