28 Night Fall Part 1 (1/2)

Xyn Draven Nightfall excitedly watched everything in front of him as the guardians strode closer to the human soldiers.

He is greatly looking forward to this. Having the guardians use their power even for just a little is what Xyn wanted to see.

However, while casually watching, he noticed something unwanted.

Wait, what are they doing? The guardians are closing in, why are they not doing anything?

He thought.

At this moment he started to feel worried. This is not what he expected nor is this what he wanted.

Dammit! Are they going to ruin the fun for me and my guardians?! Unacceptable! At this rate I won't be satisfied by the result I will receive.

He started to feel irritated, also a bit angry. He doesn't want to waste all the efforts he just gave for a result that is unsatisfying and won't be enough to convince him.

They better resist or I will surely shred them to pieces! However, I will make them suffer first for wasting my time and efforts.

Faithful that the current state will change, he patiently waited for a change within the ranks of the humans. However, the guardians have gone even closer and there is still no change.

Damn soldiers! Even when they are afraid they should still fight for there is no other choice.

He said angrily in his mind.

Xyn is really and extremely looking forward to this, and the humans are just going to mess it up. And that is unacceptable, many efforts, and the theatric actions he has done are things that must not go to naught.

After a few moments, he saw the guardians halted their walking. They must have noticed the same thing.

Do these people really intend to protect their lives, their town, and their loved ones? They don't seem like it. Should I do something?

Then he looked at the guardians and continued talking within his mind.

Or the guardians themselves are going to do something about it?

He smiled a little behind the mask looking forward to positive things that might happen.

A few moments have past and suddenly someone shouted and was barely heard by Xyn.

”Aren't you supposed to be soldiers? Then be one, fight the enemy right in front of you, be the warrior that you are, or is it that you people chose to be cowards instead? Then there's no point in you for being soldiers. You have no place to go, no escape, so there's no choice but to fight!”

He instantly knew whose voice that was even from a distance.

Sagremor… Did he just say something about how being a soldier or something like that? Seems like it, anyway, I hope that did at least anything to the soldiers.

After the words of the Sword Master, there was finally some little movements within the ranks of the soldiers, it looks like Sagremor's words have some effects. However, Xyn was not happy, well that is because the humans have still not given any form of resistance but only mostly looking at each other.

Then what happened next after moments have passed caused Xyn to raise an eyebrow.

The soldiers have begun to ready and aim their weapons. This didn't happen after Sagremor spoke the words from his mouth, so Xyn concluded something must have happened within the ranks of the soldiers. However, Xyn doesn't care, what only matter is that the soldiers will resist and fight to the fullest.

Then the soldiers started to shoot.

Countless bullets and magic particles started to light up from the ranks of the human soldiers. Every attack targeted the guardians, but have no effect.

As Xyn watch in the distance, he described the scene before him as something beautiful. The illuminating and dazzling lights from the weapons of the humans are so beautiful to watch, with the darkness caused by the clouds above, the scene before him is like watching the clear and beautiful night sky with stars twinkling and peaceful heavens. In contrast, he thought the night sky is one of the few beautiful things within this world.

The guardians have started to advance once more paying no heed to the pointless attacks by the humans.

Countless attacks have landed to their Dark Protection, but their shields have not even damaged. Then it's assured their protection are working perfectly even with the numerous attacks hitting them.

He nodded after thinking that.

He shifted his sight to the left.

Well, except there. The soldiers looked to be distracted. By Criswell? Haha, I did a good work on designing her I should say, they are captivated and mesmerized by her. But still, being distracted is not a good thing to do within a battlefield, especially being distracted by an enemy.

He said in his mind.

Then he shifted his sight back to the right and looked at Sagremor.

Damn, he's being shot on the face. That must be annoying, but it's a good thing he looked undamaged.

Xyn thought.

Then several blades impaled the tank that was attacking Sagremor and Xyn said within his mind.

Good, the blades easily managed to pierce through the armored vehicle.

Then Sagremor started to shoot some blades towards the soldiers. Satisfied, he moved his sight to the Demon of Purgatorial Flames, Agiel.

Agiel was casually waving his arm around and waves of flames appeared.

As the flames hit the soldiers, judging by their actions they seem to be in an incomprehensible pain.

Sucks to be them right now. They might be in pain and suffering one cannot even begin to describe. Well, I did give those abilities to Agiel, and that ability are perfect for punishment, and also quite fanatically sadistic.

Xyn thought.

Of course, that is not the only way Agiel can use his flames of punishment. Sometimes it might also may be used in a more painful and worse way. Well, painful is not even enough to begin in describing the effects of the flames of purgatory.

Now that I thought about. If they got to suffer unimaginably in the living world with the flames similar to the depiction of the purgatorial flames, then if the purgatory really does exist and souls are sent there after they leave their body, then the soul is being cleansed there through suffering in the flames. So, this could be double suffering! And might be a right off the bat one. That's, that's quite ruthless… all right! Moving on!

He shifted his sight to the person who is next, and the next one is an innocent child.

Aaaww, look how Xelya go. The soldiers are even having second thoughts on shooting her down, well that's unde-----

BOOOM!!

Suddenly there was a giant explosion.

Woah! I did not expect that. As I recall, didn't I say to hold back, or is it…

Xyn peered closely to Xelya.

Could it be she's having difficulties in using her power? This is exactly one of the reasons why they need to get into the field and use their powers.

Xyn observed more at where Xelya is making a havoc.

How amusing it is to see the humans trying not to shoot the agent of destruction but still ended up being vaporized into nothingness.

Xyn said in his mind.

Satisfied, he moved his sight far to the left and looked at Criswell.

There was already a great damage to the defenses of the soldiers.

