Chapter 17: Departure

"Ha! Battle Fury!"

When Gianis used his Natural Skill the pressure he gives off suddenly increases while the double headed battle axe glowed with bright red light.

"It's time to die!"

After using his skill Gianis immediately charge at Reynold with fast speed while planning to eliminate him as soon as possible, especially when he saw him as a threat that could possibly kill everyone here with his sniper rifle they are just human flesh that could die in bullet.

When Reynold saw him charging in fast speed while swinging his axe towards him, he immediately dodges and backed off to create enough distance with Gianis while avoiding any close combat confrontation as he knows that it's suicide.

"I could kill this guy easily if I could get my Stacks back, but I think once I have stalled this fight for too long we will win, especially when they kill their enemy." Reynold mutters as he looks at his group intensely fighting their enemy.

"You coward! Get back here! Fight me!"

Gianis was getting angry and frustrated as he was trying to chase after Reynold while doing the best as he can to stop or even hit him just once as he tried to used his shockwave attack, taunts and even throwing his axe is not working because of how agile and fast he was.

"Catch me if you can slowpoke!"

On top of that, Reynold was casually rubbed a salt into his wounds as he kept insulting him while sometimes slowing down to give him the false hope of almost catching up to him.

'I couldn't use my sniper rifle while running here or else I'll get out of balance. This is going to be boring, I guess?'

Reynold thought bitterly as he looked at the person behind him with infuriated expression.

When Reynold and Gianis is playing tag as they running and jumping all over the place. Ziv finally met his enemy, it was a lean young man with long hair that wielding a silver metal chain that has a dagger in one end.

"It's so unusual for someone to use chains as a weapon."

While Ziv was carefully observing the metal chain of his enemy as he was trying to know how it works.

"You never seen any of this? I reference it to Kusarigama but instead of a sickle it's a dagger and this weapon is vile and venomous, so be careful." the lean young man was trying to intimidate him with his weapon as he tried spinning it around his body while smiling cruelly.

"I was just curious about your weapon you don't need to explain it."

While he shrugged at his intimidation as he quickly draw his revolver from his holster while preparing to shoot his gun.

"You can't do that!"

Before Ziv could have the chance to bring up his gun, the chain agilely attacked his right hand that prevented him from taking any action while he jumped backwards to retreat and dodge the attack while it followed behind his back.

"How!?" he was shocked when he saw the chain is still chasing after while making an unpredictable and sharp attack pattern.

'I need to think on somehow interrupt his attack.'

"Ha! Take this and that! Now die kid!" the lean young man laughs loudly as he tactfully wields his chain to attack.

While the chain was continuously attacking him, he noticed a slight delay that he could exploit whenever his enemy whip and retract his chain.

'I could use that when I counterattack later.'

There are several times that the dagger brush past his face while he keeps dodging it and sometimes the dagger stab his thigh or shoulder that make him flinch in pain.

His perseverance was apparent as he didn't get fainted even though his clothes was full of his blood and was severely wounded from the stab.

While his enemy was only tired and getting bored on continuously swinging his chain around trying to kill him.

"Time to end this." the young man mutters as he relaxes his attack a little bit that give Ziv's a leeway to rest and charge at him.

'Now's my chance!'

The moment Ziv's realizes that his patience paid off, he immediately seize this opportunity to counterattack.

He unsheathed hidden blade on his forearm before charging towards his enemy as he dodges and block the incoming attack that coming towards him.

While Ziv was in the middle of his attack, he suddenly saw a beaming smile that hung on the face of his enemy that seemed to be waiting for this exact moment.

"Got you!"

"Sh*t!" Ziv suddenly has a bad premonition when he saw that, but it's already too late as a dagger silently stab his back.

*Puchi*

'I got careless there!'

He reached out his hand towards the chain while activating his ability to break the link that was connecting on the tip of the chain where the dagger was located.

"Ah! How dare you do that! I'll kill you!"

