At the north gate.
' Is that old gray?....no...Danger!' Levi thought. He sensed a presence similer to old gray, and turned his head, beads of sweat flowing down his face. Old gray struck fear in his heart multiple times. Those experiences led to his ability to sense truly overbearingly strong people. although, he could not do it consiously, as it was more like instinct. "..." Without another thought, blood red wings sprouted from his back, as veins all over his body bulged. " Hmm?" The cold general watched this scene cautiously. " Luca boy, he is going to escape!" An aged voice rang out. " Elder?!what?!" The cold general looked to the side, only to see the silhouette of an old man. " Focus!" The old man shouted. "..." Just as the cold general turned back to look at levi, a light shockwave eminated outward, as a line of red was left in his wake. " kek!" levi suddenly stopped in the sky. " This is why i didn't want to use this, i almost broke my neck.....but that old man is dangerous, so i have no choice..." Levi's eyes darkened, as he looked down to the ground, only to see the old man reaching out his hand. ' Crap!' He thought, as he once again pumped blood energy into his wings. boom! A light shockwave rippled through ths sky, as levi dissapeard, leaving a trail of red behind. " Hmm? It has been a good long while since someone so young could escape me. Although i didn't put my all into capturing him, to be able to get away, hehe..." the old man mumbled.
" Tch!" The cold general clenched his teeth, as his grip on his sword tightened. " All soldiers, hear my command! scatter thoughout the imperial city and find him!" The cold general shouted. " Yes, General!" The soldiers shouted, before leaving immediately. " Luca boy, you are letting your anger overcome you. Do you even know for certain that, that boy had anything to do with eli boy's death? or are you just making assumptions." The old man spoke with every step, until he arrived in front of the cold general. "..." The general kept silent. " Why did you come back, elder? Do you need something?" The general asked, having no intention to answer the old man. " Humph! you brats sure have grown some guts, huh? Humph! You are coming with me. The other three will be coming to the imperial palace later, so we are going there to wait for them." The old man snorted before saying. " Where is issac?" the cold general suddenly asked. " i sent him back into the city earlier." The old man said, without looking back.
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At the south gate.
" Laxus...." Xander watched as Laxus' body fell to the ground. '....There is no time for this...I have to put some distance between us, before this other soldier joins the one i am fighting. If that were to happen, i would be in trouble...' Xander thought, and without wasting any time, he kicked off, backward, and widened the distance between the soldier and himself once again. " Trying to widen the distance again? don't you learn? i am on a horse, so this small distance can be covered easily!" The soldier shouted, as he pulled on the reins, urging the horse forward. " Humph! I thought you would do that. Ignition finger!" Xander shouted, as a finger sized line of flame qi shot out towards the soldier. " Like that will-" thump! " huh?" the soldier was confused. " I wasn't aiming for you, i was aiming for the horse." Xander said calmly. since the man himself said that the horse was the problem, then he just had to get rid of it. " Yo-you...my horse!" The soldier's eyes became bloodshot, as he slowly got of from the horse's collapsed corpse. ' what are the chances of me killing him in one strike? not high...and since i still have to worry about the other one, i should run for now...' Xander thought, as he was about to jump back.
sou!
" Damn those three...Sending me to the furthest side..." In the sky, a middle aged man with long and curly, shiny, black hair soared through the sky, before stopping abruptly. " Ugh...these people look like ants crawling into a sugar jar..." The man mumbled to himself, as he looked at the soldiers from the divine dragon continent from a bird's eye view. " Hmm, martial clan?...Whatever, i should just get rid of these soldiers so that i can hurry and leave here..." The man mumbled, as a thick, bountiful qi escaped his body, before forming multiple sword shapes. After forming the sword shapes, more qi was released from the man's body, this time sparce, as it flowed through the streets like a thin smoke. " Hmmm? a few thousand of them? Well, i won't be able to get all of them, but....Sword rain." After a few seconds, the man spoke indifferently. The sword shaped qi plumited at a high speed, each one peircing a soldier.
puchi!
" cough!" Just as Xander was about to jump back, one of the qi sword shapes dropped from the sky, peircing the soldier from his nape, and imbeding itself within his body, causing him to cough one mouthful of blood before falling to the ground, dead. " huh?" Xander looked up out of confusion. "Is that...a person?" He squinted his eyes, as he looked up at the bright sky, only to see a small black silhouette. " That doesn't matter, laxus...." As he remembered what had happened just a few minutes ago, countless beads of sweat appeared on his face, as a pained expression emerged. step! step! Without anymore thought, he ran forward, ignoring the soldier's corpse. " huff! huff!" Just as he came before the alley, he heard heavy breathing that brought him back to reality. " y-you..." The same soldier who cleaved laxus from shoulder to hip was now pinned to the side of a building, a qi sword shape embeded in his stomach as blood poured down his armor. "..." xander silently walked down the alley, keeping a cautious eye on the soldier. " mgufb!" As he got closer, the scent of blood filled his nostrils. Tears began to well in his eyes as he looked at the lifeless body on the ground, in a pool of it's own blood. After standing silently for a while, he began looking around, Before his eyes locked onto a piece of white cloth blowing in the breeze. before it could blow past him, he grabbed it, then knelt down. " ugh..." He resisted the urge to vomit, as he wrapped the two halfs of the body in the cloth, before lifting it with both hands and walking out of the alley.
" Hey...boy..." before he took the final step out of the alley, the weak voice of the soldier rang out. " you...took the time....to wrap up that corpse..." the soldier paused, as Xander bit his bottom lip. "...so that brat...should mean something to you....and yet....with the person that killed him on his last legs....you walk away without killing him....why..." The soldier spoke, as blood poured from xander's lip. He knew that he could kill the soldier, but what was the point? He would die anyway. He also knew that, even if he killed the soldier at this point, it would be meaningless. So although he was burning with anger and sadness, he could only keep those feelings inside. He wanted to scream angrily at the heavens, but instead, he choked his feelings back, so that he could at least hurry and give laxus a proper burial. But, he also knew that this was just a selfish excuse. He was scared. Scared to take the life of something that was so similar to him. He was afraid to stain his hands with the blood of another human being, and so, he turned his head to the side, and ignored the person that killed someone who was like his younger brother. That way, the death of that person wouldn't weigh on his shoulders. he wouldn't be a murderer. he would be able to keep a peace of mind. his saddness was the result of the death of his close friend, but his anger was the result of his own unwillingness to dirty his hands. Yes, his anger was indeed strong. But, it was directed at no one, other than himself.
In the sky.
" Hmm...that killed quite a number of them, but some should still be alive....well, i'll just have some of the soldiers clear up the rest...time to go back..." The man in the sky spoke without a care in the world, as his figure flashed before dissapearing.