The team still failed to understand why Derik still carried himself so confidently. Knowing their friend, they could tell he had something up his sleeves which no one could understand no matter how hard they tried. The real question was this, what gives him so much confidence? Was it his guardian spirit? What kind of spell did it reveal to Derik? Is there a spell capable of making a recruit defat multiple Silver realm and Bronze realm warriors?

Seeing the puzzled look on their faces, Derik chuckled and sneered at them"Don't bother yourself with issues like this… when this is all over, I'll definitely slaughter everyone who has a hand in this… not a single soul will be left alive!" Derik claimed

Bam!

Bam!

Bam!

Golden aura, orange aura, and blood red aura quickly surrounded Cyrus, Karl, and Kira's body respectively. Their gazes were cold and there hostile intentions were no longer hidden"You dare threaten our families?" Cyrus roared

"If you wish to destroy those who we seek to protect Derik, then I'm sorry, we are not friends!!" Karl roared

"If I let you act that simply means the purpose of me doing this has been wasted…. I chose this part just to protect my family… but if you choose to kill the people we on to protect, then don't blame me for being ruthless. I will not show you mercy!" Kira roared!

"Blood magic: Blood spear!" Kira muttered and a deep cut instantly appeared on his palm, from it a small torrent of blood poured out, twisting and turning this blood took the form of a spear and graciously descended into Kira's hands

"From the pit of the abyss, I call upon thee, fight my battles and smite thy enemies… Become my s.h.i.+eld and become my sword… let my foes shriek at the mention of thy name… Blood summon; h.e.l.lsp.a.w.n!!!"

With bloodshot eyes, Kira roared and struck his left palm with the blood spear in his hands and blood poured out. Suddenly, the blood gathered at one point and formed a ten-meter wide pool beside Kira. From this pool shrieks and cries emanated, a bloodied hand that possessed pointy claws emerged and grabbed the ground and slowly pulled itself out.

The h.e.l.lsp.a.w.n was just about 5ft tall and it stood on all four, its body looked like chunks of expired meat put together. It had the shape of a hound and several holes through which blood flowed out of those holes.

Even though Derik has seen this beast before, he still felt couldn't help complementing Kira, a mage without the support of a guardian spirit being able to follow the path of a summoner and a fighter is no small thing. Unfortunately, he wasn't planning to be polite with these people he once called friends

"Ooo condemned soul of the underworld, the one which led was led astray by the lord of light and the devout, where art thy G.o.ds? As the messenger of death who comes from the deepest parts of the underworld, I sentence thee to eternal d.a.m.nation and rob thee of thy Freedom… Death magic: Death Bind!!!" Derik muttered casually with an indifferent look on his face.

Dark clouds gathered and thunderstorms ensured for a while. Seeing this, Kira's face discolored. He could remember his little rumble with Derik, alongside Gin over a year ago. It was as if he was reliving the same traumatic experience, his eyebrows slammed against each other and he was about to scream out an order to the h.e.l.lsp.a.w.n but before he could speak the two large skeletal hands burst out of the ground and locked the h.e.l.lsp.a.w.n in a bear hug, robbing it of its mobility.

Watching the h.e.l.lsp.a.w.n struggle desperately Derik chuckled and a sinister smile appeared on his face. A cold glint flashed in his eyes as he casually walked towards the bound h.e.l.lsp.a.w.n as he spoke

"The difference between bad and evil is quite much… Your puny magic is nothing compared to mine..." Derik laughed

He stretch forth his hand towards the direction of the h.e.l.lsp.a.w.n, pointing a finger at it he began chanting

"Ooo G.o.d of Death, lord of the underworld and ruler of all d.a.m.ned souls in it, hear the plea of thy faithful servant and burn thy foe with the unquenchable flames of h.e.l.l, even thy ashes will not remain… Death magic: h.e.l.l flame!!!!" Derik said calmly.

Instantly a darkish purple magic array appeared at the tip of his finger and a torrent of darkish purple flames poured out, threatening to consume everything on its path

But before the fiery darkish purple flame could reach the h.e.l.lsp.a.w.n, a blue streak of light appeared in front of the beast and danced forward towards Derik. It cut through the darkish purple flamelike b.u.t.ter, reaching Derik with ease.

Seeing the blue arc of energy, Derik's heart trembled greatly but his face was still stiff and calm. The fiery purple light in his eyes burned brighter than ever and claws instantly sp.a.w.ned in his hands "Scram!!!" Derik roared as he brandished his cla.s.s at the blue arc of energy, sending darkish purple energy of his own.

Boom!

The shockwave instantly threw Derik off balance and he rolled on the ground a few times before getting on his feet.

"Never again will I let this… you win… this won't end like last time" Gin spoke while striding forward with a confident look on his face.

His left hand trembled greatly and a cold glint of light flashed in his eyes when be saw Derik and the others standing with their weapons and equipment all unsheathed. "Isn't this cute… Fighting as a team against a common enemy… You all seem to forget why I use to call the shots… why you all felt safe and confident whenever I was around…" Derik laughed as he slowly wiped off the dust all over his body.

"I am the backbone of this team… without me, it will crumble… there is no team guardian without me!" Derik roared and the death energy stored within burst out. "You sort to destroy everything we seek to protect… I don't know what gives you so much confidence to make you act recklessly in front of death but then again since this affects us… we can't trust the royal family to kill you for us… we will have to do it ourselves" Cyrus roared

"Ooo power of death, grant thy servant thy power and lend thee thy strength... Give me the power to vanquish all those who stand against thy power of death and by the end of this day, thy heads shall hang on the tip of thy spear… Death magic: Bone spear!!!" Derik screamed.

Instantly over six darkish purple b.a.l.l.s of energy escaped his body and soon these b.a.l.l.s of energy took the forms of bone spears. With a single flick of his finger, the bone spears shrieked loudly as if there was life in them and dashed towards Cyrus and the other five

"Don't you dare think only you have grown stronger in the past few months!!!" Cyrus roared and punched out into the empty air six times, leaving six golden magic arrays behind"Life magic: Holy bolts!!!" He roared and six b.a.l.l.s of golden energy the size of a human head flew out of the magic arrays and successfully deflected the bone spears their way.

Bam!

Like an arrow, Donald shot forward with his body leaning toward while gripping the greatsword with both hands. A white faint light shrouded the great sword and with a roar, Donald slashed out horizontally revealing a faint arc shaped white light

"Low level bronze combat technique: slas.h.!.+" he roared

With the enhanced physique and physical capabilities, escaping such an attack was nothing for Derik. His body shot back, escaping the range of the attack. A cold glint flashed in his eyes and his body instantly shot up over five meters into the air.

At that point, Daemons figure wielding a dagger appeared from thin air with a puzzled look on her face. "Nothing gets past this nose" Derik snickered

Stretching his hand forth while still in mid air a bone bow appeared in his hand and bone quiver filled with arrows appeared beside him. "Scattering Shots!!!" Derik roared, releasing 5 bone arrows at the same time, aimed at Daemon and Donald who were standing below.

Seeing this, their face discolored and they quickly retreated in terror. Over the year while they trained for the adventurer'slicense exams, they trained alongside Derik and understood how terrifying Derik could be when he fought with a bow and arrows.

Bam!Bam!Bam!

If he was a beast when using just magic then it can be said he is a demon when combining magic and his archery skills.

Landing smoothly, a confident smile appeared on Derik's face as a bone arrow levitated out of his bone quiver and flew into his hands and a slight chuckle escaped his lips

"I will show you all the difference between us" He said