faes smiled at the leader in front of the battalion walls
"is this all you can offer?" faes asked smiling which made the red poison cult leader feel hope to succeed his mission while shiva and others stared at faes in confusion.
sky who sensed faes rage went near shiva tightly hugging his legs afraid further confusing him.
shiva can see clearly that sky was afraid but couldn't understand why and from whom.
"if your royal highness wants anything our cult can provide that too!" the leader spoke
"what if i don't want anything to do with your cult?" faes asked as she stepped forward
"your royal highness knows what will happen. you two are too important for our cult and we wont stop until we get you whether dead or alive" the leader grew confused as faes hopped on the border of the wall and nodded.
"this is between us dont involve the battalion in this" faes spoke to the leader before she turned to sky and shiva
"baby dont be afraid" she spoke softly as sky glanced at her
"sky isnt afraid! sky just doesnt want sister faes to get hurt." sky spoke still clutching shiva's leg
"then are you going to help your sister?" faes asked while sky nodded
"then take care of the king establishment stage cultivators with everything you have got. remember the fox tail? we are going to collect some human leather" faes spoke as sky calmed down and nodded excited.
"sister faes we can also add their weapons to our collection in mystic fog castle?" sky asked as she glanced at faes who nodded and turned to shiva.
"its between us two and the cult just keep everyone inside the battalion and keep sky safe. they wont bother you much. and i apologize for the trouble" faes spoke
"what is going on? what are you going to do?" shiva asked confused. he was completely devoted to fighting his whole life but currently he wasn't sure what was happening.
faes merely smiled as sky answered shiva
"sister faes and sky are royal princesses of kingdom reptiliance. these cult members killed sky's father his majesty king aiden to take sky away. they even kidnapped us once before to have us work for them and kill our family. if sister faes wasn't there sky would have died more than once before this. last time sister faes fought the cult she almost died having her blood essence dried only to save sky"
when shiva heard sky he shivered. two royal princesses! almost killed more than once! the shock was too much for him. sky spoke softly only shiva was able to hear her. but this only made him more confused than he already was before turning paler.
if the two princesses are harmed then doesn't that mean he failed his duty!
"both of you are staying inside the battalion. we are going to keep you safe! don't worry they wont get inside" shiva spoke confidently but faes shook her head
"master shiva this isn't all! there are more secrets than what you just heard. and as for the red poison cult don't bother about us, we are kind of used to fight them by now. after we take care of them lets have a chat properly also if you can take care of the noble and knight establishment stage cultivators it will be a great help" faes spoke as she grinned and jumped down the wall alerting others.
the others were not able to hear what the three had just spoke but one thing was clear. the two girls have exceptional identities and their commander just discovered something shocking,
"activate the battalion protecting array! everyone prepare to attack at moments notice, focus your attacks on the noble and knight establishment stage cultivators." shiva ordered confusing the soldiers even more including the baron and battalion leader.
"commander shiva, are you sure about this? and what is happening?" baron michel asked confused
"you don't need to know what is happening just focus on taking down the enemies" shiva glared at the baron who shut his mouth not speaking again.
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faes called her fire and ice katana as she stepped forward and glared at the leader
"leave and tell your leader that we are not joining the cult. if you want us to join then tell us what you actually want us to do. if you don't tell us then we wont even consider joining a group that kills innocent people just to get what they want!" faes declared
"then we will just have to take your corpse away" the leader replied as he motioned the nine elemental strengthening stage cultivators to take care of faes. three of the nine were mages, one was healer, two were swordsman, two assassins and one knight.
they fell in formation with the knight holding the shield in front with the swordsman behind him followed by the mages and healer at the last while the assassins sneaked up behind faes.
"if you think that is enough then think again!" faes activated her senses skills at once along with her fire and ice magic enhancing the two elemental swords.
purple and white mist circulated around her swords as she dashed at the knight which had used his shield to block her. once faes arrived in front of the knight she raised her swords to attack while the knight raised his shield. but as everyone was waiting for the sword and shield to collide a scream echoed out throughout the area.
faes had teleported behind the elemental strengthening healer using space magic before slashing her swords at the female healer's vital points. faes being a higher level of cultivation than the healer and their lack of attention caused them the healer's life.
once the healer died faes didn't wait for others as she began to attack the mages but the assassins and swordsman blocked her attacks. but even after blocking the attacks the assassins and swordsman had taken few steps back while their arms turned numb.
faes continued to exchange blows with the eight elemental strengthening stage cultivators. neither gaining any advantage.
the watching soldiers forgot to fight as they saw faes and other's fight. everytime they clashed the resulting shockwave would have dust rise around them while the ground cracked. the resulting shockwave even got till the battalion protecting array shocking it slightly.
the soldiers gulped as they saw faes fight the eight elemental strengthening stage cultivators alone.
"everyone attack!" shiva commanded bringing them out of their shock and they began to bombard the low levelled cult members with ranged attacks.
sky also finished casting her spell and suddenly a huge and intricate twofold magic array appeared above the cult's king establishment stage cultivators. a blue fire tornado descended from one while another icy blue ice tornado appeared from the other one. the two tornadoes merged together before descending on the king establishment stage cultivators.
once the two attacks ended only around twenty or so king establishment stage cultivators were remaining and even they were heavily injured. sky continued to finish them off with simple magic arrows.