"Yelena, How can I kill a diamond magic user?"
Ray was out of breath; he had escaped from the giant man for some time. After reaching floor sixty, he destroyed the stairs completely to buy some time for rest.
He rubbed some healing ointment on his open wounds; he had stopped the blood loss with his own magic, but blood loss was not the only problem with such injuries.
"Ray, how is the situation in there?"
"Not bad, I killed one of their squad members. Their tank is a diamond one, so I can't do anything to it, and the other three are unknown."
"You did great. Your mother and everyone else is on the last floor, stall time as much as you can."
Ray sighed; his main question had been ignored. "How much time do you need?"
"An hour."
"Good."
An explosion happened at two places on the floor, and Ray resumed his roaming again.
While Ray went with a group of soldiers, the wall next to him and the giant charged toward him.
"How did he know my exact location?" Ray ignored him and went for the group anyway.
Ray couldn't kill him, but he couldn't kill Ray either. His speed compared to Ray was leagues lower, and he didn't have an effective way to attack either. Despite that Ray knew when his squad members arrived, he was going to be a big problem.
He dodged punches from the giant while slaying the soldiers. "Not a very good tank, I would say."
The giant roared and attacked again, this time with less care.
Ray sensed a trap with the obvious opening and ran away. "Where the hell are the other three?"
He aimed for the stairs again to guard them for some time, but at the entrance two men were talking.
One of them turned to Ray and said with a low tone, "Took you long enough."
The other one started to climb the staircase. "Not so fast!" Ray activated the Ashbringer, but the giant joined the fight too.
"Yelena, tell Keres that someone is coming their way."
A hiss came from behind him, and he saw the last member of their squad: a girl with a viper around his waist. Their masks didn't let him see their faces, but the knives in her hand were proof that she knew her way.
"What is their magic?" Ray thought to himself, "Going into a fight with no prior knowledge against three members of a squad was a suicide mission, a mission that he accepted with joy."
Ray went for the other girl; to his surprise, her knives were able to deflect his scythe.
The snake saw an opening in his defense and went for his neck; however, before it could reach his skin, the scythe in his hand had turned into two swords, and its head rolled on the ground.
Instead of its body falling from around her waist, another one grows, this time around her right hand.
"What kind of magic is this?" Ray stepped back, using his own magic from the other side of the wall, and a blood arrow was shot. It destroyed most of the girl's left arm, but she just moved her hand, and the new snake turned into her missing body.
The main snake grew back once more too.
With his back facing the other too, Ray still persisted on the girl; their skills were evenly matched, with none of them being able to find an opening.
"At last!" The giant joined the fight too; however, this time his strikes were more precise. Fighting both of them at the same time left no time for him to think about the other one.
"This one is for Katrina!" The man on the other side yelled, as a bird in flames came out from his hand, "Fuck, it's hell flames...."
Ray dodged both of their hits and decided to retreat, but the bird was so fast that it entered his body with no hardship.
"Finish it; I will go too."
Ray screamed out of pain, but there was nothing he could do, as his hands were busy with these two.
The hell flame, unlike other flames, didn't cause any effect on the physical world, but it caused so much pain to one target that they would rather die.
He decided to run for some time until the pain went away, but the girl was faster than him and blocked his path.
Soon the giant joined them too.
"Yelena, there is a hellfire user in here." He sent the message and returned to his own fight.
In the base of operation outside of the tower, Yelena's expression became gloomy; there was only one known family that had hellfire in their bloodline.
"I'm going in."
She didn't wait for the response from her teammates, flying toward the floor that Ray was in.
"Long time no see, Blackfire."
A figure appeared from the sky facing her with open hands.
"I knew it was you. Move away, and I will spare your life." Yelena's hair started to turn into flames.
The woman said with a mocking tone, "I know your affection for that boy; you still feel guilt for the death of his father. But you know that if we fight, there will be nothing remaining from this city."
"If you go overboard, your own son will burn alive too. Stop trying your cheap tricks; they won't work on me."
"Oh, like the way you burned his family."
The woman smiled at the black sun that appeared in the air.