44 The End of the Beginning (3)

Dawn...

Three figures were running across the farmlands in a haste towards the southwest direction.

They were none other than Mr. Sanchez, Drake and Kate.

"Halt.", Mr. Sanchez and the two kids stopped.

-sou-

Many whooshing sounds could be heard then followed by an arrow rain that came upon them.

Mr. Sanchez raised his hands and activated a barrier to block the arrows.

"Damn it, they knew we were going to rescue Allen!" With a raging tone, Kate sent out a dagger flash towards the direction where the arrows came fron.

"This must be their main force. That means there is going to be an another group that will take Allen away!", Mr. Sanchez said. "Go on, I'll take care of these ones."

Drake and Kate nodded and didn't waste more time and they sprinted away while protecting themselves from the rain of arrows.

"These people probably already knew that Allen has the dagger. I'm going to slaughter all of them for doing something like that to a kid.", Mr. Sanchez didn't hide his fury and disappeared from his location in an instant.

It was at this moment, a massacre occurred in the farmlands.

However, Mr. Sanchez's conclusion was wrong, the people from that secret organization still didn't know that the treasure was inside Allen. As the treasure's aura couldn't be sensed by them due to their weak power.

Though, they still treat him as a bargaining chip in case the tavern owner and his apprentices could escape their ambush.

***

The two kids dashed through the farmlands. They were currently using a treasure provided by Mr. Sanchez so that their running speed would be extremely fast or else if would've taken them half a day or whole to arrive on the farmlands.

They exited out of the farmlands and saw hills from afar. In addition, they also saw about a hundred of armored barbarians from afar.

"Did they really bring a whole army just to block us?!", Drake remarked.

"They think too highly of us.", Kate sternly added.

"I'll get them busy. With your flicker you can bypass them easily.", Drake said.

"But shouldn't we rescue Allen together?", Kate asked.

"No. You heard what master said, there might be another team of these scoundrels that will take Allen away. Go, rescue him, I'll try to catch up.", Drake said.

"Alright.", Kate didn't hesistate anymore and passed through the battlefield while Drake kept the other enemies busy.

"Well... looks like I'll be in a pickle." Drake gulped as he confronted the hundred-strong barbarians. 'I hope you get Allen back while I'm still alive.'

***

-click-

The steel door of the underground room opened up and several black robed men entered the room and looked at Allen. He was still conscious even after everything that happened.

"This kid's mentality is tough." One of them said as he saw Allen was still awake.

All them approached Allen and one of them asked, "Where's the treasure?"

The one who asked the question was the leader of the group who caught the kid; however, Allen didn't answer and kept quiet.

The leader punched Allen in the face and asked again, "Where's the treasure?"

Nevertheless, the kid still didn't answer.

"Knock this nuisance out and take him back to headquarters.", the leader commanded.

"Aye.", the black robed men responded.

"Nuisance?", suddenly, Allen stated with a cold deep voice. "The last time I still could feel something is that you were the nuisance."

The kid swiftly got out of the magical ropes that were binding him to the chair.

"Get him!"

The black robed men charged towards Allen.

The enemies struck out with their weapons, but Allen swiftly dodge all of them.

The kid suddenly disarmed one of the men who was holding a dagger and used his own weapon against him.

-sou-

A head flew in a flash.

The other people were surprised by what just occurred, including their leader.

On the other hand, there was no trace of emotion on the face of the kid.

"Damn it, get him!", the leader didn't hesitate to join the fray and they charged together towards Allen at the same time.

"Come.", Allen backed off until he was already near the wall. After getting a certain distance between the wall, the kid did a backflip and his bare feet was planted on the walls, then using the wall like a jumping board, he launched himself towards one of the black robed men.

-pshew-

The man's head flew off and the kid rolled away from the men and sent out an attack with the dagger.

-sou-

A dagger flash was sent out and flew towards to the men, but on the way, it multiplied into many smaller flashes.

