The day finally arrives, Draxus and his group appeared in front of Aquila's capital city. Draxus actually had prepared a letter of war to them beforehand, making sure that the enemy prepares themselves, which leads to them weakening their defenses in the other towns, allowing the [Hunt] group to operate with lesser targets. Keith, who was beside Draxus was impressed with how prepared was Draxus to make the enemy think. "Just when did you send that letter to them?" "Right after the court case against Josh. I had Gayle deliver it as her first mission, I had to write that in the InfoCon room." "You sure move fast huh...?" Keith continued his impressed remarks towards him, seeing as the capital city seemed to be reinforced immediately.
Draxus looked behind him to see all the participants of the operation. "Alright everyone! Today, we will show the world what it truly means to go up against our Order! Show no mercy, show them finesse, show them our true capabilities! [Hunt] group!" As Draxus called out to the [Hunt] group, they were prepared to set off immediately as Wesley had already properly prepared his routing. Draxus looked his watch for a moment until the time hit 7:00 AM on the dot. "[Operation Cleanup] begin! Keith, prepare formation one on all four exit routes!" "Got it! Everyone, prepare funnel formation, groups one to four, set out!" '""Haah!""" Keith's group, the [Trap] have started moving through Draxus' boundaries which led to every exit by the castle. Draxus on the other hand, started channeling a godly amount of power on his body as he raised his left arm as he unleashed absolute power to the entire city.
"Let's dance Aquila, may this dance be your last!"
With his declaration of war, the entire city of Aquila, from just a bit of distance away from the walls all the way up to the skies encased the city like a dome. Seeing such insanity of magic that can directly affect a city shocked almost every member of the Order. They could start to hear panic within the city as the [Core] group started walking leisurely through the Northern entrance of the city. "H-Hal-!" The army member that was trying to stop them from entering the city instantly had his legs frozen and his head detached from his body. Gayle then appeared behind Draxus with her scythe bloodied already.
"T-The drawbridge!" The army tried to frantically raise the drawbridge, as it leaves Draxus' group a large moat that they have to cross. "Archers! Ready your arrows! Set them ablaze! Magicians! Ready fire and explosion magic!" Draxus smiled as the [Core] group still followed behind him. Lilianna and Julianna were beside Draxus, Gayle was behind him, Pauleen and Juniper are behind her and Audrey is covering the backline. As it was still Draxus' opening flourish, Draxus simply waved his hand a bit and a layer of thick ice was now covering them from attacks above. All the arrows and fire magic that were fired down at them were completely in vain. Gayle's scythe started glowing, all the fire magic and arrows were absorbed into more power as even sticks and flint were dematerialized by her scythe.
"I-Impossible?! W-What are we supposed to..." The captain on top of the walls was shocked. Along with his unit, they were unable to understand just how much power their enemies had even if they had limited numbers. He could see Draxus shrugging his shoulders with a smile as their gazes connect. When Draxus pointed his finger up high, the captain felt a chill come up his spine. "Magicians! Defensive mag-!" Some of the magicians were barely able to react as Draxus brought down his finger with a menacing grin. Lightning strikes landed on top of the wall, striking down the archers and instantly losing consciousness from the shock in their bodies. Most of the magicians were knocked down by the same way. The captain was barely able to maintain his consciousness from the powerful thunder strike.
Gayle started rushing towards the wall, ignoring the moat completely as Draxus was creating an ice path for her to go up the walls. At the same time, he froze part of the moat towards the entrance and froze the wooden drawbridge.
"G-Guahh!!!" Screams of agony could be heard at the top of the walls, as Gayle started to rampage slicing out resisting targets who had been marked by Draxus as their legs was covered in ice with icy thorns on them. She was smiling with pure enjoyment, as she continued to strike down everyone who was still conscious.
The captain managed to recover, as he tried to defend against Gayle's murderous attacks. He desperately blocked every attack as he continues to flinch from every strike Gayle makes while also giving the captain one injury after another for flinching from every attack. The last thing the captain heard and saw was the drawbridge shattering completely as he sees shards of glass fly into the town. He sank into despair and raging regret. "Tch, I should've had my fun with that slave while I had the chance." As his head parts with his body, Gayle jumps down from the castle walls, ignoring the ones that were already unconscious.
She returned to her position behind Draxus as they entered the town. Seemingly in a great mood with how much she was able to attack without being held back. Pauleen and Juniper were slightly nervous with what she was able to do under the hands of Draxus.
On the other side of the town, Keith was able to observe what had happened in the distance as powerful lightning strikes landed there. "He's having a lot of fun already." Keith felt troubled as Draxus was unleashing magic left and right. "So this is our chief's power? I've seen quite a bit in the archon duels but I never thought he could bring out this much power." Layla was in awe with how much power Draxus had. "Well this is kind of why he's called as the [Army Killer] after all, he'll just strike down any numbers brought to him." Keith looked down as he noticed some humans came out of the town on their end with similar styles. He sensed a great amount of power from them. "So they finally made their move huh...?" Layla was surprised as she looked down to where Keith was focused on. "Enemy contact, prepare for a party group 4!"
Wesley has scattered his members through four towns already, as he teleported with Cephei last, the two of them witnessed a spectacle of a giant dome of ice in the distance along with multiple thunderstorms. Cephei was instantly dreaded with the kind of display of power. "Oh? Draxus really loves his opening flourish huh?" Cephei instantly turned back towards Wesley. "E-Eh?! T-That's the c-chief's...?!" Cephei's dragon tail stood stiff, while her wings were shaking a lot. "Yeah, it's been a while since I saw him do something crazy like this." Cephei seems to now understand the true limits of power the Sentinels have, with Draxus as their forefront chief, she wondered just how much will she be able to reach as she started to feel both fear and excitement.
Back in the capital city of Aquila, Gayle started walking a bit more merrily behind Draxus, as she raised her scythe which caused it to glow, absorbing the blood into the blade along with the souls of who she had killed. "Things like this is always quite fun."