Ash walked towards the villagers with a mischievous grin on his lips with his partner, Gama following by his side. "Well… what do we have here?" He said, looking at the group of villagers that just marched out of the library.
"It seems Maya was right. We didn't arrive early and they have given up on hiding."
The light blue-haired man grinned and cracked his knuckles. "Well, it's a good thing then, let's get started."
Gama began to duplicate himself and sent the clones towards the lost and confused villagers while the original calmly and majestically walked around the place. He looked up and smiled as his female partner also arrived at the scene, pouring acid on the villagers.
Eryth landed on the ground and immediately charged at the clones, cutting and slashing them down, one after the other. He finally reached the main body and lunged his sword forward, but the formless-headed man leapt backwards to dodge the attack. He raised his head to look at Eryth with a smile lingering on his face.
"You all should rejoice, you will die for a great course."
Eryth held the handle of his sword and morphed into his battle stance. Rune markings appeared below him, making his opponent to be on alert the moment it appeared.
The self-duplication act user was expecting an attack but instead, Eryth appeared behind him and drove his sword into his back. Gama yelped as the dark brown-haired man pulled the sword to the side. He fell to the ground, motionless.
Eryth quickly turned to Ash but before he could think of going, Uobleza appeared in front of him and sent the fire elemental back into a building with a punch.
As Eryth looked around the village, he realized the fight was not in their favour. Danila and Blutox have been forced into a corner by the shadow monsters and the library has been blocked by the rubbles from Maya's attack, trapping Grevla, Daya and Heyt underground.
As he stood there scanning the battlefield for the female Blue Kanrei, he felt a burning sensation behind his back and involuntarily jumped to the side, narrowly dodging an attack from the lady he was searching for.
The female Kanrei grinned with a chuckle as she turned the horse she was riding to face Eryth then threw the lance she was holding and it turned into dust.
"It seems your plan didn't work out the way you wanted it to, did it?"
The dark-haired man remained quiet while holding his sword and paying attention to the enemy in front of him as well as keeping a sharp eye for the fourth missing enemy.
The High Knight of Hex noticed this and her grin began bigger. "Oh do not worry, Little Rock is right here," she said, caressing the back of the horse.
Only then did Eryth remember that Uobleza mentioned that one of them was a shifter.
"You seem like a pretty good fighter. Why don't you join us, and you will get more than just ultimate power..."
"I will have to decline."
She pushed back her brown hair and sighed. "Very well."
The Poison Act user jumped off the horse and grabbed its leg. She swung the horse at Eryth, making him furrow in confusion, but just as it was a few seconds away from his neck, the horse morphed into a long sword.
"Fuck!" Eryth quickly pulled out his sword and parried the attack while taking steps back.
The brown-haired Kanrei pulled her sword back and spun with it, swinging it at Eryth's neck but he parried the again. She repeated the move over, and over again until the fifth time when the sword turned into a large axe. The dark brown-haired man parried but the force of attack sent him back a few feet.
She hummed before moving the axe to her mouth and licked the blade. Eryth heard a small screech as the sharp part of the axe turned purple.
"Poison," he muttered.
She dashed towards him and began swinging her weapon, forcing the dark brown-haired man into the defensive. He continued to block and evade her attack, making sure he didn't get even a scratch from it.
Maya hurled the axe at Eryth but he quickly dodged, letting the weapon fly past. He realized he may now have the upper hand and quickly made a move to seize it. Rune markings appeared around his wrist and his sword turned black. He gripped it tightly and quickly charged forward, but that was what his opponent wanted.
She moved her hand to her back, as if planning to pull out a weapon but didn't. Eryth felt as though something was wrong and just as he did, he felt a hand touching his shoulder.
He quickly stopped his advance and turned just in time to dodge the claw lunge by the shifter whose name was Little Rock.
Eryth jumped back to take in his situation.
"Oh, you really are good…" she said.
The Shifter was on his knee in front of Maya. He was naked and had scars and injuries all over his body as well as a mark of being poisoned around his left eyes. The wounds were fresh and Eryth guessed it was from when he parries his weapon with Maya.
"The attacks still hits him," he noted.
"…and that is why you died."
Eryth gasped but before he could react, a spear plunged through the side of his stomach, tearing out through the front.
He groaned but still as quickly turned to cut the formless head of the man he had thought he was done with. The body and the spear turned to dust immediately the head was off.
Eryth staggered backwards but managed to regain his balance, and just as he did, Maya pushed forward with a short dagger in her hand. She waited until she was only a few steps away from her opponent before swinging the dagger with her left hand.
The dark brown-haired man took a step back, only barely dodging the dagger. The Poison Act user grinned before moving her right hand to touch the side of his face but Eryth moved his head, unintentionally moving into her next attack. She shot out a poisonous mist that caught him cleanly in his face.
Eryth crashed to the ground and began coughing out blood. The formless-headed man appeared on the scene and sent him flying back with a kick to his abdomen where he was stabbed.
Maya threw the dagger she was holding and it turned back into its original form. She moved forward with a smile and curbed down to all four.
"This would have gone in a whole different direction if you had chosen to join us. I feel disappointed that I have to put down someone as good as you."
Even with the pain and poison coursing through his veins, the dark brown-haired man managed to drag himself up. He picked up his sword and made his battle stance.
As he stood, the part where the mist had touched began to spread and burn every part it moved through, but it only made him groan as he tried to contain himself.
"I'm not dead yet."
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