Chapter 154

Quen, take the two-handed weapon to the half-sphere and quickly take a step forward dispelling the sigil and immediately apply Aard, towards the supporting leg and Eredin loses his balance, followed by Axius to throw off his concentration and he fails to concentrate and falls to the ground.

He's still trying to swipe with his hand, his two-handed weapon, but I throw a couple of blows and this time I get lucky and hit the joint for some reason not protected by the chain mail. Apparently he thought it was too hard to hit here.

Perhaps by now I could already say that the fight was over, as he now had two serious wounds that would severely limit him. However, my opponent still hasn't fallen out of acceleration, so there's no need to let my guard down.

Aard, Aard, Aard!

Three times in a row the same sign, I had never done that before in this fight, so Eredin didn't expect it and before he could get up he collapsed to the ground, and I was above him again and threw a series of blows, but this time it wasn't so simple. One of his accomplices was in my sight...

But he didn't get close enough, and he almost succeeded, interrupted by Ciri...

Idiot...

She could be a pain in the ass, though. She couldn't match Aredin's speed, of course, but with a little luck, she could surprise his aides, and I'd say surprise them to death.

I, on the other hand, continue to strike at Eredin, alternating with Aaard, three Aaard, one Axii followed by a series of blows, Axii and two Aaard, again a series of blows...

This went on for a while, until I realized that my opponent had fallen out of acceleration, and I myself began to feel some fatigue because of the work at the limit of possibilities.

Fuck...

Kiss Vic...

So harmoniously weave the bones muscles and joints together that they can withstand such a load while not putting too much strain on my brain.

The fact that my opponent was no longer in a state of acceleration was no reason to relax, but rather to change my tactics and only occasionally send signs to him to keep him awake. And no, I didn't try to rip off his helmet or hit him in the slit of his visor, any delay risked that I would simply miss the moment and Eredin would go back into acceleration.

I couldn't afford to screw up like that, so I just kept hitting the critical points without paying attention to whether they were protected by the chain mail or not.

It was only when my body was already exhausted that I turned off the acceleration.

"Huh... I didn't hurry to turn around yet, I slowly took off Eredin's helmet and looked into his eyes full of pain."

"Well? Did you get what you wanted?"

"I wanted to save my people..."

"Yeah, yeah..."

I nodded at his words, and leaning over him I pulled back the collar, then swung the energy blade of the tonfa into his neck, piercing it and severing it from his body in a small movement.

"Well, here we go..."

I sighed and now I had a chance to look around, Vesemir was still fighting his opponent, as was Ciri, but Becca was lying on the grass some distance away from me. The other members of the Wild Hunt had been killed, I couldn't figure out who had killed them, but I had more important things to do.

"Becca..."

I approached the girl, over whom the magical barrier had dissipated as I approached.

"David..."

She grinned sadly, blood dripping down her lips, but the optics I'd scanned her with immediately told me that she was more or less fine. No, the injuries are severe, but at least she's not life-threatening.

"I see you've had a good run..."

"It's my own fault. I let my guard down."

"Come on, princess..."

I leaned over Becca and lifted her into my arms.

"...take you to Dr. Vector."

"What about Vesemir and Ciri?"

"And I can't help them anyway..."

I shrugged.

"...overexerted himself in the fight with Aredin. Although... SUZI."

I said the last one using the internal link.

"Uh-huh?

"Can you calculate the location of your opponents and take them out?"

"Well, uh. I guess so."

"Then do it."

"Okay..."

Becca and I headed towards the gate, while Vesemir and Ciri continued to fight with their opponents. The first shot rang out as we reached the gate, followed immediately by Ciri's outraged shout.

"It was mine!"

However, I didn't care about that, the main thing was to finally finish the Wild Hunt.

"Panam..."

I continued talking on the intercom.

"Uh-huh?

"Make sure all the heads are separated from the bodies, the bodies can be thrown back into the portal, and the heads can be burned."

"Not the other way around?"

A slight surprise was heard in Panam's voice.

"The brain stores a lot of information, and who knows what those elves could have gotten up to if they could get to corporate databases in our world. If Silverhand was recorded on a chip and that chip was rewriting V..."

"I hear you..."

There was a strain in Panam's voice and then three shots rang out one after the other.

"Okay, uh. I'm done."

SUZI reported to me that the Wild Hunt was over. I smiled, and walked inside the fortress, where I reached Victor Vector's fiefdom in peace.

"Vic, hey, I brought you a patient."

"Uh-huh...

Vic glanced at us and nodded at the chair.

"...put her down. How are you?"

"It's a stomach wound, but I cauterized it, so it's bearable, though, you can scan it yourself."

"That's what I'm going to do..."

I was quickly scanned, after which Victor rummaged through the medical supplies and tossed me a standard-looking injector.

