Twenty seconds.
After a surprise attack, most humans stay paralyzed and stunned by fear for twenty seconds.
20
I placed my hands on the ground.
-Ice wall.
The spell was as simple as the name.
A wall of ice was created in front of the crimson circle.
THOMP! * THOMP! *
Something was trying to crush it from the other side.
That should last long enough.
I pulled off the cloak and set free the elf, after putting him over my shoulder I went to the cage where the civilians were imprisoned.
-Wah!
I left the elf on the ground and with my hands grabbed the bars.
TRRRRK*
-Ghk...
The moment my hands touched the steel stained with blood, an electric feeling assaulted my fingers, there was a force similar to the magnetism that tried to repel me.
15
-Stop it! The cage is enchanted with magic! If you try to open it by force you´ll lose your arms!
KRRGK! *
The uniformed elf tried to warn me of the danger from the enchanted cage.
God damn it, this really hurts! Magic is only fun when is not thrown at you!
-HHRGAAAAAAA!!
CRACK! *
It was tough, but I managed to rip off a pair of bars.
With the pieces of metal still in my hands, I turned around and aimed at the cultists.
-HMPH!
Silver lines flew inside the large space.
KRGKH*
WAAAAHH?! *
THOMP*
The human brochettes stuck in the wall served well as an extra distraction.
I turned to look at the prisoners, all of them were too scared to say or do something.
I grabbed the woman in uniform and slapped her so she could return from her trance.
Paf*
-AH!
-Lift your butts and follow me.
With newly opened eyes, the elf looked at me in surprise.
-Wah-Who are you?!
BOM! *
-Grweeeeek! *
8
The ostrich entered crushing the door and the people behind it then proceeded to fulfill my orders as it was cutting anyone in its way.
Yhea, that´ll do.
From my belt, I pulled out a healing potion and forced the uniformed elf to drink it.
-MMM?!*
-Drink, I come from Iris.
-!!
5
By hearing that name, the elf let the green liquid slide through her throat, making her body regain its vitality.
-Cough* Cough* Did you say, Iris?!
-Yes, grab this.
I pulled out most of the healing potions that the belt had and placed them over the elf´s hands.
-Follow me or die, chose.
I pointed at the people behind the elf while saying that.
The woman followed my finger and looked at them too.
Then she looked at me again with sweat on her forehead.
-.... Fuck!
After deliberate it for few seconds, the woman started to pour the potions inside the wounded people's mouth.
-Everyone! We´re going!
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A brief shine of hope returned to the eyes of the prisoners, and once healed, they quickly stepped out of the cage with the elf in front.
-Going so soon?!
It´s time.
I glanced in direction of the sickening delighted voice.
-THIS POWER!... I CAN FEEL IT!... I GET IT!... YOU HAVE FELT THE TRUE PAIN!
With a jump that destroyed the ground and the legs of people, Dorlo threw his fist at my face.
-LET´S LOVE EACH OTHER WITH PAIN!!!!
Tonk! *
But the only thing he reached were the cold and metallic hands of my knight.
-Álvaro, Can you kill him?
The living armor with flaming head threw a punch that sent fly Dorlo back to the ground.
-AAHHH~! YESH~!
Creak* Crunch* Splat*
The hit was so hard that the body of his enemy traced a path of blood with pieces of flesh and broken bones.
-Nothing will last from him, my prince.
Álvaro materialized his sword and went on the attack.
-Be quick.
Cling! *
Before his sword could cut him, Dorlo stopped the edge with an ax made of bone, his left arm had turned into a weapon.
-GIHIHIHIHI~! THIS PAIN! THIS LOVE! GIVE ME MORE!
His right hand turned into a short sword of bone and tried to stab Álvaro.
Thonk! *
-Tch...
To his tough luck, the armor of my knight was very sturdy.
Leading his weapon inside the flame on his neck, Álvaro set on fire his sword.
-... Your disgusting existence must be cleansed.
Then he strangled Dorlos neck, he swung multiple slashes to the living armor, but none had an effect beyond minor scratches and a lot of noise.
He seemed like a stray cat refusing to be adopted.
The sword darker than night stood up menacingly over the cultist's chest.
-Skill of flaming sword.
At the same time, Dorlo put his hand inside his chest and ripped off his heart.
-Purgatory.
The moment Álvaro buried his sword inside the chest of his enemy, he threw his heart into the air.
-GRAAAAAAHHHHH!
An explosion of fire wrapped completely the body of Dorlo, the flames were so savage that they seemed like hungry beast feasting upon anything they could reach.
-... You won´t escape.
The beating heart in the air formed a mouth of thick lips and sharp teeth, a rough voice came out of the atrocity.
-Devil´s aspect: Formless flesh.
From the depth of his mouth, tentacles, teeth, eyes, noses and all kinds of organs descended to the ground.
A long blot of beating flesh was feeding itself with the corpses from the ground, increasing its size with each body.
-I have to admit, that scared me, I didn´t think a summoning could be so strong, for a moment I believed I´d truly die.
