Walter's point of view
What was this? Arthur? Naomi? Are you ok? - Walter asked rising from the rubble.
Unfortunately, he didn't have time to get an answer, in front of him was a man wearing armor, his gaze was confident and his eyes menacing.
"Give the boy over and we'll go, we don't want to waste time" said the man in front of Walter.
"Unfortunately I will have to refuse, I won't hand over my son and you don't seem like the type to just walk away" Walter replied
"Hahaha you're right, let's not waste time so I still want to go have some fun before I go back, you two take care of the boy and the woman" Krull said looking at the two soldiers who were right behind him.
'Shit, he's going to be a bit of work' Walter thought 'Arthur help your mother with the other two'
As soon as he finished speaking he saw a hand approaching his face, with a quick movement Walter jumped back, pulling a sword from his dimensional armament, it didn't fit much and as a result most of his weapons were in repair. This second-rate sword was the only thing available in his dimensional storage.
Krull looked impressed he quickly pulled a thick sword and shield from his dimensional storage, he was determined to finish as quickly as possible, on guard they both advanced the moment the swords touched an explosion sent Walter flying backwards and crashing into the rubble, krull then smiled and said "If that's all it will be easy".
Seeing that Walter activated his skill by coating his body and sword with a layer of lightning strengthening both, the sword wouldn't hold much and without decent armor his body would soon wear out even with the lightning armor, his body was wrapped with a thin layer of lightning. lightning and on his head was a kind of blue helmet
Then krull advanced again this time an explosion happened where his foot was, Walter responded with a slash from top to bottom that was blocked by the shield, then he disappeared leaving a blue path and reappeared on Krull's back where his sword crashed into armor , then Krull spun around hitting Walter in the face with the shield, followed by an explosion, Walter staggering back and half of his face was exposed and burn marks were visible on his face. His sword had crack marks so he thought it best to discard it, after all he was a fighter, and what better weapon could he have than his own fists?
Thinking a little he managed to determine Krull's ability, the moment the shield touched his face an explosion happened, it was certain to determine that his ability had to do with the element of badass and that he used a kind of explosion to boost his speed as he did in beginning, and increase your form as you did now.
From the moment he was hit in the face until he dropped his sword a few seconds passed, Walter increased the intensity of the lightning in his body and formed a new helm, putting all his mana into the body reinforcement, he would have to end the fight anyway. As fast as possible, Naomi wasn't a fighter and neither was Arthur.
Seeing his face Krull lunged forward with his sword and shield with each cut Krull's sword left a trail of fire in the air, and each hit his shield received released an explosion that damaged Walter's thin lightning armor, excitement began to fill. Krull his superiority was clear, seeing an opening in Walter he advanced giving a blow from top to bottom, no attack touched the ground and an explosion followed by a deafening sound happened, but his attack didn't hit anything, suddenly a shiver ran through his hair and he looked up and saw, a black cloud then with a thunderbolt crashed down on top of him, managing to block much of the damage with the shield that broke into a few pieces.
"Impossible, was he hiding his strength?" thought Krull gritted his teeth
Suddenly he felt a twinge in his back and he looked at his chest and saw a hand covered with a blue aura crossing his body.
***
With his hand going through the demon's armor and body, Walter used up almost all of his mana.
"Using that ray as a distraction was a good idea but using that amount of mana in two attacks was absurd"
It was common sense that using a large amount of mana on his body would suffer the consequences, dizziness, weakness, bleeding and many others.
When trying to take his arm from Krull's body he felt Krull's hand holding his and his eyes widened with a flash, Walter pushed but it was too late after a small explosion his arm came out, but his hand didn't come and the body de Krull fell to the ground, looking to the side he saw Naomi and Arthur bloodied even more struggling.
***
Arthur's point of view
Standing in front of Arthur were two humanoid looking beings, their only difference from normal humans was their reddened skin and the small bumps on their foreheads. Looking to the side Arthur could see his mother getting up with her injured leg already healing, his mother was a healer, so Arthur was worried about facing the two demons in front of him, he was also a healer but with his new skill he thought it was more suitable to hand-to-hand combat than his mother. The demons carried a spear and a sword respectively, Arthur was unarmed and his mother also the closest thing to a weapon was a piece of iron from the rubble, but unless he used magic on iron he doubted it would do much damage to the demons. with their armor.
With a sweat running down his face Arthur looked at his mother and said "I'll try to hold them until Daddy is done". Even with those confident words the only thing on his mind was to run away, after all he wasn't a fighter and didn't even have strong magic like his sister, he rarely trained and even carrying weapons with his own mana was a little difficult for him, so how the hell would he hold or hurt the demons?
'Shit, I should have trained more, but now is not the time to think about it, I have to help mommy until at least daddy is done'
"Arthur? Son? Son?" Arthur came out of his thoughts hearing his mother calling him and he looked towards her and she had a warm smile on her face.
