Hand-to-hand combat, this is not at all a battle scenario that occurs between magicians. Since the invention of magic more than a thousand years ago, this style of combat has been abandoned along with cold weapons and has become history.

But I didn't expect that today, this ancient way of fighting would be picked up again by Riel at such a time.

Of course, being old doesn't mean it's not for Riel, on the contrary, he's probably the only mage of this era who is suited to fighting this way. And to be precise, it's not exactly an ancient way of fighting, because Riel is a combination of elemental magic and space-time magic, and it should be said that this is an innovation, improvement, or evolution of the way of fighting.

However, Eren is not a mediocre person, and when Riel raised the flaming knife for the second time, he had already thought of a temporary and only countermeasure.

Yes, the only thing that can dodge Riel's attacks right now is Starlight.

It's impossible to dodge by running, Riel has always been very athletic, and it is impossible to compete with him in this area, and it is even more impossible to create a blade of equal strength with the magic of the water elemental, and Alan has never trained or even thought about it, and even if he can make it, he has no idea how to use a sword; hide? No kidding, as long as he is alive, Riel's starlight can follow him anywhere in an instant.

So all he could do now was to use Starlight Twinkle while enduring the severe pain, constantly changing his position, and taking advantage of the interval between Rare's reactions to heal himself. At the very least, the bleeding must be stopped.

"It's not a long-term solution...... This magic is not enough for me to use the starlight too many times again, I have to find a way to do it......" After a moment's delay, the wound on his shoulder scabbed over, and it didn't look so terrible after all.

At first, Riel thought that Eren was just running away from everything, but after a little longer he realized that something was wrong.

Alan has grasped the weakness of his combat mode, the weakness of the present, in this case.

As time passed, not only the spatio-temporal nature of Ellen's wand was depleted drastically, but the fire elemental mana he borrowed from Cecilis was also close to being depleted. Now the blade in his hand is rapidly becoming smaller, and it has changed from a long sword to a dagger.

"Coward, you only know how to escape!" "Riel's voice was full of anger and impatience, "Don't you dare fight me head-on?"

But no matter how provocative he was, Alan had no intention of giving him any response.

"Starlight is so flexible...... Especially ...... Riel," Alan came to the conclusion after thinking about it for a long time, "If you want to hit him with magic, you have to catch him first...... The 'Wrist of Earth' that Senior Frey used should be very useful, but the magic of the earth elemental nature ......."

Alan dodged as he checked the mana storage in the Wand of Stealer. The magic power of the fire elemental nature and the water elemental nature had long been exhausted, and the magic power of the earth elemental nature was now very little left due to the previous attempt to resist the attack of the werewolf, barely enough for him to use the Earth Wrist once. Krel still has plenty of mana, and it should be a breeze to dodge......

"In that case...... Alan gritted his teeth and turned his heart sideways, "I have to take some risks......

After using Starlight for the last time, Eren simply stayed where he was, and immediately began to chant the incantation.

"Have you finally run out of magic that I gave you?" Riel's grim voice said, revealing impatience, "It's useless, no matter what magic you use, you can't hit me, even at this distance...... Moreover, this is already the third round...... You've got nowhere to go!"

"yes......" Allen, as he looked back at Riel as he finished chanting, "and this is the last round." ”

"Oh...... Have you accepted your fate, it's already ......" A trace of sadness suddenly flashed in Riel's eyes, but then it was replaced by hatred: "Then ......"

I saw him grit his teeth, close his eyes, and raise the dagger in his hand to stab Allen in the neck.

Blood flowed out in an instant.

"Hmm!" Alan screamed in pain.

"It's me...... Won......" Riel muttered. He took a deep breath and suddenly squeezed out a tear from the corner of his eye.

However, when he opened his eyes, he found that the blood was not flowing from Alan's neck, but from the palm of his left hand......

The blade of flame disappeared the moment it stabbed down, and Allen's palm was pierced by the wand, and blood was slowly flowing down the wand.

"Not yet...... It's over......" Alan said through gritted teeth. Then he uttered the last incantation he had been preparing for a long time.

Just as Riel was stunned, two hands made of dirt suddenly emerged from his feet, firmly entangled around his ankles.

Riel immediately let go of his hand, trying to use Starlight Twinkle to break free from the bondage, but found that it was useless. These two hands seemed to have a thousand pounds of strength, and they firmly grasped him, so that he couldn't move at all.

"That's ...... You won't be able to run away......" Alan pulled out the wand that had been stuck in his palm and tossed it aside, before he could treat the wound and began to chant another incantation.

"Fleeting but indestructible, light can swallow light......" Alan whispered as he slowly stepped back.

Stand still.

"O dear friend who will be with me for life, please help me......," Alan chants softly, "and bring the obstacles ahead with the darkness...... Smash it......"

A blur of lightning began to flicker at the tip of the Stealer's Staff, and then with a final wave of Allen's wand, several beams of white lightning struck Rare at a speed that the naked eye could not catch......

"Ahhh......h

A heart-rending shout was heard, and Allen's magic hit Riel accurately.

With a "poof", Riel fell to his knees, his hands on the ground, and his whole body began to twitch incessantly.

"It's you who lose. Alan also squatted on the ground with relief, "So...... Are you sober?"

"No...... Maybe ......" Rare was paralyzed on the ground and couldn't move, but his emotions were extremely excited, "how could I lose...... I...... How can you lose ......"

"But it's true that you lost. Alan let out a long sigh of relief and began to heal his palm, "Not only did you lose to me, but you also lost to yourself...... You used to be yourself. ”

"No...... I haven't lost yet......" Rare struggled to get up, but barely halfway up he fell to his knees, "I ...... Can't watch you snatch her ......"

"She?" Alan couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, "Who did you snatch?"

Perhaps due to this magic, Riel seemed to be a little delirious again, and began to mumble gibberish, "Obviously you already have so many ...... Why do you want to rob me of ......?"

A dark cloud in his heart slowly dissipated, and Alan suddenly felt as if he was about to see something clearly...... The truth about something......

"Mingming...... You know that......" Riel looked like he was on the verge of a breakdown, and said word for word, "She's ...... All I have is ...... Warm ......"