The Deziun Alle’s stunning back, shaken off by Maximo’s heavy attacks, the monster blindly swings its sword to Maximo. It was all irrelevant to his speed. His physical appeared to be doubled when in fact his fast movements leave a trail of afterimages, one to ten afterimages began to encircle the enemy.

“Here he goes,” Dorian said.

Maximo’s movement following the afterimages began to slow down to walking. The movements of his hands became erratic and seemingly his sword swayed, dancing as he walks around the monster.

“Para-shift magic: Ten strike tonic fold!”

All of his after images began to pursue Deziun Alle. The monster couldn’t allow whatever these things are to gain an advantage. When he swung his sword against what it seems to be illusions the blade slipped through the bodies, they have no mass.

The monster unwillingly froze for some unknown reason. Dorian's eyes squinted seeing a talisman sticking on its back.

“Oho. I rarely see that he’s using his brain.”

Linda and Alastor noticed it too.

“He’s not only fast. He already made his move too.” Alastor complimented.

The images came passed through the monster’s body in a flash.

Thereafter the attack from the illusion, the monster didn’t feel anything at all for the first 5 seconds, but when it reaches 9, the armor started to degrade, exposing its flesh. Its body slowly twisted, the silent wind suddenly turns into a thunderous clap of leaves that dance around Deziun Alle before the wind thickens and became a disastrous tornado.

The body of Deziun Alle couldn’t move freely. The splinters of the trees found their way to the monster’s flesh before it could fully regenerate and retain its original state. In the face of despair, the monster gripped and use all of its strength transferring lightning energy to the sword while being grilled by the trees inside the eye of the tornado.

The sword brim in lightning and in one slash the tornado split into two and begone with another one incoming. It crashed and daze Maximo.

“The bastard is tougher than I expect. Not only it has an abnormal endurance and strength, but it also has a high regenerative ability as well.”

Dorian stood, “Maximo! Are you done playing with toy with that monster? Do you want to switch now?”

Maximo hisses, “Not yet!”

The showdown continues. Strength swells within the two and with their loud howl, they strife against one another, their power contesting, sword gnashing, and sparkling. The wind gushes the trees nearby to flatten them.

The monster stepped back and heaves again. Maximo repelled it with ease and with a heavy attack he broke through the defense of the Deziun Alle. The monster’s sword was outweighed and flung behind, stuck on the ground.

Maximo’s brute strength tore the armor of the monster. The Deziun Alle stumbled back and retreated, but along the escape of Maximo’s continued attack, the Deziun Alle felt the effect of the talisman that was placed on its back.

The monster was shocked and stunned. It forcefully moves its shunned hand to hold the talisman. The greater it attempts to get closer, the more the talisman resist and electrocute shocked the monster from risking any further.

Maximo takes it as a chance to engage it while it’s under the influence of the talisman. His sword brimmed in light and using his reality shift magic, his incredible speed accommodates and enhanced the strength of his blade that shackles the large portion of the monster’s armor. This time the result of the seemingly endless pursuit of giving the monster a huge amount of damage has shown.

Unlike before, the armor this time slowly regenerated and giving the monster a hard time to replenish its strength before it can retort to his attacks. Also, the speed dropped to where lower mercenaries can evade it easily.

He aimed again his sword to the flesh of the monster before the armor can regenerate. The light extended and pierced through the monster. The Deziun Alle ooze blood from the wound and to its helm.

“You felt that? Good.”

Dorian can see that he’s capable of holding his own against the monster. Perhaps, he took him too harshly. But he couldn’t shrug off this feeling of unease. Even now, he can still feel the malicious intent of the enemy, it just feels off, like its attention is drawn from another without getting interrupted by the bout.

Even the Deziun Alle is a monster, it still considered a sentient being. Just like humans, it knows what feels like to fear, to be put on edge, and doesn’t know how to get out of the situation, but it’s not all sentient, it’s a being made of darkness and naturally made to follow its animalistic instinct.

In a sudden moment of impulse, the Deziun Alle emerges in darkness, hiding, but the shock from the talisman didn’t keep him long enough in the darkness, but the distance given by the small amount of time is enough for the monster to do his plan.

In its palm, a huge amount of fire emanated. Maximo grinned.

“Dumbass, putting distance won’t make any difference. If you’re not reluctant to come at me, then I’ll be the one who’s going to after you.”

The concentrated energy was disrupted by Maximo when he slashes its armor and carved its light to its flesh. Even still, the flame its palms are enough to obliterate a landmark if pointed rightly to the target.

The moment it fell to its knees the flame burst and erupted, shooting towards the horizon. Everything went awry as they saw how fast the projectile streaking to the sky, traversing to the clouds and to another.

“It couldn’t be…” Kazan muttered.

“It’s heading towards the mansion… this is bad,” Linda added.

Dorian daze to Maximo then back to the shooting flame.

“If you allowed me to take over the battle this wouldn’t have happened.”

Dorian raised his hand following the monster’s projectile attack. Their attention turned to the ball of flame that stopped midway. It became smaller until it breaks down, spreading into smaller flame-like fireworks after the loud boom, the sky went silent and clear the clouds, clearing to gaze at the twinkling lights.