Aspiration to the Heavens: Becoming the Supreme Mage Vol 2- Descent of Darkness

Episode 85: Imminent Victory

*Tahoma*

[Meanwhile- In another section of Mt. Rios]

I dodged a blue beam and watched as a glacier appeared on the spot it had hit. I looked forward and saw another one coming at me. Someone was sniping at me from the cliff above.

I narrowed my eyes at the rocky protrusion and noticed what appeared to be bits of ice. We were high enough for ice to form, but given they formed a straight line pointing to the direction of where the beam hit, it was a safe bet that the fighter was there.

"Tahoma! There you are!" a familiar voice called out. Or rather a pair of voices.

Approaching me was a pair of black haired, greyish-blue-eyed boys. They were the jokester twins, Tasunke and Tashunka.

"Y-you ran off," they said.

"I felt the presence of someone here," I said, glancing back at the cliff. They hadn't taken another shot after their two failed attempts, but why? Did their spell require a recharge time or was it the casting time that was the issue?

"Hmm, looks like a simple ice beam, though," the twins said as if they had read my mind. One of them reached their hand out to touch the glacier.

"Stop, Tashunka, you'll freeze!" Kachina yelled as she ran up the worn out mountain trail. I was surprised that there was even a trial to this far up the mountain to begin with. Had Mt. Rios once been a sacred site to the people here like how we had Mt. Wahkan?

Tashunka stopped.

"You idiot," his brother said, hitting him upside the head.

"Hey!" Tashunka snapped. He hit Tasunke in return.

"Stop fighting," Kachina yelled. "You're supposed to be fighting the opposing teams!"

"Sorry, Kachi," the two said in unison as they stepped away from one another.

I sighed. "Must've been tough babysitting them all the way up here."

"Indeed it was," Kachina said, taking a deep breath. "Well, now that we're here, how about we start looking for our opponents?"

I glanced back up at the rocky cliff overlooking us. The thin traces of ice had been evaporated away. They had probably moved while I was distracted.

Suddenly red stone tore through the ground. The four of us jumped back

Standing at the origin of the red crystal wall was Haroun.

I removed the wooden totem around my neck. The other two did the same. Bright lights emitted from our hands and blinded Harun.

He jumped back and slammed the ground, raising a wall of ruby between us.

Two figures jumped down from the cliff and ejected blasts of high pressured water out of their hands.

A silver humanoid figure stood in front of the blasts and raised a shield over its head. The shield screeched as it bent under the pressure of the two water beams.

"Argentum!" Tasunke yelled.

"I'm fine," the silver humanoid said as it struggled to fix its bending shield.

"Aurum!" Tashunke yelled. Another humanoid, this one with a golden armored body and with a spear in hand flew up toward the source of the water beams. "Go! Destroy them!"

"I'll leave those Shui clan twins to you two," I said.

"Huh? How do you know it's them?" they asked.