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The legions and Yang had just gone through a grueling battle that took a lot of team work and individual prowess to win. Well Yang did take out a huge chunk on his own but still they had just accomplished a huge feat by defeating the B unit veteran squad of the hunters. Now the fight looked like it was over and they were checking on themselves, something began to happen.
"No...no...no...I have seen this before. Its back!...the beast is back!!!!!" Blair said referring to the view in front of them at the moment. Right now, it appeared like the forest was making way for something while at the same time approaching them. The trees and plants were all coming at them and it was causing quite the rumble as plants collided against each other.
But then just when the group were about to go off of Blair's suspicion, it turned out to be the opposite as out of the forest came four figures. Yang still standing where he stood out at the front but not in his usual hands behind the back posture but rather an intense stance. He turned to look at the legions member behind him and reminded them what he had said earlier.
"Run!!" Yang yelled out again.
"He is right. You might make it if you start now" Damien said as he made his way towards the legions. Now that they knew who this was, the feeling of fear before was quickly replaced with anger and whatever warning Yang had tried to get across was now completely thrown out of the window as this was one man they all wanted to get their hands on.
"Damien, when did it get to this level, what crime have I committed to be hunted down by my own people!?" Yang questioned as he watched Damien approach him slowly with three men beside him. These men who wore a mask and all had swords on them were just as big and well built as Yang was. They all had black and white gears on them which meant only one thing, they were the from the A unit of the veteran squad belonging to the hunters. And maybe if the legions had this piece of information and how insane it was to think of beating them, then they would have listened to Yang and ran.
"Yang, did you really think I sent them out with hopes that they could stop you?. These men on the ground ....were simply sent to delay you" Damien said and then Began to laugh out loud. The others now understood why the B unit had focused on Yang that much. He was the actual target the whole time and they just happened to be the bait in this whole mess.
"You want me alone, so why did you bring the generals along?" Yang asked.
"Oh don't be afraid, I assure you that you will meet your demise in my hands. But these men with me, I assume you know who they are, aren't for you? You see, those little brats have proven to be far more resilient than I thought. So see these men as assurance that they will all die"Damien said.
"Well that changes everything" Erwin said to himself as just like the rest of his teammates, he had also believed they were only mere collateral damage. But it was quite clear to them that they were all a target.
Without being told, Johan went to drop off Eiko at the side as he was badly injured and something bad would probably happen to him if the fight did start and he got in the way.
When he turned to return, he realized the legions were all advancing though at a slow pace, they were moving towards the enemies direction. Not wasting time, he caught up with them as they stopped where Yang stood.
"The pressure coming off Yang now. No, this isn't Yang alone, its Damien's alongside those men" Rodney thought as he could feel the aura emitting from these men. This was something he had experienced at the dojo with Yang during the time of the arrest but the current one was on another level.
"I think you should have listened to this guy and ran" Gypson spoke up Rodney's head. Hearing this from this voice that didn't seem to have any ounce of caution in his tone, Rodney was beginning to wonder what they might have just gotten themselves into. And just then the final nail on the coffin came in form of a system notification for Rodney alone.
*Bing*
[You and your faction are not beings that should be toiled with. But even a demon knows when its outmatched]
[New quest : Survive]
"Just how strong are these people for the system to say this? Rodney asked himself as he was befuddled. Something in him was telling him he should have listened to Yang in the first place. But now he didn't know if there was a way out of this that didn't involve fighting as running wasn't part of the choice list again.
" Guys...I don't know how to tell you this... " Rodney was saying telepathically before Damien and the three men began attacking.
Not wasting time, one of the men ran forward and jumped spinning in the air three times and while still in the air, he drew his sword from the sheath and swung it out releasing a large white outline from the sword.
Rodney seeing this, now knew why Yang, Gypson and the system had warned him. Apart from Yang himself, he had never met anyone that had used CHI before. And the CHI strike heading their way didn't look anything like his, which if it was compared, would be a joke compared to what the man had just produced.
"Guys take cover!!!!" Rodney yelled out and immediately Johan raised an earth wall but Rodney knew with the size and energy packed in that one single strike, this wouldn't hold out and they will all be sliced to death instantly. But someone else also had this fear and immediately shot out like a rocket and this sudden burst of speer surprised Damien and his men too as what they were witnessing now was Yang moving at speeds that a speed ability user would envy. The next set of actions Yang took surprised them even more as he simply punched through the CHI strike heading his way with his fist which was also covered in white glowing CHI shattering the attackers strike almost instantly.
"How does he have such a pure CHI?!" Damien thought as he watched Yang not even stop even after the strike and continued to head towards his direction. The legions who took cover waiting for the impact never got none as Yang had dealt with it without them even knowing. Rodney realizing the attack was taking too long knowing it should have hit them by now, asked Johan to lower the wall and that's when they saw Yang had already moved in.
