Chapter 96: Battle Against Touch

She then launches multiple gigantic spinning drills made of the ground as they were heading towards everyone.

"Hmmm!? This presence?." Touch reacted.

[Here we go Partner!] The Dragon said.

As the next thing they knew all the gigantic drills Touch made were all destroyed by one strike as a boy with moppy hair landed in front of them with his Dragon mode, one black wing fully formed and both gauntlets as he then says,

"You made a bad decision harming my friends....You're looking for me right! well I'm right here!!!!!."

"Hmmm? revealing yourself to your opponent rather than concealing... pretty stupid of you, yes?."

Merlin casted a spell around the injured Frenda, as red petals surrounded her wound, a small dim of light was coming out of it as the wound she took was slowly closing.

While Liz and Louise was far away from the area with Anna as they were to keep her safe.

"Liz, aunt Louise... will Papa be alright?." Anna asked.

"I'm sure he will." both Liz and Louise replied giving her a smile to calm her down.

[Right brother?.] Louise thought to herself as she was looking worried for Arthur.

"Thank you.." Gwyn uttered as she was gazing on the unconscious Frenda on the ground.

Atalante knocks her bow aiming at the little girl in front of them as she was having doubt about it.

[This girl? an enemy.. impossible how am I suppose to...]

Aiden was merely with Merlin taking care of Frenda, Patrisha and Anastasia were preparing another round now that they have a chance of beating her.

"Arthur! they got Saya and Carla!."

Anastasia yelled out to him as she pointed to where they were placed, as soon as Arthur saw them, he took a step back and at the next second he immediately rushed himself towards her.

One blink from her eye and Arthur was already in front of Touch.

"He's Fast!." Patrisha uttered.

Instead of being frightened about Arthur's monstrous speed she merely faced him, stared him into his eyes, not showing any fear to him clearly showing the difference among them.

"Move." Arthur uttered in an anger tone.

"Oh? no can do.. Big Brother wouldn't want that----Hiyahh!!!." Touch yelled.

She backs away while grazing the ground with her fingers as Arthur would follow her the ground simply sunk him and trapped him there.

"Youu--!?."

[Partner we have a problem! this thing sucks up mana, we need to get out of here!]

"Now please be a good boy and knock out now.. if I give you to big brother I might get a head pat from him hehehehe." Touch uttered.

"Give me a break! if you think this can stop me! then I'm not fit to keep my promise! so that's why I'll defeat you, rescue our friends and destroy your plans!!!." Arthur proclaimed.

As Arthur was concentrating on how to get out of the ground another wing grew as he then had the chance to fly completely.

Once he was out he immediately dove towards her, Touch merely dodges and evades Arthur's dives as if they were nothing while countering him with huge chunks of the ground disturbing his balance.

"You're getting stronger? that's not good." Touch uttered.

[Partner better end this quickly!]

"What's wrong?." Arthur asked.

[I gave you only a fraction of my power but it seems your body isn't quite ready for it.. you need to put a stop to this fast or I'll be the one to stop this before destroying your body]

"But I don't feel anything?." He uttered as he dove right back again and continued his attacks on Touch.

[That's because I'm taking all the pain you're feeling right now.. just end it quickly!]

"You got it!."

As Arthur dove right back again Touch smirked as she placed both hands on the ground and two walls automatically appeared crushing Arthur.

"Hmm what big brother has told me.. that isn't enough to take him down.."

The walls crushing him were destroyed as the monstrosity named Arthur simply took them down, He rushes towards her without hesitation.

She merely leaps over him and evades his attack but she never expected what happened next, a golem's arm that was attached to Arthur's wing grabbed hold of Touch's ankle and brought her with him.

"You're not going anywhere!." Arthur uttered.

His face was consumed by his black form but near his eyes were Anastasia's ice golems's color, a light blue bordering his entire eye giving his new look a combination of black and light blue stripes in random places.

"But if this is made of golems then I can do this too!!." Touch yelled.

She touched the golem's arm grabbing hold of her as it broke into tiny pieces but instead of breaking apart, those tiny pieces glued back together and wrapped her entire ankle to Arthur.

"Like I said, YOU'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE!!."

With Touch now attached to Arthur she had nowhere to go, she was trapped, she couldn't even feel her arms it was a victory that was coming to them until..

[I'm sorry partner.. I have to do this or your body will break..]

Arthur's Dragon form entirely disappeared breaking Touch free, she then immediately jumps back towards where Saya and Carla were.

"Arthur!!." Patrisha yells out as she gets close to him.

From a far Anna yelled out in tears "PAAAAAPPAAAAA!!!!!."

While both Liz and Louise were holding her down as tears would flow from their eyes while she would move around and go wild just to get to her injured Father.

"Hmm? what a useless thing to do.. if you were suppose to buy time for your friends then it didn't work.. but overall you're still weak boy." Touch said.

Merlin was already casted his healing spell on Arthur while Patrisha, Gwyn, Anastasia, Aiden and Atalante were preparing to face the little girl in front of them.

