The statue was covered with pitch black color armour and was wearing a knight-like helmet which completely covered its face except for its red eyes. It had hand no arms. Instead it had black color big crossbows with yellow bolts in the place of its arm. The feets of the statue was attached to the pitched road.
"Now, attack."
Levina ordered with a slightly painful facial expression.
Seeing such a large knight-like statue those seven men flinched and stopped running towards Levina.
Then automatically the strings on the both crossbows was being pulled, and those locked themselves on its targets.
Among the seven the one with no hair tried to run, but his heart was pierced the moment big yellow crossbow bolt, which was at least half a mitre, hit his back. Like this the man fell forward, then his body began to turn into ashes.
Seeing him getting killed like this raised a sense of terror within those men. While they were the ones who were supposed to be the lawless bad guys, but looking at the knelt down Levina's face it was hard to tell who was the bad person here.
Even though she just killed a person in cold blood, she was looking very neutral without any sense of guilt on her face. Only sign that was visible on her face was the sign of pain.
Anyway, the crossbow knight now aimed his crossbow at the black haired man. The man became afraid seeing this, so he tried to run,
but was brutally pierced with the crossbow bolt. Just like the one before he was immediately turned into ashes as well.
As soon as the knight released his left crossbow and pierced the black haired man with it, it opened its pitched black mouth wide. As soon as it did that something shone inside his mouth. Then in the next moment, it shoot 5 small sized bolts from its mouth, and pierced the struggling men who were trying to save themselves by running.
All of them fell with thuds on the ground while crimson red blood gushed out of their body.
Unlike the crossbow bolts on the knight's left and right crossbow which takes 1 minutes to reload after a shot, the crossbow bolts in its mouth doesn't have to reload and it could fire as many crossbow as it need to slay its enemy.
The only difference between the crossbow bolts on its arm and its crossbow bolts inside its mouth was that the crossbow bolts on its arm had the ability to chase down its target and once it pierced its target it turned their body into ashes, while the crossbow bolts in its mouth had neither the ability to chase its target nor to turn them into ashes after piercing them.
Levina was panting heavily. After seeing that all the enemy had been dealt with her crossbow knight dissapeared. After that, her transformation wore off and she fell facing the pitch ground.
Being barely able to keep her eyes open, she thought:
Damn it. I am drained. I just need a quick nap.
As she thought that she passed out.
Being in transformation mode of the third stage wasn't that easy. Those who are new to this stage can only maintain their transformation for about 1--2 minutes at best. After that they feel extremely worn out. But, the duration of maintaining this form can easily be extended with proper amount of training.
Lucius came rushing over to Levina, seeing her fall.
Is she alright?
Then he grabbed her shoulder and turned her body around.
Seeing that she was breathing made Lucius a bit relieved.
Wait. Am I relieved? Why am I relieved seeing that she is alright. I mean she wants to kill me. So there's should be no reason to be at ease. If anything I should be careful around her.
Then suddenly Lucius widen his eyes in alertness, and put Levina on the pitched road. Then he turned around, and saw that the man with white hair was trying to stand up.
"I am not done yet."
The man gritted his teeth in pain, and rose on his feet.
"This is just the beginning. With this new found power of mine, I'll rule this world."
"Himp. Keep on dreaming."
Lucius slightly smiled with mockery on his face.
" You simply don't have what takes to rule the world."
Hearing this the white haired man snapped, and as his face twitched in rage, he asked:
"What did you just say?"
"Exactly what you heard. I am going to defeat you and going to devour your curse. After all, to survive in this world, I must need power. Otherwise, I will die at the hands of the strongest."
The white haired man sighed.
Calm down. Don't get fooled by his provoking words. I need to focus on landing a precise blow. All I need is one shot.. Since I am still a second stage awakened, I can only use 1 ability, perfect blast. With this ability I can imbue my fist or foot with curse flow to deliver a killer blow to my enemy.
Perfect blast is an ability, which lets the ability holder imbue their fist or leg with curse flow or energy to increase the output of the kick or the punch by ten fold.
Lucius took a foot forward, at the same the man took a step backwards.
With a calculating face, Lucius thought:
I only have one arrow of wind left of Inside Destroyer. So, I have to be careful of how I use it. If I miss this shot, I am screwed.
Thinking that he dashed towards him.
First I need to keep him still on one spot. After that I can use my Inside Destroyer to finish him off.. To keep him still on one place I have to get close to him.
"Hah, what a fool you are!"
The white haired man smiled valiantly.
Then dark yellow energy flashed in both of the man's hands, and his fists were enveloped with the energy.
After that, the man also charged at Lucius with a confident smile.
When they got close each other, completely face to face, both of them with courageous face threw punch at each other.
Lucius' punch perfectly landed on the man's face and hammered it, while the man's fist missed Lucius face when Lucius moved his head to his left to throw his punch.
Got him.
Lucius thought.
Due to the punch the man was sent backwards by few steps as blood dripped from his nose.
He immediately grabbed his nose, feeling a sharp pain in there.
Damn it, this brat is good at fighting.
Lucius didn't stop their. It was his chance. So, he took a few steps forward and threw his feet at the man.
But, leaning backwards he managed to evade the kick, then with a piercing green gaze, the man threw a smash imbued with curse flow right below Lucius' chest.
The smash made a destructive sound and from Lucius' back the impact of the smash was even visible.
As Lucius' feet was off the ground, his green eyeballs were rolling up and something inside his body cracked.
"IT'S OVER."
The man yelled....