When the naked man walked slowly out of the pit, the dark flames that almost flooded the entire area started shrinking back, and just like a movie being played in reverse, the flames were sucked back and condensed into the naked man’s clothes, armor and a dark longsword.

“I’m finally out.” a message was delivered to everyone, apparently from the man now covered in some kind of tight fit armor and a longsword in his hand, without the man actually uttering anything with his mouth. 

“Now!” without saying anything, Josephine Wong ordered.

The first attack that approached the man’s side was the arrow of lightning, the next is the tornado with ice shards inside being sent his way.

The man shifted to a different position without moving any major parts of his body, the arrow of lightning landed on the ground behind him, causing a huge explosion of electric energy, and with a swing of his longsword, the tornado was slashed in half and the energy flow inside of it was disrupted and it just turned into two bags of air that went out in a “poof”.

Alexander, now completely in wolf form, leapt into the air and unleashed a flurry of claw attacks before he even got close to the man, each claw attack shooting out a red energy shadow claw at the man. But the man just twirled the sword and casually diffused the attacks.

“Pei, Nameless, try and lock him.” Josephine Wong changed her plan of attack, and hid the purple sword inside of her right palm: “Vivian, standby and wait for opportunity. Alexander, Blue, Robinson, Simmons, help them restrain the target.”

Nameless leapt forward, with his whole body once again glowing in blinding golden light, and with Pei maneuvering the broken array formed by the swords, his entire body was also shrouded by a thin layer of protective energy.

Nameless’s two hands turned to claw form as he began his assault on the man with a dark longsword. The man tried to back off and create more distance before him and Nameless, but somehow Nameless was still able to catch up whenever he moved, and he was barely able to evade several close claw attacks.

“Dragon Snaring Claw” was the martial art being used by Nameless against the man with a dark longsword, it was a special art developed specifically for restraining and controlling movement, which allowed the user to keep close track of the enemy even when the enemy is faster.

Pei extended her hands at the sky, focusing on the broken array’s restraining ability and targeting everyone’s common target. And at the same time, several restraining spells were cast, aiming also at the man with a dark longsword.

The man’s armor lit up in blood red, the restraining spells locked onto him all slid to the side without taking any effect, like water falling onto oily surfaces. But these spells still distracted the man and forced him to slow down for just a brief moment, which gave Nameless the opportunity to land his claw attacks.

Nameless’s right hand grabbed onto his opponent’s right elbow, and his left hand grabbed onto his opponent’s right wrist, and with a twist with almost his full force, his two hands left two golden claw marks on the man’s hand.

Nameless’s eyes widened for a brief moment - this combo was a disarm attack aiming to rid the man of his longsword by exploiting certain bone structures and weak points on tendons inside of a human arm, but the man’s body, though looked and felt almost completely like that of a normal human, did not have any of these structures inside. Thus his attack only left two energy seals onto the opponent’s body, but was not able to make him drop the longsword.

But still, the two golden claw marks and the claw marks full of Nameless’s golden energy seemed to have impacted the man’s movement more than Nameless thought they would. And within a very short moment, Nameless changed his arts and launched two palm strikes onto the man’s chest.

The reaction force from the strikes sent Nameless flying back and both his arms were dislocated from multiple joints, he was choking blood before he hit the ground and in this single instant all of his golden energy protecting him became useless and weak. 

The two palm strikes worked - to an extent. The armor on the man’s chest caved in and the impact from the strike made him bleed from his nose and mouth - his blood was thick like tar. And just like his armor, his blood also glowed.

Pei expended all her remaining power into the array and pushed the entire broken array to overload, and all nine enchanted swords started burning up, each projecting an energy chain onto the body of the man, binding all his limbs, his neck and his waist. These energy chains formed by the enchanted swords, at the expense of damaging the swords themselves, were much stronger than all previous binding attempts thrown at the man, and indeed it took effect - the man’s movements were restrained severely, and when a flurry of ice spikes and wind blades shot down from above from Robinson and Simmons, another arrow of lightning from Blue, another powerful claw attack from Alexander, and a flying dagger from Vivian, who, out of her assassin experience had been waiting for the perfect chance to unleash her strike since the battle began.

“Boom!” all the attacks landed.

But when the dust settled, the man was only lightly injured, not critical at all - there were scratches on his face, a few pieces of his armor was damaged and fell off completely, revealing some “flesh wounds” underneath, but these only seemed to have made him more mad.

The man set his eyes on the one who controlled the energy chains - Pei.

The next moment, he broke off four of the energy chains, and rushed towards Pei without even considering cutting off the remaining five energy chains.

Josephine Wong appeared right in front of this man, with purple energy concentrated on both her hands. And when she clapped her hands, a powerful purple shockwave tore through the ground, aiming at her opponent crushing against him head on.

With five energy chains still on his body, the man was not fast enough to evade the shockwave. Thus his assault attempt on Pei was halted, which left him open for a joint attack from Alexander, Nameless and Pei.

Alexander’s giant mouth bit onto the man’s shoulder, where he had a small piece of armor missing; Nameless, with both his arms dislocated, unleashed a kick against the man’s left temple; Pei, while all her energy was expended trying to control and manage this huge array, still managed to shoot a simple enchanted hand crossbow bolt at the man’s chest.

The man shook his head, roared and released a shockwave from his body to blow Nameless and Alexander away. Then, he waved his longsword and knocked away three purple energy spears shot at him by Josephine Wong.

But next, Josephine Wong swiftly extended her right arm at the man, with something hidden in her palm, in a long awaited sneak attack.

The man, having sensed something that was truly dangerous to him coming from Josephine Wong, immediately swung his sword across the space before him.

Josephine Wong’s right hand and right forearm flew away and into the air, blood was spilling everywhere. And before Josephine Wong could react to the pain, the dark longsword pierced through Josephine Wong’s abdomen and came out from her back.

Josephine Wong instantly lost much of her power, and she grabbed onto the man’s sword holding arm, seemingly trying to pull the sword away. But she was then tossed on the ground by the man, and left to die on the ground as the man continued walking towards Pei.