Count Liam Arcavdol never doubted Stella's words. Not only because Stella had always been loyal to him and his family, but she never showed a sign of betrayal; but also because Karen's unconscious body was on the ground beside the dark-dressed men. That was enough evidence.
Thus, he did not hesitate to use his full strength from the start!
Of course, their plan had some loopholes and it was just a matter of time before the Count discovered that something was wrong with Stella's story, but by then, it would be too late.
The group, especially Brian were slightly surprised by Stella's acting skills. With such an Oscar-winning performance, it was not strange that the Count was fooled.
Now that she did her part, it was their turn.
"Guys! Let's roll out!" Delirious called his friends.
"Yeah!"
"Let's do iiit!" Brian shouted in his Irish accent.
Just like that, the fight against the dark-dressed men started.
The Captain of the dark-dressed man scowled.
"Dammit, such shitty luck."
He, however, knew that it was not time to hesitate, "Yondu, contact Sir Breemin! As for the others, kill them quickly! It will be bad if more people are attracted here!"
One of the black-dressed men nodded and took out a magic communication Item to relay the sudden change in the situation to the Demigod fighting Samara. At the same time, the other six charged towards the group.
Captain Cost decided to take care of Count Liam himself. He looked around and sighed in relief when he realized the Count was the only Legendary Realm expert.
His side had two extra Legendaries, he and the two were both Rank 9, so the situation was in their favor. Moreover, the Count was tired and injured after resisting the monster wave. Thus, although the situation was bothersome, it was not critical yet.
Captain Cost even regretted asking for the Demigod's help. Unfortunately, his expectations were soon betrayed.
Before the other two Legendary Realm experts could kill someone, the main character's group moved.
Xavier was the first to step forward, pulling out an enchanted Netherite sword and an enchanted Shield in his hands and intercepting one of the Legendaries and four Grandmasters at the same time.
Delirious, Marcel, and Brian faced the second one. At the same time, the other men that came with the Count charged towards the other enemies.
Stella, on the other hand, had disappeared at some point without anyone noticing.
The Legendary Realm expert that our idiotic heroes were facing, who is the lazy man, Quaiesse, he smirked and twisted his neck.
"Come at me, you assholes!" Quaiesse lazily said as he then tapped his right foot on the ground and moved forward, though he put a little bit of his strength into it.
*Boom!*
Just a simple slam on the ground with his foot, he just created a shockwave that impacted the surroundings!
Besides the hollow crack the man just created, the black dressed men move at a very slow walking pace... in his perspective, he takes one step at a time in each second as he continues to step forward towards the three lazily.
However, in Marcel's perspective who uses [Thought Acceleration], an ability that accelerates the user's thought processing capability by a million to ten million times. Allowing the user to react to something they normally wouldn't be able to perceive. But for the man movements in Marcel's perspective, he is like a rampaging Truck!
Do note that currently Marcel is seeing everything at the speed that time seems like it stopped, but seeing the man moving at that speed made Marcel panic, and by the look of it, the man didn't seem to go all out!
Marcel's eyes flashed. Before the punch could touch him, Terroriser, who is only a foot away from Marcel and able to see the man's movement as well through his robotic eyes, uses his newly discovered ability. Then, his entire arm turned into metallic sand, leaving his arm that now showed his terminator arm.
He ignores his exposed arm and uses his mind alone to turn the metallic sand of his arm into a shield to protect his friend.
*Boom!*
Though it managed to block the man's attack, his strength is enough to destroy the entire floating metallic sand into millions of pieces.
"What the hell!?" Marcel was confused and stunned for a split second before realizing what just happened. If not for Terroriser saving his ass, then his head would have blown apart by a light punch from the man.
Wouldn't waste any precious time left, Marcel immediately moves and slashes towards him!
Quaiesse snorted. Although he was slightly surprised about what Terroriser just did, especially seeing his unnatural arm, he was not too concerned about it because their rank still has a huge gap.
