Capítulo 50: Chapter 50: The first day (1)
「Ahhhhh!!!」SPLASH!
「Haaahaaaaaa… S… STOOPPP!!!」SPLASH!!
「Damn you and your barbaric nature, Skyer! I'll see you in hell!」CRASH!!!
「Ha! That "thing" isn't even conscious, you wasted your time talking to "it".」The monk giddily continued to execute more than two dozen captives jailed in the deepest dungeon underneath the extensive roots network of Saya, the capital "city" of the Shilna clan. The earthen wall of the narrow jail room was painted in red blood as Desmond went person to person, thrusting his hardened hand through their chests and crushing their beating hearts. Once the adrenaline has taken over his mind and body, the monk would start to crush their heads with his hands, all while laughing like a maniac.
「Stop doing that. That prince wanted to hang their heads to scare off any potential supporter of Yllaner. If you keep crushing all those heads, how can we show them off?」Adela, sitting in the corner of the room, was yawning as she witnessed the gruesome execution.
「Sorry, my lady!」Desmond scratched his bald head, spreading blood around his own flesh. 「It's been a while since I had this much fun. I would love to torture them more, though.」
「... Freak.」She declared.「What fun is there when playing with powerless and restrained preys? It's more fun when you see them struggle, thinking they have a ray of hope, only to have those hopes get extinguished in front of their eyes. Your taste is just wrong, Desmond.」She turned and looked at the beaten up and restrained man with a soulless gaze that Desmond kept bringing along. To her, once her opponent has been defeated and their hope extinguished, there was no point in playing with them anymore. Still, despite their difference, Adela seemed to have taken a liking to the depraved monk.
「Maybe I'll try what you suggest some other time, my lady.」He grinned. 「Anyways, I'll leave their heads intact… Can't make the same promise about any other of their body parts though. You know how crazy I am when I get excited!」Desmond pointed to the corner of the room, where piles of young elven men's naked corpses were stacking up. They were all associated with the arrested elders and were brutally raped to death by Desmond the moment he took over as the chief warden under the secret authorization of Skyer. The mutilated corpses, some of which have their genitals or other body parts pulverized into minced meat and their tormentor's cum leaking out from their loosen holes, began to stench up the place.
「I know. Whatever, kill them all and get this over with. We will take our leave.」Adela signaled the motionless Skyer to leave with her. 「... and remember what I have told you. You're part of my plan so get your act together.」
「You have provided me with so much entertainment, I'd die for you, my lady! You don't have to remind me twice.」
「Good… Doll , reactivate.」Adela ordered.
「Personality reactivated.」Skyer's eyes suddenly cleared up. 「Adela sama. What is your command?」
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「Yuusei.」
「Yuusei...」
「Yuusei!!!」
The young boy suddenly sprung up from his sleep, his hands, formed into claws like a true beastman, striked mercilessly at the person who just woke him up. After spending years in hiding and then being a captives, he had never experienced a wake up call that did not end in violence so his reaction was pretty hardwired into this subconsciousness. Though his attack was quickly neutralized as the hybrid, who had already anticipated such a move, would wrapped onto his wrist, while pinned the boy down onto the bed by grabbing tightly onto his face.
「Still sleepy?」
「... Master?」The boy finally realized who was standing in front of him. 「Yuusei's sorry.」
「Get up!」ordered Kibadios hurriedly. 「We have almost arrived at our destination. Though I'm sure things have turned sour. Get ready to fight for your life, Yuusei.」
「Understand.」The boy nodded. He looked around the room and saw his seniors were already standing ready, their hands wrapped around their weapons. He could hear someone shouting from outside the airship, though he could not make out what they were saying until he and his master reached the airship deck, where the princess stood surrounded by a few elven archers and forest eagles. The ship had come to a complete stop by now since more than thirty elven hawk riders were flying around and surrounded the ship, their bow strings were all pulled and aimed at the Princess.
「What's the meaning of this?」Yllaner demanded an answer.
「Princess Yllaner. Please slowly descend down onto the ground. Easlyn sama wants to have a word with you.」
「... And he sent a platoon of highly trained hawk riders and great eagles to welcome me? I dont deserve such grandeur.」
「Please, Yllaner dono. Don't make a scene about our welcome, especially not on a royal Airship from the Kingdom of Maeg. We don't want to damage other country's properties, do we?」The elven captain warned while placing his hand on the Princess' shoulder.
「Don't you worry. I have already told the ship captain to start descending the moment I spotted your soldiers.」Yllaner calmly told the Captain, then discretely shot a look at the hybrid, who was standing at the door leading to the cabin, having an elven arrow pointing at his head. 「If your men can make way for us, we'll be landing soon.」
「Thank you, Yllaner sama.」The captain bowed. 「I am sorry but you have arrived here too late. The moment he obtained the backing from the Hyakki Yagyo, your brother has won this conflict and there's nothing we can do.」
「... and what happened to Lord Uran ?」
「The young lord is adamantly refusing his grandfather's wish of signing a non-aggression with your brother. Under Easlyn sama's order, he has been put in jail since yesterday and his entourage is under home confinement since they may do something stupid, like rescuing you right now. I am sorry, Princess.」explained the captain.
