"RAIKEN!!!" Mina yelled as she punched Albus in the face with a fist covered in lightning and sent him flying. She did not wait for him to land before launching her next attack with a bolt lightning and immediately after that, she rushed towards him and began a barrage of attacks moving faster than the speed a normal eye could follow.
Each attack was faster and stronger than the former. Mina didn't leave any opening for Albus so he created one for himself.
Mina was about launch her next attack when she found herself evading another concentrated flame. It didn't come from Albus' direction but from behind and she look back, she saw a whole lot of light balls.
Mina already knew the next action to take... run.
With all her might Mina fled the area before the barrage flames rained on her and Yen was waiting where she stopped.
"Need my help now?" Yen asked
"Nahh, I just need a weapon" she replied
"Well our swords didn't survive the rampage, you have a crossbow though"
"Nahh I don't need it" she said
"Oh well let's do this" she said as she stretched out her hand and formed a rod out of lightning then ran off to wack Albus with it.
Yen was genuinely shocked. He had just seen Mina do something he he'd never done before as if she had been training all her life for it. Even the 'raiken' was her invention, but Yen was still in for more surprises.
Mina ran towards Albus who had surrounded himself with concentrated White flames. The little balls of light were orbiting him slowly and firing around the area to prevent anyone from coming in while he recovered. He had taken great deal damage and needed time to get back in shape.
"I shouldn't have underestimated this girl" he said as he watched his wounds close up.
Albus had a fast recovery rate but he still feared that Mina might find a way to get at him before he was fully recovered... She did.
"What could she be up to this time?" Albus wondered as he watched Mina run circles around him and his defense system
"It's no use" he said loudly
"Whatever you are planning will not work" he added..... Then he saw some glowing spots on the ground around his defense system.
While Albus wondered what he was looking at, Mina stopped and placed her hand on the ground then said the words "RISING BOLT" and from within the glowing spots came numerous rods of lightning. Albus sensed the danger and immediately took off into the air but Mina was not done with him.
"You're going nowhere" she yelled as she formed another rod in her hand and threw it above Albus. The single rod divided and became as numerous as the ones on ground then Mina yelled the words "FALLING THUNDER" and the rods from both above and below shot at Albus and struck with intense power and voltage.
"I'll call this move... DIVINE SHOCK"
Albus wasn't the only one being shocked. All Yen could do was to stand back and watch in awe as Mina used his power to do things he never imagined he could do with it. Yen was superior in speed and mobility and never really had any need for techniques, but seeing the elegance of Mina's moves made him wonder
"Just how far into my heart did she look?" He muttered
"She has peered so deep that she understands the very nature of my existence"
"This is not something I expected" he thought.
"But she has to hurry" he said
"I'm almost drained"
Albus' flames were losing intensity but he also noticed that Mina's speed and power were also going down. He cracked a smile because according to his calculations she would be drained before him.
He continued attacking until he hit her once, then twice, the lot of other times.
At this point Mina was drained and weakened. She could still feel her connection with Yen but his power was diminished, all she had left was her own physical strength and her Wit.
"Why am I never aware of my limits?" Yen muttered to himself as he watched the fight from afar. The lightning around him was barely sparking and he could no longer send any power to Mina. In his fleeting moment of thought, he wondered "what am I wearing?"
One shot after the other, Albus laughed as he watched Mina struggle to avoid his flames.
"There is no hope for you" he said
"You will die here" he yelled as he formed a sizable ball of flames and shot it at Mina.
In the spur of the moment Mina reached behind her and felt a crossbow hanging from her waist
"And thought I didn't need it" she said as she immediately pulled it out and aimed.
As she shot at her target, she wondered
"Who makes arrows out of gold?"
Mina's golden arrow passed through Albus' flames and pierced him right in the forehead, the arrow had passed through intense flames so it was pretty hot and painful.
Albus' ball of flames struck Mina in the torso but at the moment of impact her eyes gave a brilliant glow of lightning and her entire body was shielded with it.
"I made it in time" Yen said to himself as he collapsed on the floor naked. It turned out that his robes were made out lightning and at the last minute, he turned it into power and sent it to Mina.
Meanwhile, Mina Walked to Albus' and pulled the arrow out of his head then began stabbing him all over.
One of the major secrets Mina found out about the prophets was that they could not die. Whenever one is killed his mind just transfers to a different body and he comes back. It was the prophets' biggest advantage.
Every physical damage that she dealt on Albus meat nothing. Mina's main aim was this moment, when she knelt over him and mutilated his temporal corpse.
Normally, it would be useless to do damage to a dead body but Albus' case was different. While a prophet is being transferred to his new body, he still feels all the pains and sensations of his old body. The transfer took about five minutes, enough time for Mina to instill some psychological damage.
After she was done, Mina staggered over to Yen and collapsed right beside him.
