illusion

"how should I address you your Majesty " John asked while performing a courteous bow he was acting so politely not because he was from the royalty but because he needed allies for the princess the way thinks were developing they may face more powerful enemy once they returned to the pasrel "zeth " The king brother answered and all the elder came out of the manor followed by john before them was a blurry silhouette "its him capture him " one of the elder shouted before giving Chase john and the rest followed. the silhouette speed was not something they could compete with but what john couldn't understand was why even the king brother could could not catch up with him had he misjudged his power "no I don't think so "

they chased the silhouette till the depth of the forest before loosing his traces as if he disappeared out of thin air "how can he disappear ? " one of the elder asked angrily . John moved in front and stopped before the last imprint left by the silhouette his eyes became white after observing for some seconds he said "he didn't disappear he should not be far from here be on your guard " after he said that he heard no response turning behind him there was only 3 of the seven elder including zeth with whom he was he frowned hard "what the hell is this .." while he was thinking of how to find zeth and the the others a silhouette dashed out of the forest behind the elders and in one swift motion his thin sword had entered the throat of one of the elder he didn't stop nor gave them the time to react he moved forward and less than ten seconds the two others were death and had holes left in a their throat when john saw their lifeless body falling he charged at the silhouette who in response also charged toward him

John's blade became covered by a white light [ astral wave ] he made a thrust at the man heart but something not logical happened the silhouette made a perfect side side passed directly by his side and left as if he didn't see him his foot work and speed was well refined and practiced

john could not understand the silhouette had a perfect opportunity to stab him but didn't also those footsteps seemed familiar "yes ...Raul " after he thought about it . it did not make sense at all from what he observed Raul had a lot of respect for his elders if not he wouldn't had accepted to say to everybody in the village that the princess, and the rest including him were with their arch enemy even if he knew that there was no proof

he snap out of his thoughts only after he heard another scream coming from his left he turned and ran in a that direction

he saw a silhouetted with a tall and strong body he had only his left hand wielding a 2 meters long sword in it his face was blurry and was literally butchering the silhouette in front of him who strangely resembled the from before but their face were blurry elders john was lost he was 50% sure that the man butchering the elders in front of him was zeth but "why would he do that ?" after he finished he looked at john with an evil stare releasing killing intent he placed his head on his elbow such that his long sword was behind him then performed a rapid horizontal slash he didn't move but the attack had creates a strong wind blade moving speedily to john and at the same time another silhouette had appeared behind him and performed a perfect stab on his neck

he was forced to use his skill [shadow feint ] that he had kept till now

the two silhouette saw how his body was cut into two halves and the thin blade had entered his neck but after a second the body disappear leaving only behind smoke

while john on his side was hidden on a tree branch observing them he was sweating and his heart was beating at extremely high speed why would they want to kill me he was at lost but saw a scene even more inconceivable Raul and zeth where battling and trying to kill each other "what the hell is happening with them is this an illusion ?" "yes it should be " it was the only logical explanation that he could come out with but then again if it was an illusion how could that attack be so real and all that blood littering the ground he had accidentally come in contact with it and he was a hundred percent sure it was real so if it is not an illusion what it is he remembered that when Raul first attack the elder he had avoided him as if he couldn't see him but just now he had tried to kill him it wasn't logical if it was not . unless it was , he came to a frightening conclusion "an illusion who can confuse the senses " it was the most logical explanation "how am I supposed to drag them out of this " when he was deep in though he sensed a faint killing intent approaching from behind without giving it a second thought he jumped of the tree and landed on the ground he then saw a figure slowly coming down his face was not blurry he had clear eyes long black hairs he was dressed in complete black outfit which proofed his muscular body under the dress he had no shoes because the dress he was carrying revealed no other part of his body except his face he held twin daggers in his hand and a dazzling object emitted faint blue light on his index finger " congratulations Mr Evan you are really something from their actions alone you could deduce that it was an illusion the praise about you was not exaggerates at all " he said with a sinister smile on his face john guess that he should be the one who created the illusion and also the one who forced the elder into killing him and later eliminated him to remove every evidence " who are you and why do you want my life ?" the man smilled as he leisurely moved forward "zed your nightmare at your service the person who wants your life you would meat him soon enough don't worry" he said as he smirked john frown he had to find a way of removing the illusion if not zeth and rail would really kill each other

john held his blade with his mouth and took his bow it was more convenient like this he could better use the two weapon before knocking a series of arrows

swosh.....swosh....swosh....