「... Is Easlyn dono going to hand me to my brother, then?」
「I do not know.」The captain shook his head. 「Though he specifically asked us not to harm you.」
「... Is that so? Then why are a few bloodthirsty people jumping onto the ship just now? I'm sure they're aiming for my life.」Yllaner turned toward the bow of the airship, where three individuals, cloaked with black and white long coats on their shoulders, had just descended on the deck, their menacing look scared even the hard-trained elven soldiers. 「They're… members of the Hyakki Yagyo and part of the diplomatic envoy that your brother sent here. Please don't be alar...」Before the captain could finish, a ray of black embers immediately flew toward the princess, then wrapped around her and violently ignited into a raging vortex of flame.「What?」The captain angrily turned toward the trio 「What the hell did you people do?」
「Eliminate someone our paymaster requested?」The female mutant, standing shorter than the other two, giddily answered while placing her arms behind her head relaxingly. 「The only reason we've been accompanying those Shilnan representatives here is to take care of the princess anyways.」
「You!」The captain quickly drew his bow against the three intruders, yet he soon froze in fear when one of the trio, a demi-human who carried a large scar running down his right eye, seemingly teleported next to the captain and frighteningly pressed his hand down against the elf's shoulder, discouraged him from many rash actions. The demi-human looked like a man in his late twenties and was of average height, with short, chestnut-colored hair and tanned skin. Despite having a dominant scar on his fresh-face, he did not seem too intimidating outwardly, especially compared to the oversized mutant demihuman of the giant race he was accompanying. Yet, with one quick observation, Kibadios and his group could tell among the three, he was probably the most dangerous. By studying the man and his distinctive features, Kibadios could tell he belonged to the Yves race since he could clearly see his two additional eyes on the man's forehead.
「Calm down.」He dismissed the tension. 「She's still alive.」He raised his hand in front, then clenched it into a fist which suddenly caused the flame vortex to dissipate, revealing the princess unharmed. Protecting her was the invisible barriers that Rowan had quickly constructed, which was even able to insulate her from the extreme heat.
「Princess, you're alright?」The captain seemed relieved to see her standing unscathed, though his attention quickly turned to the hybrid's group, who finally moved out from the cabin after effortlessly neutralizing every elven archer that had been pointing their arrows at them. Sliding on the ship's wooden floor behind its master was the inflated Nu, who had gobbled the unconscious Kyles inside its stomach like his Master had instructed. Just like before, despite moving, the interior of the slime was gyroscopically stable so Kyles was able to lie still on his back.
「Well, it seems like she has some strong bodyguards with her, Erik-senpai」The short mutant girl turned to the tanned Yves man. 「I wonder if they were hired by her or the new king of Maeg… My bet is on the king since I doubt she has that much spending money.」
「It's better if you guys stand down and let us take care of the Princess. I don't like to see unnecessary victims. Our paymaster asked for the Princess and the Princess alone.」The towering mutant spoke.
「I'm sorry, but she's someone who's very dear to me and my brother. I can't simply let you guys harm her.」Ryan frowned, his sword was already sparkling with electricity.
「As long as we're here, we won't let anything happen to the Princess.」Maia determinedly declared, vials of poisons were already wedged in between her fingers, ready to be discharged.
「What are we going to do, Master?」Ryuu asked. 「Should we just eliminate them all?」
「Good question. If possible, I'd like to not harm those mercenaries since they belong to a Great Demon Lord's faction. It's never wise to anger one.」Kibadios whispered. 「Can you transform into your dragon form?」
「Of course. But am I not supposed to hide the fact I'm a dragon?」
「... Not anymore.」
「Understood.」Ryuu loudly shouted. 「Get ready, everyone. We'll get out of here.」
「Who allow you to?」From the captain's position, Erik leapt forward and immediately closed the distance between him and the princess. Yet, before he could reach her, a large shadow claw had already wrapped around her for protection while another struck down at the advancing Yves, causing him to cautiously jump back. 「I guess you don't want to make it easy for us. Amaira, Baxley, stop standing there. Get busy!」
「Aye aye, Erik senpai!」The girl nodded
「Let's try to keep the casualty to the minimum, Amaira.」The giant reminded the girl.
