!!!

*Boom*

Multiple building-sized trees were sent flying, two figures blurred from tree to tree. They were moving at a very fast speed, wherever they went, destruction followed suite.

'Damn it! I'm running out of steam.' Cyrus thought as he evaded a dark sphere. 

The dark sphere landed and engulfed a grazing animal. When the darkness cleared, the animal instantly dropped it's head and fell asleep. The odd thing other then the fact that it was standing, was that black smoke was constantly coming out of the animals skin.

Another simular attack came and it landed on a tree, this time the tree, started to rot from the place it got hit. Until it completely decayed.

Cyrus jumped forward, crossing a few hundred miles. He turned around and punched the tree right behind him. That tree, along with a few others, got uprooted and sent flying backwards. 

At that moment, a flaming figure of a middle aged man, with reins on his body like that of a horse, appeared out of nowhere. He attacked Cyrus but the latter dodged and countered with a vicious upper cut to the gut, sending him flying.

After that, Cyrus instinctively dodged a punch, but his check was cut. Simultaniosly his feet were covered by a strong red hue, he stomped the ground and instantly travel a large distance.

"Getting tired are we." Erebus's mocking voice came from behind Cyrus, he had done a simular move and carried on his pursuit.

Erebus was secretly annoyed. His opponent was in the begginer of the Magus stage, and was clearly weaker and slower then him. What's even more annoying is his cunningness. He constantly makes use of the terrain to circle back and forth. I almost caught him a few times but he managed to escape. Now it's almost been two hours.

However, no matter how cunning the opponent is, the difference is still there. He was just a rabbit that was running it's course, eventually the chase has to come to an end.

A strange light flickered in Erebus's eyes as he started throwing his attacks like a rapid, machine gun. 

'Here we go again!' Cyrus saw the attacks coming, and a large red sphere engulfed him, he started jumped back and forth, up and down, evading the attacks like an unwanted step-child.

Cyrus was focused, he evaded the attacks, while destroying some of them, all the while he kept his eyes on his opponent. He couldn't let a single one of those attacks hit him or the consequence would be dire. 

At that moment, Cyrus dodged an attack and landed in front of a sleeping Tiger. The tiger had black smoke coming out of it's skin. As soon as Cyrus's feet touched the ground, the tigers eyes shot open, it's entire eyes was pitch black. The tiger opened it's mouth and bit Cyrus as hard as he could.

Cyrus was to preocuppied, suddenly felt a sharp sting on his leg. Just as he wanted to ignore it, the bit from the tiger tuned into an explosion. 

Cyrus was caught off guard and was sent flying. He was still disoriented when he suddenly felt a sharp pain coming from his abdominal, and another one shot from his face. Suddenly his consciousness was covered by darkness, he fell unconscious.

Erebus landed and snorted, "Bastard, dare to make me run! 

Erebus placed restraints on him. Like a sack of potatoes, he carried Cyrus over his shoulder.

"Let's meet the old lady." Erebus muttured.

....

_Elsewhere, a few minutes earlier_

Edward was the first to react and jumped out to grab Roland, but a female hand landed on his wrist and sent him crashing on the mountain wall.

Edward was suprised, 'Since when did the other party have an expert, her strength is the same level as mine, but I have something she doesn't.'

"Quickly grab the prisoners and I'll deal with the woman." Edward shouted, as he left the imprint of him on the wall.

With just one sentence, Edward had turn their situation into a passive one.

From the group on the other mountain, the humans wearing religious clothes and Nemisis were the only one's to move. The other groups just stood still. 

Nemisis also had her eyes on Roland but a flaming arrow flew past her and hit the wall. Edward quickly appeared next to Nemisis they attacked together.

Roland reacted quickly and shouted "Quickly run to the Forest!"

Roland was afraid that they'd only get in Aeliana's way, so he did the only sensible thing he could, he removed themself from the equation.

Roland jumped down the mountain, gravity had other plans in store for him and pulled his weight down. Gravity and inertia inspired his legs to move fast and fast, the mountain had a deep slope afterall.

*Bam*

Due to the head start and Gravity, Roland landed on the ground. Roland glanced back and saw, Nemisis search before looking at him.

Seeing the way she looked at him Roland knew that she held a grudge from the day

'It was an accident! I swear! Damn it!' Roland cried in his head.

Adrenaline and fear kicked in. With a direction in mind, Roland instantly took off.

He ran as fast as his legs could carry him, he was running like it was going out of fashion. He couldn't stop himself from taking a glance back. Nemisis was only a hundred meters away, he shuddered when he saw her evil smile.

Quickly think what do I do? I can't beg for mercy, she has no compassion. I have the O.P Dagger but I can't fight to save my life!

Roland wracked his brain and the only solution he came up with was to throw rocks at her(-_-smh). Roland picked up a rock and waited for her to get closer.

He turned around and realised that she was already ten meters behind him. Roland turned around to throw the rock but just then, time seems to slow down, Roland saw the other party moving normally while he was finding difficulty in continuing his step.

Nemisis instantly appeared before him, with a frantic smile, "Justice is mine!". She swung her sword, and blood was sent flying through the air. Roland's body was sent stumbling into a mountain.

Just as she was about to leave, Nemisis frowned and felt that attack was too shallow. She looked into the familiar mountain, where Roland had fell in and followed in. 

She made it down the slope and saw no corpse but a trail of blood that was leading towards the tunnel in familiar crystal wall.

Nemisis swung the blade, sending some blood flying away. She entered the tunnel and saw that the hateful person who pushed her down, was defensless and facing the wall.

"Any last words?"Nemisis had a determined look on her face, she intended to end everything.

"This piece of shit system is a pain in the ass! I don't need it any more, I'll survive on my own!" Roland shouted from the bottom of his heart, he let go of the wound that was oozing out blood.

"Hmph! Useless." Nemisis was initially, surprised by the boy's words but she just dismissed those thoughts and disdainfully looked at the boy. Che week man, what's this useless crying about.

"Turn around and face your death with some honour!" Nemisis stopped behind Roland and pointed her sword at him. 

With tears in his eyes, Roland seemed to have made a decision in his mind. He bent down and with the freshly cut rocks in his hands, he smacked them together but nothing. Roland tried multiple times and only after a while a single spark fell.

The idea from the two rocks, landed on the dark carpet, the millions upon millions of dark sand were inspired to turn red. Motivated, the dark sand were innovative enough to creat light, combustion and heat just to name a few.

*Boom*

An hug explosion rang out and the whole tunnel shook, casing the cacoon to shake, which caused the whole mountain trembled softly. Even Erebus in the distance frowned.

*sigh*

Sitting in her cell, that old lady, Roland had met earlier sighed and dissapeared from her location.