The Golden Dawn squad was unlike the Black Bulls squad - they were truly wealthy, and even their base was quite magnificent.
But this magnificent base had half of it torn down in an instant.
Countless bone spurs rose up instantly, lifting up those beautifully carved Golden Dawn buildings.
Vangeance smiled bitterly and retreated, using his magic to transfer all the wounded around him. All he could do now was provide support.
Clearly Charles had come to help, but after the battle began, he hadn't given himself any opportunity to participate.
Charles leaped on several bone spurs as thick as large trees, rapidly approaching Zenon in midair.
Several bone spurs drilled out from under Zenon's black coat, stabbing straight toward the charging Charles.
The bone spurs drilling out from Zenon's body far exceeded other bones in both growth speed and hardness and sharpness. Charles's hand chop surprisingly didn't shatter them.
Charles only had time to extend both hands, grasping the bone spurs but being carried along to crash through the bone forest below.
Immediately after, even more bone spurs drilled out from Zenon's body, drilling directly toward Charles's position.
But Zenon's furrowed brow didn't relax, because he didn't have the feeling of bone spurs actually piercing flesh.
Sure enough, he soon saw the specific situation. The bone spurs hadn't hit Charles's body at all - a layer of magic armor had appeared around his body at some point.
The bone spur stabbing at Charles's lower abdomen had the best results, but it only pierced through one layer of dragon scale armor without injuring Charles's body.
Charles's mouth curved up as he directly used force to break the bone spurs in his hands, raising them to throw at Zenon.
Although thrown by hand, the power was no less than arrows fired from heavy crossbow cannons.
Zenon's layers of bone forests were directly smashed to pieces before completely stopping them.
And Charles also charged up at this moment, delivering an upside-down golden hook kick that sent Zenon crashing heavily to the ground from midair.
Zenon spat out a mouthful of blood, his expression toward Charles completely changed.
"As expected, devil power of only this degree still isn't enough. Then let's have a bit more!"
Zenon said in a low voice, the dark aura on his body surging up another level.
If Charles could see subtitles, he would see that Zenon's devil power liberation had climbed from forty percent to sixty percent.
Blackness spread from his coat, covering half of Zenon's body. Even the cross black markings on his face grew two sizes larger, extending directly to his chin.
Most eye-catching were the two antelope-like bone horns that grew from his head, one of which had already been dyed pitch black by dark aura.
Charles also landed back on the ground and said, "That's more like it. Let's begin round two then!"
Saying this, Charles made the first move. The boss had entered phase two, so he had to test his level first.
The Fire Dragon's Brilliant Flame fell like a great sun crashing down, striking straight toward Zenon. Although this was just a probing attack, it had terrifying power.
But Zenon was unhurried, merely pointing his palm toward the falling fireball.
He certainly wasn't trying to block such a terrifying attack bare-handed. A transparent cube appeared, directly encasing the fireball inside.
Something strange happened - the fireball wavered and then slowly disappeared.
Charles showed an interested expression, "So this is the spatial magic you got from that devil. Quite interesting!"
What Zenon could use besides his own bone magic was spatial magic obtained from Beelzebub, one of the three strongest pillar demons of the underworld.
Although spatial magic all involved manipulating space, there were many ways to use it.
For example, Finral's spatial magic worked by connecting different spaces. But his brother, former Golden Dawn vice-captain Langris's magic principle was erasing space.
Zenon's spatial magic was special - it dominated the magic power in space through devil power. Ordinary magic users couldn't even use magic within the space he established, making it truly absolute space.
Even Charles's flames were forcibly decomposed by him, showing how domineering this magic was.
Just as Charles and Zenon were confronting each other, another powerful magic power approached.
Charles immediately recognized it as Yuno's magic power. Earlier, because people from the Spade Kingdom resistance had crossed the strong magic region to find them, he had rushed to Hage Village.
He must have received news of the Golden Dawn being attacked and rushed back.
Of the two Dark Disciples who had previously stormed in with Zenon, the large man using rock magic had already been defeated by Charles, leaving only the thin man using mist magic.
