HP: Embrace the Darkness

Ases smiled without comment, but did not refute.

The blonde looked at him coldly, and simply pointed out the disapproval beneath Ases's surface: "You don't agree with what I said, why don't you refute it."

Ases looked up and met her gaze, and was surprised to find that not only the hair but also the eyes of the person before were golden, glowing faintly and particularly dazzling in the rainy night.

"Have you seen enough?"

The blonde's tone cooled.

Ases realized the inappropriateness of his behavior and looked away apologetically.

"No offense, it's just the first time I've seen golden pupils that are brighter than the sun. As for why I didn't refute it... I think we don't know each other, so there's no need to spend energy to convince you to agree with my point of view, right?"

The woman nodded slightly, her golden eyes seemed to be able to see through people's hearts. She looked at Athis and then retracted them, warning him gently, "Those who play with time will eventually be played with by time."

"Really? No wonder time is a taboo." Ases still maintained his gentle smile.

After the warning, the woman's interest in Ases seemed to end there.

She looked at the silent man in black and slowly raised her hand, with a blue veil like ocean waves lingering on her fingertips.

"Go back by yourself or I will take you back."

Ases looked at the man who refused to say a word, then looked at the blonde woman who was ready to take action, and silently stepped back while activating the magic power in his body.

A soft silver light spread from his arms upwards, and his black hair gradually turned silver, lengthening a little bit, and fell on both sides of his shoulders.

The moonlight seemed to sense something and broke through the clouds and fell on the silver hair.

Suddenly, the disturbing stinging began to ease, and a light warmth soothed the brain.

Ases didn't expect that moonlight could have such an analgesic effect. His silver eyes suddenly lit up, and his surprise was beyond words.

He glanced to the side a few times, making sure that the darkness in his eyes was about the same as the day, and then began to watch the battle with a research attitude.

Perhaps because of the geographical advantage, the man in black was much stronger than when he was on the cliff. He was no longer being suppressed unilaterally and could occasionally fight back.

He made full use of the gray mist in his hands, turning it into either a weapon or a trap.

Finding that the gray fog could not break the defense of the golden light, the man in black controlled the swing and transformed into another himself, waiting for an opportunity to harass from the side and gradually disintegrate the golden light.

Although this style of play is a bit rogue, it is effective.

In the darkness, the golden light was gradually covered by the gray fog at a fast speed. In the end, only a trace of it could be seen through the cracks.

After a few minutes, the two men who could no longer continue the stalemate suddenly stopped, and all three of them, including Ases, turned their heads and looked towards the cliff by the sea.

I saw a pure and flawless white ball of light appear at the distant seashore at some point. The light ball illuminated the entire sea and the night sky with dotted lines and dazzling white light. Then the white lines exploded and spread radially.

The three people's pupils suddenly shrank and they quickly looked away, but they were still a step too late. The extreme white light pierced their eyes, and their fragile retinas could not withstand the excessive light intensity. Their eyes went dark and they lost their vision for a short time.

After losing their vision, their hearing became extremely sharp. The three heard deafening explosions coming from far away, which made their eardrums hurt.

At the same time, the body's latent instincts and wizard intuition frantically reminded them of the danger.

Extremely dangerous!

The three men's faces changed, and just as they were about to retreat, a suffocatingly powerful shock wave swept over.

The surrounding trees were instantly destroyed and fell down in large numbers, and the trees with shallow roots were uprooted and flew away.

Not only the trees, but also three powerful wizards were not spared by the shock wave.

Ases retreated immediately, but due to his obstructed vision, his movement speed was greatly reduced. He had only taken a few steps back when the invisible shock wave hit his abdomen with great force.

Caught off guard, he flew backwards like a kite with a broken string and hit a thick tree trunk heavily.

"boom--"

A piercing pain came from the spine and quickly spread to every part of the body.

Ases groaned weakly, his face showing pain, physiological tears still flowing in the corners of his tightly closed eyes due to the dazzling white light. His lips were bitten hard by his teeth, forcibly suppressing the fishy and sweet taste that surged from his throat.

The intense pain made his brain more clear. He clenched his hands, condensed his magic power into a long whip, raised his hand and swung it, and it rolled around at an astonishing speed and tied up the tilted tree trunk.

With the help of the whip, Ases struggled to steady his shaky body.

The other two were not so lucky. They were also hit and flew backwards. However, because they were in an open area, there were no trees to leverage on. Many trees even hit them, interrupting their ability to cast spells.

Finally, the two of them crashed into a rock wall almost at the speed of a cannonball.

The magic barrier that was held up with great difficulty was directly shattered, and the magic power flowed back and attacked itself, colliding with the magic power in the body. It took at least a few minutes for him to use magic power.

After the first shock wave passed, the subsequent shock waves gradually weakened.

Ases turned his head to listen to the noise in the distance. When the sound became smaller, his tense nerves relaxed. The magic whip, which was already at the end of its strength, turned into stars and dissipated. He fell to the ground powerlessly.

Two people who were clinging to the rock wall not far away found that the shock wave was over and struggled to get themselves down. They were more seriously injured and staggered a few times as soon as they landed, almost falling.

The man in black held onto the rock wall to steady his body. He took a few deep breaths and suddenly became aware of a strong murderous aura around him. His breathing became smaller unconsciously. After thinking for two seconds, he dragged his heavy feet away from the source of the murderous aura.

Ases, who was the target of murderous aura, was resting with his back against a tree trunk. Feeling the murderous aura, he turned his head towards the rock wall and smiled weakly.

"Now is not a good time for you to do anything, beautiful lady."

The rejuvenating agent lost its effect as soon as the shock wave hit. Ases's face was now as pale as paper, even bleaker than the moonlight. His silver hair was disheveled and scattered behind him, with wet strands of hair sticking to his forehead. Raindrops kept falling on his eyelashes and then slowly sliding down the corners of his eyes. He looked disheveled and weak.

But if a fight really comes to a head, he can fight one against two, a seriously injured wizard and two wizards who have lost their magic power. Who is stronger and who is weaker? Any wizard knows the answer.

The murderous aura suddenly disappeared.

Ases nodded politely, relaxed his body, and let the moonlight heal his wounds.

The silence lasted only two minutes.

The man in black, who was the most seriously injured and weaker than the blonde woman, was the first to regain his vision.

He stood up, looked around the messy woods, and asked curiously, "How did you do it?"

Aces and the blonde woman turned their heads towards him, seemingly unmoved, but in fact they were both starting to speed up their vision recovery.

"It has nothing to do with me." As soon as Aces recovered enough to roughly see the figure of the man in black, he opened his eyes, supported by the tree to stand up, took out the radiant potion calmly, and drank it. "I have been under your surveillance tonight. You can't do anything even if you want to."

The blonde opened her eyes shortly after.

"I will let the law enforcers investigate what happened tonight. I hope that, as you said, it has nothing to do with you."