Do you know what kind of creature waits for its own slaugther?
Sheeps...
"Sheeps..."
His former master's words still rang in his head, a reminder of what he had become in the past. It was her guidance that turned Marius into the merciless centurion. And after her death, he took her place as warlord. But his loyalty to Apollyon was nothing more than a facade to gain her favor and more power over the legion. But that's all gone now, left behind in his old world.
He stood in the barren fields overlooking the ghost town they were visiting. Naofumi had set up an emergency kitchen for the refugees, who were left to starved by their 'savior'.
On the ground, Marius spotted a small wooden toy sword with half the length of his sword. He picked up the small toy and as he observed the it, a memory of his past slowly creeped into his head.
"What's that?"
Upon hearing the voice of the little filolial girl, Marius snapped out from his trance and dropped the toy sword to the ground, then lef Filo behind without answering the filolial's question.
"I pray for your blessings, gods above. Grant me strength so I may fight my enemies. Grant me courage so I may face the battle without fear. Grant my weapons power so I may destroy my enemies. Grant me victory, so I may tell stories of it one day.
And if I were to fall in battle, grant me a path to Elysium... So I may see them again..."
After he finished his prayers, Marius got up on his knees then grabbed the rectangular shield beside him. It was almost the same as the scutum he used in his legionnaire days but it was smaller, perfect for mobility. He then carried a bag of twelve short javelins and picked his short sword then secured it on his side.
He put on his helmet and lowered the steel mask, hiding the human underneath it and become the entity of war. He walked towards the shop door and gets out of the shop to meet his party member.
"Took you long enough." said Naofumi, the Shield Hero of this world. And his current master.
"I have to make preparations." said Marius, now armed to the teeth for battle.
Amongs them was a female demi-human named Raphtalia, who does not have a good terms with Marius after he tried to kill her once. She was given a bracelet from Naofumi to increase her stat.
And Filo, a filolial queen that can tranformed into a little girl who may took a liking to the centurion. Naofumi also gave her a gift. A golden hairpin that sat on top of her head. On her claws, however, was a set of metal claw she got from their last visit from the slave trade.
He remembered how the slave trader suggested him to take on mercenary work after he's service with the Shield Hero was finished and how many would pay him large sums of money for his service. Of course, Marius responded with threats instead.
"So are you ready?"
"Always. What about them?" Marius mentioned the other party members, the three knights and the two mages.
"We're all ready! We won't let you down, Shield Hero!" said one of the knights.
"Alright. It's time." Naofumi watched as the timer counts fifthteen seconds before battle. As it counted down to zero, a yellow light shined bellow the party's ground as they are about to be teleported to the battlefield. And after seeing pretty much everything in this world, this didn't surprised Marius no more.
A boy and his little sister ran away from the two headed ogre wielding a bloodied club. The little girl tripped on the ground and her older brother quickly ran toward her and shield her from the monster.
"You stay away from her!" the boy spread his arms wide, hoping the ogre will hit him instead of his sister.
A two headed monster laugh at the scared children and raised its club high, ready to kill the small child. Then, a short javelin flew across the two siblings and pierced through the right head of the ogre. With the right head dead it dropped the club to the ground nearly hitting the terrified boy still protecting his sister.
"Evacuate this village. Now!"
The boy heard the commanding voice behind him and saw the centurion with a short sword on the right hand and a rectangular shield on the other. The boy quickly pick his sister up and ran passed Marius.
The centurion watched the two children then back to the ogre. The enraged beast picked up the club with its left hand and roared at Marius.
"Come and get it!"
The ogre charged at Marius with its full might, and swung the club aboved to crush the armored foe. Marius moved to his right to evaded the attack and took this opportunity to slashed the ogre's neck, nearly beheading the beast. It dropped its weapon and held on to its throat to keep the blood from pouring out.
Marius then pushed kick the dying monster to the ground then finished it off with a stab to the heart. From a distance not far from him, one of the young knights from his party was pinned to the ground by a reptilian humanoid creature.
Marius pulled out the javelin from the dead ogre's right head and threw the weapon at the lizardman. The javelin pierced through its chest and it collapses to the ground. The centurion ran towards the downed knight and saw that he was still alive.
"Thank you!" said the young knight as he stood up.
"You're no good to me dead, knight. Are the villager safe?"
"Y-yes! The villager have already all been evacuated!"
