Chapter Forty Six - Exchanging Fists (Part 1)

Deciding to help out the person losing, he focused on the magic particles in the air into his arm and ran behind the Trooper who was pushing back the other with a smirk on their face. Walloping him on the back of the head, he keeled over unconscious.

The remaining trooper looked at Noah with his eyes squinting at him, "Who is your allegiance with?!" Clasping his sword with as much strength as he could, but Noah had already noticed that the magic aura he was letting out had disappeared, he must have run out of being able to hold it anymore.

"No one, I am here to find someone." Raising his hands to try and calm down the trooper in front of him. Showing that he wasn't wielding anything.

The Trooper didn't seem to believe Noah, he looked at the forearm protector that Noah was given by the Commander and saw his symbol. "Commander Joseph's guest? I haven't seen any commanders since this fight started, did you see him before it kicked off?"

Noah shook his head, watching as the man fell against the wall and slowly sat down a line of blood smearing the white walls. His breathing had become gasps and wheezy. "Shit. Do yourself a favour kid and get out. Find someone you can trust and get the fuck out of here. It's finally hit the boiling point and the Empire is going to shit."

Walking over with his hands up still before lowering them and pulling the Trooper up. "I noticed believe it or not. Come on this lobby had enough healers in it to help you up. I'll get someone to patch you up."

They staggard into the healer's lobby most had run out the other side's stairway and away but Noah was lucky enough to find that Sara was still packing a bag. "Sara, this man needs help he was stabbed in the back with a knife!"

She looked up from the wardrobe and saw Noah carrying the leaning Trooper, "Sammy!" Rushing over and helping Noah lead him onto her bed. They removed his leather armour and Sara started working on it, she seemed to have everything she needed in the room they were in.

Noah left her to it as she seemed to know him already and Noah knew she was already an amazing healer. Running out of the room and back to the lobby, he jumped down the rails on to the floor below doing his best to get down the stairs as fast as possible.

Rushing against time he would jump down each floor over the bannisters and avoid the fighting that he could hear in each hall until he got down to the 28th floor. There was screams coming from the hospital ward and blood had pooled under the door and onto the floor.

Noah prepared for the worse and willed magic particles into his chest and started circulating it into a magic aura and using it to prepare for a fight. He slowly pushed the door open and took a look into the room.

On the floor a man was laying on the ground with his neck twisted and blood coming out his chest, his eyes had rolled into his head showing the whites of them. Pushing it open even more there were more bodies layering the floor, some bleeding some writing in pain still.

Once the door was completely open he saw a team of healers running around to people in bed, the first thing he noticed was that one of the healers that were working on the wounded was his mother and the second thing he noticed was that the injured people getting medical attention of the dying was Commander Joseph and Fiona.

A man was watching them from a few metres away, a knife in one hand with blood dripping down the blade and onto the floor. Watching the healers work with a smirk on his face. The man had heard the door open and slowly turned to face him with a bigger smile on his face, "Well... Looks like we have a guest... Oh, one of your men Joseph?"

The man used mana so quickly that Noah was barely able to react, it was only thanks to the aura he had to circulate that he could feel it move before he attacked. He managed to duck a fist from where he was standing.

Noah did an uppercut trying to catch the man off guard but the blonde man avoided it and snickered avoiding it and grabbing Noah's neck and throwing him to the other side of the room crashing him into the wall.

Shaking it off, Noah stood up and got his fists up into guard. The blonde men laughed he had a few centimetres of height on Noah as well as years of experience against Noah. Nereem let out a scream once she realised who was fighting, "Noah!"

The two injured Dragon Troopers lookup with worry at Noah fighting against the blonde man, it was a one-sided slaughter to them. Noah was against Commander Fraser, a man known to be one of the most powerful Commanders in the Dragon Keep. He only took 6 months to go through all his boot camp training.

The blond commander laughed the harder Noah tried. He was using magic aura to easily deflect the blows but was slowly getting bored and finally started attacking back using the knife in his hand. Noah was able to pull out one of his swords and clashed back against the blade.

Sparks flew with every hit and they were at a standstill. Both the healers that were still okay and both Fiona and Sir Joseph. The blonde commander slashed at Noah's throat but he was blocked before Noah stabbed down trying to stab the commander in the chest.

Fraser grabbed the arm that Noah was using to hold his sword and forced all his magic aura just to break it in half, his eyes opening in surprise at how much it took to do it. Noah let out a gasp but managed to ignore the pain thanks to the adrenaline running through him.

He could feel the magic aura that he had slowly lose grip and disappear, he could only keep on circulating it as best as he could but knew he didn't have long left. He managed to get a few hits in but they barely made the blonde commander stop his assault.

Just as Noah was away to grab the sword on his back with his spare hand he felt a cold metal blade pierce his chest and into his heart. Blood running down his chest and through his tunics. He took a few steps back before falling to his knees, everything was in slow motion.