[Proto Earth 1]
The moment both Castorea and Edelene manage to regroup, both of them begun exchanging information on what they had experienced upon observing their target up close, as they soon came to a decision to fight her together. Aside from Lilia's initial rush and great way to confuse and crowd control enemies, her new weapon which is a chained sickle prove to be much more troublesome than her previous weapons.
They literally had no info regarding such weapon. Because of that, they would need to be careful in fighting Lilia who wielded a weapon that was off the records they had of her.
After their low tone exchange, both of them faced forward as they readied their weapons and begun their initial attack in this new round of combat. Without hesitation, Castorea pulled out her sniper gun as she aimed towards Lilia and begun firing away the moment her silhouette entered her target sight
As the bullets came flying in, Lilia quickly got up from the ground as she used various pillars and support beams of the floor as a cover from the bullets that Castorea let loose. But the moment she took cover from behind one of the support beams, Edelene then came popping out from the opposite direction from where she is peeking, as she casted a spell at the tip of her staff before swinging it towards Lilia's head.
"Compounded magic!!!"
Sensing danger from the other side, Lilia instinctively dodged the over head swing from Edelene as she witnessed her smash to literally destroy the support beam in just one swing of her staff. With such swing giving out a huge opening, Lilia then gripped the handle on her sickle as she slashed upward in an attempt to at least cut off the head of one of her attackers.
However that attack fell short as Edelene took a quick jump back to dodge the attack, before activating the spell she had installed as a trap, the moment her initial swing failed to hit its target.
"Mana bullets"
With attacks coming down from the ceiling, Lilia then used one of her skills to eject herself out of harms way, as she moved away from her former spot at about 5 meters. But as if predicting where she would land, Castorea then came popping out from behind as she aimed her gun at her and begun firing away in rapid pace.
Due to that Lilia had no choice but to block the other incoming bullets while also letting some attacks graze her or injure her as such. Because of what she did she was able to prevent the bullets from hitting her fatal spots, while also letting some of it hit her other body parts which is less significance that her most protected body area. As long as she had a healer or a health potion, she would be able to recover from such injuries at any given time.
After that barrage of bullets, Lilia then tried to move forward as she plans to take out Castorea before anything else in this situation. But the moment she tried to charge forward with a dash, Edelene then immediately cuts off her path with a swing of her staff, before letting out a a beam of light coming straight from her palm
"Mana beam"
Unfortunately Lilia saw this coming as she swiftly dodged the beam by a hair's breath, as she wrapped the chain's around Edelene's wrist, before flinging her out of the way and unto the pile of rubble on the side.
After Lilia thrown away Edelene from quite a distance, she then proceeded to dodge some of the bullets coming at her from her blind spot, as she turned towards Castorea's direction and charged at her in a quick pace. But the moment she was about to swing her sickle at her, Edelene then quickly casted a spell on herself and on Lilia, as they exchanged location in a blink of an eye.
"Switch!!!"
Not only that but the after they got switched position, Edelene quickly triggered the magic she had laid as a trap in her previous location and detonated all of them, causing huge explosion to erupt underneath Lilia's foot.
As chain of explosions rung out, Edelene then erected a barrier in front of her as she protected herself and Castorea from the shockwave of the explosion. After the explosion ended, flames then begun to scatter in the area as thick smoke rose from those flames and literally lowered the visibility inside the second floor of the building. Because of this thick smoke, both Castorea and Edelene had no choice but to get out of the building in order to not get buried in, the moment the building starts to crumble from above and below.
But during their escape out of the building, a sudden chain suddenly stretched out from the smoke as it grabbed ahold of Edelene's neck, before getting pulled in deeper into the fire with a single tug. At the same time Lilia came out from the smoke next to it as it charged towards Castorea with a triple slash from her sickle, which was dodged easily, before ending it with Lilia's clone kicking her form behind, and the original tackling her down straight to the ground floor off the building's window.
With a gasp for air, Castorea endured the pain spreading all over her body after crashing from a high ground as she saw Lilia pulling out her sickle and slashing it down towards her. but before the blade could hit its target, golden chains suddenly appeared out of nowhere as it restricted Lilia's arm which was holding the sickle, as she quickly looked behind her and saw Edelene casting a spell to restrict her movements.
The moment Lilia's arm got restricted by a spell, Castorea then took this chance to slide off of Lilia, as she kicked her away for a few feet, before getting bombarded by Edelene's magic.
After the bombardment ended, Castorea quickly pulled up her sniper gun and shot a bullet, which literally went through Lilia's shoulder, causing the latter to enter an extreme pain in her shoulder muscle and be blown back.
