169 The worst opponent II (2/2)

”Then I'm going all out!”

The ladies opened a path for Marcus to move past them. He rushed straight towards the two mages that were walking in the back of their team with his blade to strike them down.

As Lilith kept observing the group emerging from the shadows, her face began to lose color.

”Oh, no... MARCUS, STOP!!!!” She shouted with all her strength.

By the time she released her cry, Marcus was already inches away from the group, but the moment he tried to swing down his arm, the blade got parried by another sword.

”What!!??” Marcus gasped. His metal should be able to slash anything, and yet it still got parried somehow.

”MARCUS!! GET BACK HERE RIGHT NOW!! I MADE A MISTAKE!!!” Lilith screamed again.

”Mistake...? What kind of... Oh...” Marcus stared at the warrior with a shield. He was the one that managed to parry his attack. Lilith assumed that the man had a sword, but what actually happened was that the man's arm was the sword.

Marcus saw the man's face and could barely speak while acting like he had seen a ghost. It was a strong-looking man with black hair tied up by a short ponytail, exactly like Marcus, and exactly like a certain person he knew.

”D- Dad...!!??”

While Marceus kept staring blankly at Marcus, one of the mages that were in the back raised a crossbow from under its cloak and aimed it at the lad.

And before anyone could react, Marcus was completely blasted by an immense release of raw magic energy that sent him flying all the way back to the summoning ring.

”You gotta be kidding me...” Detra murmured.

”Is that...” Ellie could barely believe in her eyes, ”Aunt Evie!!!”

As the fifteen-year-old Evlin heard her name, she locked target onto Ellie and aimed her crossbow at her group next.

”Oh, no... MOVE!!!” Lilith shouted as the memory of Evlin tried to blast them as well.

Lilith grabbed a tight hold of Ellie and her and Detra jumped out of the way in the last second. Part of the forest had been completely decimated.

Detra, Lilith, and Ellie tried to get themselves together and figure out what to do.

”This is ridiculous!!! The moment we take two steps into the memory ring, we already come face to face with some of the worst possible opponents!!” Detra shouted.

Evlin's memory released another shot that forced Lilith and the others to dodge one more time. The moment she finished escaping the attack, she noticed two of the warriors coming at her with their blades ready to impale her.

Lilith raised her own blade to block their attack. She was wondering why their weapons stayed intact, but then she took a closer look and realized something.

”Blessed swords... These guys are using Marceus to make weapons for them!!”

The other mage that was by Evlin's side aimed his staff at Lilith and released a blast of wind magic to push her away.

The woman took the attack head-on and got knocked against a tree, severely injuring her back and causing great pain on her body.

”Lilith!!” Ellie shouted.

The girl then raised a wall of diamonds to keep the warriors away from her. They tried to slice the wall with their blades but Ellie kept making more pillars to push them back.

She kept doing so until the two reunited with their group, but suddenly, another one of the warriors jumped in and raised her hand.

She was the shortest one in that group. Her head reached all the way to the waist of Marceus.

As she touched the wall of diamonds, a small mouth started to show up in her hand and began to absorb the mirror magic Ellie was using, making her diamonds vanish completely.

”No...” Ellie gasped.

The wind mage blasted Ellie while she was distracted, and the little girl's hood was blown off, revealing a child with black hair tied up by two ponytails.

”Mia...” Ellie whispered.

Lilith raised her head and she became even paler than before. The third warrior that Detra was talking about before was the same one who caused them all to come to this forest in the first place.

Right in front of her, was a group of memory warriors whose members included the strongest blessed energy user, the strongest magic energy user, and the strongest cursed energy user.

Detra just stared at the situation with hopeless eyes.

”Sure, why not...”