Chapter 245: Air Combo

XIU..!

XIU….!!

XIU……!!!

With a thought command, his three active Reaper Puppets positioned in a triangle formation charged forth without worries.

The berserker reaper holding the Mjolnir and the icy-metallic heavy sword came to the right while the sword puppet sneaked-in on the left flank.

A gun in hand, the third puppet was in-charged of delivering confusion and suppression fire, while the other two assaulted the woman to prevent her from building up her own momentum to attack.

She was using a rapier, a weapon of precision and severely accurate damage, so Siva took note of this point as he decided to give her the pressure.

These three have superior S-Ranked physical damage defense in the form of the Cloak, and the weapons they carried were outside of the limits of his Weight Limits as well so there was no issue on summoning more weapons.

Right now, he only had these usable equipments:

…1) Grand Ender;

…2) Mjolnir;

…3) the icy-metal heavy sword;

…4) the blue-bladed 7th Frozen Heart Blade;

…5) the wooden-bodied gun Hand of Midas;

…6) Naiki’s Scepter of Divinity;

…7) The Orb which was attached to the Whale Whiskers (which is a Wizard Item);

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…8) the main staff for the Five Sacred Seal of the Pentagon;

…9) and the near-useless rusted piece of blade… the Sword of Triune.

Volt and Thorn has the Dragunov and Black Ender, and the rest of his looted bladed weapons, respectively, where with the latter is reorganizing The Company back at the castle wall.

The rest of Siva’s looted equipments were still in the loot items inventory, while the rest of his items were accessories with special, almost unique, and yet still locked and untouched effects.

One of them even carried the curse that currently plagues him; the Chalice of the Blood Dragon God!

As such, aside from Naiki’s Scepter of Divinity which is practically useless as a weapon itself, he had no more items he can give to the reaper puppets, and so he could only rely on the Grand Ender.

Although they can’t use the weapons’ Special Abilities, if the weapon has a mechanical function, they can use that to take advantage in a fight.

One that had such advantages was the Berserker Reaper’s large heavy sword.

That large weapon with a cold-metallic luster had a mechanical function of having its handle extend, making the heavy sword seem like a large spear when held and used in that manner.

Siva materialized the fourth puppet and it held the Grand Ender on its shoulder, preparing to charge the next energy shot. Thanks for reading on ManaNovel!

He wanted to launch the assault, he wanted to snatch the initiative, but before Siva could even attack, he had to pause and retreat for 300m with no dallying and hesitation.

The woman, to his surprise, stayed in place… she wasn’t affected by the strong winds at all.

Siva’s frown, albeit invisible, deepened and he can only grumble inwardly.

“This won’t be easy…”

While he did have a numerical advantage over the woman, he knew that the real threat wasn’t her…

It was the Colossi. Aside from Akhenaton, there was no attack he can release that could deal enough damage to it. Yes, he may have the Grand Ender but it can only deal scratching damage to its golem-crust at best.

He looked over the direction where he came from and couldn’t help but grimace at the situation. If he was a second late, that mighty swing of its arm would have crushed him to bits.

“Aaaaaaaaahhh…!!”

BANG!

The Colossi’s corrupted left arm rose in defense as the infection of the dark element on its shoulder spread at the back to heal the right arm.

It significantly reduced the size of the tumor on its left shoulder but by now, it was able to control two arms with its corrupted surface.

Its defense had just increased!

Right after blocking a fully-swung falling blade of the golden spear, the left arm pushed again, the wound healing almost instantly, and the Colossi used its now corrupted right hand to grab towards Akhenaton.

This simple exchange sent a strong invisible air current towards Siva’s duel site and in order to not be affected much by these winds, Siva had to back off 300m away.

“…this won’t be easy indeed.” He grumbled deep.

Siva then ordered verbally: “Akhenaton. Try your best on close-quarter. I need time to disable that Colossi’s rampage.”

After hearing this command, Akhenaton’s spear let out a screeching sound and changed form into a short staff almost his own size.

He deflected the right hand that’s aiming to grab on him to his left side then delivered a sneaky foot directly to the Colossi’s chin.

There was muffled grunting sound and the Colossi’s eyes went up and momentarily losing its physical abilities.

“Shah!”

Not stopping by even a single moment, Akhenaton angled his right foot and twisted his body to a twirl and dragged the head to slam against the ground.

BAM!!!

The Colossi’s head made a loud bang as it smashed on the forest floor.

Siva cried, “That hump at the back of its left shoulder is its weakness. Destroy it!”

