Assault, part 2

Twenty seconds.

After a surprise attack, most humans stay paralyzed and stunned by fear for twenty seconds.

20

I placed my hands on the ground.

-Ice wall.

The spell was as simple as the name.

A wall of ice was created in front of the crimson circle.

THOMP! * THOMP! *

Something was trying to crush it from the other side.

That should last long enough.

I pulled off the cloak and set free the elf, after putting him over my shoulder I went to the cage where the civilians were imprisoned.

-Wah!

I left the elf on the ground and with my hands grabbed the bars.

TRRRRK*

-Ghk...

The moment my hands touched the steel stained with blood, an electric feeling assaulted my fingers, there was a force similar to the magnetism that tried to repel me.

15

-Stop it! The cage is enchanted with magic! If you try to open it by force you´ll lose your arms!

KRRGK! *

The uniformed elf tried to warn me of the danger from the enchanted cage.

God damn it, this really hurts! Magic is only fun when is not thrown at you!

-HHRGAAAAAAA!!

CRACK! *

It was tough, but I managed to rip off a pair of bars.

With the pieces of metal still in my hands, I turned around and aimed at the cultists.

-HMPH!

Silver lines flew inside the large space.

KRGKH*

WAAAAHH?! *

THOMP*

The human brochettes stuck in the wall served well as an extra distraction.

I turned to look at the prisoners, all of them were too scared to say or do something.

I grabbed the woman in uniform and slapped her so she could return from her trance.

Paf*

-AH!

-Lift your butts and follow me.

With newly opened eyes, the elf looked at me in surprise.

-Wah-Who are you?!

BOM! *

-Grweeeeek! *

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The ostrich entered crushing the door and the people behind it then proceeded to fulfill my orders as it was cutting anyone in its way.

Yhea, that´ll do.

From my belt, I pulled out a healing potion and forced the uniformed elf to drink it.

-MMM?!*

-Drink, I come from Iris.

-!!

5

By hearing that name, the elf let the green liquid slide through her throat, making her body regain its vitality.

-Cough* Cough* Did you say, Iris?!

-Yes, grab this.

I pulled out most of the healing potions that the belt had and placed them over the elf´s hands.

-Follow me or die, chose.

I pointed at the people behind the elf while saying that.

The woman followed my finger and looked at them too.

Then she looked at me again with sweat on her forehead.

-.... Fuck!

After deliberate it for few seconds, the woman started to pour the potions inside the wounded people's mouth.

-Everyone! We´re going!

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A brief shine of hope returned to the eyes of the prisoners, and once healed, they quickly stepped out of the cage with the elf in front.

-Going so soon?!

It´s time.

I glanced in direction of the sickening delighted voice.

-THIS POWER!... I CAN FEEL IT!... I GET IT!... YOU HAVE FELT THE TRUE PAIN!

With a jump that destroyed the ground and the legs of people, Dorlo threw his fist at my face.

-LET´S LOVE EACH OTHER WITH PAIN!!!!

Tonk! *

But the only thing he reached were the cold and metallic hands of my knight.

-Álvaro, Can you kill him?

The living armor with flaming head threw a punch that sent fly Dorlo back to the ground.

-AAHHH~! YESH~!

Creak* Crunch* Splat*

The hit was so hard that the body of his enemy traced a path of blood with pieces of flesh and broken bones.

-Nothing will last from him, my prince.

Álvaro materialized his sword and went on the attack.

-Be quick.

Cling! *

Before his sword could cut him, Dorlo stopped the edge with an ax made of bone, his left arm had turned into a weapon.

-GIHIHIHIHI~! THIS PAIN! THIS LOVE! GIVE ME MORE!

His right hand turned into a short sword of bone and tried to stab Álvaro.

Thonk! *

-Tch...

To his tough luck, the armor of my knight was very sturdy.

Leading his weapon inside the flame on his neck, Álvaro set on fire his sword.

-... Your disgusting existence must be cleansed.

Then he strangled Dorlos neck, he swung multiple slashes to the living armor, but none had an effect beyond minor scratches and a lot of noise.

