In a large hill spanning across huge areas of land sorounded by sense forest and tall trees, with a serene vibe and extremely silent, yes so silent for the past month that even the insects that lived there dared not to make a sound so as not to alert the malevolent evil that decided to cross into their domain.
More or less that changed today when a very handsome young man strutting across the land with the wind in his head looking as if lost in his thoughts and behind him five silhouette's speeding behind him, the five humanoid silhouette's moved so fast that it was basically hard to tell who or what they were.
("Led you and mino take the back, vila come with me around, you know your place watcher")
Ordered a larger silhouette telepathically as he jumps from tree to tree along with his teammates.
("Yes! Captain")
Was the response he got from them all as the one that seems to be with a captain alongside a more slender one take a different path to soround their target. After a few seconds led and mino stops on top of one of the tree branches the moment the young man stopped but they still had a distance of over five hundred meters away from one another.
After what seemed like an eternity of observing their target they both turn to look at one another as if trying to communicate with the expression on their faces before they both exchanged a nodding to confirm that it was time for action, mino immediately summoned a bow as if from thin air alongside a quiver fillet with arrows that he strapped on his lap to make his shooting easier.
He knocks an arrow on his bow and points it at the young man in the distance, if not for the fact that he was a well trained archer he would have missed his shot over the ear deafening silence in the forest.
Not a figure of speech though some people think that there is no sound when everywhere is silent and you possess much focus then but allow me to disagree because in that silence you experience a deafening sound in your ears so irritating you would want to bang your head against your wardrobe and just pass out.
So where were we again? yes he takes his aim and in with the blink of an eye released the arrow that left the bow creating a mini shock wave on leaving the bow traveling and tearing through the air to it's target with a gust of wind as if it was a child sent on an errand by his parents while his favourite show was earring so he had to be in a hurry.
To the assailants greatest shock the young man catches the arrow easily and snaps it in half leaving the man with his eyes wide open which mino immediately discarded after looking at his teammate led, led had a bit of expression on his face telling his teammate it's either to be expected or it is just a fluke. After they both exchanged a short glance at one another led took hold of his katana in his sheath beside his waist.
And in no time lightening begins to snake across his fingers at first then to his arms and finally across his body like a certain demon slayer character. In a flash he travelled the distance closing in oh his target as if they were only steps apart.
He pulled his blade out of his sheathe as he closed in on his target and in what looked like an eternity to him slashed his targets neck and disappeared into the distance in the opposite direction of where he came from as if the Job was already done.
("You didn't kill him yet did you?")
Asked the captain as led stopped right in front of them, led turned his head to look at the target in the distance as if to let them decide for themselves wether he was dead or not, the captain decided to take a look at the target in the distance who seemed to be caressing the cut on his neck and then suddenly closed his eyes.
("That's good I don't want the target dying on me at least not until I've had my fill of pound...")
Before he could complete his sentence the woman who was standing next to him with speed almost as fast as the lightening attribute user dashes off to the target leaving a small cloud of dust to form on where her foot was and headed straight for the target.
("Shit! This woman, let's go before he dies") led once more grabs hold of his katana and with lightening speed accompanied the female who was a few steps close to her target with her fist covered in ice the ice ran a little bit almost to her elbow. When she was at close range she threw out a punch at her target streslessly.
Boom!
Shocked! Her face was filled with a shocked expression, yes she might have threw that punch carelessly but the target she was facing was according to their record in his weakest condition and even if he was at his peak at the moment it wasn't enough to swat her punch to the side. Seeing how her teammates punch didn't connect led who was less than a step away drew out his katana and this time around digs his sword a few centimeters into his waist section and pulls the weapon upwards towards the opposite side of his chest and finally stopped when the weapon had cut a fine line on his targets body as the two assailants take a few steps back to their captain who was already a few meters watching them.
"Seems like you missed vila" the captain teased as he comes to a halt next to his two subordinates.
"Hmpf! Was just a fluke" she replied not even looking at his captains face.
"Led give me something"
Led turns to a thick tree beside him and in quick movements and a single breath slashed the tree twice and turns to his captain telling him he was done. The captain took a few steps forward and grabs the mid section of the tree by digging his fingers into the free like one digging his finger into congealed butter and pulls the tree leaving the top with the branch to fall off and the lover part still stuck to the ground.
The moment the captain pulled the tree trunk out led once more in quick movements carves one end of the tree leaving it pointy like a pencil.
"Well now we are ready" the captain turns around to look at the target with a develish grin which would send shiver down anyone's spine.
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A while ago.
Afo closed his yes trying to use his senses to tell the location of his assailants, his ears twitched from time to time like a dog, he listened for a while before he finally noticed the beating of hearts around him, at first the sound of their hearts were faint but eventually it became louder and louder and louder till it became alluring to him so he immediately switched to another sense and like a body heat detector he could tell their exact locations.
("Guess this works out too") Afo thought.
["Incoming!"] Phoenix alerted Afo and Afo as if just woken up from a sleep in a cold Sunday morning gently opened his eyelids seeing the woman approaching him with unimaginable speed, he gently took his right hand from his pocket on seeing the punch aimed at his face and swats aside the punch as if swatting a fly.
Boom!
A crater about fifty meters wide was formed on the side Afo had directed the punch to.
("What the hell? This woman was really planning on one-shoting me")
Afo said in a tone that was hard to decide wether or not he was actually surprised.
