A Little Desire Of Anti - Hero
Arc I - Chapter 20: Chaos In The Fortress - 7
Xion continued running towards the castle where Duke Arcchild lived. Along the way, he finished off every soldier he encountered before they could let out a beacon.
“Will I kill them all!” furious Xion. Given the opportunity he had from the sacrifice of his teammates, he would not let this all go to waste. “Surely, I will kill that person!” emphatically.
Xion continued to run, utilizing his agility and flexibility, he passed through the narrow holes that originally served as ventilation ducts, but for him it was only a shortcut. The current condition of the fort has a little army in it making its movement more freely.
In a narrow place like this fortress was the most favorable terrain for cat-breed beast-kins. Having agility and flexibility of the body that can reach extreme points, making the beast-kin cat race can make pursuers more difficult to follow their movements.
With this advantage, Xion was able to accelerate the time it took to reach the castle while avoiding the soldiers who were on standby after this mess occurred.
As soon as he entered the castle, Xion felt something odd based on his instincts. However, he ignored it, if he hesitated the sacrifice of his team-mates became futile.
As he was about to reach Duke Arcchild's room, Xion stopped his steps. His gaze now pointed sharply at the troops gathered in front of Duke Arcchild's room. “So this is why, I feel something feels awkward.”
Since Xion entered the castle, the frequency of patrols was increasingly rare, whereas usually the place where the Duke left to live had the strictest guard. However, the situation in this castle is actually quiet guard.
“Jadi ... they already know our destination.” Xion bit his lips until they bled. Now the only way for this mission to succeed is for him to be able to annihilate that army.
Xion's eyes sharpened, he had already steadied his heart. His eyes now contained the fighting spirit to complete this mission, even if he were to be killed, at least his comrades might have survived because they focused the soldiers here.
Xion advanced, lunging towards the group of warriors guarding in front of Duke Arcchild's room. “Gauntlet of Wind Claw.”
The claws in Xion's hand began to sharpen, along with the wind that began to gather on his wrist which was now forming a compressed wind storm.
“Ha!”
A fierce battle ensued, although Xion was alone in facing the troops. However, with his level 4 gold level then he could deal with all of this quite restrainedly against the enemy forces.
Although the enemy troops numbered around forties with a level of strength that was at level 5-8 level silver. However, with the lack of existence of a witch makes it able to take care of this.
‘At least this attack is a little easy, surely their main combat power is being lowered on the battlefield,’ Xion thought was relieved.
However, just as Xion was about to finish off the last person, someone stopped him.
Having the appearance of a knight with a large body, when Xion sensed his level of strength, his face was slightly bitter, level 2 gold.
‘This will be slightly dissolved.’
Without saying a word, the person began to launch an attack on Xion.
Trang!
A clash ensued and Xion counterattacked which made the person's body start bleeding.
The wind element that Xion used was indeed very compatible with his fighting style that relied on speed.
When using wind elements, Xion's killing speed can increase rapidly due to the wind element's own specialization in cutting. Where in addition to matching it, it also adds sharpness to Xion's claws which are natural weapons beast-kin cat race.
The fight begins to drag on, although Xion wants to overcome it quickly with the ability of his wind element.
However, the injuries accumulated on the opponent did not affect his movements at all. It was as if this person did not feel any pain or weakness after losing blood from all the wounds he had sustained. True, this person is one of the test subjects who has ‘success’.
When the enemy reinforcements arrived, Xion felt that this matter would be even more protracted. Faded green light began to form around him, when he felt everything was ready, a spell was cast. “Bowling Wind Strikes!”
BOOM!
Xion launched a wide-scale attack that caused a powerful explosion. The man and his reinforcements were blown away with several pieces of hands and feet that had now separated from the body. The castle walls themselves collapsed, unable to withstand the power of the raging energy storm.
Xion did not understand the situation of the person who had fought him. He ran straight to Duke's room where his own door and wall had collapsed, making the path to the target clearly visible as he lay on his bed.
“Death to you!”
Xion launched a fatal attack on the Duke's head with his hands still having the compressed storm. The Duke Arcchild's head was dismembered, becoming a chop of brain juice.
Unsatisfied with this, Xion punched the Duke in the chest, smashing his heart and now a large hole in his chest was formed. After venting out the anger he felt, he dashed towards the castle wall which now had a large hole.
Jumping from the sixth floor where the Duke Arcchild's room was located, Xion managed to land on the ground without a single wound with the flexibility of his body.
Xion continued on, intending to head towards the west gate. The explosion must have awakened his teammates to leave the fort immediately after their mission was successful.
As explosions echoed within the fort, Dian, Wess, Yuzu, and Zee had gathered together to finish carrying out the task of attracting the soldiers, leaving them confused as well as distracting.
“Captain succeeded,” Yuzu said to others.
Smiles formed on the faces of those who had been looking for each other's whereabouts as the enemy began to stop chasing, the moment their destination had been known.
Yuzu excitedly headed for the west gate, unable to resist the rush of happiness at the thought that they had all managed to survive.
Together with the other members accompanying him, Yuzu muttered, “Captain, it seems like we are still destined to accompany you.”
***
Rion started towards the west gate road after seeing the main gate full of troops that had been alerted.
Rion's own magic capacity can match the power of a person at the platinum level. However, with his battle ability that was not yet too mature even to use spiritual power, as well as his own battle and magic techniques had not progressed far, he avoided frontal confrontation as much as possible.
Although Rion already has an understanding in his head, but for practical matters he can not make sure all things are as desired. Besides his own body was not used to doing the required moves, some side effects would definitely put more weight on his body.
Seeing the troops that were also piling up at the west gate, Rion breathed a long sigh. “So you can only take risks, yes?”
After thinking for a moment, Rion chose to wait for the party who made a mess in the fortress —other than himself— out while recovering his mental energy and mana.
Rion was now waiting for the right moment to act. At that time, the chances of succeeding would be higher to be able to get out of this fortress.
***
Seriana remained smiling even after the previous explosion. The moment a soldier came to report what had happened, he immediately stopped him.
“I already understand what happened, so Duke was killed?”
“Y-yes that's how Miss.”
“Oh.”
The soldiers wanted to convey the message to Seriana, now becoming afraid of the attitude that this Miss of theirs showed.
Seriana did not show the slightest shock or sadness upon hearing this, as if this was all within her estimation. Closing his eyes, he gave the order, “Call all the soldiers towards the west gate. The main gate itself was quite wasted by some troops, the enemy must have thought the guard at the gate was a little chaotic after the explosion and then chose the west gate that had the forest terrain outside as a place of escape. Fast!”
“Good.”
The room was now quiet again, but a strange smile began to form on Seriana's lips. “Now what are you going to do, Rion ...”
