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From chapter 26:

Artemicon: Add was restrained so it was hard for him to attack. He could still spam the shit out of people though.

GirlyTurtle: Raven is a loyal person. You can trust him again as he's here with them now.

Last chapter:

GirlyTurtle: You're not gullible at all. I was planning to have a casualty in this war, but I don't have the heart to make Rena death...I seriously cursed myself for even planning that.

wulfralph: Again, I knew you would say that. I laughed so much when I read that review of yours.

NaruSaku1995: If Ran become playable then the story of Elsword is a total mess, but we do need more male characters to balance out. Glaive and Luto would make the war end in one chapter. I have no idea whose side they would be on, but let's be honest here...no one could survive.

shortfangirl: I think Void does use GameGuard. I haven't been able to play for a long while so I don't remember. Aisha is a righteous person after all. She couldn't just stand there and watch them die. I did use the HA with Rune Slayer and Blade Master. PS: TT's HA sucks.

Anna. Tetsu. Mixed: You're welcome. Rena and Raven all the way (actually only WS and BM)...

Artemicon: Your review shows up now. Thank you for leaving a review there. The Raven that we know is the Raven that fights for others.

Yuuya Bridges: Let's be honest here. Raven had seen his fiancee died in a war. He only loved again when he met Rena. I doubt he be serious with her as he might have a chance of killing her. Also, Add just temporary killed off the title so that he wouldn't relate to Elder in the war. After it, if Wally didn't say anything about stripping his power then Add could reclaim it. Also, it was in the midst of chaos in war, no one could just walk up to Raven and be like "Hey, let's talk about Wally's plan.". Usually, this kind of stuff is after the operation when all of them could sit down and talk. Back to your previous review *whoosp *whoosp*, Elesis didn't use the skill note back then as her Explosive Fist didn't allow her to regain more mana. Add is valuable to Velder as he was the only one who knew anything about Wally. It's a shot in the dark without him.

BTW, I've read Bloody Monday recently...That should tell you about some of the things here in this chapter.


With Raven joined the Velder army, Elder didn't stand a chance against them as they had lost their leader. Eve quickly took charged of the soldiers in place of Rena because she was trusted much more than Raven.

"Heaven's Fist – Sweeper."

A giant Nasod arm came down and swept the enemies towards Chung.

"Troop! Carpet Bombing!"

With his order, everyone fired. A large wave of missiles came rushing towards the soldiers hit them again and again until they were falling down. Raven made sure that they would stay down.

"Finisher Slash."

He cut through a barrage of falling soldiers. They stopped moving. Temporary, the situation with the army was under control. All that left was to believe in Add, Elesis, Elsword and Aisha to take down Wally. The MasterMind said that he might have a trump card that he hadn't used yet so they split into a small group to take him down during the midst of confusion.

"Hold on. I'm coming too." A voice called out for them from afar.

It was the Sakra Devanam, or at least her fox specter. She chuckled as she reached Raven, Eve and Chung. Chung smiled.

"I'm glad that you decide to fight."

He prepared his cannon as another troop of soldiers headed towards them. Eun spun her spear as she took her stance.

"Flying Kite."

She disappeared from their sight as the soldiers were hit by her continuously. She was too fast for mere human eyes. Even Raven was impressed. Chung chuckled.

"Geez, she should've come out sooner."

She managed to take down a few of them. With her ability, Eve figured that it would be best for her to come with the others to take down Wally. They didn't need her that much here since they had gotten this under control.

"Eun, you follow with Add's plan. We'll take it here." Eve called forth her ultimate Nasod creation. "Code: Thunderbolt."

Another Nasod servant appeared and slashed through with his sword, stopped the soldiers on their track. Ara gave them a confirming nod then ran full speed towards the others' destination. Raven jumped up and slashed down, created a shockwave that pushed them back.

"Weaklings! You're too slow!"

Currently with Elesis and Add…

They had successfully infiltrated the castle by gently eased their way through the guards without making noises. As they were hiding behind a wall when a guard walked by, Aisha and Elsword suddenly appeared next to him.

"A-" Elesis almost screamed in shock.

Luckily, both Add and Aisha quickly covered her mouth and shushed her. Elesis sighed. It was easy to be surprised when a person suddenly appeared next to her in the dark. When she nodded to confirm that she had regained her composure, they released her mouth. They stayed quiet as the guard kept standing there. They could try to take him down, but it might make some noises.

