Chapter 3!
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Elsword: Give me a break...
Karis: Just make sure you're not forcing yourself.
Don't worry, I will take care of my health.
Now, let the fairy tale begin.
Chapter 3
Elsword's POV
It's been 2 days since Harza's attack.
"Cherry boy, are we having enough foods?"
"Let me see, hmm... I think we can only live here for 4 more days. The food's running out."
"Muu... I want to live here longer, it's so peaceful here."
"That's way too naive, did you remember we're being assaulted by Harza not long ago?"
She pouted, but she's so cute...
No! I can't keep this way of thinking!
I must remember she's an enemy!
Suddenly she hugged my neck from behind.
Wait-
Her chest! They're touching my back!
"H-Hey!"
"You're working so hard, just rest a bit."
"I-I got it, so let me go!"
"Okay..."
Don't looked so disheartened, you made me feel guilty.
After I regain my spirit I go outside to get fresh air.
This morning's also so peaceful.
I'm afraid Harza might come again to attack so I must be aware of the outside.
however...
"... When will you return my trusty sword, Karis?"
"Until... Muu... I don't know. I will return it when I feel like it."
"WHAT!?"
Oh my El, looks like this succubuss is more troublesome than I thought.
She's having her way with me when I can't do anything, damn...
I must have my friends' revenge faster.
I need to avenge them so that I can feel at ease...
I still keep hearing vengeful voices of my friends.
I might get insane if it gets for too long.
Now that I think about it, what if this vengeful voices are only my imagination due to my guilt toward my deceased friends?
If that's really the case it would be great, however I don't think that's the case?
Well, I will know the answer one day, I'm sure of it.
"Cherry boy, you're going?"
"Yes, I need to find more food if you want to stay here after all."
"I thought you will leave me alone and go by yourself."
"That's my plan, but my sword's with you, it would be ugly if I failed to summon my sword when the time comes."
"Fufufu, wise choice."
She mocked me, uhh...
"... Wait!"
I halted my step.
"What is it, Cherry boy?"
She also walk behind me trying to look around and find what's wrong.
"Shh... Calm down, I think I heard something."
I tried to concentrate.
Yes, there's a voice.
Someone's moving.
And they're not alone.
I pulled Karis' hand and hide in the bush.
"Kyaaa!? What are you doing!?"
"Just shut up if you want to stay alive, they're back."
Harza is back, and she's not alone.
I look around and I saw Harza checking the cottage one by one.
It seems like she's talking with someone behind her.
... Huh?
Wait-
Behind her is...
I think I know who's that, but her hood's covering her face.
Harza's POV
They're not here.
It looks like they're already gone.
"It looks like they've ran away long time ago."
I talk to Vara.
"I see, that's too bad then."
She's wearing revealing clothes even though her body curves aren't so appealing, good thing that she wears a hood and cloak.
I can feel her gaze, quite a hostility she showed to me.
"What, you want to complain about my appearance?"
"No, I'm just thinking about something."
"You're quite rude aren't you, Harza..."
She sighed.
"... Someone's here?"
"Really? I thought there's only you and me here."
Vara's instict is sharp.
So if she said so that might be true.
But, suddenly...
*Rumble*
"... Earthquake?"
"It looks like this place is not safe."
Vara suggests that we move to other place.
So we jumped together to top of a cliff.
"Are you sure you feel someone's existence? I didn't feel anything."
"I'm pretty sure, and it's not only someone, there are two people, also, they're hiding somewhere, after this earthquake we need to search again, who knows it's Karis and the fake Elsword you said back then."
I was surprised.
Her instict is never bad since that day.
I'm starting to wonder if something might be fun if she met Karis.
Elsword...
I hope he's okay.
"The earthquake stopped, let's go. They're still there."
I followed her go down again.
Karis' POV
"Cherry boy?"
I waved my hand in front of his face, but his eyes are focused on a certain person with hoodie.
"Who's that? You know him?"
Again, I'm being ignored, his view was fixed only to that person.