He seemed like a stray cat refusing to be adopted.

The sword darker than night stood up menacingly over the cultist's chest.

-Skill of flaming sword.

At the same time, Dorlo put his hand inside his chest and ripped off his heart.

-Purgatory.

The moment Álvaro buried his sword inside the chest of his enemy, he threw his heart into the air.

-GRAAAAAAHHHHH!

An explosion of fire wrapped completely the body of Dorlo, the flames were so savage that they seemed like hungry beast feasting upon anything they could reach.

-... You won´t escape.

The beating heart in the air formed a mouth of thick lips and sharp teeth, a rough voice came out of the atrocity.

-Devil´s aspect: Formless flesh.

From the depth of his mouth, tentacles, teeth, eyes, noses and all kinds of organs descended to the ground.

A long blot of beating flesh was feeding itself with the corpses from the ground, increasing its size with each body.

-I have to admit, that scared me, I didn´t think a summoning could be so strong, for a moment I believed I´d truly die.

Then several Dorlo made of meat with eyes and snouts moving without synchrony through the base of their bodies surrounded Álvaro.

Similar but at the same time unlike voices escaped from the filthy mouths.

-But the pain you´re gifting me...

-That thrilling sensation of life...

-That...

-...Love!

Three clones turned into thick and long tentacles with the top made a bone spear and searched to pierce the black knight.

Álvaro didn´t have a problem cutting two, but the third had to parry it to avoid severe damages.

Tack*

A tiny piece of his armor fell to the ground from the place the last tentacle scratched.

-Let´s give each other much more love!

-shall we?!

Five tentacles formed, Álvaro took a high sword posture.

-...My orders are to kill you quickly, I shall fulfill them.

-GIHAHAHAHA! YOU´RE NOT FUNNY AT ALL!

BOM! *

I was a bit nervous by seeing how that monstrosity managed to hurt Álvaro, but for some reason, I had the confidence to think that he wouldn't lose.

Meanwhile, I was getting done evacuating the prisoners, right now I was exchanging some final words with the uniformed elf.

-Once you´re out, Iris will be waiting with guards of the capital, some of these guys are infiltrated in their lines, but you should be fine as long as you stick with the beastmen. I would be grateful if you tell them to not kill the flying magic beasts.

The elf stared at the ostrich of knives soaked in blood and guts.

-Gweeeek! *

-... I´ll try, but don´t expect too much.

-Fair enough, now go.

Before I could return to the ice wall about to break, the elf grabbed my arm.

-Wait! Your name! I need to know to who we debt our lives!

-...

To have the elves debiting me a favor would be nice, with enough luck, some of the prisoners will have a high post inside the security and the policy of the sacred forest, and with that, the recollection of the sap will be easier.

But I couldn´t give her my real name, if Molly or the kingdom finds out that I was somehow involved in this, if I have the luck of not being executed, sure they will force me to join the heroes.

And if any way I´m going to recollect the objects by myself, I prefer to do it had taken the choice, not by external obligations.

In this uneasy and unnecessary moment, my mind quickened to create a nickname that wasn´t too pitiful to hear out loud.

A certain name fled from my mouth.

-... Kitzin...

The king of the prehispanic Maya underworld, also known as "The putrid or the stinky".

In nature, my skills are similar to him, and the name sounds cool, so fuck it.

-... Kitzin... I´ll remember it.

-... You better.

Once I made sure that she remembered the name, I pushed the woman inside the passage we used to enter, the ostrich, feeling that there was no more time to lose, prevented that anyone turned back.

I placed my hands over the broken door of stone.

-Freeze.

I closed the only apparent route the cultist had to pursuit the prisoners and focused on what was coming.

-DIIIEEEE!!

Sharp weapons and spells that shot all kinds of elements were coming for me.

FZZZHHHH*

But everything was frozen by an ice ray coming from the roof.

Before I could notice, at least half of the room had turned into a paradise of ice, an astonishing bird was looking at the cultist as if they were the most pathetic and disgusting thing the world had.

-Forgive me, master, but I don´t think I can restrain myself.

-Never asked you to do it.