Looking at him breaking his chain while removing the dagger makes the young man crazy.

"Ahn-! That hurts so bad than getting hit on the thigh!" Ziv flinched as he tries to remove the dagger in his back while he quickly closing off his wound to stop the bleeding.

"I'll let you regret doing that." the young man's face suddenly become ugly as he wields his chain in a skillful and faster manner than before.

It quickly hit his abdomen without him having a chance to raise his defenses to block the attack while it whip towards his hand that broke his fingers.

As he couldn't react to both of this attack he instantly went in passive as he only dodges and gritted his teeth to endure the pain.

'This is not fair at all. I would be beaten to death if this continues. I need to do something here.'

When he was about to faint from the pain and suffering that he was experiencing right now, he heard a groan that escapes from the mouth of his enemy while the attacks suddenly stopped and he just looked up to see the young man got impaled by a black red spear that deeply embeds from his chest.

"H-How.. I-I couldn't defend nor sense it."

When the young man tried to remove the spear from his chest, he puked blood as he spoke his last word before he indignantly died and fall to the ground.

"What was that?"

As he couldn't hide his disbelief by what happened, he just stares warily at the spear that was impaled in the chest of the young man that came out of nowhere.

There could be heard another loud scream that came from Gianis that was chasing down Reynold all this time, there is a spear that impaled his leg that also in similar in the spear that pierced his enemy a while ago.

"Ha! Hu! You son of a b*tch Klint! You didn't abide by our contract.. Kahk!"

While Gianis was cursing at someone, a black red spear pierced his other leg that appeared from out of nowhere.

"You.. will.. regret.."

Before Gianis could even finish his sentence there is an additional spear that pierced in his head that ended his life.

The same goes to his other trusted aides that they were fighting with. When the situation was getting strange Ziv and his group couldn't carelessly take some action to avoid instigating the other side on attacking them while they rest on the ground to recover their stamina and injuries.

"Who are you?" Eve nervously probe as she couldn't stand this unsettling feeling she is experiencing.

The rest of the group just kept their silence and warily looked at their surroundings until the other side reveal themselves in front of them.

As they waited for a moment they saw a group of people wearing a black red cloaked that engraves with exquisite design walking towards their direction.

"We apologize for our impudence as we are taking care of something while we are on the way here."

A man that seemingly the leader of this group that covered his face with the hood of his cloak slightly bowed before apologizing.

"What are you doing here, Klint?"

When Malek saw this group of people he already know the identity of the other side while he was cautiously staring at the man in front of him.

"We meant no harm. We are spreading the word of god for people to lead in the path salvation." Klint replied at him with deep and solemn tone.

"Didn't we do this thing before?" Ziv mumbled as he has already seen this trick before to get some information from the guy called Mark.

"You bastard! I knew all along that you disguise yourself as a group of people that tried spreading the word of god in this area, but instead of that you are planning to sacrifice hundreds of people from your so called 'God'." Malek shouted as he exposed their deeds.

"Well, Malek I've known that you learned a lot of things, but I didn't know this is the extent of your knowledge to us I couldn't help myself to kill you."

"Also, your blasphemous behavior from our 'God' shall be judged as a biggest sin that couldn't be forgiven."

Klint face darken as the tone of his voice changed from coldness while the way he speak is monotonous that it let you involuntarily shudder.

When he raises his hand the body of Gianis and his aides dried, while the blood from their body was being sucked away into his hand that slowly forming into a red crystal orb.

"This shall be the end! Malek you will-"

While Klint was in the middle of his sentence he got suddenly interrupted by a Tier 2 Zombie that came from the sky.

It has a spike protruding in its spine while its red body is much denser than the previous one and its face that reveal a countless tooth in its mouth is hideous while it has a long sharp claw that is threatening even looking in the distance.

[Tier 2 Zombie (Variant Type)]

[A mutation from the branch of the Zombie tree line with exceptional intelligence combined with strong fighting capabilities that surpass any normal mutation.]

