Chapter 42

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
-- Linus Pauling

Sorry for the late update!!! College has been started since Monday and that pretty much hindered me!!!

At the same time with the previous chapter, near the bridge in front of Payon....

Beelzephir The Chaos appeared from the warp portal inside the forest. There, Professor Leonid has been waiting for him. "My lord, the preparation to launch the attack on Payon is completed. We're waiting for your command" The professor informed.

"Well done, Leonid. Did you bring the "Iron" squad with you?" The white high wizard asked with a calm voice.

"Yes, I brought them with me. And also a hundred Skeleton Generals as you ordered, my lord".

"Well then, send 3members of the Iron Squad to attack Elraven first. If they didn't come back in fifteen minutes, you may bring the whole soldiers and destroy Payon into ashes. Do I make myself clear, Leonid?"

"Crystal clear, my lord".

"Good. Then I shall take my leave" Beelzephir The Chaos opened another portal and entered it, leaving the now battle field Payon.

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Elraven, Olivia, Sohee, and Devi managed to climb up from inside the crater and got themselves in the now destroyed festival ground again. Olivia healed Elraven, Sohee, Devi, and herself from their wounds.

"Whew, that was tiring!" Olivia muttered while taking a breath. Elraven looked down upon the crater, seeing the remaining of his Gatling Gun. Olivia and Sohee looked at each other, they felt guilty for what has happened. Olivia and Sohee knew they have apologized before, but they still feel uneasy. So, Olivia decided to apologize again,"El, we're sorry. Because of us your precious weapon has...".

"Don't say a word!" Elraven cut her words much to Olivia's surprise. "Didn't I tell you not to feel guilty about it? I made a decision to threw the Gatling gun away in order to protect not only you, but also my own self. I made that decision without being forced by anyone. I would have done the same if I was alone. Look at the crater, Olivia. We would be a roasted meat if I hadn't throw away the Gatling gun to counter the effect of that cursed wizard fire ball" Elraven continued with a smile on his face, erasing all the guilts his comrades felt.

"Thank you, hot shot!!" Olivia welcomed the clearing with a smile. But, Elraven was quick to notice a strange sound is approaching. "Olivia!! Behind you, look out!!" The Angel of Darkness quickly pulled his Tristan and Lancelot as a dozens of bullets coming from Olivia's behind, ready to pierced her and turned her into a dead meat.

Fortunately for the black haired high priest, Elraven was quick to moved and wasted no time appearing in front of the still surprise Olivia, blocking all the bullets coming for her using his double handguns. The sound of the dozens bullets falling to the ground left not only Olivia, but also Sohee and Devi to shocked. "What was that!?" Olivia shouted seeing the bullets on the ground. "It's bullets!! They are attacking us with firearms!! Be careful everybody!!!" Elraven warned his comrades quickly. But before they prepared for another attack, Elraven heard something is coming towards them.

"Everyone, get down!!!" Elraven ordered loudly as he and his comrades quickly got down to the ground and managed to avoid a giant bullet coming above them. The giant bullet hit a tree and blow it off to the sky.

"For god sake!!! What is that?!?!" Sohee widened her eyes seeing the burned tree. "A cannon!! They have a cannon, too?!!!" Elraven muttered in disbelieve.

"What's a cannon, El?!" Olivia asked, but not in the right time.

"Well, a large artillery using gun powder and large bullets to attack!! That's for short!!" Elraven quickly answered as they heard something was approaching them, fast. They saw a full armored soldier, wielding a Chainsaw, running towards them. He turned the chainsaw on as he dashed.

"You three, move away!!" Elraven said as he prepared to welcome the chainsaw wielder. The armored soldier slashed his chainsaw.

CREEEEEEENNKK!!! CREEEEEEEEEEENNKNKNKNEEENKNKKK!!!!