Then, an army lizardmen emerged and were closing in on them but a powerful magical energy decimated all of them with ease. After all the lizardmen was destroyed, two of the mages meetup with the knight and the centurion.
"You two okay!" said the female mage.
"We're fine, don't worry about us!" said the young knight.
"The rest of you stay here and kill any remaining monster! I will go and report this to the Shield Hero!" said Marius.
"Wait, let me go with you!"
"That is an order, knight!"
Marius took the path to look for the shield hero, leaving the rest of the party member on their own.
After fighting through various monster attacking the village with bloodied javelin in hand, Marius finally reached where the shield hero and the rest of the party member were located.
"We've evacuated the villagers! There should be nothing but monster here!" said Marius.
"Great! Where are the rest?" said Naofumi.
"I ordered them to kill any monster they see to decrease their numbers!"
"Right..." Naofumi looked up at the apocalyptic sky looming above them, "It's been three whole hours. What are those guys doing?
Come on. We have to destroy the source of this attack and end this wave as soon as possible."
"A better plan than fighting to our deaths. The rest of you stay here and fight! Proof your worth!"
"Yes sir!" said the two knights!
"Leave the village to ol' granny here and these whippersnappers!" said an old lody beside them.
"Got it. Just don't push your luck, gran." said Naofumi, "Raphtalia, Filo, Marius. We're going."
"Kay!"
"Right."
"Very well."
As they climbed on top of Filo, Raphtalia and Marius started glaring at each other for a few moment before breaking eye contact.
"What are you doing, Motoyasu? We need to take out the skeleton first!"
"No! The kraken comes first! The Soul Eater won't spawn otherwise!"
"This is no time to be bickering!"
Just as the Spear Hero and the Sword Hero bickered, the Shield Hero landed between them. Followed by Raphtalia and Marius, then Filo who shook the ship by her weight.
"Go defend some village or something." said Motoyasu.
"Indeed. An incompetent hero who can't fight should-" said Maltt before she was interrupted.
"Who's really incompetent here?" said Naofumi, "As long as you don't put an end to the Wave, the monsters will keep coming! I can't defend a village like that! But..."
Before Naofumi could finish, the Skull Captain started to attacked the Shield Hero but Rapthalia blocked the Skull Captain's sword then shoved the creature as far away as possible.
"Instead of working together, you three are doing whatever you want!"
Then, the Kraken too attacked the Shield Hero, but Marius blocked its jaws with his shield then stabbed the creature's eyes with his javelin. The kraken welped in pain as the javelin was still stuck in its eyes and Marius drew his sword.
"If we lose, all the villagers will die, and so will you! Quit thinking this is some game already!"
"I know, I know!" said Ren, "That's why I'm hitting the skeleton to spawn the Soul Eater!"
"Huh? You killed it earlier, but nothing spawned." said Motoyasu.
"We need to kill it several times!"
Soon, the two started bickering again. Further worsening the situation.
"Conversing with these idiots was a waste of time! I say we kill it properly!" said Marius.
"Are you deaf? Nothing happened when they killed it! And its only going to spawned everytime!" said Raphtalia.
"Do you have better plan then, Rat Ears?"
"Why you-"
"Enough! I don't need you two starting it as well!" said Naofumi.
"Then what plan do you have, shield hero!" said Marius.
Naofumi observed the Skull Captain and his interface displayed the monster's stats, "It doesn't have any special parameters or resistances. Is there a way to spawn a Soul Eater other than killing that monster?"And with his sharp eye, Naofumi noticed the Skull Captain's shadow was abnormal. As if it was another being. "Raphtalia! Cast light magic!"
"Light? Really?"
"Now!"
"O-Okay!", Raphtalia held her sword with her hands and started chanting, "As source of thy power, I order thee. Decipher the laws of nature and illumnate my surroundings. Fast light!"
A bright white light glew and illuminated the area as it exposed the real monster hidden withing the shadow of the Skull Captain and the Kraken.
"Attack the shadow by its feet!" Naofumi commanded, and both Raphtalia and Marius attacked.
Raphtalia lunges and struck the shadow behind the Skull Captain. Meanwhile, Marius charged towards the Kraken. The beast launched all its head at Marius but the centurion slashed and blocked all of the Kraken's head until he got the clear view then threw his javelin at the shadow.
Soon, several purple beings emerged from the shadows and surrounded the heroes and their parties.