"Don't worry, you don't have to fight, just support me with healing magic"
"Of course-" Arthur barely had time to respond when he saw the demon approaching at high speed, all mages were trained to perfect their own body with magic and depending on the level you could be very fast or very strong, but that was one thing much to do for various reasons.
"Shit!" shouted Arthur, using his jumping ability as far as he could.
Looking to the side he could already see his mother fighting a demon using a sword, Naomi used a reinforced iron bar, but Arthur doubted she would hold much more against the sword.
"Come on boy, there's no need for that, just come with us and your parents will live, otherwise I'll make sure they suffer a lot myself."
"What do you want with me?" Arthur replied
"No need to worry about it, you will be well taken care of"
Arthur watching the way the demon was acting knew that they needed him alive, and that they probably couldn't kill him, looking around he could see his father being hit in the face with a shield by an explosion. For a minute he began to consider the demon's proposal for a brief moment, until his back began to burn more than usual and several scenes flashed through his head, causing him to kneel.
'Screw it no matter what happens I won't go back to that place' the few memories that went through his head made him sure he didn't want to go with the demon, somehow he knew they would do something worse to him.
"Thanks, but no, what guarantee would I have that I wouldn't kill my family?"
"Well I tried at least" replied the Demon
"You know boy, your father is fighting Krull and he is one of Viscount Leo's generals, it's impossible for him to lose. But I appreciate your attempt to try to buy time, I just need to take you alive, it doesn't have to be whole"
Then the demon advanced and following him came lunge with the spear, which Arthur narrowly avoided dropping with his skill to the side, it was his only weapon, surprised by Arthur's movement the demon stopped a few minutes and then laughed for a second, Arthur taking advantage of the distraction Arthur thought it would be a good idea to jump behind the demon and attack and then run away. So the moment he appeared behind the demon almost instantly he felt the cold rush through his body and then the blood came out of his mouth.
"Best luck next time kid, maybe with ten years of experience you can catch me by surprise"
Arthur automatically jumped twice in a row and backed away from the demon.
***
Naomi's Point of View
At first Naomi was nervous, when she felt the magical pressure of those three beings her body froze, but when she knew they wanted to take Arthur in place of fear, anger took place. Your son had barely returned from the dead and they already wanted to take him? She would do anything to stop it, even give her own life if she had to.
And then their fight began, the demon was armed with a sword and his mastery over body reinforcement was much superior, but Naomi didn't despair even suffering some blows they soon healed and she continued fighting, in her hand was an iron bar that she used to defend herself and attack, the demon didn't give her a chance to breathe, the strange thing was that he didn't seem to use magic, but all this didn't matter because looking to the side she saw her son being stabbed in the chest. His mind went blank with memories of a time ago where he couldn't heal his son who had been beating up and that even though he said it wasn't him and that he was alive and well didn't take away the trauma of thinking he couldn't save. your son.
And that was her mistake the moment she let her guard down a beam of light hit her back and the last thing she heard before she hit the ground.
"Hell prison," said a voice.
"You bitch, who do you think you are?" said the demon walking towards the fallen body ready to deliver the final blow. Then her keen sense tried to warn her but it was too late, a bolt of lightning struck her head and then she simply turned at an angle that was not normal.
"Don't touch my wife you motherfucker" he said standing on the corpse already on the floor.
"Don't move, or the boy dies," said a voice.
Walter looked and saw the demon stepping on Arthur's chest and with a spear in the place where Arthur's heart was.
"I wouldn't imagine that I could kill Krull, maybe humans aren't so weak"
"What you want?" asked Walter.
"I just want the boy"
"So we have a problem, because I will die but I won't let him take him, after all I'm a man of my word, and apparently they want him alive"
"You're right, who else are you going to save? I'm just-"
"Now father" shouted Arthur reappearing at his mother's side, he had jumped twice in a row and was exhausted.
Walter didn't think twice and then used his strongest ability, it wasn't exactly about strength, but speed, "FOOTSTEPS OF THE LIGHTNING GOD" said Walter followed by a thunder so strong that it looked like a bomb, the demon had no reaction when Walter's hand went through his armor and body like it was nothing.
"Honor to the viscount, see you in hell, all of us" the demon said through the bleeding blood. "CORPSE EXPLOSION" that was his skill, a skill taught by the viscount himself to keep soldiers in line and avoid traitors, after all the viscounts, dukes were all fighting for power.
"Arthur get your mother out of here!" Walter yelled, noticing the rising mana in the bodies of the three dead demons.
Realizing that Arthur would not be able to escape in time and with one hand Walter used his last remnants of mana and cast his magic, to form a barrier and shield to prevent the impact of the explosion from destroying and killing everyone around.
'kaboon'
A huge explosion happened.
Even at a distance, people heard the sounds, and the military, who had already been mobilized since the beginning of the attack, all stopped and became silent when the rain began to fall and the smoke rose. Perhaps to cleanse the blood of battle or to signal the death of one of the best users of lightning magic today. And so died Walter Scheuer, the famous hunter!