The slim dark haired man who was flash darted around traveling at a great speed punching and kicking the hell out of the orcs. his attacks weren't that strong, but they were overwhelming especially with his speed making his enemies frustrated when It came to catching or hitting him.
with flash distracting the other three orcs Mastiff was able to move in closer unnoticed firing five volcanic shots that burned holes in them the size of watermelons, before the shots could hit flash he was already out the way standing beside Mastiff with a raised arm leaning on his shoulder as the orcs yelled in agony.
"hmph, works every time." flash says with a smirk. "mmmmmmm, nod of head" Mastiff responds.
Bang! ahhhhhhhyahhhhhhhh !
"get them inside with nurse heart, I'll hold them off." On the south end of the city a tall heavyset muscular teen boy weilding a huge battle hammer was crushing goblins, banes and orcs one by one.
"Calvus I got your six." a dark skin teen shouts while summoning a beast that resembled a buffalo. the beast had silver fur with dark blue patches all over it, it's thick moose like horns generated a wavy blue ball of water while the dark skin female waved her hand as her hair became like running water standing in place. her eyes glowed aqua blue as she created a sword made of water while charging forward.
she pointed the sword at an orc who circled around calvus signaling her soul beast to fire his attack. the ball of water hit the orc knocking it off balance as it swung its fist down brushing calvus shoulder.
the female had already jumped in the air while making six slashes. water ripples surged out the sword of water with speed impaling the orcs shoulders and back.
Calvus shook off the initial punch of the orc while twisting around swinging his hammer bashing the orc in his ribs sending it flying crashing into a building.
"thank you mumsy, you're always at the right place at the right time calvus says to the teen girl.
"well a mother has to look after their children ya know." she says
"you do know that's very odd to say being we are the same age right." calvus says in return.
"doesn't matter she says with a smile, why didn't you summon your beast to help, you could have easily dealt with that bastard without my help."
" come on I've told you before that my father and I have been on a beast summon restriction for three months."
"that's crazy, we are fighting for our lives here and people are dying, I'm sure your father would be fine with it in this case."
"well unless he give me the word I can't do it no matter what, you know my father,but you don't know my father." calvus said while they both walked and stood by the entrance of a building.
"why is he so strict on you."
"He just wants me to be the best I can be without my soul beast, my father has told me so many stories and outcomes of his life and others back in the day and I think he's just worried."
"it's not that he doesn't value using soul beasts or anything, He's seen thousands of people die in battle and sadly from his experience it was because they relied solely on their soul beast rather than training themselves and learning techniques that could help."
"Father loves his soul beasts very dearly, but he will not make it a habit to rely on them no matter the situation is life or death."
"he's stubborn to the core when it comes to discipline and if he's on a soul beast restriction as he calls it, there is no way he will break it." calvus explains.
" well, you are not your father calvus."
"True, but you are not everyone's mom either."
"I can't help,but to care about my fellow friends, I mean I never had a mother and you.... Mumsy stopped not really wanting to bring up that calvus was without a mother as well, not wanting to weigh his mind down with something that didn't matter at the moment.
"ahhhh nevermind." she says as she straightend up her posture and guarded the entrance of the building in silence with calvus.
calvus on the other hand knew what she was about to say and shrugged it off.
A few minutes later a large group of people were seen coming from the east side of the city.
"Tank, come on get over here." mumsy shouted.
an out of shape boy called Tank and two of Bisons pack members, which were a man and a young female trailed behind him along with over forty wounded people.
there was blood and scuff marks all over everyone which were signs they had a bit of trouble on the way there.
Tank explained everything to calvus after getting everyone inside the building. The young mongrel girl and man decided to stay and help guard the wounded realizing it was only two people protecting the building with a deep underground bunker inside.
four more minutes after there arrival a group of twelve lower banes showed up.
"looks like you guys were followed." said calvus
"it seems that way." the young mongrel girl responded.
"I hope you guys can fight,because it's about to go down." Calvus says walking out into the street.
"guys and girls." the young mongrel girl voiced out giving calvus a sharp look.
("-") " sorry about that, let's go." Calvus says with uncertainty in his voice realizing his mistake.
The sun was just rising as chaos continued to wreck village city.
the number of enemies had dwindled greatly within a few hours.
{__________}
Below beast free forest Damon and Jolly had just finish a no ability sparring session which left Damon rippled with bruises from his legs to his face. a big knot could be seen on the side of his forehead as he sat in a big room with wooded flooring.
"yea yea, I can admit when it comes to regular hand to hand combat you are better than me...for now anyway." Damon says rubbing his head.
"but I got you pretty good too." he added
"yea you got in some solid hits." Jolly responded while gargling his mouth with water and spitting out blood.
Damon activated recovery mist as they sat down. within a few minutes the lumps on Damon head and bruises on his body faded. The few bruises Jolly had faded as well.
"anymore beast meat, I'm starving." Damon asked.
"nope,none,zero we ate all of it last night."
"well, it's about time to head to village city, we can get something when we get there before the awakened soul recruiters arrive."