"So many of them were hiding?" said Motoyasu in complete shocked.
"Look! Soul Eaters are spawning from all over the ship!" said Itsuki while he and party members aboard the ship.
The purple being then merged together and released a cloud of purple mist and thunder. And in the mist the Dimensional Soul Eater emerged and roared at the Four Heroes as it struck fear into their hearts.
Marius retrieved the javelin he threw and walked backward towards Naofumi, "Tell me you have a plan for that."
"Thunderbolt Slash!"
"Thunder Arrow!"
"Lighting Spear!"
All three of the heroes used their range attack against the monster. But it did little to no affect but angered it even more.
"It's sturdier than I expected." said Ren.
"Are our attacks even affecting it?" said Motoyasu.
"Filo! Cast wind magic!" said Naofumi to Filo.
"Okay! Fast tornado!" and with that, Filo fired a powerful wind attack at the Soul Eater and it managed to damaged the monster. But the Soul Eater started to created a green ball of energy in its mouth then fired at Motoyasu and Ren who were about to attack the monster. The explosion filled the top deck with dust and debris, and the heroes and their party member were all downed from the devastating attack, all except for the Shield Hero and his party members as Naofumi and Marius had their shields together to blocked the attack while Raphtalia and Filo took cover behind them.
The Soul Eater was about to launched another similar attack when a large Filolial materialize right infront of it and Filo kicked the monster's hard before disappeared and reappeared to deal a similar attack.
"Can't touch me!" Filo taunted the Soul Eater and it fired its attack but Filo dissapeared before the energy could hit her, and it destroyed part of the ship instead with Naofumi and Marius resisted the shockwave with their shields.
Once the dust as settled, Filo continued her attack on the Sould Eater. Raphtalia swung her sword and it released a magical energy that damaged the Soul Eater, while Marius continuously threw his javelin at the Soul Water to further drain its health.
Marius reached for his back but realized he ran out of javelin. "Get that thing on the ground now!"
"Got it!" said Filo.
Filo appeared on top of the Soul Eater then pummeled the monster with her claws and the Soul Eater crashed to the deck floor. As the Soul Eater slowly got up, Marius slashed the creature with his sword then Raphtalia joined in to gang up on the Soul Eater.
Seeing no escape from the endless attack, the Soul Eater crashed through the deck floor to loose sight of its two attacker. Seconds later, the Soul Eater's hand emerged from the deck and grabbed the two warriors on each hand. Raphtalia looses her sword after she was yanked from her feet while Marius's entire body was within the Soul Eater's grasp, making him unable to use any of his weapons.
"Raphtalia! Marius!" yelled Naofumi.
The two struggled while in the grasped of the Soul Eater. Raphtalia tried hitting the monstrous hands with her bare fist while Marius struggled to release his arms on the monster's grasp.
"Let go of them!" Filo dashed and kicked the creature's behind its head, causing it to let go of the two warriors.
As the two landed on their feet, Raphtalia retrieved her sword and retreated towards Naofumi while Marius slowly backed away while in combat stance, with Filo landed near them.
"He's not taking damage!" said Filo.
"Don't complain. We have to kill it." said Raphtalia.
It was at this moment where Naofumi decided to use his last resort.
"Raphtalia..." said Naofumi.
"Yes?"
"I'm going to use the Rage Shield." Naofumi switched his shield to his left, "Forgive me."
"Didn't I tell you?" Raphtalia grabbed Naofumi's right hand, "I am your sword. I will follow you through fire and brimstone."
Naofumi nodded at Raphtalia then turned his head to Filo, "Take care of Raphtalia if anything goes wrong. Marius..."
Marius glanced at Naofumi without letting his guard down, "I heard everything... Will you hesitate?"
"Not this time."
And with that, Marius stepped aside and stood beside Filo. Still, he held his shield up incase of any attack from the Soul Eater.
"I'll remain by your side until the very end." said Raphtalia.
Naofumi turned to faced the Soul Eater. He held his shield infront of him, "Come forth, Rage Shield!" and the green gem on the shield glew red, a strong force blew around Naofumi and the familiar red marking formed all across his body. Naofumi roared in rage as the shield took over his mind.
Fire burst from Naofumi's torso, and a black armor formed around it. The fire continued to burn as Naofumi screamed in pain. With his eyes glowing red, Naofumi readied himself and shouted to attracted the Soul Eater's attention and the rest of the heroes turned to looked at Naofumi.
