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Chapter 38
Underground laboratory
Elsword's PoV
I slowly opened my eyes and everything was blurry. Where am i? I feel heavy as well. I move around and now realize, I'm under water.
I swim to the top and jumped out. I look around and saw that the whole forest in ruins. Seems those series of explosions really mucked the place up. "Where's Ara?" i say aloud.
"Right behind you." I turn around and saw Ara well Eun, holding my sword and dripping wet with an not so amused face. "I hate getting wet." She shakes herself and picks up her spear.
"Your not hurt are you." I asked and she checks her body. Her clothes were somewhat damaged and torn but was still in good condition. "Why don't you thoroughly check?" She getting closer to me. Why does she do this.
"No time for that, we have to check things out." I say and she hums. "Well then." She bows and her hair turns back to black along with her ears and tails disappearing.
"Elsword its good to see you are alright." She smiles. Her kindness is a refreshing but we should really get going. "Thanks buy lets get going and search for the others." I say and she nods.
Elesis's PoV
"That was deathly close..." Amelia says shaky. We were encased in a magic barrier Aisha created with Eve. We were caved in all directions by rocks.
"Ok, so how do we get out of here." Raven asked looking around. "We need a powerful blast since i can't really break this stance or the whole barrier goes down." At this the villagers began to shake.
"I wont let that happen geez have some faith in me! I'm a genius." Always gloating huh Aisha. "It would appear this forest was not the only area of seismic quakes." We look at her and she closed her eyes and opened again. "The city has been attacked as well." She finishes.
"Ok then." Aisha says and begins to glow a blue and purple aura. "Grand lightning surge!" The barrier began to glow purple and expand with electricity and exploded outward.
"Lets go." Aisha says and we followed her. "We need to find Elsword." Eve says stopping everyone. "What about them?" Raven points to the villagers. "I will take care of that. You guys go." Amelia says and we nod.
She led them in the opposite direction of us. Guess she knew this forest well. "What happened here?" That's Elsword voice. We turn around and saw Elsword and Ara.
"We have to get to the city, its in danger." I say and he nods. "Eve, lead the way." He says and Eve leads us back to the city.
3rd PoV
The crew arrived to the city and saw it being attacked by Wally's old nasods. The red knights were defending and trying to get people to safety. An: The small Wally bots you encounter before you get to the boss.)
Lowe was the first to see them and ran over. "Guys, we need you guys to help with the nasods. Kain along with his bandits were seen going underground where the nasods came from."
"Ok. Aisha and Eve will take care of the nasods. Rena and Ara will handle the crowd. Me, sis and Raven will go after Kain." Elsword said and everyone went to their given job. "What about me? us?" Lowe said raising his arms.
"Do...do what you do best?" Elsword said running past him with Raven an Elesis close behind.
"Great..." Lowe said sighing.
Underground LaboratoryElsword, Raven and Elesis were going down a tunnel and soon encountered some of Kain's bandit henchmen. The moment they saw them, they drew weapons and attacked.
"Child's play." Raven said swinging his sword creating a thin energy shockwave. The shockwave pushed the bandits away with force and knocked them out.
They kept advancing until they saw the tunnel went lower. They jumped down and was met with a labyrinth of pathways and other tunnels. The place also reeked of waste with moss, mold and dirty water on the ground.
"Bandits." Elsword scouted. They were walking around the place as if they were guarding and patrolling. "Seems like this Kain guy expected someone to follow." Raven said.
"Well lets go." Elsword created an energy sword and sprinted forward. The bandits, being alerted by splashing sounds saw Raven coming toward them. They began to shoot arrows and crossbow bolts.
"Ill take this side then." Raven said drawing his sword and took the left side.
Raven held up his nasod arm and blocked the arrows. "Hmph." She sliced through two bandits and jumped up to avoid a sword slash.
He propelled himself down making water splash everywhere. "Shockwave, cutter." He created a shockwave that cut the bandits clean through. "Easy." He said.
With Elesis
Elesis was taking on larger enemies. The bigger bandits still could not overpower her. She slammed her sword down creating an energy ground impact.
