Chapter XIV
-Shit! Emma, Anna, go for the Beowolves! I and Tyler will distract the Deathstalker! , said Simon.
-Understood! , said Tyler.
When Simon and his friend got to the Deathstalker, Simon start to launch a series of strikes with his scimitar on his armor, but it was not doing anything to the beast. The Deathstalker, then, attacked with his sting, almost killing Simon in the process, but he cast a Shield spell to block the attack.
-It's not working! Tyler, occupy it while I am taking out his sting. , said Simon.
-Okay! , said Tyler.
Tyler jumped in the air and shot a rocket on the Deathstalker, making it stunned. Simon, then, escalated on the Deathstalker's sting and started to shoot on it. But, suddenly, one of the women rushed on him, flail in hand. He returned himself at the right moment, evading the attack. The woman turned her head towards him, smiling with a twisted smile and she disappeared. When Simon was about to look back to the women watching the battle, one of them shot him on his armor plate with a musket, not doing anything since his armor was bulletproof.
-Illusion magic? , said Simon, questioning himself.
A rocket from Tyler's RLG was heard, breaking through the armor of the Deathstalker and creating a crack on it. Tyler took the chance and planted his sword through the crack. The Deathstalker shouted in pain and fell on the ground, dead.
-Problem solved! , said Tyler.
-Don't move. , said Simon.
-What is it? Is there a problem? , said Tyler.
-The women there, they are witches. , said Simon.
-What proves you that? , asked Tyler.
-They use illusion magic, which are a part of the Dust banned spells. , explained Simon.
Away from the scene, Emma and Anna were surrounded by the Beowolves, with ten of them dead. The two girls were standing back-to-back in front of them.
-Anna, you take the ten that are you in front of you, I'll take the others. , said Emma.
-I'm fine with that. , said Anna.
The two, then, rushed straight into battle. Emma gave a slash of her swords on the first two, instantly decapitating them, and transformed her weapon into a bow, shooting an arrow that passed through three Beowolves. Only five of them were alive now for Emma's side.
On Anna's side, a bullet sound was heard, cracking the skull of five Beowolves instantly. The Beowolves didn't even have time to realise they were in danger that Anna already had one of her blades planted into one of them. She took the blade out, turned her staff around in the air, slashing three of them, and shot a bullet in each of their directions, instantly making one of the staff's blades rushed to one of the Beowolves, leaving each of them dead. The other one didn't even have time to flee that Anna jumped in the air and shot a bullet, instantly making her staff's blades go through the last Beowolf.
Emma, then, passed one of her swords into a Beowolf's belly, jumped onto his head and slashed the head of another one. After she landed on the ground, she slashed the third one in two, kicking one of the parts in the head of the fourth one strong enough to kill it on impact. The fifth one was almost hit her, but she evaded the hit and planted her swords into its head, shaping them as an X. She took out her swords and joined Simon and Tyler with Anna.
-''sigh'' Done. And the Deathstalker? , asked Emma.
-Dead too, but we have another problem. , said Tyler.
-''laughs'' That was interesting, for the least! But the Emerald Forest is enough to fulfill our needs. , said the leader of the witches.
-What do you want to do with this kind of army? , asked Simon.
-Simple. We want to do a direct assault on Vale, to make it our base and, in the meantime, gain followers and slowly gaining control all of Vytal by conquering all the kingdoms. To us, you citizens of these kingdoms are simply slaves, insects that needs to be put down. Same thing for the supposed ''government'', who isn't even capable to control riots.
-And what's telling you that you will be able to this kind of invasion? , asked again Simon.
-The prove that we are able to kill Huntsmen. , said the leader of the witches, getting her weapon in hand which looked like two sickles from afar.
Simon guessed that the two sickles were experimental weapons known as SOSHRSS (Sawed-Off High-Recoil Shotgun Sickles), which he also guessed that they were stolen by force. The other two witches took their weapon in hand too: The first one that tricked Simon with illusion magic and shot him was holding a CRLMF (Clockwork Recoil-Less Musket Flail), an ancient weapon that is not a used weapon by nor the Police or the warriors of the Academies since it was too old, but it looked like it was modified. The second witch was holding a TMGS (Turret Machine Gun Scythe), a very dangerous weapon that only masters could use, or else the user could be harmed or even killed because of all the engineering problems that were linked to it.
-So, what are your last wishes before you die, miserable fools? , said the leader of the witches.
-What's your name? , calmly said Tyler, surprising the others with this question.
And, with a grim on her face, she responded to the question:
-My name is…. Alma Xin.