Just who's that?
*Rumble*
"! Earthquake-!"
I steady my footing so that I won't fall down, but Cherry boy is shaken.
His footing isn't stable.
"Watch out!"
I caught his falling body and scold him.
"Hey, what's up with you!?"
"I'm sorry, I'm just lost in my thought..."
"Muu... To think you will keep on ignoring me."
"I-I'm sorry."
He looked away.
Somehow I find it cute.
"There you are."
I looked behind, there stood Harza.
The one I fought before.
Also... A person whose face is covered by his hood.
"Answer me, are you by any chance, Karis the Succubuss Queen?"
Judging from the voice, it looks like it's female.
Her tone's stern and demanding.
She doesn't leave a place for negotiating.
"Yes I am. So what? You should've knew about this from Harza over there."
I retort back.
How can I stay quiet, it's my pride that's being put in as a bet.
"I see. So you're Karis."
I can her eyes slightly.
Her eyes shone brightly, purple colored.
Is this...
"Pardon my rudeness, let me introduce myself."
The girl signaled Harza to stay behind.
Looks like she also knew that I'm at an advantage when the enemies are grouping up.
"Second in command of 'Void', Vara. Make sure to remember my name well even when you die. Now, let's begin."
Vara held her staff high and creates a huge magic circle below us.
Suddenly a force field is created to seal my escape.
"Karis!"
"Cherry boy!"
Elsword's outside, I tried to hit the wall but it's useless.
"Don't try to break the wall, because it's impossible. We will fight inside."
She summons several magic circle around her.
I found out that running away is not an option, so I get my knife ready.
I shouldn't use 'that' before that time arrived, so I'll make sure to survive with this knife.
Elsword's POV
Karis' trapped inside, If that person's someone whose skills are designed to defeat Karis like Harza again it would be ugly.
"Elsword, I don't think you should space out like that."
A bone-chilling voice, it's Harza.
She's already behind me.
"... Harza, tell me."
"What?"
"So, are you guys are coming to kill us?"
"That's the plan, however we planned to take you with us alive."
They only 'planned', so even though I'm dead they're still will be fine with it.
Hence, I can't let Karis alone, I can't let anyone kill her, because I'm the only one who can kill her. Finally, I'm able to regain my spirit again.
The one who's standing in front of me isn't Ara.
I can't possibly let them take me so that they will have their way.
I need to continue on living and find out the truth, so that their sacrifices are not in vain.
"Comes forth, 'Cornwell'!"
Two Cornwells are summoned to both of my palm.
I'm the 'Infinity Blades Elsword'.
How can I let myself lose to a memory?
Just remembering what just happened not long ago when I'm trembling in fear I felt like I want to puke. I focus my sight at Harza.
"I love that look of your eyes, so you're really Elsword the Infinity Blades. Let's play."
She summoned her spear and enters her fighting stance.
I leapt forward and performs a wide swipe slash.
She blocked the attack, of course.
However, I still got my second attack!
Clash!
She still managed to blocked it.
Well, that's as expected of a great fighter.
"Not a bad stance you got there, Harza."
"You're not so bad yourself, Elsword."
We smiled at each other.
Seeking for a more intense battle.
Karis' POV
This girl-
She's a wizard, so I don't have to worry about her physical attack, however her magic attacks are fearsome. I've done enough observation of her magic.
Her element is darkness.
She specialized in gravity magic.
She can't move when she's casting her spell.
To evade an attack she will turn her body into a dark mist.
Which means it's almost impossible to hurt her even though she's so close.
What's more unbelievable is-
Her hood remains covering her face even though we've engaged in a clash many times.
Normally when we clash hood will be shaken and will reveal someone's face.
But her hood's so firm.
Means that no attacks that've give enough force to shake her hood yet.
"Kuuhh..."
I gritted my teeth.
No wonder she's second in command, she's strong.
I will never able to defeat her.
But she also can't defeat me.
We're about the same level.
The reason why Harza's able to defeat me is because I'm caught off guard and being unable to observe her pole of attacks.
