Chapter 92 Towards the front 5 (2/2)
”that's... they left in their sky carriage a moment ago”
”WHAT!?”
”as I said, they left...”
Gas sank into his chair and breathed a sigh of relief before anger overtook him and he hit his desk again
”damn them how dare they threaten me! not only that they also ruined my plans to curry favor with the 8 heads...”
”yes really they deserve death...”
Gas thought for a moment before he suddenly stood up form his chair
”that's right they deserve death, so let's kill them!”
”but my lord how are we going to do that?”
”fetch my communicator I'm going to make a call to my cousin”
”yes my lord!”
the subordinate rose to his feet and ran out the room while Gas showed a furious smile on his ugly round face
”they are certainly all going to die!”
”hmm..?”
”what is it Mars?”
”...nothing I just had a bad feeling... never mind that tell me how we play this card game”
”okay so as I was saying---”
inside the sky carriage was a harmonious feeling as all of the group from the academy was preparing to play a card game as Karen explained the rules of the game to Mars that was the only one that didn't know how to play it, Adam was watching the clouds outside the window while Chloe was watching Mars as usual. the seating was also slightly different as the twins were seated on Mars's right and left while Chloe sat a little further away from Mars on his left with Adam sitting all the way out on the left against the opposite window
”so you got it now Mars?”
”yeah I think so... let's just try it”
the game went on and Mars got more and more depressed as he got beaten hard in the first half of the game only when he got encouragements from the twins by his side did he seem to lighten up a little and fight back, but he still lost in the end
'oh well...'
Mars gave a sigh and looked out the window on his right while he petted the twins on the head with both hands
'...wait is that..?'
Mars transformed his eyes and spotted what looked like a row of ballistas on a hilltop a few kilometers away
'weird...'
the ballistas were operated by a group of rough looking men that in all fairness looked like a bunch of bandits
'wait we're going that way..?'
Mars felt it weird that the sky carriage seemed to get closer and closer to the hilltop and closed his eyes to feel the odd in the air
'shit, we're being pulled by a wide range spell... this is bad'
Mars looked around the carriage and saw nobody else had noticed the anomaly, perhaps the driver of the sky carriage knew but he was in a isolated compartment
'we might still escape the pulling force that's affecting the carriage... but I need to make some perpetration first...'
the first thing Mars did was to take Lily that was sitting on his right and put her into his lap
”Mars?”
Lily became a little surprised and looked up at him with her big red eyes
”sorry I want to sit at the window for awhile is that okay?”
”it's fine...”
Mars moved over to the window before he sat down Lily on his left
'that's the first step...'
Mars looked out the window and focused on the group of bandits and their ballistas and spotted what looked like a mage in the middle of the group, the mage wore a robe and carried a staff which he held above his head
'so that's the one...'
Mars, having found the most likely source of the weird odd began to form a flame outside of the sky carriage that soon shaped into a flame lance
'just a little closer...'
Mars aimed the fire lance as the sky carriage got pulled closer the the hilltop
'now!'
Mars fired the fire lance towards the mage, the fire lance zoomed through the air but hit a magic barrier before it could strike down the mage at the same time the ballistas opened fire
”shit, INCOMING!”