Chapter 25 Visitors from the forest 3 (1/2)
as soon as Mars pulled out the arrow stuck in his shoulder he activated his [Energy: absorb shield] while his body was transforming and the elvers looked at him in horror, until the captain managed to pull himself together and asked Mars with a slightly shaking voice
”...what are you?”
in response Mars only gave a smile before he yelled out
”just like we did with the spiders Victoria!”
almost simultaneously 3 shadow bullets hit Isabel, and turned into dark smoke that entered her nose and moth before her green eyes turned completely black and she weakly fell over
”ISABEL!!!”
seeing his squad mate take a hit the captain yelled out her name loudly before he turned and looked at Mars and yelled hysterically
”WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER!?”
”nothing, that was Victoria”
”KILL HIM!”
as the captain elf yelled out a arrow hit Mars from behind again only this time it was aimed at his neck but as it hit the [Energy: absorb shield] it only hang in the air for a second before it fell down as it had been deprived of all its kinetic energy
”that must be some sort of air magic spell, Chloe, Rex use magic!”
as the captain elf gave his command he kicked the ground and changed Mars with his sword, and gave a overhand slash aiming for his neck that was parried by a set of claws
”...have your mother never told you it rude to slash at random people”
as Mars parried the flurry of slashes and stabs with his left hand he weakly grabbed his bone sword with his injured right hand and activated [Energy: healing] with 100 units of energy, that quickly closed the wound on his shoulder as he tightened the grip on the handle of his bone sword the [Energy: absorb shield] wore off as he began to counter attack
”Alvin!”
as Chloe yelled out to Alvin that had locked swords with Mars, he quickly jumped back just before a fire spear hit Mars and exploded covering the surroundings in smoke
”...good job Chloe i guess that's---”
as Alvin let down his guard thinking Mars was dead or at least mortally injured a figure shoot out from the smoke and before he could react a pale sword stabbed through his shoulder before a kick landed on his stomach that launched him into the air before he landed roughly on the ground rolling a few times before stopping not looking like he wouldn't get up anytime soon
”ALVIN!”
Chloe yelled out but Alvin was in no condition to answer as he was knocked out, before she looked at Mars with hatred in her eyes and drew her sword preparing to engage him in close combat
”that was a pretty good flame, but using fire on a half dragon is not really such a good idea”
as Mars was talking in a calm tone he shook the blood off his sword and walked towards Chloe with a slight smile before a figure jumped in front of him with sword drawn
”Chloe run!”
the figure was Rex that quickly slashed at Mars drawing him into a fast paced sword fight that made the fight between Mars and Alvin look like children fighting with sticks as sparks flew out and the sounds of swords hitting sword sounded out loudly
”but if we---!”
”no but, just run Chloe!”
as Chloe tried to argue with Rex he quickly shoot her down as he yelled at her while slashing at Mars with his sword before he yelled out again
”remember what we talked about, just run!”
Chloe stood and watched Rex fighting desperately with Mars before she glanced at Alvin and Isabel that showed not signs of moving with tears in her eyes before she turned and ran into the forest quickly disappearing from sight as Rex jumped back and took some distance from Mars as he gave him a good look with his remaining eye before he spoke
”never in my 800 years of traveling outside the forest have i ever seen someone like you... if you don't mind me asking what race are you?”