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Last Admiral: That's very true. In all honesty, I never thought about that. I'll have to think on it, but even so, it will be quite some time before I get to where he becomes high in power. But when the time comes, I'm sure it will end great.
Chapter 48: The Battle Of Yuudai VS Seventy Thousand
Yuudai's jaw is slack. He can't believe what Louise had just told him. She looks down to the ground unable to look at her familiar. She can't remember the last time she has seen him stricken by shock like this.
"After everything we have done...he wants us to go out there and protect their sorry asses?" Yuudai questions unsure of who to be angry at. There is all the Albions and then there is the army that is too scared to fight.
"Sorry, but I'm going by myself." Louise tells him. She looks up at him, but doesn't find him trying to accept it.
"I don't think so." Yuudai says with his hair shadowing his eyes. "In fact, I don't see you going anywhere other than back to Tristain."
Louise grits her teeth feeling immediate annoyance. "You can't expect me to let you go, let alone go alone." She clenches her fists unable to find him even considering backing down.
"I'm your protector, Blanc." Yuudai reminds the short girl. "If I were to allow you to kill yourself like this then I'd be the biggest freaking idiot of an protector in history."
"If protecting me means letting you die in my place then I don't want you protecting me anymore!" She yells at him. Tears slowly start to fall from her eyes. Yuudai looks at her through his hair. It saddens him seeing her like this, but he can't relent on this. "You are one of the only true friends I have ever had. I can't let you commit suicide like this."
Yuudai sighs becoming solemn. "You are leaving me with no choice, Blanc. Please tell me one last request before I leave for my big fight." He says carefully.
Seeing no way around this, Louise's tears run down her face in streams. "Please...say my first name." She requests quietly.
He walks closer hugging her. She presses her face against his chest weeping heavier now. "I promise to come back, Louise." Yuudai promises. She looks up into his eyes.
"D-do you swear?" She asks sniffling.
Yuudai forces out a playful chuckle. With that comes his usual smirk. "If I didn't do that much then what kind of legendary familiar would I be?" He asks still smirking.
"If you die...I will never forgive you." She tells him through her tears.
"As I said, I won't die. Not before I see Albion regret ever killing Wales." Yuudai looks at the ring that had been given to him by the prince so long ago.
They seperate looking at each other for a few moments. He smiles at her one last time before walking off towards the army that he will be meeting halfway. Louise watches him walk off towards the enemy army seeing a brave, but very idiotic, familiar walk towards his almost guaranteed death. She tries to smile, but her mind doesn't let her. She can't let him go.
"I...I'm sorry, Yuudai." She says about to cast a sleeping spell.
Yuudai knew she would try this, so he quickly chops her neck. She then falls to the ground unconscious. "Make sure to take care of her until she gets back to the academy." Yuudai orders the one watching him.
"How did you know I was here?" Julio asks walking over to him and Louise.
Yuudai gives him a deadpan look. "Nobody else is making a sound and the only one I can imagine being around her, coincidently, is you." He answers. "Now please do me that much of a favor."
Julio looks into Yuudai's eyes looking for fear. Any sign to show why he is going to the trouble of going out to fight solo. "You are one of the bravest people I know, Gandalfr. I must know though, why do you want to do this?"
"Because I made an oath. If protecting my friends means fighting an army then I'll do it." Yuudai answers. As he says this, he realizes there is no single reason. He doesn't tell the blond that though.
Julio smiles at the black haired teen. "Then I wish you strength in your battle, Yui." Julio says in a teasing tone at the end.
Yuudai clenches his fist comedically. "Call me that again, Vinny. I promise it'll hurt." The two butt heads against each other, but after a moment it becomes the two laughing. The two share the laugh for a few seconds. Yuudai then goes back to his solemn look. "I must be off before they get too close." He says watching Julio nod his head. The teen then turns, starting his walk towards his destination.
It still is hard to think about for him. Never in his wildest dreams did he imagine he would fight seventy thousand soldiers. If someone from his old world were to tell him he would, Yuudai would simply roll his eyes.
"Do you actually think you will get through this alive?" Derflinger asks catching Yuudai's attention.
Yuudai stays silent for a few moments thinking about it. "In all honesty, I believe I can. Then again, the moments I have been injured, I had been too reckless. I can only try to do everything perfectly to be successful."
"I think you will win. You have the will, courage and power to do so." The sword tells him confidently.
"I guess you're right." His smirk returns as he continues to walk. "I won't let their numbers intimidate me."
Next Morning
"There they are." Yuudai says looking on in the distance.
Far off, the enemy army is now in his line of sight. His eyes wander off the the morning dawn. The teen feels a tug at his heart seeing it. It is such a beautiful morning. The morning dew glistening beneath his feet from the sunlight peeking up from the sky. A cool breeze passes him putting him in a serene state of mind.
"This is the most beautiful sunrise I have ever seen." Yuudai admits smiling a little bit.
"Please partner, focus on the enemy army." Derflinger instructs him. It seems the sword is just as serene as its wielder.
Yuudai takes the hilt of the sword in his hand pulling the sword out. His Gandalfr rune shines telling him its power is working. He then activates his ring's power putting blue streaks in his hair as well as summoning his gun of darkness. The teen stands ready for anything now.
"How about we go and meet our guests?" Yuudai suggests cracking his neck.
In that single moment, he shoots off with the force of five lightning bolts. Within the second, he is already upon the army. The front of the army made of the artillery didn't even have the time to see anything. They only noticed something when the entirety of the artillery fell to the ground in bloody heaps.
Yuudai stops in the middle of it all to let the rest of the army see him. It was a moment of complete silence. Nothing and nobody made even the smallest sound. The first ones to attack were the Dragon Knight mages.
