Chapter 322: Old Ties
[Void]
Located at a sanctuary far from the location of the battle, the pool rises as a person came alive and breath as if he's breathing a new life all over again
Seeing his condition, the person himself then sighed as he muttered
"Looks like they really were able to kill me at that time... I'm surprised though, there are so many strong guys on the enemy's side, just what did provoke them for them to act agaisnt that guy?" Asked Ares himself
Just like what he did say to Argos that natural born voidling like him will never really die but instead gets revived in a different body and restart all over again
Thus the moment Argos killed him, he then was instantly revived in another body which prevented his death
Sighing deeply Ares then leaned back on the pool and allowed himself to float around as he said
"Whatever the reason it is, I already died in that battle, there is no reason for me to take my revenge cause after all... This isn't my first time to get killed"
With that though Ares then stretched his whole body before using his magic and o project the current situation of the battlefield
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Continuing to fight head on Kaido then led his raiding army closer to their destination as they closed in for about 50 km and was able to shorten the gap between the target and him
Currently they finally was able to see the place where Asuto was together with a device that seemed alive for some reason
With the distance between the of about 90 km in between, it has spent a long time before they were able to get here
Apparently many transport was sacrificed this many ground troops were spread out throughout the plain
Currently the remaining available transport numbered about 32 left as they sometimes fall due to the rapid rain of damage
At this moment Kaido was hiding behind a ridge as he avoided numerous shots coming from the enemy, after all due to them getting closer, the enemy's forces became much stronger as more and more of their side was falling due to exhaustion
Zooming pass the rain fire of the enemy Aileene who is in her teenage form was then able to get near Kaido as she hid beside him and covered herself down
"What are you doing here?" Asked Kaido
"How about you? What are you doing? Can't you just take care of them?" Asked Aileene
"At the moment not yet, my stamina is already being depleted rapidly despite getting near here, I need to take a breather" said Kaido as he ducked away after an explosion near him went off
"The enemy won't just show mercy and keep firing forever you know" said Aileene
"I know... In fact it might be possible for them to use a tactic or a pincer to really take me down, but that wouldn't happen at all since it would be useless against me" said Kaido
"Then what shall we do?"
"We need a diversion to atleast make something able to get the attention of all the enemy even for just a second" answered Kaido
"Diversion? You only need a second right?" Asks Aileene
"Yeah! A second... although if you can atleast kill some then it would really help me out"
"Is that so? Then fine I'll be the diversion" said Aileene as she tightly held unto her lunar blades and continouesly monitored her breathing
At that moment an explosion happened as another transport broke down from the rain fire and numerous Voidlings overwhelming it's capacity thus it fell
With that though few other raiding army soon tried to get out of the range fire only to get pounced and shot down by the Voidlings
As for the void Knight's which were once supervised by Ares, Argos and the others were the one's taking care of them far at the back as some troops got held back due to special circumstances
"31!!! Another one fell" said Kaido as he could hear the screams of agony from the raiding army that survived the fall yet was assaulted to death by the enemy
In fact the Voidlings that were attacking them from afar are somewhat slightly long charging energy cannon Voidlings
Due to that they covered up their weaknesses of having long charging time by their numbers thus causing it to look like a continuous rain fire
Plus this type of Voidlings was being protected by few void Knight's as they surrounded them on either side, thus preventing ambush
Taking in a deep breath Aileene cleared her mind as she nodded at Kaido
"I'm ready!"
"Go!"
At that instant Aileene dashed out from her hiding spot and was immediately got concentrated by the heavy firing of the enemy's side
Stretching out her lunar blades, she then came and parried every energy blast with her own weapon as she covered herself with a Mana barrier to provide slight defense while dealing with such enemy
Seeing Aileene getting a step closer, few void Knight's then charged out towards her as they stepped forth and drew their swords
Seeing this, Aileene then smiled as she casted her spell
"Phase acceleration!!!"
In an instant she phased through her enemies and further dived down towards the firing squad
"World Class Magic: Strike of the Valkery!!!"
Casting this in a short span of time, all Mana suddenly got sucked the vortex above them as a huge magic cricket appeared above causing a huge phantom entity of a valkery in armor appeared above the clouds
Stretching it's arms the Valkery then held down her spear as she threw them directly towards the enemy's lines, causing massive destruction
Seeing this taking over their attention Kaido then concentrated with all it's might and turned their safe haven ground into a total no man's land as he made the ground beneath the Voidlings of all type and sizes to spiked up protruding blades this killing the remaining firing squad of Voidlings and some void knight that protected them as a whole
With that gone Kaido then moved forward as he bypassed Aileene on the ground and patted her shoulders
"Nice distraction"
"Yeah! It really cost me a lot... I feeling a bit first now, I don't know why?" Muttered Aileene as she puts on an dissatisfied expression
At this moment many raiding army troop then charged forward as they got rid of the firing squad and begun fighting off not far from them
Seeing that Kaido then looked over at Aileene as he asked
"When was the last time you've eaten?"
