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Lightning crackled through the hangar area as Erik now had to fight against two new threats. <Lucky me...>

The two Vindicators rushed to Bill's side, the barrier master quickly taking position on his left while the elementalist darted to his right.

"Getting tired?" Bill asked, his invisible hands multiplying across the space and raining down on Erik like a swarm of angry wasps. "Your movements are slowing."

"Oh, well, I mean... It's a couple thousand against one."

Erik's sarcasm was lost on Bill, but his words rang true-he was fighting an impossible battle that no sane person would have chosen to face.

Yet he was there, and not only was he trying to come out on top in a situation in which everyone else would have fled with their tails between their legs, but he was actually holding his own well.

The hydra's heads were also helping a lot. They allowed Erik to use the plants to create a protective dome around the aircraft while he kept fighting against the blackguards below, and now Bill and two Vindicators.

As for the plane, Erik turned everything around it into metal to make it harder for the enemy to destroy it. This didn't mean metal was actually enough-many powers could easily tear through such defenses, but at least it provided another layer of protection, and that wasn't something to discard.

At the same time, the Hydra's heads were managing different aspects of the battle and were the main reason Erik had not been defeated or the plane destroyed. It was thanks to them he kept piling up kills and experience points.

Erik didn't get that many levels, three to be precise, in the last ten minutes. It was a great rate, but not as great as others he got when farming thaids.

Yet all that mana replenished his reserves.

One of the Vindicators remained on the ground and focused on defending the soldiers that were rushing at the plane.

Her power was suitable for the task since it allowed her to enhance the stamina and mana regen of those around her. Her birth brain crystal power, though, was that of a barrier master. It was a troublesome combination, because she could protect her comrades while, at the same time, powering them up.

A Vindicator barrier master was a first, though. Yet not a less annoying combination.

The other Vindicator was an elementalist. He called him as such, since he had two brain crystal powers that allowed him to control wind and fire.

It was hard to miss, given how soon he started bombarding Erik with combinations of wind blades and fireballs, but he was mostly supporting Bill.

However, aside from trying to kill Erik, he was also protecting the barrier master Vindicator, and while Bill remained in the air to face Erik directly.

"Anyway, you don't look better than me. Am I wrong, or are you the one who can barely stand?"

Erik taunted, unleashing a barrage of ice shards and crackling lightning bolts at the oncoming Vindicators, only to watch their attacks dissipate against the barrier master's shields.

<That fucker... I need to get rid of her somehow.>

The woman was skilled and showed a remarkable ability to do multiple things at the same time. Though Erik didn't know if powering up those around her was a sort of passive ability or required focus. In the first case, then he was unlucky; in the second, it would only mean the woman was even better than he assumed.

Besides, based on how well she was protecting the soldiers below while also protecting Bill and the Elementalist, she must have been a very good fighter.

<Well, she is a Vindicator. It wouldn't make sense for her to not know when to make a barrier...

>

Yet it wasn't easy to block Erik's attacks, especially those of his plants, since he made the vines spread underground to reach their target, meaning it was impossible to see them before the attack.

The elementalist started controlling the winds, creating a sort of bent wind barrier that redirected Erik's attack back at him.

At the same time, the man created a small hole in the wind barrier through which he sent wind-powered fireballs.

<Fuck... This guy has a lot of mana...>

It didn't help that the Barrier Master Vindicator was also helping his mana regeneration, which meant he could make such kinds of attacks much more often.

The temperature around Erik surged dramatically as waves of heat rolled through the area, the elementalist's fiery assault turning the air itself into a weapon, and the wind he was generating didn't help.

However, that wasn't enough to kill Erik. With all the defenses he had, what should have burned to cinders, everyone else was nothing more than a mild annoyance. Besides, he also evaded most of his attacks, and with the strength he had, he didn't even break a sweat. Though the man's attacks were fast enough to give him a hard time.

"Why are you struggling this much?" Bill asked. The man knew Erik was likely to win.

His mana reserves seemed endless, and despite having so many reinforcements on his side, it was only a matter of time before the blackguards would deplete theirs.

<No, there is still a chance for us to win before that happens.> The man tried to reassure himself.

That Erik apparently had massive mana reserves was clear to the blackguards now, despite them not knowing how much or why. In truth, it was just because Erik got mana from each

level up.

That was why they called the barrier master vindicator here. She could increase mana regen, which at least partially offset Erik's endless pool.

The problem was that no matter how valuable this information was, without someone able to make him deplete that mana, they would not win.

<It doesn't mean we must not try...>

"Why should I not?" Erik asked.

Erik's plants transformed, shifting from things as hard and static as metal to others more evanescent like fire, sometimes even going on between the two.

The sudden change caught the elementalist off guard, and he stumbled but didn't fall; his shields provided cover while he recovered but could not stop the attack for long.

The man got forced to increase the strength of the wind he created just to keep up with Erik's attacks, and that reshaped the environment.

The winds pushed away the remnants of rain, creating clear patches in the previously overcast sky. It parted the clouds and swept the debris that the battle created.

Sunlight pierced through these openings, casting beams that revealed the state of the

battlefield below.

They also fell on Erik, making him look akin to a deity, albeit a god of death.

The winds, however, failed to disperse the heat generated by the fighters' attacks.

The temperature rose noticeably because of the beaming ball of fire that both Erik and the elementalist Vindicator generated.

It didn't matter how it could have been because of winter. The area was as hot as if they were in the middle of summer and was constantly rising.

"I could ask you the same question," Erik said. "Why are you struggling so much? Shouldn't you know death is the only thing that awaits you?" Erik launched another assault.

"Because I have a goal, Erik, a wish, to be more precise."

"Is this the goal that made you guys unleash the Heniate on New Alexandria?"

"Are you still mad about that?" Bill avoided some metal tendrils sprouting from the ground, then destroyed some massive concrete chunks Erik threw at him with telekinesis.

Meanwhile, despite the Barrier Master Vindicator's protective efforts, Erik's attacks

continued to cut through the blackguards' ranks.

Yet still they came, their numbers endlessly increasing, empowered by the barrier master's brain crystal power, and protected by the same person.

"I'm tired of talking to you. For someone so young, you think small," Bill said. His invisible hands formed a cage around Erik, trying to limit his movement.

"Better narrow-minded than a monster like you guys."

The elementalist unleashed a flaming tornado and hurled it towards Erik.

The young man's third Hydra's head struggled to track all the threats. His plants created

barriers while he dodged, but the assault forced him closer to the ground, which was a problem since there was basically no free space for him below, and the elementalist was

waiting for him there.

<Fuck.>

Erik felt a massive surge of mana come from the elementalist, who then summoned a massive firestorm, its power magnified by his companion, constantly replenishing his mana. Bill's invisible hands struck from multiple angles, each aimed to disable or kill. Erik dodged them all, but just barely-the soldiers who couldn't target the hangar had turned their attacks on him instead, making his situation direr by the second.

Many had melee powers and could do nothing, but a lot had ranged ones.

<If I go too far from the battlefield, I can't control the plants.>

There was a limit to his powers, after all, and he couldn't leave.

Erik destroyed another wave of soldiers while preventing the plane's destruction.

[LEVEL UP.]

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