They all send different assortments of spells. Ice spears, wind slashes and fire balls. The barrage would frighten anyone, but Yuudai simply shoots them all absorbing the magic. In between the streaks of blue, ice blue fire red and light blue appear in it. His eyes become multicolored as well.
The entire army charges at him not wanting to watch this teenage boy get stronger. The next part of that army, Yuudai cuts through them as well. Cutting heads, stabbing through hearts, cutting off limbs and much much with his sword. All the while he is now avoiding magical attacks as he continues the massacre.
At this point, he has easily killed over five hundred enemies. Yuudai eventually directs his next assault on the aerial fleet. He turns his gun into his air manipulation attack. He moves constantly while cutting up dragons and the riders with the air attacks. The boy even sharpens the air enough to slice their thighs, chests, arms and head.
With The Commander
"What's with all that noise?" The commander of the army questions.
He has been hearing screams, orders of specific parts of the army and the aerial Dragon Knights attacking something. The messenger of the army is pale looking at his commander. "T-there is an enemy in our ranks killing everyone." The man answers.
The commander's eyes widen as his face pales to match the messenger's own face. "How many?"
"A-according to the reports...one boy." The messenger shivers.
"Send our most more troops at him." The commander orders.
With Yuudai
The boy strikes down another group of soldiers leaving a bloody mess around him. Yuudai takes a moment to look behind himself. The land one once beautiful, but now it is nothing more than a land with thousands of dead people. He sighs knowing that he has killed thousands by now.
"I thought my revenge would be sweet, but this...this isn't how I imagined it." Yuudai mutters.
A battle cry pierces the air as more of the army races towards him. This time the mages on horseback. They all shoot off their most powerful spells shocking Yuudai. The ground beneath him tries to swallow him whole, but he avoids it by moving to the side. Before he can even stop moving he is dodging lightning, fire, ice, water and all kinds of other spells.
Out of nowhere, a medium sized fireball hits Yuudai's back causing a shockwave of pain through his body. His back, covered by his jacket and shirt, now has a fair sized burn mark and a hole through the jacket and shirt. The teen doesn't stop dodging the onslaught, but he does look back while staying mobile.
The fireball came from a barely breathing mage with a missing arm and leg. The mage tries to breathe more, but Yuudai instantly is right beside the mage cutting the head off. Afterwards, he moves around keeping an eye out for anymore sneak attacks. If he were to think about it, he wouldn't be surprised that one of them may have hung on to attack him. After all, he has been busy killing thousands of others.
Yuudai uses his wind ability to cut open all of the mages throats while still on horseback. The teen starts humming a familiar tune from his old world. He is now standing still humming it. He then starts whispering the lyrics.
"I hate what I've become, the nightmare's just begun. I must confess that I feel like a monster." He sings quietly
The army starts to retreat as he sings this song quietly. It seems like they have finally seen this fight as it is, a lost cause. He doesn't give chase though. He can't find the motivation now.
"You're not going to give chace?" Derflinger asks curious.
"You know...I think I've spilled enough blood for fifty life times, maybe more." Yuudai says sheathing the sword.
"So what now?" It asks while Yuudai continues watching the retreating army.
"I don't know. By now, the ships more than definitely left. I'm now stuck in enemy lands...maybe I'll roam the forest." Yuudai says walking in the direction of the closest one.
"Does what Colbert said make sense now?" Derflinger questions its partner.
"Too much sense." He replies going silent afterwards.
After turning off the rest of his powers, he feels his muscles start throbbing with an immense pain. His back starts throbbing with pain much more. It seems all of that effort he put in actually is taking a toll on him. He grits his teeth unwilling to let out the smallest sound of pain.
His legs go from walking like he was to limping a small bit towards his new destination. "If I'm luck, I'll be better by the end of the week." Yuudai assesses himself.
"Remember that fireball wound?" Derflinger asks. Yuudai nods silently becoming uneasy. "I may be wrong, but I think it might be burning your nerves in the area it hit."
Yuudai's eyes widen in shock. He quickly releases a small fraction of the ring's power to bring out his gun then shoots his back. All of the throbbing in that area stop, but the problem is there is no longer any feeling in that area. He looks to the ground shocked.
"How did I take so much damage?" Yuudai asks unable to accept that one attack from a dying mage damaged his nerve endings in his back.
"Be happy, partner. If gone unchecked, it would have made its way to your internal organs. It would have killed you over time." Derflinger bluntly informs him.
Yuudai continues to walk making the gun disappear again. "Of course there is a spell for that." He says shaking his head. A smile appears on his face. "On the bright side, I survived. I got through like we knew we could."
"If I am to be honest, I was worried." Derflinger admits. "I couldn't have thought you would actually kill thousands of soldiers."
Yuudai's smile turns a bit sadder. "I don't regret it, but it was so much more sickening than what I am used to." He states.
The two stay silent after that. He finally reaches the forest after an hour of limping. He makes it two yards in before his legs completely give out on him. Yuudai rolls over onto his back looking to the sky. It is now shining brightly on him.
"I think I'm going to hibernate now." Yuudai says out loud. He closes his eyes breathing in a steady rhythm.
End
There we go! The finale to this volume! Time to start on volume eight!
Wait, are you about to point out me uploading a chapter after one day of the previous chapter? Well I do that sometimes. If I am in the mind set and have the interest then I can write and put out so much.
I feel like I could have detailed the fight more, but oh well. Maybe I'm just underestimating myself. It wouldn't be the first time. Anyway, I'm sure you'll ask your own curiosities by the next chapter.
One more thing. About that song I mentioned earlier. That is called Monster by Skillet. Pretty good rock band.
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