I look at the three of them, all of them are still frozen in their same positions. I’m still holding the corpse with my sword. I use ice mana to freeze it completely, I can see some confusion in the eyes of all of them.
I do this for two reasons. The first is to intimidate them a bit, maybe in that way I can get some kind of answer. The second is because Brendu told me that some kind of information can be obtained even if the person is dead, at least it will serve for something to keep the corpse in the best condition possible.
“Nothing? This is your last chance.” I release a killing intent together with my Imra in all directions. I don’t plan to give them another opportunity, I prefer to kill them and obtain a minimum of information from their brain rather than continue with this stupidity.
They don’t have the slightest intention of answering my question. Being honest, I expected it from the beginning, these people are not novices, their movements are those of well-trained veterans, they must have gone through countless life and death situations, they won’t open their mouths easily, they might prefer to die rather than speak.
Another reason could be that they belong to some kind of sect. It is common knowledge about the restrictions in these sects, your cube is under oath, breaking it means death.
Electric serpents much more powerful than before dance around me, gravity has become even heavier, and a freezing mana is swirling at my side. This is the combination I want to have to fuse a skill, to have an area ability capable of using my three elements.
I know I can fuse two of them at this moment, that’s what my intuition tells me right now. I don’t know if I should risk it or wait until I can combine the three. I will take advantage of this moment to practice a bit with these people, they are quite experienced and strong.
Not much time has passed since the first attack. The people in charge of the city’s security should already be on their way, they won’t take more than 4 minutes to arrive.
I dash toward the shield user, without the help of the swordsman it will be easier now. My sword impacts against his shield, I can’t make him step back, and I don’t see any intention of a counterattack.
Are they fighting defensively? Are they stupid? The citizens must have noticed something strange in this place, even if we are isolated from the outside, it is obvious something is happening. Don’t they care about being captured?
Several questions come to my head, I have no way to know what their plans are. Is this place so resistant from the outside? Maybe it requires a diamond rank to break it. The city itself has security measures, they should be able to break this place easily.
They are fighting completely in a defensive way. The shield user is placing himself in a perfect position blocking the greatest number of my attacks, the other two women are in the rear attacking me with several spells all the time to make his job easier.
Their defensive formation is solid, I’m surprised at how they are enduring so long without their companion.
That won’t last forever, the shield user is not injured because his companion heals him, but he is very exhausted. Enduring electric currents coming toward you, crushing gravity, and freezing air all the time is not something pleasant, his resistance is being drained little by little.
His eyes show signs of panic, he knows they won’t last much longer. I feel how all his power gathers in his shield in an instant, dozens of huge spikes are fired at point blank range.
I manage to block the great majority, my other defensive abilities do their job, but it is not enough. Several huge spikes of rock reinforced with his Dominion and Imra pierce my body, I feel how blood slides from all the perforated places.
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His attack has certainly caused me damage. He paid a great price, his already low resistance and mana have been drained even more, all to gain some time by injuring me.
All the huge rock spikes in my body shatter when they come into contact with a large amount of electricity, I eliminate the remains with my death mana, and my body begins to heal as soon as I want.
The shield user retreats to group with his companions. The woman with the daggers takes an object similar to an oval in her hands, it is the size of the palm of her hand, a dull gray color, and I can feel a large amount of mana flowing from that strange object.
I become alert immediately, my instincts scream at me. This strange object is not good at all. I don’t think about it, I dash toward them again, this time not with the intention to practice, but to annihilate them.
The shield user finishes drinking a potion before I can get close to him, I feel how a large amount of mana bursts from his body. A potion to recover mana? I have already seen that effect before. He, with revitalized energy, forms several layers of rock around himself.
A huge amount of electric mana tries to stop my charge, the support woman’s constructs have become more dangerous. She has just pierced all my defenses, a single lightning almost tears off my arm, the speed of her attacks makes them very difficult to dodge at close range.
When I finally get close enough to swing my sword, the constant lightning slows down a bit, she cannot keep risking hurting her companion.
This time my footwork, the speed of my strikes and movements are completely different. The gravity that propels my body is much stronger, I have no fear of damaging my body if it is necessary to destroy that object.
A9’s point of view.
“A9, we cannot continue like this, we must use our last resource, otherwise we will die.” My companion B4 shouts through the communicator.
She has always been very reasonable and calm, I have never seen her lose her composure like today. I cannot blame her, B7 has just died at the hands of this monster. Why did our superiors send us after this child? This is a suicide mission.
They should have known from the beginning, that is why they gave us those two very valuable objects. One to escape by breaking any kind of city defense, and another capable of sending our prey to a deadly dungeon.
C3 is doing everything possible to hold the beast with human skin. How can someone so young be so ridiculously strong? We had heard of his merits as a sapphire rank, we are a veteran team capable of killing any limit breaker, that is why we were not worried.
We also knew about his recent ascension to ruby rank. We knew it would be difficult, but we expected he wouldn’t have adapted to his new body so quickly, our thoughts were stupid and optimistic.
All the damage we have been able to cause has been healed. My poison was completely neutralized when I managed to cut him near his kidney with my dagger. When he was poisoned his eyes did not show fear, just some surprise. That look was terrifying, it is difficult to bend the will of someone without fear.
C3, please hold on, it is almost over. B4 is also running out of mana, she healed his arm and has been constantly healing us, not to mention the countless electricity constructs. Just a few more seconds, guys.
I am helping as much as possible trying to catch him off guard with poison attacks from a distance, I cannot move too much so as not to interrupt the function of the object.
I open my eyes when I see the arm of our shield user fly through the air. Only a few seconds pass before I see him fall to his knees in his final moments, C3 is giving everything to buy the necessary time.
Only a few seconds left… I look at the object as it charges with mana rapidly for its activation. When I raise my sight again I see how C3 falls lifeless to the ground.
“Shit.” I cannot contain myself and shout through the communicator.
“It was fun meeting you.” I hear B4 speak. She releases all her mana to try to gain the necessary time until the object activates.
I see how the boy in front of me suffers serious injuries, B4 has managed to break all his defenses causing burns all over his body. The problem is his recovery, those wounds disappear as soon as they appear.
Our target reaches my companion. She does not have much experience in close combat, her opponent is an incarnated beast. Just as I thought, she loses a leg and an ice sword is embedded in her abdomen after a few seconds.
Maki is not interested in finishing her, he simply leaves her on the ground dying. At that moment I hear the sound of the object activating. I feel how the mana of the portal toward the dungeon connects directly with Maki’s mana and Imra, he does everything possible to repel it, for a moment I thought he would succeed, that willpower is ridiculous.
Maki is being teleported. Before his body disappears I feel a strange liquid coming out of my mouth, I realize it is blood, at some moment two ice swords pierced my stomach and another two cut my arms. I am only alive because of the great vitality of a ruby rank.
Finally I see how he disappears, we have freed ourselves from that monster, I activate the object to escape together with my dying companion, we were less than a second away from dying.