"He's moving so fast!" Blair said as he watched Yang move. Damien seeing the way Yang approached them only smiled and immediately began to control the plants around him. He moved his hands facing the ground and immediately thick vines began to enter the ground and push through the ground like worms burrowing their way through the earth and then he raised his hands making one of the vines pop out of the ground underneath Yang tossing him into the air.
But he knew this wasn't all that it would take and immediately followed up the attack with the trunks shooting out all headed for Yang who had just landed on the ground safely.
His agility could be likened to a cat only fifty folds. The tree trunk flew towards Yang but now that Yang was on the ground, he wasn't running again and simply stood where he had landed watching the trunk get closer and closer and just when the long trunk was an arm's stretch from him, he closed his fan and swiped forward at the trunk releasing a CHI strike of his own that sliced through the trunk making it split into two and fall rolling on the floor.
If the general's strike was impressive, then Yang had just made it look like it was nothing but that didn't matter to them as they weren't there to watch Instead they were on the attack against the legion members. The three generals charged forward and their speed was also commendable too. Not wasting time the legions began to attack too as Blair shot out an ice ball that was knocked away clean by one of the commanders. Then following up closely Blaze let out a fire slash out of her hands and once again it had no effect on the man as he used his sword to smash through the attack.
The two looked at themselves knowing as if to acknowledge it was going to be a tough one then gave each other a nod and immediately something began to form in the their hands. Blair and Blaze held in their hands now a sword made from ice and fire respectively. When the weapon was formed completely, they both smiled at each other as their confidence was boosted and charges in on the general,sadly if only they knew what they were about to contend with.
With the two of them taking on one of the generals, the rest of them got the initiative and just couldn't stay doing nothing. Not like they had a choice of doing nothing in the first place as if they did, then the chances of them dying quicker was at an all time high.
Erwin not wasting time began to throw bolts after bolts of lightning at one of the general who simply did the same thing the other had done with the case of Blair and Blaze. He would smash through the lighting bolts one after the other and emerge out of the smoke that resulted from each attack he destroyed.
Erwin was getting pissed now as he wasn't used to being overpowered. The general not wasting time swung his sword and released another CHI strike that was pulsing with energy as it approached Erwin and Johan.
Not wasting time and remembering Rodney's warning not to allow the attack hit them, Johan raised an earth wall and then further reinforced it with two more earth walls but that didn't stop the attack as it had simply smashed through it and carried on until Erwin began to throw lightning bolts after lightning bolt at the attack and then finally the last one cancelled out the attack but not without the duo paying the price as they were tossed back from the power that escaped from the explosion.
They were now badly hurt and struggled to get up from the ground with only that single attack. Erwin was bleeding from his mouth yet again while Johan held his chest as he got up and was coughing.
"I'll take down, you take up" Johan said to Erwin and immediately the two staggered back on the attack again. Johan lifted an earth slab from the ground in a bid to destabilize th man and at the same time Erwin followed it up with a lightning strike to the chest which pushed the man back slightly. The man looked at his chest and could see the mark of the lightning hitting his chest and that was all it took to piss him off as he immediately dashed at the boys which took them by surprise and even though Johan raised an earth wall in defence, he had simply just smashed through it.
He got to Johan and swung his sword down on him but Johan once again raising a wall in hopes that it would atleast give him time to move out of the way was surprised as the attack not only broke through the earth wall, but got stuck in his shoulders causing him to scream aloud.
Erwin seeing this was beyond mad and jumped to the air with the intention of punching the man but got swatted mid air by a punch from the man himself and fell to the floor.
The man then began to push the sword deeper into Johan's shoulder and Johan screamed the more but there was no one to get him out of this one as every one was busy trying to fend off their own attacker. With no way out Johan managed to bear through the pain and delivered a "Geoshot", a move he had unlocked just like everybody else had. This was basically an earth ball that could be shot thrice or combined into one attack and used.
Johan had opted for former and fired three Geoshots that banged the man on the head, knocking his mask off and causing a wound just above his eyebrow that now had blood coming from it. Seeing the effect of the skill, Johan thought the man might give him a break but now the general in question was livid as he thought back to how he would explain that this little brat managed to hurt him.
But not to worry, he was going to make Johan pay as he plunged a kick into Johan's stomach causing him to almost spill his guts as he fell over and the man wasn't done as he drew his sword out of Johan's shoulder which opened the flood gates of blood.
"It's a shame that I even use my sword against you" the man said as he picked Johan off his feet by the scruffs of his collar who was by no means a small person on his own. But right now size didn't matter as Johan was lifted to the mans face and then the man tossed him and followed up with a kick that sent Johan flying and eventually landing and tumbling on the ground. Then he turned his attention to Erwin who had gotten up and jumped him from the back and with a single hand he swung Erwin from his back, smacking him on the ground. Then following it up with a heavy stomp to the chest.
At this point Erwin knew he it was only a matter of time before this man killed him.
"I'm going to have to use it"... Erwin thought to himself as sparks began to come out from his hand and something was coming into view.