A Little Desire Of Anti - Hero

Arc I - Chapter 24: Gate Liberation - 4

Silent, the battleground that was previously filled with screams, the sound of metal clashing, and the sudden explosion was silent. The whole fight became stalled, everyone was now focusing on what the black-haired youth —Rion— did to Demand.

Even Wess, a beast-kin warrior who was known to be the bravest among his teammates now felt fear, even if it was only as intense as the thought that had previously flashed to fight the young man because of his disbelief.

The fear was not only that the young man could overcome the Demand who was a gold level 5 with ease. But it was her sadism that made Wess feel fear of trepidation.

'What young man is a person at the platinum level?' inner Wess wondered. However, as soon as he thought of the thing he wanted to do earlier he felt even more insane.

Utilizing the shock experienced by the Eugary Empire's troops, Xion and the others quickly headed for the severely wounded Wess. Seeing that this fellow's state is more severe than it seems, Yuzu and Zee work together to recover his condition with a healing spell that the two begin to perform.

After seeing that Wess's condition had become better and more stable, she asked a question that Wess wanted to answer, "Wess, do you know who that young man is?"

This was the thing that made Xion curious, and it felt very stuck in his heart as to who the figure of the young man was helping them. Although it was unlikely, but it could be that the young man was a special agent of Synuere Forest State considering that the Eugary Empire's seat area was between their two countries and that country.

But Wess shook his head. "Captain, but ...," Seeing what the young man was doing, he stopped his words for a moment. "... Fortunately, he was not on the enemy's side."

Hearing this the entire team member gulped his saliva unconsciously. Glancing at the work that the young man was doing, not only did the sadism not even feel the slightest bit of leaking killing intent or could be felt from him. It was as if the thing that the young man was doing, was the same as someone killing ants, no, might be the same as breathing for him.

However, the cruelty and sadism that the young man showed did not just arrive there.

Using the spear that had been raining down on the original owner with dozens or perhaps even hundreds of punches, the young man began to use Demand's spear to pierce through the hot armor wrapped around this vice-captain of knights. When he pulled it out, the hot iron melt entered his opponent's body slightly before it closed in on fire.

Together with a roar that slowly became a groan, Rion did all of this without any change in expression in sight. After all, this was the thing he had to do.

The spear shot up high, along with the [Magic: Burn] that Rion slapped, a blanket of fire started wrapping around the spear.

Zratts

Demand's mouth opened wide as the hot spear slid swiftly and smoothly through the mouth to the throat. However, this is still not finished.

"Magic: Burn," Rion again performed the magic, along with a blanket of fire that re-wrapped the spear. The screams, not the screams Demand felt despair coming at him more and more so, meanwhile the morale of the Eugary Empire troops that began to fall even deeper.

"AGR ... RGHH ... HH ... H—" screams Demand stopped with his life that ended tragically.

Rion displayed a faint smile, though he did not do this out of purely personal desire but rather to demoralize the enemy forces. However, seeing results that exceeded his expectations he loosened his breath as he felt that his escape would become easier.

Rion walked towards Xion's group, no one dares to head off or call him now after seeing the tragic death of the vice-captain knight.

Xion, not the entire team was holding back his nervousness at the figure of the young man coming towards them. The memory of today has been firmly attached to the view that this young man in front of them is a cruel, ruthless, and sadistic figure.

Even though Xion wanted to say something. However, before he could even open his mouth a remark had first been thrown from the young man's mouth.

Thinking of the young man's origin, Xion had directly crossed out the possibility that the young man was from the Synuere Forest State. After all, the country did not have the characteristics of this young man, even though the rules in the country were very strict.

Xion wanted to ask further, what did the young man mean. However, his gaze was fixed on the shape of the young man's ears before he could speak.

'Elf ...?' xion thought in doubt. However ....

Booms! Booms! Booms! Booms!

A series of explosions suddenly occurred at the fort especially the west gate. Xion regained his senses after Yuzu patted him on the shoulder, but his gaze was still on the young man who had first left this fortress.

Shaking his head to focus, Xion gave the command, "Let's go too soon."

"Good."

With the morale of the enemy forces still recovering from their shock at what had befallen Demand, making the escape of the team even easier.

Xion dashed outwards, though fragments of rock occasionally flew down on them due to a series of explosions still occurring. However, it is also what makes resistance from the moral remnants of the enemy very minimal.

"Huh ... Looks like we survived," said Zee sighing in relief. After a continuous run they had finally reached a safe point, the territory belonging to the Beatria Union.

"Yes, but .. I was curious about the figure," said Dian brought up the previous incident.

"justified? He even seemed to want to tear down the fortress with his magic, as well ...," Yuzu was unable to continue her words, she had goosebumps first when recalling the scene earlier.

"Yes, there's no need to discuss Yuzu."

"Yes, there is no need to discuss, we need to tell the leader over the person, lest we antagonize him," After Xion said this, the team nodded and did not discuss this any further. Although he also has a lot of questions, but this can be put behind.

Also, another reason they chose to close this topic was because they did not dare to imagine the fate of death that awaited if only hostile to such a person.

***

Having finished taking care of all the problems that happened today, Seriana was not at all sad about the death of Duke Arcchild, Demand. Even the destruction of the laboratory or the western gate and the castle, he chose not to bother.

His current mind was only thinking of Rion's figure. "Rion, you're really interesting. You have to take responsibility, my heart that always felt empty is now very alive, also become excited when thinking of you ...."

Seriana's finger was placed on her mouth, her face flushed red and her breathing was now heavy. A phrase from a famous imperial poet —When someone has filled your mind then he has taken you— is suddenly remembered by him.

Buffing her chin with her hand, Seriana muttered, "So this is what people call 'love'?"