Chapter 26: Kawalerielki Blackout

During the major of Kazimierz, Kawalerielki. Three major nomadic cities will dock with the capital city.

The plan was supposed to be before they would dock in order to make them crash into each other. But due to Ash and their plans, things changed and the terrorists had to improvise.

"Damned Kazimierz, they just had to increase their security due to some people dying. Change of plans, we sabotage the cores and then launch an attack at the capital." The leader ordered.

Due to the campaigning knights being banned in the capital. There was an opening to attack Kazimierz in their triennial majors.

It was the perfect opportunity to wreak havoc and there are also many tourists that come to Kazimierz, creating perfect cover for terror attacks.

"Sir, charges are planted on the cores." A mook reported and they were about to blow up the control systems of the core. Immobilizing the power source of the cities.

"Let er rip." The leader smirked and thought that they would be causing tons of damage to Kazimierz in order to pave the way to Leithanien's invasion after the witch king revived.

Which they didn't know, has failed already. As international communications in Terra are non-existent.

An explosion was set off and the Kawalerielki alliance went dark.

"Let's go! Attack the cities outside first. They're less protected than their accursed capital." The leader smiled and he cheered with his men, for the glory of Leithanien.

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Right after everything went dark, Ash called the gang again.

"Everybody in position? We'll be handling everything here in the capital." He stood up with the Nearls and Degenbrecher.

"Aye sir! The penguin empire protects!" Exusiai's chipper voice was heard, making him chuckle. Already in a vantage point to gun anyone suspicious down. Platinum at her side with a bored look on her face.

"We're good." Shining looked at her team, Croissant, Lappland, Texas, Liz, and Sonus.

"Are we playing a game Ash? Do we need to find the monsters in the dark then kill them?" Narcissa was quite excited. Already hauling trucks with her to use as weapons.

Alastor and Astaroth's arts were also starting up, the trio looked like they are going to play.

"Yes Narcissa, and when you find the monsters. You squash them like an ant versus a boot. The more you kill the more rewards you'll get okay?" Ash hyped them up and their arts got even more intense.

"Don't you think that's a bad idea?" Margaret gave him a dubious look. Narcissa getting excited with Alastor and Astaroth wasn't the best decision.

"Ehh, they won't destroy the mobile city they're in. I taught them some self control. I think." Ash waved it off.

"Those kids? Why are you so nervous about them Margaret?" Mlynar had a bad feeling.

"Remember the feline girl with green eyes? She can turn the whole silverlance pegasi forces into a smear on the ground." Degenbrecher deadpanned at Ash.

"T-the whole silverlance pegasi forces!?" Zofia gaped.

Maria almost fainted at that and Mlynar was forced to sit on his seat again.

"Don't be dramatic Degenbrecher, I think they'll give her a good fight." Ash imagined it and knew they won't have a fucking chance in hell.

"I'll do you one better, she can destroy all the docked mobile cities for the major at once if she's stationed in the capital." Margaret sighed and just wished she won't crap on Kazimierz.

"It's gonna be fine. You guys worry too much, she won't do it. I'm like 98% sure." He smiled at them.

"What about the 2 percent!? Why is she even here if the girl can cause mass destruction!?" Mlynar snapped and his blood pressure rose.

"Chill uncle, she gets lonely easily you see?" Ash shook his head in disappointment at his lack of sensitiveness.

"S-she gets lonely?" Maria was in disbelief that they'll bring an arts user that dangerous. Like it was a picnic they were going to.

"Well, she won't destroy any mobile city if they don't piss her off. And Narcissa is pretty emotionally stunted. Come on, enough of this." He gestured for them to stand up already.

They roamed around the city to look for any people that would have bad intentions and they gave their positions away.

Terrorists were using arts and they bombed any building in sight.

"Hmmm, so they're over there. Let's take our walk there shall we?" Ash took his shirt off and gave it to Maria because she won't be a combatant anyway.

"Why are you talking your s-shirt off?" Zofia peeked at his sculpted back and he smirked.

"You'll see." Parts of his body started to smolder. His horns glowed a bright orange. Right arm turning black like obsidian and his chest looked like there was magma coming out of it.