With their target literally injured, it was finally nearing the moment wherein the mission would end in success for the both of them.
"We finally got through her guard, Quick restrain her" said by Castorea
"I'm on it" replied by Edelene as she begun casting magic which caused multiple chains to rose up from the ground and surge towards Lilia.
Seeing those chains coming at her, Lilia forcefully pulled up her whole body as she tried to outrun the chains, only to get her ankle caught by the restraints which led to her capture. As the chains wrapped around her leg, she forcefully tried to pull it out to the point that her flesh around her ankle begun to tear, which forced Castorea to shot her thighs, causing her to squeak out a silent scream.
In that moment she then fell down on her knees as she pulled out her short sword from her storage and tried to cut away her leg fro her to escape. At the same time she was asking her system for some help on how to escape her current situation, but by this point even her system itself wasn't able to give out a proper escape route at all.
After all if the players fought with each other, it was only natural that the two systems itself would also fight each other with their host. So while the players are engaging in physical; combat, the system themselves are engaging in tactical combat by outsmarting the opposing system. With that it was literally impossible for sys to give Lilia an escape route which has about above 50% success rate.
But before she could cut off her leg that was wrapped around by chains made out of magic, Castorea was able to see through her intention as she shot away the short sword with a single bullet, bullet putting a hole through her wrist, giving more pain to Lilia.
Even though she had endured a lot of pain during her training to become a player and somewhat endured a hellish experience in her initial dungeon. Actually receiving injury in her body is still painful no matter how accustomed she is. The only difference she had from her previous self is that she can endure a tantamount of pain in order to qualify as a player. Because of that with a silent scream, Lilia was also weeping in silence as tears begun to form around her eye from the immense pain she is feeling.
In comparison to dying inside a dungeon which could revive her outside its premises, dying outside in the real world would only lead to permanent death. Aside from the skills, the rules of the dungeon doesn't apply on the outside world.
In that moment just as she was about to get killed by Edelene whom her staff is pointed at her head, Kaido suddenly appeared out of nowhere as he grabbed unto the staff and yanked the spell towards another building by using brute force.
Having the spell misfire and the sudden appearance of a person which shocked Edelene, the latter herself quickly begun casting her spell on her palm in alertness as she tried to launch it towards Kaido in a point blank range straight to his face. But as she did that, Kaido on the other hand simply applied a psychic barrier around his own palm as he locked finger with Edelene's palm and literally tanked the magic blast fired off in point blank range
Because of that, the magic damage recoiled back to Edelene, as she arch in pain, before blinking herself away from Kaido. In that moment she begun to take notice of Kaido's presence as she stayed alert and wary of Kaido's movement.
While this was happening, Kaido simply looked over at Lilia who was on the ground, as he grabbed the chains wrapped around her leg, and analyzed its property in a single moment. Once the information of the property of the magic was transmitted back to his head, he then applied its very own property of matter as he destroyed the chain with his psychic ability.
Even thought the magic of this world is much more complicated than the magic of the previous fantasy world he had lived for a year, the elements, rules, and matter were still the same. Because of that it took quite awhile for him to fully analyze the rules of the abilities in this world. Now that he had enough information regarding the term skills and abilities, he can now easily counter them just like what he had done in the previous fantasy world. Of course he can only say this to only about 80% of the players at this time.
After he got rid of the magic trapping Lilia, he then destroyed the bullet that was planted deep unto her shoulder as he touched all of her wound and regenerated her body by recovering the damaged cells around her wounds. In just a single moment, Lilia was then derived of injuries as the pain she felt disappeared, causing her to stared wide shock towards Kaido. After all she didn't know that Kaido could do such a thing.
While she was looking at Kaido, Castorea then took this chance as she aimed her weapon towards Kaido's head and shot a mana bullet towards her target. However her attack dealt little to no damage at all against Kaido. For the person himself her attack was so insignificant that he would simply let his barrier deal with it without even batting an eye.
Upon seeing the barrier protecting Kaido, Castorea quickly shared this information towards Edelene, which made both of them understand on the next step they should do in this type of situation. Even though their main target was Lilia, it doesn't say that they cant kill any people that gets involved in this situation. Since based on the recent information they have that such a guy was always going to places with their target, dealing with him was an inevitable choice.
Just as both Edelene and Castorea were doing their preparation to deal with Kaido, the person himself simply chuckled at their worthless effort as Kaido lifted up Lilia by her shoulder, as he raised his leg and stomped hard unto the ground.
