Chapter 177 War in the north 7 (2/2)
with a fully loaded [Energy: discharge] a loud boom sounded out in the night, but the sturdy gate held
”once more..? no two times more”
Mars guessed how many more times the gate could take as he recharged his skill before once more a loud boom sounded out in the night, under the strain of the [Energy: discharge] the gate warped slightly, Mars gave a smile and charged his [Energy: discharge] once more as he lightly hummed a tune before finally
*KABOOM*
the gate warped and bent before it shattered inwards like dried wood that had been bent too far, Mars put a hand on the hilt of his sword and walked into town past the broken gate and was met with a volley of spells and arrows, he then activated [Instant movement] and swiped the spells and arrows that would hit his unarmored head out of the way, entrusting his armor with the rest, and just like he had hoped the spells and arrows harmlessly bounced off his vermilion plate armor but they left scratches and dents on the armor, Mars looked down and saw the armor quickly regenerated, Mars looked up again and looked at the soldiers that had surrounded him in a half circle and calmly spoke
”those who surrender will survive this”
”FIRE!”
his words had no effect on the soldiers that let lose another volley of spells and arrows, Mars gave a sigh as he blocked the ones that had been aimed at his head before he activated [Half awaken] and [Instant movement], when he, an instance later returned to his original spot the area around him had turned silent before all the soldiers fell to the ground almost at the same time and a heavy smell of iron spread out in the surroundings, Mars looked at his trusty bone sword and saw it was chipped here and there, clearly it was unable to handle the stress it was put under, Mars activated [Energy: restoration] to repair his sword and gave a nod
”this is a job for something else...”
Mars sheathed his bone sword and pulled the adamantite broadsword of his back and calmly unrolled the cloth that covered the blade before he gripped the hilt tightly with a single hand and looked up at the enemy reinforcements that were streaming into the small plaza in front of the gate and calmly repeated
”those who surrender will survive this”
as the sun gradually rose over Glower the main force form Destra noticed that one of the gates had been broken and cautiously moved in as they feared an ambush, but inside the gate they found no enemy soldiers, only a small hill of ash, in fact ash covered most of the small plaza just inside the gate, moving towards the mansion in the middle of the town more and more piles of ash were discovered and so they began talking to the town folk one of which said
”a-a fiend in vermilion armor moved through the streets late last night and slaughtered all the soldiers... the ash you see on the streets are what's left of them”
they of course didn't believe the town folk at once, but after hearing similar tales from most of the town folk they talked with most of the main force soldiers felt a chill run down their spine as they looked at the ash piles around them, gradually the main force made their way to the lord's mansion in the middle of the town, the mansion was surrounded by a small moat and one of the drawbridges were lowered, the general sent in some scouts that soon returned saying that they had found the fiend in vermilion armor, the general then asked
”well what was it doing?”
”it... well, it waved at us with a smile on its face, it's sitting in the middle of the courtyard on a wooden chair”
”very well... battle stations!”
before the soldiers could take battle stations the general felt a cold wind and turned to look behind him froze, there it was, the vermilion fiend it walked up and clapped him on the shoulder and spoke
”you're finally here”
”d-do I know you?”
”ah... well I can see it would be hard to notice with this armor on”
the fiends armor gradually turned into particles and revealed a person the general was a little familiar with
”wait you're Mars!?”
”sure am”