Before he could admire the crater which the woman had just given him as a present he senses the lightening attribute user next to him again, Afo watched him as he unsheathes his weapon, it was as if time had slowed down for him, his senses were more alert, his eyesight improved even better than they were making the colors in front of him way clearer.
["What the hell are you doing boy he's about to cut you?"] Nerfano asked Afo since he wasn't making an attempt to stop the assailant who was just in front of him and was alot slower.
("I know I don't have a weapon that's why")
Afo replied giving them the most ridiculous answer one could give but fortunately they all understood, Afo grit his teeth waiting for the intense pain as he watched the sword dig into his skin and slash across his body but fortunately or unfortunately the pain he expected wasn't as intense as he expected it to be.
Afo watched as the assailants both step back to meet a man, a man who he recognized at first sight his name was Edgar Hoover, a man with who stood about 6'2, thick muscular build, light skinned and average looking, how could he forget him? He was the ingrate sent to capture two years back and the woman who just tried to punch him to oblivion vila Hoover his wife, about 5'10, had the curves in the right places with nice tits and blonde hair that compliments her beautiful face.
He couldn't forget her either since vila and Edgar were a couple in the organization who enjoyed having sex in front of popular or respected persons to watch and man since Afo was one hell of a celebrity, he had a lot of live performances from this couple.
The guy with the katana who had left multiple cuts on Afo he had no idea who he was but he wasn't no shorter than Edgar with a slender muscular build like Afo and a good looking face that would easily win him a lot of attention from the ladies if he wished, he had dark long hair which he tied into a ponytail but with all this he was still not as handsome as Afo.
Afo watched as the young man carved a tree trunk with his katana displaying his skill carving a giant pencil. Afo after seeing this didn't stop experimenting on his abilities rather he raised his hand to look at the hair on his hand and he could see them way clearer than he could before and could count them even without making a mistake or loosing focus, this was a feat he couldn't do in the past unless he used the ether energy around him to improve his eyesight.
The view was way better than playing ps5 on a 4k flat screen tv and could not even be compared. He tried to heighten his senses once more and this time around like a pigeon with 360° degree eyesight he could see the archer behind him clearly as if he was just a step away.
"Look who got out of confinement" Edgar said as he placed the now huge humongous pencil on his shoulder.
"What do you know, got bored" Afo replied lazily while still trying to get used to his new eyesight.
("This would take a while to get used to phoenix")
["Don't sweat it just give it a go"] phoenix assured him.
"The organization wants their property back" Edgar said authoritatively but got no reply from Afo rather all he saw was Afo staring at them as if he was bored would like to get the event over with as quick as possible.
"Well if you're not willing to comply then I'll have no choice but to force you, don't make me kill you by mistake"
This time around he had a grin on his face which told Afo he was actually hoping for Afo to make things difficult so he could have a go at him once more. Afo already knowing what was on his mind turned his head to look at the crater beside him and without saying a word Edgar knew he was telling him that he wouldn't be going down without a fight.
"Don't make me do this boy we know you are still not as good as the old days" Edgar said as he gave his teammate the green light to attack Afo.
["That guy obviously wants a fight"] said blood trinket as if she were bored already.
Vila tightened the muscles on her thighs and in a split second dashes at Afo this time around with a serious punch while Afo with his left hand still in his pocket uses his right hand to deflect the punch to the left leaving a crater bigger than the one on his right.
Boom!Boom!
She unleashed a barrage of punches that continued to dig craters around Afo as he stood on the particular spot he had been standing on the whole time, every punch sending a gust of wind to blow around them and every punch harder than the last and every movement faster than the one that came before. Afo continued to deflect the punches as they come harder than ever and faster as well.
The others stood spectating the unbelievable sight in front of them but they believed that the fight was already decided because Afo was indeed in a terrible state after their last encounters two years ago, Afo did not only drop down a rank but he was gravely injured both physically and spiritually, they saw this scene as Afo just putting on his last stand to keep his name as the hero he was summoned to be, after about half a minute of endless barrage of punches mino the archer decides to put Afo to rest instead of watching him go down like this.
He knocked an arrow into his bow once more and this time around with a stronger and faster gust of wind he released the arrow traveling straight at Afo's head so as to put an end to the man's misery.
Flint!
To his shock this time around without turning around or stopping to doge Afo moved that same right hand leaving the left hand still in his pocket and grabbed the arrow when it was just at hairs breath from his head pulls it and like a master flogging his student used the arrow to whip vilas fist upwards and making his first move and gently raised his left leg and at s speed that even vila and led could not see dug his foot into vila's ribs sending her flying sideways at least a hundred meters into the forest.
Silence!
There was an ear defening silence among them all, they believed that Afo was at this point a mouse backed into a corner, they believed he must have used all he had in him to escape the facility and a month or two should not be enough rest to perform the feat he just did. Afo then broke the silence and gently turned and faced the captain and led who were standing in front of him, the blood on his shirt, throat and on the floor began to rise like tiny rain drops and when they were at his eye level started coming together until it gently but eventually turned into a blade, Afo slowly took hold of the blood and once more in a quick movement pulled the sword to his side letting out a strong gust of wind and raised his face to look at his opponents and said his first serious words with the most lifeless expression ever.
"Ignite persona pure state...' THE ICE KING'"