Seeing so many small spikes surrounding him while the cage held him in ce, there was no way he could leave this ce.


    At the same time, the cage itself was created with bars, so without shing it twice with both swords in all different directions, he couldn''t create an opening before the spike hit him.


    Kai gritted his teeth, feeling that he might require a sacrifice for this.


    He analyzed all the needles for a second as they flew toward him.


    "Take this." Sofia grinned. "This is my payback."


    Kai calcted the impact and immediately used his chance to deactivate his Vibration Sword and spun the cage as the bar struck down every single needle.


    "Haha, you might need a bigger cage to trap me. And don''t forget to connect it to the ground so I can''t spin it." Kaiughed before shouting. "Tasha, I know what you are trying to do!"


    Tasha smiled and released her arrow without thinking much about what he said.


    The arrow was unlike Sofia''s needles that only randomly flew at him. Tasha had calcted everything, including the spin.


    The arrow flew past the cage, and Kai noticed it in disbelief. He shifted his body to the side and gritted his teeth. "Kh!"


    It was toote.


    The arrow pierced him in the right forearm.


    "Oh, Kai! You shouldn''t underestimate your Sister so much! That kind of spin is not enough to stop my eyes and arrow. Isabelle should be able to do something like this." Tashaughed.


    "Our archer is damn too good." Kai didn''t think about it that much as he just realized how skilled the one supporting them from behind was.


    "Haha. Do I get anything since I am the first one who hit you?" Sheughed out loud.


    "I will think about it! Probably!" Kaiughed too while enduring the pain before throwing the cage away toward Sofia''s direction.


    "Ice Wall." She immediately created a wall to stop the cage.


    Kai took this chance to go toward Sofia since her vision was covered.


    "Sofia!" Michelle and Ayaka shouted.


    "I can see him!" Sofia replied as she looked at the hiding giant energy ball that represented Kai. She created another magic circle, nning to hit him with this magic.


    However, Kai had predicted this as he summoned his Sound st. Sofia''s eyes could only see someone''s danger level, so he couldn''t really see if that person currently used magic or not. When the Sound stunched him to the side, she waspletely taken aback.


    "!!!" Evan widened his eyes as he screamed. "No! Why the heck are you targeting me again?"


    "Come here, Evan." Kaiughed as he shocked Sofia, Ayaka, and Michelle at the same time. Rather than cutting Sofia, who seemed to be the perfect target to eliminate, he aimed at Evan first.


    "NO!" He aimed at him and released a couple of bullets, only to not a single bullet to hit.


    It was at this time, Tasha suddenly appeared beside Evan, nning to rescue him with her teleportation magic.


    When he saw this, there wasn''t a shocked face. He simply smiled as though he had predicted everything.


    "Wait! He is—" Evan suddenly recognized his n this whole time and looked at Tasha.


    "Toote." Kai created another magic circle he had prepared earlier. It was his Sound st. The magicunched him like a bullet, traveling at his maximum speed.


    "Targeting you!" Evan finished his sentence, but it was already toote. Despite the magic circle that slowly formed underneath them, Kai almost reached their position.


    ''I can''t make it!'' Tasha had no words to say. It turned out that his real target was her all along. Because she was the only one who could see his movement at that time, she reacted this way to protect Evan, only to find herself getting targeted instead. She created an arrow in her hand while swinging both arrow and bow, trying to strike him down.


    Unfortunately, no matter how experienced she was, her ce was never in this ce. She nned to challenge Kai in closebat? That might probably be thest thing she wanted to do. And yeah, it wasn''t like she had an option.


    Kai struck her bow and arrow simultaneously as the swords continued on their paths, shing Tasha.


    "Nice fight." She smirked while closing her eyes. Her body soon disappeared from the battlefield as her consciousness went back to her real body.


    Meanwhile, Kai swung his sword toward Evan, but Ayaka and Michelle already appeared next to him, protecting him from the sword.


    Michelle''s Shadow sh was behind Ayaka''s enhanced spear, so she was there to give support for Ayaka.


    When he saw this, Evan released another sword, forcing Kai to leap backward.


    They had a distance from each other again. Kai fell silent as he didn''t like how things were going.


