181 Denying Revelation (1/2)
A ray of light crashed into our military fortress as I watched others ran to safety. There was a camp nearby set up for the wounded, so those who didn't want or couldn't fight went there after Kian attacked.
Half an hour ago, Maltyie had barked an order for them to head far into the camp. Though, no one actually expected Kian arriving so quickly, so a few unfortunate coup members were caught in his attack. Even now, he relentlessly struck the fortress with his Aegis's specialty while his body floated up high in the sky.
”Maltyie! I'm up here on the rooftop! I'll stall him!' I said through my earpiece.
The stone military fortress underneath my feet started to crumble down to earth from Kian's rays of plasma. It whipped against the walls, disintegrating the structure bit by bit.
”Alright! But there's Relly with Kian over there. Lily will a.s.sist you, so don't do anything ras.h.!.+”
Sure enough, Relly popped out from behind a pile of snow wearing a nasty grin on his face. Kian was hovering in mid-air, with pale blue plasma beams circling him obediently.
Judging from his Aegis's specialty, he was obviously controlling the plasma himself instead of Relly. Even though Relly was the one with the specialty to produce and manipulate plasma. Come to think of it, maybe Relly's role was only to provide Kian with plasma...
Plasma was considered the fourth state of matter, and since Kian's Aegis crystals were able to control any matter it made contact with, plasma became a whole another weapon for him to use. It made sense for Kian to utilize it this way.
Cras.h.!.+
”Oh no. This fortress is going down!”
The stone underneath me finally collapsed and I jumped off the rooftop. Kian who was hovering in mid-air took the opening, his plasma whipped in my direction. My first Aegis's self-defense reacted to it, sending an elongated crimson s.h.i.+eld in the plasma's path as I freefall.
However, the deformed s.h.i.+eld evaporated instantly and I barely dodged the plasma. My body rolled itself across the snowy ground the moment I landed. When I stood back up, I noticed the right sleeve of my Uniform had caught Kian's plasma attack.
”Ava, I don't think you can get near him without taking out Relly first,” said my Aegis. ”It's risky to fight with those two supporting each other.”
Relly threw his own plasma at me and I dodged; when Kian weaved a different one to strike me from behind.
”Ava!”
Lily went to block the attack with her own body and the plasma exploded upon contact, with Lily herself remained unscathed. She had entered her Full Aegis Form ever since the fortress was attacked.
”Lily... Thanks!”
”I'll take care of Relly,” she quickly said. ”Everyone had escaped to the camp. We can go all-out now.”
”Yeah!”
If everybody had escaped, then, I could actually use my Mode without any reserve. After all, my only opponent would only be Kian so it shouldn't be hard to throw everything I had onto him. And despite what Klaus said about his strength, I managed to injure him pretty good the last time we fought.
I just have to push harder right then and there. I can win against him myself.
”Where are you looking at? I'm your opponent!” said Lily.
She stampeded towards Relly with bloodshot eyes and swung her right arm at his side. Relly evaded her attack, but it took no time at all for Lily to follow up with a powerful kick to his stomach.
”Bllaaargh!”
Relly countered with a plasma beam, but it didn't have any effect. Lily grabbed his arm wrapped with his own Aegis crystals and it disintegrated.
”You are no match for me when I'm this close.”
She quickly punched Relly in the face and he fell down hard. Of course, that wasn't enough to defeat him, and it didn't serve as a killing blow. But, Lily surely had her former ally under her control.
”Hmm...”
Kian hovered back to the ground, his plasma whip still circling him. I immediately closed the distance between us.
”You might want to fight me with everything you have... Ava,” he said with a solemn expression.
”I don't need your advice!”
Without delay, I activated my Mode and multi-colored flames immediately engulfed my Uniform.
”That's more I like it!” said Kian with a smile. ”I just need to defend the border. And stopping you here will be a step closer to that.”
With a flick of my wrist, arrows of flames shot at him. His plasma whips coiled around him and my attack crashed into his plasma barrier. Then, the plasma unraveled itself, spiraling upward towards the sky before plummeting in my direction.
I leaped to avoid it, but once those annoying whips slashed at the snow, it shot back up just as quickly. I tried my best to dodge it and the plasma barely grazed my face.
”Ava!” yelled Kian.
He stomped the ground and his plasma coiled around him once again, but this time it exploded into a blinding white light. However, what came with it was a force so great it blew everything about a few hundred meters of the area.
”Aggh!” I struggled to stand as my Aegis crystals scrambled to protect me from the blast. Each s.h.i.+eld and dome I formed— it disintegrated in a few seconds. My hands, legs were being ripped off slowly as the blast threatened to swallow me in it.
”I.. can't... hold on...”
A pink figure from out of nowhere entered my field of vision. Before then, there was nothing but white light. Suddenly, the ear-piercing noise deadened and the blast itself dissipated into a mere warm breeze.