"Hmmm, I feel quite nice." He really wanted to try out his form in combat and enemies conveniently appeared.

"Margaret, what's his race? There's no Sarkaz or Oni like that." Zofia watched his transformation in wonder. Not even the extinct Diablo Sarkaz that had supreme fire arts were like that.

"We don't know, all that matters anyways is he is on our side." Margaret chuckled and they started running to the direction of chaos.

At the site of attack, knights were fighting off the Leithanien terrorists. But due to the lack of campaigning knights in the capital, it wasn't going great.

"Support! We need support damnit! When will it be coming!?" Men with shields were holding the line.

Stray arts were flying around everywhere and they couldn't even advance against them.

They were just too good at arts, so they weren't able to enter melee which was the thing they were good at.

"Fucking KGCC! This is their fault, silverlance pegasi should be here right now!" A guy grumbled and he saw his team go down one by one from the amount of punishment they were tanking.

"Filthy Kuranta fuckers! Leithanien reigns supreme! The witch emperor will come back and claim these lands!" The terrorists cried out and they had a certain gleam on their eyes.

"Retreat! Retreat at once!" The leader of the platoon ordered, but they were getting gunned down by Harry Potter looking motherfuckers with wands of all things.

And before they got annihilated, something crashed right at the middle of the two groups. Raising a dust cloud.

The ground then started to get molten and a haze was visible due to the heat.

A crimson glow was seen inside the dust cloud and it was pulsing. And everyone who witnessed it felt their blood run cold.

It sent out a desire, hunger. And they knew instinctively what it wanted, their flesh and blood.

Ash brandished his sword and the dust flew away, they saw a tall man with an obviously cursed sword. And his appearance didn't help their anxiety.

"Well, well, well. Are these the witch king's remnants I see? You guys just didn't know when to quit did you?" He tapped his sword on his shoulder and clicked his tongue.

"Who are you, you bastard!?" The leading guy yelled at him and Ash smirked.

"I'm here to test something. Don't worry, this will hurt you, a lot more than it's going to hurt me." He grinned and threw his sword right at him.

Faster than a blink, the man got skewered on to the ground and nobody moved for a second.

"His blood... His blood is getting sucked up by the sword!" one of the terrorists noticed and the sword was greedily absorbing blood.

But it was much more than that. Their dead leader quickly shriveled up into a husk and his life nourished the blade.

Ash raised his hand and it went back to its master. Glowing a crimson red like fresh blood.

"This is going to be fun." He never imagined he would be wielding a cursed sword before. And he could feel it get even more hungry.

"S-shoot! Fire all the arts you can!" One cried out and they pointed their wands at him. Releasing a barrage of arts.

They kept at it until they felt it was enough and one of the seniors in the group smiled. "A-all talk huh? That's what you get scu- blegh." He suddenly got stabbed at the chest from behind.

"As the emperor of Leithanien, this is quite disappointing. Are you guys dropouts from the academy of arts or something?" He sighed and the guy shriveled up even faster than the first one.

"Run!" They all began to run for their lives and Ash licked his lips. "Ahh, that's bad. I was feeling a bit too good in killing them. My bloodline is quite dangerous."

He started hunting them down one by one. Putting an invisible wall in front of them that sapped all kinetic energy.

And when they hit it, they felt like they were wading through extremely dense liquid until all movement was impossible.

"I can't move! There's something in front! I can't move! Help!" Someone screamed and beg for help.

Ash started the massacre and every swing of his blade cleaved through muscle and bone like it was made out of butter.

Blood flowing to his blade like magic. Making the sword feel more sinister by the second.

"I beg you! Don't ki-" A man begged for his life but he dropped down to the ground after his waist detached from his lower body.

"Nein, actions have consequences you see?" He cleaved them one by one and they dwindled down one by one.

A caster fired his arts through his wand, his life depending on it. But Ash just shrugged it off.

He could see the crimson glow grow brighter and his comrades scream as they got cut down.

His knees were shaking and sweat from his brow even began to blind him. But he couldn't close his eyes. Thinking that he would never open them again.

"Monster! You goddamned monster! Die! Ha!" He yelled and fired his arts continuously, but it just didn't do anything.

And when all of his comrades died except the ones stuck in his arts, the monster turned towards him.

