Chapter 43

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on. - Ulysess S. Grant

Professor Leonid and his soldiers marched their way to inside the City of Payon. They easily made it through the broken gate and spread around the town to find their targets. "Our target is a gunslinger named Elraven Sinclair and three unidentified persons with him. When you find them, kill them at once!!!" The professor reminded his soldiers loudly as they searched for their targets. He too, joined the search. The old city of Payon, the guild residential area, and even inside the forest, but they found nothing at all.

"My lord, the soldiers have searched everywhere. But, the targets are nowhere to be found" One of the Skeleton Generals reported what already obvious to Leonid. "Weird, where did they go?" Leonid said to himself after his searched resulted in vain. But suddenly, he remembered something.

"Has anyone searched throughout the Payon Dungeon?!!" He shouted to his soldiers who looked at each other.

"I don't think we did, my Lord" One of the skeleton generals finally answered.

"Well, then!! All soldiers, go to Payon dungeon!!! Search into the deepest level, our targets are there!!!!" Leonid commanded loudly as he and his soldiers dashed as fast as they could towards the Payon Dungeon.

Meanwhile, inside the ritual chamber in Payon Dungeon....

Elraven was trying his best to assemble HAVOX as quick as he could while the other three were guarding the chamber's gate, preparing themselves if their enemies found their whereabouts. "El, are you done yet?" Olivia asked him loudly from outside.

"Not yet, I haven't finished the tamperproof parts!!!" Elraven replied as he picked the chainsaw and quickly disassembled it.

"The tamperproof?!! The parts you said literally is the core of HAVOX?!!"

"Yes!! I found the right material to be a the tamperproof medium!! All I need to do is combine it with the core of the old Gatling gun, and I'm finished!!!"

"Care to explain?! The Valdomirs are not here, yet!!"

"Well, OK. Basically, the tamperproof will be needed to enhance and complete the use of the bullets and the barrels. Once the tamperproof is applied, the ability of the Gatling gun will increase greatly. The cannon and the chainsaw those three stooges brought were made from Oridecon, very rare for a machinery and firearms, even in Schwaltzvalt. I got an idea to use the Oridecon from the cannon and the chainsaw as the tamperproof parts, since Oridecon is supposed to be the strongest metal in this world, so I believe Oridecon should be able to be the medium of the tamperproof as the core of HAVOX" Elraven explained although Olivia didn't really understand.

But their conversation couldn't last long enough when they heard something entering the deepest level in Payon dungeon.

GRAK!! GRAKK!!!

The sound of the Valdomirs barging echoed hard enough even Elraven and his three comrades who were in the corner of the dungeon could hear it.

"Oh, no!! They're coming!! What should we do?!" Sohee asked Olivia with a trembling body. Olivia looked at Devi and they nod in unison.

"Elraven, you better finish the gun fast!!! I and Devi will buy you some time!!!" Olivia and Devi ran towards the source of the sound as Elraven replied, "Copy that!!!".

Devi and Olivia meet several Skeletons Generals who were readying their daggers and summoning their respective soldier skeletons as they sight their targets. "Magnus Exorcimus!!!" Olivia chanted the holy spell and destroyed some of the soldier skeletons, whereas the generals escaped using their agility.

Devi throwing her Brandish Spear several times to eliminate several soldier skeletons. Her small size made it easier for her to dodge their counterattacks. Whereas for Olivia, she defended herself using the hardcover book from the daggers of the generals. "Die, mortal!!!" The generals keep throwing her their dagger attack as she tried her best defended herself. Dagger attacks after dagger attacks made her cornered. But that was what she planned, as she chanted another Magnus Exorcimus and successfully destroyed the skeleton generals attacking her.

"Yeah!!! We did it, Devi!! High five!!" Olivia celebrated her early victory with her pet, only to heard another soldiers barging in. This time, it's the armored soldiers. There are six of them and all of them bring an assault rifle. "Oh, god! Run, Devi!! Run!!!" Olivia and Devi ran as the soldiers start bombarding them.

"Oh, had I known the situation would be like this, I would chose to stay in that damn chamber and help Elraven so he could take care all of them very fast!!!!" Olivia muttered as she and her pet tried her best to escaped the bullets chasing her.

But a light of hope comes for her as she suddenly heard, "Olivia, get down!!!". She quickly recognized that was Elraven's voice and did as she told as she felt something really fast striking above her and hit one of the armored soldiers.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrggghhhhhh!!!" The soldiers screamed as the sound of something destroyed could be heard in Olivia's ears. "What was that?" She said to herself when she turned her head to see what happened. She witnessed one of the armored soldiers have already had at least hundred of holes in his body, with blood covering him, falling to the ground.

"What?! What did Elraven do?" Olivia widened her eyes in surprise as the other five armored soldiers slowly stepped backwards, fearing their enemy.

"Witness, the power of HAVOX!!!" Elraven proudly announced as he pulled the now eight feet long Oridecon made Gatling gun, HAVOX, as high as he could with his right hand to the air.

