Jill, another kalkrut walks out of a building with full black armor covering his entire body except his face. He carries a huge sword on his right hand. Jill smiles evily and walks through the burning streets like a badass.
He continued to walk until stopping at the gates in front of Xuanyu. Xuanyu turned around to find him "Oh, shit...". Jill lifts his sword up and tries to slam it onto Xuanyu, but Xuanyu dodges and kicks Jill in the face. Jill doesn't take it and picks Xuanyu up and threw him along the walls of the base.
Xuanyu slides through the wall until falling to the ground "Ah" he groaned "You son of a bitch" he stood up, pointing his sword. "You leave me no choice" Xuanyu is about to activate his plasma, but then Jill dashes toward him, connecting his fist with Xuanyu's head.
Xuanyu gets knocked out cold; laying on the ground. Jill picks up Xuanyu and walks through the battlefield; passing by Chloe who is "Haaaaa!!" She sprints to Miles and she hits his sword. They both block and attack.
"Let me help!" Lilly comes out of nowhere while running her sword into Mile's armor, but it doesn't puncture "Hahah!" Miles laughs out loud and kicks Lilly to the ground. At the same time, Chloe attempts to slice Mile's neck, but he blocks in time.
"I'm gonna kill you, you human piecw of trash!" Mile's jumped to the sky with his sword and arms above his head. He almost hits Chloe, but Lilly all of the sudden blasts pink electricity "Haah!!"
Miles gets burnt and electricuted by Lilly as he flew against the walls "Aah!" He falls down to the ground in pain.
Chloe faces Lilly "Lilly... what did you just..."
Lilly looked at her sword, surrounded by pink electricity.
RISE OF IZUZUNU
VOLUME 9, CHAPTER 109, INKPALE FIRE
THE FOREST
Edison sits on the ground behind a tree and a few bushes "Oh my god, oh my god" he repeats the same words. He's found a small little area that is surrounded by bushes and blocked by one tree. The area is around a meter on each side like a box. There is little light due to the leaves blocking the sun; including the clouds blocking the sun.
Edison could hear the battle inside the walls, feeling guilty that he can't help them fight because he's in pain and has no weapons. He thinks of going back inside to help them, but then a memory crosses his mind. The Raid War.
While everyone was fighting the Raid War back in early Izuzunu, Edison could remember having fun, out exploring with his friend. While having fun they ran into some conflict between a police at a village. Edison promised that he will save her when he gets the chance to, and so he thinks the time to save her should be when going exploring with Mark, but he never got the chance to.
When coming back home, he finds Izuzunu destroyed; into ruins. He realizes he made a big mistake by leaving and not fighting alongside his own citizens.
In the present, he sits there with an angry face "I'm not gonna let that happen again" he Saya "I won't let that happen again!!!" He runs through the bushes and dashes through the forest "I'm gonna fight!!" Suddenly tripping onto the floor "Shit!"
"Edison!" Chloe and Lilly called out "What are you doing running? Get some rest!". Edison gets up from the ground "No, I won't let that happen again!"
"Let what happen again??" Chloe asked. He looked sad "The Raid War" he said with a depressed voice. "Edison" Chloe walked closer to Edison "It's not your fault that that happened, okay? It was no one's fault, you didn't know that it would happen... so you went out" Chloe hugs Edison.
Edison begins tearing up as he falls onto his knees with Chloe "God damn it" he said with his broken voice; sobbing. Lilly didn't know what to do because she was never there in the Raid War, but she knew it was a terrible disaster that struck in early Izuzunu. She joins them in the hug.
Later, Lilly helps Edison with his wounds and bruises "Thanks" Edison said. "Of course" Lilly smiled, kindly.
"Other than Jun, how is Izuzunu holding up?" Edison starts a conversation with a sentence. Chloe and Lilly looked at each other with a worried face and then back at Edison. Lilly continued wrapping bandages around Edison's forearm as Chloe answers "Izuzunu's in a really terrible state right now"
"Oh no.." Edison says "How.. so?" He continued. Chloe sits on the floor in front of Edison "Izuzunu is currently under control of a revolutionary group called the Dominant League"
Lilly finishes wrapping the bandage as she puts all the aiding equipment away. After Lilly finishes "The Dominant League was created by a citizen named Hyeonin Kim, he created the group to kind of... save Izuzunu from Jun, which he believed was a bad emperor... He wanted to change Izuzunu's governing system and replace it with a new one. He wants the presidency term to come back. So... he let Jun die to the hands the GDRNI president, Ad" Lilly explained.
"Now that Jun's dead.. Hyeonin has control of the entire empire of Izuzunu" Chloe added. "Wait, wait, so Izuzunu's an empire now? And Jun became the emperor?" Edison got confused "And GDRNI is a kingdom too, I'm guessing"
"Yes, correct" Lilly said. "Damn it, damn it" Edison repeated again "Izuzunu's... falling..."
