Chapter 56

I would love to say Finn and the other leaders would have given us a great speech about sacrifice and doing the best we could to defend Orario before we valiantly charged into battle against the approaching army of Behemoths.

But reality is a cruel bitch.

"Lugio..." A whisper carried through the wind, and it was that almost casual incantation that a massive wave of compressed wave of sound speared through the camp, and all who were caught within the wave of sound were rendered into bloody mist so powerful was the vibrations of the sound wave.

For a moment I was pissed that the scouts missed her, but I could see her hands covered in blood as she casually walked into the encampment and was sure she killed all the scouts and guards as I heard a howling wind and the roars of the behemoths incoming.

"So many new talents huh?" Orario has gotten a bit stronger since we left." She shook her head and with a swipe of her sword, she sent a Gareth who charged at her roaring several meters into the air.

"You still haven't learned since our last battle all those years ago." She chuckled looking at Gareth falling to the ground, but her smile was lost as she spoke "Lugi-" Finn managed to speed forward and before Alfia could kill Gareth with her spell, she was forced to swallow the failed spell and kick him bodily aside and we could all hear his hip crack from the impact of her blow.

"Level 6 huh. Not good enough... I myself managed to level up myself fighting the old monsters hidden in the deep wilds so let us see how Orario will face a level eight."

I was the fastest leveling adventurer period but I simply didnt have the pure stats to even contend with her as Riveria used the Diamond grade staff I made to shoot a massive concentration of flames that broke on her body and spread far behind her to the point we could hear the dying screams of the approaching Behemoths being stopped by the leftover power of her spell.

"Riveria I was dying in flames that day in the dungeon and survived that... Do you think you have stronger flames than that of the dungeons collapsing on me?" And there's the biggest problem with fighting her, Silentium Eden. Her bullshit skill isolates all magic in her vicinity even her own, so magic was literally useless around her and that's why I didnt dare to rush over there.

"Haruhime level boost Finn and then hide!" I hissed and then I saw the first of the Behemoths break through the flames and I absentmindedly threw the Overload Barrel spell onto Haruhime making her level boost twice as strong and making Finn temporarily able to keep with her as he went from a level six to eight.

I couldn't see Bell or Ryuu but I was busy fighting the Behemoths which were three-meter-tall dogs covered in what looked like bone plating and had sharp tusks on their faces. Thankfully the anti-toxin amulet and my Pure Body skill made me immune to the horrid black gas emanating from the beast's bodies and the concentrated mists from their mouths.

As I swung my massive sword through the skull of the Behemoth, I was fighting I was knocked aside as Alfia sent a sound wave in my general area and the resulting explosion of moved earth pushed me aside, but my enchanted armor stopped the impacts, and I was merely a bit groggy from being rag-dolled a bit.

As I looked around at the devastated battlefield, I saw Gareth was dead or dying with having been split in half even though he certainly made Alfia pay for his death in taking one of her hands as she was no longer able to use her sword so fluidly and I could hear the cries of loss from the Loki Familia as they repeatedly threw themselves against her in vain but she was simply in another world as she scored a deep wound onto Tione when she overextended and was almost disemboweled were it not for Ais almost landing a fatal blow by stabbing through her heart.

Alfia had her arm that lost its hand buried into her armpit and was clearly squeezing it hard to prevent more of life-giving blood from leaking out as she used her sword to finally smash Ais away and through several tents obviously tripping her up.

As I kicked off of a Behemoth's face I used my rocket boots to create a massive explosion beneath me killing the monster and launching me into the air as I took in the battlefield, I saw the leader of the behemoth pack was fighting Ryuu, Aisha and what looked like Shakti and they seemed to have the battle within hand though it wasn't going to resolve anytime soon.

Lili, Bell, and Haruhime meanwhile were thankfully far away from both of the hearts of the battlefield and were slaughtering the level-three equivalent monsters.

I saw how Alfia was slowing down from a combination of her lung cancer or whatever deadly lung condition, along with her missing hand, but the Loki Familia were both heavily injured with Ais's Desperate even with the blade regeneration enchantment I put on it couldn't withstand the extreme battle not to mention how Ais's wind spell would destroy her weapon when channeling it through said blade.

It was when I saw Alfia kick Riveria in the knee and could audibly hear the elf's knee shattering and crying out from the brutal blow that I knew it was likely that she was going to kill all of the Loki executives, even if she was certainly going to die afterward from her wounds with the way she was staggering and didnt manage to kill the elf while she rolled away desperately trying to get away from Alfia's reach.

