Chapter 12
The Power Of Those At The Top
[3RD PERSON POV]
After the day when the chosen Generals were selected as the companion of the Vice-Head Warlord for the exploration campaign that was being implemented to verify the death of Lady Chronas in the Zeus Dungeon.
The said beings start their journey to Piston Forest when the sun rises the day after the Generals of all Vanguards was being held to the office of the Vice-Head Warlord just as planned.
The floating castle, which is their main base, is located in the Far Southeast Region near the borders of the Azule Kingdom and Zoanne Kingdom. And the Piston Forest, which is their destination and where Zeus Dungeon is located, is on the opposite side: In the Northern Region of Livettia where Quirran Kingdom, the Dwarven Kingdom, and the Lionara Terrane, the Elves and Fairies laire is located.
And since they can't use the Pegasus that is used for air transportation to travel far lands since the Piston Forest is also have dangerous monsters that can fly, and they are all not used to an aerial battle, they take the land transportation using their Tiger caravan instead which will totally cost them three-weeks to reach the Piston Forest. And another three-days, to reach the Zeus Dungeon.
Furthermore, the Generals are known to loathe each other to the bone, Vice-Head Warlord Vaxzu main problem now is how to reach their destination without any casualties due to that fact.
The Vice-Head Warlord takes a heavy breath as he can't see any possibilities on how he will cater to the Generals on his own during that long period of journey with them.
Though, thankfully for him, the Generals didn't make any chaos yet since they leave the floating castle earlier morning and it's already half a day in their journey, so the Vice-Head cannot seat comfortably in his seat as he think this mysterious and new behavior of Generals, because before, when they just see each other in the hallway in the floating, they already make the place a battleground of magic that blow the place. That's why everyday, the financial department that handles the finances of the floating castle is in a tight spot because of the continuous repair for each hallway where the Generals make contact with each other.
That's why the Vice-Head Warlord Vaxzu can't make his guard down even a little to the fellows in his front who are all well seated and very quiet. Making The Vice-Head, more cautious to them.
"Cazo, did you tell something to this folks that's why they are acting like this?" The Vice-Head, didn't hold his curiosity anymore and asked his General seated beside him already.
Cazo smiled neatly to the question of his Lord and asked, "Why, my Lord? I didn't see anything particularly wrong with the Generals."
Vice-Head Warlord Vaxzu examined the unfamous chaotic Generals in his front for about a minute to check again using his own judgmental eyes why they are acting nice and well mannered even though it's out of their vocabulary.
Though, when the Vice-Head can't find any fault or flaw to the Generals he is with who is just also all looking outside of the luxury caravan like they are enjoying the scenery of travel. He blew a heaved sigh before uttering again.
"They are acting really nice, Cazo. And it's alarming me. You know they are not built like this to each other right?"
General Cazo laughs without any noise, as he gets to know what idea roaming around to his Lord head to the unexpected event in their front.
Vice-Head Warlord glare at his General with so much curiosity as he move his mouth near to the ear of General Cazo to murmured something.
"Hey, don't tell me you use your hypnotism magic to make these beasts to be tamed like this?" The General weakly accused him.
General Cazo throws a loud laughter to the Caravan that is filled in silence since they hop in, that's why the silent Generals throw their, Why-Are-You-Laughing-look at him.
General Cazo makes himself calm down and bow his head to the Generals as an apology. And when the Generals diverted their eyes again elsewhere, General Cazo replied to his Lord's accusation.
"As much as I want to use my hypnotism magic on them my Lord even before, you know that I can't cast that ability on those beings that are par on me or more powerful than me, right?"
As Vice-Head Warlord heard that and remembered the extent of his disciple hypnotism magic. He grew in silence for a bit and asked himself a question once again on why on Livettia the untamed monsters in his front are acting like very-well trained pets.
But as he can't think on anything, he maked a heaved sigh for the ninth-time today and just leave that matter unresolved and just thank the Gods in the heavens that during the entire time of their journey, he will not be worn out on leashing and taming the beast he chosen to be with on this long travel.
Hence fort, as the Vice-Head Warlord gives up on thinking the main reason why the untamed Generals are acting nice and well tamed. General Cazo, on the other hand, makes an evil smirk in his head as he knows completely why his colleagues are acting out of character.
'Hehe, it looks like my bribe to the Vanguards they served, worked huh?' He told himself while his evil smirk in his head never left.
