Chapter 120: To The Stone You Go

Under the cloudy night sky with no stars could be seen, the fight continued.

The two nagas, Ergetse and Iko looked at each other. The chaos balls already exploded and Ergetse lowered the barriers.

"He can't be that petty can he?" Ergetse thought that someone like the vermilion-haired teen in front of them who is strong despite looking really young wouldn't mind a trivial joke.

"Different individuals, different personalities. A lot of humans are like that." Iko spoke as he stood up. He had just finished healing himself in exchange for a pretty large amount of mana.

His injuries before might not have been fatal but it wasn't negligible either. 

Iko knew quite a bit about humans as he had ventured to the surface after turning into a dark blue naga.

"Let's go." Ergeste began dashing towards Marcus who was currently exchanging heavy blows with Ralma. 

Iko nodded. He followed Ergeste. "Do you think he's older than he looks?"

Ergeste shook his head. "I don't know, but I have never seen a human this powerful and looks so young. He is probably one of those people from the first-rate countries, as what the humans call it."

Iko quietly listened. He then began focusing on the fight in front of him.

With his trident ready, he overtook Ergeste and rushed forward as if he had no care in the world.

He casted a spell, making a pathway made of water in front of him. As he stepped on it, his speed increased. 

Marcus who was currently blocking a Ralma's attack, transformed into lightning and moved a few meters back. 

He was amazed at how fast the nagas could heal. 

'But, Erika's is definitely faster."  Marcus thought. He knew the capabilities of his wife. Healing is one of the main things she does aside from killing people with her nether spells.

Marcus brandished his spear as he noticed Iko had no plans on stopping.

Ralma was about to tell Iko to stop, but in the end, he just shook his head and closely followed.

Ergeste too was behind them, waiting for the right time to strike.

Marcus smirked. He dashed forward with his spear and a 'Chaos Lightning Javelin'.

He first threw the 'Chaos Lightning Javelin' towards Ralma, and followed it with another one, making the one-horned naga stop to defend and evade.

Iko went to clash head-on with Marcus.

Iko first raised his arm forward, casting a spell. Puddles of water appeared from the ground near Marcus. He then dashed forward with his trident readied.

Iko thrust his golden trident forward. Marcus swung his spear sidewards making the trident miss. He then counter-attacked with another swing, but as the spear slashed Iko's right chest, Marcus could feel a stinging pain from his left leg. He tried to move and continue his attack, but he couldn't.

Marcus looked below him and saw that a water spike pierced his leg.

He then remembered the puddles of water that appeared when Iko casted the spell before they clashed. 

Marcus had no time to take a breather, Ralma was coming straight towards him, Ergeste too.

He then transformed into lightning and moved a few meters back.

Marcus shook his head. "Your plan was to exchange blows?"

Iko smirked. "I can heal, but I am pretty sure you can't."

Marcus nodded. "You're right, I have no spells that could be used to heal me right now. That doesn't mean I won't be able to take you three down."

This was an opportunity to temper his body. He needs to get stronger and not only cultivation-wise but in other areas too.

His body right now couldn't do the favorite moves he used to do in his past life, so he thought that training like this in actual combat would help him. Plus, these nagas are trying to kill him, it ups the pressure even more.

Marcus placed a lightning rune on the area where he was standing right now and zipped back in his lightning form. He would stop from time to time to cast 'Lightning Rune' on the ground as he moved back.

Marcus checked the amount of mana he had left. 'This will do. I might need to finish this quickly.'

Ralma who had no idea what the mark on the ground was, avoided it. 

Marcus didn't wait for him to come close, but he zipped towards him. 

Ergeste, who was just behind Ralma, casted a spell. It was a pathway made of water. He dashed on the pathway making his speed increase and clashed with Marcus first.

Iko followed closely behind, healing the wound on his right chest made by Marcus' spear.

Marcus, who was clashing with Ergeste, noticed Ralma closing in. He did a quick swing and a thrust before zipping back.

