18 Golden Escape

Meliodas glanced back at Yuka and saw he was only unconscious. He looked forward again and looked behind Ogre. There he saw Lyon, who was barely able to stand and further behind him was Sherry who was unconscious.

'He blocked my attack with his fist?? Ogre was surprised. Although it wasn't his full power, the other party had blocked his attack with his bare hand.

"Not bad kid, but try and block this!" Ogre laughed maniacally as he moved towards Meliodas. He winded back his arm and prepared to swing. However, before he was able to step forward, Meliodas leaped forward at him and delivered a quick jab to Ogre's stomach.

Ogre winced in pain at the force of Meliodas's punch and stood there stunned. 'This small kid can harm me through my enhancement?!'

Before Ogre could move again, he felt a sharp pain to his chin as Meliodas transitioned into an uppercut, launching Ogre into the air.

Before Ogre knew it, Meliodas was now above him and kicked him straight into the ground below, causing a large crater.

'What the hell...that's Meliodas?!' Lyon questioned as he looked at the massive cloud of dust formed from the impact.

Suddenly the dust cleared as a rotating vortex of gold cleared it away, revealing Ogre to be standing. There was a small amount of blood dripping from Ogre's mouth. Ogre wiped the blood and grinned at Meliodas, who had just landed on the ground.

"I felt that you little shit!" Ogre laughed.

Meliodas put his hand on the handle of his sword and narrowed his eyes. He charged forward at Ogre with blistering speed. Before Ogre could process what had happened, Meliodas appeared behind him.

"One thousand divine slashes!"

A moment later, blood began to gush out from different parts of Ogre's body. Ogre turned around and smirked at Meliodas.

'This guy has tough skin.' Meliodas thought to himself. He looked at his blade and saw that it was chipped after using thousand divine slashes. A cheap iron sword like this wouldn't be able to draw out or handle Meliodas's power like Lostvayne did. Meliodas sheathed his sword again and looked at Ogre.

"That's it you little shit!" Ogre yelled as he put his hand in front of him. Ogre's magic began to rise drastically as a golden aura was emitted from his body.

"GOLD RUSH!"

Suddenly, many small golden spheres began to form behind Ogre. Meliodas stared at the spheres but quickly moved his head slightly to the left as a beam of pure gold shot out from one of the spheres.

'This attack is really fast!'

Without having any time to pull his sword out again, Meliodas swiftly maneuvered his body, being barely able to dodge the fast rays of gold that were shooting at him. The rays of gold continued and Meliodas could feel blood starting to trickle down from different parts of his body, as he was not able to dodge each hit fully.

'Tch...this kid is nimble. This attack uses too much magic to keep using like this.' Ogre thought as he watched Meliodas continue dodging the attacks. He looked around and saw Lyon standing several meters away from Meliodas, watching in awe. 'There's my chance.'

Ogre shifted his positioning and faced his hand towards Lyon.

"Hahaha! DIE!"

Meliodas's eyes widened as he saw the beams change directions and make their way towards Lyon. Lyon watched in horror as the beams that were attacking Meliodas were now heading towards him.

Before Lyon could react, a figure appeared in front of Lyon. The figure had its arms outstretched, ready to take the full force of the attack.

"Meliodas?!" Lyon exclaimed.

The golden rays assaulted Meliodas's body. A pool of blood was beginning to form under Meliodas as blood splattered from each hit of the ray.

After a few more seconds, the rays stopped. Meliodas fell to the ground on one knee as he looked at Ogre. Ogre's red skin had become regular human skin and he had shrunk in size slightly. The glowing orbs were now gone as well.

"Tch...I'm running low on magic." Ogre said to himself.

"Meliodas...why would you do that for me?!" Lyon asked. Meliodas turned his head and glanced at Lyon with a grin on his face but didn't say a word.

"Ogre! Stop where you are! We have you surrounded!" A voice yelled from behind him. Ogre turned around and saw several councilmen and town guards had just arrived, with their weapons pointing towards him. Ogre regained his composure and looked back at Meliodas again, who was covered in blood.

'Shit...I don't think I could fight all of these flies off with my magic this low...' Ogre looked around again and noticed Sherry's body close by.

Ogre raised his right hand up and pointed it at Sherry's body, surrounding it in a golden dust and lifting her off the ground.

"Sherry!" Lyon exclaimed.

"If any of you worms try something funny, she's dead!" Ogre yelled and looked back to Meliodas.

"What's your name kid."

"Meliodas." Meliodas said as he looked at Ogre with fierce eyes.

"Raise your right palm to your face." Ogre ordered. Meliodas complied, not wanting Sherry to get hurt. Meliodas looked at his palm and gold dust began to swirl around it, forming letters.

"I gave you the location. Come alone or the girl dies." Ogre sneered as gold dust began swirling around both Ogre and Sherry.

"Ogre..." Meliodas said in a serious tone. "You'll regret this."

Ogre looked into Meliodas's fierce green eyes as the dust swirled around him. Ogre felt something within him, a feeling he had not felt in a long time. A bead of sweat began to crawl down his face. Ogre lifted his hand and looked down at it, seeing himself tremble slightly. 'Heh...I haven't felt fear like this since I first met Doryu…'

"Sherry!" Lyon yelled as he ran towards the golden dust, only for the golden dust to vanish with both Sherry and Ogre. Lyon fell to his knees and punched the ground.

"Dammit…"

To Lyon's surprise, he felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked up and saw Meliodas looking down at him.

"Don't worry, we're gonna get her back."