"Fuck! Why! Won't! You! Die!?" He kept it up, Ash walking up to him with a grin.

"Nanotubes son, it responds to arts and physical trauma." He grinned as he noted the success of his new personal AOS that makes use of his energy manipulation, using it as a conduit for easy use.

"Nice wand." Ash took his wand and shoved it right on his temple.

"It didn't have to be this way boys, you could have lived a good life in other nations after the witch king died." Ash sighed.

"Don't worry, I'll make Leithanien great again." He killed the others in his arts and all the blood in the area condensed to the demonic sword.

It then began to die down. Like it was satisfied by the bloodshed.

"He's... Strong." Mlynar saw him ignore arts like it was styrofoam projectiles. Not a single scratch on his skin.

"Ash is a monster... Where did you find him Margaret?" Zofia honestly thought he would thrash Kazimierz's knights without any problems.

"He found me actually, told me that he needed me. Isn't he romantic?" Margaret chuckled and her family looked at her like she grew a second head.

"Hmmm, dreamy too. Don't you think he looks cool with his shirt off like that? He's like a warrior that can take on armies~" Degenbrecher ogled him without any shame and was all smiles.

"You guys are crazy." Zofia was more terrified than anything.

Maria then stealthily took a whiff of his shirt and she blushed.

"Did you just sniff his shirt?" Mlynar's ears twitched and he heard someone sniff something.

"N-no! I didn't do it on purpose I swear!" Maria was in a panic.

"Well, he does have this nice musky smell on him that just drives you crazy. I can respect that." Degenbrecher shrugged and Maria hid her face with his shirt.

"Maria, you do know that won't do you any favors..." Zofia deadpanned at her niece.

They then saw Ash heal the wounded of Kazimierz. "You guys good?" He helped them up and he already went back to normal.

"W-we are sir..." Their leader nodded at him after he stood up.

"Good, tell Ioleta Russell that we expect compensation for this. My services aren't cheap you know?" He laughed.

"Anything more to do?" Margaret looked at him and he closed his eyes. Feeling for more terrorists by checking energy signatures that have a lot of arts units.

"Come on, they're scattered all over the city." He wanted to be faster and make Ioleta's debt even bigger.

At another side, Narcissa's team were demolishing terrorists that were hiding behind concrete pillars.

Narcissa used her arts and was currently wielding massive steel beams she took out of a building's rubble.

A group of casters tried to ambush them from behind, but in Narcissa's range. She could sense living things which made her a sensor like Ash.

And they were hit by a solid steel beam that splattered them. Spilling their guts and brains on the ground.

"Narcissa, good job. You got a group of them!" Alastor cheered her on and she smiled.

"Un, we killed a good 116 by now. What do you think Ash's reward will be?" Narcissa kept on decimating them and the twins fired arts like no tomorrow with their huge reserves.

They were actually doing more damage than the terrorists, but they have a goal in mind. And it was rewards.

"Maybe some chocolate chip cookies? How about we turn the number of kills into cookies?" Astaroth suggested while firing lightning at a poor bastard.

His skin boiled and he exploded, popping like an egg that was put in the microwave.

"Ahhh, genius." Narcissa gave her a thumbs up and they got even more excited.

And when they were almost done, there was just one left. On his ass as he tried his darndest to get away from them.

The trio walked up to him and they had a grin on their faces. But not because they enjoyed killing people. It was because they had a combined death toll of at least 300. Which will last their snack jars for a while.

"Hieee! Get away from me you monsters!" The guy was crying and Narcissa slowly raised her hand up.

"Thank you very much for your contribution." Narcissa balled her hand into a fist and he screamed. "No! No! Noooo!"

He got squeezed like a stress ball, except he wasn't stretchy at all.

"Yatta! We'll be getting so many treats." Alastor cheered.

"Umu, I counted. That guy was our 325th cookie. A good harvest indeed." Astaroth nodded with a rare smile from her.

"Come on, let's try to find some more. Maybe we can switch it up and get other treats?" Narcissa suggested and they immediately tried to hunt down anything that was waving a wand around.

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Platinum and Exusiai were sniping some fools and the Sankta was prepared for it. Screwing a flash suppressor on her Steyr Aug.