"What now? Do we have to wait?" Elsword whispered.

"Yes. At least until he turns away so we can attack." Elesis mumbled.

Add grumbled, his patience was running out. Aisha immediately shushed him. Out of the four, the magician was probably the most patient. As soon at anyone made some sort of noises that were a bit too loud, she was there to keep them in check. They had been waiting for a while, so much so that they had no idea how long it had been.

"Let's just attack him already." Add hissed, but Aisha quieted him again.

Her patience was running out too. If they had to wait ten more minutes, they would attack that guy.

"Oh my, are you guys playing the hiding game?"

Elesis and Aisha were about to scream, but luckily, the guys covered their mouth. It was Eun. She looked at the guard and smirked.

"I'll be over in a second." She spun her spear. "Flying Kite."

Eun attacked him with the speed of sound as he was finally knocked out. Add could feel his eyes twitched as he said that they should have done so since the beginning. Eun smirked and leaded the way. The rest sighed and followed.

Back on the battlefield…

"Strange…These guys are weaker than I thought." Raven mumbled. "They have so few special modifications and they were taken down much easier."

"You call this easy?" Chung shouted over his shoulder as he continued firing his missiles. "They're still taking way too many cannonballs to go down."

"Easier than I remember…" Raven went back to focusing his attacks.

With the team…

As they made it to the grand hall, there was no one there. They sighed in relief, but when they heard footsteps, they pushed each other to hide behind a large pillar.

"Don't need to hide…I know that you rats are here."

It was Ran's voice. The hall lit up with bright lights as Ran walked down the stairs with a smirk. All of them immediately turned towards Eun. They had realized this too late. The fox pushed her hair behind her shoulder and walked towards Ran with a smirk.

"You poor things fell into out traps." The fox giggled as they, especially Aisha, stared at her with anger. "Ara didn't know anything. She just believed whatever I told her. Since I knew that you would be suspicious of me, I told her to say that she had seen everything because you all believe this poor little Ara."

Ran snapped his fingers and soldiers filled the room, cornered all of them. Add ticked his tongue in annoyance. He shouldn't have been so trusting. Since it was Ara, who he had known for a long time, he was too careless. As Elesis looked at him with anger in her eyes, he smirked.

"These are the real ones, the real soldiers with Nasod implantation The first troop that you fought was the real one, but the ones after that are all failed experiment."

There were hundreds, thousands of soldiers out there. How many experiments had they done? Elsword tightened his fist at the inhuman things Wally had done. Eun sat down on the stairs with her legs crossed. Her specter tails moved slightly from amusement.

"I'd love to take you on myself, but Ara, with her so little will left, restrained me from doing so." She chuckled. "She can't regain consciousness if she keeps doing that."

"What are you going to do now?" Ran laughed. "Surrender is your best option."

Anger flooded their system as they realized how stupid they were for falling into a trap like this. However, they refused to be taken hostage if it was the last thing they did. They would rather die in action than being a burden to their countries. Elesis glanced at the magician. Luckily, Aisha was also looking at her. She darted her eyes towards the soldiers in their way of escape and Aisha winked to show that she had understood.

"Fine. We surrender." Elesis shouted.

Elsword and Add looked at her in surprise, but the confident look in her eyes made them understood as Elsword was her brother and Add knew her. The stubborn princess wasn't going to give up that easily. Aisha edged slowly behind the MasterMind. She was much shorter than him so he should cover her.

"We can't go against you with this many soldiers anyway." Ran still doubted her words as Eun told him that she had amazing tenacity.

"My drones aren't working properly. This is not a fight to win." Add pretended to look defeated.

"We only have four people. Against this many soldiers? I don't think we can win." Elsword ticked his tongue.

As they continued to talk, Aisha teleported amongst the soldiers.

"What t-"

"Elemental Storm!"

Barrage of icicles fell down followed with multiple lightning strikes and a tornado of fire. Aisha gritted her teeth when she realized that they weren't down yet. They were on their knees, but if anything, they could still stand up. The other three quickly ran towards Aisha as they were about to escape, but soldiers from the other side quickly dashed over. They were quick thanked to the Nasod legs. Ran clapped.

"I'm amazed. I was half-expecting that…I don't think that you can pull this off though." He looked down on them with those pair of red eyes. "Do you wish to surrender now?"

