Chapter 126: Saber

Ruka POV

Healing him constantly isn't a good thing, there's going to be too much strain on him, the blow he received didn't just break his arm, it spreaded to his rib, if I'm not here, he should have been forced to retreat a long time ago.

He can choose to dodge it entirely, but he won't have an opening and will exhaust himself further, so he block each attack and made use of the opening.

He should already got faster regeneration after linking with me, but even now...he's going to have a deformity, when breaking a bone constantly, even with healing, it will cause a strain that will need time to recover, and if you heal too fast, you might accidently misshapen his bones.

He's lucky that it's me since I specialize a bit in speed, but still...I can already sense some deformity, not too harmful, but it'll still hurt, but I don't have time to reset it to normal yet.

They're fighting faster than a spell could heal.

Dammit, why does he have to remind me a bit of Paradis?

They both are the type of guys who would keep fighting on and on till their bones break and even when that happen, nothing will stop them from going till they pass out if they see a small chance of winning.

If he knows that I like that trait of him, he's never going to let me hear the end of it, I already deem him worthy after all these years despite him tricking me in the first place.

Perseus POV

Reiner came this time and took Rowan to fight the knight with a sword crafted by the power of the rose in his other arm, with Lilith's and Leilah's long range, it caused enough distraction for it to slow down.

The speed of the knight is reduced just enough for Reiner to catch up as one of the core effectively took out almost half of its powers, but its defenses and toughness seems to gone further up, it's probably focusing on protecting the core and prolong the fight till all of us go out.

With a large storm of the black and red rose, it flew far back as Buddy then rained down lightning bolts at the spot it landed as Leilah created thousands of black javelins in the sky and rained it down.

I can see through the smoke and dust a bit, it's practically melted but focusing all the liquified metal to protect a red core which is essentially its heart, Buddy got tired from the long attack and relent, Leilah judged the situation and saw an opportunity and stopped her attack as Reiner charger forward.

Lilith rapid fired again, but the melted knight created a barrier made of light to protect itself from all of them. She then shot another large and strong arrow, similar to the one that took out the core in the head, but this only managed to break the barrier and didn't even leave a crack in the core.

The knight barely had enough time to recover as Reiner cut through it barely regained form, he then managed to hit the core away from the melted steel and flew to the core with Rowan as a large sword to cleave the core in half.

I think some sand particles got into my lungs through my nose and mouth throughout the fight, it hurts to just fucking breathe as I collapse in the sand.

Buddy ran over to me and stayed by my side, I didn't stop him in time as he touch my face with a paw and pull it away while whipping it furiously.

"Don't touch me little guy, I might accidently burn you."

Ugh, it hurts to talk.

I then felt myself cool down a bit as the fox surround me with cold air which just cause more visible steam out of my body. I feel my bones on my left arm scraping on my skin from the inside as well and it hurts.

I then force myself up.

"Teleport. Hotel. Rest." I said

I don't want to pass out in the desert and have to be carried embarrassingly back to the hotel.

"Sorry, kinda not enough fuel." Leilah said as she then use healing magic to heal my arm "Your body have some serious strains, so healing take priority and my mana is used for that."

"Well, Ruka?" I asked the blue rose who arrived on scene

"Sorry, no fuel either." she answered

"I got some." Lilith offered

"Yeah, let's go, I'm gonna sleep and eat a lot when I wake up."

*****

I'm awake, but my eyes are closed as of now, because I can quite literally sense a presence similar to Maple, and it's not of anyone I recognized. I still feel the soft bed which means the summer god is in my room, and I then heard them arguing for quite a couple seconds now.

"...You are unwanted here!" a male voice shouted "Leave!"

"Hah, who died and make you king?" Lilith retorted "What's with the stupid god of war title, you're the god of weapons, Saber, at least be truthful about your pathetic self. You're so much weaker than our father."

Saber, the god of summer and weapons, this world really need to think of better names, and that's coming from a guy with a pretentious name that is Perseus Silver.

"I refuse to believe MY father gave birth to a bitch like you." Saber snapped back

Wow, dysfunctional family, can't believe I'm gonna marry into it in the future.

"Alright, you 2, calm down, you're going to wake up my boyfriend." Leilah interrupted

She sounds a bit tired, probably from the fight and the arguments between the 2, even with Ruka's help, these 2 are gods who were born stronger than them.

"Boyfriend? Him?!" Saber sounded a bit mad "Where the fuck were you?! We searched everywhere, like literally, everywhere, and pop, all of a sudden, you're dating an almost 16 year old who's probably an old man inside, what the hell is wrong with you?!"

"Well we aren't exactly dating yet, but we're more than platonic."

"That doesn't answer my question!"