Advent of the Archmage

”I’ll make you scatter again, stupid hand!” After getting attacked twice by the same method the demon erupted in anger. It bellowed as it unleashed another explosion of dark energy, this time its scream seemed to ring through the whole forest. Once again it managed to disperse the Vulcan’s Hand, but this time he could sense the moment his feet reached the ground that something was shooting towards it from behind. It was a Whistle. Not the normal Whistle though, but a Sacred Silver Whistle!

”So, you’re finally trying a new trick, huh?” jeered the demon.

The demon immediately felt the threat coming from behind and blocked the Whistle just in time with its arm blades.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

Because of its strong combat instincts, the demon blocked all of Link’s Whistles with frightening precision and speed. But that wasn’t all the Whistles could do.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The Whistles exploded and sent fragments of Sacred Silver flying through the air. The flames from the explosions seemed to have swallowed up the demon’s whole body.

But Whistle was ultimately just a Level-1 spell, so even though the metal fragments were quite deadly to humans and Dark Elves who had very low defenses, they were really no threat to the demons who had very strong and hardy skin.

All the demon felt when the metal fragments hit it was a slight prickly pain. It bent his head to examine its skin for a while and noticed that there were some shallow wounds, but that was nothing to get worried about. What was scary was how these cut wounds couldn’t close up and how the dark energy around its body was slightly hampered and impeded now.

Those were the effects of the Sacred Silver.

The demon was momentarily stunned. It had never been attacked by anything like this before.

Just at that moment, Link triggered the Glyph of Soul and the Vulcan’s Hand that had just dispersed re-emerged and once again clutched the demon’s body in its palm.

”Ellie,” shouted Link, ”the Sacred Silver Whistle!”

Eleanor had mastered Whistle ever since Link had given her the scroll that contained its spell structure at the Magicians’ Fair a while ago.

Eleanor was no longer afraid of the demon when she saw it clambering helplessly in Link’s giant fiery hand. Her attitude and performance at the time were finally at the standard of a Level-6 Master Magician.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

One-by-one, the Whistles shot out of Eleanor’s wand at a speed on par with Link’s Whistles. She’d cast three Whistles in one second, and under her control they all headed towards the demon’s head.

Bang, bang, bang!

The Whistles exploded, bringing about more Sacred Silver fragments all around the demon.

The strange attack had just wounded the demon not too long ago, so when it was hit with the same attack again the demon got even more confused. It had never faced this kind of spell before and had no idea how to defend itself from it. All this time his instincts had helped him win every battle, but once he’s forced to face a novel attack the demon was stumped. With this dampened response it was then unable to disperse Link’s Vulcan’s Hand.

Which meant it was the perfect timing for Link to kill the demon!

A steady whistle rang out of the Vulcan’s hand. It tightened its grasp on the demon abruptly, while its palm suddenly burst out in an intense bluish-white light—it was the fire elements of the Vulcan’s Hand finally breaking out into its wild nature!

”Aaaaahhhhh!!!” the demon howled in pain. There was an explosion of the dark demonic energy around it again, protecting it from the screaming heat of the fiery hand. But by then, the Vulcan’s Hand had already fully exploded and released an immense implosive force that pushed inwards at the demon, canceling out the outward pushing forces the dark energy had exerted on the Vulcan’s Hand.

And so, the demon could no longer disperse the Vulcan’s Hand this time, it could only resist its force.

However, although the dark energy in its body was immense, it still had its limits. The demon had already used a significant amount of energy in scattering the Vulcan’s Hand twice and was now continuously exerting energy to protect himself from the Vulcan’s Hand’s force. It had already expended a great chunk of its energy reserve.