They both got up exited the castle, hopped on Bronco and headed towards one of the exits.
"Let's go to the exit on the west side, it's closer to village city than the others." Damon says.
After forty minutes of traveling through obsidian city they reached the west side inner layer of the dome.
"let me try it." Jolly placed his hand on a part of the dome and a door size hole appeared as they walked through closing once they were on the other side.
"looks like only residents can enter and exit, just like the system said." Jolly says while they continue.
around thirty more minutes they could be seen on the surface of beast free forest phasing through a tree.
They both looked at the tree they came out of noticing it was different from the ones around it. if you looked closely a part of the bark on the tree was in a pattern forming an image of a shield.
"now that wasn't there before,I've been all around this forest a thousand times over." said Damon.
"you didn't have access to the system and you weren't a resident of the city back then." Shield says to him.
"ohhhhh, so only residents can see the entry ways, now it makes sense."
"why wasn't that information given to me when I received the city's information last night."
" once you have complete control of city you'll have it all." responded shield.
They both took a few steps away from the tree then... Boom! Boom! snap ! Boom!
they jumped backwards escaping four huge limbs. "this again I knew I wasn't crazy.
"this is my doing, escape the forest without being crushed, this is part of your training."
"so it was you yesterday morning."
"yes I sensed you needed a final nudge to breakthrough to your external ki power and so I put you in a life or death situation." shield responded.
Damon smirked while thinking out loud. "ok let's do this."
"let's see who escapes first shall we, the loser is responsible for dinner tonight." said Jolly. " sound good to me."
"escape on three.....one,two,three....escape .
they both took off with speed sliding, ducking and jumping to bounce off tree from tree. Jolly was a few meters behind Damon as his speed increased because of ki.
"what's wrong Jolly, where did all that confidence go."
Jolly then used vine spear stabbing into a tree ahead pulling himself forward and up. He was now jumping from tree to tree and limb to limb while having less time to doge the falling limbs above him.
Looking at an aerial point of view Damon ran below while jolly surfed through the trees above. "nice one jolly ,but not good enough."
Damon's calves bulged with veins as he pushed more ki into his legs accelerating faster. "turning up the heat I see." jolly shouts from above while flipping out of the the way of a falling branch landing one still in the air.
Jolly shot up to twenty vine spears ahead of him stabbing them in trees. he then jumped, ran and swung on them while picking up natural speed and momentum surfing and swinging through the forest like Tarzan. he would twist and maneuver his way throughout the air like he was spider man while still dodging limbs.
Taking the lead with his swinging momentum he was all smiles.
"Damn it." Damon mumbles.
Jolly had gained a great distance using his vine spears over and over as he dodged.
an electric charged sparked and build up through his feet as he shot forward with a smile and each time his feet touched the ground he repeated the same steps flying low twisting and turning missing incoming trees and limbs.
Ten minutes minutes later they both were able to see the end of the forest and we're currently neck and neck in which Damon gradually took the lead.
" looks like I've won this on one." Damon said out loud knowing his next static jump would clear him of the forest.
"in your dreams." said Jolly.
Seeing the end of the forest from above he creates the longest vine spear he could shoot at an angle stabbing it in the ground outside the forest while attaching the other high in a tree while using a short vine spear in mid air jumping and grabbing both ends landing on the vine Ziplining down at a hard angle.
Shoooooom !
Jolly eyes glowed red as ash colored vines twisted together.
Damon blasted off once more after dodging another three limbs when a dark ash colored vine wall appeared in front of him pulsating a red glow in random areas on the twisted vines.
" Cheater." Damon shouts while crashing into the wall.
Damon ripped through the wall with force encasing his arms and hands with electricity. after reaching the other side seconds later he could see Jolly standing outside the forest with a big grin on his face.
" that wasn't fair I would have won if it wasn't for you cheating slowing me down at the last moment. "
" oh come on, we didn't decide on any type of rules beforehand so I improvised a little."
" yea yea whatever you energy stealing bastard.," Damon says while snatching a piece of vine off his shoulders that gradually stole his energy.
" so no matter how you use your vines they all can steal energy I see."
"yep found it out last night, the vines I create with the red in them can take energy while the regular black, and grey dead looking vines give energy I take to others or anything I want to give it to." said Jolly.
"also I don't have to use them."he says while regular vines sprouted from the ground that were brown and green in color.
"turns out, I can switch from my regular mana to my new one, being able to switch is also a part of them being fused together."
"well good for you." Damon says in a salty manner turning around beginning to walk.
"hey are you really that pissed about losing." Jolly says walking behind him placing his hand on Damon's shoulder not getting a response.
Damon had stopped walking and was currently looking in the sky. "Damon come on, don't do the silent treatment on me, you know how much I love to talk, I hate the silent treatment bro."
"shut up and look Jolly." Damon says pointing in the sky.
"smoke, woah that's way too big and thick to be a simple fire, and it's exactly where the village city is."
"that means. " they said in unison.
"something is wrong." Damon adds with a look of concern on his face.
Jolly summoned Bronco as they both got on and galloped off into the distance.