Then, Marius felt an intense heat beside him. He turned and saw Filo surrounded with fire and her eyes glew bright red, "Filo?"
"Filo's being affected by the dragon zombie too?" said Raphtalia.
"What?"
Now with seething rage coming from her master, Filo charged towards the Soul Eater and kicked it with enough force to drop it to the ground. With the monster down, Naofumi attacked the Soul Eater and burnt the monster with the raging flame coming from his shield.
The rest watched the ongoing onslaught.
"He's basically a wild beast. That isn't how a hero is supposed to fight." said the ever arrogant Princess Malty.
"What the hell are you people standing around for?" yelled Raphtalia.
"H-How dare you, demi-human!"
"Naofumi-sama is fighting in our place!"
"If you do not wish to fight, than leave this ship and forfeit your glory." said Marius.
"And who are you to tell us what to do, criminal?" said Malty.
"Because a dull sword could do more than you."
"How dare you!"
"He's right..." said Raphtalia, "If only I weren't so useless... If only I were stronger... I wouldn't have to put him through this!
You have the power, so why won't you fight? How can you call yourselves the world's heroes like that?"
The Skull Captain and the Kraken were closing in behind Naofumi who was still fighting the Soul Eater.
"Then stay on the sideline, cowards!" Marius charged at the Skull Captain from behind.
The undead turned around and slahed its sword but Marius caught the blade with shield. He lifted the shield up and stabbed the Skull Captain's undefended chest. Marius kicked the Skull Captain's leg with enough force to bend, causing the Skull Captain to fell to its knees with Marius blade still in its chest. Marius brutally bashed its head with his shield until its head broke off from its neck. The centurion push kicked the dead monster off his blade and readied himself to fight the Kraken.
"Thunder Shot!"
A blast of blue energy struck the Kraken.The attack drew blood from the creature and killed it instantly.
"You shouldn't called us cowards."
Marius looked beside him and saw Ren finally joining the fight.
"Then proof yourself you are not, Swordsman." said Marius.
"Why should I have to help that bastard?!" said Motoyasu.
"I will nail you on a tree if you don't! You want to be a hero? Or let glory slipped from your hands?"
"Damn it all!"
"Motoyasu-sama! You mustn't help the Shield!" said Malty.
"And I will not hear any words from your hole, skeela! If helping the Shield Hero is not of your goal! Than do it for victory!" Marius commanded the three heroes. His commanding voice was enough to struck their hearts, like the legionnaires to their centurion. And he is the centurion.
Marius charged forward, and all three of the heroes followed along to help Naofumi against the Soul Eater.
All four fought hard against the Soul Eater. While Marius without magical skills or ability, he makes up for with his combat skills from his past experience.
"Shield Prison!"
Pieces of hollowed metal sphere materialized from the green light and smokes, and trapped the Soul Eater inside, followed by metal chains wrapped around the sphere to keep the creature trapped.
The Soul Eater struggled to escaped from its prison and it peek through the opening.
"Not so fast! Change Shield!"
The metal sphere rocked violently as if the Soul Eater was brutally tortured inside.
"Within this virgin of cold ore, who shall swallow even your screams with her embrace, suffer in anguish as your entire body is stabbed and skewered!
IRON MAIDEN!"
The sky above them formed a vortex and emerged a metal instrument of torture. The iron maiden. Everyone watched as the terrifying device opened to revealed sikes protruding inside and the metal sphere containing the Soul Eater levitated closer to the iron maiden.
The iron maiden closes its lid and the spikes slowly pierced through the surface of the sphere. Naofumi raised his hand and clenched his fist, and the iron maiden closed completely.
The metal device disappeared, and the carcass of the Soul Eater fell to the earth.
"It's over." Naofumi shield transformed into its true form and the black armor dissappeared as well.
Filo fell to the deck from exhaustion, "Huh? What happened?"
"Naofumi-sama! Filo!" Raphtalia ran towards Naofumi, "Are you all right?"
"Yeah, as you can see." said Naofumi.
"Not bad... For a boy." said Marius.
Naofumi frowned but quickly smiled after hearing the compliment from the centurion.
"Is that what the Shield is capable of?" said Itsuki.
"It's basically a cheat." said Ren.
"Things will be different next time!" said Motoyasu.
