Reteri blocked it but the impact was so huge that he went flying. Even after being thrown off about 10 meters he still managed to land on his feet.
"Why did the poison didn't effed him? or is it slowly taking its effect on him? Is that poison even affecting him or not? Guess I have to find out." Reteri thought to himself.
"Bring it on kid. " Reteri started running towards Twilight closing the distance between them and Twilight did the same.
Both weapons collided with each other multiple times each time those weapons collided they generated a spark in the air. Their continuous series of attacks and counterattacks were so perfect that anyone who doesn't know that this was a duel between 2 warriors would think that this was a stage performance, a unique dance with swords.
Reteri swung his Gada horizontally with full strength but twilight evaded his attack and used his wings to launch himself into the air."MY wings, why fell heavy for some reason? Is it because of those needles? " Twilight thought to himself.
"What's up your felt something weird with your body?" Reteri asked in a sarcastic tone.
"None of your business. You like to attack people with needles right, how about I do the same."Twilight black wings started vibrating mid-air and the needles in his chest and wings started coming out of his body one by one.
In a matter of seconds, all the needles came out of his body. As soon as needles came off twilight's body he flapped his wings and slashed the chest of his enemy with one clean cut. He was now behind his enemy holding his sword like a swordsman from an old samurai movie.
Blood started coming out of Reteri's chest where he got cut. But, Twilight was far from done yet. He tried to stab Reteri but, Reteri's armour protected him once again. To increase the damage anyhow Twilight took a vertical flight. Reteri stumbled a little, this all was happening in a matter of seconds and it was hard to keep up with the speed of Twilight because of his unexpected attack pattern.
Reteri gain balance and looked up and was a sward hovering above his head. No, actually Twilight was holding it and was preparing to strike down the head of his opponent. Twilight thrust his sword at full speed with an expectation to one-shot his opponent. But just moments before Twilight could hit Reteri. Reteri's battle instincts kicked in and he rolled sideways and dodged the attack. Dust could arise from the place where Twilight crashed.
"Never thought I will say this to anyone but, you are the one" Twilight said to Reteri.
"Sorry but I am not into humans. Males especially" Reteri replied.
Suddenly a barrage of black needles came out of the dust clouds and hit Reteri. Despite this huge storage flow of those projectiles, Reteri didn't lose his ground and stood still and used his needles to deflect each and every projectile. Alina noticed the projectiles that missed the target and hit the walls instead.
"Feathers!!" Alina murmured to herself.
Reteri got distracted and looked straight at Ivan's entire squad. Alina got scared for a moment and moved back and fell on her back. Alina's dogs started barking but not at the battlefield of those 2 monsters. Instead, they were barking at the same passageway from where they came from. Suddenly one dog got stabbed and his blood coved the hand of a Smaug. "This is not looking good " The Granny shouted out.
Reteri was shocked after seeing other invaders "A human?"
By taking the advantage of Reteri's distraction Twilight charged at full speed and hit Reteri with a dropkick straight at his chest." you are the one whom I would like to kill more than anything in this endless cosmos!!!!!!!!!" Because of the impact of the dropkick Reteri send flying and rolled a few times until he crashed into the wall. The feathers on the wall penetrated the armour of Reteri and wounded him.
"So, that attack before was not aimed at me to begin with. You were planning this from the start of your attack" Reteri still sitting on the ground with his back to the wall. With a flash, Twilight closed the gap between them and stomped at Reteri's injured shoulder.
Twilight lifts his hand and a ball of water appeared on his hand. The water ball changed its shape and turned into a straight line. "Less talk, more work!" Twilight used the water as a spear and threw it at Reteri's face at point-blank range.
On the other hand, Ivan's squad was facing a number of enemies on their own."Retreat" Ivan shouted but it was no use. They were already surrounded. They were fighting an endless number of Smaug's blocking their way back. Somehow they reached the pipeline control room but a fate much worse was waiting for them. As soon as they entered that room again Smaugs stopped following them. But they were still on guard.
"Did we lose them? " Alina asked.
"I hope we did" Ivan replied. "Why did they suddenly stop following us? Do they run out of gas or perhaps are they scared of us?" Ivan thought.
Alina's dogs started pulling her to the other end of the pipeline control room. "chto sluchilos, pochemu ty dergayesh' menya za nogu " Alina confused asked her dogs why are they pulling her. Alina sat down and patted her dogs "are you guys sad because your friend is so more. I am sad too.". Alina not knowing why her dogs were behaving like this taught her dogs were sad because they lose their friend.
Suddenly a drop of blood falls on her shoulder. Alian dubbed it off but suddenly noticed its viscous feel and looked at the palm of her hand. "Fuɔʞ" Alina silently murmured. There was blood on the pal of her hand, so she suddenly looked up. There was the dead body of the survivor, more precisely the upper half of the survivor from the village. Not only that but a huge bloody figure (Nemesis) was also there eating his intestines.
The dogs started barking at that monster. After seeing a monster like that a shiver went through Alina's spine. She tried to run back but her legs froze in the direst situation and she was on the floor. "Ah!... Ah!.... Mon.... MONSTER!!!!!" Alina shouter at top of her lungs. The body of the survivor fell from above in front of Alina.
"What Was that...."
"Vera! noooo! What the aah..."
"What happened??" Ivan asked. Suddenly, a bloody figure attacked Ivan from above in a matter of seconds, but Ivan evaded the attack by jumping sideways. Ivan started firing bullets at the pipeline above him."Pipelines above us there is something over there." Ivan shouted. Every soldier looked up and started firing.
"Sir, I have found something very interesting here" The sniper outside contacted Ivan.
"Sorry I am busy here take precautions" Ivan replied.
"No sir there are people coming running out from the cave"
"What?" Ivan was shocked by such a sudden turn of events.
"Nevermind just cover them. Get them to safety. It's a battlefield here. " Ivan ordered his backup squad.
"Copy sir," Sniper replied.
"HQ, HQ come in " Ivan tried to contact HQ.
"This is HQ. We are seeing everything here. The backup is on its way. 3 helicopters full of battle-ready soldiers will be there for you in a matter of minutes"
"Copy!!" These words from the HQ filled Ivan with new hope. His struggle for survival for himself and his squad got even more intense. Suddenly a number of nemesis came down and started killing soldiers. One by one each of their soldiers was being killed and there was no hope for escape. Ivan threw a grenade at one of the nemesis and it destroyed its head and its body fell down with a THUD!
"Is it possible that by blowing up their head you could defeat them? " Ivan thought to himself "I mean who cares if we die we die we have already sent all the valuable info to HQ. If this method out of a movie could work then we might as well give it a shot"
"Hay listen soldiers Aim for their head!! I repeat AIM AT THIR HEADS...." Ivan shouted at top of his lungs...