Chapter 37 : Purge of Greenthorn Village III

More bodies dropped, more blood spilt and more innocent lives lost, just because of having a hidden 2nd Mage working alongside him.

Varek and Elara battled and it was fierce, showing each other the abilities they've learnt over the years and even accessing the pinnacle of a Mage's power. All in the attempt to best one another in battle.

Trix and the 2nd mage battled much more closely than one might thing. The Mage, being particularly trained in magic only, allowed Trix to gain more advantages and take the lead in the fight. At the rate it's going, she is going to undoubtedly win.

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After the decapitation of Ishoki, Satoru dropped to his knees being tired and wounded, barely being awake.

A voice, unfortunately a familiar one, spoke out to him.

"It's amazing that you've won something, brat." said Tomio, holding someone captive. Satoru couldn't make out who it is at first, not even turn around to see who it was for a few moments but when he did... "You'll also lose something too. A someone." he held Aza who was quite wounded but not vitally.

"My spies told me about you and this one. Hung around a lot with her, they said... Well, I intend to break you, just as I once broke your fingers out of fun." Tomio said, taking out his sword.

Satoru tried to get up and take a step but ended up falling back to his knee "Don't do this Tomio." he said. "Please."

Despite spending short time of about a few days with Aza, he took a liking to her as she's genuine, compassionate, nice and really caring atop being a warrior with a dream and he respected that. No matter how disagreeable he did or didn't see it.

"Too late."

Tomio drove the flame imbued blade through her back, piercing entirely through her as the blade came out her stomach and was visible with blood all over it. He pulled the blade out and kicked her onto the ground in front of himself.

Using all his strength, he ran to her and picked her up in his arms, looking at her with his one eye. She was still breathing and conscious too.

"S-Satoru..." she spoke softly. "F-Forget about m-me.. F...Free this village..."

"No, I refuse to leave you here to die."

"It's oka-" her eyes began to close. Being in the heat of moment, he believed she was dead, yet Aza, whose full name is Azarielle, fell unconscious. Her heart beat slower and slower. Without a doubt, she will die at this rate.

Tomio laughed, also thinking she died. Satoru stared at her body for 15 seconds before placing her down and staring at her.

"But now... It is time to die."

The demon eye possessors, all who were alive, which was about a 100 of them rushed through the crowds at Satoru, going to kill him now.

"I see now. The true path."

Anger overflowed him as his right eye shone a bright blue and his body was surrounded by lightning, the entire sky above the village held a black cloud with flickering lightning, entering the Rage of Thunders.

Pain was irrelevant.

It did not matter.

He vanished from his position, ignoring the incoming demon eye possessors coming at him and focusing on Tomio.

Satoru appeared, but in reality was so quick that it seemed to the naked eye like he was vanishing, and Tomio went to cut him down with his flame imbued blade by being able to react and still grinning.

"There's no way he's able to react now, not in the state he's i-"

Before the blade connected and bisected his head, Satoru rotated his right foot and emerged from behind Tomio, ultimately blitzing him and punched his hand in his back, grabbed his heart and pulled it out, having him fall to the ground.

As he fell to his knees, surprised and wide eyed, Satoru slapped his head off.

Immediately after, he turned his head and saw the 100 rushing at him.

He vanished and appeared at one, dodging his punch and barraging him in the chest and throat, immediately proceeding to go into a hook kick and land it on one incoming from behind. Punching the ground with both of his hands, using True Thunder in a circular motion as the ground cracked as well, stunning and burning them severely and vitally.

His presence was a lot.

Satoru stood normally back up and immediately rushed rushed at another, side kicking him, then rotating his body, doing a back kick on another. 

He got angrier and rain began to pour, lightning began to randomly and uncontrollably strike in the village, hitting and destroying houses.

One by one, punch after punch, kick after kick, Satoru dropped the demon eye wielders.

[Lightning Flicker]

Upon hitting one with it, not only did he pierce him, but he destroyed his entire body by rotating his hand.

Multiple of them gained the upper hand on him for a second, surrounding him entirely. A thunderbolt struck him directly, leaving nothing but blood and dead bodies around him.

50 left.

The boy's injuries were beginning to heal themselves slowly.

Satoru ducked under a sword, single arm handspringed backwards and with his free hand fired a thunder beam through his eye, killing him.

Landing back down, he got into a running position and started running at each and every one of them, besting them in combat, outspeeding and simply killing them.

It wasn't until there were only about 14 left that he felt fatigue get the hold of him.

Multiple earth pillars came at him. 

Weave.

Each demon eye wielder dead means that more and more villagers are freed from the influence of their illusions, so more and more stopped fighting and held out until the still cloaked but wounded figure in front of them killed everyone, not wanting to interfere.