In just one stomp a huge seismic shockwave ruptured the whole city, as the whole surface land literally shifted to the point that if affected the whole city and caused a huge blackout, broken windows, destroyed ground, triggered vehicles, and a cave in on the ground where the force was originated, a total destruction equivalent to the shifting of the planet itself.
Such scale of an attack was unprecedented, both Castorea and Edelene didn't expect such an attack. Because of that they were completely done in, as they got blown away by that violent shockwave and was knocked unconscious the moment the ground underneath their feet begun caving in.
But just as before they lost their consciousness, they simply saw Kaido smiling evilly towards them before dragging Lilia somewhere far away from the center of the destruction.
In just a single night, the city's authorities and its underground forces were flipped upside down, upon discovering a powerful person in the surface, nonchalantly mixing in with the ordinary crowd. The authorities were flipped because the very unit they were proud of and claimed that can handle any player in the world that causes misdeeds, were found beaten and unconscious in the middle of the city which almost looks like a catastrophic event had hit the area.
Take not that such unit wasn't a simple one either and were made up of multiple very experienced people who specializes in different forms of combat, but such unit were beaten to a pulp to the point that they were literally knocking at death's door. Luckily for the authorities themselves, none of the members in the unit were dead and are only critically injured in the operation. Through that they classified whoever beaten their prized unit as someone dangerous and possibly an s- rank player and above.
As for the underground forces in the city, they were flipped at the scene alone that their main target which is Lilia was so strong that she somehow proved to be a troublesome person to deal with even with the combination of the twins that they had hired. Taking note that the twins Edelene and Castorea had quite a high ranking as mercenaries in their business circle and somewhat strong to the point that they are so formidable that they can even defeat a high ranking player scaling from A below with their synchronization.
With the scene of Lilia going toe to toe with the twins, they had no choice but to re-evaluate Lilia's strength and somewhat plan even more meticulously if they want to subdue her or kill her. But what's more surprising than that was the appearance of Kaido. In just a single move, he literally took down the twins who they deemed as a strong asset in their plans.
Alongside it, his one attack, he literally destroyed the terrain in the surroundings, causing destruction everywhere and multiple properties destroyed. After seeing such power, they then begun to dig deeper on who is the person that disrupted their plans.
The moment they did such a thing, the only information they have regarding such person was that he was strong enough to literally beat the prized subjugation unit of the authorities single handedly with little effort. At this point each and everyone in the underground organization knew just how strong this particular unit is and to say that someone defeated them alone with little effort only showcase the strength of the person who disrupted their plans.
With it they then begun to establish a danger ranking towards Kaido in order to warn any person belonging to their group on just how powerful such a person is.
All this chaos and discussion among the side of justice and evil lasted for the whole day. After all another unknown variable appeared in their city which disrupted the equilibrium that has been maintained for quite awhile.
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In the next morning, Lilia opened her eyes as she got illuminated by the light that came from her window. As she slowly opens her eyes, she then begun to remember everything that happened in the night before she passes out in the fight. With that, her body then jolted upward as she sat up on her bed and grabbed her blanket so tightly to the point that her aura begun to seep out of her body.
But the moment she got up, she then recognized her room as she looked around all over her own place and wondered just she was able to get here last night. She was so confused to the point that she begun to even question whether this was real or not. The last thing she remember before passing out was that Kaido held her in his arms and protected her from harm. Even though such a scene was quite a romantic scenery, Kaido's smile literally broke the mood as he seemed more like a villain rather than a hero saving her.
By that point, she then lost her consciousness and left everything to Kaido.
As she contemplated on such thing, she then noticed that her clothes were changed from her battle outfit to her pajamas. As far as she knows she was knocked out the moment Kaido saved her from harm, meaning there was literally no way for her to change her clothes and went to bed herself, which leads to only one possible conclusion, Kaido must have switched her clothes and if he switched her clothes, then he would literally have seen her body.
Upon coming to that conclusion, her face then immediately turned red out of embarrassment as she held her body with her arms and begun to look all over her room. The moment she look at her left, she then saw Kaido reading a book on a corner facing her direction with a nonchalant face.
"Your finally awake" greeted by Kaido
"You...." said by Lilia
"Hmmm?"
"You....." said by Lilia with gritted teeth and force in her tone
"Yes?"
"Who changed my clothes?"|
"Well me of course, why? did you expect someone else?"
"You! Y-y-you dare!!!!"
"Oh! if your going to ask if i saw you body, my answer would be yes.... but don't worry I've seen far more seductive body than yours... so i didn't do anything at all when you fell asleep"
Unable to contain her anger and shame for having a man not her special someone see her whole being, Lilia then inputted a destructive amount of mana unto her palm as she let out the most painful slap she could ever muster.