"You are so persistent! I'll just let you escape earlier you really are testing my patience!"

When the fight between the Tier 2 Zombie and Klint started it gives a huge impact on the surroundings, especially they are throwing lethal attacks that could possibly kill any bystanders.

While watching the fight, Ziv and his group have observed for a while before having an eye contact with each other when the fight becoming intense.

They got ignored by Klint and his group as they are focusing on dealing with the Tier 2 Zombie, thus to not waste the opportunity given at them, they immediately run and split up in different direction.

"Sh*t! Things are going real!" Reynold whistled as he looked at the intense fight that happening while following behind Ziv.

"Malek where is our boat!?" Ziv hurriedly approach Malek while they are running away as he ask him about the boat that they requested.

"Ah! Follow me, I'll lead you there!"

Malek leads them in one of the abandoned dock on the shore while showing him the white speedboat that docked in there.

"This is it! We can go use this to get away from this area." Malek showed them the speedboat before quickly boarding it while urging them to get in.

"Why are you coming with us?"

When Ziv saw Malek boarding the boat he couldn't help to ask him while he was feeling perplexed.

"Can't you see those lunatics!? They will hunt me for sure and kill me whenever they can! So, we need to get out of this place and leave." Malek explained while he was starting the engine of the boat.

"We couldn't carry another baggage here." Reynold ridicules when he saw him desperately escape away from here.

"That's not your business monkey." Malek said while pushing his finger in Reynold's chest.

"Stop it! Just start the engine and let's get out here before those people catch up." Ziv helplessly said while seeing them arguing.

*Clunk* *Clunk* *Brrrtt*

"Okay the engine now works. Let's get out of here."

When Malek started the engine as they are preparing to board the boat, Reynold suddenly got his whole body envelops with darkness while trapping him in this endless darkness.

"What is this!?" Reynold got alarmed when his surroundings suddenly darken while he got trapped in this black thing that materialize.

He tried knocking it, shooting it with his sniper rifle, but it couldn't do anything or even have a slight effect on it.

Outside that darkness, Ziv and Malek were surprised when they saw a human sized black cocoon in front of them.

"Why is there a cocoon that appeared in front of us? Where is Reynold?"

When Ziv looked around, he notices that Reynold was suddenly missing and what replaces it is this black cocoon.

"Hmm.. I think he got trapped by this cocoon. I'm pretty convinced that this came from Shadow and this cocoon is resilient and hard on the outside, only an RPG could possibly destroy it." Malek explained at him while observing the black cocoon.

"Is there any other possible method?" Ziv asked him for some other method they could use.

"Wait for 30 mins. But by the time it has undone, we will surely get caught by those people."

"We couldn't for that long while there is no RPG around here." Ziv nervously said while looking around the empty harbor as he thinks for more alternatives.

"Well, we don't have a choice, but to leave him alone." Malek suggested as he went towards the helm of the boat.

"Wait! Could the bullet that I enhance works here?" Ziv think about something as he looks at the remaining bullet in the chamber of his revolver before aiming at the black cocoon.

"This is all or nothing!"

*Bang*

After the bullet hit the black cocoon it slowly made a gap in the center of it while he can see Reynold inside it looking at him.

"Thank god! You really do it!" Reynold exclaimed happily as he crawls himself out of the cocoon from the gap that he made before he was about to hug him.

"If I didn't reserve another one of this bullet you were supposed to be a blood sacrifice or something." Ziv heaves a sighed of relief as he dodges his hug while mocked his pathetic sight.

After doing their usual banter they also board the ship while leaving in that place towards Fernia City and finally leaving the Black Market.

"You really wish that, don't you!?" Reynold asked him in a serious tone when he started mocking him.

"No. I'm not!" Ziv denied his assumption.

"You f*ckin do mate! I saw it in your eyeballs! Right here!" Reynold pointed at his eyes while emphasizing it.