As for the three Dupe Group members, just how much trouble could a group of Rank 4 experts could cause? They are more like insects compared to a Rank 9 like him.
Unbeknownst to Quaiesse, the three already ate an enchanted Golden Apple, drank numerous potions of strength, swiftness, and other body enhancement potions, to increase their chance of survival.
With this, they are now at the level of an early-staged Master Realm, or equivalent to a <D-> Rank Adventurer.
Quaiesse looked at Marcel's attack disdainfully. He just gathered mana around his arm and extended it to stop the sword. That was more than enough to deal with those idiots.
But at the last second, his expression changed.
A huge sense of danger assaulted him. Without hesitation, he withdrew his arm and took a step back.
But Marcel's sword managed to cut his arm, his Netherite sword with an incredible durable metal with [Sharpness V] enchantment in the sword easily cut through the mana defenses and sliced the flesh!
Unfortunately, Quaiesse managed to react in time, barely moving his arm away and saving it from being severed.
"You son of a bitch!!"
However, he did not have time to be surprised. At that moment, he saw another blade with magic energy coming to him from the side.
This time, he did not dare to be careless. He instinctively answered with a hurried punch!
Then-
*BOOM!!!*
"!?"
The power of the enchanted Diamond Sword from Delirious assaulted him. While the blade didn't penetrate his skin, the magic energy within it hurts him! The man hurriedly twisted his body, managing to redirect great part of that strength to the ground, but even like that, he felt his arm hurting.
'What the fuck?
Unable to hide his surprise, Quaiesse immediately jumped back. But this time, he saw dozens of projectiles coming towards his face!
Instinctively, he pulls out his weapon for the first time in battle. Immediately, he used the magic dagger to slice one of the bullets in half, but it was not over yet as hundreds of more bullets headed towards him.
Increasing his speed a bit, he blocks all of the bullets around him at fast speed.
But then one of the bullets hit his weapon, escaping his grasp and onto the ground. But everything is not over yet, not even a second has passed, numerous more projectiles were headed towards him.
His instincts kicked up making him raise his arm. As soon as he did it, he was surprised that those projectiles exploded upon impact.
Though Quaiesse is unfazed as the explosive doesn't harm him enough, he did not have time to waste any time to tank some weakling attacks. He instinctively jumped away, barely avoiding dozens of explosive bullets Terroriser shot him with an Admin Gun, an OP rainbow pistol from Gmod that shoots like a full-auto machine gun, both armor piercing rounds and explosive bullets.
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"Come on! Get to the ground you little bastard!" Terroriser yelled as he tried to shoot him with his Admin Gun, trying to take him down as soon as possible.
Then, Quaiesse looked fixedly at the three members of Team 6 before looking at the injuries caused by the Netherite Sword, Diamond Sword, and the bullets from the Admin Gun.
"You three... Hahahaha, to think I would be injured by three Rank 4 brats! Great great, I am very, VERY impressed by your performance! However, do you think you can defeat a Rank 9 that easily!?"
When the man finished speaking, a powerful wave of mana erupted from his body.
The three's expressions were grave and some of their muscles were completely taut, except for Terroriser. Although Quaiesse was surprised that they managed to injure him, most of them were even more surprised.
'This fucking monster... To think he received numerous bullets head-on and he is only slightly injured!'
For the first time, Basically and the rest saw the formidableness of a Legendary Realm expert. Until now, their weapons and advanced weapons were one of their main means of attack. Even a Master Realm expert didn't dare to receive them head-on.
However, it seemed that they could only play a supporting role against this new enemy. Perhaps some bombing equipment would be useful, but in the current circumstances, none of them could not use it, or maybe it still does not affect the man at all.
Fortunately, their swords continued to be as useful as before.
While the three focused their battle, meanwhile Brian narrowed his eyes and focused completely on the fight. His eyes were in overdrive, catching each change in his surroundings.