Filo transformed into her human formed and approached the Spear Hero, "Hey! Sore loser, much?"
"Th-That's not it, Filo-chan. I'm, uh, just saying I could've one-shotted that thing if I'd gotten serious"
"Really?"
"R-Really!"
"If you let your actions spoke more than your words, you would've have one-shotted the creature, Spearman." said Marius with his mask open, "None of you impress me... But, at least all of you show bravery."
"Mask Guy! Did I fought well?" said Filo.
"You did good." Marius awkwardly patted Filo's head. This sparked jealousy inside Motoyasu.
"I don't need any approval from you. From now on you are rival!" said Motoyasu.
"Very well. Nothing a little rivalry between us to make things interesting. But don't make me your enemy." Marius words pierced Motoyasu with a inch of fear. He remembered how he said wanted to nail him on a tree earlier. And Marius probably was not joking.
"It's back!"
Naofumi alerted the other. Everyone looked around and saw the Soul Eater emerged throught the hole on the deck.
The heroes and their party members prepared for another battle. The Soul Eater, while weakened, raised up and roared at the warriors.
But then, rain of glowing shrapnels showered the Soul Eater and killed the monster brutally. The monster lay death infront of them with the strange glass like material impaling it.
"How very disappointing!"
A female voice was heard above, and a long hair woman in black kimono landed on the dead Soul Eater and turned it into ashes. The woman was holding two folded fan on each hand.
"You have trouble with weaklings like these?" said the woman, "Are you really the heroes who hold the world's fate in their hands?"
The woman walked closer to the Shield Hero, "It seems only one man here is worthy of even being called a hero. What is your name?"
"You're supposed to introduce yourself before asking for someone's name." said Naofumi.
"Oh, pardon me. My name is Glass. Feel free to consider me your enemy, hero."
Marius and Raphtalia stared at each other before clutching their sword.
"I'm Naofumi."
"Naofumi, is it?", Glass unfolded her fan and revealed rows of sharp blades, "Then, shall we begin the true battle of this Wave?"
"By the gods, I need a drink after this." said Marius as he unsheated his sword.
"For once, I agree with you." said Raphtalia as she readied her longsword.
"Focus you two." said Naofumi also ready for another battle.
"Aren't you going to attack, Hero Naofumi? Why not sent those servants of yours at me?"
"Servants?"
"Did you just call us..."
"... Naofumi's servants?"
"Screw you" the other three heroes shouted in unison. Their party members surrounded Glass as they waited for their master's command. Each of the heroes launched their own powerful attacks at Glass. But the combined powers did little to the woman in black.
"Is that all you've got?" Glass mocked the three heroes, than started commencing her own attack, "Zero-Stance Rondo: Reverse Four Seasons."
Her fan attack blew the three heroes and their party members away, leaving only The Shield Hero party standing.
"So you are but mere servants."
Naofumi picked the potion one of the heroes dropped. He scanned the potion and it was a Soul Soothing Potion.
"I hope you'll entertain me a little."
"Sorry, but I'm no entertainer." Naofumi drank the potion then readied himself, "Shield Prison!"
The metal sphere and its chains swallowed Glass whole but she broke free of the trap easily.
"Now!"
Raphtalia swung her sword towards Glass but she blocked the blades and shoved it away with her fan. Filo attacked from the side but Glass tripped the filolia, causing Filo to lose her footing.
Glass swung her fan and launched her range attack at Raphtalia, but Marius blocked the powerful attack with his shield then charged at Glass.
Marius jumped with his shield on front and the tip of his sword aiming at Glass. Glass stepped aside to dodge the attack and Marius swung his sword after he landed on his feet but Glass deflect the strike and even dodged a shield bash.
Marius raised his blade to chop Glass from above, but Glass caught the sword with her unfolded fan. Marius lift his legs and kicked Glass's stomach. Glass quickly grabbed hold of his foot then flipped him away with a single push. Marius landed on his back and was knocked unconscious.
Filo dashed towards Glass and attacked her with quick multiple attacks from Filo's claws. But Glass blocked every single blow from Filo with the same speed.
"Eight kicks in a single instant? How very admirable. But they cannot touch me."
Raphtalia materialized behind Glass and swung her sword, only to be blocked again by Glass.
"Not even worthy of mention." Glass spins around and sliced Raphtalia's sword like a knife through butter. Glass spread her arms wide to unleashed another attack.
