"DAMN IT!" Asta roared as he launched himself at the opponent unable to hit it he landed by me and turned to attack again when a wave of flames incinerated the Number 2 Corpse.
"Young and inexperienced, you let your anger guide your strikes." Fuegoleon walked past us, his heels clacking on the ground. "It was foolish what you did, brave but foolish. On the battle field you have to know when to fight and when to pull back due to your injuries." Fuegoleon said. "Neither of you are in any condition to fight."
"Tsk... it'll take more then this to kill me." I used Asta to get to my feet, the flaming blade melting the stone as my grip tightened on the hilt. My head tilted towards the man who was responsible for this. "I refuse to let any Royal or Noble beyond my captain tell me what to do." I yanked the blade out of the ground "ELEMENTAL ENCHANTMENT: FOUR WINDS BLADE! COMBINED ENHCANTMENT: FLAME CYCLONE BLADE!" The flames that raged from my weapon began spin rapidly. Before a final pulse of mana turned the spiral of flames into a full on vortex, I took the weapon in both hands and rushed him. The blade coming down in a flaming arc.
"NUMBER ONE! PROTECT ME!" The man yelled as a large corpse rose from the ground creating a barrier that my weapon slammed blade first into and as I growled putting all my strength behind the attack. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU!"
"I AM THE PERSON THAT'S GOING TO BREAK YOU IN HALF!" With one final push I threw the barrier back slamming the corpse and man into the side of a building, bricks falling around them. "I am Helen of Hage Village, a Blue Rose Magic Knight!"
Chapter 26: The Blue Rose's Might
I extinguished the weapon, the blade exposing it's self as the scrawny necromancer scrambled back. Blood dripping from a cut on his forehead. I stood over him with the tip of the great sword under his chin. "Coward." I said as his Grimoire floated up next to him, with a flick of the blade I batted the book away where the hard cover clattered on the ground. "Don't." I pointed my blade at the rising figure of the corpse next to him and in a cyclone of flames destroyed it burning it down to ash. I stabbed the tip of the blade into the ground and grabbed him by his shirt and hauled him up.
He panicked and tried to blast me with a magic shot but I grabbed his hand and started to crush it, bone grating on bone as I twisted it to the side. "GAH! STOP! NOOO!" He clearly didn't like pain.
"Why? Who are you?" I growled.
"He's one of our. He's Rades, a former member of the Purple Orcas." Fuegoleon said. "He lacks the noble heart needed to be a magic knight." He bent over and picked up Rades' Grimoire. "It's so thin."
"NO! KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OF THAT!" Rades demanded but I kneed him in the stomach.
"You are in no position to demand anything. As we speak several magic knights are destroying your army as we speak." Leopold said as he approached with Asta and Noelle. As I looked back at them Asta tilted his head towards one of the piles of bodies as if he had heard something. He pulled out his massive sword and blasted through it, a zombie leaping up to the rooftop to avoid the attack, a Grimoire floating nearby.
"Wait..." I said as the Zombie ripped off a mask revealing a gray skinned man with blackened eyes. The Captain fired one of his compacted beams of flame at the man, but a starry black field swallowed him and spat him out further down the roof.
"So you are the one that allowed this invasion to happen." Fuegoleon said as we looked at the man.
"Captain Vermillion. I'll admit, I wish we could meet under circumstances more suited to me and my allies success." the disguised man said as he attacked with his spatial magic at both me and the Captain forcing me to release Rades and Fuegoleon to drop the grimoire. I slashed at Rades but my blade passed through a starry gate way and a scorching slash rent me from shoulder to hip, the partially cauterized wound bleeding as I fell to my knee and rolled to avoid a magic bullet, dirt and ash stinging in the wound.
"Helen!" Asta yelled out as I came up standing.