"Inject it into your wound area. You still have internal microdamage. It's not dangerous, but if I take care of Becca now, it'll take me a while to get to you."

"Vic..."

"Be quiet..."

Victor cut Becca off, who tried to tell him something.

"...I know what you're going to tell me, but on this point I agree with David, you need help right here and now."

"Okay..."

Becca sighed and covered her eyes.

I leaned the injector against my wound and pressed the button that caused the drug, through the needles that dug into my skin, to immediately be inside me.

"Oh."

I shook my head.

"Okay...get out of here..."

Victor waved at me, but I shook my head.

"Wait, Vic..."

"What?"

I took two steps and found myself hugging him by the shoulders, pulling him close to me and then pulling away to kiss him on the cheeks.

"Uh..."

He looked at me confused.

"That's for being a goddamn genius. So good at putting me together that my brain takes the strain normally, and my body takes the sandi with such ease that it seems as if the other users are put together by asshole, slant-eyed underachievers.

"Ahem..."

I pulled away from Victor and looked at Misty, who had just entered the office as I was kissing Victor on the cheeks.

"Just don't be jealous."

"Huh..."

She grinned.

"I'm not jealous, I'm just a little surprised. I think we should tell your girlfriends to keep an eye on you. You know, you're so wishy-washy.

Misty shook her head with a chuckle on her lips.

"Well..."

I shrugged.

"...I think if I were a girl I would definitely root for Vic."

"Okay, I can, uh."

Misty grinned, two fingers pointing at the scissors she was using to cut something off. And I felt a little uncomfortable with that.

"No, no, it's castration, and to be a girl I had to be born a girl, raised a girl, and live a girl."

I shook my head.

"Go away already. not a girl."

Vic snorted and I left him.

 *** Five days later. ***

The alarm sounded over the fortress.

I got to the tower very quickly, but I was very surprised, because still not a single shot was heard, and the order I gave was quite obvious, namely to shoot to kill if the elves will jump out of the portals. And only when I was on the tower I realized the reason for the lull...

In front of the portal stood a single elven girl, completely without armor, and holding a white flag.

"What are we supposed to do?"

Ciri standing next to me at this question Panam shrugged her shoulders.

"Going to negotiate."

"Not to go..."

I shook my head at Ciri's words.

"...not really go. Prepare a small table, three chairs, and a light set of food and drinks. All of this should be brought out and placed fifty meters from the entrance. We'll give our guest a nice place to talk."

"Okay..."

In twenty minutes the table was outside the gate, and I and Ciri quietly left the fortress, with a white flag flying above my head, with which I approached the table, and gallantly pushed back a chair and helped Ciri, who snorted, to sit down. Only then did I sit down myself.

The elf did not have to wait long and in ten minutes she came to the table with a smooth step I, seeing her approach, rose from my seat and when she was close enough I slightly pushed back the chair, helping her to sit down.

"So?"

I looked at the girl carefully.

"My companion's name is Cirilla Fiona Ellen Rhiannon, mine is David Martinez and I am the head of the Aldecaldo Order, now stationed in the fortress behind us."

"Alifia Sothi Manizeh, Knower of the Elven People."

"So what do you want us to do?"

She covered her eyes for a few seconds.

"I'd like to end this pointless conflict."

"Stop..."

I shrugged.

"I would like to point out that we are not at war with you, though I suppose it would be worth sending some gifts to your world. My sorceresses can calculate the direction of the portals..."

I grinned with the tip of my lips.

"...and then send a couple of cars full to the roof with explosives and chemicals through them ..."

I shake my head again.

"...I think such a move could be considered quite adequate."

"Adequate?"

The pixie's voice trembled.

"Quite, for it is you who are leading the invasion wars... for example, my world has been invaded on a full scale. I don't care if I'm not really attached to that world, I still have some people I know there whose deaths I'll be sad to hear about. And how many people have died because of your actions?"

"If you hadn't intervened and, uh. None of this would have happened."

"Just don't try to convince me that you would leave my world and this world alone. I won't believe it anyway, because I know about your expansion and the fact that you like to kidnap intelligent people from other worlds to enslave them."

She sighed.

"Okay, I get it. you're okay with peace between us?"

I looked at Ciri, making it clear that the final decision, despite my words, belonged to her.

"Stay out of my world and David's world and we'll stay out of yours."

"I... Thank you."

The elfess nodded to us.

"You're welcome for now... Better make sure that your ruler and others in the know take it to heart that in case of aggression on your part, we will no longer be so merciful and, just as you spit on the lives of civilians in our worlds, we will spit on the civilian casualties on your part."

"I got it. Can I go now?"

"We're not holding you..."

Ciri regally beckoned with her pen, letting go of the negotiator we'd been talking to for no more than ten minutes. But we sort of came to an agreement...

Alifia Soti Manizeh, the Knowing One