Brian was now aware that in this kind of fight, he could not allow himself to make even the slightest mistake.
Compared to the battles he faced for the past week, this one may be the most difficult than that Jesus on steroids he faced a few days ago. Same goes for Basically and Delirious.
The next second, Quaiesse, the Legendary enemy kicked the ground!
Brian's cybernetic eyes easily caught the enemy movement. Without hesitation, he activated his ability again.
This time, his other arm's flesh turned into metallic sand and launched toward Delirious at a greater speed. As it made it in time, it turned into a shield protecting the hoodie man. An instant later, Quaiesse's punch impacted the shield!
*Boom!*
But this time, the shield was unable to endure the blow as there were few flickers in the for a split second. It is a sign that it was about to break.
"Ahhh! Oh Long Johnson!" Delirious screamed like a Crow. He hurriedly moved aside and barely evaded the attack after the enemy dissipated Terroriser's metallic sand shield. However-
*Shing!* *Spurt!*
""DELIRIOUS!!""
To the two's horror, the man decapitated Delirious with his hand as their friend's head had separated from his body.
"Hahahaha! That's what you bitches get for pissing me off!"
As he was about to attack the two, the corner of his eyes caught something that made him widen his eyes in horror.
Delirious' head that was still in mid air was caught by someone...
...And that someone is Delirious' headless body itself!
"Not today, bitch!" Delirious laughingly said as he placed his own head back on his body.
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"You...! How do you-!?"
Before Quaiesse could get his answer, Marcel shot five enchanted arrows at the same time, both arrows flew towards his head at that moment.
The Legendary Realm expert now has feeling incredibly cautious about this group, and so he did not have more options than move back to evade them. But before Marcel could see what happened next, a punch was coming towards his face.
The punch was so fast that the only reason Marcel managed to see it was thanks to his enhanced eyes and senses!
Once more, another of Terroriser's skins saved his life. At the same time, Marcel slashed with his Netherite Sword!
However, the black-dressed man was already not there. Instead, a kick was coming towards him from behind.
"Fucking hell!"
Terroriser's metallic sand barely managed to form a shield to protect Marcel just a hairbreathe. However, it did not endure even a blow. Marcel had to roll aside to barely evade the attack before switching to his guns and shooting at him.
The black-dressed man snorted. His body flashed and disappeared from his location, appearing this time above Marcel.
Marcel's expression changed. He once more rolled in the ground and evaded the attack. Then, he placed down a bunch of cobwebs in the ground to restrict the man's movements by the time he landed.
And the plan worked as he got stuck on cobwebs by the time he landed.
With an annoyed look, Quaiesse just concentrated some of his mana to transfer it on his fist and immediately punched and created a magic shockwave, destroying all of the cobwebs in an instant before using it to rush towards Marcel!
Delirious appeared at that moment. He jumped from a blind spot and slashed his Diamond Sword towards the man's head! This time, though, the result was different than last time.
Astonishingly, the man used his shoulder to receive his attack, only taking a few step backs and letting out a grunt. Then, he unleashed a punch towards Delirious' belly!
Fortunately, Terroriser once again usef another metallic shield, sacrificing his other leg's skin as it managed to save the day.
"Bloody fucking Gods! Can you STOP doing that for goodness sake!!"
"Nein!" Terroriser refused in the German language.
Giving the opportunity to escape, Delirious hurriedly jumped back, retreating beside his friends.
"How the hell are we supposed to win against someone this strong!?" Delirious grimaced.
None of his friends replied. In fact, they were thinking the same thing.
Facing someone two entire Realms above them, everyone felt helpless.
Quaiesse did not continue his attacks. Instead, he looked at Marcel, Delirious, and Brian in curiosity.
*Pak*
Something had fallen from the man's face, looking down, it was his strange white mask.
But then, the wind suddenly blew his hoodie off, showing his long blonde hair that reaches to his shoulder, his crimson red eyes, and the sinister smile he let out in his face, like a predator playing with his prey.