The chainsaw meet Tristan and Lancelot as Elraven tried his best to hold his own against the merciless weapon. Since Tristan and Lancelot are made of Oridecon, they wouldn't be able to be destroyed so easily, but fighting against a chainsaw will need more than two good handguns. "Judging by the armor, bullets won't do any harm on him. In that case, I need to use something else. No matter how hard the armor is, knee, elbow, neck, throat, and head are still vulnerable. I must take that chance!!!"Elraven said to himself after observing the armored soldier closer.

Elraven kicked the armored soldiers stomach, forcing hims to go several steps backwards. Before the armored soldiers regained his stance, Elraven already using a smasher stance, by grabbing both his handguns and preparing to attack his enemy using the bullet chambers. He threw the first hit to the head, and rolled his body, threw another hit to the armored soldier face and almost knocked him down to the ground.

The armored soldier seemed pissed. He quickly rose and slashed his chainsaw uncontrollably. Elraven easily dodged the uncontrolled attack. When he saw a chance to sneak behind the armored soldier, he wasted no chance as he hit the armored soldier's right knee and made him lose his balance. Elraven quickly hit Lancelot to the soldier's throat and used Tristan to hit the soldier's neck at the same time. Pretty much weakened his opponent although didn't manage to completely knock him to the ground.

Elraven didn't want to give the armored soldier time to react and used both Tristan and Lancelot to hit the soldier's head, and finally managed to forced the armored soldier down to his knees. "Now, the finale!!" Elraven aimed both his handguns at the armored soldier's head, at a very close range. "Piercing Shot" Elraven slowly said as he pulled his handguns' triggers.

BANG!!!

The point blank shot managed to hit through the armored head and blew it off as blood splattered everywhere, killing the soldier as he fell to the ground.

"Wow!! Elraven is monstrous!!! He easily defeated that man!!" Sohee shouted in awe after seeing the display of the purple glassed gunslinger by herself for the first time. "That's Elraven for you, girl!!" Olivia praised Elraven and clapped her hands followed by Devi.

"Thanks for the praise, girls. But, you better stay behind me. Someone, or should I say two men are approaching us" Elraven warns made the three mentioned wasted no time hiding behind him. The strange sound approaching from in front of the festival ground. They finally saw what was haunting them from earlier, it was another two full bodied armor soldiers. Fully armed with their respective weapons.

The one in the right brought a long cannon. The left one brought an assault rifle.

"What are those things they're carrying? What are they?" Sohee slowly asked Elraven. "The long one is the cannon I mentioned before. And the other one is an assault rifle, which he used to attack you from behind. So, this is what Clyde and Sasha meant by new technology of Valdomir. They have developed firearms and machinery, much like Schwaltzvalt Republic" Elraven gave his explanation without letting his awareness left from the three armored soldiers.

"What? Firearms? Can you defeat them without your Gatling Gun, El?!" Olivia whispered to the gunslinger ears slowly, making sure the two armored soldiers didn't hear what she said. "Don't worry, I can handle them. Just you watch" Elraven replied with confidence.

Sohee, Olivia, and Devi slowly walked backwards as Elraven slowly approached the three armored soldiers. "I've never seen you guys before. You're part of Valdomir?" Elraven calmly asked the two soldiers.

"It is unusual to speak in the middle of combat. But, I'll compensate for this time. Yes, we're part of Valdomir. We're Iron, elite firearms and machinery squad in Valdomir Kingdom. And you must be Elraven Sinclair The Angel of Darkness. You lived up to your name defeating one of us without shedding a single drop of blood, outstanding indeed" The one with the cannon answered.

"Why, thank you. But, that won't stop me from killing you!" Elraven replied as the assault rifle soldier greet him and bombarded him with the dozens bullets. Elraven quickly ran to avoid the bullets and also to bring the two soldiers attention solely focused on him rather than the girls.

The assault rifle soldier chased him as the cannon soldier tried to take a good aim on him. Elraven ran outside the guild area as he entered the old Payon town. The assault rifle soldier saw him entered one of the abandoned houses and followed him there.

Unfortunately for him, when he entered the house, Elraven was already set a trap mines using the freezing sphere. When the soldier step on the trap, the mines exploded.