Mina woke up in Yen's arms on the back of a moving open-roofed pick up truck. "Where are we headed?" She asked, looking up at Yen "We are going back to the fortress" Yen replied. "Don't worry just rest" "We'll be there in no time" "In the mean time, you need to recover your energy" Although Mina didn't fully understand the situation, she trusted Yen and closed her eyes to sleep. She was too tired to ask about the truck, or who the two people in the front were and how they found them. She had a lot of questions she wanted to ask but she needed to sleep more than anything so despite the bumpy ride, she slept soundly throughout the journey. The first thing Mina saw as she opened her eyes for the second time was the walls of the fortress. Once again, she woke up in Yen's arms but there was no truck, just the two people in front. "Who are they?" She asked with the tone of an exhausted person and one of them turned back to answer. "I am Lee Shuan Gou" h
"I come from a time long before the order. In my time there was no magic but we had reached a point where our technology was almost magical. Men could fly and there was no illness or disability that couldn't be treated. We solved all the global issues such as hunger, war and global warming. In other words, we created Paradise on earth. It was all good. There was peace, there was harmony and everyone lived a good life. The only things we couldn't find answers to were social problems, the problem of eternal life on earth and a few other question that remained unanswered throughout history. This time was worthy of being called 'the age of Paradise' No one at the time expected their Paradise to be turned into hell but it did. It did not happened slowly but overnight and it was not a sight one could bear to look at. The source of our hell was that which we had televised and ridiculed throughout the ages. It was a machine uprising. In a world where almost everything was
As they went further into the city, Mina was surprised to see that most of the people were already settled down. "It's not even getting dark yet" she said In awe. "Well she isn't called a queen for nothing" she added "It was Yamato" a distant voice said "It was Yamato that did it" the voice said again They turned to see Inumaki walking towards them. He explained everything to them. The the people had settled, the order of the fortress was established, and the new appointed leader. While everyone was in battle, Yamato brought the people into the fortress. He singlehandedly cleared and refurnished enough buildings to accommodate everyone. By the time we came back, he was already registering people in as citizens. He knew more about leadership than any of the others so they left the role to him. Also the queen retired. "I would like to meet this queen of yours" Susan said "I would also like to meet Yamato" she added. So they took her to the queen's resi
Albus walked through the halls of his lab in a frenzy. His rage was visible and could be felt from miles away. "What's the status on the pathfinder" he asked as someone handed him a file. "So it's still the same" he said as he looked into the file "YOU INCOMPETENT BASTARDS!!!" He yelled, throwing away the file and walking into one of the rooms. It was an old room full of books and the person that Albus came to see had his back turned. "Our legion was defeated" the man said "Our subjects were taken" "Our most powerful prophet met his match" "And not a single one of our enemies was harmed" "The council is not happy" "These rebels have created a nation and soon they will coming for ours" "So do we strike back immediately?" Albus asked and the man replied "No" "This is not the time to use crude methods" "We already have a plan they won't see coming, so don't worry yourself, General Albus" the man said and Albus replied "Yes,
So there they stood, before hungry undying beasts, ready to engage and enter the fray. Then Mina asked "What exactly is the plan?" and there was a momentary pause "We...don't exactly have a plan" Susan answered "The divinity of these creatures wasn't something I was aware of until today" "If it is true that they are immortal, we could only take on a handful of them, but these guys are too much in number for us to handle" "I suggest we run" "That won't be necessary" Yen said out loud "I already know what we should do" he said "What is it?" everyone asked "Well, it's quite simple" Yen answered "We will keep the beasts busy, while our dear Susan figures out a way to capture them" "But that would take a long time" Susan said, and Yen turned back and looked her in the eye then said "YOU HAVE TIME" before running off into midst of the beasts. "I have time" Susan muttered repeatedly "I have time..." "I have time..." "I have time..."
Three years passed with peace and there was no attacks from the order. It seemed that the defeat of Albus had caused them to take their enemies more seriously and make bigger, longer preparations. Mina and the others didn't know what the order was planning but they definitely weren't doing nothing. They had managed to raise an army of thousands; all valiant and powerful, each unit with their own speciaty. There was the 'Storm riders' who rode large mounts into battle. Most of them wielded wind and lightning techniques, and the elites among them rode their elements. This unit was trained by Minna who knew more about Yen's power he did. Yen on the other hand joined in training under her. Another unit was the 'ground breakers' who specialized in 'ground breaking' earth and fired techniques. Led by Inumaki these warriors have been trained to bend the ground below them to their will, and the fire users among them helped in their eruption techniques. Inumaki doubled as the l
Betty's info wasn't totally reliable. All she knew was what she was told to do and nothing more. But Rosewell already expected as much and already had a means of getting things from her. Betty was a naïve young girl in her mid teens. By giving her a name, Rosewell took advantage of that and got her to open up to him. He got other information like the layout of the enemy territory, the drop point of her mission and a few other information that were really helpful. Rosewell didn't waste time in informing the others of what had happened and they all ready to jump into action. Everyone prepared with haste and were ready to go in just a few minutes. But before they left, Mina decided to see Betty. She walked into the room where Betty was and was shocked by the young girl's reaction. As soon as Betty saw Mina she immediately ran to the farthest corner of the room and screamed "DON'T COME ANY CLOSER!!" at the top of her voice. but Mina slowly approached her anyway. "I know y
Yen laid unconscious with almost no breath in his lungs, his pulse was so little that it could barely be felt. His heart beat as if it was about to give up, and his body was so cold that he could be declared dead. But Mina had no time to grieve over Yen's condition. As she knelt beside him crying, a scout came to report that a large army had been spotted outside the city walls. She immediately stood up and left the room saying ,"let's go pay them back" as she wiped her tears. Mina made her way to the military assembly ground and called out "STORM RIDERS!!!" And in a matter of seconds, her entire unit was assembled. They numbered about one-thousand with fifty-five elites and all were ready for battle. The others also assembled their own units and got ready to march out into battle. Inumaki with his 'ground breakers', Lee with his 'shuan-gou' unit, Susan with the rescue team, and Yamato with the king's army. Rosewell refused to lead any unit. He just wanted to run into t