"Heh, what do you think?" Bold words, but worries were written all over Elsword's face.

"We will fight!" Elesis backed up her brother.

Ran sighed and waved his hand. The soldiers charged into attack. Elesis quickly pulled all four of the closer to her and raised her sword.

"Eternal Fire!"

A tornado of fire covered the four them, acted as a barrier while also burned the soldiers up. When the fire died out, Aisha quickly cast her Weaken Aura and a circle appeared around them. They had more people who used magic attack so it would work out better. Elsword charged ahead with his Iron Body activated. Their constant fired bullets still hurt, but some of flame from their flamethrower did nothing to him. He grinned.

"I'll show you want real fire is like." He swung his sword and stabbed it into the ground. "Sword Fire!"

The fire ran on the floor, burned anyone that it came in contact with. Used that as a distraction, Aisha cast a Meditation on herself and floated onto the air.

"Meteor Shower."

Meteors that were summoned from her staff bombarded the ground, finally a few of them were down. Add quickly activated his drones and hologram screens appeared around him. He turned to Elesis.

"Cover me."

The Blazing Heart nodded. As they were charging at them, Elesis raised her hand and a wave of fire acted as a rope pulled some of them towards her.

"Flame Rose." She lowered her hand to the ground. "Fire Wall."

Fire covered the ones that she pulled acted a shield that covered Add and herself. It stopped all of the bullets, but it wouldn't last long. Add inserted the codes as fast as humanly possible.

"Finish." Add grinned, the screen dissolved around him and gathered into a much bigger version of the Apocalypse that Elesis saw. "Apocalypse!"

The cube immediately fired lasers constantly at the soldiers, gave them more room to attack. They had a fifth member joined them and it was a rubic cube.

Ran was amused by their desire to live. Although they were clearly in the disadvantage, they still fought on like it was the last string that connected them to this world. Maybe it was. If it came down to it, he might have to fight. Ran chuckled. He hadn't done that in a while. Eun eyed him.

"Want to fight?"

"Maybe…"

The soldiers cornered Elsword and Aisha again, but with the other had their back, they wasn't worried in the slightest bit.

"Hug me." Elsword mumbled.

"What? This isn't t-"

"I don't have that intention."

Aisha nodded and wrapped her arms around his waist. Elsword raised his sword.

"Ready…Storm Blade!"

Rune swords covered him and spun around rapidly, tossed the enemies into the air. Aisha got that it was her cue. The magician took a spin, drew a circle on the floor with her magic staff.

"Gust Storm." Fire surrounded them, damaged the enemies that was going to fall as well as those around her.

They gave each other a brief high-five before focusing on fighting again.

On the battlefield, Raven had slowly realized that they were failed experiments. They were too slow and too weak (still better than normal humans) for a successful result. After they had clear waves of enemies and there was no soldiers coming anymore, he immediately turned to Eve, who understood what he had to say.

"It's a trap." She said in monotone.

"The others are in trouble!" Raven grunted. "We've to go find them!"

"Right!" Chung nodded and instructed the artillery team. "If the enemies attack again, don't worry. They're down easier than we think."

"I'll leave the second commander in charge. Oberon, Ophelia. We're going."

Back with the others…

They were slowly running out of stamina. They managed to take some of them down, but it was hard as they took so many of their best attacks and still standing. The Apocalypse malfunctioned and de-activated itself. In the end, they were at each other's back again. All of them were short of breath. Elesis looked over her shoulder and grinned.

"Hey, long time so see."

"It has been only ten minutes sis…" Elsword chuckled.

"Ten minutes huh? I thought it has been an hour already." Add sighed.

"You're so pessimistic." Aisha sighed. "Look on the bright side for once…The soldiers aren't that many anymore."

"Yeah…Two hundreds down to a hundred." Elsword smirked.

Things didn't look so good on them. They were tired and yet, there were still so many of them left. Ran gave them slow claps with a devious smirk on his face.

"I didn't expect you to last this long. I must give you applauds."

"What should we do now?" Eun snickered. "Kill them right here or use them as hostage to blackmail the royalties."

As the fox said that, her head felt like it would split opened. It seemed like Ara was reacting to her saying that. She wasn't conscious, but her mind didn't agree with that. Eun chuckled painfully. She did have a will after all. Ran didn't seem to notice that as he continued.

