Chapter 87 - A Welsh Greeting (1/2)
”There is nothing ahead of us. As far as physical entities are concerned, there are none ahead of us. I couldn't even detect a single hint of qi or mana.”
Taiga, the ninja, gave his report to Alexa when he got back onto the eagle. ”This is troubling,” Alexa said as she fell deep into thought.
”Boss, something happened!” Yelled Gabby. Alexa looked forward to seeing what she was on about, only to be stunned. The clouds in the sky and the waters below parted, to form a path of sorts. Within that path, the skies were clear with no storms ahead.
”It seems someone has finally invited us in.” The white-robed man with the scimitar finally spoke. He stood up and gazed at the path, his eyes filled with trepidation.
Alexa turned to the white-robed man and said, ”Ibrahim, what do you think we should do?”
Ibrahim brandished his scimitar forward. His actions spoke of his intentions. Alexa looked at Gabby giving her the nod. Gabby smiled wryly and patted her eagle, urging it to go forward. The animal agreed, but as it flew into the path ahead, everyone on its back could feel that it was clearly vexed.
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After about an hour of flying, the eagle made it out of the designated path, with Miami clearly in sight.
The crew looked back, only to see nothing. Indeed, nothing. Just clear skies and calm waters, as if they had traveled a normal path the whole time. The bird calmed down and squealed in delight. Gabby smiled and patted it's head while Alexa fell deep into thought. Within moments the bird neared the beach which Will and Letty were on.
”So that's our new boss eh? Doesn't seem like much.” Said Merlin as she pouted. There was still quite a large distance between the bird and the beach, but everyone on the bird had extraordinary eyesight.
”Alright Merlin, since you are skeptical, why don't you send our new boss a greeting.” Merlin raised a brow at Alexa, but this only lasted for a moment. Alexa's duty was to make sure that the group acted as a unit and followed Will properly, so she would not get this chance again in the future.
”With pleasure.”
Merlin raised her staff and started chanting. Within moments, swords of fire were conjured all around them. Thousands of flaming swords covered everyone's sights, causing the temperature to get high.
”Flame sword rain!” With those last words, Merlin targetted Will and sent all ten thousand swords at Will.
Alexa frowned at this. She believed this to be overkill, nevertheless, she was still curious. Who caused the earlier phenomenon? Was it Solitary? And if so how did he do it? As far as she was concerned he should be around level 50.
'This attack shouldn't kill him, but just to make sure.'
”Taiga, Merlin overdid it, make sure the kid doesn't die.” With a grunt, Taiga disappeared into the void. Alexa stared at Merlin, clearly not impressed.
”What? This is how we greet each other in Wales.” Said Merlin with a sly grin. Alexa shook her head and peered forward, curious to see how Will would react. The others were also somewhat curious but didn't have much hope. They expected Taiga to intervene, after all, he was only level 50, what could he possibly do?
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