When aran turned around and saw Elissa, she was facing the cult base and swinging her sword in the air. Aran realised she was trying to activate a sword technique.
Before he could think about what to do about the current situation, he saw a fireball flying towards him.
As aran dodged it, he immediately used his vision and looked at the base.
Aran saw, that more than twenty cultivators were heading towards them and every one of them had cultivation as strong as him. With their speed, he knew they will reach that place in less than a minute.
Although he wanted to draw the formation to summon arrax, the enemies were already close and he needed at least three minutes to complete the formation drawing. So he had no choice but to run.
" What the hell are you doing? We did have a deal remember? " Aran shouted at Elissa.
" Sorry about that. But don't worry! I can take care of this! " She said as she continued to swing her swords.
Aran realised that she was confident about her sword technique. her desire to take revenge had overcome her common sense.
Although aran had already thought about the possibility of Elissa acting on her own, driven by her feelings, he had decided to just leave her, if it ever happened. But now that he was in that situation, for some reason he couldn't just leave her to die.
As he wondered about that, he realised there was no time to think about all that. His anger for Elissa's overconfidence and his heart telling him not to leave a comrade to die were conflicting in his mind. After a moment he decided to trust Elissa even after knowing that its a stupid decision and it was so unlike him.
' I am acting like the good guy and I will definitely regret this in the future! ' Aran thought as he instantly moved towards Elissa to cover her since her defence was down.
When aran reached in front of Elissa and he saw tens of elemental attacks flying towards him. He took out his sword and performed the sword forms to activate a 4th-ranked defensive technique. As the elemental blast flew at him, he cut off all the attacks, defending Elissa.
" Hurry up, they will be here in twenty seconds!"
Aran shouted and Elissa was still between performing her sword forms. It was obvious that the technique she was trying to use was high-ranked and she had still yet to master it.
As aran continued to defend, the attacks of the enemies started to get stronger because the number of enemies attacking them had increased to thirty.
As aran was about thinking about a plan to escape if it failed, the bandits were already there, in front of them!
Looking at them, when Aran thought it was over for them, Suddenly Elissa's sword technique got activated.
Elissa's sword started to glitter, lighting up the surroundings and blinding the enemies in front of them and a white energy sword made out of pure mana appeared out of her sword and it flew towards an enemy!
Soon many energy swords started to appear out of her sword, one by one. These energy swords resembled the sword she was using and they all flew towards different enemy bandits like arrows!
As aran saw that, he froze for a moment! it was undoubtedly the absolute offence sword technique of the Bryde family!
As Elissa continued to swing her sword, the mana swords continued to appear and fly towards the enemies. When the bandits tried to defend against those energy swords, they just got exposed with a stunning effect.
Some of the energy swords managed to stab the bandits but most of the bandits easily defended it. But Elissa just continuously swung her sword, until almost three hundred mana swords came out and pierced the enemies in front of them.
By the time she had performed all the forms she knew, most of the enemies were dead and the remaining were gravely wounded. After performing it, Elissa seemed exhausted, it might be because she still hasn't fully mastered it.
" I am sorry about this but I just couldn't control myself. Thank you for covering for me!" Elissa said looking at aran in front of her, thinking that everything is over. But aran seemed like he didn't hear that. He had a grin on his face. He was thinking about the power he can get if he got his hands on the technique and completed it.
"Let's go! we have a lot to " As Elissa was about to complete her sentence she saw a huge water blast flying towards aran.
" LOOK OUT!!! " She shouted immediately but it was too late. Aran wasn't concentrating. Before he could turn around to see what it is, the water blast hit his whole body, blasting him a few feet away. That was a fatal blast and it took aran a moment before he could realise what was happening.
Aran had fallen to the ground and as he slowly lifted his head, and activated his vision turning towards the cult base, he saw another twelve bandits heading towards them and they were all stronger than him. As he turned at Elissa, it seemed she also knew that and she was getting ready to take them head-on.
It didn't take them more than ten seconds to reach there. As they got there, they completely ignored aran who was fallen to the ground and ran at Elissa. She also used a sword technique to fight all of them head-on. As their swords met, she got pushed back.
Looking at that, Aran realised how stupid he was.
