"Welcome home your majesty."
White, blue, and gold. Those were the main colors of Hamel, abundance in that order, and Chung's palace was no different.
"Oh hey Sasha! You're feeling well today?"
At the front of the gate, Chung was greeted by Sasha, Priestess of the El of Water. Thanks to the efforts of Chung and the El Search Party, she was saved from the clutches of Ran.
"Yes, I am, your majesty."
Chung made his way through the courtyard with Sasha tailing him.
"So about that egg..."
"Yes, Denka has confirmed it is indeed a wyvern egg."
"I thought wyverns and dragons were extinct! It's especially odd to have found them in the remains of Resiam, if we consider the demon invasion."
"Well your majesty, some miracles do happen after all."
"Where are they now?"
"It is being held at the nature reserve, where the kingdom's finest scholars are studying it."
As Chung entered the palace, Denka, his eyes preoccupied with some papers, bumped into him.
"Ack! Watch where you're going! Don't you see I have some important wor-"
Denka looks up from his paper and sees Chung.
"Hey Denka. You seem quite busy."
"Y-y-your majesty! Please, forgive me for my insolence!"
"Don't worry too much about it, accidents happen. So, how is it?"
"I was just about to talk to you about that when I heard you were coming home! Let's walk to the reserve together so I can tell you all about it..."
"Hey Rena, doesn't that cannon look familiar?"
"Hmm... You know, it kind of does."
As our terrific trio and the cutest thing ever entered what seemed to be an underground laboratory, a large howitzer stood at an elevated ledge.
"I remember now! Raven had something like this installed on the Black Crow!"
As the cannon loads a round, the adventurers dispersed to avoid the shell and the ensuing explosion.
"I can take care of this one, Guide Arrow!"
Rena fires one set of four arrows, which magically flies towards the cannon. As the arrows hit the stationary cannon, two green explosions occur on the cannon, and it was quickly dismantled. As if in response to the downed howitzer, four familiar looking robots appeared on the scene. They all looked like the Wally No. 8 robot that the El Gang had once fought before. This time around, one of them is brown, one is red, one is yellow, and one is white, appearing to serve as the leader.
"Blegh! Even in a different color they all look so tacky!"
"Ohohoho~ Whoever made these have no sense of style!"
Elsword stepped forward and pointed his sword as an invitation to fight at the four robots.
"Alright, everybody pick a partner, let's dance!"
Elsword rushes in first towards the four robots. The yellow Wally fires a salvo of missiles towards Elsword, but Rena nimbly shot the missiles down.
"Hello handsome~! Care to dance with little ol' me?"
Rena appeared right in front of the yellow Wally, having quickly dashed towards it. In response, the yellow Wally swung its arms at her, but Rena nimbly does a back flip into the air, and fires three arrows at it, damaging the yellow Wally's joints.
"Hora hora, don't get cold feet now~!"
As Rena and the yellow Wally have their bout, Aisha teleports in front of the brown colored Wally.
"Aren't you a lucky one? It's a privilege to dance with the cutest and purest idol of Elrios!"
In response to the taunt the brown Wally sends punch at Aisha's way. The magical girl parries the attack with her wand, and attack the brown Wally with four star balls.
"Kyahahahaha! Try to keep up!"
Meanwhile, Miho stood in front of a red colored Wally with a hand on her chin. Miho tilts her head to her the left and the Wally tilts its body in the same direction. Miho then tilts her head to her right, and the red Wally does the same.
"Hmph! You're not very cute at all!"
As if angered by an insult, the red Wally's eye began to glow, and fired a yellow laser towards Miho. Since the tiny fox stood directly underneath the Wally's head, the laser missed her entirely.
"And you are so impatient! You're a horrible dancing partner!"
Elsword, having waved through the other three Wallys, made a beeline toward the leading white Wally. Elsword jumped up in the air, and initiates his attack with a vertical slash. The white Wally blocked the blow with its hands, and Elsword was sent back.
"How about this?! Mortal Blow!"
Elsword strikes his sword into the ground, and sends shock waves of fire towards the white Wally. As the white Wally was struck, the whites on its body began to glow red from the heat. Elsword made a mad dash towards it and struck a heated white part with the hilt of his sword, creating a hole in the armor exposing the inner circuitry on the collar area. Upon a successful break in the armor, Elsword widened his footing and prepares to attack.
"Assault Slash!"
Elsword charges with his sword pointed forward into the exposed circuitry, piercing through the whole and with the sword coming out the other end. With that decisive blow, Elsword took his sword out from the hole, and jumped back, as the white Wally falls backwards and explodes.
"In the end, you still fight the same huh? Some leader you turn out to be."
"Shooting Magnum!"
Rena quickly fires four arrows, aiming at the joints of the yellow Wally that she had struck earlier. With excessive damage in its joints, the yellow Wally had been rendered completely immobile.
"Aww, tired already?"