"Now it's all of you? come then!." Touch uttered as she gave them a spine chillingly smile.

Gwyn equipped her water armor and lance as she and Patrisha rushed towards her, Touch merely evades their attacks, sidestepping from time to time while Gwyn and Patrisha launched their relentless attacks.

Atalante fired a single arrow towards the sky as it rose to the sky the arrow split itself into thousands of arrows now as they were landing towards the ground they were all homing towards Touch.

Gwyn and Patrisha were easily pushed away while Touch placed both of her hands on the ground as a giant wall protected her from the bombardment of arrows.

Aiden appeared behind her as he was about to slice her she managed to summon a spike from the ground to parry Aiden's sword, as she was forced to back away from there she noticed a bright blue light shining of behind her.

The mana in the atmosphere was concentrating on her, Anastasia was merging with her ice golems as the pain was intense, the sheer coldness she was feeling but because this was a battle they couldn't afford to loose she dealt with the pain.

"You're going to turn our friends back to normal! if you won't then I'm going to kill you!." Anastasia said.

Her other eye was letting off a blue light giving Touch a bit of fear as Anastasia was completely merged with the ice golems.

"Ice drive!." Anastasia uttered.

With golem like parts it was now a suit to her, with blue stripes and a chilling sensation coming out of her, she leaped towards Touch and by instinct she placed both hands on the ground as another wall tried to protect her but this time as Anastasia made contact with the wall it broke into two and a small part of it turned into a sword with blue stripes.

"Wha!?." Touch reacted.

Touch immediately placed a ground on her chest hardening it to try and take the blows from the sword.

Anastasia landed her mark and it managed to damage the armor Touch made earlier, Touch was starting to get exhausted.

"You fools just don't know when to give up!." She yelled.

Just at the moment she never noticed Gwyn's murderous presence behind her, out of fear she backs away and behind her yet again was Patrisha, her face was filled with anguish as she too was extending her limits.

Touch merely threw Patrisha in the air as she touches the ground to summon a wall under Patrisha, Gwyn sweeps in to try and land a shot but misses all her attacks as Touch merely evades them.

As Anastasia then made ice golems once again and commanded them to apprehend her Touch evades or summons her spikes impaling some of the ice golems but because there were too many she had to evade some of them.

[I shouldn't have used that wide spell earlier... tchhh this is getting annoying!.] Touch thought to herself.

She evaded and evaded until she was caught by one, grabbing hold of both her hands and feet she was now stuck much worse Atalante shot multiple arrows trapping her clothing on the golem.

Now with Touch unable to move, Aiden, Patrisha, Gwyn and Anastasia with her golem suit were all rushing towards her to take her down.

"BIG BROTTTTHHEERRRRRR!!!!!!!!." Touch yelled.

As between them someone came but because there were dusts covering them the ones from outside the battle couldn't see who it was.

But at the next moment Gwyn, Anastasia, Patrisha and Aiden were thrown away from Touch, once the dusts cleared it was Sanity who arrived, he freed Touch from the golem and told her.

"Bring those two near the area immediately I'll deal with this." Sanity said as he twirled his lance.

"Yes big brother." Touch replied as she rushes towards Carla and Saya and brings them towards the area Sanity spoke of.

"They're getting away!."

As Patrisha was about to give chase a lance almost pierced her arm as right on time Atalante grabbed hold of her.

[Huh? I never even saw him throw that lance..] Patrisha thought as she was shock to see it almost pierce her arm.

"I need you and the others to stay with Merlin now.." Atalante said.

Atalante gives a concerned look on her face as if she knew him from somewhere while the same reaction was given off from her opponent.

"But..."

"He's no opponent you guys can beat on your level, let me and Aiden deal with this.." Atalante said.

Patrisha turned her gaze to the man in front of her and was astonished to see his dark aura rising up towards the dark sky.

"You see what I mean? now all of you stay with Merlin he'll protect you." Atalante said.

Once Patrisha, Gwyn and Anastasia were right beside Merlin, Atalante lets out a smirk.

"What's with your smirking face Goddess of the hunt!?." Sanity asked.

"Oh? have we hit a nerve? we haven't even begun fighting yet." Aiden said mockingly.

Sanity's lance immediately was heading towards them as both Atalante and Aiden dodge it.

"You have have the nerve to dodge my Lance!? troublesome foes!." Sanity said.

The Lance returned to Sanity's hands as both Atalante and Aiden were feeling nervous just from sensing Sanity's intense mana being released right now.

"Here he comes Aiden!." Atalante said.

Sanity rushed towards them and it was a two on one fight but for some reason Sanity's movements were more faster than normal, he took one while distancing the other to deal with them one by one.

Sanity kicked Aiden while he then aimed for Atalante who was a Marksman class, but because of situations like Atalante was well prepared for it she parried the body of her bow to Sanity's lance, which isn't a good idea to be frank but she needed to block it with her life.

