The slash was a powerful one because not only did it go through the ceiling as slicing it up but its force was powerful enough to shake the carriage which lifted both Zayne and Estafan upwards.
In just split seconds, Estafan was counting how many he had to deal with and "Thirty and their leader seems to be an Aura Wielder who reached fourth star.. not bad." While in air from the right side one of the enemies launched themselves towards Estafan with their sword pointed at him.
The gleeful expressions of those around him who all hoped for his downfall. He wanted to teach them despair, he just pushed the sword to the side using the palm of his right hand before pushing his left arm's fist which was covered in Aura.
It all happened in a second, one their men jumped to quickly finish this but unfortunately by the time they realised what happened Estafan's fist went through the solar plexus of the assailant.
Their leader said with a disappointed tone "Seems like we underestimated him." The leader unsheathed his sword. "In my name, your Captain Gill... Kill him." Hearing this the remaining 28 after (excluding the one who died and the Captain) ran towards Estafan.
Estafan threw the corpse forward before jumping out from the carriage. He was immediately met with a sword aimed at his neck. He dodged many more attacks for the entire battle were them striking and him dodging impeccably.
Gill laughed while saying "Ho, looks like he is intended to toy with us." Zayne crawled his way towards the Captain while saying "What are you doing?? Go help them."
The Captain looked down at Count who was crawling like an ant and laughed at that sight but he did say "No." Zayne stood up and while dusting himself off asked "Why? Weren't you paid for this job." But the Captain answered "Of course we were paid, in fact each of those men who are fighting were all paid since we left for this work after the money reached our homes."
Zayne pointed at the Captain and said "Then do your job properly." But the Captain just sighed "We are.. as you can see, my men will tire him out by fighting till they die and I'll deal the final blow with Aura." Zayne was perplexed "WHAT!! A suicide mission.." For which the Captain responded "Naturally considering our targets tend to be stronger than usual."
The Captain just told Zayne "Look there so you'll understand what I am talking about." He turned his head and saw a bloodbath.
Moments ago the 28 men who were tasked to tire Estafan charged at him, their plan was simply to jump him and overwhelm him to the point where if he survives he'll be exhausted enough to be finished off by their Captain but unfortunately it did not go too well for them.
They did jump him but Estafan at first dodged many of their attacks but his retaliation was too much for them.
Estafan wanted it to be clean yet brutal so his attacks were through his first aiming for the head or chest. The blows were so catastrophic that upon coming into contact with his aura-covered fist that specific area of their body would pop like a balloon splattering blood everywhere.
His first went through 6 of them and their death would pause the battle for a second since the others couldn't believe it.
But they saw it, the smirk of Estafan who practically were indirectly telling them to entertain him more. Estafan simply evaded one of their sword slash, he then grabbed the arm which was holding the sword just to crush it, making him drop it.
The Prince grabbed a sword belonging to one of them and the moment he did, a blue aura enveloped the blade and he used it to cut the man.
It was a perfect slice, the sword went through ear to ear leaving the remaining part of his head intact while the rest fell down. "Eww, that's brutal." Captain Gill said while holding his mouth.
Estafan though was still counting "Twenty One left." He slashed one of them into two a vertical slash which started from their head to crotch and said "Twenty." They still tried to rush him which made it easy for him to cut them up.
The slashes were so sharply done that their bodies were cut down with perfection. The ground was covered with their blood and bits of their organs scattered throughout. Even Zayne had to walk a bit back because the blood was flowing down towards them.
It was as if it had rained blood, Estafan was covered in blood and parts of their organs, skin, bones etc etc. All they could see was a butcher chopping down pieces of meat with absolute ease.
Estafan kicked the last of them down by kicking their spine, they fell down on their knees before Estafan pushed the sword down from the very center of the head and pushed it down vertically till it hit the ground.
He said "A fitting sheath considering the sword belongs to his comrade." Zayne shivered because everyone was dead and he began to ask "What - What now?" But the Captain promptly unsheathed his sword and said "Prepare yourself Count."
The Count was confused and scared at the same time since in front of him stood a mad man who was drenched in blood. While bits of the ones who died were dripping down from his hair. A terrifying sight to see especially when it's your enemy.
All they could do was brace for impact since they had no way of escaping someone who was stronger than them to such a degree.
Captain Gill spoke while sweating "Oh boy, I didn't expect this mission to be the last. I am sorry for underestimating you young master. Seems like you were stronger than any of us expected you to be." His words were of complete honesty especially when he is about to die and he had no way out of it unless he wins this battle but seeing how his only remaining teammate is shivering he figured out it's too late.