The Golem Mage

Seeing him dash so recklessly toward the three puppets without any hint of caution made many spectators uneasy.

However the flaming mage puppet was the one to react first, by dashing forward and thrusting out its left hand forward, and from seemingly nowhere, flaming lances formed as it manipulated the fire particles in the air to conjure them.

With a sharp motion, the lances shot toward the Water Takeda, however; he just weaved through them like a blue phantom, each near miss leaving a faint azure glow in his wake.

Within moments, he was already in front of the flaming puppet.

“Die!” the flaming puppet mage said in a flat, emotionless tone, showing that clearly its only objective was the elimination of the Water Takeda.

His blade wrapped in a blazing aura, swung down in a diagonal motion, the crowd gasped as his strike appeared to connect, but a split second later, they noticed a blue streak sliding past the puppet.

It almost looked as if the Water Takeda had phased through the puppet, but that wasn’t the case, because before the strike had landed, he had already cast the Ice Body Clone spell, so what the flaming puppet had cut was merely an ice replica, which was perfectly positioned to take the hit.

With his spirit equipment set equipped and active, Water Takedas’s speed and strength didn’t just increase significantly, more importantly, it seems to have helped neutralize one of his biggest weaknesses, which was the interference of Ice.

While clad in that set, he could control ice element but that wasn’t all , as he could also instantly convert it to water, freely switching between the primary and sub-elements as needed.

The spectators watched as the blur they’d been tracking began to stabilise, for a moment it resembled flowing liquid, then it solidified, revealing the Water Takeda once again.

Who had used his ninjutsu technique to switch positions, going from standing before the flaming mage puppet one moment to appearing a few meters behind it the next.

“Arrggh!” The flaming mage puppet, finally realising it had been tricked, as he tried to pull his sword free from the frozen sculpture, but that was easier said than done.

As not only was the blade firmly stuck, but frost had already begun creeping up his right hand, travelling through the sword connection.

The Water Takeda didn’t even bother turning back, from experience, he knew the spell would be able to restrain the flaming puppet for at least a minute, and to him that was more than enough time.

With the main damage dealer temporarily neutralised, he lowered his stance and accelerated forward, dashing toward the wooden spider puppet and the crocodile puppet a few meters away.

Each step he took left faint frozen footprints behind, sending the Silent Night supporters into another frenzy of cheers.

The wooden spider advanced first, swinging its two elongated wooden legs in a pincer-like motion to trap him.

But Water Takeda simply rotated his weapon, hooking the curved ends around the incoming limbs while dropping into a low slide, as he slipped cleanly beneath the spider puppet’s body.

He knew damaging that reinforced wooden frame would be difficult, so he didn’t waste effort trying.

Instead, a long icy trail formed behind him as he slid, and when he reached the underside of the puppet, he pushed off the ground and sprang upward into the air...

With him launching into the air like that with all his strength, the trailing end of the Kusarigama chain which was still latched onto the spider puppet’s front legs — tugged violently.

The force from it twisted the puppet off balance, flipping it upside down and exposing its underbelly, by the time the Water Takeda landed atop it, the chain had already slipped free from its legs.

As he immediately casted a spell by forming a hand seal which he pushed downward.

[> Mid Ninjutsu Spell — Ice Age.