As the battle continued, Rapt's thought process started to change. He realized that he was feeling threaten for the first time since his arrival. Rapt's battle with Sorc was now in its second phase and while it was going on the Ferda Family was on the move. A five-man team was sent to deal with Rapt. They were making their way towards the last known location being careful not to attract the attention of the beasts around them. The leader of this operation was Jameson Ire, a member of one of the Freda Family's Branch families, that team he led consisted of the strongest of the Branch families since they would have more variety in elements. This was due to inheritance of element from the strongest of the parents even though rare occurrences did happen. The Might Family being one of those occurrences since no matter how powerful the other parent was the child was always born with the Mana shell skill.
The group consisted of Jameson Ire with the Wind element, Abe Tanis with the Water element, Shan Ange with the light element, Sora Nugent with the fire element and Kurt Wagner with the earth element. Each were youth that showed strong promise of being able become powerful assets for the Ferda family. Jameson being the eldest and strongest of the 5 was given command of the group.
"Kurt, what direction?" Jameson asked while maintaining focus on his personal (a skill that is made by the user through alternative means) skill [wind concealment]. This Skills function was to cancel noise, smell and sightly distort vision perfect for mission that required Stealth.
"Yes, Ire. There seems to be an intense fight happening between the Blessed beast and an unknown one" Kurt replied
"Why would they be fighting amongst each other?" asked Abe, the youngest of the group.
"Never delve into the mind of a beast. They're savage by nature and don't know of honor" stated Sora with a look of hatred and disgust on his face.
Knowing Sora's backstory Jameson shot Sora a pensive look, as he wondered if he would put the mission in jeopardy because of his hatred and contempt for beasts that made him unreasonable at times.
" We're about half a kilometer away and there seems to be quite a number of beasts surrounding the fight, Ire"
"How many?" came a Reply from Shan.
"It doesn't matter how many there is. I'll KILL them ALL!!!!" Sora shouted
Quickly, Jameson rushed and cupped his mouth since he threatened to be louder than his skill could handle. This action led to Sora attempting to push his hands away, but he quickly found that his arms and feet were bound by Kurt and Shan. Abe was told to keep an eye out for beast as they knew if they didn't contain Sora, he would put the mission at risk of failure.
After ten minutes of struggling, Sora finally settled down before he pissed off Jameson enough to report him back to the elders of the family. Something that would bring disgrace to his Branch Family and even earning him more resentment from his siblings and cousins, as they would lose merit and opportunities. The ranking structure was used in the larger families as well. It was used to promote growth of an individual's strength along with the Families overall strength.
Seeing that Sora had calmed down after receiving a stern lecture from him and the others. They started to discuss how to best assassinate the Blessed in enemy territory while it was surrounded by fellow beast. Even though they seemed to be doing some sort of ritual that require them to fight, they wouldn't let the Blessed die by their hands.
"Those watching the fight should be focused on what's happening in front of them to notice us and with Shan's [Blinding light] skill we should be able to kill the Blessed before making our escape. They won't understand what happened." stated Jameson.
"We can use this time to cause as much damage to those on filthy beasts watching to hinder those closer to us for a cleaner escape." Sora followed up.
"Sounds like plan, Ire".
"So, who's taking out the Blessed?" asked Abe looking around at everyone.
"Sora has the best skills for causing max damage to a cluster of beasts, Kurt and you can use a combine attack to act the terrain, and I'll kill the Blessed".
With each person knowing their role in the mission, they started moving back in the direction of the fight again. Once they were about 10 meters away, they stop again and watched the fight. While Jameson pulled out a device given to him be the elder from the king to locate the blessed. As he donned the visors, he looked at the two fighters and of the two the strange looking beast the was white and blue was the blessed.
"That blue beast is the blessed one and it's already looking close to losing this fight. So, this should be a pretty standard mission. You three stay here and be quiet after I leave you won't have my protection from being sensed and luckily the wind is in our favor. Come on, Shan."
With those words, the two left getting closer to the beast since the range of her skill was only 7 meters. With the ring of beasts surrounding the target she would need to be 2 meters away from the group of beasts furthest from the fight. Once in position, Shan focused her mana outside her body to where she wanted it to bloom. Jameson slowly prepared himself for the killing strike as to not draw attention to them.
Rapt was still stuck in battle Sorc and had no idea that Furyans were here to assassinate him. His mind was entering a weird state as his latent primal urges were becoming more intense as he battled. He movements became those of a hunter as he and Sorc had continued to battle. Even with that happening, Rapt was in a bad situation as his body was covered in cuts and bruises, yet Sorc had minimal damage. Due to his [rock skin] skill, that was a level 2 passive. Level 2 passives used less mana to maintain than the level one version and didn't stop after mana depletion. Instead, their presence would remain, and they wouldn't regenerate after taken damage.
While Sorc was less damaged than Rapt, he did have his own problems since Rapt's stamina seemed to eclipse his.
'no', Sorc thought, 'he has to be close to his limits'.
As he looked at the bloody Blessed in front of him moving side to side, snarling, and snapping his jaws like a wild animal fighting to the death. Rapt rushed him again leading Sorc to charge forward and meet him head on. When the two entered 2 meters mark between each other, Sorc jumped forward spinning with his full momentum sending his tail flying towards Rapt. Rapt didn't even react as if the tail wasn't coming his way until the last moment. Sliding under it and jumping on Sorc back as he continued with his turning motion.
' Kill, kill, kill, assert your dominance' thoughts ran through Rapt's mind as he went for Sorc's neck. At that moment, a bright blinding light appeared right in front of the two slightly above Rapt's head effectively blinding all the beasts watching. The Beast in the crowd voiced roars, growls, and various sounds in anger and confusion. Rapt's primal instincts screamed danger and using his [mana sense] skill, he noticed foreign mana flying towards him. The threat identified Rapt rolled off of Sorc's back receiving another gash on his sides slightly deeper than the previous one. After landing on his feet, Rapt spun around and ran in the opposite direction of the attack as his vision slowly became back still blurry from the light.
Sorc had also felt the incoming mana leading to him raising a rock wall to protect himself. He felt the weight of Rapt leave his body before he had reacted to his senses. This had added flames to the interest he had in Rapt. 'I must joins him' Sorc thought as he listen to the anger voices of the others beasts. The chase had began as they tried to respond to their attackers.