Chapter 20: The Rampage (2) (1/2)

Erin and her group could not believe their eyes, what appeared to be Basilisks were attacking their town in great numbers, but that was simply impossible. Basilisks were insanely high leveled magic beast that never travelled in groups, they were dangerous monsters that could kill a man with a single stare.

If those were all Basilisks, then the fight would be over before it even began. ”Wait! Those are Lesser Basilisks, they don't have that ability, there may still be hope.” Jarret said after using his spirit Vision. Erin couldn't help but worry, she knew Albert would most likely be fighting in the front lines and wouldn't retreat unless everyone else had done so first.

Callie looked at the group nervously and asked. ”What should we do? isn't that a dangerous situation, s- should we g- go help?” she was fidgeting a lot, it was clear she was a bit frightened. ”We should be careful, we don't want to disrupt their formation and cause them to make a mistake leading to someone's death.

Just then though, they saw the lesser Basilisks break through the formation and slaughtered some guards as they destroyed the gate with their poisonous flame breath. The group cringed at the bloody sight, Erin could no longer take it and sprinted straight at the town, if nothing else, she had to save Albert no mater what.

This maybe selfish to the people in the settlement who were incredibly nice to her the entire time she was here but, she couldn't think about that right now, Albert was the one who helped her when she had no one, he even went as far as marrying her against the nobles traditions in other to give her a save her life, she would do everything in her power to let him live even if she had to sacrifice herself for him.

Running at full speed it was obvious she wasn't a demon, her physics were almost human. ”Water movement” her legs turned a little translucent as she levitated up a few centimeters from the ground, the ground bubbled up and water came out of the ground under her feet, as she glided with the water at great speed towards the town's gate.

The others didn't have a chance to stop her before she had cast her spell. They gave each other strange looks and dashed after her, they all cared about Erin and wouldn't let her charge into danger without backup, they all ran at great speed that was only a little inferior to water movement.

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Albert was breathing heavily as he watched the five lesser Basilisks surround him, he had messed up his rhythm trying to rush back and defend the town. Rebuilding the town was easy, but he was worried about the kids and non fighter citizens in the Chief's house, although he had left Kelvin in charge of protection, they had only left a handful of men behind to help him.

Even with him, they wouldn't be able to stop that many lesser Basilisks.

He gritted his teeth and used a skill, he didn't have that many skills, but the ones he had were lethal. The chief wasn't faring any better than him, infact you might say he's faring worst, ”SKILLS: Demon aura. Vibrating slash. Chained strikes.” He used three skills in one go and launched his attack.

Using that many skills at once was taxing enough, but, although he was running low on stamina, he had enough mana to spare. The lesser Basilisks were unable to keep up with him, with the skills activated, he dashed at the monster in front of him. The beast was unable to react, Albert's blade sliced through its skin like an hot knife through butter, using the momentum he chained his attack to all five monsters around him, with each strike more powerful than the last, he cut them all cleanly in half.

The attack took a lot out of him, it was getting harder and harder to breathe, he saw the chief charge forward as he pushed himself to the limit. Not wanting to be outdone, he forced his legs to move out of shear will, he used the opportunity provided by the chief to dash back to the gate, he wasn't going to let the monsters slaughter the children.

He ran at an incredible speed but before he could get far two dark green beams of flames shot in front of him cutting off his route, ”tsk” he clicked his tongue in annoyance as he saw another five lesser Basilisks surround him. Using anymore secret techniques would certainly be more trouble than it's worth, he was running low on stamina, although he still had a lot of mana, he was out of useful skills.

One of the Basilisks shot out another dark green flame at him, he only took a step as he dodged the attack and sprinted at the beast, using his Miao Dao he jumped up and with the help of gravity he swung the blade down with all his strength. Clang! The blade was deflected by the large scales on the monster, it was evident that without a skill or secret technique, one would never even make a scratch on a lesser Basilisk, after all these were all Tier 5 monsters.

The chief was getting exhausted as well, he had used over 25 skills in this fight, which was impressive, he still had a lot of stamina, after all he was an Ogre Chieftain, but his Mana was almost empty, using even one more skill would send him into a coma and in a battlefield such as this, he would die in an instant.

He turned his head and saw Albert sword being bounced off of the monster's scale, he knew what was on Albert's mind even though his expression hadn't changed much. After knowing him for almost a century now, back when he was still a Lord, he could now pretty much read him like a book.

Albert had tried several times in the past to teach him his secret Techniques but being a brute like himself, he was always unable to fully grasp it, maybe if he had, with his insane amount of stamina he would be able to end this fight. Looking back at the town's gate he saw his people struggling to survive, they were in a miserable state and was just barely hanging on, many of them had already died, few were mortally wounded and the town had already been breached.