10 Flood

Burst of explosions rang out in every direction. With a feminine hand that seems to attract men, an array of magic comes forth to destroy her enemies. Fire, water, air, there's even some of lighting mixed in but that's the least of the problems for the enemy.

While they were fighting, naturally people gets injured and some even died. Going by the minute, their numbers have lessened but the pressing issue is the fact that the blazing fire from the other side is going out much faster than they thought.

Looking at it from the human's side, Baron Ted Tell issued out orders. A scum he may be, he still inherited some of his father's talent or so it seems.

"Hurry out and take that witch down! If they successfully put out the fire, we would have to face all of them!"

He spoke with a voice that seems uncertain. His expression was one where you can't tell if the fear has gotten to him.

"W-we're trying sir! But it seems like she transformed and judging from her firepower, she is probably rank 4!"

"R-rank 4?! That bitch!! She's going to ruin this!"

The house of Tell was, for better or for worse, an upstart. They don't have the necessary numbers to take down a monster that boasts a great deal of magic power. They also don't have the personnel who could take down such a monster. If they had to pick out someone, it would be…

"My lord, I would like to request permission to take down that thing."

Baron Ted Tell had a fed up expression when he heard that. He turned around to rebuke the man but…

"Oh! Mayo! T-that's right! I forgot about you. Go, Mayo! Bring me that bitch head!"

After hearing the last of his lord's words, Mayo disappeared. No, to be precise, he raced off so fast that it looked like he vanished.

Noticing Mayo approaching, the monster who kept massacring the humans stopped. She looked towards the direction of Mayo and held out her hand.

That action of hers confused the humans but soon, the clash of metals could be heard. Facing off against her palm, a sword has appeared.

Unable to cut the skin of Liya, Mayo backed off. He held his hands out front to produce lightning. He shouted.

"Thunderclap!"

The magic then moved like a snake to fry Liya. Of course, Liya wasn't going to allow that. She produced magic to counter the lightning given off by Mayo.

"Rise, wall!"

Arising from the ground, a wall of earth has made its appearance. A loud boom resounded out through the battlefield from the collision.

Dust formed and pieces of the wall burst out from the impact. Frantically searching for her enemy, Liya narrowed her eyes while turning her head here and there.

Then suddenly, a hand appeared from the dust, trying to grab the head of Liya. Liya's reaction was late resulting in her hair being grabbed.

The owner of that hand, Mayo, pulled it while positing his right hand to slice off her neck. The speed of his sword slicing through the air was just inhuman.

But it's not as if his enemy will just stay put. What he was fighting is a monster; a Suckus who used her race's grand magic.

Liya brushed his hand off by cutting her own hair. She is in a form greater than her former, wounds like that will heal in a jiffy.

Simultaneously, she prepared a magic of water blade in her hand to pierce through his stomach. She thrust it to pierce through his stomach but she couldn't. Mayo disappeared into thin air.

She looked at the surroundings but Mayo wasn't there. And then…

"Naive!"

A voice reverberated from her back. It was Mayo's who was already in the position of slicing her neck.

"You're the one who's naive!"

An inch away from her nape, the sword was broken after slashing.

"W-what!?"

Mayo backed off from the result. A sword was broken after cutting? Such a thing wasn't possible to happen however…

"I-ice!?"

Littered across the ground and on his sword's fragments were ice. Liya looked back with her arms in front.

"I can do things like this when I'm in this form."

Beginning with her elbows, her frail arms were being covered with ice, ice that seemed impossible to break.

Seeing that, Mayo sheathed his sword and closed his eyes as he spoke.

"Then, I guess I'll have to put out my all."

Liya scoffed at his words.

"Not just your puny strength but also your life!"

But deep inside, she was worried. For a foe at his level appearing in this late of the game was but a troublesome existence. To Liya who had a time limit and the threat of other humans still there, she couldn't help but be worried.

She looked beyond Mayo; at the place where the numbers of her enemy were the thickest.

'I have to get them caught up in our battle.'

She resolved herself once more…as her candle begins to burn out.