    He realized that fighting against all of them was very taxing for his magic power and his mental strength. Not only that he needed to avoid all their attacks, but he also needed to find a perfect time to kill them.


    Luckily, he managed to eliminate Tasha first, so there wouldn''t be any more teleportation. In other words, they had no chance to run away from him.


    "Ice Field." The ground began freezing and created a quite huge freezing arena that seemed to be advantageous for them since they had trained for this.


    Kai used his Sound st first to fly to the sky, not wanting to be frozen at that spot.


    "No, you won''t escape." Ayaka used her Fire Wing to catch up with him, trying to best his speed so she could hit him back to the ground.


    Unfortunately, Kai''s Sound st gave a more powerful boost that let him escape.


    "Ice Mountain!" Sofia had been waiting for this moment and immediately activated her magic, creating a slide that went toward the sky like a tower.


    Michelle nodded as her sword already hit the tower and sent a Shadow sh toward Kai.


    The ice then started expanding to the sky, trying to catch up with him.


    "It''s faster than Ayaka''s speed?" Kai muttered in a low voice before he used another Sound st to avoid this attack.


    Ayaka didn''t let him and summoned a few fireballs that turned into birds.


    The birds flew toward him in all directions before he used his Sound st a few more times to avoid them.


    Suddenly, he realized that every single time he avoided this, the firebirds turned around. In other words, Ayaka must be directing them manually. With that in mind, he nned to visit her first, especially since she only had one arm.


    Ayaka looked at him and smiled. "I know you areing."


    A Fire Net suddenly appeared between them.


    Michelle and Sofia, on the ground, nodded at each other. An Ice Wall emerged from the ground and hit right their feet,unching them into the sky.


    "Shadow Maniption." Michelle activated her magic again after getting close enough.


    Kai''s shadow became alive once again, trying to stop his movement in the air. At the same time, Sofia wanted to stop his movement by using the same Ice Cage like the one from a while ago. This time, she didn''t forget to add the bottom to make sure Kai couldn''t escape.


    Ayaka then thrust her spear forward.


    Kai dodged to the side before finding something wrong with her spear.


    "Magic Bomb." Ayaka smiled as the tip of her spear exploded.


    The cage fell down while being covered in smoke.


    They stared at this silently before Sofia shouted. "Not good. He is still alive."


    Kai cut the cage and retreated a few meters back while smiling. He panted a little bit as the symbol of them pushing him this hard.


    "What is funny?" Michelle furrowed her eyebrows, feeling something was wrong with his smile.


    "Nothing. I just know how the protector felt when they fought us. Although this can be considered praise, don''t becent. I have no tough skin like the protectors that make me keep moving to avoid your attacks. On the other hand, the protector is like a fortress, so there is no need to avoid any weak attacks. But I can see our progress. I still remember how weak we were in the past, and I can proudly say that we have been through a lot." Kai smiled.


    "Indeed. That''s why you shouldn''t feel too proud right now. We areing for your neck." She smirked.


    "Such an ominous phrase, especiallying from my own girlfriend." Kai looked sad and wronged.


    "Quit your acting. You have defeated Tasha first, so you are thest one who can lecture me about that." She shrugged before raising her hand. "n C."


    "So, you have several ns?" Kai smiled as he saw the other three started moving ording to their n.


    "Since you have been quite a rascal, I will tell you. You are going down with this. The wound that Tasha gave reduced the performance of your right arm, so just surrender while you can."


    "If you have n C, I have n E." Kaiughed.


    "You are still joking around, kill him now!" Michelle decided to stop listening to his bullsh*t and ended this fight because Kai must be buying time this whole time.


    "No, no. I seriously have n E." Kai shrugged as he saw the three moved at the same time. Evan went toward Michelle''s behind as he nned to attack him from there. Sofia and Ayaka upied his two sides while Michelle walked toward him.


    "Why don''t you exin to me your n E?" She smiled.


    "With pleasure. In fact, it''s pretty simple." A magic circle suddenly appeared right in front of his feet.


    "Wha—" Michelle suddenly realized what he was aiming for and shouted. "Stop him!"


    "Toote." Kai stepped on his magic circle and flew to the sky while looking at them. "My n E is simple. Escape! Bye, have a good day!"


    "…"