"Seriously, this is humiliating." Rai spoked, staring at the dark tunneled labyrinth. "How long we've been here, Hayato-kun?" he angled his gaze at Hayato.

"About three hours, I guess." Hayato replied with a doubtful expression.

"I can't take this anymore," Gojou spoked. "My legs aren't meant for long walks." He's panting with his arms on his knees, supporting his body.

"Don't make it sounds like your the victim." Rai looked at him with deadly glare. "I'm supposed to be with Yuya." He whined.

"Hahaha, calm down, Rai." Hayato laughed.

"But it's strange, how we can no longer feel the ongoing battle above us. We've been here for hours, but to be honest I can't feel any magic from above." Rai spoked. "It appears that the battle is finished." he added.

"That wasn't the case," Gojou spoked, causing Rai and Hayato to pay attention. "It seems like this is a moving labyrinth." He stated, exchanging glances with them. "This is annoying since I lost my contact with my toys outside."

"How can you be so sure?" Rai asked with curiosity. "I can't feel this tunnel moving. Although I can sense some mana traces, must be because of the system." He added.

"Don't underestimate me Rai," Gojou smiled. "Even with my age, I have good senses. Even a slight changes in surrounding can't remain unnoticed." He spoked as he stood straight to regain his posture. "This whole place is constantly moving forward while scrambling the tunnel to confuse us." he explained.

"In that case, that means that this isn't the boss room?" Hayato responded.

"I'm not sure, but it's like the system is playing with us." Gojou replied and signalled the two to start walking. "If I was right, there's another person in this place aside from us." He said before entering a large room inside the labyrinth.

"What do you mean?" Hayato and Rai gave a doubtful look at Gojou.

"You really have good senses Gojou Yukimura."

Their doubts was erased after hearing someone speaking inside the room. A man with a deep voice, echoing throughout that dark room.

"Who's there?" Rai cowered and hid behind Gojou.

"You didn't bring Ao with you." The voice speaking became louder. "What a shame." he chuckled.

"Who are you?" Gojou spoked and looked around him. "What do you know?" he's preparing to cast a skill.

"I've been expecting you, Gojou Yukimura or should I call you 'the reaper of red sea', it sounds weird though." He laughed before showing his face by walking outside the shadows. "My name is Jack, sounds familiar isn't it?" he smiled, pointing a hand gun at Gojou.

"You're..." Gojou reacted after hearing the nickname. It's a nostalgic feeling.

---

"Whoop!"

The sound of Ryouma's arm swinging at Erwin can be heard by both of them and the smell of their sweats. They're fighting hand to hand and Erwin couldn't use his magic to stop Ryouma's light movements. Although Erwin's regeneration is still active, he couldn't endurance the pain of getting hit by explosion.

"Take this bitch!" Ryouma shouted before lowering his body and kicked Erwin's chin with full force. His landed an explosive blow on his chin that sends him flying.

"Ack!" Erwin couldn't do anything. His speed boost was almost gone and he couldn't feel his upper body anymore. 'Richard you bastard, it's your fault for not removing my limiters.' he whispered in his thought.

"It's not my fault, it's your fault for acting so arrogant." Erwin heard the voice speaking inside his head. "You should die to reflect."

'I won't accept this.' Erwin gritted his teeth as Ryouma beaten him up. 'I won't accept the heavenly retribution. Give me a link to the blessing zone.' he prayed and begged inside his thought. But his prayers was useless and no one answered, slowly tears began to pour from his eyes. 'What's this feeling?' He confusedly asked himself. 'I'm trembling, is this... fear?'

[WARNING!]

ENDURANCE REACHED ITS LIMIT

ENDURANCE: 13/420

Ryouma on the other hand was running out of stamina, his endurance was running low. 'Not yet,' he continued to punch and kick Erwin while moving around to confuse him. He's too fast that even Erwin's regeneration couldn't keep up. "What's wrong? Is the potion's effect wearing off?" He spoked at Erwin as he beats him up.

But suddenly, fear and disparation took over Erwin's mind. The fear of death and his disparation to survive awaken something inside Erwin.

"Mana release: Assault mode!"

Erwin's body was enveloped by large amount of purple mana that builds up to form thin thousand of strings. Ryouma was blown away and got his right leg wounded in the process. Erwin's body was tearing apart like a meat being sliced in small pieces, the regeneration was the only one holding his body in pieces. But the potion time limit is almost over.

[WARNING!]