Satoru jumped into the air, his eye glowing brighter than earlier, having the lightning strike his hand from the cloud and materializing a lightning bolt.

He threw it in the approximate middle of where they were and it exploded, creating a quick outline and everyone in that circle got hit by a thunderbolt and killed if not after the first but the 2nd.

Satoru dropped to the floor, his eye glow getting weaker but him getting blasted once more and sent flying into a house.

He pulled himself out of the rubble and looked to see who it was, seeing the 2nd in command who wasn't here until now.

Eamon was his name. He wore a dark attire with a red kimono and a black haori type cape on top of it, had short gray-like hair despite his youthful appearance.

"Why the fuck does everyone want to fight me."

His Rage of Thunders began to quickly fade too, bringing him back to Storm Cloak. Satoru was tired, with barely 40% of his wounds healed and only about a few minutes pass since Aza 'died.'

No words were exchanged. They stood in a standoff. 

Having the RoT still active, Satoru hit him with a thunderbolt and rushed at him, clashing both with their arms. 

When it faded completely, the uncontrollable lightning strikes stopped as the rain started to get lighter and lighter.

Bombarded from behind, he was burnt by Trix's attacks who had defeated the 2nd Mage with Mirazora's Mages who had arrived and took him captive. Varek too was captured and Elara was alright, finding Aza and beginning healing her as she was still barely, but just barely alive, Trix arrived.

Eamon was weakened by that and wounded, stunned. Satoru dropped down with the intent to sweep him off his feet. His opponent raised his foot and immediately formed a sign, firing a fireball down at Satoru, yet it was frozen mid-air before it could reach him by Trix.

The Mages performed a spell that created chains linked to all of them, stopping his movements.

The fatigue on Satoru was becoming so great that his Storm Cloak dispersed too and he felt insanely tired.

Hate leading him on, keeping him awake, he pulled the axe to his grip and struck the axe right at the top of Eamon's head, going to bisect him entirely but couldn't muster up the strength. 

Trix, who still wasn't miraculously recognized by Mirazora's Mages, any of them, rushed and grabbed Satoru, leaving with him.

The villagers were all now liberated but blood of theirs was spilt, no matter how little. It seems that all demon eye possessors excluding Hikaku and Kazumi, who weren't in on any of Ishoki's plans were the only ones left alive with the eyes.

Before proclaiming this a victory, they checked to see if everyone was alright and checked the dead bodies of the demon eye wielders, confirming that the cloaked one truly mutilated and killed every single one of them.

Nova and Zankoku weren't present during Satoru's 'lightshow' but did see the cloud and thunders strike. Nova thought about if it could be his 'friend' or if it could be a coincidence...

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Trix took Satoru to the Starlit and sat him down there on the chair as his eyes began to close like he fell asleep.

Eldric who was watching it all from the window asked : "What exactly happened to him?"

"Fatigue. He'll recover, but not as fast without a potion. His injuries could most definitely get worse and he could start paining again." she took out the purple potion that Satoru took from Karoi before he left and made him drink it despite his sleepy like state.

"I'll be back. I have to get something." she said, going to the door "You don't let anyone recognize him, especially a Mage." Eldric nodded and she left, closing the door behind her.

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About 10 minutes later, she returned and Satoru was barely awake, not wanting to close his eyes.

"You're awake." Trix noticed, bringing something inside, a box it appeared. "It seems that the safe truly was enchanted. It can't be destroyed until it's unlocked."

She placed the safe down on the table and went to Satoru's cloak pocket for the key after asking him permission.

Trix unlocked the safe and the key faded away into the air as did the safe, with the old folded paper falling out.

She unfolded it and started reading it in front of Eldric and Satoru.

"I'm been invited to meet with my father's brother, my uncle, God of Hell, Hades. I suspect it's because of the hollow beast I bear, though one cannot be sure. He's always been jealous of my father's power, my other uncle, Poseidon and his hollow beast also. It was never an open jealousy, however it is noticeable if one pays attention... I know two strong humans, strong in their own way. Kellan Thorne and Jareth Bennet. They're the only ones I can trust outside a few Gods, as every elf, every dwarf, giant and all the other races always demand something from me. I'd even consider them allies, but that's beside the point. My location of meeting Hades is rather sketchy and unlike anything before. He's been paranoid lately. More pissed off than usual. Midgard - that's where he wants to meet. Specifically in between Ember and Haze nation. To describe the place by itself would be almost impossible to find like that. But the coordinates of the are Latitude: 42.7389° N, Longitude: 75.8997° W. I'd truly like for this to be a regular meeting, so if I do not return in a week's time for this letter, a spell I had the Mirazorian Mages place will take effect, creating and binding 2 objects to the families of the ones I entrusted this letter to so it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. I truly hope it's just a regular meeting.

- Hephaestus"