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Chapter 29
Frea ran as quick as she could with the guidance of the presence she was feeling along the way to the chamber. "I hope I'm right to run this way. Sometimes, it sucks when you can't see anything" She said to herself as she continue running. After 15 minutes of participating in the sprint contest, she stopped when she felt something in front of her. It was a large iron gate.
She couldn't see but she could feel non living things by tapping her mighty staff. She tap the ground in front of the gate with her mighty staff to recognize what was standing between her and her objective. "It's an iron gate, huh? But it's not too thick. I can destroy it."
She prepared her whirlwind kick and unleashed the strike right to the gate, destroying it. "Success!!" Frea entered the ritual chamber and started to feel the presence exists on the chamber. She found the whole chamber was filled with a coffin. In the middle of the chamber, an orb like thing was floating. "What is that?" Frea could feel the presence of the orb and walked closer towards it. Below the floating orb she found one of the casket.
"I felt someone soul inside this coffin. Should I open it?" Frea hesitated for a moment and decided to open the coffin. It was Sohee, who was sleeping inside the coffin. But because her blindness Frea couldn't tell that much. "Is this the Sohee girl? A female monk with golden bells on her hair? How should I know when I can't even see?!" Frea cursed her own handicap. "But, come to think of it. This one is the only soul presence I felt, no other souls. So, if I'm not wrong this must be Sohee!" Frea carried Sohee's body and put her in the ground.
"There, I hope I took the right person. Now, what is that floating things?" Frea turned her attention back to the orb. She moved herself closer to the orb and tried to feel the presence of the orb. "It's odd. This orb is a non-living things, but why I felt four souls inside the orbs" The soul linker though to herself when she finished checking the orb. "And not to mention there's an evil presence on this orb. What is this thing anyway?" She sat besides Sohee with a wondering mind. After waiting for 10 minutes, Fiorentin finally came inside the chamber.
Frea greeted her when she slowly approached her, "Princess, you finally came! So you won, huh?". "Barely. She was the strongest swords man class I've ever seen in my entire life" An honest reply. "Ok. Is this the one named Sohee?" The soul linker pointed her finger to the sleeping former pet. "Yes. How did you recognized her?" Fiorentin tried to checked Sohee's condition. Frea explained, "I couldn't recognize a person if I never heard their sounds first. I felt that this one was Sohee because her soul is the only one I felt alive before you came here".
"Feeling souls? Clever. Thank you for saving her. She is just unconscious" Fiorentin stood up and turned her attention to the floating orb, "What is that, Frea? An orb?" . "Seems so. I felt four souls and an evil presence from that thing" Frea's respond made the lord knight approached the orb. "This looks like a normal orb for me. Well, I can't feel soul presence like you, though" The former princess stated after taking a closer look on the orb.
"Of course. The orb is useless in that form, if I may say" A voice came out from nowhere surprised Frea and Fiorentin. They saw a tall white haired assassin cross was standing in front of the broken iron gate. "Who are you?!" Fiorentin picked her claymore and Frea stood up from the ground as the assassin stood still.
"Now, now. There's no need to pick up your weapon, Alexandria. You are injured and the soul linker is trying to protect Sohee, it won't be a fair battle if we fight here. Besides, I'm not here to fight" Eremes responded calmly seeing the two ladies. "The princess asked who are you? Didn't you listen" Frea spoke but didn't let her guard down.
"Oh yeah, right. Sorry about that. My name is Eremes, one of The Quarter Kings of Valdomir Kingdom. Nice to meet you, ladies" The assassin introduced himself politely. "The Quarter Kings? The one Cenia mentioned back there?!" Fiorentin said to herself when she realized Eremes was already standing behind her, and placed his Blood Tears (katars) right to her neck.
Frea and Fiorentin shocked to their bones seeing the assassin. Fiorentin couldn't hold her surprise and slowly said, "Wha,what? When did you..". "Please drop your sword, princess. You know I won't hesitate to kill you" Eremes stopped Fiorentin from saying her mind. Fiorentin looked at Frea and Frea nodded, it's as if she gave the lord knight a sign to obey for now. The former princess slowly drop her Claymore to the ground as she asked, "Are you going to kill me?".
Eremes smiled and answered,"Well, I'm thinking about that. But, I have one important job right now. The soul linker over there, listen to me". "What do you want?" Frea replied with a nervous tone. "Put Sohee back to the coffin, the ritual must be completed" A request that gave a shock to both Frea and Fiorentin. "Don't do that, Frea! Don't listen to him!" Fiorentin shouted but Eremes gave her a cut on her neck slowly and said, " Soul linker, if you don't put Sohee back to the coffin, I'll the princess neck a little deeper and put her in the coffin. Someone goes to the coffin either way".
Frea looked confused because both choices are bad. "Don't wait too long, soul linker. Or else, I will have to do this my way", Eremes said as he gave a deeper cut to the lord knight's neck. Fiorentin herself was thinking about what she was going to do, "God, what am I going to do. Can I save Sohee and myself at the same time?! Or should I...sacrifice my life here?. As Fiorentin wandered deeper on her mind, she remembered Elraven's words again, "There's a lot of people care for you. Just open your eyes a bit more".
As she remembered the words that gave her courageousness, she realized she has another scabbard in her belt, the Schweizersabel. "Right! I can use this!!" She grabbed the Schweizersabel but didn't draw it from its scabbard much to the surprise of Frea and Eremes. "She can't attack me in this range! Could it be?! Damn!" Eremes tried to jump backwards knowing Fiorentin's intention but it's too late, Fiorentin already charged the electricity and zapped both herself and Eremes at the same time.