GLAAAARRR!!!!

"Aaaaaakh!!!" The soldier screamed as his body starting to froze and he fell to the ground. Elraven slowly appeared from inside the house and grinned seeing his enemy died of freezing. But his enjoyments come up short as he heard the cannon soldier shooting his cannon and destroyed the building he's in.

The cannon soldier slowly moved to the ruins of the building he destroyed to see if his target is dead or not. "Wrong choice of action" A voice from his behind surprised him. "What!?" The cannon soldier turned his back only to find Elraven already aimed his Inferno towards him.

BANG!!

"Guaaaaaaaaahhhh!!!!" The cannon soldier let out a long wail after Elraven shoot out the lightning sphere and perfectly hit the cannon soldier, electrocuted him to death. His cannon fell to the ground as he dies. "You may be the elite firearms of Valdomir Kingdom, but you seemed to forgot we from Schwaltzvalt have been kicking your asses for the whole year!!!" Elraven cursed his opponent dead body as Olivia, Sohee, and Devi approached him.

"El, you defeated them!!!" Olivia cheerfully praised the gunslinger, who smiled and nod. "Wow, Fio was right to left you here after all!!!!!" Sohee voiced her praise when Devi clapped her hands again and again.

"Thank you, girls. But, we still have a hundred of them waiting outside. We need to do something to protect this town" Elraven's comment pretty much silenced his three comrades.

"What do you mean, El?" Olivia asked hoping she would find a calming answer, but turns out to be the exact opposite. "Didn't Beelzephir said there's a hundred of them waiting for us outside? That three gigolos were just a beginning" Elraven explained slowly.

"Well, if that the case, let's run. I'll make a warp portal to Gonryun or Comodo, and we can ask help from the remaining Sagramore soldiers there!!" Olivia advices the gunslinger. But, Elraven didn't agree with her.

"No, I don't think so. I have a better plan on defeating them without wasting Sagramore soldiers' lives" Elraven confidently replied, giving Olivia some more hopes.

"What is that?" Olivia enthusiastically asked.

"HAVOX!" The answer made Olivia widened her eyes.

"HAVOX? The ultimate Gatling Gun? How are you going to get it?" The high priest asked in disbelieve, much to the curiosity of Sohee and Devi as well.

"I'll assemble it. Did you remember these three stooges used machinery and firearms? Although my Gatling Gun is destroyed, but the core and the main part of the gun are still exist. That alone, plus some parts of the machiner and the firearms left by the three stooges would be enough to assembly the HAVOX. All I need is for you girls to help me collect the parts, and thirty minutes of working without interference. If that conditions can be fulfilled, I promise you nothing more than a victory for us" Elraven explained his answer, and successfully managed to persuade the other three.

"We can use the deepest ritual chamber in Payon dungeon. No one would be able to reach that place in a short time!! You'll have all the time you need!!" Sohee cheerfully advices.

"Agree. I'll take the remaining parts of my Gatling Gun. Devi, lend me a hand and try to pick the assault rifle from the ruins. Olivia, prepare the warp portal. Sohee, thanks for the advice and please pick the chainsaw for me, OK?!" Elraven ordered as he picked up the cannon, folowed by the nods of his comrades.

"OK, girls!! Let's move out!!".

Meanwhile, near the bridge.....

One skeleton generals approached Professor Leonid and said, "My lord, the Iron Squad didn't return after fifteen minutes".

Leonid sighed, "Well, prepare the whole skeleton generals and the remaining Iron squad, then. We're going to finish this off pretty fast!!!".

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OK, the long awaited weapon will finally make his debut!!! And after the next chapter, Elraven vs Leonid is on the card, wohooooooooooooo!!!!

Wow, at first I was so nervous to wrote this chapter, it's been quite long since I wrote the last of Elraven's battle. But it turned out to be just alright. I hope I can make Elraven vs Leonid better than Elraven vs Gloom Under Night!!!

OK, see u next chap!!! Please R & R!!!! ^^