"How about staring with…" His finger moved and it stopped at the magician. "This little precious purple-haired girl here?"

"NO!"

Ran quickly turned around. The fox spirit disappeared and a teary eyes Ara replaced her. She quickly pointed her spear at her brother. Something that she had never thought she would do.

"Brother. I loved you. I respected you. However, I'm not going to sit there and watch you kill my friends."

"Ara!" Aisha called out with a smile. "Is that you?"

"Sorry. I'm so so sorry." Ara looked at them and apologized over and over again.

"Yep, that's her." Elesis and Add said at the same time just with different tones.

Ran took the opportunity that she was distracted and grabbed her spear, turned the girl around and restrained her. Ara thrashed around. Ran only ticked his tongue.

"You're no longer a useful puppet." That was for both Eun and Ara. "I don't need you anymore."

The Sakra Devanam was devastated when she heard that. Even though deep down her heart, she had always known that. Ara bit on his arm, made him eyed her angrily and pushed her down the stairs. Her agility saved her as she landed safely on her feet. Ran looked at the bleeding wound on his arm.

"Attack." He pointed at Ara. "You can kill that one."

Ara felt like her spirit crumbed slowly, but she quickly steeled herself as she could feel Eun was trying to get out again. As long her spirit was in tact, the fox specter couldn't get out on her own.

"Ara! Over here!"

She nodded and quickly approached them.

"Gather around me. I have enough stamina left for this one." She grinned as everyone inched closer to her. "Be careful. It's hot."

Elesis generated a fireball in her hand. She threw it to the ground then stabbed it with her sword.

"Ancient…" The fire burned the ground as Elesis raised her hand. "Fire!"

A pillar of fire covered them, burned everything in sight. Unluckily for them, some of the soldiers were still standing. Elesis laughed tiredly as she had to support herself with her sword.

"Damn, that's my best attack."

"Don't worry, I'm here to support you guys." She sounded much more confident than she used to. "Secret Tiger Art: Fierce Tiger."

Ara collided into one of the nearest soldiers. She swung her spear before sweeping her foot, knocking him off balance. She quickly plunged her spear into the ground and charged forward, fractured the ground as her spear went. With a final slash, she finished off the soldiers that took a heavy hit from Elesis's Eternal Fire. Aisha gave her a thumb-up with a weary smile.

"That's Ara for you."

Although Ara helped them, the situation didn't look like it would get any better. Ara couldn't handle all of them herself and they were exhausted. New hope came as the door burst opened. Raven, Chung and Eve stood proudly with a small army behind them.

"Raven…" Elsword and Add looked at him skeptically.

"Don't worry. I'm here to help." He raised his hands up defensively.

"Hm? You figured out my plan?" Ran finally walked down the stairs. "I guess I have to join the fight then."

"You guys! Go to find Wally." Chung prepared his cannon. "We'll take it here."

They nodded and quickly ran towards Ran. He arched an eyebrow at their recklessness. As he was about to attack, Aisha swung her staff towards him.

"Binding Circle!"

Ran was immobilized. He couldn't move. Quickly, Aisha teleported them away. The effect quickly ran out as the magician didn't train with this skill much. When Ran was about to give chase, he was attacked by quick slashes from Oberon.

"Genocide Ripper." Eve nodded and he quickly returned to her side. "Your opponents are us now."

"Oh?" Ran gritted his teeth as he lost sight of them. "I've never been this livid in my entire life."

He drew his sword and pointed at them challengingly.

"No need to go easy on them." He narrowed his eyes as all of them took stances. "Kill all of them."

"They're not as easy as the other ones. Attack!" Eve shouted.

It was the first time that her voice had that much emotion in it. It worked as the soldiers had much more spirit thanked to her.

As they clashed, Add, Elsword, Elesis, Aisha and Ara had gotten away. They ran down the hall, quickly tried to find Wally. Elsword looked at her with a teasing smile.

"Come on, you should have used that in the first place."

"The range of the Binding Circle is small. It works on four enemies max and you know that my teleportation doesn't have long range." Aisha puffed her cheeks.

"Don't talk too much. It wears you out easier." Ara reminded them.

"Now that you mention it…I'm getting out of breath." Aisha chuckled.