Because yesterday night after the meeting of the Generals to discuss the agenda of the exploration, (that also turn out as disastrous as General Meka and General Crano make a ruckus again and filled the meeting room on fire and punches together with some statics and lightnings as General Gregory tried to make them settle but got join in because of frustration because they are not listening to him) he make an effort to visit the Vanguards that General Meka, General Crano, General Gregory, General Xena, and the General Twin a visit and brought them goods that they love so much in exchange that they will make an earful session to their disciples.
And as General Cazo looked at his fellow Generals who were acting like a pet who was being beaten by their Lords, he bowed his head and made a victorious and annoying smile as his plan worked.
Though, as Cazo is enjoying his victory for taming his fellow Generals. His celebration automatically stopped as their Caravan also stopped moving.
Vice-Head Warlord and other Generals felt that too. That's why they exchange eye contact with each other out of curiosity. Because it is within their knowledge that the Caravan will stop only if they already reach the place where they will set their tent and rest. But as expert adventurers, they know from just their instincts that it's not yet the place. And something is wrong outside of the caravan.
"What the hell is going on? Why our Driver stop?" General Meka threw out the curiosity in her head to everyone.
No one answered her though. Because everyone that is inside the Caravan that is with her, is focusing on feeling the sudden event that just took place.
That even General Xena who is known for her personality to not care about the world even though it is crushing is in a serious state as she also tries to feel what is happening outside of the caravan.
And as General Meka's personality, senseless and stupid-sometime she is, she opens her mouth again and tries to converse to others, "Oy, why are you all not speaking? Are you guys sick or something? Do you want me to check outside our Driver-"
"Old rug, shut up for now will you? I'm smelling something. I can't focus because you're so loud," General Crano cut her out before finishing.
And of course, because she is General Meka, "What did you say you worthless fucking dog?! Do you want to receive beat up from me again just like yesterday night in the meeting roo-"
"Wait..." General Crano forcefully covered the mouth of General Meka who is at her anger issues state again as his sense of smell keeps getting stronger and stronger, "The smell... I know it..." He continued before adding more focus to his sense of smell while beside her is General Meka who goes into a tantrum again and can't take the cue that their situation is critical.
"It is..." General Crano continued verifying the smell that is really familiar to him. It smells like…
'Dry leaves of a tree that are being burned…'
General Crano automatically widens his eyes as he verifies the familiar scent that keeps lingering in his nose the moment the Caravan stops from moving.
"Fuck!! We are busted! Yinger and Yanger! Cast a powerful barrier for us! Someone is casting a high-tier fire spell outside!" He declared and looked at the twin General that was on his far left side besides General Gregory and General Xena.
"What the heck is happening- hmp!" General Meka wants to butt in but to no avail as General Crano palm is more faster to cover her mouth.
The Twin General who has an opposite color of hair black and white, and opposite skin tone, milky-brown and milky-white nods in the order given by General Crano.
"Shadow Dragon Barrier!"
"Water Dragon Barrier!"
And as soon as they cast the barrier spell. The Caravan burned to crisp. As wide red magic circle spawned to the ground of the Caravan and a higher-tier fire spell magic rose up to the sky intending to saturate the people inside it.
The bald but a muscled man bandit that is acting as the chieftain of the hundred of bandits on the road throws a noise of laughter as he thinks that their assasination plan to kill the Vice-Head Warlord and the Generals together with him is a success.
"BUAHAHA!"
"Not even a God can survive that combined spell magic coming from five dark-yellow stage mages! Burn to crisp and die hard you righteous bastard! BUAHAHA!" He implied and made an annoying laugh again.
Making his members that approximately hundreds laugh as well as they think in their little heads that they already defeated the known elite keepers of peace.
Nevertheless, as the high-tier fire magic spell, the five dark-yellow stages of them died down. Their laughter comes to die too as a large blue-fire tornado comes in their way, making half of the hundred bandits that aiding the bald leader become dust without a second.
"You insolent fools... thinking you can leave a scratch on me by using that weak fire magic! You will pay for this mockering!" General Meka grinds her teeth in so much anger and releases her overwhelming aura that any normal being can't withstand.
And as the bandits feel the ominous aura of General Meka, majority of them who is earlier in euphoria because of thinking that their assasination plan is success, trembled and make a bullet of sweats in their forehead as they foresee their ends by just feeling the omnipotent aura coming from a single General itself.
