"Who?"

"Bang-"

The moment Maca turned around, a huge ice bird flew from behind him, and in his slightly stunned gaze, the large group of fire creatures around him almost swept away.

What's going on? Where did this bird come from? Why......

Why could he feel a wave of déjà vu magic in it?

Maca watched as the icebird flapped its wings and spun around after a swoop impact. While the ice crystals reflected a brilliant brilliance, the cold air was scattered everywhere it passed.

For a moment, even Maca could hardly tell which ones were the cold snaps he had created with the cooling rules.

And just as the ice bird spun around and flew into the air, a mysterious wizard in a dark trench coat suddenly appeared in Maka's sight.

"Uh...... Thank you. ”

Judging from the whole process and the current results, this wizard did help him. But if you want to say whether this person is friend or foe, Maca is completely inconclusive.

Because from the moment he saw this wizard, he immediately felt the "sense of rejection" emanating from the other party, which was an aura that no one should approach.

So...... You can't always go wrong to say thank you first, right?

Of course, compared to Maca's surprise, Helbo's side was actually much more surprised. After all, just because of the moment just now, a small half of the fire creatures he cast were directly defeated.

However, although the large group of fire creatures was scattered a lot, the flames themselves, which were their constituent elements, were still floating in the air with the wind.

In the next second, Maca, who sensed that the flow of magic was becoming violent again, had to hurriedly look in the direction where Helbo was.

"Boom!"

But I saw that the large flame seemed to be suddenly held up by an invisible big hand, and suddenly gathered into a ball, and then I saw a flame snake with the size of the ice crystal giant bird rushing out of it.

In the blink of an eye, the large fire snake, which was mainly red, orange and black, snaked up in the air, opened a fierce and huge kiss that spewed a scorching breath and swam straight towards Maca's side.

It seems that although Helbo was intervened by the mysterious wizard, he did not target the other party because of this. His gaze had only fallen on Maca from beginning to end, and he had no intention of making any changes at all.

"A true summoning spell that combines the rules of the soul with the rules of the ordinary first level...... Isn't it worth anything now? ”

To be honest, with his current understanding of the rules of the soul, it was not entirely impossible to summon a giant beast with the power of the rules like the other two people present.

It's a pity that he, who has never had a chance to try it, obviously needs more time to construct magic.

And Helbo, who was controlling the Flame Serpent over there, would he give him that time?

"Tsk."

With a slight smack of his tongue, Maca slammed down as fast as she could, narrowly avoiding the massive jaw of the fiery serpent that was coming straight for him.

Although he didn't have time to play any summoning arts, it didn't mean that he didn't have the power to fight back!

"Speaking of which, in recent years, I have been patronizing the study of the principles of magic, and my reliance on the power of rules has also increased...... It seems that they have almost forgotten the original battle concept......"

How exactly should a wizard who is truly proficient in actual combat fight?

Godric Gryffindor, as the undisputed strongest of the four founders of Hogwarts, gave Maca an obvious answer back then.

"Concentrate."

Suddenly, Maca's eyes darkened. Combined with the perception of magic, the world in his eyes instantly loses color and becomes a picture interwoven with only sensory information.

"Swift."

His mind flashed, and at the second when the fire snake passed by, his feet exerted force and left the magic book under him directly, and his physical body exploded with an unexpectedly fast speed.

"Frozen."

The cooldown rules channeled the cold current, condensing ice in a continuous stream under his feet, allowing him to move lightning through the air without the need for a levitation charm.

"Mute."

Before the voice fell, Maca was moving at high speed...... Gone.

"Whew-"

It was just a stunned effort, and Helbo, who was still secretly hiding just now, suddenly revealed his figure.

His eyes widened, and he looked down at his left shoulder in amazement—and there a long, straight and slender bone staff pierced from behind him, and strung him on it.

"Boom!"

Immediately after, a burst of blue-white light erupted from the staff, engulfing Helbo's entire body in it.

In the distance, the mysterious wizard watched everything that had happened in such a short period of time, as if he had also been surprised by Maka's sudden outburst.

But after a few seconds, he suddenly raised his right hand and swung it down.

At the same time, Maca, who had just appeared behind Helmo once, was now back in his original position. Just look at him stepping on the magic book again and standing firmly, his chest rising and falling slightly, and the consumption is not low.

