When the sun was about to set on the horizon and a touch of blazing orange filled the boundless sky, Elizabeth wore the bulletproof vest given to her underneath her clothes and placed the stun gun on her waist. She wore jeans and a jacket despite the temperature wasn't even that cold. After she was done, a series of knocks sounded on her door and Elizabeth went to open it.
As she had expected, it was Kevin who appeared. An apologetic smile formed on his face, he spoke out before Elizabeth could say anything, "I'm sorry for coming to you this late. Even though I promised to teach you how to use the stun gun yesterday, this morning and noon I was preoccupied with a lot of stuff, so…"
"It's alright," imagining how Kevin must've been busy with the preparation, Elizabeth smiled and said, "It's an important day and we have too
"So we should be waiting until at least midnight?"A dissatisfied voice sounded throughout the room and made Kevin twitch his ears for a second. The urge to sigh bubbled within before he suppressed it and turned to look at the familiar face that uttered the complaint."What else could we do? Besides, this ain't that bad if we talk about our time in the desert."After Kevin mentioned the word desert, his counterpart's face grimaced in the next second before another voice appeared."Everyone said that I'm the one who wants fancy stuff, but here you are complaining about waiting a little, Rudy.""I'm not complaining!" When his name was called out,
"Oohhh! I won!" A joyful cry echoed whilst a man with body armor rose from his seat and put up both of his hands high. His counterpart who sat across from him along with two others dressed just like him and sitting on both of his sides revealed either a wry smile, annoyed expression, and a heavy sigh. "Hey, the hell is this? You are cheating, aren't you?" The one who sat across him clicked his tongue and tried to retaliate at their newest winner of their little gambling game. Seeing through the attempt of his comrade, the man who stood snickered and retorted with exaggerated expression, "What's this? Someone couldn't take a loss? Ha!" "Like hell I'm gonna let you rob me in broad daylight! The only thin
"Shoot!"When that word echoed, incessant spitting flames ensued from all of the guns held by the soldiers. Yet, instead of seeing their enemy having countless holes on their body, a transparent blue barrier stood tall between the bombardment and their foe. Causing countless ripples all around the barrier without any signs for it to fall apart."E-Esper!""Bring out the DGs!""Keep shooting and make him stay on the spot!"Series of orders ensued to the soldiers as they kept sending hail of bullets to the lone wizard. Watching the commotion, the latter smiled while he felt a slight breeze pass by him. Silently, he guessed that his teammates had moved t
"Looks like Luhei, Cecile, and Rudy are already there to help the soldiers."Resting his gaze upon the tablet on the table, Kevin uttered with a calm tone to the person who sat across him. After she heard his words, the person nodded her head and asked, "Are they gonna be fine?""Absolutely," he replied immediately as he turned his head. A smile formed on his face, he continued, "Especially since the number of the enemies were much less than what we had anticipated. You will be safe, Elizabeth."Instead of showing a relieved expression, Elizabeth narrowed her eyes to the monitor and inquired, "How about the loss of the soldiers?""Hard to say, but it's roughly dozens, including the captains of their team," This time
Outside of the base.Bullets whistled in the air as multiple deafening eruptions echoed throughout the once tranquil night. Stench of iron drifted in the air and soldiers scattered around the place, taking cover with some of them having their guts spilled open, holes on part of their bodies, or even cuts and bruises when trying to cling to dear life.Dying screams filled the place while shout of orders curses flowed with no sign of stopping. Their marching opponents already hid themselves in good locations, bringing more challenge than the soldiers had expected. Even though more attention and reinforcements were directed to this battlefield, the pressure from their enemies was anything but becoming lighter. In fact, it was almost mind boggling as some of them realized how their comrades in arms were dying in droves just as fast
Dodging another swipe of the giant claw, the giant maw took a deep breath before it opened and breathed a sea of flames directed at him. In the next second, his figure blurred and he immediately avoided the fire breath entirely. Yet, as his figure appeared once more, a lot of sweat flowed from his forehead and the tip of his fingers shook slightly.'Not good…'When he moved his eyes back to the scarlet dragon, tens of crystal spears hovered in the air around it before they bombarded it at the same time. Clanking noises ensued and countless emerged through the downpour. Besides covering for both of its eyes, it only growled angrily as it weathered the assaults in ease.After that, his head turned to another direction and now he saw the scene of their enemy
The man's countenance turned ugly while he tried to leap to the side and swing his sword to the empty air. His abrupt change of movement and stance was well executed. After all, it didn't take even a second after the voice faded before the man reacted accordingly.Still, he was a step too late, a sword more swifter than his already parried blade to the side and aimed to his neck. The figure jumped out of the ground, where the shade of the building was gathered in a wide area. Even though the surprise attack of the new figure almost succeeded to claim the man's life, a flash of blinding light ensued and foiled his actions completely.A barrier of silver, seemingly thicker than any barriers Kevin had seen from those wizards, was formed faster than the speed of sound. A loud clunk followed and to the man's surprise, a crack
Subconsciously, her hands were about to reach his neck and let herself go deeper into his embrace. Yet, the bloodstain at the corner of his lips and nose made her realize that he must have suffered some sort of injury. By the time she pondered this notion, she noticed the slight trembling from his hands that touched her waist, as if they were struggling to not make it apparent to her."Kevin… are you alright?" a genuine worried expression formed on her face as she quickly separated to not let him lift her much longer. Meanwhile, Kevin could only smile sheepishly at that question without giving her any answers. Letting out a heavy breath, he frowned while his muscles twitched in pain. Nevertheless, he gritted his teeth and shifted his attention to Kankei, who was glaring daggers at him for foiling his strike.Before