"For the penguin empire." Exusiai locked them on her sights and her new gun that she goes to sleep with was really accurate too.

"Ahhh, this is easy work. But it's still overtime, we just killed those guys from the Adeptus..." Platinum had a blank look on her face and was drawing arrows like it was a chore.

"Hehe, don't worry pegasus lady. We'll party all night right after this! I'm going to request an apple pie for sure!" Exusiai drooled as she reloaded, always carrying around a couple of mags.

"A request huh? You think boss Ash will grant it?" Platinum got into a daze and thought of what she would want.

"Leader is awesome! He always give me accessories to my gun and apple pies! His parties are also a riot!" Exusiai took her shot and was camping the terrorist noobs.

"Hmm, you think he'll let me relax? Like a vacation?" Platinum reached for her quiver, but she was out of arrows. "Ah."

"Sure will! Paradiso has a spa you know? The employees there are trained to be the best. Everything there is the best!" Exusiai was already missing the city.

The infected had high morale there. So they took their jobs extremely seriously. If they caught anyone slacking, they would actually beat their ass.

"Good, good. Boss is a good man indeed." Platinum is convinced that she will be happy with her new employment if what Exusiai said is true.

"Oi, you're out of arrows you know? How about you use this?" Exusiai was a complete gun nut.

So she still carried her Kris. In Lappland's words, she was a gun whore.

"Sure, I'm open to try new things. Bow and arrows are outdated anyways." Platinum held it and fired some shots to get a feel out of it.

She appreciated the rapid fire and she started popping bullets into heads like a pro. Making Exusiai's jaws drop.

"Waw... You're insane at that. Kris-chan, are you perhaps better suited to Platinum? No, no. Sorry about that baby, I was out of my mind for a moment." Exusiai took it back and apologized to it after they cleaned up everyone.

'This Sankta is fucking mental.' Platinum thought as Exusiai kissed her Kris and gave one to her bullpup too so she won't get jealous.

"Let's go and report to the boss then." Platinum ignored her quirk and Exusiai nodded.

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Sonus screamed her arts right at the face of a terrorist and his head popped like a watermelon. Mortal Kombat style.

"That's quite the way to go." Texas winced and she looked at her companions. The only normal ones were Liz and her buddy Croissant.

Shining was like a flash of light and zigzagged everywhere. Cutting everyone down with extreme speed and swordplay.

Sonus wrote arts in the air and would use their extremely deadly oral arts. Making heads explode and cancelling enemy arts.

"Kyahahaha! More! Struggle more!" Lappland was... Lappland.

"A little help over here Texas!" Croissant was blocking a barrage of arts in Liz's anti arts field, but it was still going to overwhelm her soon.

Texas snapped out of it and she slashed at them with her sword. Making their torsos explode from their blood steaming inside their cavities.

"Ew, you are not graceful enough. You're covered in blood young Lupo." Sonus looked at her like she was disappointed and Texas received unlikely damage from her allies.

"What? You should be faster, don't let yourself be dirty. A lady should be clean and pristine. Just like Shining." Sonus nodded at Shining who doesn't have a drop of blood on her sword.

"Heh, then what about her?" Croissant pointed at Lappland who was breathing heavily and was still high in killing a lot.

"Her? She's insane, what do you expect from the girl? Proper ettiquette and she'll go ohohoho?" Sonus gave Croissant a dirty look and she got depressed.

"She's like a really strict mom..." Liz observed and Sonus snorted.

"Not strict enough it seems. My son left the clan and went to help Babel instead. Well, not like I have the moral high ground. Ash has recruited us as a whole." Sonus frowned and remembered her unruly son that did not want to be a part of the clan.

"Hoh? You have a son? Isn't that extremely rare in the banshee clan?" Shining knew their subspecies as a confessarius.

"He is, but that boy wanted to be a knight in shining armor. Joining Babel, now that I think about it. I should brag to him that we have a much better settlement now." She huffed.

They then thought that there is another reason for him leaving.

"Come on, let's go find more poor bastards to gut!" Lappland gave them a bloodthirsty grin.

Shining nodded and everybody started to patrol their given area again.

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Thanks for reading everyone. Ciao.