152 Commotion on the cliff. (1/2)

Raven and Blaze both shook when they heard his words. They looked down on the ground in shame. It was unexpected to them, so they did not know what to do.

”...” Ozul stared at the duo for a while, completely ignoring the sound of battles behind them. Spells flew, and people died, but the trio was unconcerned by all of this.

After a few seconds of staring at the duo who did not know what to say, Ozul sigh and muttered, ”Maybe you both need a little time without me.”

He had just uttered those words when Raven and Blaze both looked up at him as if they were children and Ozul as the father was abandoning them on the streets.

”But-”

”No buts. That is final,” Ozul did not let them speak and ended the conversation. He had already wanted to travel alone for some time, and now he was convinced that he should leave them for some period since that would be better for them.

Raven and Blaze almost looked like some lost children who did not know what they would eat later at night since there was no money. However, Ozul completely ignored their pleadings and focused back on the situation.

The battle continued to rage on as Rufus and the old man in white robes had moved far away from here. Their confrontations were getting stronger than before. Each strike produced a shockwave greater than the previous one. That is why Rufus was forced to shift their battle away from the other Mages.

'It can't go on like this!' Rufus thought when he noticed that the cliff that everyone stood on started to have small little cracks under it. If the cracks deepened, it could make the entire cliff fall off the slope!

The only people who would be safe would be him, and the man in white since both of them were literally floating in the air. They did not need a ground to stand on at this point.

If the whole cliff fell, there wouldn't be many who would be able to survive the fall at all.

'Oh, right! Where is he?!' Rufus thought, trying to find where Ozul was in all of that chaos. He was the only person who could overturn the stalemate in this situation.

However, he had yet to locate Ozul before a long thin thread of water shot from behind him. More of such strings shot from the front as well. In a battle with someone who wasn't any weaker than him, Rufus could not afford to divert his attention for too long.

Meanwhile, Ozul was thinking of giving a hand to Rufus since if something did happen to Clara, things might change. For all he knew, Emperor Luthien could even hold his plan for him and focus on other matters at hand!

If that happened, he would have to find trouble with the Emperor by himself. If he had to do it anyway in the future, then why not give a helping hand right now keep the way things are?

When Ozul was contemplating on what to do, Rufus was still struggling to find a way to stop all of this as early as possible.

”Don't worry about my bones. They won't decay until my hands crush yours!” The old man replied while trying to slow down the giant boulder using a water bubble.

The boulder turned into sharp-pointed rocks right after getting into contact with the water and continued shooting towards the old man. The old man disintegrated those rocks by the thin thread of water. Those strings attached with his fingers were really dangerous because of the speed the water moved with.

”Maybe there is no other way...” the old man muttered. Rufus suddenly got a bad feeling as he heard those words.

It was proved true in the next second when the old man in white robes suddenly turned around and fired hundreds of water bullets towards the cliff where the Rank-7 Mages were fighting!

Rufus had his eyes wide open as he wanted to stop that spell from hitting, but the long string of water attacked him just as he was about to help.

”You old bastard!” Rufus cursed. If that spell really hit the cliff, everyone would fall hundreds of meters down the hill! And he was sure that anyone who was not at least Rank-7 would be either dead or have life threatening injuries!

He hurriedly created a small rock shield to protect himself from the laser-like water string and then immediately cast a spell to summon a giant pillar around the cliff to protect against the water bullets.

Everything happened in the blink of an eye, and even with all of Rufus's efforts, the giant pillar was a little too late. Most of the water bullets were blocked by it, but a few shots went and hit the cracks of the cliff.