HEY GUYS I'M BACK WITH ANOTHER CHAPTER! NOW I'M SORRY THAT I DIDN'T UPLOAD THIS ONE SOONER (COMPARED TO OTHER UPDATES I DO ON THIS STORY) I WAS LOOKING FOR THE DIALOGUE OF THE STORY OF THIS PART. I WANT IT TO BE AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE TO THE GAME. ALSO WHO IS EXCITED FOR BRAVE FRONTIER 2?! I'M SURE AM! AND I'M GETTING IT ON JAPANESE EVEN IF I UNDERSTAND NOTHING OF IT. NOW WITHOUT FURTHER A DO... HERE WE GOOOOOO!
Summon 5 - Forest of Beasts
Tilith was once again waiting for Tatsumi at the forest that she waited for him the previous day. She just hoped that he wouldn't do the same thing once again. She had something to do at her house. And she wanted to do that!
"Oh, Tatsumi!" She spotted him and gave him a wave, with a smirk in her face.
"He Tili-" Tatsumi started to greet the goddess, until something finally met his face.
*SLAP*
"Ouch! The hell?!" Tatsumi yelled in shock and pain. What the hell did he do this time to receive such a slap!
"That's for making me, a beautiful goddess, wait in a scary forest like this one!" Tatsumi sweat dropped at this. Did he really have to report to her everything he had to do?!
"Anyways..." She flips her hair that was over her shoulder to the back. "Well done crossing that snowfield" She gave him a faint smile. But he answered with a nod. Tilith frowned a bit at this, because she always received some kind of response that wasn't a simple nod of his head.
"Hmm..." She puts her right hand on her chin, pondering for a bit. "I have to say you look more dignified now compared to when we first met" She says, trying to see if she got something from him, but nothing came. She was worried now but pushed the thought to the back of her mind. If it happened again, then she'll ask. If not well...
"Alright then," She puts her hands together, clapping along the way. "time to make our way through the Forest of Beasts and as it name suggest, this forest is infested with wild beasts..." She stops for a moment to let everything that she said sink, but it seems that Tatsumi was not paying attention.
"Tatsumi..." He finally looked at her with his dual colored eyes. "Did something happened? You aren't responding to anything I say" The worry in her voice could be noticed by Tatsumi. She really consider him someone special.
She gave a slight blush at her thought.
"Nothings wrong..." He stops. He didn't want to tell her about his past. Nobody deserved to know the pain that he went through before arriving to this world. "Just... thinking about stuff"
"Ahh... Alright then!" She said cheerfully. What a naïve goddess. Tatsumi sighed at how happy all the time she was. It will bring her pain in the future...
"As I was saying... The forest is infected with wild beasts, but your real enemy is actually the one going around hunting them" Her voice became serious all of a sudden. Tatsumi saw this and smiled in relief.
"... I see" At least she knew when to be serious, even though she was a happy and cheerful goddess.
"Also... Please tell me when your going to the next area before hand. That way I don't have to wait there for you..." She gave a slight pout at the end of it. He responded with a slight nod, confused if he should say something or not.
"But... How will I do that? Praying?"
"Yep!" Tatsumi once again sweat dropped at her cheerful nature. "Us gods are able to hear the prayers of the one that are praying for" She explained to Tatsumi, who just sighed at everything and just answering with an 'Alright'.
"Well, anyway, good luck and fight hard!" With that said, Tilith once again disappeared from Tatsumi's view.
"Thanks Tilith..." Looking at the sky, he felt the wind pick up for a bit before calming down.
After that, he summoned his three units to him. Selena had her hands on her hips while looking at Tatsumi, but quickly stood as she always did... with her hands on the front of her dress. Shion had his arms crossed, as always, and had an angered face (Seems that something happened in Tatsumi's Soul World). Finally, Phoenix was waving his wings so that he could stay flying next to his summoner.
"Selena, Shion... I want to properly introduce to you two our newest ally, Phoenix" Tatsumi said signaling towards Phoenix, in which looked with a bit of excitement on his face.
"Is an honor to properly know a hero such as you, Lady Selena" The half-breed unit said bowing to Selena. But the other three got shocked quickly.
"Lady Selena?!"
"I-It's an honor to meet you too, Phoenix" She managed to say after getting herself together. She didn't really saw that coming.
"What about me?! You know her, but not me!" Shion was very angry at this. Ok, ok... It wasn't because he wasn't recognized because really, he could give a fuck about that. But the anger that he has accumulated between not being able to fight strong opponents or make his enemies very familiar with his sword by introducing it to their head or even their gut, was making him angrier each time.
"I'm apologies Lord Shion. I don't know anything about you. Maybe it was after I was killed or I never heard of your accomplishments" Phoenix gave a bow towards Shion, who just scoffed and said something about 'Cold' and 'Woman'.
