Sea of Enemies and Worthy Opponent.

(Koku POV)

'Sieging the fortress is more complicated than it seems. The fortress has walls that are 6 meters thick and 20 meters tall, making it hard for siege towers to reach the top of the walls, not only that, the fortress has two set of walls, so even if they lose the first set of walls, they can retreat to the second one.

My army is encircling it, however, I am facing some issues that are rather troblesome.' While I pondered, a messenger arrived. 'Most of the enemy soldiers are conscripts. They are rarely a challenge, the true challenge is the height of the walls. I have no doubt that if I opened the gates, most of the enemy soldiers will run away before we even start killing them. If you put a weapon on a farmer's hands, he is still a farmer, and the trained ones are mercenaries who will run away as soon as they see that they are losing. Our soldiers on the other hand are elites, most of them are veterans of previous wars. Under normal circumstances I would have retreated already since I hate sieges, however, my King ordered me to take this fortress, and it shall be done. My King was meant to rule over this world, and me. I knew from the moment I met him. He would rule this world, and my job was to stay under him.' I turned to my aid. "Are the armors prepared?"

He nodded. "We have collected all the armors from fallen enemy soldiers. But what do you need them for?"

I smiled. "Isn't it obvious? To wear them. But first, I need a diversion... have the ballista move forward."

He nodded again and went to carry my orders. Soon enough, a ballista squad was put forward in the north wall. After a few seconds, many bolts flew to the walls, shaking them, and killing any soldiers it hit. With each hit, it weakened the morale of the defending army. After 3 barrages of bolts being fired from 15 ballistas, the damaged on the walls was visible.

"Deploy the siege towers!" I ordered.

After nodding, my soldiers moved 3 huge towers, and they were heading towards the fortress. Seeing their enemy focusing their attacks on the north wall, most of the defending soldiers were also redeployed to defend the northen wall. One of the 3 siege towers was lit on fire, killing all of the soldiers inside it. The enemies threw oil, burning the entire structure, however, it doesn't look like they have enough oil to burn the other two.

"Good. Everything is going as planned." I looked at the surprised aid. "Have the catapult load up the special cargo." After a few seconds of him processing my order, he nodded and bowed.

While he did this, I turned to my 100 men that were all dressed with our enemy's armors. 'I might have the fortress fall sooner then expected.' At this moment, the siege towers hit the walls, and my soldiers flooded in the walls.

A fight broke out, and a huge confusion spread through the enemy walls. I turned to the catapult who were all loaded. "Fire!" After my order, a huge amount of jars were thrown, however, instead of being oil, when the jars broke, they spread smoke.

Throwing the wall into more confusion. I used this opportunity to climb on one of the siege towers, and reached the enemy walls. Everyone were so focused on defending the walls that they won't even notice that a small force of 100 men were hidden within their ranks.

"Shall we get this party started?" In In the middle of a sea of enemies, my army swam through them disguised.

We had one objective. Ending this siege for my King.

(Karin POV)

"That muscle head is the same as always. Hearing his speech has made me sick." I commented.

"The enemy is moving. They are trying to cross the river. It seems that the Vanadis is leading the charge herself." One of my aids said.

"I can see that. I don't need you to relate it. Have the infantry form a pike wall in the river, and the archers rain down arrows behind them." I ordered.

Soon enough, a rain of arrows fell on our enemies, however, they kept charging over the river. The Vanadis was completely unharmed, so they just kept following her.

While I looked at them, a messenger arrived. "Reporting! The 1 and 2 infantry unit have suffered heavy casualties. Their formation is about to be broken. Elizavetta Fomina has already broken through the river!"

"Is that so? She must be aiming for my archer units. After all, they are routing most of her army, however, she is forgeting something. Mobilize the cavalry, and close the formation with the reserve infantry." After giving him my orders, the hole that Elizavetta Fomina opened in our formation was closed, and she stood behind enemy lines, facing an army while being completely isolated.

Her soldiers couldn't follow her pace at all.

'It doesn't matter how strong she is, she is just a woman. On my side I have 20,000 men, I will sacrifice every single one of them if it means her death.' I grinned.

"It appears her soldiers are trying to break through the river." My aid said after he returned.

"Don't allow them. Mobilize all of our infantry, and have all of our archer units focus on the ones crossing the river. Let's have the idiot of my brother deal with the Vanadis. He should be able to kill her. Tell rest of out cavalry stop any units that get pass our infantry." I told him. "This is checkmate. In this battlefield, a Vanadis will perish."

(Oemitsu POV)

'Seeing the strongest of the Vanadis in action is quite something. She broke through the river quite easily, with her soldiers following behind her. Anything that came in her path, was reduced to ashes.' I admired her attacks while on the back of my horse.

