Third person P.O.V
"To be honest I don't really trust that duke guy… and come on he's the leader for god's sake, doesn't his team not need him for the map to their victims." Luca called out with a suspicious tone in his voice, as he and the others were on their way to their next victim, seeming as they have already rescued one already. "I just don't trust his eyes… they seem too relaxed."
"look luca, yes even me I don't seem to trust the guy… but he seems to be telling the truth, the map did indicated that several teams have been eliminated, and as a team leader, I'm sure he's just trying to look out for his team." Trinity tried to bring out her point, while still remaining focused on the road ahead of them, though a frown still grazed her features. As something was still troubling her. "my worry right now is why dante decided to follow him… yes I understand that he did say that he wanted to help duke in a way by helping to keep the 1st reps at bay, if they truly are the culprits… but still, I'm not still sure if I'm comfortable with him being so close to the 1st representatives… we all saw from his and lance duel, that lance final move could have clearly… put them both in a very critical, if not fatal state."
"sigh, you do have a point trin… even from all our fights with them, we can pretty much say that their motives when it comes down to combat is lethal… and honestly I'm also worried about dante leaving us again." Rin mention with releasing a stressed-out sigh, while still keeping her eyes peels and focused, incase any hamji were either nearby or closing in on them. But then with threw a glare at luca, as even mark shook his head at him too. "at least your reason to worry is very believable, unlike lazy eyes over here, are you aware that you and duke's eyes are basically alike."
"eh hold it right there stove, this has nothing to do with my very focused eyes, and why are you supporting the other team, look I'm just trying to be very vigilant as always, and remember that we can't really trust anyone right now… this is the final assessment and didn't the general not mention that it's actually legal to take out our opposite team." Luca pointed out while trying to maintain his stead pace. "look, I just want to get this assessment over with, I'm tired and stressed."
"lazy ass… and who are you calling stove." Rin roared out, but mark managed to calm her down by placing a hand on her right shoulder, as he increased his pace to run side by side with her and also very closed to luca and trinity.
"relax rin, hehe I'm sure there's no need for violence, let's just try to continue on track and win this assessment." Mark calmly said with his joyous voice, trinity seemed to be at ease for now. As they all started to approach there second victim, luca eyes glared at the forward direction, lowering his pace to a mere jog. The others saw this and also started to sense an ominous presence up ahead. "they are coming… and there are a lot of them."
Luca said while drawing out his sword, with roars erupting from deep within the forest. A hoard of hamjis started to rush to out, heading towards their way."hamjis!" rin roared out, racing towards them without wasting any time. She jumped then landed in their middle in a superhero landing pose, with her body encased with golden flames and her eyes pure white now, she then slammed her hands to the ground at full force, creating a large crater in the process.
"magic technique: full
concentration.Blazing domain!"A blast of flame rushed out of her body to form a dorm that instantaneously covered most of the hamjis present, with the flames burning them to ashes inside the dorm, more hamjis kept on coming and now seemed to be heading towards trinity, luca and mark… but then suddenly, they all maneuvered around the trio, avoiding them totally. Rin stopped her attack at this event and proceeded to make her way back to them with a confused look on her face.
"erm guys… what's going on?" rin said with an unsure look on her face, as luca just had his attention fix further at the trail they were running from. Trinity conjured up the map and saw that the victim's location is disappearing, causing her to examine it with a very serious expression on her features. Mark narrowed his eyes straight at the direction luca kept his gaze on all this while. "The hamjis seems to be avoiding us entirely… and it's like they feel more threaten than vicious."
"more like scared and trying to get away from something in front… something even worst… sigh… more stress." Luca sighed out while increasing the grip on his sword, as his eyes were still narrowed towards that direction. Trinity started to move in that same direction with a hardened expression on her face, being followed by the rest, which their expression was also hardened.
"the next victim Is close to that location, and we can't afford to lose it again this time… but before that…" trinity said with a sudden glare at the top tree just above them. "we don't have time for this, if you're not striking us first, then we're not gonna take any chances."