“Hashah!”

Akhenaton made a short cry and the short staff morphed back into the spear and aimed at the back of the Colossi.

But moments before the hit, the right arm grabbed the shaft of the descending spear like a disjointed limb and pulled it with a monstrous force that tumbled Akhenaton to its supposed left side.

“…!!” Even Siva was surprised.

In a shocking manner, the supposed face-slammed Colossi’s left shoulder morphed into a right shoulder, and the back of its head turned into a face with the left arm’s joints twisting in an ugly way as it held the spear.

In but a few moments that Akhenaton attacked with frightening speed, the ground-facing Colossi shifted into a laying one… its right hand aiming to grab and eat Akhenaton with a wide open palm.

“Hahp!”

BANG!

Akhenaton was still a warrior. Like a gymnast, he used the momentum of the pull and shifted his body; a foot landed on the face and at the same time became a bouncing platform for Akhenaton to make distance.

Siva wanted to help but he knew he couldn’t deal any damage to it as he is. All he could do was to contact Thorn.

“Charge the Warships’ cannons. We need to waste all of the Dark Matter on the Colossi’s body before we can defeat it.”

Thorn nodded, [They’re already on it. The Marshal has an ability that lets him consolidate all cannon fires in one shot. It damaged the Colossi earlier, it can damage it again. But we need it to be fully open.]

“I’ll make it happen. How long?”

[15 minutes.]

Siva turned his head back and stepped back to avoid a charging strike of the woman. The three puppets retaliated but even with the three working in unison according to Siva’s commands, the woman was still very skilled and was strong enough to escape their trap and create distance.

They were on a stalemate. Unless Siva focuses his attention to defeating her, the two of them wouldn’t get anywhere.

He turned back to Thorn, “Pull the Rewloola near our location. I’ll lure the Colossi to its firing range s go and prepare that spell.”

[Give us the time.]

The line became silent and in the panel, Thorn could be seen contacting someone else and gave commands to the people in the castle.

Currently, every second felt longer and every bit of a moment felt even longer than that.

All of The Company members were powerless at this moment and they could only watch the fight from the sidelines.

Siva gave Thorn an order, “Use this time to search the rubbles of the city. Find Baron… use the entire force of The Company.”

[Okay!]

Siva focused his mind to his opponent. The woman let out a cry and, just like Kladis, she was like a ballerina in midair who’s every movement and swing of her blade dodged, blocked and parried the bullets while not missing the chance to close in the distance between them.

“She’s a close quarter expert.” Although it is an advantage to him having his gun that can ignore a distance of 1km, this didn’t make Siva’s worries lower a little.

On the contrary, it made him even more alarmed.

He glanced over the brawl between Akhenaton and the Colossi. “We’re in a stalemate here. Akhenaton can deal minimal damage but not in an entire advantageous state. His attacks may be connecting but he’s risking a fatal opening with every strike. On the other hand, the Colossi is slowly adapting and he hasn’t even used that bijudama yet…”

Although he was calm, Siva was beginning to get worried. He lacked power by himself and he need every bit of advantage he can use against these monstrous existences.

This woman is a corrupted NPC.

That golem… is a corrupted God Knight avatar!

“If that golem unleashes its power… then this city will not be the only city destroyed.”

Although he could sense that there was nothing more that connects him to Alexandria, he was still unfamiliar with this feeling and so it was still just a ‘feeling’ and nothing more.

He’d rather trust knowing the truth after searching than rely on the ‘feeling’ that came out of nowhere after the unknown changes that had occurred to him.

As if to snatch his attention away, a streak of light flashed on the corner of his vision and that small moment of confusion and inattention became an opening that the woman capitalized with.

SHING!

That glinting resplendent sword light stabbed through the sword reaper and the force it entailed carried the two towards Siva.

Siva stepped back, leaving a booming echo, but the woman disengaged almost immediately then dashed forth towards Siva.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Three bullets came to the woman’s left side and hit her body and face but she chose to ignore this minor bump and proceeded to chase after Siva.

Siva clicked his tongue, [Killing Zone] in effect.

The woman’s eyes widened in shock as she felt the invisible power that reduced her defenses by 70% draped all over her body.

And yet, she chose to attack. It only reduced her defenses by a significant amount but it didn’t cut her overall attacking ability.

Siva knew this as well and raised the staff, a slight anger rising on his chest as he roared:

“Since you’re here, then let me help you hasten the process!”