I could see Sasha breaking through my infantry units, she has managed to breakthrough them quite easily yet again. However I couldn't allow her to keep going. If I do, then she will reach my archer units, and I don't want to lose them, they are hard to train, specially longbow men.

"Lift my flag." I told my closest aid.

He nodded and lifted a black flag. "Get ready to charge!" After he said that my cavalry all went to their positions.

'I only have 10,000 men. Of this 10,000; 5,000 are infantry, and 3,000 are archers. Which leaves 2,000 cavalry, while Sasha has at least 15,000. Her center is the strongest part in her army, with weak flanks, while my army is the complete opposite. My center is weak, with strong flanks, with over 20,000 men on each flank.

I saw my cavalry getting in position. "Not yet! I'm waiting for the perfect moment!"

And soon enough, Sasha broke through my infantry, and was heading directly to my main camp. I took a deep breath with a large smile. "NOW CHARGE!!!" And yelled.

My cavalry followed right after me, smashing into her cavalry. I sent anyone who dared to get in my way, flying with my sword. My horse only galloped into one direction, Sasha's. I swung my sword and decapitated the head of one of the men that was charging at me, before I used my strings to cut another one in half.

When I was going to behead another one, I felt my sword stopping halfway through my attack. When I looked at who blocked me, I saw that it was a pair of daggers. Sasha managed to block it.

"Finally! A worthy opponent." When I said that, her daggers exploded in flames, but in response, I froze my sword.

A fight broke out between fire and ice. In the end Sasha managed to redirect the hit and I could not kill the soldier. 'Finally, a worthy opponent.' Around me everything was freezing, while around Sasha everything was burning.

Our soldiers backed out, or else, they would be caught in the crossfire. This made me remember the fight between Akainu and Aokiji that turned Punk Hazard to what it became.

I dashed towards Sasha and swung my sword downwards, trying to cut her in half. But Sasha blocked it by lifting her daggers over her head, she could take the hit, however, her horse couldn't. A small crater formed below her, breaking her horse's legs, and Sasha fell off of his back and rolled on the ground.

Seeing this, I got off my horse, and slapped him im the ass. Like this, the horse ran away from the battlefield.

"Why didn't you stay in the horse's back? If you did, you would have an advantage." She asked.

"If I fought for real, then the horse would die." I shrugged.

"Why do you fight?" She asked after she turned to face me. "What motivated you to create such a big war?"

"Fufufufufu. Isn't it obvious? It is because war is fun." I told her.

She gritted her teeth, enranged. "You would throw your own people into misery just so that you can have fun?! You would kill thousands for your entertainment?!"

"Did I stutter? Obviously! In war only the winner is right. The battlefield is my home, I live to experience such pleasures. Crushing your opponent until nothing remains. In the beginning, I went from battlefield to battlefield feeling exhilarated, but now... I feel empty since there is no opponent that can hold its own againts me." I shook my head before pointing at her with my sword. "No one, except you. Sasha, you are the one who will end my boredom."

"You are a sick man, and a threat to Zhcted. I will end you on this battlefield." She snarled.

"Fufufufu. Then what are you waiting for? Fortune favours the strong."

She dashed and met my blade with her daggers. 'Is this the best she can do?' I asked myself before I froze her daggers for a second, and kicked her.

Sasha back flipped, and dodged it. "String Bullet." Many bullets made of strings headed towards her direction, she tried to burn it but when she saw that it did not burn, she dodged them.

"How?" She asked, confused, because there was nothing that could resist her flames before.

"Why should I answer you?" After saying that, I closed in, and clashed my sword with her daggers.

*Cling*.

My sword broke. My sword was no match for her Vralt. At this moment, her other dagger came to claim my head, but I used my strings make a small spider web to block her dagger. "Athlete!" I kicked her with an string empowered kick, however, she blocked it with her another dagger.

'She is my perfect counter.

I can freeze her arm, however, she will unfreeze it within seconds. She makes my Ice Magic useless. Besides, she never loses her calm during battle. However, even if she can counter my ice magic, I still have my Ito Ito no Mi, and my Nen ability to counter her.'

I dodged a stab from her, and punching her with a punch empowered Nen. She blocked it with her sword, however, she didn't manage to block all of my strenght. so she was sent back for a couple of meters.

"PHOENIX!!!" She yelled after she recovered.

A huge amount of flames burned around her, this made anything near her melt. The soldiers that were close, ended up melting, after realizing this, they quickly gave her more space. The only reason why I'm still alive, it is because of my Lucifuge Magic, who is cooling my entire body.

