Lina was a very cheerful and optimistic girl. Even tho her health had always been bad she never stopped smiling. This personality of her's was the main reason why Lux fell for her.

Now this very cheerful girl was lying on the floor, motionless. Her whole body was badly burned. Most of her clothes had disappeared. There was also the body of an archer lying close to her with his belly pierced by a Rock Lance.

In the distance two figures were fighting each other. One had covered himself with a barrier and was throwing various spells toward his opponent from the inside.

On the other hand, the other person was already injured and he was doing his best to dodge his spells and to get close to the lying bodies. But his injuries were quite severe so he wasn't able to perform to his fullest.

The person inside the barrier said

"Haha, look at yourself now. Where is that dazzling genius now? All I can see is a beaten dog. Hmph, after I got my hand in this mana increasing magic item, you're nothing to me, Lux."

The other person didn't say anything. He just focused on somehow getting close to the two bodies without accumulating more injuries. But as it looked like doing so would be almost impossible so he hardened his determination and got close to the two bodies after resisting two spells head on.

His heart broke as he reached near the bodies. He almost fainted. But he held on with just sheer willpower. The reason for that was because both of the bodies had no more life in it.

He still hugged the female body close to his chest and took another body on his shoulder and then he made a run for the exit. The mage obviously didn't allow that and started hurling various elemental spells toward him. While doing so he also secretly started creating an isolation barrier on the exit of the room to trap him inside the boss chember as if he got outside the room there would be a maze. And inside it killing someone who had the same level of strength and was trying to run would be impossible.

But the Lux didn't mind that. He clad himself in aura and went straight to the exit. He even used the pushing force generated after he got hit by an elemental spell to close the distance between him and the exit. The isolation barrier was not completely formed. But still the mage Dicovolve tried to at least stop him for a few moments as that would also give him quite a lot of advantage. But Lux rammed into the barrier like a bull and broke it instantly.

He also got some injuries after that but he didn't look back and ran away from the dungeon with the dead body of his fiancee and a broken, fallen heart.

...

Now in the current time, both Lux and Dicovolve were engaged in a fierce struggle. Only after creating a 36 layered barrier, Dicovolve was finally able to have some breathing room and it wasn't destroyed in seconds.

But that didn't mean he became safe to cast spells. Not at all, as even then the 36 layered barrier that was his pride and joy only lasted for 7-10 seconds, before getting destroyed. He needed 7 seconds to cast this barrier spell so the amount of attacks from his side were very few.

He was in a very tight rope. If he made even a little mistake, he would lose his life. But even then Lux wasn't happy with it. So for the first time he used a martial art.

At the beginning, Lux was a brawler and used to fight using bare hands. But after the betrayal he started using claws. He found out that his affinity with claws was very high and he mastered this weapon very fast.

The art he used was something he himself created while he was in a life and death struggle. [Fetal Exchange]. While his mind was having a super clarity moment just before his death, he was able to see through all the weakness of the opponent at that moment and striked it. Even after perfecting this move, it was still a big burden to the mind.

But the effect was very good. The 36 layered barrier that was supposed to block Lux for at least 7 seconds so that Dicovolve could finish his next barrier spell, broke in just a single strike. It didn't last even a single second. The martial art didn't just destroy the barrier, even after destroying the barrier, it still had enough strength to hurt Dic.

Dic's response time was really very good so he was able to at least avoid a fetal injury. This attack of Lux was directed straight to his heart but after his movement it only ended up taking a bit of flesh from the left side of his chest. Dicovolve was the first one to get hurt in their exchange.

Dic didn't want to give the pace of the battle to Lux so he quickly cast several quick area displacement and short range teleportation spells to create some distance between them. He needed regular ground to act as a medium for this short range teleportation and while fighting with Lux he managed to break the concrete on the floor and reach the soil.

But the distance he created was shortened again as Lux also used a movement skill as chased after him. After seeing that his chances were looking grimmer he overused his mental strength and used a special magic spell [Unsolvable Maze]. This spell created an ever-changing maze surrounding the opponent. Even if that opponent could break all the walls of the maze with one strike, it would still take him more than 10 seconds to come out of it.

...

As they were fighting, Elena and the gang had already reached the battlefield where those two were fighting. To connect all the dots as to why those two were trying to kill each other Elena sent all of them a mental message describing the situation.

Was it something that would sully the reputation of the famous old Headmaster? Yes it definitely would but Elena never cared about that. She was disgusted with what he had done in the past. She didn't intend to save him without suffering.

The Mismatched Piece were like students to Lux even tho he never acknowledged that officially. And three of the academy teachers had always seen their headmaster as someone righteous and kind. So learning about his past and learning what he had done destroyed all their beliefs.

Elena had created a barrier that protected them from the after effects of the battle and also hid their presence as she didn't want to alert them and disturb this fight. She also gave both of he parties to sort out their feelings. The teacher group was most heartbroken at this moment. The pendant that increased the total mana by 2x was a very famous item of Dicovolve but they had no idea from where he got this legendary thing. So even if they wanted to not believe the information, they had no choice but to. Elena's position in their heart and her identity as a demigod also had an effect here. They believe that an esteemed demigod had no reason to lie to them about something like this.

So, as everyone was having all kinds of thoughts in their mind the battle was reaching its climax.

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