The Two weapons now clashing with each other with both sides not showing any signs of backing down, Aiden then appeared right behind Sanity preparing to wound his legs but Sanity noticed him and gave him a glare he broke from locking weapons with Atalante and redirected his lance towards Aiden.

It was a fierce battle not even the others could see what was going on except for Merlin, he could see what was going on, who had the upper hand, who is the more likely to win.

While on the other side of where the battle is taking place The remaining student council were going towards there to see what's going on.

"That's an intense amount of mana being released right there.." Shine uttered.

"A monster must be there!." Skadi replied.

"Abbigail be ready to treat some of the injured once we reach there." Alex said.

"Hey who's fighting over there!?." Jazmyn talked to herself.

[Those are mana I'm not familiar with but.. I can sense the boy and his servant..] The Phoenix replied.

"Arthur huh? is he alright?." Jazmyn asked.

[He seems to be unconscious as of the moment.. huuhh??]

The Phoenix found something terrifying over the area where the fighting is occurring, judging from her reaction it was something she never expected.

"What's wrong!?."

[I sense a humungous amount of mana over there.. and I doubt any of us here can take that down.. there's a monster over there.. I suggest being careful Jazmyn]

Atalante was thrown to the other side and was on the verge of knocking out, her eyes were starting to give in while Aiden was parring and evading Sanity's never ending strikes.

Left, right, above and low where Sanity would focus his strikes luckily Aiden would manage to parry or evade them from time to time, but who knows how long he could keep it up, his joints were screaming from the pain, his arms were shaking as he wielded his sword to survive with his life.

[His skills aren't just for show.. there's no flaws in his skills in using that lance.. I can't find an opening.] Aiden thought.

The battle continued on while Atalante was still fighting her urge to pass out, her determination to keep everyone safe was the one keeping her awake.

Aiden merely side stepped and took a shot, he managed to graze Sanity's hips, wounding him even a little, Aiden then managed to find an opening and took it he backed away from Sanity gasping for air.

"Sis.... ArE YoU ALright..."

Aiden yelled with what he could just for his voice to reach Atalante, but she gave no response meaning she was already knocked out.

Sanity was merely staring at the exhausted Aiden, even with a graze that isn't enough to get him tired, and he knew this but to protect the young ones behind them they needed to beat this villain.

"Huuuuuuyyaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!."

Aiden rushed towards the villain with aching legs, his entire body was aching from the pain but he forced himself to do this, to put all his mana into this one strike.

the breeze from the impact was so strong it reached Liz, Louise and Anna from a far.

They protected Anna by hugging her and as the breeze passed by Liz notices people heading towards them.

"EEEKK!!!." Liz reacted upon seeing them.

Both Louise and Anna stare towards the girl beside them in confusion as Liz then says in nervousness.

"Y-You g-guys are.---"

Aiden was knocked out cold while Sanity was still standing, still filled with energy, he merely yawned at Aiden's last efforts as he walk slowly towards Merlin and the others.

"All of you stand behind me!." Merlin uttered.

Patrisha, Anastasia, Gwyn all went behind Merlin as they were told to but they were frustrated with their selves that they couldn't do anything in this situation.

[Tazer.. I hope you find the thing this villains are planning..] Merlin thought.

Meanwhile Tazer and Annie were given a different task, they were walking in an empty building near the school.

"To think the spell reached this far.." Tazer uttered.

"Well it doesn't really matter does it? We just need to do what we can hehehe." Annie replied with a happy tone.

"Tchhh why did you have to come? You were safer back there than here you know."

"There you go again treating me like a kid again, you must have forgot but I used to be from a Darkness Organization myself." She gloats.

"Yeah.. is that right?." He simply scuffles it.

As they were continuing their search Annie was furious at Tazer simply scuffling her statement from earlier and was making a lot of proclamations.

"Sshhh Someone else is here." Tazer uttered.

They managed to find an open window and chose to peek there for any incoming people and they saw a little girl with wavy long black hair, in a two side up hairstyle dragging two girls with her.

[Could that be it?.] Tazer thought.

He still wasn't sure since Merlin simply gave him the location to where to search the enemy's plan, they have no clue whatsoever on what to find, or where.

"Tazer.. look.. those two are friends by Arthur and Dorothy." Annie whispered besides him.

"Friends? how would you know that? and Arthur and Dorothy you learned their names?." Tazer asked.

"Well their names were always announced during the School wars.. so It's obvious that I know their names by now.." Annie replied.

The girl entered the building as Tazer simply just had the idea to follow her, moments later They managed to find the girl and followed her to their quarters and saw a gigantic portal, the area was filled with droids patrolling the area.

Annie was tugging Tazer's shirt and by that he knew that she wanted to get out of that situation, he agreed and the two got out safely Touch was too exhausted to notice their presences earlier and even if she did she was too weak to fight.

"We need to tell Merlin about what we saw.. That was a portal no doubt.." Tazer uttered.

"I mean it could probably be anything else who knows." Annie replied.

"No, I'm positive that was a portal leading to another world.." Tazer uttered.

End of Chapter 96: Battle Against Touch