"Shion..." Said guy froze. Behind him was Selena emitting a very dark aura. "What did you say?" She was daring him. She wanted to have an excuse to beat the hell out of him really bad. And this might be it!
Tatsumi and Phoenix were smart enough to not say anything and even back away a bit. But they watched Shion gave a smirk after recovering and turned around and looked at her. It seems that he didn't know that he was supposed to stay quiet.
And after saying what he said clearly towards hero, the other two males paled and Selena's aura increased.
"A cold bitch that couldn't even save his clansmen from death should've stayed doing the job that a woman could always do!"
Selena saw red.
Time Skip
There remained Shion, in which was very... but very hurt and he even twitched a couple of times. And a satisfied Selena, who saw this as a way to get her own anger out. The other two were just glad that they didn't have to face her anger.
And before anyone could comment about it, Shion disappeared into Tatsumi's Soul World just like that. Seriously, who wouldn't?
"Shall we continue? She looked at her summoner and at her newest companion, and with her look daring them to complain. Oh how much she wanted them to say something.
"Y-Yes!" Tatsumi's voice had little fear in it. He really didn't want to face the anger of a woman ever again... Not after dealing with the women of Night Raid, especially Mine. "Let's proceed to search this forest" Tatsumi added sounding a bit more calm.
"As my summoner commands" Phoenix says. It was weird to hear him talking like he was a servant rather than a companion or really scared Tatsumi a bit.
"Maybe I have to talk to Phoenix about that later"
As they venture the forest they quickly saw a horde of green slimes surrounding two big green slimes. Tatsumi had to sigh at this. Even though they had fought this kind of slime before, they seem stronger that the ones before. Furthermore, this could help Phoenix get some experience in fighting.
"Phoenix" Said unit turned to his summoner. "Can you deal with them? I want you to adapt to battling hordes like this one"
"As you command" And with that said, Phoenix turned into a giant fireball that went straight at the slimes. And in a flaming flash, he burned the bodies and cores of all the slimes there in a matter of seconds.
You see, the fire of a Phoenix was very powerful. Beings that were born from volcanoes, their fire burned stronger than lava. And even some managed to burn hotter than the sun.
After seeing how quickly Phoenix finished his battle Tatsumi only had one thing to do...
*WHISTLE*
He was very impressed by Phoenix. Being able to destroy every single one of them in a matter of instants was very beneficial. When they find more slime, he will be sure to let Phoenix know that he will be battling them.
"Amazing..." Selena muttered. She was amazed at the display of power. She knew of the powers of the Phoenixes. Some of them even fought with the humans against the gods. But to see it once more, in over a couple of decades or even centuries, was making her enjoy the one sided battle.
"This is but just the basic attack of us Phoenixes. Our power goes beyond what I have just displayed" Informed the half-breed.
Tatsumi had his own ideas on how to help Phoenix with his move set. Maybe do something similar to a flamethrower? He had to thank Bols for this idea.
"Well... Let's continue, we have a long journey in front of us" With that said, the three of them head onwards in direction towards the Tower of Mistral!
Time Skip
After walking for a while, they found another horde. But this horde was composed of plant-like monsters that were guarding a woman that could've been a cleric or a mage.
Tatsumi saw this and since Phoenix already battled, it was logical that Selena can get a fair share of them too.
"Selena..." He didn't have to say anything else. He knew that Selena understood him. She nodded her head and quickly rushed at the monsters.
The monsters didn't even have time to roar in anger at Selena. She slashed every monsters in the area. The cleric started to heal the monsters with her magic, but she never had a chance to finish since her upper body was separated from her lower body. Selena's sword was covered in viridian and crimson blood, but for some reason, she wasn't covered in blood.
With a flick of her sword the blood was sent towards the ground partially cleaning the sword of the blood that once covered it.
"You are truly a hero, Lady Selena. You graceful technique was a sight to behold" Phoenix stated out and it was the truth. He was very impressed with how Selena fluidly killed every monster in the area.
"Thanks" And they kept talking for a while more. Tatsumi wanted to get out of this place and his unit seem to preoccupied with talking in an enemy territory. A cough from Tatsumi interrupted their conversation.
"Let's talk later, right now we need to continue forward to eliminate the monsters from this place" They nodded and continued to go onwards, killing monsters in their sight.
Time Skip
As they walked through the branches of the trees, they found a group of bandits that were scavenging the area for goods.
"A surprise attack would be the best choice in this situation. But since Shion is still recuperating, Selena and Phoenix have to handle them" Tatsumi summarized everything in his mind. Being all this time with Akame, Leone and Najenda in Night Raid had made him acquired a strategic mind in how to handle this kind of things.
"Selena go and attack them when the signal is ready" She nods at her summoner's request. "Phoenix, burn their surroundings so that they won't escape. That will be the signal. After you are done, you can help Selena with killing the bandits"
"As my summoner commands" Phoenix began to fly towards the bandits slowly, camouflaging with the trees.
