It was... beyond anything he had ever seen. Captain Arian was right, Godfrey was indeed one of a kind.

Dax’s eyes gleamed. His eyes went to his right as Godfrey had closed in, swinging his sword at him.

The second page opened: Blink.

With a flash of bright light, Dax vanished while a massive mana beam split the boulder he once stood on into two. In that moment, Dax appeared where Godfrey once stood, and his tome flipped back to the first page.

That phantom appeared once more, caging Godfrey in a Gravity Lock. He broke it in the next second, but Jin had struck the ground and it ruptured, with molten magma spilling out like a geyser.

Godfrey teleported away as a golden diagram appeared, and Solstice lunged out, swinging his twin swords at Dax, but all that was left were the embers that came out from his tome.

The dragon knight was left with Jin.

Solstice leaped, spinning his body mid-air, narrowly evading Jin’s hammer, but at that moment, Jin blinked away and appeared at a different location.

’Two can play that game,’ Godfrey said as he retrieved Solstice and unleashed him right before Jin’s face.

Solstice slammed his forehead into Jin’s own, forcing the giant creature to slide several meters backwards, leaving two massive gullies in his wake.

Just then, Dax used Gravity Lock on Solstice. Godfrey tracked him with his eyes. Dax was a hundred meters away from his previous location, which meant nearly a hundred and fifty from where he was.

Two golden diagrams popped up beside Dax, unleashing Tempest and Toria.

But two titan-armoured phantoms appeared and used Gravity Lock on both knights. Their glowing translucent hands hovered above the knights, forcing them to their knees.

Purple light flashed in the darkness as Godfrey appeared behind him. He slammed his hand downward, aiming to slam Dax into the ground with telekinesis, but Dax blinked once more.

Not once but four times, and the third page of his tome flipped open.

Third Page: Demolition.

The earth was torn apart by pure mana. All Godfrey saw was pure white as the earth right below him and his knights fractured and imploded. A bright, blinding white light spread out, turning the night into a stark day for several seconds.

Dax made sure he retrieved Jin and teleported a few more times as over a six-hundred-meter radius was caught in the blast. All that remained was a vast, deep black hole and rock fragments of different sizes floating about like gravity had lost its power in that afflicted area.

On one of the rocks, Godfrey stood completely unscathed. His golden eyes pierced through the eyeholes of his crimson armour as he pointed his sword at Dax.

"I did not expect this."

Mana amplified his voice.

"Me too. I thought you wouldn’t survive that one. Demolition restricts space, you wouldn’t have been able to teleport if you weren’t using the tome’s spell. That means... you tanked that blow head-on. You’re ridiculous," Dax responded.

Godfrey lunged toward him. ’That tome’s power is intense. It has turned Dax into some kind of mage, a deadly one. I haven’t seen him use two skills at once, but he can use one skill at different places. I still don’t understand the mechanics, so I’m charging blind. For a mage, it’s best I maintain close contact, but with that teleportation spell, he’s like a fly.’

He summoned Dirge behind him. She slammed her staff into the ground and summoned thousands of shadow wraiths, all of whom charged at Dax from all sides.

Godfrey wanted to hide in their midst. Dax wasn’t holding back, he wouldn’t either. This wasn’t a spar, unnecessary emotions would get him killed.

Dax looked at the tome hovering above his hand. It flipped to the fifth page and embers burst forth, then it flipped quickly to the fourth page.

Fourth Page: Extinguish!

Five pillars appeared all around him as ribbons made of flames danced around his body. He levitated as flames burst out from the empty space between the rocks.

Anyone would have expected the flames to come from the rocks, but they were like magnets, calling forth flames from a different place.

The flames roared like a dragon’s breath. Over half the shadow wraith army Dirge summoned was wiped out.

But Godfrey burst out of the flames, teleported, and appeared before Dax, his hand already before his chest.

He slammed Dax into the ground. The earth quaked. Godfrey spotted a hammer from the corner of his eyes.

It was just inches away from his face when he vanished, reappearing beside Jin, lowering his body as he sliced the back of its leg just before its foot.

With a roar, Jin fell on one knee but swung his hammer regardless as magma burst out of his entire body, but as it spread out, Godfrey encased him in ice.

It took a lot of quick thinking to figure out which skill to use, and he wasn’t sure if he was perfect.

Still at high speed, Godfrey made a swift turn to face Dax once again.

This time, Solstice, Toria, and Tempest were all around Dax, who rose to one knee, groaning heavily.

"Who won?" he asked softly as the black skies turned crimson. Several meteors tore through the clouds.

It was his fifth page: Meteor Rain. A spell that took a while to appear.

A supergiant phantom appeared above the clouds and hovered his hand over the meteors, speeding their fall over ten times.

In a blink of an eye, the meteors were already close.

Dax looked at Godfrey. "I guess we both lost..."

BOOM!

Before the meteors touched the earth, the grass field was wiped out and the very earth itself shook so much it affected Paradise City.

Explosions rang out, and massive amounts of dirt rose into the air as kilometres of landmass were bombarded into absolute ruins.

***

"What’s going on there?" A Regular at the wall looked at the horizon.

"It’s like a battle between demigods. That can’t be a spar, it’s a death duel. Is it the Elites?" another asked as he gazed at the crimson skies.

***

Arian stood on his veranda. He felt the quaking and saw the meteors falling from the sky. It couldn’t be that this fight had anything to do with Godfrey?