Once I'm able to observe I can immediately found the weakness.
But this girl is different.
It's just like she denied the 'weakness' herself.
"... 'Gravity Ball'."
She summoned a huge compressed gravitation ball.
Being hit by that means death.
It would be the best to avoid it since it pulls anything into it, just like a gravity force.
I've been attacked by that attack many times but I still managed to get away.
I will be okay.
*Swing*.
It's coming.
Even though it's slow, it didn't give you enough space to run.
Wrong movement means being pulled by the gravity.
However, my eyes are not normal eyes.
I can see how wide is the area of the gravity force, so I managed to avoid it.
"You're good."
Vara complimented me.
"You too, I can't even hurt you."
I compliment her from my deepest heart.
She's truly is strong.
"Thanks for your compliment. But It's almost time, so this is my last attack. If you survived this one I will let you off now."
She smiled.
Somehow I get a feeling something huge is going to come.
I get myself ready.
"This is my strongest attack, I can't use this when my friends are around because they will be affected too, but in this space only you that will be affected, endure this for 10 seconds and I'll admit my it's my lose."
She held her staff high.
What kind of gravity magic will she use?
Elsword's POV
"Eat this, 'Swords Assault'!"
An upgraded version of my 'Sword Fall', instead of falling the swords are chasing its target to be stabbed.
"Soul Absorption!"
Harza creates a small black hole which looked like Ara's 'Energy Absorption', the difference is it absorps attacks.
We've clashed many times, she managed to block all of my attacks.
Her fighting style is different than Ara's.
She's strong, no wonder Karis got a hard time facing her, but if it's only like this I'm sure, Karis will win if she's serious!
If Karis can win, then I can, too!
"Harza! Prepare yourself!"
"Ha! I'm always ready! Come anytime, Elsword!"
I rushed forward in a blink of an eye and gives her a slash.
Suddenly from the slash appears a force field like Black hole.
"W-What!?"
Being caught off guard, Harza's weapon fell to the ground as she's being lifted up from the ground.
This is the upgraded version of my 'Final Strike'.
An attack which draws enemy off guard and give them a honorable death.
This version pulls the enemy off ground, rendering them immobile.
And, their powers are being absorbed to increase my power in this one last slash only.
"FINAL JUDGEMENT!"
With the combined power of Harza and mine, there's no way Harza can withstand Cornwell's Final attack, this is my win!
Explosion.
The fog's too thick.
I can't see anything.
What happened to Harza?
I walk around to see if I can see something.
There's blood.
It should be Harza's.
I walk further and there she is.
She's incapacitated.
Unable to move due to a huge injury.
What's amazing is she's still alive.
Normally anyone would've been destroyed to pieces.
Looks like before I hit her she managed to create a protection shield, but still.
My attack is not something that can be blocked so easily.
"You're still alive?"
I asked to confirm things.
"*cough* you're really strong, Elsword."
She smiled.
"Good, I thought you're dead for sure. I'm too tired to continue fighting."
It's the truth, I'm being bitten by her soul fangs, stabbed by her soul spear, and so many more, luckily I managed to avoid being injured at my vital points.
"You're so mean... Despite using all of your power and mine you still avoid my vital point. Are you that interested with my injured look?"
She's right, when I use my 'Final Judgement' I purposedly avoid her vital point.
That's because...
"You did the same to Karis, didn't you? This is the payback."
I must thank her for not killing Karis.
If she killed her, I don't know how should I continue my life anymore.
Karis' the only escape route I have for now.
"Fufufu, you're... *cough* Not in love with her aren't you?"
Wha-What is she talking about!?
"Of course not! It's just... I owe her my life."
I look at the force field.
I'm sure she will be fine.
"I don't know for sure, but... Vara's planning to use her strongest attack, that can even kill our commander."
I can't let that slide.
"What?"
She smiled weakly as she tried to sit.
"Vara's becoming second in command because she can't use that spell when we're having sparring to see who's the strongest. Because killing friend's a taboo."