Did she just use one of her spells? I can think one spell that could do that kind of damage and it's also one of her not so high-level spells probably about average. She must have used [Searing Divine Light], she probably used that because I said to hold back. Still, it's impressive it did that much damage.

Xyn thought.

Then he continued to observe Criswell.

She was fighting gracefully, and her armor unstained by blood, well that is because she does not want to dirty her set of armor at the moment and the current circumstance and Xyn knows this.

Also, it was a mesmerizing sight. Her amazing armor design with her slender body and majestic wings caused Xyn to gaze at her out of captivation for a moment.

Wow, watching her is somewhat pleasing to the eye. Did I give her an aura of charm? No, I did not, probably that's just how she is. Yes, that's just how she is.

Then Xyn looked at the sword in Criswell's hand.

Oh no, the blade is dirty. Hm, well, one vigorous swing ought to be enough to remove the blood. Besides, one cannot achieve some things without having yourself or something dirty, so having things dirty is alright.

Xyn thought.

Indeed, one cannot hope to reach far without having done something dirty. And beliefs that things can be changed or achieved without having to do something dirty is foolish. Without having to do something dirty would only make things last longer, or even can make it worse than it should be.

Why bother taking a long route when the shortcut is only right next to you. Well, there are people use the long route, people that choose the door with a dangerous and long path behind it instead of the easier, shorter and safer route.

Xyn said in his mind.

After thinking that he moved on to the next person.

He shifted his sight to Adrasteia then he smiled.

The Immortal General was shooting down multiple targets at a time with her weapons floating on her sides then she rushed towards the human soldiers and cleanly and gracefully cutting them down.

Damn, she looks so cool! With the military uniform which is so fitting her, and the floating cannons at her sides vaporizing soldiers, she looks so cool and badass. And the way she moves is impressive, I didn't expect to see that. It's wonderful seeing her fight.

Xyn said in his mind.

Indeed, it was an impressive and amazing sight. Adrasteia was obliterating every enemy with ease as well as killing and slaughtering smoothly. Then the way her clothes sway in the wind as she moves her slender body is somewhat mesmerizing to watch.

If she removes her mask and exposes her beautiful visage, that would be more than amazing. Just imagining a beauty slaughtering her enemies gracefully and in a cool way makes me tremble in excitement, just for a little.

Xyn said in his mind.

Xyn still wants to watch Adrasteia from a distance as he adores her fighting, however, he needs to observe all the guardians so he shifted his sight to the next and last person.

There he saw golems wreaking havoc and Brutus strolling forward pass the defenses.

He summoned Bone Golems huh. The golems seem to be doing just fine.

He looked at a destroyed armored vehicle.

Hmmm, the golems seem to be the ones that destroyed that, well it is quite obvious. The piercing cut looks so clean, so armored vehicles like that tank stands no chance against the cleaving blades of the golems. That's good, very good.

After thinking that, he returned his sight to Brutus when he looked like he just cast a spell.

Then green trails started to appear on the ground where a group of soldiers are standing. Then a few seconds later they turned into zombies and then engaged some soldiers.

So, he used that spell huh. Those zombies may be one of the weakest but they seem to be effective at the moment, perhaps adding their numbers may be enough to exterminate all living beings in this town.

Xyn returned his sight to Brutus and he thought.

He's not attacking? He's letting all the summoned units destroy the enemies? That's being lazy… ah, well that is fine. After all, he is mainly a summoner so he doesn't really have any abilities to use for these weak enemies, so that's fine for me. Also, him using summoned units is giving relevant data, so I should commend him for that. But still, I quite expected him to use an offensive or any kind of damaging spell, but I guess it would be a bit overkill to make him cast a spell. If he does cast a spell, that would no longer be regarded as holding back.

The summoned units should all be enough to be considered holding back. In addition, Brutus casting spells here might accidentally destroy a large part of the town by accident or might decay the land. There might be some spells of the low caliber that cannot damage a large part, but there is no need to use those spells, the summoned units are already more than enough.

Then Xyn looked at the events before him once more.

”This is good, guardians. Use your abilities more, and gain experience.”

The guardians may be level 100 beings, however, that only applies to their abilities. If someone lacks experience but is so powerful and they faced an enemy which is weaker, however, has more experience, the latter has a higher chance to triumph. One would always need experience in order to succeed no matter how powerful you are.

There are many benefits to gaining experience. For example, like what happened to Xelya, she had difficulty in controlling her power, however, if she uses it and already had a bit of experience, in the future, she might be able to manage and to fully control her power. Another example is one can gain ideas on what abilities could be used in a situation, and won't cause any accident, or able to calculate the appropriate level of power to use in a situation.

”Believing you are powerful enough to defeat anyone without any apparent evidence is being foolish and stupid. This is necessary to give them at least a few experiences in the field and what is within a battle. Also, for me to assure they are strong basing on the standards of this world.”

Xyn wanted the guardians to gain experience in the field, and also for their safety. If the guardians, as well as the other created ones, gain experience and control their powers, they will be able to apply it to possible future enemies. Xyn doesn't want his creations in harm's way and unable to fight back, especially in a life-threatening scenario.

Deep within Xyn's heart there's another reason. He has lost someone very important to him. So he doesn't want to experience that again, and doesn't want the same thing to happen to his creations.

”Hmmm, them going in battle and gain experience might help them reach a higher level. Yes, that is possible, this battlefield may not be enough, but if they go out on the field sometimes they might reach level 101. As well as my other creations.”

The created ones may be only created but they are still they are living beings and have souls. They can reach a higher level than they are now.

At this moment, nervousness struck Xyn that only lasted for a second.

Now that I think about it. What if the guardians… betray me… scary! I so don't want that to happen! The gap of level between me and the guardians are only a few, if they tried to strike me down I'm at an advantage in level, however, strategies and abilities always have great roles in achieving victory.