"Both of you, get behind me!" Naofumi commanded his two active comrades, Raphtalia and Filo quickly got behind Naofumi as he summoned the Shield Prison to protect them.
"Reverse Four Seasons!" Glass bombarded the metal sphere with her attack until it loses its strength and disappeared. Raphtalia and Filo fell on the deck while Naofumi still stands.
After regaining his consciousness, Marius slowly lifted his head and saw blurry red light away from him. As he regain his vision, he realized it was Naofumi in his Rage Mode. Filo was also once again consumed by rage and charged at Glass with murderous intent.
Glass blocked Filo's claw attack, then swatted her aside before Glass poked Filo with the tip of her fan. Which was enough to threw the heavy bird across the deck and to the end of the ship.
"Get up, Marius! Get up! Do not repeat your failures! Get up or you will loose them again!"
Glass formed a sharp blade from one of fan and aimed it towards the Shield Hero, "Tortoise Shell Cr-"
Before Glass could finished, Marius charged her with his shield, which caused Glass to loose her aim and the purple blade flew across the Shield Hero instead of through him.
"You again." Glass lazily pushed Marius to the edge of the ship and Marius losses his grip on his shield and it fell to the ground beneath it.
"Shield Prison!" Naofumi trapped Glass inside the metal sphere, then sent it levitating towards the gaping iron maiden above. Naofumi finished her off my closing the iron maiden shut, thinking this move will kill her once and for all.
"It's even less potent than I thought it would be." the iron maiden burst, and Glass escaped her execution unscapped, "Such a disappointment."
With only a sword on his hand, Marius charged and slashed at Glass as she dodged the blade.
"And you. You never learn when to stop, do you?" said Glass.
"You will have to kill me first!" said Marius.
Suddenly, the ship started to titled as it began to descend lower.
"The time limit? I didn't expect to hit it so soon."
"This fight is not over!" Marius dashed at Glass with the point of his blade towards her chest. But Glass caught the blade with her fan then sliced the sword to its hilt. Marius threw the broken blade aside and raised both his fist.
"How stubborn."
"Fast heal!" Naofumi used his healing spell to instantly heal the injured filolial, then both him and Raphtalia got on top of Filo for a quick escape.
"Marius! Come on!" said Naofumi.
But Marius was too busy throwing punches at Glass, who dodged and blocked his punches everytime.
"Raphtalia! Used Fast Light!"
"Fast Light!" Raphtalia blinded Glass momentarily, and a single punch from Marius made contact with her face causing her head to quickly turned to the side.
Marius was shocked that his blow didn't toppled her. Her reaction was as if she was slapped across her face. Glass slowly turned her head towards Marius, now with an angry expression on her face.
Marius threw another punch but Glass grabbed his fist with her bare hand. She then clenched the fan on her other hand and stabbed Marius on the abdomen. The fan pierced through his armor and dug deeper into his flesh.
"Mask Guy!" Filo tearfully called out to her bodyguard.
"This should be enough." Glass grabbed Marius by the throat and pulled her bloodied fan from Marius's abdomen. She threw the centurion across the deck and Filo quickly caught him before he sustained more damage.
"Raphtalia! Do it again!"
Raphtalia manifested another bright light to blind Glass, and they immediatly escape the ship as the time limit rans out.
"Please don't die! Please!" Filo ran as fast as she could while carrying the dying centurion on her wings.
"Fast heal!" Naofumi tried to heal Marius with the same healing spell but his wounds were too great.
"Naofumi-sama! She's attacking!" Raphtalia's sensitive hears detected the incoming attack from Glass.
Filo dodged the magical strike while holding on to Marius.
"Air Strike Shield!" Naofumi manfested a green ethereal shield to protect them from the attack. Then, a single similar purple blade flew into their directions. Naofumi stood and blocked the blade with only his bare shield. He held on to the purple blade with all his strength then threw it to side of the cliff and it blew away chunks of it.
Glass watches as her enemy managed to escaped her grasp, "So I can't defeat him at this range. I shall leave this time, but you won't survive our next encounter unless you get stronger.
And as for your foreign friend... She may have overestimated him."
Glass disappeared from the scene as the Wave finally ended, and the flying ship flew directly into cliff with all its remaining passenger on board.
"Alexios... Alexios, it's time to go home..."