Dimaria had stopped the time around her, so everyone except her stopped moving. She walked towards Ben with a big smirk on her face because she was in control. In this stopped time, she was the one who decided everything.

"Your high and mighty attitude is nowhere to be seen now, is it? You thought that just because you killed Jacob and that new guy meant that you could face the Alvarez Empire by yourself. Hah, I didn't know the strongest wizard on Ishgar was such a fool. The level of magic on Ishgar and Alakitsia is very different. We have a great leader who guided us, so our magic development is much better." Dimaria said with a smirk.

There was no response from Ben because he was frozen in time. Dimaria smirked and raised her sword rather high into the air before bringing it down on Ben strongly. The sword cut Ben, but Dimaria's smirk vanished because there was no sensation of it touching something. It's like she was just cutting the air.

"So much for having better magic development." A voice said out of nowhere.

Dimaria looked around for the source of the voice and spotted Kenshin.

"You-" She angrily gritted her teeth and swiped at Kenshin, only for the slash to pass through.

"This is just a thought projection, so attacking it is pointless." Kenshin informed her. "I'm the least of your concerns at the moment anyway. You aren't the first person who used Age Seal against Ben, Zeref was. In fact Zeref used it against him twice. Naturally he wouldn't allow him to fall victim to it a third time."

Dimaria's eyes widened as she saw Ben's body slowly appear in the monochrome world. His monochrome self was still there though, with a wide cut across his body. Now Dimaria knew why she didn't feel anything after slashing Ben. It's because he was never there, it was just a illusion.

Ben was never trapped in this stopped time because as Kenshin said Zeref used this on him once. He could've attacked Dimaria earlier, but he decided to play around and made that illusion with his Light Magic. It was his illusion that was stopped by Dimaria's spell because even light freezes when time stops.

"As I expected. There's no way someone like him will be caught by that." August said.

"You know what he did?" Wall asked.

"Not really, but I know that wouldn't defeat him." August replied.

"Stop talking. Dimaria can't handle him alone. Ajeel, Wall, Neinhart, go help her." Irene ordered.

"You want all four of us to attack him together?" Neinhart asked.

"Yeah. If you were smart enough, you would've realized he could've erased this city earlier if he wanted to even with all of us here." Irene firmly said.

"Tch, fine, I don't want you to nag." Neinhart scoffed before he left with Ajeel and Wall.

The other members of the Spriggan 12 remain where they are to continue watching the battle. Ben looked back at them with a grin, ignoring Dimaria who was still surprised by what just happened.

"DIMARIA! CANCEL YOUR SPELL!" Ajeel shouted.

Dimaria can't see him because of the buildings between them. The other members of the Spriggan 12 who stayed in the castle can see Wall and Neinhart enter the area that time was stopped. They were also frozen in time and can't do anything.

Although she didn't know what happened, Dimaria cancelled out her Age Seal, so now everyone can move again. Ben's illusion disappeared when time started to flow again. The frozen soldiers don't know what happened, but they knew that the situation was bad.

Ajeel, Wall and Neinhart finally arrive and stand next to the retreating Dimaria. The 4 of them look at Ben before ordering their soldiers to fall back. They would only get in the way.

"So it's 4 now? Why didn't all of you just attack me at the same time? This is the reason the bad guys in movies and video games lose to the main characters. If they just attacked the MC from the beginning, they won't lose in the end." Ben sighed, disappointed.

"What are you talking about?" Ajeel asked.

"Ah, sorry, people from an underdeveloped empire like you won't understand. I know your empire is good with magic, but honestly, your technologies suck. If not for people from your robotic race, you would look very underdeveloped. Even if magical development, Ishgar is catching up to you since I got this position. Also, your extremely proud empire will be nothing with Zeref's death." Ben grinned.

He pointed a finger that looked like a pistol towards the castle. Then suddenly, a small light bullet was fired from his fingertip. It quickly flew towards the castle and pierced it. No one can stop it even though they can see a glimpse of it because it's really fast.

An explosion went off inside the castle and all of the Spriggan 12 knew where it came from. It came from the throne room where their emperor was. They all look at the castle with widened eyes before they try to see if their emperor was fine.

"Don't worry, I didn't shoot him in the head because it wouldn't be fun if he died this quickly." Ben smirked.

They were suddenly contacted telepathically by Zeref who informed them that he was fine. Ben's light bullet exploded a few meters to his left, so he was fine even if the explosion was strong. Besides, he could protect himself with his magic because he is not weak.

"Now you know that I can attack your emperor whenever I want to. So do your best to prevent me from doing that. If you guys are really boring, then I will just take his head and go home." Ben grinned.

"Weaknesses found!" Wall exclaimed with a robotic voice.

Ben looked at Wall who's eyes were covered by spinning light circles. Then his body glows and a huge amount of electricity came out of his body. He fired it at Ben who just stood there while calmly looking at the incoming attack.

The electric attack hit him and produced a big impact. Ben can feel the electrical currents targeting a few parts of his body like his eyes, brain, heart or manhood. He knew Wall was trying to fry those body parts with electricity, but it made him laugh.

"Fufufu, HA HA HA, what an interesting ability." Ben excitedly said while his body was zapped by the electrical currents.

The 4 members of the Spriggan 12 were surprised that Ben acted nonchalantly while Wall's electrical currents were still active. It's like the electricity didn't affect him at all.

"So you can find weaknesses, huh? I guess from your perspective, these are my weaknesses right? That was quite the interesting judgment because these spots are the basic weak points of humans, don't you agree?" Ben asked with a grin.

Wall's electricity was suddenly expelled from Ben's body. Of course, this shocked Wall, but he was surprised by what he saw next. The weaknesses he saw before have disappeared and the spots actually changed. They kept changing for a while before they disappeared from Ben's body completely.

"H-how? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?" Wall asked with shaky eyes.

"How? Your ability allows you to find your enemies' weak points. So if I manipulated my own weaknesses using my magic, you would see them change." Ben explained with a grin.

"THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! NO ONE CAN CONTROL THEIR WEAKNESSES!" Wall screamed.

"Why not? People can train to overcome their weaknesses. A mage with full control of his physical strength and magic power will be able to do this too. They would be able to do it if they also had full control over their mind." Ben responded.

"What are you talking about?" Neinhart was confused.

"Well, I guess you wouldn't understand. All you need to know is that I want to kick your asses now, so come over here, lads!" Ben taunted them.

They return to their senses and remember they're in the middle of a fight. So they prepare to fight Ben again who was interested in their magic. There weren't many mages of their caliber, so as a magic maniac, Ben was very eager to see it.