He returned the spear back into his spatial dimension. He then grabbed a bow and a few arrows inside.

He hastily shot the arrows towards Ralma who was behind Ergeste.

Marcus wasn't finished. He got a few more arrows and fired them all at Ralma who was now defending.

Ergeste dashed forward. He once again casted a spell, making a pathway made of water.

Marcus retrieved a few more arrows from pocket dimension and fired them towards Ergeste, somewhat slowing him down.

Marcus zipped back and continued this for a few more minutes.

After a while, both Ergeste and Ralma were hit multiple times all over their body. Marcus totally ignored Iko who had been relentlessly chasing him.

Marcus could feel his mana depleting as he abused the use of 'Lightning Form' and 'Lightning Rune'.

Marcus kept shooting arrows at them while zipping around in circles, leading them to where he wants. He also switched to his spear from time to time, as he exchanged blows with three of the nagas at the same time. He got hit a few times and now had wounds around his body, but he didn't care.

Before the nagas even noticed it, they were now surrounded by lighting runes. They couldn't take a single step or else one would explode.

Marcus looked at each of the nagas who were standing a short distance away from each other. He then shot an arrow towards Iko.

The naga raised a barrier in front of him. He made sure that it wouldn't touch the rune that's surrounding him. 

Marcus didn't stop, he kept shooting arrows at Iko, ignoring the other nagas who were idly watching.

Iko couldn't blame them. Both Ergeste and Ralma could do nothing right now aside from watching him suffer.

Ergeste tried removing the runes through magic, but Marcus didn't allow them to explode. His mastery over this spell has been raised, making it so that the runes could either automatically activate or be controlled by him.

Marcus kept shooting until Iko finally ran out of mana. The naga stood there like a fish out of water, defenseless.

Marcus smiled as he shot an arrow to the naga's legs making him kneel. 

"Iko!" Ergetse and Ralma yelled. They couldn't believe that their friend would die like this in front of them.

Ralma turned to Marcus. "Don't kill him!"

Marcus released the arrow loaded in his bow before turning to Ralma. "Why not?"

Marcus was, of course, not going to kill the naga. He hasn't even killed the weaker ones he encountered before.

"You humans started this whole bullshit and now you want to kill one of our kind?!" Ralma had an aggrieved look on his face. He had already lost a few of his friends because of the humans. He was not yet prepared to lose any more.

Marcus scoffed. He then started firing his arrows towards the two nagas. They too tried their best to defend, but in the end, they ran out of mana and were now in a similar state with Iko.

"Why don't you just kill us right away?" Ergetse asked. He knew he had no way out. Piles of vermilion-colored runes littered the ground around him. He already saw what would happen once his feet would touch that, and it did not look pretty.

Marcus chuckled. "Why would I? Whoever said I would kill any of you?"

The three nagas scrunched their brows as they looked at Marcus. They couldn't understand what he wanted out of them.

"They say shark soup is delicious, I wonder what naga soup tastes like." Marus smiled.

"You dare!" Ralma shouted.

Ergetse dryly chuckled. "So that is why you kept us alive all this time? You, humans, do have such weird tastes."

Marcus laughed. "I agree that humans have weird taste, but I wasn't serious about what I said before. Although, you three are coming with me."

Marcus dashed towards Iko first. His right hand turned red as it punched Iko straight to the face, knocking him out cold.

The lightning rune would of course not activate if Marcus walks over it, which allowed him to safely tread them.

A few seconds later Marcus came out and dashed to Ralma, and once again disappeared.

He reappeared one more time and went to Ergetse.

"What did you do to them?" slight fear with a lot of confusion was etched in Ergetse's face.

"To the stone, you go," Marcus spoke, he just punched the naga and brought him into the Stone of Destruction chamber.

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As Marcus finished placing them in the chamber and got out of the stone. A blond-haired woman landed inside the Stone of Destruction living room.