After Charles and Zenon began fighting, Vangeance finally had energy to support the squad members fighting outside.
With his support, the people outside actually held off the Dark Disciple's offensive. But the opponent's powerful magic still left them barely hanging on.
Until just now, Yuno had returned, and not long after, that thin man's magic power disappeared.
When Yuno arrived here, what he saw was Charles and Zenon engaging in combat again.
And Yuno's second glance saw the disheveled Vangeance and injured Golden Dawn members wrapped in tree vines.
How could he endure this? He instantly activated spirit assimilation and charged toward Zenon.
Zenon only glanced at Yuno once. Wind spirit contractor, decent magic power... then had no other impressions.
Indeed, according to magic stage ranking, Yuno stood firmly above Stage Zero. Unfortunately, Stage Zero couldn't be considered a threat to him.
So he extended his palm, bones broke through skin and drilled out, growing into the shape of a western sword in his hand.
Zenon swung the bone sword, directly slashing away the charging Yuno.
Yuno only felt an irresistible force coming, his body flew backward uncontrollably, and even the wind elemental long sword Spirit of Zephyr in his hand was shattered.
A tree vine stretched over and caught Yuno.
Vangeance stopped Yuno who still wanted to charge forward, "You can't participate in this level of battle yet. Watch carefully! This young man from your village doesn't need anyone's help."
Yuno also calmed down, only then realizing that the attack Zenon used to slash him away couldn't affect Charles at all. Charles had always been his target, but he hadn't expected the gap to have grown to this extent after not seeing him for half a year.
Charles swung his fist to block the bone sword, finding a opening. It seemed Zenon wasn't skilled in swordsmanship, relying entirely on powerful magic power and devil power to attack.
And this undoubtedly left opportunities Charles could exploit.
Taking a step forward, bow stance with bent elbow, Charles directly shattered the bone armor drilling out from Zenon's chest and sent him flying.
Bone spikes like spider legs drilled out from Zenon's back, directly stabbing into the ground to steady his body. Immediately after, those spider legs separated into segments, lashing toward Charles like whips.
"Fire Dragon's Wing Attack!"
Charles's arms extended flames, and as Charles swung in place, they directly formed a flame storm that incinerated the incoming bone whips to ashes.
Zenon raised his palm upward and made a gripping motion.
The flames Charles created actually began being suppressed, finally leaving only a layer on his body surface.
"Spatial Magic - Void Magic Domain!"
If someone had a wide enough view, they could see half the base wrapped in a huge transparent cube. And the magic power within this space was also completely dominated by Zenon.
Charles looked at the flickering flame in his hand, then raised his head and said loudly, "Perfect that Yuno is here too. There are some things I can teach you. We're both magic users contracted with spirits, and spirit power is used like this!"
Saying this, Fal flew out from the grimoire at Charles's waist, roared once, then dove into Charles's body.
Charles hadn't used spirit assimilation alone for a long time, but his proficiency hadn't declined.
His entire body transformed into magic power form, dragon scale armor appeared on his body - this was spirit assimilation that reached Saint Stage.
The originally suppressed flames shot skyward, Charles's eyes that had become vertical pupils seemed to be releasing flames.
And as Charles's magic domain expanded, Zenon was surprised to discover his domination over the magic power around Charles had actually failed.
Some magic users were gifted, not only having powerful magic power themselves, but even natural magic power would assist when casting magic. People would generally call such people beloved by magic power.
For example, the entire elf race had this trait, and magic users with four-leaf grimoires were the same.
But the current Charles was like a king of magic power, using his own strength to seize dominion over magic power from Zenon's spatial magic.
Emotions finally appeared in Zenon's eyes as he shouted loudly, "This is good too. Let's battle! Only the strong can ultimately obtain everything!"
But the next moment Charles appeared in front of him, punching him away with one strike.
"Another theory about the strong? I have no interest in listening further!"
Zenon smashed through a nearby statue and wall but still stood up.
Devil power liberation rose to... eighty percent!
Dark energy surged on Zenon's body. Now came the climax of the battle.
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