Fei Xue kept freezing people from right to left while she was flying.

-Run!

-To the passages!

-Escape!

When the fanatics became aware of their imminent annihilation, they decided to flee through holes and hidden doors in the walls and ground.

It didn´t worry me since I had placed an entire army of murderous magic beasts waiting for them outside. so I prioritized the event before me.

TRRRGH* CRACK*

The crystalline wall had fallen.

From the red ground, I took all the weapons I could throw.

Buried them inside several corpses at one foot of distance and waited.

The magic circle puked ten beings the size of a kid.

Their skins were red, had tiny horns coming out of giant mouths that took the role of being the entire head, they also had bat wings and a black long pointy tail.

-SHREAAAAAAAAK!!

Expect words for those things was my mistake.

-Nice to meet you too sons of bitches!

I began to throw the weapons at the abominations.

BREARGH* KRRGH*

After impaling a pair and made their yellow blood fall to the ground, the eight remaining started to move in all directions.

-SHERK%#GREIAS$#SORG

Their sticky vocal cords reproduced weird noises.

And then their heads started to spit green fireballs.

-Tch... Ice wall.

I placed my hands on the ground and formed protection of ice.

BOM!* BAM! *

It didn´t last long against the fire of the demons, but it was enough to let me move aside and take an ax.

-RHAA!

With the weapon in my hand, I decapitated one.

-SKEEEA!

Then I turned around and threw the ax to another, splitting his body in half.

-Frozen spine.

In my hand, a tiny icicle was created, and I threw it to the demon´s feet.

KRRRRK*

At the moment of impact, the ground froze, and then thick spines of ice pierced anything over them.

-SRAARGH!

-KRGH!

-KRAARGH!

Another three lost their lives.

-FREGH#$%GTOGH&%$GRAFH

The remaining demons gathered together in a circle. After saying something impossible to understand, their bodies began to explode one after another.

-Suicide?!

I was shocked, fortunately, I was stronger than all of them together, but the idea of them committing suicide never crossed my mind.

-No, that´s a summoning ritual.

Fei Xue descended to my shoulder.

-Summoning? The demons can summon other demons?!

Just below the corpses fading, a pentagram started to shine.

Fei Xue spread her wings, at the same time, a shiver ran down my spine.

This one is strong.

From the crimson circle, a huge dark claw got out, then a thick arm, and then other two skinnier, after that, the naked torso of a woman, but her head was a morbid combination of a goat and a snake, her hips had two long and black pointy tails, and her legs ended in red hooves, the bat wings on her back were dropping a green sticky liquid that seemed to burn the ground.

-GRRRAAAAAAAA!!

A fierce roar shook the insides of my head.

BOM! *

After being sent to fly to the other side of the room, I realized that the shake was because of a hit.

-... Cough* Cough*... God damn it.

Instinctively I tried to protect myself with my arms, but I was too slow.

The left side of my mask along with part of my sleeves had broken, the armor absorbed the worst part of the hit, thanks to that I was alive and not a stain of beaten meat in the wall.

It´s strong, in fact, is the strongest thing I´ve ever fought in all my life.

On earth was simple, I just needed to find the right moment at the right place, then put the barrel in their heads and pull the trigger.

It didn´t matter if they were humans or animals, even vehicles.

All ended after pulling the trigger.

But here it wasn´t like there.

-Ugh... Where is a shotgun when you need one?

I pulled out one healing potion and drank it.

Gulp* Gulp*

It tasted like herbs and lemon.

When it was done sliding through my throat, a pleasing feeling assaulted my body.

-Fuuuuh* All right.

I stepped out of the hole from the wall, stretched a bit my body, and covered my clothes with mana.

It was fantastic how the cloth was generated out of nowhere to repair my armor.

When it was whole again, I walked towards the demon being beaten to a pulp by Fei Xue.

I don´t know from where, but now the monstrosity was swinging a black spear with its remaining arm.

One of its wings was completely torn apart while the other was frozen fragments slowly falling.

The figure once intimidating was now with one foot on the tomb.

-As expected of a legendary beast, it didn´t have a chance against you.