With four orbs of concentrated nature magic orbiting around Rena, the elf jumped onto the yellow Wally's chest, and kicked off of it, sending it falling on to its back. Rena readies an arrow and aims directly at the yellow Wally's head.
"Sorry, but it's time to say good night! Aero Strafe!"
Rena fires a green arrow directed at the yellow Wally's head, with two orbs of concentrated nature magic spiralling around the arrow. The arrow hits, and powerful gust of wind scatter metallic parts in multiple directions, leaving a large hole where the head used to be.
"Hmph! Not even a goodbye kiss..."
Aisha and the brown Wally were parrying each others attacks blow for blow in a rapid fire series of wand swings and punches. The Dimension Witch was rather bored however.
"You're so boring! Why do Elsword and Rena have to get the funner ones? And brown is such a yucky color!"
The brown Wally stretched out its arms and began to spin at an incredible velocity. Aisha had predicted this attack and jumped back.
"Hah! Copying Elsword's spinning isn't going to help you ya kn- Kyaa!"
As the brown Wally spins, a strong wind blows towards Aisha, and her skirt lifted up from the breeze, prompting Aisha to quickly hold down her skirt.
"Why you...!"
In a furious beat, Aisha ran towards the brown Wally once it had stopped rotating.
"Screw Driver!"
Aisha envelops her wand in a purple and pink aura of time magic, forming a drill. Aisha then drives her wand through the brown Wally, punching a hole in the chest area of the Wally.
"And now the end! Guillotine Pres!"
Having previously memorized the incantation of her spell, Aisha jumped up into the air and stomped on the hole she had made, then jumped into the air to make a powerful second stomp, with her feet touching the metallic flooring this time around.
"Geez! I just hope nobody saw..."
After having fired several laser blasts, the red Wally is now running low on energy. Miho sat on top of its and drew the Fahrmannian character for "ugly" on the flat scalp with her eye lining pencil.
"Ohohoho~ Are you tired already?"
The red Wally, having expended most of its energy, is now sitting down with the back of its head opening up, revealing a small monitor similar to the one that appeared in front of the gate, and a minature keyboard on the back of the hatch. The monitor shows "Energy level critically low. Recommend power off or connect to power source."
"Oh! This looks interesting!"
With the Wally somewhat bend forward for better footing, Miho got onto its back and randomly types on the keyboard. The monitor then reads "$ sudo shutdown -h 0" and then immediately blinked off. The red Wally's mono-eye began to lose all of its color and the Wally now remains permanently still.
"Aww, now it's sleeping... Whatever, it was a terrible dance partner anyway! Ohohoho~"
The stupendous adventurers regroup in the middle of the room. Elsword checked to see if everyone is okay.
"Everyone still good?"
Rena nodded and Aisha blushed slightly and tried not to look at Elsword in the eye. Miho in particular was pretty excited. They were veteran adventurers after all, and facing an opponent such as the Wally proved no challenge for them, so long as they are together. Rena was the first to speak.
"But Elsword, 'let's dance?' That was so cheesy! I had to think of dancing puns just to follow you up!"
"Hey! It sounded kinda at least, right?"
Aisha looked away from the group.
"L-L-Let's just move on! That big door over there must be where the boss is!"
Aisha began to march towards a large door in the room opposite of the gate where they had came from. As Elsword walked towards the door, Rena scooted up beside him.
"Hey Elsword?"
"Hmm? What is it?"
"Star patterns~"
"Huh? Star patterns?"
Aisha having heard Rena, immediately blushed and turned to face the two.
"Rena! You saw?! You didn't have to tell him that!"
Rena simply laughed and skipped to Aisha's side and held her by the arm.
"Oh come now Aisha, isn't that a bit too cute for your age?"
As the two girls have their little talk, Elsword was left confused behind the two. Miho jumped up and hung on to his shoulder.
"What are they talking about?"
"Oh Cherry Boy, you should at least get what they mean! Besides, enough about them, you should be praising me! I took down one all by myself without getting hurt!"
"Oh you did? Good job Miho!"
"Ohohoho~"
As the four approach the door, they wondered how they will get it to open. After stepping on a yellow line marked in front of the door, a red light quickly scanned all of them. Our heroes quickly got ready to defend themselves, when suddenly, the door slowly opened instead.
"...Are you sure this is going to work?"
"Of course! When have my plans never worked?"
Three men in gas masks are convening in a room with three beds, discussing how they will be attending Aisha's concert.
"What about that time when you tried to steal that El Babes magazine fro- ow!"
"Shut up you! I'm telling you this is gonna work!"
"Are you sure? They say the boss sleeps with both his eyes open, and that he took out an entire platoon of dark elves in the middle of the night! By himself! He'll totally catch us!"
"Kekekeke... Trust me, even the boss won't be able to figure this one out..!"
Chapter 11, a bit shorter here.
I'm having a bit of a dry spell on how to write up the Nasod Inspector battle.
Maybe with an Attack on Titan angle..?
Sorry this one took a while. Thanks for reading!