I launched myself at Alifa's back as Finn saw my heavy blow coming and sought to distract her with a blitzkrieg of rapid stabs with his spear, and even as her sword scored light wounds onto his lithe frame he didnt stop at all until with a roar of frustration Alfia took a gash to her side to dash forward and bury her sword into Finn's shoulder and her blood loss made her stagger and lose her sword but the force of her blow still literally pinned the sword and Finn into the ground taking him out of the fight.

But even as Alfia snarled and stood over Finn and visibly gathered her mana to emulate the Goliath and send a massive sound wave onto Finn's helpless form, she had no choice but to dodge as she saw his triumphant grin and my great sword cleaved into her shoulder and taking off her sword arm leaving her basically unarmed except for her magic and the possible kicks of a level eight.

"Lugio" For a moment I saw my death as a massive wave of force hurtled at me, but I was saved by a literal shoulder-breaking shove as Bete smashed into me and moved us both out of the range of her wave of sound.

Rolling across the ground I cried out at the feeling of my clearly broken shoulder shifting around in my armor but that didnt stop me from quickly rolling to my feet as soon I stopped rolling and dodged a boulder Alfia somehow managed to kick at me like a football when I wasn't looking.

As Ais took Finn's spear she attempted to stab into Alifa as she danced around but even half dead at this point Alfia was grinning and with a sweeping kick that broke Ais's leg she maintained that sweep kick in the spin to land a brutal stomp onto Ais's stomach and launched her through the charging Loki amazon sisters who attempted to rejoin the battle and had to stop to catch Ais.

"Just fucking die, you neurotic bitch!" I roared and sent a massive black fireball that exploded against Alfia to no effect even though she clearly hated the pure heat from the fire, but it was my insults that garnered her attention as she staggered at me. But if she dropped her Silentium Eden skill my flames would quickly kill her, so she was unable to send a sound wave at me with her skill running so she was reduced to slowly walking over here to kill me.

I dropped my shield as I couldn't carry it with my broken shoulder and prepared for battle as I continued feeding the flames my magic so she couldn't kill me with a single word.

When she sent a high kick straight at my head in hopes to of instantly killing me I noticed she was not longer moving faster than I could even see and had dropped down toward my level seeing how weak she was, I brought out the flames surrounding me to there fullest power and like when I fought those flower monsters back during the Monsterphelia my vision was fully engulfed within the flames, and I could hear Alifa groan in pain.

With a loud thud one of her errant kicks landed true, almost sending me to my knees as my armor cracked from the blow and took all the breath in my lungs making me lose my great sword.

But I didnt waste the opportunity to hold onto her legs and then push her to the ground and managed to straddle her chest even though I couldn't see her in the all-encompassing flames.

Though I imagine her expression in any other situation would have certainly been a sight but now our embrace was anything but going to lead to a little death as I jammed a hand into her mouth and then poured my flames into her body and I could literally feel her chest expand lightly beneath me from the flames filling out her disease-ridden lungs and stomach.

I thought she would be dead being literally filled up with a deluge of flames, so I just rolled off her body and onto the molten hot ground with a groan as the flames quickly cut off with nothing to feed them from the environment and my mind drying up.

But sadly, my hopes of just saying fuck it and taking a nap in my comforting armor despite the pain of my wrecked shoulder was announced with a light rustle as Alfia managed to sit up and somehow, she was able to maintain her anti-magic skill even if she lost all her clothes when I was burning her.

Before she could even stand up, I called out to her. "How did it feel to have a man so deep inside you and fill you up."

She literally face-planted into the ground seeing as she had no hands to stop her descent, at the sheer audacity of a man who was literally laying there unable to move as she attempted to stand up to stomp his head through the ground.

Seeing her attempt to stand up again beside my feet I sent a strong kick into her head making her fall back onto her backside and she lay there staring into the sky for a few moments and I bet she was wondering how a level three was bullying her so much.

Finally, our little tussle was interrupted as the ground and surroundings had finally cooled down enough for Bete to stagger in and I could see he himself was obviously injured and both of his greaves were broken but that didnt stop him from literally stomping Alfia's head into the ground repeatedly.

Finally, after what seemed like a whole minute of the werewolf stomping on her skull he backed off and I groaned out as he picked up and started pulling me back to the tents. "She dead?" I managed to get out.

Bete simply nodded silently, and I took his word for it.

I soon saw Haruhime working in the tents doing first aid and seeing me she quickly finished bandaging up her patient and moved over to tend to me.

But sadly, as I lay on the little cot that raised me off the ground, I quickly lost consciousness after my helmet was removed.