"magic technique: vine grab!" voice boomed from the trees, with large vine heading their way… though this didn't make any of them to flinch, as before the vines could even reach, a sudden wave of heat blasted off towards the vines, burning them to ashes.
"damn, these guys aren't kidding around, we need to eliminate they before they escape!" another voice from the trees roared out in panic, as the ground beneath them started to rumble. "we them out of the way, we can win this, now Jan!"
"alright! Magic technique: full concentration!"
"Bedrock!"
The voice casted with a more vigorous shaking occurring, as before any one knew it. the ground began to rise up into the sky as if trying to bring them up further into the trees, with a boy with grey hair and golden iris, wielding an imperial bow. Already prepare to fire at dante's team, though a girl with black hair and black eyes appeared close to the boy with a cheeky smug on her face, wearing the same color as the boy… though trinity, rin, luca and mark just kept on their glare at the other team."you guys are finished! Magic technique: total concentration!"
"Multiplicate!"The girl casted while making hand to back contact with the boy with grey hair, with her hand glowing red. It started to cover over the boy's body, cloaking him entirely, instantaneously splitting him into 10 copies, surrounding dante's team. The archer boy's eyes blaze with a golden glow, making the already set bow and arrow to also glow in a very bright shine."Begone, weapon technique: sage arrows!"
The arrows were almost reaching trinity and the rest… until, suddenly. A hand of blazing flames erupted out of rin's back, almost like an energy projection of some sort, with the hands covering them all from the arrow, and proceeded to crush them. But just before any of the others could retaliate to this, mark brought his hands up in a hammer like pose, and then forcefully slamming it directly on the ground, shattering the ground pedestal, and ultimately severing the large roots and stumps of the trees the other team were on.
"so you guys are the rats huh… hmmm aren't you guys the 2nd reps?" luca called out while moving in the air and landing softly on the now rumbled ground close to the rest of his team, with his sword still on his grip. "well never mind that now… time to end this quick…"
"magic technique/ beast cloak/holy knight/weapon technique"
"full concentration!" they all roared out with their mana presences blazing with force and so much pressure, shocking the team before them.
--back at dante and duke's location—
Dante's P.O.V
i and duke continued to walk on along, as we have already encountered tons of hamjis on the way… and apparently this route seems to be heading towards the direction of the strange ominous mana that seems to be driving the hamjis far away from it… 'hmmm could it be the 1st reps…'
"we're getting closer…" i called out, while increasing his pace, along with duke; who just turned his gaze towards me with an unamused look, similar to that of luca's.
"how's you so sure, the mana presence is so faint that I can't even get a firm grip on it's position." Duke commented while returning his gaze back to the road, as two hamji suddenly popped out of no way and was about to harm duke, who just casually shot at it with no effort, at its forehead. While I punched the other hamji in the guts and pierced the chest with my mana cloaked right jab, with the two still walking very casually.
"well it's just an observation really… the closer we are, the less the hamjis presence, a very big indicator that we're getting closer." i answered with a straight face, as duke just sighed and nodded his head in acknowledgment of my deduction."hmm I see, alright then, if that's the case then we're pretty darn close to the location-." Duke words were immediately interrupted by a sudden flash of… lance, speeding through trees nearby be, at the route. I and duke were somewhat shocked by this, as I rushed to help lance, who seemed to be in a really bad sharp, with his spear coated in black-red blood...
Stump…
Stump….
Stump….
Several giant foot steps could be heard from very close by, as it started to make its way towards I and duke, with it's eyes glowing pure red in the darkness of the forest.
"…. What… da… why is this here?" duke shook in nervousness, as he tries to prepare himself."what is that… what is here…?"
I asked with an usure look on my face, with duke's right eye flaring up in an aqua blue glow, and so were his guns.....
"….dante… That thing… is a yoma hamji…"