"Oh, the HAVOX!!! It's finally completed!!!" Olivia cheered as Elraven take another shot towards one of the soldiers. In a mere blink of an eye, thousands of bullets thrust into the armored soldier's body and killed him in an instant. He didn't even notice the bullets have attacked him so many times before he finally dies.

"No way!!! What kind of weapon is that?!?! That thing didn't even make the slightest sound!!!!" One of the remaining soldiers shouted in fear seeing the ability of the newest Gatling gun.

"Of course. HAVOX shoot out more than six thousands bullets in a second. It is a hypersonic weapon, allowing the bullets to move fiver times faster than the speed of sound, you couldn't even hear the sound of its bullets thrusting your body, albeit seeing it!! Even your hard armor wouldn't be able to hold its own against a thousands of bullets in less than 10 seconds right? That's why destroying your armors are as easy as blinking an eye!!!" Elraven explained as he aimed the HAVOX towards the soldiers.

"Oh, shit!! Run!!!" The four remaining soldiers desperately tried to run for themselves. Unfortunately, something moves five times faster than the speed of sound proved too much to handle for them. "Gyaaaaaakh!!!" One of them screamed as thousands of bullets thrust his body in less than one second.

The other three ran in fear of their deaths as another one of them received the merciless bullets and meets his end. Seeing his target were down to two men, Elraven flip the HAVOX backside and revealed a cannon.

"Wow, there's a cannon too?!!" Olivia shouted in awe seeing another capability of HAVOX.

"Sure!!" Elraven replied as he pulled the trigger and shot the cannon, hitting one of the soldiers.

GLAAAAAAAAAAARRRR!!!!

The soldiers destroyed into pieces as the only one remaining keep on running for his live. "Shit!! Shit!! He will kill me!! He will fucking kill me!!!" He keeps repeating to himself as without he noticed, thousands of bullets are already thrust his armor and turned him into a dead meat. His body quickly fell to the ground as Elraven slowly put his HAVOX down, admiring the massacre he made.

Olivia stared at him in amazement, "Wow, I always know he is strong, I've seen his power with my own eyes once. But, this time he truly seems to be stronger than he ever become!!". The high priest slowly approached the gunslinger, who was repositioning his purple glasses.

"Well done, hot shot. Are you going to kill all of them now?" Elraven smiled and nod. "Yeah, I want you to make a warp portal to the Residential Area. Take Devi, and Sohee with you. I'll bury the Valdomirs inside this dungeon by destroying this dungeon" Elraven's answer made Olivia narrowed her eyes at first, but she quickly understood and said, "We'll wait you outside. Good luck, Angel of Darkness!!!", as she took Devi with her and slowly walked towards the chamber to pick the waiting Sohee.

Elraven was left alone until he witness the remaining skeleton generals are marching quickly towards him. "Here they come", He aimed the HAVOX to above where he stood and pulled the trigger. The thousands of bullets hit the dungeon hundred times as the Payon Dungeon slowly crumbled. The skeletons generals tried to ran when they realized Elraven is trying to destroy the whole dungeon. Elraven successfully managed to thrust the whole five level of the dungeon after five minutes of shooting. As the non-stop shooting progress, the dungeon finally crumbles.

GRAAAK!! GRAAAK!! GRAAAAAAAAAAKKKKHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Elraven used the butterfly wings to escape as the skeleton generals were buried and destroyed alongside Payon Dungeon.

The gunslinger arrived in front of the main temple in the residential area, as his three comrades have been waiting for him. "El, you really made it!! God, I was scared when we heard that loud voice from Payon dungeon!!! I thought you didn't make it!!" Olivia expressed her gratefulness seeing her comrade is alive and well as Sohee and Devi hugging each other.

"Well, I told you I would be back" Elraven replied with a grin. But their happiness was cut short when they heard a voice coming from their behind, inside the temple. There, they saw Professor Leonid slowly walked towards them.

"A hundred skeleton generals and some member of Iron Squad couldn't stop you. It was clever using the Payon dungeon as your weapon. I'm glad I waited here. So, the name of The Angel of Darkness was not all talk after all" The professor voiced his mind as he and Elraven locked each other's eyes. The girls slowly stepped backwards, not trying to interfere.

"And who might you be, professor?" Elraven slowly asked.

"Ah, that's right. I have not introduced myself. I'm Leonid, one of the Quarter Kings serving for Valdomir Kingdom. And you must be Elraven Sinclair, right? I'm here to put you out of our misery" The professor replied as he pulled two tubes from his pocket, readying for a battle.

Elraven smiled and readied his HAVOX, "Quarter Kings? Bring it on!!!".

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Well, the HAVOX finally made it to the story!!! Next chapter will be Elraven vs Leonid, I wish I could make a good fight between the two!!! ^^

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!!! Just thinking about the fight is killing me, LOL!!!

Please read and review. See u next chap!!!!