"F-Fuck... how can they survive that... it must not be possible!" The bald chieftain of the bandits denied what his eyes were seeing. All Generals together with the Vice-Head Warlord. All in flesh and without any scratch.
"You motherfuckers, to think that you have the guts to assassinate us, means you all have the balls to face your deaths, no?" General Crano makes both his hands into fist and makes sounds to it as he ready it for a battle. Making more of the bandits who have already lost their half number because of the fire-tornado earlier frightened.
"B-B-Boss! What should we do! Can we even face those monsters with our power alone?!" One of the bandits questioned their own capability to their boss. As they already see that even they are more advantageous in numbers, it can't fill the gap in their power deficiency to the beings in front who are like skyscraper walls in their view that they can't even see the top of it.
'F-Fuck...! F-Fuck...! Fuck! Fuck! How did they survive that surprise attack?! This should not be the ending I expect from this assasination! D-Damn it!
"Shit! M-Move away! I will run for my life! You guys, fight those bastards until I can make my escape!" The bald chieftain of bandit instantly turns his tail to his comrades as he already knows the probability of his own annihilation.
"F-Fuck! We have aint a choice! Charge! Make sure the chieftain has a safe escape!" The other bandit officer commands and moves forward to attack the Vice-Head Warlord and the Generals.
"This vermin..." General Gregory uttered as his fist was already full of statics as his rage to the bandits that coming up to them is really thinking they are in the same level to attack them.
"Lord Vaxzu, your order please," General Xena withdrew her majestic sword from its shaft to await the Vice-Head Warlord order.
The Vice-Head Warlord seriously looks at the hundred bandits pointing their weapons and casting their spells directed at them.
"Punish them, make sure that no one will survive," He announced. And in a heartbeat the Generals that are beside him that protecting him earlier from any harm vanish in their places except from General Cazo and the twin Generals.
And just a minute pass, the road that is planned to pass by by the General and Vice-Head Warlord, became the graveyard of the bandits that try to assassinate them.
"Make my frustration at that damn dog brat gone! Take this, Blue hell tornado!" General Meka casted one of her AOE skills making the bandits on her side become dust as they are being swallowed by a large blue-fire tornado.
On the other corner, General Crano is using his speed that a normal eye can't follow to collect as many heads of the bandits as possible while his tongue is out evilly.
"Twenty one... twenty two... twenty three... twenty four... HAHAHA! More! More! More!" Hee howled as he jumped from one bandit to another as he took out their heads in their body by just using his hand with his bruth strength.
[Buff Skill: Blood-Frenzy]
"These vermins, trying to reach heaven beings like us using their dirty hands, you will pay for that grave sin..." General Gregory mouthed as he watched a bunch of bandits trying to cast a combined spell magic just like earlier.
"Take this and be gone, you filthy insect!" He growls in rage and calls a big lightning to the sky that can kill even a giant with one strike and lands it to the location of those bandits that try to cast a combined spell magic.
[Lightning magic: Punishment Of The God]
"R-Run! I must run away from here! I must report what happened to the contractor who paid us a huge amount of gold for this! I-I must tell him that we failed to subjugate those monsters! Yes! That's right... it is the plan... and after reporting it, I will ask h-him to give me powerful ally to execute my revenge to those fuckers, once I able to escape here! BUAHAHA! Right! Right!" The bald bandit Chieftain is talking to himself while smiling like a crazy-dog in the forest where he seeks in.
And when he is about to see another pathway that he can use to his escape plan, the temperature in the forest suddenly lowered and in a flash- his vision of the pathway he saw turned to 360°degrees, and as he will ask himself why it happened. It is already too late as his head that is being cut off is already in the hands of General Xena whose face is covered with some ice.
"W-What... w-what just happened... h-how… you…" The bald Chieftain try to ask something but to no avail as he vomits blood.
He tries to look up to General Xena who is also looking down at him without any emotion seeing in her face nor in her eyes.
"Y-You fucking bitch..." Bald Chieftain cursed. Though, General Xena's face didn't move an inch nor could see any emotion. She just looked down at the head of the bald guy she just cut off. And when bald guy died already.
General Xena looks around to the forest that turned into ice as well as she casts one of her ability.
[Ice Crimson Magic: Zero]
"Why is it so cold here? Where am I?" She makes an innocent statement together with her innocent face as she looks around again.
And when no one is able to answer her, "I guess I lost track again. Let's go back to them already," She said to herself while carrying the cut off head of the bald chieftain of bandit.
To Be Continued…