「Sometimes I think you're too soft to be a mercenary, Baxley senpai.」Just as her small frame suggested, the mutant girl was extremely agile, to the point that even Kibadios' <Arms of Darkness> would have trouble keeping up with her movements. The girl looked like she was only in her teens, her blond twintail hair was tied up high, which reminded the hybrid of Biscuit from HxH. Although the hybrid could tell she was a mutant, to the untrained eyes, she was able to significantly cleanse her miasma to the point that most could only identify her as a leopard Beastman due to her tail. Though, in place of black dots, her fur was decorated with white dots, which were visible in parts of her hands and most of legs since she was wearing a short dress.
By now, despite the hybrid's attempts at blocking her paths, she still was able to make her way toward Yllaner. Had he been able to focus on her 100%, he could have taken care of her extreme agility. However, half of his attention was diverted toward Erik, who simply stood still, with a few sparks of embers burning under his feet. Yet, Kibadios knew his inaction would quickly cease the moment the hybrid "forgot" about him and focused on Amaira.
「3...2...1」Ryuu counted back before reverting his form back to that of an eastern dragon, though this time, he was able to control it so that he was not as large as a mountain like the last time he was under control of the <Seed of Chaos>. 「Yllaner sama and everyone, please get on my back!」
「That's...」surprised Erik.
「A dragon?」Amaira frowned while trying to to stand firm against the gust of wind generated from Ryuu's transformation.
「Hoh? I think we're severely underpaid for this mission.」Baxley sighed.
「「「What?」」」The elven archers shouted. Some of the hawks were acting frantically after facing the dragon that was Ryuu, causing their riders to desperately rein them in.
「Hang on tight, I'll get us out of here.」Ryuu said before flying high along Kibadios, who had sprung his incubus wings and got up in the air before sliding forward through the fresh airstreams
「I didn't know Ryuu here is a dragonkind.」Yllaner was laughing excitedly. 「Kibadios dono, I know you're a mysterious person, but to think you have a dragon as your follower...」
「Not so fast!」Erik was now also flying high in pursuing the group while most others were frozen in awe after witnessing the transformation. The embers underneath his feet were now burning bright and swirling into two large orbs, allowing him to freely fly like Nataku (Nezha). 「<Zhuque's Claw>」From above, two small specs of flame started to grow into two giant fiery claws before swooping down at Ryuu.
「Shit.」Ryuu noted the attack, but with people sitting on his back, he could not have done much.
「Keep going. I can block it, Ryuu chan!」Rowan shouted before erecting his barriers. Before they were fully formed, from the thick forest to their right, several large water crescent blades swung at the fiery claws and neutralized it before the group had to rely on Rowan's protection.
「What was that?」Maia asked.
「I have seen those attacks before...」Rowan noted. 「Where have I...」
「They're really here.」Yllaner smiled in relief, knowing she now had more allies on her side.
「You mean.」Ryan was surprised. He knew those signature attacks too but he did not know the person was here at Vernys.
「It's Thomas dono.」Yllaner confirmed. 「Lance dono had told me before we set off that he had personally asked Thomas and Amber dono to assist me. Of course, at the time, we did not know whether they would agree but seeing those attacks, I'm sure at least Thomas dono is here.」
「Let's get out of here first before trying to regroup with Thomas dono. Do you know anywhere we can hide around here?」Kibadios asked.
「Of course!」
「... Thomas...」Erik muttered in disgust before descending down onto the ground after his attack failed to stop the group.
「What now, Erik senpai?」Amaira looked excited. The job that she thought would be so boring had turned out to be much more fun than she had anticipated.
「We hunt her down.」replied Erik, then he turned to the group of Elven archers that had surrounded the three of them. 「Don't try to stop us.」
「You!」The elven Captain ground his teeth.
「... Even if we catch up to them, can we even fight against that dragonkind?」asked Baxley.
「Remember, our goal isn't to fight against that creature. Our goal is to end the princess.」answered Erik.
Trivial Information (1)
Beastman:
Lifespan: 40-150 years
Beastman is one of the most diverse races in Esthar. It is made up of more than 20 sub-races, such as: rabbit, lion, mermaid/merman, werewolf… They ranked 2nd in terms of total population and can be found living in almost all geographic locations, similar to humans. Many consider races such as Lizardmen and Skaern part of the Beastman race; however, that may not be the case since according to Zaeryn's classification, one of the most distinctive characteristic of the Beastman race is the fact that they have three forms that they can morph into: human-looking form, half-human, half-beast form, and lastly, full-beast form. Beastman usually called themselves the Anima race, a term popularized by Zaeryn 10000 years ago because he has always been a fcking weeb and Beastman race reminded him of +Anima manga.
Yves:
Lifespan: 70-100 years
Yves is one of the rarest races in Esthar. Their distinct characteristic is that they all possessed four eyes: two normal eyes and two smaller eyes located on top of their normal eyes on their forehead. Their eyes can help them see the flow of Haki and discern any weakness in their opponent's attack. Therefore, members of the Yves race tend to be excellent fighters. Unfortunately, they are being hunted down for their eyes. This caused their population to significantly reduce to only about 10000 individuals.
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