"I don't understand what do you mean."
"Did you notice... *cough* that force field's getting even darker?"
Now that she said it, it's even darker than the first time it's created.
"The whole force field, is a gravity zone."
"What!?"
Don't tell me, the strongest attack that Harza mean...
"You're right, 'End of Creation'. The spell created to return every living things to nothingness. The gravity force will pull Karis' body to every direction and slowly power ups. And when it reached its limit... It exploded."
Karis' POV
"End of Creation...!"
Vara chant the spell's name.
Is it another gravity spell?
...!?
M-My body...!?
Slowly my body's being lifted by gravity, my limbs are spreaded like a butterfly.
What's this-?!
"End of Creation, every creation got to have an end, this spell is created to end every creation's life. The gravity force will pull every part of your body slowly and gets stronger everytime passed, can you endure 10 seconds?"
What!?
That sounded just like a forbidden spell!
Humans can't use spells like this!
That only mean...
"It's just like what you think. I'm not a normal human. Let's start the countdown, 10..."
"Gu.. Uhhh..."
My limbs hurts.
It's like 4 people is playing tug of war with my body.
"9..."
The force of gravity gets stronger...!
"Gaaahhh...!"
"8..."
It hurts!
My arms feel like they're going to tore apart!
"7..."
"Guuuuaaaaaahhhh!"
Impossible! It's impossible to endure this for 10 seconds!
"6..."
My legs! They're going to tore apart! Stop!
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
"KARIS!"
I can hear Elsword's voice out there.
He's hitting the force field.
"El... Sword..."
My voice is so weak that he will not be able to hear it.
"It's useless. This force field is unbreakable. 5."
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHKKK!"
My vein's tored apart. I can feel an immense pain in my body.
"4."
I don't have any more strength to scream.
My Nails are broken.
My whole body's being spread apart from inside out.
"3."
Blood starts to spray from my nails.
My senses are no longer working.
"2."
I can feel my organs are being teared apart.
Ah, am I going to die like this?
I'm going to leave this world so soon?
"1."
My lungs are torn, I can no longer breathe properly.
I'm going to die like this.
It's so annoying.
My vision is black.
Finally I'm going to be liberated from this immense pain.
"DON'T GIVE UP, KARIS! YOU PROMISED ME THAT I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN KILL YOU DIDN'T YOU!? STAY TRUE TO YOUR WORDS!"
Els... Word...
Why...
in the verge of death...
"Zero."
That's right...
Only Elsword that's allowed to kill me.
How can I...
Let someone...
KILL ME LIKE THIS?!
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"
I screamed out my last strength and repels the gravity force.
"...!?"
Vara's surprised that I still have enough strength to scream and fight back.
Her force field's broken to pieces.
I fell on the ground.
My wound's too severe.
I will need to have a long rest to recover.
"Karis!"
Elsword ran toward me and hugged me.
He looked so worried, silly... Don't you remember I'm not a human?
I can recover if it's only physical wound...
"You... Survived..."
Looking totally surprised, Vara's trembling.
"Looks like they're more tenacious than we think, Vara... *cough*"
Harza walk towards Vara.
"... I'm true to my words. Karis the Succubuss Queen."
I weakly look at Vara.
My lungs are damaged, I have a hard time just to breathe.
"You win. I admit this is my defeat."
She knelt down in front of me.
"You... You said that your name's Vara, right?"
Elsword asked her.
"Yes. To respect your win, it's only a matter of course if I show you my true face."
She revealed her true face.
Purple twintail.
Cute but fierce looking face.
Purple glowing eyes.
High revealing clothes.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Vara. The second in command of 'Void'."
Power of second in command... Surely is strong.
But what surprised me the most is Elsword's face.
"Ai... Sha...?"
Chapter 3 End
Chapter 3 is here and done!
Wooah I'm really bad in making fight scene!
Elsword: You need to learn more.
Karis: You're doing fine, keep trying.
Thanks for not mocking me...
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