Then several Dorlo made of meat with eyes and snouts moving without synchrony through the base of their bodies surrounded Álvaro.
Similar but at the same time unlike voices escaped from the filthy mouths.
-But the pain you´re gifting me...
-That thrilling sensation of life...
-That...
-...Love!
Three clones turned into thick and long tentacles with the top made a bone spear and searched to pierce the black knight.
Álvaro didn´t have a problem cutting two, but the third had to parry it to avoid severe damages.
Tack*
A tiny piece of his armor fell to the ground from the place the last tentacle scratched.
-Let´s give each other much more love!
-shall we?!
Five tentacles formed, Álvaro took a high sword posture.
-...My orders are to kill you quickly, I shall fulfill them.
-GIHAHAHAHA! YOU´RE NOT FUNNY AT ALL!
BOM! *
I was a bit nervous by seeing how that monstrosity managed to hurt Álvaro, but for some reason, I had the confidence to think that he wouldn't lose.
Meanwhile, I was getting done evacuating the prisoners, right now I was exchanging some final words with the uniformed elf.
-Once you´re out, Iris will be waiting with guards of the capital, some of these guys are infiltrated in their lines, but you should be fine as long as you stick with the beastmen. I would be grateful if you tell them to not kill the flying magic beasts.
The elf stared at the ostrich of knives soaked in blood and guts.
-Gweeeek! *
-... I´ll try, but don´t expect too much.
-Fair enough, now go.
Before I could return to the ice wall about to break, the elf grabbed my arm.
-Wait! Your name! I need to know to who we debt our lives!
-...
To have the elves debiting me a favor would be nice, with enough luck, some of the prisoners will have a high post inside the security and the policy of the sacred forest, and with that, the recollection of the sap will be easier.
But I couldn´t give her my real name, if Molly or the kingdom finds out that I was somehow involved in this, if I have the luck of not being executed, sure they will force me to join the heroes.
And if any way I´m going to recollect the objects by myself, I prefer to do it had taken the choice, not by external obligations.
In this uneasy and unnecessary moment, my mind quickened to create a nickname that wasn´t too pitiful to hear out loud.
A certain name fled from my mouth.
-... Kitzin...
The king of the prehispanic Maya underworld, also known as "The putrid or the stinky".
In nature, my skills are similar to him, and the name sounds cool, so fuck it.
-... Kitzin... I´ll remember it.
-... You better.
Once I made sure that she remembered the name, I pushed the woman inside the passage we used to enter, the ostrich, feeling that there was no more time to lose, prevented that anyone turned back.
I placed my hands over the broken door of stone.
-Freeze.
I closed the only apparent route the cultist had to pursuit the prisoners and focused on what was coming.
-DIIIEEEE!!
Sharp weapons and spells that shot all kinds of elements were coming for me.
FZZZHHHH*
But everything was frozen by an ice ray coming from the roof.
Before I could notice, at least half of the room had turned into a paradise of ice, an astonishing bird was looking at the cultist as if they were the most pathetic and disgusting thing the world had.
-Forgive me, master, but I don´t think I can restrain myself.
-Never asked you to do it.
Fei Xue kept freezing people from right to left while she was flying.
-Run!
-To the passages!
-Escape!
When the fanatics became aware of their imminent annihilation, they decided to flee through holes and hidden doors in the walls and ground.
It didn´t worry me since I had placed an entire army of murderous magic beasts waiting for them outside. so I prioritized the event before me.
TRRRGH* CRACK*
The crystalline wall had fallen.
From the red ground, I took all the weapons I could throw.
Buried them inside several corpses at one foot of distance and waited.
The magic circle puked ten beings the size of a kid.
Their skins were red, had tiny horns coming out of giant mouths that took the role of being the entire head, they also had bat wings and a black long pointy tail.
-SHREAAAAAAAAK!!
Expect words for those things was my mistake.
-Nice to meet you too sons of bitches!
I began to throw the weapons at the abominations.
BREARGH* KRRGH*
After impaling a pair and made their yellow blood fall to the ground, the eight remaining started to move in all directions.
-SHERK%#GREIAS$#SORG
Their sticky vocal cords reproduced weird noises.
And then their heads started to spit green fireballs.
-Tch... Ice wall.
I placed my hands on the ground and formed protection of ice.
BOM!* BAM! *
It didn´t last long against the fire of the demons, but it was enough to let me move aside and take an ax.
-RHAA!
With the weapon in my hand, I decapitated one.
-SKEEEA!
Then I turned around and threw the ax to another, splitting his body in half.
-Frozen spine.
In my hand, a tiny icicle was created, and I threw it to the demon´s feet.
KRRRRK*
At the moment of impact, the ground froze, and then thick spines of ice pierced anything over them.
-SRAARGH!
-KRGH!
-KRAARGH!
Another three lost their lives.
-FREGH#$%GTOGH&%$GRAFH
The remaining demons gathered together in a circle. After saying something impossible to understand, their bodies began to explode one after another.
-Suicide?!