-Give me some seconds master, I´ll soon be over.

-Yhea... Well... About that...

I walked in front of Fei Xue and pointed to Álvaro, who was still cutting and burning the mad man of flesh.

-Help him, I won´t be satisfied until I kill this piece of shit by myself.

It was just my pride talking.

The job was basically done, it just needed to be finished, Fei Xue knew that.

-... Are you sure?

But she asked regardless.

I stretched my hands upfront.

-Freezing feather; Two feathers.

A pair of feathers so cold that were freezing the air rested in my palms.

My lips turned into a smile filled with anger behind the mask.

-I am.

Without saying another word, Fei Xue flew to support Álvaro.

-GRRR...

-Yeh.

I lifted my middle finger to the demon.

-I hate you too fucker.

-GRAAAAAA!!

Then I threw a feather.

Using the explosive strength of my legs, I kicked the ground and jumped to the roof. When my feet felt the plain surface, I threw the second feather and then jumped to its back.

I activated Putrefaction and with a low posture, prepared both of my hands to melt its flesh.

With three attacks coming at the same time from different angles, and with a damaged body, the demon didn´t have a good opportunity to stay unharmed.

-GRRRAAAAAAAAH!!

I supposed that the demon knew that by killing the mage the spells disappear, since it thankfully received my feathers as it pointed its spear to my face.

-Idiot.

I slid beside the tip with the blood on the ground and held its ugly head between my hands.

-DIE.

-GRRREAAAA!!

Slowly, the red skin changed to green, the blisters of black pus violently spread from its head to what remained of its body in a disgusting synergy where the crisped ice took parts of its flesh down the ground with every brute movement.

I stared at the show until its bones were banished in a purple cinder that left only a pod of yellow blood.

-Haaah* Okay... I feel better now.

Cling! *

-Seems like they´re getting done.

To the other side of the room, I was able to see how Álvaro held triumphantly the heart of Dorlo between black flames.

-P-Pain... Much... Pain...

-... How shameful, I couldn´t finish before my prince, I must improve.

Nha, truth to be told, you did it way better than me, really.

Fei Xue in her human form walked to me with a certain book over her arms.

-What is this?

With the book in my hands, I could notice that it had a quite simple appearance, but I preferred to play safe and keep it away from my face.

-Seems like in this book are written other hideouts like the one here, perhaps we could use it to prevent more events like this.

-Then is something like his schedule eh, not bad, with this we can clean the kingdom off these guys.

-Gihi... Gihihi...

Both I and Fei Xue glanced at the heart with a mouth that Álvaro was bringing.

-... I´m sorry I wasn´t quick, my prince, Do you wish me to end him?

I looked at the beating trophy of Álvaro.

-No, give me a second.

I took one healing potion, then the heart, and then I walked somewhere where no one could see me.

-Master?

-My prince?

Without stopping my steps I answered to the pair of voices behind me.

-I´ll try to get some information, Álvaro, return to my finger, Fei Xue, How are the birds?

While Álvaro returned to being a ring, Fei Xue closed her eyes for a moment.

-The fight against the cultist finished in their extermination, right now the beasts are fighting against adventurers and knights of the kingdom, although some people are trying to stop them, among them, there is Iris and her sister.

Tell me about that sooner stupid bird!

With the desire to discharge my headache in the organ on my hand, I let out another order.

-... Tell them to fall back and avoid killing, if they go for them regardless, then they are free to do whatever they want.

-Kukuku~ As you wish~.

I ignored her complacent voice and suggestive bow.

It was time for the interrogation.

-Don´t take too long master, the guards and some people dressed in black are coming, and very fast.

People in black eh.

-Well, that´ll depend on this guy.

-Pain... You won´t surpass my pain...

I stirred the heart a little.

-BRP! AH!

After getting some drops of juice I softened my grip.

-Don´t challenge me, scum.

Only darkness and the screams know what I did.

I just needed ten minutes and a bit of modern torture to make him spill the names of their leaders, meeting places, and of course, their benefactors.

Within that last category, there was the name of someone very important.

