Before landing on the ground, Will turned into shadow which makes him avoid the impact. The girl followed Will down and landed an impact on the ground. From the shadow, Will reformed and so as his morning star.
"Address yourself woman,"
"I am Calypso, one of the member of the SUN Cult, and also Lord Enceladus's assistant,"
"Oh? Well then, I am Will Beuratt, I am the shadow sage among the dark sages, the man who once was forsaken by humanity,"
"Will Beuratt...Shadow sage...why are you telling me this?"
"No one is around, I can go all out with my main magic with that,"
"Shadow sage...I thought he was dead..."
"..."
"Are you joking? I hate jokes,"
"Believe what you want, Anyhow, let's have a fruitful battle,"
Enceladus's assistant, Calypso lower her knees and dashed towards Will. Will simply swing his morning star and parried the attack. Will raised his morning star and swung it down but Calypso easily parried it. she leap backward and raised her scythe.
"Fool, your choice of weapon is utterly foolish, such heavy weapon that is hard to swing, lots of openings to strike you,"
"But you can't,"
Calypso jumped up high and stepped on her scythe which it pointed at Will and was sent striking him. Will simply turned in shadow to dodge the attack as her scythe is now stuck onto the ground. Will's shadow wrapped around her but she pulls out her scythe and it let out an aura that remove the shadow around her. Will reform far away as his morning star also reform from the shadow. The girl then gripped her hands hard on the scythe which led her to bleed and that blood started binding around her scythe. Her scythe turned into blood red and the blade drip blood poisonous that it burned the ground.
"Blood manipulation magic? Interesting, I also have a comrade that uses that,"
"Let's end this match quickly,"
Will then raised his morning star to his right as shadows from his right hand also binds his weapon turning it into a dark, sharper weapon. Will dashes forward, striking Calypso while she can barely react to it. Calypso spun her scythe around so fast that there were times Will almost got strike by it. Will turned into shadow and hid within the air. Calypso looked around holding her scythe tightly being cautious. She looked back and saw a shadow forming behind. She quickly used her scythe to parry the attack but she got sent backwards.
"Not bad woman, tell me, about this warlock of calamity,"
"Huh? Are you seriously asking questions during a fight? Well, warlocks of calamity are basically the general of the SUN Cult,"
"I know about that, what I want to know is about your master,"
"You mean Lord Enceladus?"
"That's his name? I wasn't listening that time,"
"Well...wait, why am I telling you this in a fight!?"
"What's wrong about that?"
"Are you trying to get snippets out of me? Damn you..."
Calypso continued swinging her scythe at Will while he parried the attack.
"Looks like this would be a tough while..."
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"Now then, what should we do about this situation?"
Aether Lupen, the Perfect Mage looked over to a large portal up in the sky. Beasts came out of it in troops.
"To think that the dungeon would create so much beasts for a level, well, even so, there would still be a limit, never mind, might as while shut it down before more and more comes out,"
Beasts suddenly surrounded Aether, trapping him in a circle.
"..., this would take a while,"
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Raye and Al encountered no enemy nor beast as they climbed up the clock tower.
"Quite weird don't you think?"
"Do you think the warlock is strong enough to take us on alone?'
"Even so, I believe we still can beat him, as long as we work together,"
"..."
Al's head tilted and faced the ground, questioning if he is able to help instead of being a coward and just hide somewhere.
"Al,"
Al looked upward and saw Raye placing his right hand onto his shoulder.
"Don't overthink it, believe in yourself and find courage, you know, I was once a coward too, it was Lord Aether who encouraged me during my deepest time, that heroic presence never fade away every time I looked at him,"
Back then, during Raye's training as a knight, he faced countless challenges and was stuck. Raye was with his fellow knight friend that time. Suddenly, a dragon attacked the royal city. While other knights rushed to stop it, Raye trembled in fear doubting himself whether if he would be a burden to them. Suddenly, the Perfect Mage ran by him and killed that dragon easily. That face, the heroic presence Raye felt was truly admiring and amazing to the point it inspired Rate to be a better person.
"If you ever doubt yourself as a burden, just do it for me, forget about anything later on about what I would say or anything,"
Al saw Raye's eyes glimmering, as if they were diamonds, Al then felt a presence that he never felt before.
"..., fine,"
"Thank you Al, now then, let's fight that warlock shall we?"
They both finally climbed the last stairs of the clock tower and eventually face one of the warlock of calamity, Enceladus Lauren.