Magus Supremacy

"You know what, I hate you! I hate all peasants!" Jay shouted, his voice raw with frustration and rage.

"Well, this peasant just saved your sorry life, so a little gratitude wouldn't kill you. And you're welcome," Raze replied coolly before dashing off, leaving trails of destruction behind him as his metal magic flared with terrifying precision.

"I didn't say any freaking thank you!" Jay roared in exasperation.

The brief exchange was over in a flash, replaced by the brutal rhythm of battle. Raze and Jay surged into the fray, cleaving through beasts with unstoppable force.

Raze's copied metal magic unleashed a maelstrom of deadly elegance—razor-sharp blades, towering pillars, and piercing spears materialized in rapid succession, dismembering anything within range.

No beast could lay claw or fang on him. Each step he took marked the site of yet another massacre.

"Hahaha! Want a piece of me? Come take it!" Raze bellowed. An ogre lunged at him, swinging a massive sword, but a single snap of Raze's fingers conjured a towering wall of solid metal that rang out with a sharp metallic clang as it absorbed the blow.

"Too weak," he muttered. With a blur of movement, he circled behind the ogre and, in a seamless arc, drove a gleaming metal blade clean through its torso. The beast staggered before collapsing lifelessly.

'With the captain's magic, even Level 7 beasts feel like training dummies. Convenient.'

"Hey, Raze!" Jay called from above. He'd used a puddle of water to launch himself skyward, suspended in midair by swirling currents. With a sweep of his arms, he rained down high-pressure water bullets onto the battlefield.

The wolves fell like grass before a scythe, but the gorillas proved more adept—dodging with unnatural agility or swatting the bullets aside with their massive arms.

"Where's Grey?" Jay asked as he launched himself toward another beast, his water blade gleaming. In one fluid strike, he decapitated it mid-air. The beast hit the ground with a wet thud.

"I honestly—" Raze ducked with mere inches to spare as a steel spear grazed his side, slicing his robes and drawing blood. He clenched his jaw. "—don't know!"

Launching off a rapidly forming metal platform, he shot forward and thrust his palm at an ogre's abdomen.

A thick spear of metal burst out from his palm and skewered the beast straight through. It twitched and swayed before Raze kicked off its chest, flipping mid-air.

Bang!

He crashed down onto a charging gorilla. The beast raised all six arms to block, but Raze's descending blade tore through its defenses—splitting its head and body clean in two.

Blood sprayed upward, but with a practiced sweep of his sword's flat edge, Raze deflected the gore away from his face.

"I'm worried about him," Jay muttered, leaping back as an ogre's greatsword slammed into the ground before him, splitting the earth open. A shimmering pool of water coiled around his feet and launched him forward.

He lashed out with a massive water whip, wrapping it around the ogre's weapon and yanking hard. The beast stumbled and crashed into the ground, causing a spiderweb of fissures to crack through the stone floor.

With a fierce growl, Jay summoned a colossal water bubble and slammed it down onto the ogre's head.

The beast thrashed violently, its limbs kicking out in panic as it struggled to breathe.

"Arghh!" Jay shouted as he held on tight onto the water whip while focusing his mana and attention to the water bubble that was shrinking hard around the ogre's head and then…

No more movements. The beast could be seen laying dead without twitching while Jay huffed and puffed as he glanced back at Raze who had just finished tearing through six beasts while he dealt with just one.

"Your copy magic sure comes in handy," he muttered, the envy in his voice barely masked.

"Yeah… It's both a blessing and a curse," Raze replied, looking at his trembling hands. "Although I can copy any magic of my choice through touch, it still requires a huge amount of mana to use.

Even Amir's most simplest spell requires a huge amount of mana to use." Raze sighed as he looked at his hands in worry.

"Well, from where I'm standing, it looks like a gift," Jay said with a half-smile, scanning the chaos around them.

Across the arena, Dave was surrounded by twenty savage beasts—but the grin on his face was almost manic. He swung his massive axe with brutal grace, summoning earthen constructs mid-swing and cleaving through two beasts with each strike.

'That guy's a walking natural disaster. Even while injured, he still proves why he's top of his generation.'

"Hey, look out!" Raze snapped, hurling a jagged metal shard that whistled past Jay's cheek and impaled a wolf that had been silently creeping up behind him.

"What the hell are you daydreaming about?!" Raze barked.

"The others…" Jay said, eyes narrowing as he surveyed the battlefield. "I can't see Vorden, Gordon, or even Grey."

Raze looked around too, searching—and then he spotted it. At the far edge of the arena, a massive earthen pillar twisted skyward like a spiral tower, shaped oddly… as if to shield someone within.

"I think I've found Grey," Raze murmured.

But Jay suddenly gulped, his expression darkening.

"And I think I've found the others," he muttered, pointing skyward.

Raze turned—and his heart sank.

A vast shadow loomed over the arena. A monstrous hawk hovered in the sky, its talons glinting and wings spread wide.

Suspended above its head was an enormous, churning mass of glowing green goo, swirling like a storm cloud of acid.

Below, the others stood huddled at the arena's edge, their faces pale.

"Everybody!" a blue-haired boy cupped his hands to his mouth, his voice desperate and panicked. "Run away while you still can, or we're all going to die!"

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{A/N}

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