Michael Mosaic.

-Got you.

I saved the book and the list of names inside the pockets of my belt.

-Agh... Ugh, Igh... Abhab... Phaih...

I´m done with you.

Staring at the lost sight and rabid mouth of Dorlo, I knew that he was beyond any kind of rehabilitation.

-At least I´ll show you some true love, it bothers me that all that you feel is related to pain.

Taking affectionately his naked body, I joined him in a warm hug and stroke his head.

-My prince?! What are you doing?!

The ring in my finger shined as his hollow voice was drowning in doubt.

-Álvaro, behind people's actions, there are reasons, stories... Even this guy had some of that. It may sound hypocrite coming from me, and honestly, it is, but I´ll keep doing it anyway... Because is what I want to do... And I don´t need more reason than that...

Dorlo randomly moved his arms and his voice somehow articulated words.

-Mo- Mother... M-Mother...

His eyes filled with tears and mine didn´t take long to do the same.

-I see... You had it rough too... But it´s okay... You don´t need to push yourself anymore... You can enjoy this and rest.

-R-Res-s-st?

-Yhea...

With a sharp move, I buried my hand inside his chest and grabbed his heart.

-B-Bleagh*

-Now you can rest.

Trying to make it as unpainful as possible, I froze and crushed his heart.

Bit by bit, his eyes were losing the life.

Softly, I was placing his body over my lap as he descended to the void of death.

-If there´s another life after this one... I hope you reach happiness.

The last sigh, a last gentle stroke.

And then the life of Dorlo faded in a black thread.

My lord* My prince* Master*

The ghosts that until now were silent finally spoke again.

All of them were kneeling to my sides. Álvaro took physical form and did the same, but he was in front of me.

-... I swear no matter what, until you are done with my existence, I will always be your sword, my lord.

I left the corpse on the ground, used Putrefaction, and while the ghost was banishing in light particles, I walked beside Álvaro.

-If someday I lose my mind and I forget who I am, I´ll need you to stop me... No matter what.

Krgh* Krrgh*

The sound of the metallic fist of Álvaro squeezing hard made a small grin on my face.

-... As you wish, my lord.

Then he returned to being a ring covering my index finger.

-... Thanks.

I walked out of the space where I was, only to find a teary Fei Xue.

-What? Something bad happened?

Thump*

With no answer, Fei Xue buried her face of divine beauty in my chest as she hugged me.

Part of me wanted to oppose, but the other wanted to continue.

In the end, I just stroked her head a little until she calmed down.

-... We have to go... The guards are coming.

-... Yes.

I separate from Fei Xue and went to the secret passages.

-Which one of these has lesser guards?

After a small glare, the finger of the legendary girl pointed at one in concrete.

-Then that´ll do.

Taking her hand on mine I opened a stone hatch.

-C´mon.

With a soft smile that for the first time I tough was genuine Fei Xue nodded.

-Not so fast!

However, a female voice and a huge arrow of wind interrupted us.

Shit!

-Woah!

I made Fei Xue go through the hatchway and then sealed the entrance with ice.

A mental connection was formed seconds after.

-Master?!

-Leave, you don´t have a mask like me, and you weren´t in your beast form, if they see your face now it´ll be harder to keep giving me support.

-It may be but-!

-No buts! Right now I only need you to obey. Distract the griffon riders outside, take them far away or I won´t be able to escape. I´ll see you on the outskirts of the capital.

-...Tch... You better survive! If not then I´ll freeze the entire kingdom!

Talking about heavy pressure...

-Sure, I´m an expert when it comes to staying alive.

I cut the connection and prepared to fight.

-Álvaro, don´t come, I´ll deal with this alone.

The shine of my ring faded, somehow I was able to hear the sound of the metal clashing with the metal.

I hope that loyalty lasts forever.

-For participating in demonic rituals, you´re under arrest, come with us without opposing, otherwise, we are authorized to use lethal force.

That voice.

Damn, why you of all people.

I looked at the person with a ninja suit. Even with all the black clothing covering her distinctive features I knew who she was.

It´ll be hard to apologize for this... Molly.