Chapter 13

Edward got pulled out very soon of his daze when the cat jumped at him with it's paws extended, he didn't cower and instead dodged the paws and went for the cats neck, the enormous axe went down at an extreme speed while the sound of the air being cut sounded clear and loud!

The axe connected with the cat's neck but all it did was leave a small gash from which flowed a small stream of blood, the cat looked furious as it had suddenly been injured while it had held strong earlier against way more people !

Ella finally recognized Edward since it was pitch black night she hadn't been able to see him clearly but there weren't a lot of people with such a stupid body strength.

'This is the power of skills, it can reverse the flow of a fight even in the hands of a grade one evolver...'

Ella pulled on the string of her bow and a blue ethereal arrow flew toward the right eye of the cat that was still focusing on Edward and when it realized there was an attack coming at it it was already too late and all it could do was close its right eye, the incessant flow of strong attacks had made it hard for it to even defend itself let alone fight back.

The arrow burrowed itself in the eyelid and blood started to flow out of it as soon as the arrow evaporated, following that the cat left out a bone chilling wail and pounced at the closest enemy : Edward.

[It's evolving, retreat!]

Sam heard Mechy's voice and suddenly his blood went cold, he was confident that the three of them together could take it down if it stayed a grade 2 beast until the end of the fight but if it evolved they wouldn't even have the opportunity to run away!

"Let's run ! It's evolving !!"

Sam yelled and threw another kick towards the head of the cat to give an opening to Edward, the kick fell right onto the cat's closed eyes and made a huge amount of blood spray out of the hole, in a second Sam was covered in the beast's blood.

Edward and Ella didn't know how Sam could know that but they decided to trust him instead of feeling sorry later, they turned around and dashed away being trailed very close by Sam, when they ran 15 seconds at full speed they were already 250 meters away and they heard from behind them a horrifying cry by the cat.

Ella who was running at the front while maintaining a slow speed for Sam and Edward to be able to follow her, as she was already a grade 3 evolver she could have covered this distance in less than 3 seconds.

She looked back at Sam and said:

"It really is evolving, the fluctuations in its energy have stabilized and it has gotten stronger. How did you know ?"

"Intuition, we can't beat it anymore now and the seniors are still there. Do you have a plan?"

"What plan could I have ? I asked Ash who accompanied you to escape to call reinforcements, all we can do is find a secure place and wait."

Edward who heard that suddenly felt something bad.

"Uhmm... I was with the group all along and I didn't see that senior soldier calling for reinforcements at all, she was too preoccupied flirting."

Ella's mood suddenly dropped from bad to worse, she had been in the same battalion as Ash for years now and she knew she was absolutely capable of doing what that what he said just now.

"That bitch ! All she can think about is getting screwed, I swear if I make it back alive I'll take care of her myself !"

Sam and Edward who heard her cussing looked at her weirdly, she was such a cute girl with a foul mouth but it was completely understandable as they were in a horrible situation because of that woman.

"I'll call for reinforcements myself, the time needed to open the teleportation gate is around 1 hour so we'll have to hold on until then."

After saying so she suddenly rotated 180 degrees and aimed her bow between Sam and Edward, her arrow went between the two boys and headed towards the dark shadow that was running after them two hundred meters away but it was very easily broken by the newly evolved grade three Midnight cat.

[It's after you, it will reach you in less than a minute if you keep running at full speed.]

Sam suddenly felt a sense of urgency, he still had things to do and he couldn't die now, he had also promised Edward that it was safe!

"You guys run, I'll hold it back."

Edward couldn't believe his ears!

"Are you stupid?! How the fuck will you hold back a grade 3 beast on your own ? You'll be cut in half in less than a second!"

Ella also agreed with Edward and added

"I think it's best if we fight it together, let's bait it towards an environment that's advantageous to us !"

Sam looked determined and said

"Don't worry I have a plan, keep running and trust me."

"No way."

Edward added and stopped next to Sam, Ella sighed and jumped on a branch, the most important thing for an archer was to have high ground over your enemies so going on something high before a fight had became a habit.

"You guys are stupid."

Sam said with a small smile and then spoke to Mechy in his head.

'Alright Mechy I'll be counting on you, don't let me down.'

[Don't worry, now that my consciousness has been moved inside you all I can do is get you out of this predicament or I'll die too, I won't do this often but it was my miscalculation that led to this situation so I'll take care of it.]

Suddenly Sam lost control of his body and all he could do was see his body jumping on the spot and stretching it's muscles.

"You two fall back, I'll take care of it."

Edward heard his friend say and felt something weird, both of them had grown up together and although it was the same voice and the same face he definitely felt like this was a different person who had talked to him.

He wanted to ask but decided to leave it for later, danger was coming at them at a very high speed.

"I'll cover you, if you feel tired just fall back and I'll take over!"