The attack technique was called (Multi-Flash). Imagine launching the said skill while being in a tight space, it would spell doom for the enemies.

-pshew-

"Huh, they're so many!"

They were caught off guard by the sudden sheer number of the flashes, and raised their weapon in a bid to protect themselves. However, five of them died before they even got to defend!

At first, ten people entered the room, plus the leader. Now, only four people were left including the leader!

Witnessing what ocurred, they inwardly panicked and tried to retreat towards the door. However, as soon as they turned around, they spotted Allen by the door!

"What?!"

"Wasn't he just back there?"

"Haven't you ever heard of a combat technique called Flicker?" Allen asked in a wintry manner.

They started to become even more frightened to what was happening; they even felt despair loomed over them. Even the leader has beads of sweat running down his forehead.

As they were about to do a last struggle, the kid suddenly appeared right in front of them! This time, Allen didn't initiate Flicker but executed Burst Steps!

It was a movement technique that would allowed him to have a burst of speed in a short distance!

-pshew- -pshew- -pshew-

Three heads flew from their respective bodies to the ground. Only the leader was left behind. He felt that his scalp went numb and he accidentally stumbled on the floor while retreating backwards.

"I retract my statement earlier. You're not a nuisance. You are just pathetic.", Allen played with the dagger and said in an attempt to mock and taunt the remaining person.

But he kept his butt on the ground until Allen sliced his head off with a dagger flash.

As the last body tumbled to the ground, Allen turned around and walked towards the door.

When he was about walk out. He slightly turned his head back towards the last person.

There, he saw the leader's head was reattaching to his body!

"You kid! DIE...!", in an instant, the leader's body suddenly turned red and his body expanded.

Seeing what was happening, Allen didn't hesitate to run away.

***

Kate could now spot a castle on the hills from afar.

As she was about to stop to wait for Drake and Mr. Sanchez, a death energy ball propelled towards her.

She easily dodged it because of her quick reaction; then Kate looked towards the nearby woods where the attack came from, and saw a man holding a staff who walked out of the said location.

"I knew that there was somebody who escaped that wall of meat.", the man grinned.

Kate inwardly cursed her bad luck. The treasure she was using to increase her speed was only for continuous usage for a long period of time, if she stopped, then she would have to wait for a period of time for the treasure to be available for use once again.

Suddenly, a blackish translucent dome surrounded the area where the man and Kate was!

'A great necromancer?', Kate thought.

People who practiced necromancy and were at the Great Necromancer level were as powerful as the magicians of the Adept level!

If great necromancers were compared to the adepts, they both have some starking similarities such as they could both utilize 5 spells, but the formers' overall strength were much more powerful than the latters' in a collective number of aspects.

She recognized the man as a great necromancer because of the dome that suddenly appeared, which was one of the magical spell that a great necromancer and more powerful levels in necromancy could only learn.

Kate noticed that she couldn't use her flicker inside this area. She also felt that her speed was reduced by 20%!

After which, she looked seriously towards the great necromancer and paid attention to him.

"Why so serious? It's not like I will kill you immediately. Hehehe...", the great necromancer chuckled and licked his lips.

The great necromancer chanted a spell and pointed at Kate, then a thin beam of green light shot towards her from the man's forefinger.

The latter tried to dodge it but wasn't able to, after which, she felt her speed was reduced again!

She sensed that her current movement was only 40% of her original speed, not just that, she could also feel that her energy was slowly being drained away!

Including the dome and the death energy ball, the great necromancer already used three of his skills.

Even though Kate could only utilize 40% of her original speed, she wasn't flustered and sent out dagger flashes towards the man.

In response, tbe man chanted out a spell. Afterwards, smoke formed on the ceiling of the dome and went towards in front of the man which blocked the dagger flashes, then the smoke turned into a giant undead wolf with green eyes.

"Get her.", the man pointed towards Kate.

"Awoooo...", the giant undead wolf howled and charged forward towards the girl.