13 Sneaking in Part 2 (1/2)
What is the most deafening and overwhelming sound in the universe. It is of course the sound of silence. Their surroundings were wrapped in bone-chilling silence.
”Its the mistdevils, they are suspected to be supernatural entities born form negative emotions of the battlefield. They are extremely erratic in nature, come and go as they please and they are said to feed on blood.” a thug conspiratorially whispered
”They just said surrender or die. Why would they bother if they just want to kill us either way.” Marcus pondered.
”YO mistdevils! it seems like you are smart creatures. How about YOU surrender and we will let you live.”
Their surroundings seemed to suddenly drop a few more degrees. The silence grew even more oppressive. Then was suddenly broken by the bone-chilling laughter of the abominations.
The mist grew thicker and the silhouettes seemed to turn an even darker shade of black. They could hardly even see each other.
”Enough already! Let me just end these circus performers.” Freya raised her hands and blew away most of the mist with a whirlwind.
The devils seemed prepared and suddenly started to phase around them forming multiple mirages.
They immediately killed multiple thugs
Martin smirked and immediately struck the ground turning his surroundings into a frozen tundra. ”You attacked to kill first. Which means I can now kill you all!” His smile seemed to be as devilish as their hidden attackers.
He immediately started to attack the mistdevils. His speed was akin to instant teleportation. Unfortunately it was difficult to change directions repeatedly when speeding. He immediately started firing at them with railgun pistol bullets.
Both the assailants and Martin seemed as if they were on another realm of existence. All the rest of them could see were blurs and afterimages.
Soon the mist cleared away and martin blew away the imaginary smoke from his pistols.
Lying around them were six corpses belonging to.... regular beastmen. It seems they had just run into a bunch of imitators.
”Most of the hired guides were already dead. The rest looked at Martin in horror, but the leader soon recovered.
”Hmm, looks like you were serious when you said you wanted to join the thunderous hawk legion.”
He looked at the corpses and muttered. ”Bloody illusions. Its been quite a time since illusionists have walked the land. They are somehow always associated with devils.”
”Well it seems that show's over. The rifts up ahead you can probably go the rest of the way on your own.” saying as much their guides ran away without wasting a second.
”You shouldn't have shown off that much! See you scared them off!” Marcus pouted in mock discontent.
”More would have died if I hadn't”
”Besides, if you hadn't opened your big mouth we would have passes through easily.”
Martin searched the corpses, he didn't find anything interesting except a badge with the symbol of a winged eye. He showed it to Freya.
”Do you recognize this symbol?”
Freya looked over and her countenance instantly paled.
”The winged order.” she replied while sucking in a breath.
”Who are they?”
”They are said to be remnant worshipers of the so-called fallen angels from demon mythology.”
”They are a secret organization that aim to overthrow the current empire to welcome the arrival of the fallen angels.”