Chapter 54

==Summery==
Marcus ran forward at full speed, using the sudden distraction to his benefit. Although their attack ruined his initial plan, it also offered opportunity, stripping the sorcerer of his support, as the mages split to address the two flanks. Marcus recalls his grandfather's lessons on the Romans defeats by Hannibal, and how that changed Scipio tactics, and the irony, of how a similar situation was playing out now. After racing out of the fire to meet the Sorcerer face-to-face, he is shocked to see the sorcerer body has merged with the fire, and wonders if that's what it means to become a sorcerer, that you become one with your element, or if this is just a result of him overusing his power. The sorcerer is equally shocked by the transformation of Marcus's arm, and they call each other 'monster'. Marcus stills one of the shields, and uses it to disperse the sorcerer's spells. Marcus struggled to get past the sorcerer's defense, but was worried about stepping into melee range, since the casting speed of sorcerers spells made them hard to block in time. Marcus began to suck up all the surrounding mana to deprive the Sorcerer of external strength, but the mana has been warped by the sorcerer, and it weakened Marcus. But the sorcerer was in worst shape, since Marcus made him unable to draw mana from the environment, and he couldn't use his internal mana in his current state without harming his own body. The Sorcerer then drew the Spear of Scipio, but when he scratched Marcus with it, the spear reacted to him, drawing his mana through the bond that as a bastard, Marcus wasn't supposed to possess, and the spear's curse backfired, killing the Sorcerer instead.
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