Chloe puts both her hands onto Edison "No... we'll save Izuzunu... We will save... Izuzunu.. and bring the country back together again.. we just have to first defeat the Dominant League.."
BASEMENT
Xuanyu is locked in a basement, covered in chains. He is strapped against a pillar in the middle of the room. The room is filled with different types of armors and weapons on the wall. It looks like a storage room.
There are shelves lined up behind the pillar Xuanyu is tied up on. On one of the shelves are Xuanyu's armor.
Xuanyu lifts his head up to see Jill standing there with his armor off. "Finally... you're awake" Jill comes closer yo Xuanyu and smacks him in the face.
"Help!!!" Xuanyu yelled out to let the others know that he's in the basement. But no one can hear him from down there. "Scream all you want.." he says "No one can hear you"
"What do you want" Xuanyu said with an furious face. "Ahh" he said as he grabs Xuanyu by the hair "You're the ex-president of Izuzunu, huh? Xuanyu Chen". "How do you know my name" Xuanyu tries to budge the chains off of him, but it's way too strong. Jill walks around the room, slowly "Tell me where the Diamond Valley is" he ignores Xuanyu's question.
"Why!??? I don't even know where it is!! You're asking the wrong guy, I'm not one of the early Izuzunians!" Xuanyu defended himself, but Jill kicks Xuanyu on the cheeks, saying "Liar"
It was silence as Xuanyu is expecting another question and Jill was expecting an answer. Jill finally breaks the silence "Fine" and stood up, walking to the door "There's a switch here" he points. It's the same switch that was used to electrocute Edison. The switch is wooden and it as big as someone's forearm.
Some wires are connected to the switch and the chains. It will electrocute Xuanyu "Tell me where the Diamond Valley is"
Xuanyu, still staring at him with a furious face; looking fearless "I told you... I don't know!". Jill puts his hands on the switch "Okay then" he flips the switch as it began electrocuting Xuanyu "Aaaaah!!" He screamed out loud.
THE VALLEY
Cole's white flames blasts Phoenix into the walls of the base "Gah!" Phoenix grunted. He flies up to the sky and attempts to kick Cole, but Cole dodges and kicks him down to the ground from behind. Phoenix slammed onto the ground "Shit!" He shouts.
"Hahahahha!!" Cole laughs hysterically "You have no idea what I'm capable of, Phoenix!! The Inkpale Fire!!!" Cole lands next to Phoenix. Phoenix thought for a moment "Inkpale.. Fire?.... I've heard of that... but I heard it was a hoax.. I heard it doesn't exist... I heard... it was.. impossible to get"
Phoenix tried getting up, but Cole kicks him back down "I'm gonna have to go all out..." Phoenix said in his head.
Phoenix erupts in blue flames and struck at Cole. Cole doesn't flinch and grabs onto Phoenix's legs and swings him around. Letting him go as he collides to the ground, creating a dust shockwave. "There's no way... this kid is stronger than me" Phoenix drops blood from his forehead. He realizes that he's no longer strong enough to protect Izuzunu if he can't even beat Cole.
Phoenix dashes in zig-zag, it looks almost like he's teleporting, but Cole does the same. Phoenix loses track of Cole as they're now both teleporting around the sky. Phoenix feels a slight tense of fear "Shit, shit"
Phoenix has never felt this scared before, so he's scared for life. Is this Cole's true powers? He's definitely the strongest enemy ever fought by any Izuzunian.
If Phoenix can't defeat him with azure fire, it's clear that Mark doesn't stand a chance as well. Cole flung his fists into Phoenix's stomach; Phoenix can actually feel the pain this time "Aaah!!" He flew through buildings to buildings until hitting the wall of the entire base.
Cole floats in the sky slowly toward Phoenix who is attached to the wall. He coughs out blood "Shit.."
On the ground, George is fighting Eru with 07. "Watch out!" George sends azure plasma toward Eru, but he dodges quickly and deflects the plasma back to George. "Shoot!" George blocks with his armored forearms. 07 tried attacking Eru, assuming he's distracted, but Eru caught on and trips 07 down and stabs his stomach "Aah!"
"07!" George sprints to 07, but kicks Eru off. Eru flips and sends a bunch of slashers toward George and 07. George picks up 07 and dashes out of there quickly. "Come out, come out, wherever you are!" Eru screamed out, looking for them.
Meanwhile, Mark is fighting with a Doomgader with Lu and is actually struggling as well. Lu possesses the power of Caliginous Pink Plasma, the second stage of the pink plasma, also known as the seventh plas. Its color is a darker pink with a bit of light pink and white, but mostly darkened.
"Uggh!!" Mark grunts and flips Lu backwards into the wall, but Lu doesn't hold back and quickly flies back to Mark, fisting his face. Mark slides through the paths, causing debris to fly in the sky. Mark thought the same thing as Phoenix, are they strong enough?
TO BE CONTINUED....