He really wanted the woman to break free of this curse herself by weakening the corruption on her by taking damage, but the aggressive nature and corrupted mindset she has was clouded with the single purpose of attacking relentlessly.

CLANG!

Siva’s heightened senses were beginning to get back and the first he focused it on was to defend with precision against this thrust.

“You’re a sword master so I will not dance on your tune!”

With the stabbing thrust blocked, that small moment of opening enabled the gun-reaper to pull the trigger three times, three bullets hitting her body squarely from 15m away while the berserker-reaper and the sword-reaper closed in for additional damage.

The woman at least retained her sense of danger and when she felt that it was closing in on her, she did not push through for a second stab and instead titled her body sideways, cutting the sword-reaper’s sword arm and then kicking Siva’s staff to get away.

“Crazy!!!”

It was a move only NPCs could accomplish.

The descent of the heavy sword hit nothing since the woman had already stepped back and parted with Siva in the next moment.

“Hmp! You think I’m letting you?”

Siva’s ire was roused and he was beginning to change his mind on helping the woman get over the curse and live longer.

He threw an E-Grenade and the electric stunning effect spread almost instantly.

The woman’s defenses were down by 70% and although the Dark Element side of her body gave her enough defenses, it was still reduced by at least 70%.

BZZZZTTTT!!!!

Electric charge erupted while Siva was still in the vicinity but although he didn’t have the Dragunov to protect him from this effect, he had The Orb and his puppets.

“Gaaaa…!!” the girl was stunned.

They were floating 1km in midair and it was still a height that could give them at least 20 seconds of time before falling completely.

Siva absorbed some of the energies on his body while the other charge was absorbed by The Orb connected to his staff. The Black Tech wasn’t affected and so the effect on him was minimized at the highest rate possible.

While the two of them were stunned, it was obvious that she received more damage.

And even if they were both falling, Siva only needed to order a thought command before the berserker-reaper, the gun-reaper, the sword-reaper, and the (Grand Ender) cannon-reaper dived alongside him.

Within the nearest 20m from him, these four can move in all directions without regard to the limiting laws of physics.

Two seconds passed, the berserker-reaper flew below the swordswoman and the golden hammer in it left hand arched mightily to counter her fall.

BANG!

Siva could clearly see the impact of the hammer hitting her squarely at the back. He heard the sound of crackling bones and saw the blood on her mouth…

The swordswoman took damage but the danger he felt from her being never lessened one bit.

Her body arched upwards, three bullets hit her abdomen and three more hit her face and chest.

Following this, the sword-reaper managed to regrow the lost right arm but the sword was now grabbed in a reverse grip on its left hand, a flash of a blue afterimage cut her left arm.

More blood was spilled…

Next to attack was the berserker again, the heavy sword completed a single twist and further sent her upwards……. towards the cannon-reaper.

BANG!

Like a large fist, the Grand Ender cannon’s other end slammed against her and sent her downwards faster than she could fall.

In there waiting was the berserker-reaper and the golden hammer was swung sidewards mercilessly and with no regards to gender and such.

On the direction she was sent, the sword-reaper moved with utmost speed and cut her legs from above the knees.

“Gyaaaaaaa….!!”

A loud resounding cry of pain and agony rung on Siva’s immediate vicinity…

Regaining his bodily control, he twisted in midair and tossed another E-Grenade. She was stunned again and the barrage continued on.

Brutal.

Fatal.

Siva was as merciless as the limits of man.

And yet he knew that she wouldn’t die yet because deep in his mind… he was feeling that there was something else happening instead…….

“It should be any moment now.” he thought. “The Dark Element will only have one opening. The full corruption is not yet complete because only her left side is visibly consumed. It’s still on the initial phase. In this very important stage, if the core of the dark corrupting element takes extreme damage, it will try to heal the chosen vessel to better suit its needs. It is during that time that the corrupting element will be open and weak against internal and external attacks. That’s her only chance. If she doesn’t use that to her advantage, she’ll be corrupted even deeper and it will be harder to save her by then… almost even closing to impossibility.”

Siva wanted to ask, why do I have to save her?

More importantly, why do I know these stuffs?

But the answer to those questions almost dawned on him as soon as it was asked in his mind.

“Because Mefisto’s memories have almost been restored and although he wasn’t the same as the ‘him’ before… he still regained his personality so he won’t do this if this does not go in accord to his original plans!”

The more he recovers of these fragmented odd memories, the more he was crept out. But the more he does remember, the more Siva felt that this game wasn’t what is was deemed to be.