Chapter 51 Despair.
The wyrm licked its lips like it was enjoying a feast. But for the others in the city, it was not enjoyable at all. All the people were looking at the gigantic monster with horror. The commoners of the city were kneeling down under the new presence of the wyrm while the experts felt horror as they were being suffocated under the pressure.
Xavier turned to Emilia and asked," What is that?"
Emilia looked at the beast through the screen and smiled bitterly. "It's one of the bosses of the edge of the jungle. A peak Martial Lord level Earth Wyrm. "
"A peak Martial Lord? Isn't it stronger than the others I've met? Even its aura is so much stronger. I feel that you are no match for it at all." Xavier said bluntly.
Emilia looked at Xavier with a bitter face and said," Of course. The three leaders of the major forces in the city are just middle stage Martial Lords. The city life is even weaker at ng the rest of the Martial Lords gauher the power due to elixirs. They are not even as strong as some talented Martial Grandmasters."
"But this wyrm is a peak Martial Lord and when among them, it's a beast with a trace of dragon blood making it one of the strongest beasts among its stage. Even the most talented Martial Lord will be hard pressed to match it let all of be take it down."
Emilia looked down and murmure," Hmph, if I was able to use my full power, I could've crushed it."
Xavier, who heard her murmur, asked," What did you say?"
"Oh, it's nothing." Emilia will her head. Then she felt something and looked at the screen.
The Earth Wyrm had finished its snack and turned towards the other aircrafts. Emilia's gaze turned solemn.
"You guys, start working on the warp drive. I'll discuss with the others. If we don't work together, we can't leave this place. You guys be ready to launch the warp drive any moment."
The boys nodded and got to work. They both sat in their seats and started pushing buttons left and right.
Meanwhile Emilia rushed back to the cockpit and looked at Grant and Erika as well as the other students shaking in their boots. They almost couldn't take the aura which was released by the wyrm.
Emilia sat in the captain's seat and pushed a few buttons. 2 screens popped up in front of her with the faces of Micheal Wade and Fiona Snow. Fiona Snow was the Branch Head of the Snow clan in the city.
"You know what to do right?" Asked Emilia.
Both Micheal and Fiona nodded. While they didn't look each other in the eye very often, this was related to the life and death of not only them but also some important people from their clans. So they had to do their best.
"But even if we put in all our strengths, it will be a tough fight. After all, of the three of us here, only Emilia has the ability to escape because she had warp drive. What about us? If all our hard work ends up profiting only you, why should we struggle anyway?" Asked Micheal after a few moments of silence.
Fiona nodded as well. She thought the same thing. While it was easy for Emilia to escape, the others didn't have much of a chance as they couldn't travel as fast.
Emilia narrowed her eyes and grumbled within herself," Cunning bastard."
"If you want to, you can send whoever you want to save the most into my aircraft. I'll bring them out once I have the chance. But it will only be 3 people. Any more and it will go above the limit for the warp drive and the required will be disastrous." Emilia replied after a few moments of thought.
Both Micheal and Fiona went silent and then answered," Ok then, I'll send three of my juniors. I'll leave it up to you to keep them safe."
"What about you?" Asked Emilia.
"Even though we can't defeat that wyrm, I'm still a Martial Lord after all. 8 can't even escape from it, then it will be a waste of my cultivation." While Fiona.
Micheal also nodded and said," I'll also send 3 of my juniors. Make sure that they are safe. If not, you will bear the consequences no matter what your background is. "
"Now let's go out. We need at least 2 minutes to charge up the warp drive. In that 2 minutes, make sure you and your juniors go to the Blackhawk and then stall the beast so that I can board the aircraft and escape."
Micheal and Fiona nodded. Emilia turned off the screen and said to Grant and Erika,"You guys, get ready to receive a few guests and stay alert at all times. As my copilots, you need to be ready to drive the moment I give my order."
Grant and Erika nodded. Emilia then went to the warp drive room and met Xavier and Emile, who were busy with loading up the drive and Sheila who was just sitting there watching them do stuff.
The three of them turned to Emilia and gave her a questioning look.
"I'll go and stall the Wyrm with the others. Your duty is to keep the warp drive ready in 2 minutes. There will be guests coming so make sure the aircraft is at full operating capacity." The 2 boys nodded.
Emilia smiled and came near them. She held Emile's head and gave her a kiss on the forehead. Emile was stunned.
She turned to Xavier, held his head and went in for a deep kiss. Their lips separated after a few seconds, strands of saliva connected their lips. Both Xavier and Emile were stunned.
Then she turned to the unsuspecting Sheila and kissed her deeply as well. One of her hands held Sheila's head and the other went towards her crotch and fondled them.
Emilia withdrew her kiss and said in a soft voice," You're packing some great down there. I'll eat it up later."
Sheila was stunned and her face turned red. Emilia didn't wait for the 3 of them to get out of their stupor. She glared as she said,"Get to work boys. Your life depends on it."
Emilia exited the aircraft and looked at the wyrm. The he wyrm didn't stay idle when they were talking. It was busy destroying the other aircrafts around them.
It didn't touch Emilia, Fiona and Micheal because it was one that was strong and it wanted to face them head on. So, to prevent the others from distracting it like flies, the wyrm destroyed them.
It sensed the auras coming from the three remaining spaceships. It saw the 3 Martial Lords flying towards it slowly.
Emilia had donned a red metal armor which looked like a very advanced techno-organic armor, while Micheal and Fiona were wearing the same but theirs seemed to be even more advanced that Emilia.
Micheal looked at the armor and snorted," As expected of the Dean from the Academy at such a backward place. You can even afford the current generation techno-organic armor for . You are still using stuff which is 2 generations backward. How are you going to help us with that?"
