Dai Ito raised his arm above his head and gestured towards the front.
"Let's go!"
Arman and all others moved swiftly to catch up with Dai Ito.
And as planned, a few healers were left behind with a few tankers. Dai Ito's team had to secure a safe spot for the healers in the fort.
All were moving in quick succession. The earlier annihilation of the enemy artillerymen, archers and watchmen facilitated the stealthy movement of the second team.
After moving in a circular path, Dai Ito waited for a little.
And after a few seconds, a series of sounds was heard.
Clang!
"Go!"
And all the members started climbing the walls of the fort. The magicians used their magic to elevate themselves high enough to enter.
All of them had climbed the fort and were standing on the walls.
They saw that even though most of the soldiers had left, a few remained to stand guard. But, they weren't aware that the watchmen had all been killed.
"Can you use that skill 'Fire Ball' again?"
Dai Ito asked Arman.
"Okay."
Arman formed a Fire Ball in his hand.
"Do you want it to be more wild or more precise and silent?"
"The latter is preferable."
And the Fire Ball changed. It now seemed that the its explosiveness had decreased, but the fire was burning even more intensely.
"Send it to that place."
Dai Ito pointed towards the soldiers on rearguard.
"This kind of Fire Ball isn't suited for thing you want to do."
Arman tried to convince Dai Ito that the wilder one would better suit the purpose.
"Just do it."
"Okay, okay."
Arman lowered the arm in which he was holding the fire ball and twisted his torso.
Then, with a sudden burst, he threw the fure ball. Rather than throwing it like a ball, he threw it like a disc in Olympics.
Dai Ito then conjured a spell and hurled it in the direction in which the fire ball was going.
The spell collided with Arman's fire ball mid-air. And the result was an even more powerful spell. It was powerful enough to deal great damage to the remaining troops, but not big enough to create a noise, which would alert the soldiers confronting the main team.
As the new spell hit the soldiers, it released a very high ammount of heat. A majority of the enemy troops died even before knowing it.
The remaining weren't in good shape either.
They had many wounds on their bodies. Though it wasn't on the level of being incapacitated, they still weren't much strong.
Arman's jaw dropped to the bottom.
"What? Did you just use a combo skill?"
Dai Ito raised his lips up and curled them, while lowering his eyebrows and eyeball.
Hence making an expression of being vey proud of oneself.
"Yes, I can do that, but it requires a lot of strength. Just this one spell will make me incapable of fighting for the next fifteen minutes. But no worries, most of the work is done."
The
So Arman had given up his hope for the time being.
But now this guy showed him a combo skill.
"Can you do it again?"
Dai Ito's face which was now symbolising his attitude, and his ego shrinked in embarrassment.
He cleared his throat and said,
"I remember telling you that using just a single combo skill makes me unable of combat for a few minutes. It is a skill not meant for me. No, even an Absolute Emperor shouldn't be able to grasp such a skill.
I took a shortcut, so it is obvious that there will be a lot of restrictions."
"What shortcut?"
Dai Ito so much wanted to tell Arman. But the situation at hand was more pressing.
"Come meet me after the raid, I will explain it all to you."
"Fine then."
Saying so, Arman summoned the
He squatted down, to suddenly create a burst of mana and blast off, only to be stopped by Dai Ito.
"You are not going anywhere."
"Why??"
"If anything happens to you, the world will end."
'Why do I always get treated like this?'
At this moment, Arman so much resented his father.
As Arman was quarrelling with Dai Ito in the middle of a battle, the other team members engaged in killing the enemies.
A few soldiers tried to blow horns to alert the soldiers at the main gate, but they were interrupted by shurikens thrown by another team member called 'Arata', who originated from a ninja family.
And one member name 'Botan' completely outperformed the enemy swordsmen.
Both were of the rank Devastator.
And after fighting only for a few moments, the Killers gained victory.
Now they had to bring the healers and prepare for the onslaught of the remaining soldiers.
They could have just easily killed everyone and captured the fort. But that would unconditionally cause casualties. Since, in Arina's eyes, Killer lives were worth even more than civillian lives, for, their death would cause the rise of a stain on her career as a Killer and her credibility would be questioned in the future.
The magicians built a barricade using earth magic to provide an additional line of defense for the healers.
"We're all good, send the signal."
"Yes."
Dai Ito pressed the button on a something that looked like a mechanical device.
"In about five minutes, the enemy will arrive."
Everyone held their weapons harder, except for Arman, afterall, Dai Ito wasn't going to allow him to battle. And Arman wasn't stronger than all those who were present.
Sitting on a piece of debris caused by the combo skill earlier, he asked Dai Ito a question.
"How come you can use a communicator in this place? There shouldn't be any satellite or a cellphone tower to receive and transmit the signals."
"This one uses a different mechanism and is mana based."
"I see."
After five minutes,
Just as Dai Ito had said, sound of many footsteps banging in unison could be heard.
"Get ready for battle."
Just as the troops appeared, Arata and Botan took the lead. The frail bodies of the enemies couldn't withstand the continuous strikes of the two Devastators, who had received a boost.
Dai Ito and the magicians also poured in many spells.
Though the troops were in thousands, they were being cut like marshmallows.
The Killers at the forefront faced little resistence. Just as Arina had said, they were completely exhausted. But at the battlefield, they somehow held on. But once they were lied to that the battle was over, they finally accepted the exhaustion. And the terrific strength of Arina made the soldiers who were used to fight day and night tired in just thirty minutes.
And while team Dai Ito was fighting the soldiers, team Arina stricked them again from behind, claiming the lives of many soldiers in the process.
The appearance of Arina was like the appearance of devil for the enemy soldiers.
Arina summoned a pair of warhammers from her inventory.
The hammers were exactly identical to one another, and the craftsmanship behind the hammers seemed colossal.
Particularly the stats.
[Name:
[Type: Warhammer]
[Grade: A]
[Rating: Legendary]
[Description: Normal hammers used for war.]
[Effects]
[Increases Armour penetration by 0.3 for every 100 HP lost.]
[Increases damage by 2600 for every connected consecutive attack.]
[Induces a stun effect, chances of a successful stun effect depend upon the difference in your strength and the enemy's strength.]
[Increases Strength by 100 points when equipped.]
[Increases vitality by 80 when equipped]
[Increases Defense by 100 when equipped.]
[+10% chance of a critical hit.]
[0.1% chance to disarm the opponent]
[+280 ATK]
It was a hell lot better than
Especially the critical hit rate increase effect.
The only thing which made
Arina lowered her body and gave her body a sudden twist. This added additional force to the hammers and blasted away the soldiers who were nearby.
On the other hand, Arman was silently sitting on the ground.
If things went on like this, Arman would hardly be able to grow stronger.
He made a false alarm.
"Hey, One of the enemies had sneaked through the tanks and the healers and magicians are left vulnerable!"
This drew the attention of all the squad members. Seeing the chance, Arman sneaked through the hold of Dai Ito.
While running into the horde of enemies, Arman raised his hand to show Dai Ito a thumbs down.
"This Kid."