"God damn it!" I cursed to myself as blood rolled down my back. I tried to swing again but with the wound my arm spasmed and dropped the weapon. Rades tried to attack me but Leopold and Asta lunged at him with fire and anti magic blades. Noelle threw my arm over her shoulder and pulled me back.
"What is the purpose of this attack?" The Crimson Lion Captain asked.
"Why don't I show you?" The man said as the same star strewn spatial magic appeared around Fuegoleon swallowing him up.
"If these gets me the answers I seek then so be it." And with that the strongest mage here was taken off the battlefield. Immediately after I felt several large spikes of magic power through the city and the pillars of spatial magic above the city confirmed it as the other magic knights powers vanished.
"Damn IT!" Asta shouted as he stopped Rades' from getting taken out of the fight by the man above us by dispelling the spatial magic. I swung around with the larger blade striking Rades and slamming him into the ground. Where he stopped skidding a larger amount of the man's magic appeared and a group of four mages stood before us.
Three men, and... "How interesting, Anti magic and it's her again." Under the while coat and hood I could see red eyes behind a set of glasses and framed by black hair.
"Sally?" I asked as I looked at her, it was the woman I had fought at the Magic Knight entrance exam.
"Helen of Hage Village, I'm flattered you recognize me." She said. "I do intend on studying you and that's boy's magic more in depth."
I gritted my teeth as I picked up my blade from the cobble stones, the flames igniting after sputtering from my drained magic reserves . 'Six on four, but I'm injured... and I'm not too sure if Noelle is even ready to fight.'
I stood still as Asta, Noelle, Leopold and myself went back to back to back to back. Slowly the group surrounded us. Our attacks at the ready, Rades was first, he fired a purple shot at me, I swung my great sword cutting the magic into as the last of my reserves burned away the attack, I planted my feet and lunged feinting a thrust at Rades, before spinning around the spatial magic that appeared to intercept my attack and drove the heavy pommel into the side of Rades skull. He dropped like a sack of bricks. I spun around and threw the blade straight at the man who used spatial magic as he was still up on the roof as the others fought the other mages. He caught the blade with a spatial portal and fired the weapon right back at me, but I lunged into the air as the magic blocked his view letting the weapon slice open my leg as the magic dissipated I tackled him down as we rolled off the three story building.
I as I grappled with him in the air we landed flat on my back as I punched him in the face, blood spraying from his now split lips. I threw him off me where he skidded along the ground to the feet of the other mages who were battling Asta and Leopold with, wind, earth and root magic Sally holding back from the fight.
I got up holding my thigh as I sensed as massive source of magic power approaching. "Damn it." The spatial magic user cursed. "Where is the witch, she should be here by now. The magic knights are already back."
A portal opened and fell from it was... "Brother!" Leopold ran to his brother, from where I stood I could see the blood pooling from the captain. Noelle stood in horror and shock at the sight. I limped forward ripping my blade out of the stone ground and stood side by side with Asta, putting our selves between the Captain and these invaders.
"Gel magic! Giant Salamander!" Sally called out as she created a giant pink gelatinous creature that I had faced in the entrance exam.
"AAHH!" Asta and I charged before Sally could inject a giant syringe into the creature, the tip just puncturing as we sliced into it. My blade stuck as Asta's passed right through taking a leg with it.
"Magic Item! Dark Magic Serum!" The Giant Salamander took on a more purple tone and Gel Spread over the blade and my arm. I tried to rip it free but I was consumed only for Asta to cut me out as I fell onto the ground. But the gel swallowed him as my blade clatter on the ground.
"ASTA!" I screamed out as the spatial magic swallowed the invading mages just as Captain Charlotte, Sol and the others landed in the plaza. I was in shock... they had taken my brother... I couldn't... I couldn't... "I couldn't save him..."
I screamed out, power escaping my body flashing between gold and purple as I slammed my fists into the ground, the force of the impact blowing away anyone near me. And just as suddenly as the power had come my body and mind gave out.
Sorry for the extreme delay of this chapter.
