Chapter 56
"You guys are starting to piss me off now!" Bale shouted as mana surged from his body, igniting a roaring blaze of fire that enveloped him.
"Oh? You're a fire mage too. Interesting," Grey said with a calm smile.
"I want every single mage in this room to attack all of them—but leave that red-haired kid for me!" Bale barked. At his command, the twenty men around the remaining mages sprang into action while Bale leaped from his throne, landing before Grey and thrusting a fire-covered palm straight at his abdomen.
Reacting swiftly, Grey raised an earth wall just in time to intercept the strike, but to his surprise, the wall caught fire and he was forced several feet backward.
'What the hell?' Grey thought, just as a blazing fireball surged toward him. Without hesitation, he launched a fireball of his own, but to his disbelief, Bale's flame engulfed his and kept barreling forward.