"Eaten? Few days ago I think? I can't remember, I'm pretty sure that I drank some of the opponent's blood before, but I don't know when was it"
Hearing that Kaido patted her as he said
"Worry not! Your just starving"
At this moment Fengris came in with a few injuries as he limped over and returned to his human form
In fact due to some circumstances he then fell to the ground as he reattached his dislocated arm
Seeing this both Kaido and Aileene looked over
"You look like you've gone through hell" said Aileene
"Hell? If this is hell then I don't want that... The battle is ugly at any side I take, this Is the only moment I cod take on a breather" said Fengris
"How's the other leaders? How's Seralyn's side?" Asked Kaido as he worried about the lessening available strong warriors
"Maltheus together with Hyru and Farion who just recovered are now still fighting, as for the others they are being held back" said Fengris
"As for Seralyn she is reassembling the available troops... What about your side?"
"This place... We're nearing our goal, and so are they" said Kaido as he pointed at the device behind Asuto from afar
Due to the changing to Calamity Class Being, Kaido has fully enhance his view, thus even with less than 100 km he was able to atleast pinpoint what was from afar
"That thing feels like it's about to explode at any given moment, even though I don't know what it does, all I know is that killing Asuto would end everything and answer my call"
"Call?" Asked both Fengris and Aileene
"Call to start my revenge" said Kaido as his expression grew darker
"At long last... My wish is about to be fulfilled" he muttered
At that moment Aileene's legs finally gave in as she really was losing her strength due to starvation
Seeing that Kaido then ripped his sleeves off on his right arm and exposed his skin to Aileene
"Drink it! hurry!"
Seeing that Aileene was a little moved as she didn't fully dally since time was of essence in this battlefield
Stretching out her fangs she then plunged them unto Kaido's blood vessels as she took a bite and begun drinking his blood
Like an adrenaline her blood soon recovered her strength at an incredible rate
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From afar Asuto could clearly see the fight happening about 80 km from his direction and knew that the enemy was closing in
Apparently he only had about 10 minutes left before the device that will awaken someone would be activated
"If only they haven't attacked on this exact day at all... Well it would be better to end evrything here... But before that I think a psychological battle would be needed first right?" Muttered Asuto as he glanced at the four hooded figures which soon revealed themselves
In all four of them was Mia, Alda, Jack, and Sirius
Retaining a part of their memory and personality, this living puppets was then corrupted to their core as the void fed through their desire and used it to bring them back to life or some part of their original self
After all was was left on this bodies of their was the desire of the original host
Following which Mia's desire to live, Alda's desire to grow stronger, Jack's desire to be of use, and Sirius desires for power and status
With this intense desires lingering through their thoughts before their original host dies, all of their desire was then used to fully bring them back to life as Asuto's puppets
In fact Asuto just did such a thing after considering of doing a psychological war between the person connected them the most to themselves who died and lost everything to that person
Even though they remembered everything as a bonus from their original host which their soul has left their body a long time ago, this persona of theirs could be may as well be them
Raising a brow Asuto then ordered such puppets to deal with the person they are connected to
With that thought all of them then moved to their respective person and dared to attack them psychology
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Soon after by the time the countdown for activation reaches 7 minutes Kaido and the rest finally broke through of about 50km mark which gave them greater view of what's happening
Since this is just activation or chat you call an preparation for about an hour, the final phase called execution will be carried out after this which takes about 5 minutes
So all in all from the charging phase to execution phase the time remaining for it would be 12 minutes exact (7 minutes left for charging phase & 5 minutes for execution phase)
Taking this chance Kaido and the rest immediately stride over as they greatly covered as distance in an instant as they tried to rush over, especially with Aileene at the front after fully recharging herself
At this moment various figure appeared infront of both Kaido and Aileene in different places at this moment both of them easily recognized such characters
Kaido was now faced against Jack his old acquaintance, while Aileene was now faced against Sirius the enemy of her parents
At that same time Belial from afar who was assisting Seralyn suddenly felt a chill as he flew over Seralyn and blocked all incoming arrows from above
After that volley he then looked over to see the perpetrator with his murderous gaze
Soon after his gaze landed on the two familiar silhoutte as appeared from afar
"What!?!?!" Exclaimed Belial as he saw Mia and Alda on the side of the enemy
As he couldn't comprehend the situation of why a Hero's party member joining the enemy side, he was then Liberated from the pressure as both Alda and Mia finally found their target
With a majestic pressure weighing on everyone
All of them turned to look at the sky and saw Hibiki flapping it's angelic wings from above looking down with a complicated expression after facing both Alda and Mia
At this instant various emotions flooded out of him as he saw his two best friends he had that was killed by his own hands, standing right infront of him quite alive
With his hands started to tremble Hibiki then resolved himself as he will face his dark past right this moment
[Raiding army left: 558,940]
[Enemies Left: 499,100,000]
[Time left before the awakening: 10 minutes left]