"Warriors from Caracus, hurry and move away from him." Zoilas yells at the small cluster of Caracus villagers on a small slope who surrounded Ares for killing their own chief.
"Move away? He will not be able to fight back if all of us attack him at once." A warrior amongst them speaks "He will pay for his wrong doings." In a proud and arrogant tone.
Ares calmly starts walking forward as the warriors around him aims their weapons at Ares yet hesitating to attack. "Sword arts - Iaido of the demon" Ares flicks his sword guard making the sword to draw out from the scabbard but immediately replacing it back in his scabbard before the blade of his sword is exposed.
Nobody understood what sort of technique it is, his sword didn't even come out of his scabbard. Yet Ares seemed filled with air of confidence and with a smile curling from the corner of his mouth.
"Teleport." As Ares mumbles and it looks like he is about to take off, light and gentle cuts starts to appear above the bodies of the warriors around him. Cuts on this arms, chest, across the face... Nobody seems to swinging any sword. Yet more cuts were appearing on their bodies. Even though the cuts don't seem deep the blood is creeping out enough to evoke panic in the warriors.
Ares teleports from warriors to the foot of the slopes and walks towards Zoilas and his army completely ignoring the cluster of warriors around . The cuts which seem not deep suddenly starts digging into their flesh and bones. As if the attack of Ares has an delayed effect. Within seconds all the warriors are cut down and becomes meat sack.
Maybe Zoilas knew this would happen hence he warned the warriors who were arrogant and did not heed his advice.
"It's definitely the black elemental stone. How are we going to deal with him? No captain can maintain more than two elemental stones of different attributes in one device and yet - He used three of them in one go !? That is a general class feat. He is a mere 20 year old captain of a naval ship.. how can he..."Zoilas muddled nervously while witnessing Ares striding towards his direction and the soldiers.
All the 1000 people soldiers of Zoilas and warriors from Caracus takes their positions in an order in front of Ares, aiming for his head.
"It is 1000 Vs 1. You better give your self up and surrender. I will make sure you will walk out of here alive." Zoilas utters words of a cowardice to Ares.
"Uwahh!" Right after uttering big words Zoilas gets startled by the sudden start of his ship's siren.
"So you think 1000 of you can stop me?" Ares is still walking towards the 1000 people with the same arrogant smile as his armour clacks against the wind.
Ares starts to cut down one soldier after another repeatedly in a really close combat, he cuts their necks, Pierces their hearts and decapitates their heads off their bodies without any emotion of mercy visible on his stone face. It is too graphic to even watch him and the gruesome bloodshed. He just seems to be moving at a very fast speed, he does not even seem to be swinging his sword against his enemies and yet the soldiers on either side of him are getting cut down by blades. Their limbs and their body parts flying above him like a blood shower as it rains down on him.
200 soldiers are down in a snap of 5 mins. Ares hands have been adorned with blisters yet he seems not to feel any pain.
"Give me my weapon! get our elites to back the Caracus villagers. Bring the snipers and push with the best fraggers we have. We are going to take him down!" Zoilas gives orders to his soldiers in desperation as snake of fear crawls into his heart.
The elite snipers comes to the front, there are two types of sniper rifles, one is emitting purple color and the other is emitting green color, resulting of the purple and green elemental stones that are placed in their rifles.
The sniper rifle have two small turbo fans, one at the handle that they hold onto and other one at the middle near the stones.
"I got him locked in the scope, ready to fire at anytime!." A soldier holding a purple colored rifle shouts out.
"Take the shot." Zoilas says to the soldier. "HURRY!"
Suddenly the dark clouds from the sky starts to gather above the land sheltering Ares as he keeps moving in a flash. "Zap!!~" an astonishingly lightning with thunder bolt from the cloud emerges and hits Ares in a blink of an eye and hitting all the region which becomes misty with dust and turned black like charcoal carpet spread throughout.
The purple colored sniper rifle locks on to a target, when the trigger is pulled the purple stone forms a small cloud in the atmosphere through which a thunder bolt gets launched onto the person the gun is locked on to. And the green colored rifles manipulates air by compressing and gives air bullets that are invisible and at a long range making them perfect guns for stealth kills.