Fiona also frowned. Their armor made a huge difference in fighting power and even a single generation backward armor would put too much of a constraint on one's fighting power.
Emilia smiled and said," Just trust me."
Emilia took out a sword and released her aura. Immediately, both Micheal and Fiona were shocked. The intensity of the aura emitting from the old armor was the same, no it was more than the armor here. Both of them looked at Emilia with shock.
"Is this enough for you all? Now let's fight." Emilia shouted and a helmet covered her face as she charged towards the wyrm, a red sword in hand.
Fiona also took out a sword which matches her armor's blue color and Micheal took out a gray black halberd which was the same color as his armor. He also rushed to the Earth Wyrm.
Emilia raised her sword and slashed at the wyrm with all her might. A crescent of crimson went forward with great speed at the wyrm. At the same time, both Fiona and Micheal slashed as well. Blue and gray lights rushed at the wyrm.
The wyrm looked at the three attacks and didn't even flinch. It looked at the three of them in disdain as it let the three attacks land in it.
The moment the attacks landed on the wyrm, it created an energy wave but after it dissipated, it looked like nothing had happened. The wyrm was looking at the three of them as if it was looking at 3 ants.
Emilia, Micheal and Fiona see this and their grips on their weapons tightened. They looked at each other and saw not a trace of hope in their eyes.
"It seems that we must try better. We should try to hit its eyes. That is the only place where there are no scale."
Both Fiona and Micheal nodded.
"We must attack it separately. While we may not have that much power in them compared to our combined attack, it's our best chance to hit it's eyes." Fiona said.
The other two also nodded.
The three immediately sprung into action. Emilia and Fiona went towards the key and Micheal went to the right. They all raised their weapons and attacked.
The wyrm, seeing that they were attacking from different directions, also turned its eyes and followed them.
Meanwhile, 3 people from the aircrafts if the Wade and the Snow families got off and slowly made their way towards the Blackhawk.
The three from the Snow clan were Alice, Melissa and another young girl who Xavier didn't know. And from the Wade family, it was Roger, Reginald and another man who was also not known by Xavier.
While the three from the Snow clan were all cold, Roger and Reginald were haughty and they showed it on their faces but anyone could see that they were trembling in their boots, especially Roger while Reginald was way calmer. Meanwhile the third man was a little strange. He was always fondling something in his pocket and looked around a little nervous. It was as if he had something to hide but this was not noticed by anyone. So they sat in their designated spots and waited for the signal.
Meanwhile, the fight was going on between the three Martial Lords and the beast. Dust and cracks riddled the armours of all the three and their faces were disheveled.
Micheal even had his arm fractured and bent a strange way to his side. He looked at Emilia and shouted," How much longer do you fucking need?!"
Emilia looked at him and said," A few more seconds. Let's make a final push. Don't hold anything back. "
She turned toward the giant beast and raised her sword. She pushed her essence to its maximum and a flame started to burn around her armor. She looked at the other two and said," I'm going to hit it with my strongest attack but I'll have to sacrifice this armor to do it. The moment I hit the beast, you must intercept it so that I can reach the aircraft and escape."
Both Micheal and Fiona gritted their teeth and nodded. This was the final push.
Emilia then rushed towards the beast and roared," Crimson Hellfire slash!"
A huge crimson crescent moved towards the giant lizard. Feeling the power of the slash, the lizard took this attack seriously and opened its mouth. A huge runic circle appeared in front of it and tried to block the attack. But because the Earth Wyrm was caught off guard due to his arrogance, the shield was not strong enough and broke and the slash landed right on its soft mouth and a fountain of blood gushed out.
The lizard was enraged. It looked at Emilia and was about to launch another attack, it saw that Emilia was already very far away. It saw that she got into the metal thing which was the farthest away from it.
It was that the aircraft was shining with a peculiar light. It suddenly felt like space around the aircraft warped a little. It's pupil immediately shrunk as it felt something on that spacecraft.
It was the thing which it had come looking for. Till now, it didn't sense it but maybe because the spatial fluctuations disrupted whatever was isolating it, the wyrm sensed it.
It also sensed that the aircraft was going to go very far away if it didn't stop it. It was about to launch another attack, it heard a few roars.
"Blood iron slash."
"Snow lotus prison."
The two attacks hit the wyrm stunning it for a moment. The blood colored slash hit right in its eyes and the snow white lotus struck it's open jaws and bloomed to form an ice prison around it. The beast was enraged and it's eyes shone with a yellow light.
At the same time, in the spaceship, Emilia was ordering Xavier to activate the warp drive.
"Hurry up. We have a few seconds window. If we don't get out of here, we are done for. "
All those who were aboard the Blackhawk were nervous. Xavier looked at Emile and nodded. They both pulled the level which was in front of them and the warp engine whirred into life. The space around them seemed to distort but before anything could happen, they heard a roar.
Before anybody could react, a yellow wave washed over a 3 mile radius from where the wyrm was standing and everything shook.
The people who were on the ground disintegrated by the attack and none were left alive and the aircrafts which were flying also slowly crashed to the ground.
Emilia looked at the falling aircraft and sighed. She thought to herself,' If it was possible, I would've liked to bring back both Xavier and Sheila but it seems that fate ordained for this body and all of those here to die as well.'
Meanwhile, all of the others with the exception of Xavier were full of despair. Even Sheila lost her strength and collapsed into Xavier's embrace. All the people aboard got out of the ship to see the wyrm looking at them with its glowing yellow eyes, the two Martial Lords, lying weakly on the ground and they felt a deep sense of powerlessness and despair which they had never felt before.