Chapter 46: Rage

Eli's POV:

The fight was progressing in favor of the vulgar man. This was actually the first time I saw Leo struggle so much with an opponent. Still he was smiling, really this battle freak... Still that man is extremely good he's able to follow Leo's movement, just watching them move is hard enough, but that vulgar man is actually able to match Leo's speed.

As the battle raged on, the advantage was clearly with the naked man, Leo was actually losing... Still he had that vicious smile, I believe wholeheartedly that Leo will win, but why... Why do I feel this ominous premonition.

Leo's POV:

My reactions became slower, because of the lost of sight in my left eye, he on the other hand was just getting faster. I wanted to win with sheer sword technique but I guess that ain't possible right now. Hahaha how nice so I'm still green after all. I was about to pour mana into Lauria, but then as if noticing what I was about to do the naked man charged forward and swatted me with the back of his sword. I wasn't able to deflect it nor was I able to set any kind of defense, so I got the whole damage from his full powered attack.

It was powerful extremely so, six no seven of my bones in my ribs were broken in the process. I coughed up blood, Lauria was screaming in my head, she wasn't able to turn into her girl form without my consent. I saw the naked man approaching me at high speed, I wanted to evade, I wanted to do something but as I tried, I found out I couldn't do anything. My body was damaged to the point that even my legs were unavailable at this time.

It will take a few seconds to heal with my innate regeneration ability, yet those few seconds are seconds I can't have. I was about to die? Me? Hahahahaha how marvelous so even at my impending death, I didn't feel fear only excitement. What would death be like, is it really the end? Or will I still be able to enjoy more battle in the afterlife. As I smiled at the person who was about to take my life away, his blade thrust coming near me, a sudden silhouette flash before my very eyes. She went between me and the sword that was about to take my life. She Eli was smiling as the sword pierce her heart.

I couldn't understand what just happened, but I was brought back to reality when Eli spoke.

"Hey you idiot, you were about to die but you still smiled."

The sword that pierced her heart was retracted. The man retreated as if respecting Eli's final moments he stopped attacking.

"Why did you do that? Why Eli?" I asked in a voice that was surprisingly calm.

"You truly are an idiot. Fighting at the same level as your opponent never going all out at the beginning. So this is what you get for being too lax..." She just spouted a bunch of random nonsense. I saw her body was trying to regenerate but it couldn't do so fully. She only had a few minutes before she dies.

"Really Eli why did you die in my place?"

"Idiot! First you leave me behind, then you forget about me, now you're asking stupid questions... Why did I protect you? The answer is pretty obvious, it's because you are important to me." Eli smiled gently at me as she caressed my face.

"Its been fun going to all those places, meeting all those people, fighting side by side. I'm truly grateful that I have met you. I have no regrets... If we meet again in our next lives please take me on another adventure, so you may fulfill your promise to find me a new home." Those were Eli's final words before her eyes shut never to open again.

What is this? What is this feeling, even when my parents died this feeling of hatred wasn't this strong. So why then? Do I feel extreme sorrow for the death of this girl that I have only known for a few months.

A sudden burst of memories came flashing before my eyes. The first moment I met her, the promise we made, the journey we had, all of it came flashing before my eyes like a dream, even her final moments as she smiled seemingly fulfilled.

I was crying and I don't understand why, but I know the person who did this must pay dearly.

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This was the second time I felt such rage, the first was when Eli and Arika were captured. No this rage was more than that. I who look at life and death as something natural is furious because of a death of someone I know. How laughable, yet at the same time irritating. I need to do something to quench my anger, I need to end these fools that took Eli away from me.

Eva's POV:

Elizabeth died? No way that rival of mine, that obstinate person died? She protected Leo, before I could even realize what had happened. While I was thinking I felt a very ominous aura. I looked at where the aura came from, and when I saw who was emitting it, I shouted at everyone else, "RUN!"

Adela's POV:

When I heard Eva scream I snapped out of the trance I was in. This is bad, really bad Leo was emitting something aside from battle aura, this was a more murderous aura. We needed to escape quickly, I saw everyone move except for Rex, he was shivering in fear. I took hold of him and escaped. We needed to get out of here as fast as possible.

Third person's perspective:

Leo was emitting a very sinister aura that spread throughout the battlefield. The naked man was trembling in fear his instincts telling him to escape, yet his body couldn't move. Even the soldiers who where station kilometers away felt his aura and couldn't move. The soldiers who experienced many life and death battles, who even in the face of the absurd group they were fighting they didn't retreat yet now they started crying like children, some even knelt and started begging for mercy. They didn't understand why they did it, but their instincts honed in the battlefield, told them that this was the only way to even have a minuscule chance of survival.

Leo moved, the naked man couldn't follow his movements and before he knew it, both his arms were cut off. He was about to scream in pain but before he could even do that his vocal cords were accurately cut. Leo was standing behind him. The naked man was about to cry something he has never done, ever since the experiments done to him. Yet as if noticing the tears about to fall Leo gauged out his eyes, simultaneously he cut off his manhood. He was dying but it was slow, extremely slow and painful. As he was writhing in agony he heard Leo speaking to him.

"You are not allowed to run, you are not allowed to fight, you are not allowed to speak, you are not allowed cry, and I do not allow you to die a painless death."

Those were the last words The naked man heard before Leo cut off his ears.

Leo left the man to die slowly, yet even with this he still felt his rage boiling. This doesn't satisfy me this was the dominant thought in Leo's mind.

Leo then charged at the enemy army, he started slaughtering them. It was a massacre the enemy army didn't even fight back as they were killed one by one, they only knelt and begged for mercy, but Leo couldn't hear them he just wanted his anger and irritation to go away.

As they dwindle more and more, the horror and helplessness they felt was so extreme many of them committed suicide, instead of waiting anxiously for Leo to kill them.

The enemy army who numbered roughly 500,000 was annihilated by a single person. Yet this person still wasn't satisfied. He noticed several people with strong mana fleeing, these were his companions but, in his current state Leo was blinded by rage and simply wanted to kill. He pursued his companions to quench his rage.