The assault rifles on the other hand emits red color which packs a lot of destructive force, the size of the bullet to be fired is up to the wielder. You can shoot something of the size of a small magnet ball to the size of a cannon ball.
"It's a hit!" The soldier shouts out proudly.
"Great... We got him for good" Zoilas starts to celebrate happily and his fears starts to settled down.
The dust clears out and everyone is ready to have a look at the burnt body of Ares. While is on his knees, though the attack was incomparably violent, the lightning didn't just strike on his body but the electricity entered his flesh and bones burning his skin and evoking acute sharp pain to his bones. The burns leaves visible marks on Ares along with smoke.
"He is down! Fast! The archers finish him!"Zoilas face is lighted up, he rub his eyes in disbelief. The man who was going around like a crazy monster , slashing everything that comes in his way was down because of one lightning sniper? Great, this is his moment now for Zoilas.
The archers takes their positions and releases arrows enhanced with green stones on the head of the arrow. These arrows are faster , the spin and trajectory is less compared to the real ones.
"Gasp~" Ares swings his sword powerfully when the arrows are close into his zone. All the arrows that were heading his way in a fast pace have suddenly stopped in the mid air, they lost the momentum and their flight and just dropped down as if they lost their force. The strong gust release from the swing of Ares with his sword cancelled the momentum of the arrows.
*Clack~. * An arrow Pierces the flesh of Ares.
"How do you like it? Don't underestimate me kid, I'm a captain myself." There is a bow in the hand of Zoilas with three green stones.
A captain can handle stones of same attributes which boosts the power to greater lengths but stones of different attributes is not a feat that a captain class can pull off.
The bow Zoilas holding itself is shiney green in color and long with a steel like bow string and the green stones are situated at the front of the bow.
Ares eyes gets wider in surprise as Zoilas draws the empty bow string as if he is about to release an arrow, small winds twirls like a very small cyclone forming near the bow and the bow's string of Zoilas. The air takes the form of a solid arrow, an arrow of compressed and pressured air pierces Ares again and this time strongly.
The weapons of soldiers and Captains are in different league. That is what differentiates a captain from his squadron, Ares bleeds as his chest is pierced with two arrows, he breathes heavily and stands still without moving a muscle in his body.
The dark clouds in the sky started to rumble in thunder as if the gods were angry, right on cue the rain begin to fall from the sky, small bands of rain drops felt warm to Ares as he gets drenched, it's as if he is being hugged by the warmth of the heavens.
Zoilas draws his bow string back to shoot another one of his arrow.
*"Please hear my wish Ares, protect the village"*
*"My daughters can't live a day without me, I will go back to them soon and there will be no further raids from Caracus, my daughters can have a peaceful life unlike me"*
*"You guys are our responsibility, we will go to war with you"*
Ares remembers the words of Alex and Edward and the villagers rushing back inside his ears as he is exhausted.
Zoilas shoots his arrow which pierced the rain drops in its way creating a path to itself into Ares.
"AARGH!!!" Ares's whole body is filled with rage, his eyes turns red and he lets out a cry as he swings his sword that is emitting green colored light.
The power released from that one swing of Ares's sword nullified the arrow that Zoilas shot, let alone the arrow the rain itself is delayed for a moment with a very strong wind released from the spot Ares is standing.
"Sni... Snipers fast!" Zoilas shouts without wasting any moment.
Another shot of lightning sniper is fired at Ares. This time the lightning traveled from cloud to cloud gathering more electricity all concentrated at one spot, above Ares. The sniper and Zoilas instantly knew that this lightning from the steel dark clouds is 10 times more ,powerful than the previous one and they are assured this will be an overkill.
Ares removes the stones from his sword's handgrip, which is covered in white cloth, the whole sword shines divinely as though the soul of sword is visible.
"God arts - Heaven's Arsenal" Ares utters the words calmly as the lightning drops on him.
Edited by - Aysel Inara.
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[Iaido technique - Japanese art of sword drawing technique which involves in drawing the sword out, killing the enemy and replace the sword back inside your scabbard.]
[Fraggers - assaulter's with guns who are good at aiming and pushing onto the enemy with strategical methods.]