Turning into a fireball, Phoenix started spinning around the bandit's camp to make sure that none escape. Seeing that it was finished, Selena, as planned, rushed at the camp and going through the flames that surrounded it, started to do her graceful dance. And by dance it means killing the bandits with graceful moves.
From the sidelines Tatsumi watched as the bandits were either cutted or burned. He was proud to have them as his units. Maybe he could take a day to talk to each and one of them.
As he kept pondering on future thing that he should do, his two units have already finished reaping their enemies suffering from the Goddess of Creation.
"I'm sorry... Tatsumi... but I must... go and... rest... for a bit" Panting each time she said something, Selena disappeared... Leaving Tatsumi and Phoenix to handle the rest.
"Let's continue Phoenix... The faster we do this, the faster we can rest"
"As you command, my summoner"
Time Skip
As the two companions proceeded towards the darker parts of the forest, they could see dead monsters, monsters that weren't manipulated my the rogue goddess, with arrows in their bodies.
Tatsumi looked like he was walking normally, but he was actually taking tabs on this hunter. Noticing the bodies, he knew that he was close or even in the area. He was wondering why didn't the hunter had strike them yet, when he felt the wind being cutted. Taking his sword from the scabbard, Tatsumi managed to cut down the arrow that was sent towards him.
Both of them stopped moving and kept a close eye for the hunter. They were back to back, looking at the trees that surrounded them, unsure of where the hunter was located.
*WOOSH* *WOOSH*
Two more arrows went towards them. Tatsumi evaded the first one and slashed the next one that was targeting Phoenix.
"Phoenix burn the trees that are in this area. That way we'll be able to change this fight in our favor" Tatsumi didn't heard Phoenix for a reply, but he knew that his unit began to do exactly what he wanted to do.
Transforming into a fireball once more, he began to burn the trees that surrounded them. Looking at his surroundings, it looked like instead of being the Forest of Beasts it was the Burning Forest, but quickly that quickly changed into the Forest of Decay.
Burned trees was the only thing left as ashes kept falling to the ashen grass below. The hunter was obligated to show himself to his opponent. The hunter's green hair looked darker thanks to the ashes that fell on his hair.
Tatsumi quickly rushed at the downed hunter, thinking that he couldn't do much. But how wrong it was for him to underestimate the hunter.
Blocking the sword with his bow, the hunter then kick Tatsumi's gut sending him a couple of feet backwards.
It didn't hurt much, but the archer sure did have combat prowess. With a roar, Tatsumi activated his Teigu and simply disappeared.
The hunter wasn't used to be the hunted and quickly started to look for his enemy, but it didn't last long as a spear passed though his gut.
A trail of blood left his mouth as he slightly turned around to see nothing. But then Tatsumi shimmered into existence. Tatsumi deactivated his teigu making his armor disappear and by proxy, so did his spear. Pain surged through the hunter as it began to fall into the ground, but the summoner caught him.
"My name is... Lario... Chosen... One" With a faint smile on the now known Lario, the hunter disappeared in a flash, just like the rest of the monsters, spirits and heroes before him.
Tatsumi grit his teeth. He was going to kill that Goddess of Creation one way or another!
"We finished Phoenix... You may leave"
"As my summoner commands" After Phoenix left completely, Tatsumi looked behind him to see a golden Gate once more in which lead him into his house.
After giving a small prayer to Tilith saying that he was going to explore the capital the next day, Tatsumi was caught by slumber.
Around Tatsumi's Soul World
A transparent orb was seen keeping guard of three souls: a blue soul, a black soul, and a red soul. As it protected those souls, in which were Tatsumi's Units, it didn't noticed a faint green soul looking towards Tatsumi's Soul World
A/N: HEHEHE... DID YOU GUYS LIKE WHAT I DID? I KNOW THAT A RUSHED IT A BIT ON THE END AND I THINK I MAY DO THE SAME WITH WEISS, BUT SEEING AS THE WEAPON ADVANTEGE AND CLEARLY KNOWING ONLY HOW TO DEFEND HIMSELF WON'T GET LARIO ANYWHERE AND NEITHER WILL WEISS ALTHOUGH HAVING LIGHTING MANIPULATION POWERS... SINCE TATSUMI HAS ALREADY ADAPTED TO STRONGER LIGHTING. ANYWAYS WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK? WHO IS GOING TO BE TATSUMI'S NEXT UNIT? HOW WILL HE REACT TO GOING TO RANDALL FOR THE FIRST TIME? REVIEW WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK OF THAT. DON'T FORGET TO FOLLOW AND FAVORITE IS YOU LIKE THE STORY AND SEE YOU GUYS NEXT TIME
Zeckromizder, out!
Summon 6 - Imperial Capital Randall