Supreme Magus

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’He must have Blinked the undead first as a decoy! Too bad Verhen forgot that my weapon has blades at both ends. ’ He thought while shifting his body weight and reversing the grip on the polearm to strike at the source of the voice.

This time, it hit only air.

When Quaron turned around, Solus was still where he had seen her a few seconds ago.
Her tier four Light Mastery spell, Stingray, however, was right in front of him

She had simply used the dimensional door to carry a small cantrip and make him think that she had moved while she had used that time to weave a spell instead.

The construct resembled a huge multi faceted sphere akin to a disco ball the size of an SUV.
Quaron expected it to shapeshift into a more dangerous form the moment it came close enough so he attacked it with a barrage of low tier spells.

Such a clumsy form made Stingray an easy target and if he managed to weaken the construct before its activation, he would regain the initiative.

Quaron conjured one tier three spell after the other, exploiting their fast casting time to make up for quality with quantity.
Unfortunately for him, Stingray wasn ’t a construct so much as a carrier.

The moment that the sphere got close enough to its mark, it released from each of its facets the equivalent of a tier three Light Mastery spell.
The hail of golden beams of light pierced through the elemental spells and then filled the area around the Ranger.

Only a few managed to hit him while the rest opened holes in the ground, making Quaron ’s footing uneven.

’That ’s the worst waste of mana I ’ve ever seen.
My armor may be weakened but it can take much more than this before- ’ Instead of disappearing after the initial burst, the rays of light remained fixed in place and adjusted their trajectory to converge on him.

Quaron Blinked away, only to discover that nothing had changed aside from his position.

Solus had waited to activate Stingray because Light Mastery spells lost their firepower with distance and because by placing it in the middle of Quaron ’s Blinking range, Stingray made dimensional magic useless.

On top of that, part of the Light Beams surrounding him had turned into hard-light constructs, limiting his movements and making it impossible for him to fly away.
Everything else poured on him, hitting Quaron akin to a swarm of incandescent drills.

The Ranger Blinked again to gain the moment of respite he needed to take a deep breath.
Mana sense showed Solus where he would reappear and she adjusted Stingray ’s line of fire accordingly.

Yet this time Quaron welcomed her spell with a burst of bright blue Origin Flames that ate at the incoming beams of light, working their way up to the core of the spell.
Solus used part of the energy stored in her spell to put out the flames but Quaron simply breathed more.

Stingray collapsed, leaving the two contestants far away enough from each other to use Invigoration yet only one of them could actually do it.

’Shit! I hoped that he would rush at me while we are both down on mana.
I can ’t last for much longer. ’ She thought while heavily panting.

Rangers were used to working alone and had often to fight tribes of monsters or groups of bandits.
Those who charged in blindly rarely lived long.
Quaron had noticed how after their fight ”Verhen ’s ” power had drastically dropped.

At first, he had put pressure on Solus to keep her from using Invigoration, yet time and time again she didn ’t even when she had the opportunity.

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