Chapter 18 - Let's Start The Attack

Fortunately, after more minutes of the endurance, Lara's heartbeat turned to normal. She could feel her body was different than before. 

Drake sensed her new state of energy was forming perfectly. He then said to her, "When you can use the water, you can use other elements." As he said that, the strong wind was coming from above.

That's the time when she realized what he said. As the soft breeze touched her skin, Lara put her courage to let out his mana energy into the air. 

She then notices the shift of her own energy. It was heavier, but far easier to control. 

Drake then did the same with Faryal and the two Sora. When he could enhance Lara and Faryal to become stronger than a high tier mana, the two apprentices could only elevate based on their core mana capability. But this will work for now. 

When the night came, Drake, Marven, and the four Sora were already prepared to move. They left the other Bismouth behind, since they needed to work in secret. 

They were covered from head to toe with black coat, and the mask was tied up putting their face out of sight.

As Drake started to move, the others followed him from a certain space. Using his mana on his step, his fast movement was hard to catch up. 

They arrived at the back gate of Zone West. When there's a minimum guard standing in front of the pass gateway, the place was so quiet that even the dog barking from far away was heard so loud.

Zone West was a neutral zone which was directly stated beside Auro town, the town that Drake was staying in right now. It was only half the size of Zone West. 

When Auro town was particularly side by side with West Forest, Zone West was surrounded by three other red zones class, one of them was Auro Town under Samoa. 

It was rumored that Sora had plans to eat those three red zones and made them their territories. So then the Zone West' area would become much wider than now. But since no action was taken, Samoa didn't bother to confront them. 

Zone West border was built up in tall wall circling the area inside. Though because the destruction by Drake two nights ago made the wall fall on the one side. 

And There'll surely be more guards on stand-by around. 

Time to start. As Drake gave a sign with his hand, those six people immediately moved on. 

When the guards in front of the gate fell, It was Lara and Faryal's first move to open the way.

Lara was going to the front gate of Zone West and Faryal was at the back gate. 

In the same way they made the guards sleep, both of them were standing with open arms while holding a valerian flower.

It was the flower that by a certain amount could make other people sleepy. But because of the high level of power they had right now, Lara and Faryal could take only the substance they wanted from the flower and made the effects multiple times stronger.

By the soft breeze combined with their mana energy, a beautiful purple cloud was forming in the air. 

It then quickly spread around the border wall, making the other guards on patrol go to sleep. 

"Let's go!" Darke said to them. 

It was a peaceful night after the incident two days ago. A random man was doing his job at the bar. As he took out the trash, he then smelt something sweet yet burned his nose. 

In a second, that man lost his consciousness, falling asleep right on the spot. This happened to the other people near. 

When the cloud of sleeping drugs was coming from the front and back of the town, there was also the same cloud that appeared from inside. 

It was the task for the other two apprentices Sora, to make the local people get their sleep. 

The dark blue sky with a glimpse of moonlight, was now an overcast with a purple mist visible on the air. 

In just a short time, Zone West became as silent as the graveyard. 

Drake and Marven were still running towards the main place, Sora Tower. 

As the flag of two snakes colliding was seen, Marven told Drake that they almost reached the destination. "Drake, that place is the Sora Tower."

Drake nodded. They then ran faster to the tower. But before the whole building was clearly seen, there was a group of people blocking the way. 

Total five people. With the familiar uniform, they were surely Sora from the tower ahead.

"I'll handle this," Marven said, urging Drake to keep going.

Drake then continued the run, "I will leave them to you."

When one of the Sora tried to hold Drake back, Marven then quickly pulled out his sword, swinging it in front of the man. He smirked, "Not so fast, you piece of shit!"

When the Sora couldn't fight using a weapon like Bismouth, they had to prepare poison or drugs before doing the action. No Sora could jump in the battle without preparation. 

One of the Sora near Marven took a step back. He then took out the bamboo tube from his pocket. As soon as he opened it, a gray mist of gas was coming out. 

For other people without protection, the gas would definitely make one person's eyes turn red in the state of blindness. 

Sora who used their drugs was trained to handle it, or they planted the antidote inside their body. 

So with the special drug they had, there was no doubt in their mind. No single person would be able to escape the pain of that poisonous gas. Little did they know, Marven was already immune to that.

Not only to that poisonous gas, Drake made Marven drink something to resist any drugs for next two hours. 

After that, success or not the attack was going to be, he had to leave the Zone West right away. It's the only way Drake wanted to take Marven with them. 

And true, when those Sora waited for the painful scream to come out of him, they only got to see the man who was gracefully standing under the poisonous mist. 

It was so exciting for Marven. He would never have imagined a Bismouth like him could go after Sora in this kind of way. 

"Get ready, all of you!" He said with his deathly smirk.

At the same time, Drake kept running towards the tower. When the wooden gate of the tower appeared in his sight, he moved faster kicking the wooden door, not bothering a lot of Sora that was already guarding inside. 

They were indeed already aware of this sudden ambush. 

The loud sound of wood breaking made the Sora near him back in their position, blocking the way. 

Though the sleeping cloud that Lara and the others made had already reached the tower, but instead of sleeping, they were perfectly sober. 

Drake grinned mockingly, "You guys learn a lot as a Sora, but let's see." 

He then boosted his mana. Just by his energy himself, Drake perfectly made his enemy in the cold sweat. "Well, I don't have time to play with you guys." 

As he said that, Drake slashed his sword under his powerful mana. It reached the center from the Sora before him, making a great way to escape. 

The Sora then used the same method with their other friend. It was like a first protocol for them if they got cornered. Some of them opened a bamboo tube, and there was grey smoke coming out. 

But before the smoke reached Drake, It disappeared right around one meter before him. Like real magic, it just vanished into the air.

It was a skill that nobody had. A purified energy. Drake could do that just by adjusting his mana core. He could transform his energy to purify the energy around. 

"I told you I don't have the time." Drake swung his sword again, making a way and ran.

"Tch! Chase him!" There's one of them, who was brave enough to throw a bottle of poison at Drake. While the poison gas was not a success, he thought this might have different result. 

"Hora!" 

As Drake said that, those sora saw a dragon emerge in front of them. A real dark blue dragon, with his long tail perfectly repelled the bottle. 

Right now, Hora was not in his small figure or the huge one. His size was manipulated to moderate, so he didn't get in the way of Drake. 

When people never knew about heaven spirit, they would certainly classify dragons as monsters. "Mons.. monster!" 

Drake stopped his running. Actually, he didn't want anyone to see his dragon. "You guys are troublesome. Hora! Get invisible."

Hora then disappeared in everyone's sight just like that. As a heaven creature, he had the ability to choose showing his figure or not. 

Drake then, focusing his mana to his hand. He brought his hand in front of him.