Thorn Of Darkness

Climbing The Blood Wall

Zayan looked at Woodwraith, "Why would you try to slay yourself?" Abban looked at Zayan, "They have speech but they can't get pronouns right." The Woodwraith said with an idiotic tone, "She will kill it and eat the Sofitel." Abban ran forward before Woodwraith could see him, he jumped on his head and took him by his horns before anyone could comprehend what was going on, Abban Buried Woodwraith's head down in the ground, and broke his left horn. Abban backed down, and Woodwraith stood up, "You are angry." He yelled and elongated his right hand to punch Abban, but before his fist could make contact, Abban ducked down and stabbed his hand with the horn that he had taken off from his head. Woodwraith's hand started bleeding but, before it could touch Abban, he jumped away. The thing coming from his hand wasn't blood, it was lava. Djinns have lava surging through their body. Just before Woodwraith called his hand back, red lava touched the ground, burning it. "I know you are strong and all but, he is a Woodwraith, B-grade Djinn." Abban looked at Zayan, "What are you talking about? We are here to kill Eighth Hellguard, if we can't beat this guy, how do you plan on killing him?" Zayan looked at Abban, "Fair point… But…"Abban ran towards Woodwraith, elongating both hands and started swinging them toward Abban like whips. Abban dodged all of them, and Abban slid to the ground and stabbed his leg with the horn, Woodwraith kicked Abban in the guts with his other leg before he fell to his knees. Abban blocked his kick with the horn but still flew meters away, but he stood up instantly, bleeding from his mouth. He cleaned drops of blood with his arm, as he ran towards him again. But this time Woodwraith caught Abban with his hands now had become whips before Abban could reach him. Woodwraith picked Abban in the air, with one hand. He tried to crush Abban's bones but, Abban sliced through the hand with the horn. Cutting his whole arm off, before Woodwraith could stand up on his feet Abban stabbed his face, throwing spilling lava from the forehead. But killing a Djinn wasn't that easy. Abban took out the horn, half broken, and stabbed his heart and then again stabbed his guts then stabbed his both eyes and when Woodwraith fell on the ground Abban took his other horn off and pushed it into one ear to the other. The fire in his eyes and mouth went out. The darkness around him disappeared as well. Abban threw the horn away and turned back. Zayan was sitting on the ground enjoying the show, while Anny was still standing there, trembling with fear. Abban started walking towards the wall. 

"There are eight corners in the wall making it shape like an Octagon; each corner is occupied by one Hellguard. They don't sleep, don't even blink, just eat and watch outside so no soul tries to touch the wall. They don't bother themselves with conflicts that happen outside the wall or inside the wall, all they care about is, protecting the Blood Wall. One of them must have seen you killing that Woodwraith."

"The wall is 50 meters thick, making it impossible to drill; it's too high to climb. So, the only options are, from the front gate or we start flying." Abban sat down on the ground with Zayan, he seemed lost in thought. "Propose a plan, Zayan. We are going to kill the eighth Hellguard, Zephyrclaw. So, which one is his corner?" Zayan stood up, "He is the strongest so, and he protects the backside of Djinn Lord's Mansion. As for the plan, all we have to worry about is how we get up there without him noticing, and how we kill the strongest Hellguard, and" he pointed his finger towards Anny and shouted, "Why the hell did you bring her with us?" Abban just sat there, with his hand on his right cheek. After Zayan didn't get any answer he just smirked. "Okay, brother." Zayan picked up a stick and drew an Octagon, "The only way is climbing, I don't think Zephyrclaw will do anything, I mean would be dying of boredom up there, he will let us reach the top so he can slaughter us. They don't get intruders often; the last time was decades ago that someone came near Blood Wall." Anny was still standing, thinking nothing but how big of an idiot they both were. But she wasn't intelligent enough to figure out why she was brought here. The thought didn't even cross her mind.

"And we have a bait--" Said Zayan; Abban stood up, Zayan continued, "You can use your crossbow to shoot an arrow in the wall. We will climb on the wall by the rope attached to the arrow." Zayan started walking towards the wall. "Let's go." Abban didn't say anything and walked forward. He took his robe off from his hand, there was a crossbow attached to his left hand, he grabbed an arrow from his hip belt and put it in the crossbow. Then aimed towards the top of the wall, "The rope is 30 feet, we will have to hang on the wall and then use the crossbow to throw another arrow, and it's not going to hold if two of us climb at once, so you go first and then I will tie her up and when I reach up there we will pull her up." Zayan explained; that Abban had taken a shot, right in the wall. 

Abban started walking on the wall while using the rope to pull him up. When Abban reached the arrow, he made a hole in the wall with his knife so, he could hang without putting any weight on the arrow. Zayan smiled standing down the wall. He tied Anny with the edge of the rope and then he started climbing. Anny stood on the ground, tied with the rope, when Zayan reached Abban he sealed his knife into the wall to hang on the other side of the arrow from Abban, "Let's pull," Zayan shouted, and then they both started pulling the rope up, along with Anny who was tied to the rope. She was crying her eyes out, but not once time he scream along the way.