His two opponents were astonished by Ruger's strange actions, but he himself frowned slightly.
He looked at the two clumps he had flicked from his fingers and felt that this method of using them was far too primitive. The results were hardly satisfactory, either. It was only because these two had never seen anything like it that they were momentarily baffled.
Although they had retreated beyond the range of Foul-Smelling Skin, they were still within range of the Demon of Miserliness's innate spell-like effect, which resembled the Miserly Spell.
Ruger watched their every move, even deliberately widening the distance to gauge the Demon of Miserliness's range along the way.
Whenever either Wizard tried to act, Ruger disrupted him with malice. Under the Demon of Miserliness's influence, his chances of successfully disrupting them were extremely high. He also gradually grew familiar with their Mental Power fluctuations and spell fluctuations. At the slightest stir, even an exceedingly faint ripple of magic, he could detect it in time and interfere.
The only reason he could not succeed every time was that their fixed spells were cast too quickly. But Ruger was adapting, gradually getting a clear picture of their capabilities.
The moment the old man had attacked without a second thought, this had ceased to be a matter between them and Varin.
If Ruger's guess was right, the old man's fixed One-Ring spell was the Fireball Spell. Condensing it in his palm multiplied its power, and he had different methods of condensation that produced different fireballs. As for the seemingly courteous middle-aged Wizard, his fixed One-Ring spell was the one he had initially tried to use to trap Ruger in place. That was precisely why Ruger had failed to detect the spell fluctuations in time when the two first attacked.
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