(Her power is growing. She is at the Utimate Class, almost breaking through Satan Class. Be careful, she is the only Vanadis to ever master her weapon. She actually managed to unlock the Ultimate Power of Bargren, Phoenix. If you don't fight her seriously, you will die.) Nyar warned me.

"Hmm. Very well. Hunter's Carnival." After saying that the time slowed.

{Hmm? Am I finally being summoned? I was growing tired of waiting, Child.} The giant wolf appeared.

"Yeah, yeah. There was no need for me to call you before." I shrugged.

{If you summoned me now, this means that you are weaker than your opponent, KAKAKAKAKAKA!!!} The wolf hysterically laughed.

"Why did you change your laughter? Are you a hiena instead of a wolf?" My ears were ringing.

{Hmm. I thought that this laughter would be more intimidating... whatever.} The wolf got in front of me. {What will you sacrifice this time, child?}

I looked at the wolf. "Come near me."

{Hmm? Why?} The wolf lowered his head.

I stretched my arm and touched his head before I began to pet him. After a few seconds of petting, I could see a glimpse of his tail wagging.

"Did you wagged your tail?" I asked with a cheeky smile.

{No! Ahem! What do you want from me?!} The wolf lifted his head while he avoided to look at me.

"Such a cute wolf... or should I call you Wolfy?"

{State you request!}

"Alright, alright. My right arm. Enjoy yourself." I lifted my arm.

{I will, you brat.} He said before he ate my arm. After swallowing it, he looked at me. {Skoll.} And disappeared.

Like this, the time seemed to return to normal.

"The one who hunts the sun, prey on your enemy's flames, Skoll!" I said as my arm turned into a white, and red werewolf like arm with multiple northic symbols on it.

Sasha came out of her torrent of fire with a new armor made of flames, her twin daggers were glowing with a menancing fire.

"Fufufufufu. She truly is an interesting opponent." I told myself while she dashed at me and swung her twin daggers, sending huge amounts of flames at me.

'Its useless.' I shook my head. "Devour!" I stretched my right arm and opened my palms, devouring her flames completely. 'Skoll is a legendary wolf that chases after the sun with the objective of eating it. There is no way that such small flames can hurt my Nen ability.' I thought before I made a claw with my left hand. "Pentagon Strings!" And clawed at Sasha's direction.

Sasha used part of her flames to melt my strings but it was not enough. If she concentrated her flames to melt it, she could, but the flames were spread around her body. Seeing that despite activating her Ultimate Skill, she could not melt my strings, she became a little frustrated but she kept her head cool, despite being on fire.

After a quick analysis, she used her flames to propel herself to the side, completely evading my attack. After this, she dashed at me while boosting her speed with a fire explosion on her feet, and met with me head on.

I did the same and used my Ice Magic to propel myself and clashed with her. In close combat I'm not as experienced as her, however, I deal more damage than her. After we exchanged a few blows, she feinted and cut my stomach while I scratched her cheek. Her flames are completely useless, and so is my Ice Magic.

She can free herself from my ice. In a matter of seconds, this became a battle of attrition. After feinting one punch, I managed to land a punch on her stomach, and absorbed the flames on her stomach with my right hand.

She backed away, and threw up.

"It is time to end this." When I said that, my wolf hand glowed in a red color. "After eating the sun, Skoll's hunger was satiated. But mine is not! Sun's Downfall!" And everything around me burned. 'My ability is rather simple. I absorb flames, and return them. Since Sasha has been feeding me with flames for the past hour, the damage is going to probably instakill her.'

When I concentrated the flames of my arm to use it in my attack, I got struck with a spear on my side. Whe I turned to look, I saw that it was an enemy soldier. 'He was waiting for a chance to attack, so when he saw that I concentrated the flames and was looking at her, he took the chance and injured me.'

"How dare you interrupt our duel!" I turned my attack towards the soldier, melting him entirely.

Only the bottom half of his body survived the explosion. But I heard the last words of the soldier. He said, "I wish you good fortune Sasha-sama."

At this moment, I felt Sasha getting up, so I turned, however, I was greeted with a dagger of an enraged Sasha. I couldn't dodge it so I used my strings to stop part of her attack. But Sasha used her other dagger, and sliced my left eye. She managed to claim one of my eyes.

I backed away.

"Your sacrifice wasn't for nothing, General Ceaser." She said.

'So that was a General. There was no way that a soldier could sneak up on me... this bitch actually managed to cut one of my eyes.' I gritted my teeth. "Fufufufufu." I laughed before I placed my hand on my eye, and ripped it off before I swallowed my own eyeball. "It will be a shame if I left any part of me on this battlefield. Huff. I'm tired of this fight, it is time to end it."