zed ran to john while avoiding all the arrows and deviating some with his twin daggers he arrived in less than the time required to take breath john reacted rapidly and adjusted his bow so that it was directly on the face of zed and knocked his arrow

zed bent his upper body backward allowing the arrow to pass above him , he extended his twin dagger in the left and right hand of john respectively and made a cut on his vein , he regressed his body then launched a kick on john shin making him loose his balance and fall zed raised his right leg in a perfect vertical manner and brought it down to john . john made a side roll before speedily getting up

[ slash (vein) inflict 100 ×5 to target HP target has Simon's amulate damage negated 300]

"finally it seems that they had exaggerated on one thing .. your strength you are pitifully weak " zed said as he starred at john without moving john torn his shirt and bandage his bleeding hands before taking his blade in his hand "we have just begin and you are already so arrogant " he said as he dashed to zed and made a series of thrust and cut who where all fended by zed using twin dagger

clang...clang.....clang.....

john thrust he blade to zed face he who simply placed his right dagger in front of his face and deviated the trajectory of the blade he then made a complete turn of his body and prepared to lunged his right dagger in john back . john reacted quickly enough and gave him a backward nudge on his face and a kick with his talon on zed knee then jump , turn and gave him a hard kick on his face sending him backward . after zed got up he smiled and thrust the blade in his right hand while saying "hurry up and hand over your life before your two friends kill themselves " zeth had already disarmed Raul and raised his two meter long sword preparing to deal the final blow john used his left hand to block the dagger , the dagger was so sharp that it pierced his hand and came out on the other side at that time following the activation of [ inferno punch ] his hand ignited with flames and it propergated to the forearm of zed . zed swiftly moved backward after retrieving his dagger john used the potion [heal ] that chief Zoll gave him and recovered half of his life

[pierce ( palm ) inflict 100 damage ×2 to target HP ]

john had a ring in his hand when he first saw it on zed he had guessed that it has something to do with the illusion created the illusion to confuse their senses

suddenly zeth who had brought down his sword stopped an inch away from Raul , and Raul who was still fighting stopped as if they finally regained their senses when zed saw that he instinctively looked at his index finger and frowned "so you allowed yourselves to be pierced by my dagger to remove the ring..." he laughed lightly "it seems that I need to go all out now "

his body began to change at visible rate his body was recovering itself with a blue scale his hands extended his leg took the form of an ancient myth[ the minitor ] his body grew in size his face took a triangular form his hairs raised forming spike he was completely covered in blue scale even his aura had change his voice became more coarse "you....don't.....give.....me.....the....choice.." each time he pronounced a word blue foam will came out of it john frown hard

[unique battle triggered : you are about to fight zed a magical beast if you die you would start back the game from the beginning of the dungeon all your stat would be reduced by one and one mystic equipment shall be taken as penalty ]

[surrender : yes/no]

[no]

when he saw the notification he was astonished that under that thin silhouette was hidden such a monster but at least the penalty wasn't so harsh as for a mystic beast

"Mr Evan distance yourself from him this creature is very strange let me take it out even if I am not at the top of my capacity am still more powerful than you " zeth said as he moved forward with his two meter long sword resting on his left shoulder john rejected the idea if he allow zeth to do everything he would get nothing from all this "let me help you " "okay but don't hinder me " Raul just sat to the side he was covered with blood and had barely survived from the endless attack of zeth "i would just stay here and rest you can continue " Raul added

"lets..see..if..you..are..qualified.." after he spoke he started running to zeth at extreme speed his movement produced winds currents blowing the leaves of the trees in all directions he arrived before zeth in a blink and delivered a powerful punch zeth on his side fended the attack with his long sword on his left hand the impact of the attack caused him to take a step back boom ... a small crater had appeared under their feet zed didn't stop and continued this time he performed a series if punch without pause the speed was so rapid that it left afterimage as if he had hundreds of arms zeth continued defending with his sword this time none of the took a step back with the their attack became more and more powerful the crater under their feet increased at visible rate

boom...boom...boom...

the monster delivered another punch with his left hand zeth stabbed his sword in the ground and caught zed hand by the forearm and dragged zed to him before giving him hit with his right knee bam.. he then swiftly retrieved hid sword from the ground with his only left hand and made a semi circular cut on zed throat this disrupted zed momentum and he could not continue his chain attack and was forced to take several steps back while holding his throat