On the other side, the dazzling white light that engulfed Helbo was naturally an extreme eruption of Maca's use of the power of the cooling rules.

It was an ultra-low temperature that surged directly in his body, and even if his current body was not a physical body, he would inevitably suffer a heavy blow after taking this blow head-on.

But Maca didn't expect that when even the flame giant snake showed signs of collapse, the ice crystal giant bird that was still hovering high in the sky swooped down under the orders of its master.

Why, does the wizard, who has been mysterious since his appearance, think that Helbo should choose to give it a go in such a very unfavorable situation?

However, under the premise that "there are two enemies with good strength, and they have suffered a lot of injuries", Helbo really launched another active attack!

Suddenly, the flame serpent that was about to disintegrate suddenly re-solidified, turned its head and bit at the place where Maca had stayed. Almost at the same moment, Helbo himself suddenly turned into a pitch-black flame and slammed into the ice crystal giant bird.

There was nothing wrong with Maca's side, and with his reflexes and instantaneous speed, it would not be a problem to dodge the fire snake's attack. But the ice bird was unable to dodge, and was hit by a powerful impact from the black flame.

"Bang!"

As the black fireball exploded under the violent impact, the huge ice bird immediately became abnormal.

Obviously, contaminated with the kind of black flame that can scorch the soul, the soul rules used to maintain the form in its body have begun to become unstable.

It's just that Helbo, who has incarnated as a black flame, is obviously not comfortable at this moment.

But seeing that the black flames that were scattered even if they quickly gathered again, they could only barely be pieced together into a human form, and the appearance of a normal person like before could no longer be maintained.

"Interesting...... McLean aside, what is your young man's origin? I remember that we seemed to have met once a few days ago at night, right? ”

Helbo, who had already become a black fire man, was obviously impossible to have a mouth, but his words were still extraordinarily clear.

Of course, it always feels a little weird to look at a lump of flames that roughly look like a human being talking.

Seeing Helmo ask about the mysterious trench-robed wizard, Maca couldn't help but pay a little attention - the appearance of that person was too abrupt, which made him dare not relax his vigilance against the other party until now.

Even now, the man had only stood silently on the same front as him.

"Ahem, ahem...... Ahem......"

An inexplicable cough sounded, and the other party seemed to have been holding back for a long time, coughing so much that Maca, who was a bystander, felt a dull pain in her lungs.

But after coughing, the trench-coated wizard still didn't speak, as if he had made up his mind from the beginning not to say half a word.

Not only that, but just when Maca and Helbo were waiting for him to speak, the ice bird, which had secretly recovered from this opportunity, unequivocally attacked Helbo again!

Looking at this momentum, I'm afraid that if Helbo doesn't solve it, he won't be ready to stop.

"Hmph."

Helbo's figure flashed suddenly, and with the help of the magic of spatial movement, he dodged the surprise attack of the ice bird, and then appeared in another position in mid-air.

I heard him snort coldly, and then said:

"I'd love to fight you two a few more times, after all, both of you are arguably the strongest I've ever met in this era...... Unfortunately, it seems that the time is almost up, and it is time for me to get on with some 'business'. ”

"So, see you next time! Don't worry, I'm sure we'll be able to meet again soon......"

While saying these words, Helbo's figure was constantly changing directions, making the ice bird that was persevering and attacking in the air again and again.

And when his last sentence followed, he dodged again, but he never reappeared.

"And that's going again?"

It was probably because the battle situation this time was really complicated, and there were many changes one after another, so that Maca couldn't immediately remember the original intention of chasing him all the way here for a while.

It wasn't until he looked back and thought for a moment that he remembered something.

"Ahh He quickly glanced at the distant sky, and said silently, "Yes...... I've completely lost what I want to follow, so what's the point of him staying? ”

Thinking so, Maca turned around and looked at the mysterious trench-robed wizard with a look of confusion.

"Maybe you don't want to talk, but I have to thank you again for your help! Well, I don't know if you can tell me your name, we'll be able to ...... Make a friend? ”

In the case just now, Maca didn't expect the other party to answer any of her questions. Therefore, instead of asking sensitive questions to find himself bored, he should start with the simplest place.

But who knows......

"Ahem, ahem...... Friend? ”