They were caught off guard and stumbled backward. Elesis put both hands on her blade and swung downward creating a energy wave.
She raised her sword and blocked an attack from behind her. She fired another sword wave at them and went to go follow up with Raven and Elsword.
With Elsword
Elsword was using simple close combat to take out the bandits. His strength was enough to take them out with one blow. That was until they heard a large rumble and they looked over and saw a large mutated red phoru charging at them.
Elsword jumped and the phoru trampled over the bandits. The phoru roared and swiped Elsword out the air. The impact created a small crater under him but was still able to recover.
The phoru swung at Elsword again but he duck and punched the phoru in its stomach. He felt the punch connect but the phoru grabbed him with both paws and slammed him down.
"Grind, devouring bed coffin." The phoru's arm began to get swallowed by the ground. Elsword emerged and kicked its face with its arm being torn off its body. It was then cut in two by Elesis.
"Lets go." Raven said. "Im going to shower after all this." Elsword said smelling his arm. "Your not the only one." Elesis sighed and Raven nods.
They were running until blaring red came on. Steam began to fill the room and Wally bot came down the roof. "You gotta be kidding me." Elsword said.
With Kain
"Hmph, too easy." Kain slashed the nasods in two with his rapier with ease. He was in the inner part of the underground tunnels. He finally found a large door with the Velder insignia on it and sliced it open.
He was now inside the laboratory that Uool and Illy had been preaching about to him before. The place had nothing of value so he kept walking the steel floors with boredom.
Some parts were still working and some gears as well. He then saw a large red warehouse hanger door. "Maybe it was here?" He said to him self and began to try and lift it up.
The door opened automatically and he fell on his bottom. Inside was a gigantic nasod that was red, blue and white.
It had shoulder cannons with laser guns next to them. Its left arm was a machine and its right had a sword attached to its forearm. The chest also doubled as energy cannon. Its lower half was wheels instead legs making more mobile.
Kain widened his eyes and then began to laugh. "Hahaha, that old bastard was truly crazy!" He ran up the stairs that were next to the large nasod.
He admired the structure of it. "It is a war machine, yes with this we truly will habe everything." Kain said with pure delight.
"Not while we are around." Kain sighed and looked down and saw Uool and Illy staring up at him. "Ah, you two, i thought you two died." He said slowly coming down the stairs.
"Well here we are and we are here for our prize." Uool said. "Your not getting that nasod, that's our ticket to our desires." Illy said.
"Heh, i bet that involves juvenile stealing." Kain mocked them. "Isn't that what you do as well. Beside we having better things to do." Illy said.
"Well it doesn't mean anything to me." Kain drew his rapier from his waist and pointed it Uool and Illy. "I don't need you two anymore. This was going to happen sooner or later." He said laughing.
He charged at the two aimed at Illy, however Uool blocked his attack with his broad sword. "You!" Uool yelled and pushed Kain away.
Illy began firing arrows at Kain but he swatted away from himself. "That won't work." He charged at Uool and and swung down but Uool back stepped away.
Illy fired more arrows which struck Kain's back. He growled and charged him. He cut Illy's crossbow in half and kicked his chest. He stabbed his sword in his chest making illy roar in pain.
Uool came to help but Kain dodged his attack and put him in a choke hold.
They began go hear someone coming to them and Kain sucked his teeth. "Already?" He said in disinterest.
"I didn't think the red knights would make it this far." Kain yelled to the gate entrance. "I'm not a Red Knight." Elsword came from the gate. He had a few scratches and cuts. Some of his armor was also broken.
"Ha? a boy? i must admit, i was not expecting something like this." Kain said sheathing his sword and walked up to Elsword.
"You must be a young adventure? or a prisoner? hmm i- Gah!" Kain suddenly received a harsh punch to his stomach and was knocked backward from force.
"Wrong." Elsword charged Kain and Kain immediately drew his sword to defend. "You little!" He swung down but Elsword sidestepped and kicked his aide.
Kain hit the railing and spun around but didn't see Elsword. "Wha-" He punched again and fell to the floor. "I should have expected such from a lowly bandit." Elsword stood over him.