[Blessed item: Holy water potion]

Time left: 1m 42s

"His body is tearing apart." Ryouma stared as he covered his face with his arms from the strong wind the swirling around Erwin. "What's up with this mana? If my reflexes was slow. I would've lost one of my limbs." The scene in front of him was almost frightening. But he knows what to do. Ryouma already prepared for this worse case scenario. 'I should get closer to him.' he thought.

Before he even move a toe, he already saw his right arm getting enveloped with strings of mana. "What the..." But Ryouma somehow managed to free his arm by releasing his own mana and focused it to his right arm. Although his arm was severely wounded from the sharp strings, he's glad that he still got his arm back. "He still got some tricks. But he's not on his senses anymore." He opened his inventory and took out some Health and mana potion. He quickly gulped it down and stepped back for a moment to analyze the situation.

Ryouma hurriedly runned forward and throws some explosion directly to the ground to hide himself into the dust and smoke from the explosion. Ryouma's magic is to ignite anything he touches. He can accelerate his speed by continuously igniting explosions below his feet. "I'm just need to... touch him." he hend in his mind.

Ryouma charged towards Erwin and got his body wounded as he passed through the strings of mana enveloping Erwin from 5 meter radius. His blood was dripping down, and the mana strings was slowing him down. "Just a little bit," he grunted.

The strings holding Ryouma's whole body tightened up causing his wounds to hurt and bleed more until the mana strings reached his bones that caused Ryouma more pain. "Don't screw with me bastard. I'm not gonna die here." he screamed to motivate himself. "Just... a little bit... of... push." Ryouma moved his left index finger.

"Boooooom!"

An explosion occured below Erwin that stunned him. He lost his control over his mana that leads to Ryouma getting freed. Ryouma took this chance to sneak towards him and touch Erwin. "This is game over." Ryouma smiled in victory.

"Explosion Trap magic: Infernal circle!"

A magic circle appeared below them before Ryouma jumped outside the circle and focused on channeling all of his mana in the circle. A huge amount of orange flames blasted from the ground that burned Erwin alive. The flames went straight and dyed the sky with it's color. Ryouma won, but he's couldn't move a muscle because of the pain he has been enduring all this time.

[NOTICE]

YOUVE SLAIN THE ENEMY...

[NOTICE]

YOU LEVELED UP...

Erwin died, his body nor his ashes couldn't be found anywhere. One thing is exact, he died with regret, Ryouma saw through him during the battle that he wasn't fighting with all his power. He emptied his thoughts before collapsing on his back and peacefully closed his eyes. "I don't care if someone came and attack me. I'm tired and my body is severely wounded. I need to recover some strength."

---

"....."

"Yuyaaaaa!... Yuyaaaaa!..."

Yuya can heard the voices calling his name as he slowly opened his eyes. He can feel something soft at the back of his head where he was laying. 'What's this?' he thought as he saw a figure of a woman looking at him. So that means that the soft sensation behind his head was a lady's lap. "Who are you?" His vision was too blurry to recognize the person and he voice was echoing through his ears, almost unrecognizable. But the womanly scent was familiar. He also felt his body pain slowly fading away.

"He's awake!" Another voice spoked.

"Thank goodness, I don't want you to die in my hands."

Yuya blinked a few times before regaining his clear vision and finally recognized who the person is. "Ha-Hana?" he's too surprise to see her back in the battlefield. Yuya quickly sat down and looked at Sena. "Are you guys... okay?" He worriedly asked both Hana and Sena. "And more importantly, why are you here Hana?" He glanced at Hana and worriedly asked.

"You idiots are really careless without me." A voice came from a familiar person.

"This voice...." Yuya heard another familiar voice not too far away from him. He turned his head to the direction where the voice came from. He saw an overwhelming presence with surrounded by a completely dense amount of mana. The person was almost unrecognizable in one glance, must be because of his height and some muscle but his magic was completely familiar to Yuya. "Shun?!" he called the name of his dearest friend.

All the doubts faded after the man slightly turned his head and looked at Yuya with his red scarlet eyes.

'That person is... Shun, right?' Yuya exchange glances with Hana.

"That's him, of course. Who else would help you in this kind of situation?" Hana replied.

"I'll leave Yuya to you Hana. I'll take care of the enemies. I can still sense them from here." Shun spoked before vanishing from their sight.

"That was fast." Yuya widened his eyes before Hana pulled his head back to her lap. "What was that? I almost... can't recognize him."