"Aaakh!" Fiorentin screamed as both she and Eremes fell to the ground, but Eremes quickly rose and jumped backwards. But he didn't notice, Frea was already beside him and tried to gave him the round kick. Eremes defended himself using the Katar and countered the attack using the 'Sonic Blow'. Too bad for him, Frea already used 'Kaupe' and managed to dodge the entire blows.
" You're good, Soul Linker!" Eremes retreated and prepared for a stance. "I couldn't let the princess attack goes in vain" Frea smiled and readied for a stance too. "She's dead and I'm not, she died in vain" Eremes sound so cocky but Frea replied, "She's still alive. She's just unconscious. I can feel her soul presence". Eremes chuckled, "Too bad. I can't fight you now. I mentioned another important job, right?" the assassin cross picked a bloody branch from his pocket and threw it to the orb.
The orb absorbed the bloody branch and glowed brightly. "What did you do to the orb?!" Frea shouted seeing the orb was getting brighter and bigger. "Don't you know what the Lethe guild have been doing these last five years sacrificing people? You have no idea at all? You ruined today's sacrifice, so I had to use the bloody branch!" Eremes grinned seeing the confused soul linker. But Frea asked in an angered tone when she realized the meaning behind Eremes' words, "You...you sacrificed these people to resurrect something right? Is it a monster?".
Eremes giggled, "Bingo! Why don't you take a closer look to...Beelzebub, the demon king of wind!". The glowing orb slowly formed into a giant fly wearing crown and robe, with a bunch of hell fly surrounding him, and a staff of destruction in one of his claws. "GWAAAAAAAARR!" Beelzebub roared trembling the entire chamber.
"What?! That's Beelzebub?!" Frea turned her attention to Eremes again, only to found him already vanishing, "Crap! He ran away!". Beelzebub ordered at least 5 dozens of hell fly to attack her, Frea quickly uses the calm wind 'earth' and created a rock spiral. She fended most of the flies in a single blow and ran before another flies came for her. Frea quickly grabbed Fiorentin and Sohee and put them not far from the gate.
Frea quickly ran outside of the chamber so the flies will follow her and leave the other two girls alone. She prepared to do an Axe kick once she crossed the gate, but too bad Beelzebub already appeared in front of her and smacked her with his staff. "Akh!" Frea drop to the ground as the hell flies start opening their fangs and surround her to suck her blood. "No way!" Frea chanted another Estun but Beelzebub started to make a noisy voice.
"SCREEEECKCEKRCKRKCCKEK!!!"
"Aah! The sound hurt my ears!!" Frea covered her ears with both hands, leaving her open as the hell flies charged towards her. But before they bite her, a sound of a machine reeling could be heard. And the next thing the flies knew, thousands of bullet in a demon speed destroying all of them without leaving even a single one alive, saving the cornered Frea.
"Killing my dancing partner is a no-no, Fly!" Elraven said while readjusting his purple glasses with his left hand, because his right hand was carrying the Gatling gun. "Elraven!" Frea eyes brighten seeing the Angel of Darkness comes to the rescue.
"Miss Frea, where's the brat and Sohee?".
"The brat? You mean princess? She's unconscious inside the chamber with Sohee".
"OK! And what is that thing? A giant fly?"
"Yep. That's what Lethe has been trying to resurrect by sacrificing people these whole five years!"
"Well, let's get it on, then!" Elraven bombarded Beelzebub with the Gatling gun, knocking him back several feet and crashed him to the chamber's wall hurting the giant fly in the process ,"GIEEEEKH!!" Frea quickly casted another Estun and made a Esma of earth element. She hit the Esma to the gigantic monster who let out another wail,"KYAAAKH!".
"So, let's finish him off shall we?" Elraven approached Frea who replied with a smile. "May I join?" They turned their attention to Frea who was walking towards them. "Frea, can you link your soul to me? I don't want the two of you get all the fun taking that creature out" The lord knight politely asked as Frea nodded and chanted the knight spirit. "So, your had enough sleep, sleeping beauty?" Elraven teased the grumpy yellow haired who replied with a cold ominous glare.
"OK, I'm done! You should be able to use the one hand quicken now!" Frea finished the spell. "Thanks!" Fiorentin drew her Schweizersabel and casted the lightning bolt as she prepared to chop the giant fly. Elraven aimed his Gatling gun and Frea chanted another Esma with earth element. Without being ordered the three of them hit their attacks at the same time on Beelzebub.
GEAAAAAAKH!
Beelzebub let out a long wail as his body vanished in the air, leave nothing but a roar. Fiorentin sheathed her sword and pick her claymore, Frea checked Sohee, and Elraven packed his gun. "Man, what a long night..." Elraven muttered when he noticed Frea sat besides him, "You took Gloom Under Night and Sniper Cecil all by yourself, huh? Do you really want to dance with me that much?", and the two laughed. Fiorentin smiled seeing the two, but suddenly she realized something.
"Elraven, do you still have the fly wings or the butterfly wings?".
"No, why?"
"Do you two realize we will walk form here on out without any wings?"
The statement silenced both the soul linker and the gunslinger. "Oh, crap" Elraven muttered.
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So, that's it for the battle of Payon. Sorry if Beelzebub looked too weak on this chapter. I found it hard to make him look strong because he didn't have any decent techniques. So, why would I bother sacrificing people for him? 5 years being defeated in 15 minutes, I still have much more to learn (LOL). Well, its 3 on 1 anyway.
OK, for now I'm out of battle ideas, so the next two chapters will be without battle. I'm going to try my best on making more story development. See you next chap!!