"Yo...you!" Kain slowly stood up. Elsword sighed and folded his arms. He had no tolerance for thieves or weak ones at that. "You must be some kind of demon." Kain slowly backed away trying to find an escape route.
"Well you might not be so far off." Elsword walked toward him but stopped when he felt rumbling. He looked up and saw the large war nasod begin to shake and move.
"My chance." Kain said and hurriedly ran off. Elsword tried to grabbed but he managed to slip away.
Steam came out of the nasod and it began to drag its self to Elsword. [YOU!] It said and Elsword drew Durendal from his back.
[YOU WILL BE OUR FIRST VICTIM!] It said and fired a barrage bullets from its machine guns. Elsword used the flat end of Durendal to block it but was still being pushed back.
He jumped up and pushed himself to the nasod. The nasod simple swatted him to the ground making a creator beneath him. He coughed out and then saw several missiles coming to him.
He had to dodge due to unable to use Earth energy. "Calamity annihilation!" Elsword breathed out a flames I'm a fanned out shaped. It covered the nasod completely.
He backed away and stared at it still burning. It then came out dragging itself to him firing more missiles. He widened his eyes and jumped up. The missiles lucky did not have a tracking feature.
Nasod inspect then grabbed him and began squeeze him. Elsword broke out and slice its hand off and landed back on the ground.
The Inspector's hand then began to reform with wires and soon fully restored. It then aimed its cannon at Elsword and blasted him. He blocked it but was pushed back to the wall.
He looked up and saw missiles coming at him. He sliced them and sprinted to the Inspector's side. It slammed it arm down creating a shockwave and swung it's bladed arm at him to which he parried.
He sliced its lower body in hopes it would fall over but only made a scratch. It turned and swung its cannon arm at him knocking him away.
He slowly stood up coughing out. "Damn, Sis and Raven gotta hurry up." He said and held up Durendal. "Hmph, your going to let this thing do you in? have you gone weak?!" Regulus roared in his head and Elsword chuckled. "Then lets do this."
He switched Durendal to his right hand and created a energy blade with his left but was much wider. His body began to glow a fiery orange and his pupils began to sharpen.
His upper clothes began to burn off and revealed his scars on his body that began to glow a feint burning red. "Now then." He said standing straight. "Lets go."
He disappeared suddenly and reappeared in front of the Inspector. It could not react in time and Elsword sliced its machine gun off first and then kicked it away.
It stumbled back but managed to keep balance. It fired its chest cannon but Elsword dodged in time. He then and down and sprinted to it.
The inspector began firing missiles at him at which he began cut through. "Seal, scorched arson prison!" He stabbed Durendal into the ground and a fire circle formed on the ground and traveled to the Inspector.
The flames erupted out of the ground and formed a pyramid of fire before imploding on itself.
The Inspector was left charred black and twitching. It tried to move but Elsword cut off its cannon arm. It then stopped moving and its head opened up. Uool fell out of it stumbling around.
Elsword sighed and let his energy fade and gone back to normal. "You. Where's the other." Elsword said. Uool began to cough and forced his mask off. He had a low brown spiky hair with hazel eyes and a stern look.
"Dead you bastard!" He charged at him with his fist but Elsword stepped out the way and tripped him with his foot. He fell to the ground and began to cough out more.
"Pathetic." He said simply. He walked over and raised his sword and was going to bring down until he felt something.
Due to his fighting instincts, he quickly ducked but was not fast enough. His left. was complete severed from his body.
He held the urge to scream and looked up. The Inspector was now in a deep red. Its head light was shinning down at him and began to make roaring sounds. It dragged its self to him and raised its blade arm.
Elsword jumped up and then saw its chest cannon fire a beam. He widened his eyes and flash steeped away but still was grazed by the beam.
The Inspect slammed its arm on him and he quickly made and energy sword to block. A creator formed under him and he opted to back away.
He fell to the ground and leaned on the wall. The Inspector kept dragging itself to him with its arm raised. "Tch, well that was...unexpected..." He said. His body then began to ache due to using his power from earlier.
It was in front of him and stabbed its blade down at him. All he do was stare at death in its face.