Just as she said that, she was, once again, swept off her feet by Elsword. Ara blushed when she saw that. They had gone that far already when she was away. Aisha hit Elsword's chest constantly and the Rune Slayer feinted hurt. Elesis eyed Add with expectation. He sighed. Normally, he would refuse, but since she just used her ultimate attack, it was no doubt that she would be tired.

"The best I can give you is a piggyback."

Elesis smiled. It looked like she would want that. Add was about to kneel down so that she could get on his back, but she jumped onto him before he could do it. The MasterMind ticked his tongue at her sudden action. He stood up and carried her on his back. Elsword frowned as he saw that. Ara started to feel awkward as she was the only one there that didn't have a partner.

"I'm lonely…" She sighed.

"Huh?" Elesis turned around to ask.

"Nothing!"

After a while of running, they finally found the throne room. Elesis got off of Add's back while the Rune Slayer still refused to let Aisha down. After a whole lot of hitting and an effective death glare from Elesis and Add, he finally allowed her to be on her feet again. Add grinned. It was the time for him to payback for what Wally had done.

"That old bastard should be in there."

As the burst the throne room's door opened, there was no one there. There was no light and everything was quiet. They were quickly on their guard as something similar to this had happened. Nothing. There was nothing here.

"We should split up to check the room. We haven't seen him when we ran around in the castle. It's possible that there's a secret passage or some sort." Add said as he lifted the carpet. "He is a paranoid bastard. He should have at least one of that in his own throne room."

Everyone nodded as they searched around the room. No matter how hard they tried, they didn't find anything similar to a secret passage. Elsword groaned in frustration.

"Goddamn it Wally!"

He kicked the side of the throne. With a loud rumble, the chair slowly moved to the left, revealed a trap door underneath. Elesis tapped her brother's back while Aisha gave him a thumb up. Add sighed as he scratched his head.

"I guess there are things that only idiots can do."

"H-"

"Good job Elsword." Ara smiled.

That many shifts of emotions left Elsword speechless. He should be thanking Add and the shouted at Ara. Wait…It was the other way around. As he was struggling to understand what his mind wanted, Elesis opened the trap door. There was a ladder that leaded to somewhere. The MasterMind pulled out his drones as it shone more light upon the ladder. It was so deep that he couldn't see what was at the bottom.

"One thing for sure, that bastard just went through here not long ago."

"How do you know?" Aisha asked in surprise.

"The fingerprints on the ladder are still new. It's steel so fingerprints are really visible if it was touched recently." He turned to the others. "Who goes in first?"

"I will." Ara raised her hand. "I'm the only one here that still have stamina left, so if there's a threat down there, I can take it down for you."

Elesis nodded. The Sakra Devanam climbed down the ladder. Add's drone followed her to provide some more light. It was a decent long way down. As she reached the bottom, it was pitch-black down there. Ara took the drone and shone some more light around herself. There was a huge Nasod right behind her.

"Eekkk!" Ara screamed in surprise.

Upon hearing her scream, Aisha was about to jump down, but she was stopped by Elsword.

"She needs help!"

"I'll go."

Elsword quickly jumped down the hole. He didn't take time climbing down the ladder and he landed on something extremely hard. As he looked around, he could see Ara a few feet below him.

"Are you okay?"

"Watch out!"

The Nasod swung its arms, knocked Elsword off balance and made him fell next to Ara. The Sakra Devanam quickly took her spear and charged forwards. She hit the Nasod so fast that it couldn't react. Before the final blow, she cancelled it.

"Flying Kite."

She attacked again, this time faster and more fiercely. A loud hum sounded could be heard and the Nasod was down. Ara sighed in surprise. It was much more easier than the soldiers. As she finished, Aisha climbed down.

"It's okay now." She smiled.

"Well, she handled it nicely." Elsword chuckled. "I didn't have to do anything."

Aisha eyed him. She quickly jumped down and gave Add and Elesis an approval that it was safe now. After a while, the both of them arrived underneath. Add quickly inspected the de-activated Nasod.

"This is a fully-fledge Nasod, but it's incomplete. It's much weaker than a normal Nasod."

"I guess he failed to create one." Elesis titled her head at the fact. "Putting a guard here means that he knew we'd follow him."

"Ran must have told him the plan that he would use us as hostage." Aisha rubbed her chin. "He is paranoid to think that we would escape it."

Paranoid was the word that Add would use to describe Wally. At any case, they had solid proof that the king of Elder was here.


To those who thought that Eun betrayed Ran, you're fooled XD