33 Risen#re

The fire was already dying down, but Lirian didn't mind, he had already taken one down and injured another.

"Fancy meeting you here," he said with a flirty voice to Shen Lim, "Shen Xie will get jealous if she learns how hard you worked to get to me across all this fire," he chuckled in a naughty voice.

'How the hell does he have the time and energy to be so chatty in this kind of situation,' Shen Lim wondered but said nothing as he put as much pressure on his blade as possible.

Using his strength he pushed Lirian back and managed to lock down his movements.

"I've locked him do it now," Shen Lim cried out as he forced Lirian down with his strength.

Several balls of flame, wind, lightning, and psychic blasts closed in on Lirian as he was being pushed down and he could feel the warriors' gazes on him as they watched closely, the moment he switched to avoid the blasts they would pounce on him.

"You guys really are getting too full of yourselves," he chuckled in this tense situation.

Mordred was close enough to hear everything clearly, he shook his head as he wondered how Lirian could be so nonchalant in such a situation, 'He probably just likes the sound of his own voice too much.'

Lirian took a breath and took control of the energy in his immediate surroundings, his control didn't extend more than five feet around him before he was forced to use what he gathered.

A wave of energy erupted around him with a silver glow deflecting the attacks all over the place, forcing the close-by warriors to have to duck and retreat.

Shen Lim got it the worst, a blast of fire was deflected onto his shoulder and the energy wave picked him up off his feet hurtling him across the ground.

He soared for almost a dozen meters before coming down on his back with a heavy thud.

While the students stood around in shock as their entire plan crumbled, Lirian wasted no time in finishing the warrior he had knocked down before Shen Lim's untimely arrival.

Lirian followed after that by going after the closest psychic, the psychic had a sword but without a warrior's strength, he folded in a heartbeat under Lirian's assault.

"Are you really blind?" someone muttered.

Lirian grinned, "If I wasn't you'd all be finished by now, but I can clear you out faster if you'd like until now I've only been using free striking, if I take it up a notch you can guess what will happen."

"I'd advise you guys to start moving the fight isn't over yet," he said jumping at a mage.

This time he felt three people closing in on him, two swords and a spear, he realized as their wielders spun them around.

They attempted to lock down his movements with their three swipes, but Lirian jumped up in the air and spun with his hands pulled in.

He managed to spin between the two blades that threatened to scissor him and brought his blade down to lock down the shaft of the spear, while driving two kicks into the guts of the two swordsmen.

He faced Eido as her spear was locked by him but he was soon forced to retreat as the mage stepped into the fray.

Karen didn't miss this detail, and quickly passed on a message to everyone, 'He retreated when four people gathered around him, I don't think that he can keep track of everyone's movements' once it passes three people.'

Lucas climbed up from the ground, he was one of the warriors Lirian had just stomped on, Lirian did not hold back in his kicks.

As he received Karen's message they quickly formulated a plan with the rest, but as fast as they were Lirian was faster, he had already taken out one mage and another warrior.

"This is insane," Mordred complained, "My family is going to have a field day insulting me if I report this to them, 18 cultivators vs 1 blind person, and we've already lost 5 people."

"Stop reminding everyone," Pollock complained and got ready for his part as a cloak of shadow surrounding him.

Lirian felt himself getting surrounded again, "Nice to see you three again," he commented kicking the warrior he was facing away as Lucas, Eido and another warrior closed in on him.

"Is he already making jokes about his own blindness?" Eido muttered to the others, they shrugged and moved forward.

Lirian felt a faint fluctuation of shadow mana, 'Shadow concealment,' he thought in surprise, he focused on Hinata, she was the only one that would have had the time to learn an advanced spell.

She was still present at the edge of his ability to detect, but there was one person missing, and the only way to detect them was through their heartbeat, any other sound would be completely absorbed by the spell.

As he pushed back, he felt psychic blasts coming in his direction, all the attacks were focused on his sword, and he felt a slight shake in his stance as it shifted the way he held the sword.

He knew that the big move was coming, so he had to take out one last person before they completed it.

He slid his blade across the flat of Lucas's blade and jumped forward as the other two tried to force him back, he pushed out of the blockade they sat up for him and delivered a strong kick to Lucas's chest.

The sound of his ribs cracking echoed, and more than one person winced as they heard it, but Lirian didn't get time to focus on what he did as the ground he landed on turned soft like quicksand.

"Smart," he commented while keeping still, what made quicksand deadly was when someone panicked after getting caught in it, the more you struggle the fast it sucks you in.

Then he felt the air change, 'They are using a strong fire spell,' he realized.

Shen Xie was focusing a large ball of fire above him, it was just fire, nothing special, the only concerning thing was that three mages poured in all their energy to make it and Shen Xie dropped it on top of him.

"Not bad at all," he shouted, ", now let me show you the real power of energy control, do you know that any fourth-grade mage who doesn't achieve energy control is deemed as useless in the empire."

"The reason is that with energy control all spells that don't have laws infused into them are rendered absolutely useless and from the fourth-grade onwards laws will be your main focus in combat, you must be able to rid yourself of the third-grade distractions during battle."

He chuckled, "Sadly for you guys, you're up against me," as the fireball descended, he raised a hand to meet its burning caress.