****

Lyra was stationed at the back of the wall but life there isn't so easy. While her mother, Liya, was fighting beyond it, magicians still attacked the wall of water.

Desperately looking for weak spots, the wall of water isn't as it used to be. It hadn't even been 30 minutes yet since the start of the fight but the state of the wall was as bad as it could get.

One of the women spoke to her.

"Lyra, we won't be able to keep this up any longer. The village head…your mother seems to be in a fight with a strong one. At this rate, we will be wiped out."

The woman wasn't wrong. They were counting on Liya to finish off the humans while they work on the fire. But with the entrance of Mayo, the plan was thrown off tracks.

Despite that, Lyra spoke with full of confidence.

"Don't worry. Mother will be able to finish her task well. We also have to do our best here."

"I got it but…what will we do? Do we continue reinforcing the wall or help out with the fire?"

Looking at the fire with a conflicted expression, Liya was having her own thoughts.

'If now when we don't have any casualty yet, it is possible to freeze the surroundings of the fire.'

Indeed. With the work of Desire and the others, the fire has lessened not by much in the air but much in the land. With the trees cut off, preventing the fire from catching another, it's only a matter of time for it to die down.

But there is still a possibility of it continuing so they can't neglect it. After sorting out her thoughts, Lyra spoke still with full of confidence.

"We will attack them with the flood."

"E-eh? At this point?"

"That's exactly why! We need only to disrupt their footing to let mother fight in ease. After that, we will focus freezing the fire."

The woman seemed satisfied with Lyra's explanation as she nodded her head a few times while saying 'Okay! I'll tell the others!' but before she could, a shot of magic pierced through the wall, splashing water on Lyra and the woman. Their look was fitting of their ancestor but that wasn't a problem for them.

"W-what happened?!"

Lyra asked no one in particular but the woman answered her regardless.

"T-the wall has been breached! B-but…"

The one to continue her words was Lyra.

"There's no enemy? What's the meaning of this?"

Naturally, if their defense has been destroyed, people who specialize in close-quarters combat would have been swarming in but there's no sign of that. Truly, what a mysterious event this was but of course, that's the least of their problems.

"W-we can't stay here! Let's go!"

Lyra beckoned her ally as she started to run herself. They needed to at least cast the flood magic to buy some time if they don't want things to turn for the worse.

As they started to run, the women at the back have noticed that a part of the wall wasn't regenerating. They met each other while running and without taking a break, Lyra gave her orders.

"Prepare the flood magic! We will flood this area with water!"

"W-what are you saying?! Flood this area!? Are you out of your mind?!"

Of course, not all feel satisfied with her taking command. There were many who were stronger than Lyra but the reason why she held an authority like that was because of her mother.

Lyra answered with a cold voice to that protesting woman.

"Do you think we can win on even grounds against the humans? If we could, we would have taken them out first."

"T-that's…"

The woman couldn't give an answer. She knew that they couldn't so it wasn't surprising to see her bit her tongue.

Lyra pressed on with her orders after seeing that there are no more objections.

"We will cast the flood here! We are fine to some extent but don't overflow it, just have them unable to move!"

"Yes!"

The women then started their chanting and soon a blue glint appeared from their hands. Grasping that blue glint and shoving it into the ground, they shouted at the same time.

"First fall: flood!"

Soon, water appeared out of nowhere and it flooded the area as they wished. The water moves with force enough to push a man to his bottom.

The water spread throughout even more, with the water touching the waist of Lyra. After all, the Suckus' affinity with water was high, being able to produce more when it comes to water magic.

Knowing that the humans won't be able to move with ease, Lyra was satisfied. She nodded and gave a few orders before turning to the fire.

However the situation wasn't that good. After all, there was a victim from their side…

****

With the sound of someone drowning, a hand tries to pull itself out from the water. The efforts could be complimented; the person tried really hard to stop himself from drowning.

"Kha! Kha!"

Trying to breathe underwater, the person choked. Choking and unable to breathe; the person flailed his arms until it no longer moved.

At the bottom of the not so deep water, Desire was drowning…