Transmigrated as a Ghost



'Crescent moon strikes.'

The moment Marcus regained his physical form after turning into light he moved directly into his most difficult to avoid attack skills.

His scythe began to shimmer, and it suddenly seemed to have multiplied into six as it stuck towards Aziz.

At the same time Aziz stuck back, sending a dart directly at Marcus' left eye with his unique skill and flourishing his scimitar to block Marcus' mullite directional attack.

Aziz's aim was to force Marcus back with his drat, but Marcus completely disregarded it.

Certainly, Aziz was able to put an immense amount of speed and power behind his darts, however, Marcus had prepared accordingly to deal with them.

As the dart closed in on him several small shields of light layered themselves in front of Marcus' head. The radiant scales spell he had cast before the match doing its job and automatically protecting its caster.

Several of the shields cracked like shattering glass, but the dart was stopped a couple of centimeters away from Marcus' eye. 

Each of Marcus' strikes reached Aziz an instant later, and for the first time the powerful warrior lost the composed expression he had been wearing. 

Aziz gritted his teeth and swung his scimitar around to deflect Marcus' attacks, but he was outmatched in terms of speed and power.

Three of Marcus' strikes connected with their targets and Aziz had his right foot pierced, his neck slashed, and his right hand nearly severed.

None of these wounds were enough to kill him thanks to how tough his body was and his regeneration skill, but Aziz was now in an incredibly unfavorable condition.

If he had just been fighting Marcus, perhaps Aziz could have held his own for a bit and tried to recover, but he also had to contend with Mrazivý.

"Second form, light speed slash."

After Marcus had successfully injured Aziz with his first attack, Mrazivý shot forward with her fastest attack skill, moving like a blur.

Her sword moved with what should have been impossible speed and precision, and Aziz was wholly incapable of properly responding.

He attempted to create a mana barrier behind him to clock Mrazivý's attack, but her sword cut right through it and sliced deeply into his waste.

Yet, no blood flowed out of the wound Mrazivý had inflicted on Aziz began to freeze thanks to the ice magic she had cast on her sword prior tot eh start of the match.

By the time she had pulled her sword back, Aziz had been completely encased in a giant pillar of ice.

It would seem that Marcus and Mrazivý had managed to defeat one of their opponents with an explosive opening attack, but just a second after Aziz was frozen his body disappeared.

"Whew! You two really are something. I never expected to use this skill so soon. I am glad I prepared in advance. You are both more ruthless than I thought." 

Marcus turned his head to where the source of the voice had come from and saw Aziz standing where he had started the match, completely unharmed. It was as if all the attacks he had taken simply never happened. 

"That is one. Just two more to go." Mrazivý said, preparing for their next assault on Aziz.

This caused the confident smile to vanish from his face and he began looking at Marcus and Mrazivý with deadly seriousness.

Naturally they had known about the unique skill he had used to avoid being defeated thanks to Mrazivý's Dragon Eyes.

Aziz had a unique skill called Save Point, which allowed him to return his body to a condition and location he had set a checkpoint at, so long as more than an hour had not passed since he set it.

In some ways it was similar to Marcus' Ultimate Refresh Supreme Skill, though weaker. The unique skill could only be used three times a week, and it only worked on Aziz himself instead of anyone like Marcus' Supreme Skill. 

It did have a useful aspect that Marcus' Supreme skill did not, being able to effectively act as a warp as well as restoring any damage. 

But while it may have seemed like a revival skill, it did require Aziz to actively use it. If he died before activating the skill, it would not take effect.  Still, for a tournament where the two sides were not trying to kill each other, it was almost certain he would be able to use the ability.

Marcus and Mrazivý pressed the attack now that Aziz had been forced to activate his first use of his Save Point unique skill. They needed to beat him quickly before their time limited skills ended.

To begin their second assault against Aziz, Mrazivý commanded the giant dragon made of ice that had been flying overhead to strike from directly above.

This ice dragon looked almost exactly like Gwyneira and with its jaws wide open it crashed into the ground where Aziz was standing.

Of course, the high-level warrior did not just stand around and take the attack. He jumped back and out of the way before the icy jaws clamed around him.

Nevertheless, this left him open for a follow up attack, and Marcus and Mrazivý were not going to give him any chance to escape.

Marcus' catalytic iron sword, now having returned to being two-hundred meters long and packing the force of a speeding freight train behind it slashed at Aziz from his right side.

While from his left side, Mrazivý had her ice warriors closing in. With two archers firing arrows to further limit Aziz's movements and four heavily armored warriors with spears and shields attacking him from the front.

To escape, Aziz had only one direction to go, and that was into the air.

He created footholds with his mana barrier and just barely managed to avoid being hit by Marcus' tier six iron magic spell that swung just below him. Creating hurricane level winds that blasted around the arena.

Except when Aziz had just escaped the furious attacks from Marcus' and Mrazivý's spells, he found someone already waiting above him. Ready to strike him down.