' Just when I thought about doing things without overwhelming my body! Haaah, Never act on emotions and stay away from people who do! I should never forget this! '
Aran thought and let out a sigh. Looking at Elissa struggling to even defend herself, he was sure that she can't do this for long. As the battle went on, in less than a minute of fighting, she got completely covered with sword cuts. The elemental blasts from the enemies severely injured her and she began to lose consciousness.
As aran saw that, he realised, there is no other choice, and slowly got up. He again activated the rapid blood technique, even with his injuries and ran towards Elissa. He used his full strength to break through the enemies surrounding her for a second and caught Elissa who had almost gotten unconscious from bleeding.
After catching her, Aran instantly used the temporary unsealing technique and unsealed his demonic cultivation. Since his demonic cultivation was too low he knew, the enemies will easily catch up to them, So without any other choice he used his heavenly cultivation to activate his lightning attribute!
Since the lightning attribute was connected with demonic cultivation, and he had to shift his heavenly mana in the demonic mana points of his body, while using it, it reacted with demonic mana, creating hundreds of small wounds in his body. His whole body felt like it was ripping apart but he just ignored all that and, used his full power to run as fast as he can. With full speed, aran broke through the enemy's defence and continued to run away carrying Elissa!
When all this happened in just a moment, the enemies were shocked! And were wondering what just happened. Although the enemies tried to follow Aran, they couldn't catch up to him because Aran was bleeding his life out to increase his speed with lightning attribute to run away.
As aran ran for miles carrying Elissa, due to his extreme blood loss, he also began to lose consciousness and he suddenly slipped and fell. Due to his extreme acceleration, after falling down his body continued to drift on the floor.
The falling awakened his consciousness for a moment. As he was about to die bleeding, his will to survive was so strong, he took out a first-aid healing potion and drank it.
After that, he started drawing the formation on the floor with his remaining energy. Aran was so determined to stay alive, that he completed the formation and activated it before he completely fainted.
****
Arrax, who was surrounded by dozens of advanced stage cultivators, was also using the best of his speed to defend against the enemies.
For almost twenty minutes, he was waiting for aran's signal. He was not only in his weakened state but the enemies he was fighting were also extremely strong. His lightning speed was the only thing that was keeping him alive but even with that, he had gotten many wounds and sword cult in the fight.
' I should have settled for copying the books until I get strong. I miss those days when I use my speed to copy many books and get a pill and get praised for how fast I was!
Ohh, shit! I shouldn't think like that. I am a dragon! A higher being! But still, I hope he at least gives me a pill after seeing these wounds! " Arrax mind was filled with hundreds of thoughts.
As arrax also started to think, he has no other choice but to transform, and he suddenly got the signal. Feeling the signal, he was extremely happy and he instantly took out the scroll aran gave him and threw it towards the strongest enemy there.
As the enemy thought it might be a weapon and got ready to defend against it, Arrax used the signal and teleported.
When the enemies saw that, they couldn't believe themselves. But soon they concluded that the enemy they were fighting had used the lightning skill to run away from there. After calming down a bit, they started to wonder what was it he threw before running away. As they looked for it, one of them found a scroll on the ground.
He immediately opened it and it was written in the scroll that this attack is the deceleration of war and they will return in a week with full force. So get ready to surrender or prepare to fight back. As the cult member read that, he passed it to the next one.
" This is not just an individual attack anymore! We have to take this to our leader and get prepared for the battle "
The member who read the scroll said and without wasting any time, they all moved towards the central fortress of the cult base.
****
When arrax teleported, he saw aran and Elissa lying on the ground and they were covered with blood. Arrax didn't know what to do, so he did the best thing he can do. He carried both of them and ran towards the inn they were staying.
After reaching the inn, arrax used his vision to look for the manager of the inn and after finding him, he took both of them there.
When the old man saw a stranger carrying two people, he couldn't understand what was happening but as he saw their blood-covered faces he was shocked to know that they were Aran and Elissa.
He immediately took them to a private room and told the stranger to put them on the bed. After that, he did everything he can to stop the bleeding. He used the potions he had on the wound before covering them with bandages. He also opened their mouths and poured some of the healing potions he was carrying.
After treating them, the manager asked arrax if he also need some bandages, but arrax refused it saying he is fine.
After making sure that aran is out of danger, Arrax left from there. Since the wounds in arrax's body weren't that severe, he just needed to summon a little mana from the higher realm to heal himself.