Seeing the attack, Maria chanted and made a transparent shield around her and Rem.
"Barrier!" This spell helped negate the attack of Dean. This made the crazy Sorcerer mad and was about to attack again but was stopped by the incoming blue spear from Joshua.
"Dastard! Die!" The Sorcerer shouted as he dodges the spear by summoning shadows in a form of a shield.
"Tch!" Joshua pursued the target by jumping from his horse and doing some flips to dodge the incoming attacks. Maria didn't stay idle and started to chant a spell again. As for Cen and Olly, they are helping kill all the Faceless. Rem also tried to help by throwing his dagger to attack.
"Enfeeble." This time she casted spell that lowered the targets stats. This made the Sorcerer sluggish making Joshua have the chance to pierce him. The Sorcerer saw this and tried to dodge again but was not abled to. This time the Sorcerer was wounded by the shoulder but he just smiled crazily and chanted a spell.
Joshua saw this situation and tried to pull his spear away but Dean didn't let him get out that easily. He used shadows to make sure that Joshua won't get away. Maria saw the situation and tried to help by using Freeze to immobilize Dean.
"No, you won't!" Dean shouted as a hand of a Faceless came under the horse of Maria. This made Maria stop her chant, cancelling the spell that she was about to cast. She moved her horse away and summoned a thunder to kill the Faceless. During that time, Dean used that opportunity to do his plan.
"Nosferatu!" Joshua felt his health and energy getting drained by the dark shadows surrounding his body. This made him completely abandon his spear so he can move away.
"HAHAHAHAHA! Pain is such a great feeling noh~" Dean asked as he pulls the spear away from his shoulder. HIs wounds can be clearly seen being healed as shadows is entering his body. Once he was healed, he held the spear as if it was a staff.
"Physic." Maria chanted as he heals Joshua from his wounds. This revitalized Joshua but without his spear he can't fight or so Dean thought.
"You think you can completely corner me with my weapon gone? Hmph, I'm not called an Ice Spear for nothing. I'll show you the ice magic of my tribe." Joshua says as he creates an ice that formed into a spear. Four other ice spears was also created behind him as it floats.
"Cover for me as much as you could, we need to end this battle fast. I can't maintain this spell for a long time." Joshua says as he run towards Dean. Maria nodded and started to chant again. Rem can only helped in preventing other Faceless to come closer to them but it was being cleared well by both Cen and Olly.
"Silence." Maria chanted as she pants for air. Silence is a spell that makes an enemy unable to speak or talk rendering them the ability to cast spells. It was a powerful spell but it cost a lot of SP to use. This spell can be resisted or negated by powerful magic users though. Thankfully, Maria and Dean are almost in the same level so Dean was silenced albeit for only a few seconds.
"This will do!" Joshua shouted as he controls the four spear floating in his back to pierce Dean. Seeing the attack, Dean tried to block it by at least controlling his shadow but it was not strong unlike when he was chanting, The shadows trying to block Joshua's spears were destroyed and encased in an ice. Dean tried to block with the spear he stole from Joshua but it didn't do a thing since Joshua was superior when it comes to close combat, this resulted for two spears piercing Dean's shoulders while the other two spears pierced his knees.
"Ughh! Die!" The Silence Spell was removed from Dean as he tries to chant again. Unfortunately for the guy, Maria was one step ahead of him. She was already done chanting for a Freeze spell making him immobilized for a second. That second though was the only thing that Joshua needed for him to pierce Dean in his heart.
"Why.... Urgh.... immortality was my... wish..." Dean spoke as he glares at Rem's group. Joshua took his stolen spear and was about to pierce Dean's head but stopped when he saw shadows engulfing Dean's body.
"You... Die... With... Me!" That was his last words as he close his eyes. His body was completely consumed by the shadows and soon the shadow enlarged by about 7 meters.
"What's happening!?" Joshua asked as he looked at the big black cocoon in front of them.
"I feel something dark in there, sir Joshua. I can only deduce that he is planning something bad. I don't think the spell he is about to do is within our capabilities to confront." Cen answered while looking at the cocoon with fear.
"We have to destroy it as much as we can!" Maria shouted as she creates a giant circle underneath the cocoon that summoned a pillar of fire.
"Elfire!"
"Elfreeze!" Joshua did the same by summoning an ice storm. Cen and Olly did the same. Rem didn't bothered to do anything since he was useless in this kind of situation.
*Roar*
An angry roar came out from the cocoon as they attack it. Cracks soon appeared on the cocoon as a giant arm came out of it. Soon the cocoon was fully destroyed, and a huge Faceless came out and roared in front of the group.
"Such monstrosity!" Joshua shouted with fear.
"I don't think we can handle something like this. We should go call for help as soon as we can. Retreating is our only option at the moment." Maria suggested as she made her horse back away from the monster.
"I don't think it will give us the chance to retreat." Cen replied as she saw the giant Faceless jumped to the air.
"Dodge it!" Maria shouted as she made her horse run away. The others did the same, and the Faceless soon landed with it's arms smashing to the ground. The force of the attack made Maria's horse to stumble and roll around throwing Rem and Maria out.
"Little Bro! Miss Maria!" Olly shouts as she runs after them. The Faceless saw this situation and started to run towards Rem and Maria.
"I won't let you!" Cen attacked by using shadows. She tried chaining down the Faceless but it just shrugged off her attack as if it was nothing. The Faceless was getting closer to Rem's group making Cen feel pressured.
"Sir Joshua, please help them!' Cen shouted but saw Joshua running away with his war horse. This made Cen feel helpless.
'What a prick! He actually left us for his life! Hmph! I'll make sure to let you suffer when I met you in the future.' Rem thought as he stood up and transformed into his beast form. He then run towards the Faceless. He can't let Maria and the others die here.
'It will get harder to find people like this in the future. These people are still useful to me. I can't possibly let them die.' Rem thought as he punched towards the Faceless. His attacks didn't do anything though, it just annoyed the Faceless making it slap Rem in the face.
Rem's body was thrown away by a few meters. Thankfully, he only received a single damage to his health.
"Little Bro!" Olly shouts as she readies an arrow. She attacked the Faceless and the arrow succeeded in wounding the thing but it didn't do much.
"Sister Olly, go heal miss Maria first. Once you're done, start healing me. Sister Cen, help me distract the Faceless for now. Try to damage it if you can." Rem ordered. Cen and Olly didn't question Rem at the moment and just blindly followed his orders.
Olly run towards Maria to heal her. She might be a strong healer and magician but her defenses are weak. She was a glass canon which was the only answer they have that can deal damage to the Faceless they are currently battling.
'Wake up fast, Maria. You're our only hope in killing this thing.' Rem thought as he continues to be a punching bag for the giant Faceless. Cen was trying her best to restrain the Faceless with some shadows in shaped of tentacles but it was useless since it was just destroying it easily. This continued for minutes that Rem started using his Heal spell to recover some HP.
"Sister Cen, stop for now. Try to think or create an attack for that can pierce through this Faceless like Sister Olly's arrows. At the moment, you're just wasting you're energy." Rem says as he got another punched to the face making him roll on the ground.
"Let me handle the rest, you two. You've done a great job for keeping this up long." Maria's voice rang making Rem and Cen feel relieved.
"As for you, I'll let you get a taste for a spell that I've been wanting to save." Maria took out a book from her robes. It was an old tattered red tome.