The squad of elves stopped when the scout at the front raised his hand in a fist and crouched on a branch. All the elves looked at the scout for a signal. They all drew their curved Elven steel, and one by one, a green glow flickered on each of their swords, lighting up the forest with their sharp aura.
The Elven aura was more refined than any aura Ali would have seen before. It was sharper and more uniform. Every elf was in unison with their aura flow and stance, much more disciplined than the wild human aura, at least compared to the human aura of the weaklings down south of the kingdom.
"They're here", the scout shouted, alerting all of them as he felt the tree speak to him.
At the back of the squad, a hunter suddenly turned around to block Kaelyra's sharp dagger coated in her dark grey aura with his sword, but the moment their daggers met, his shadow suddenly shrank to a single point from which a thin spike made of Shadow darted out and stabbed him in the back, tearing a hole through his heart and killing him instantly.
SLICE
Kaelyra jumped back with incredible speed as her shadow extended towards another tree in an instant, and somehow she could almost teleport there using a spell unique to the dark elves, Shadow Step, a spell that enhanced the caster's speed greatly as long as they were moving in the shadows, their own or any shadow in general.
The branch she was standing on was sliced with a wind blade that tore through the air and continued to slam into a tree, leaving a deep scar on the thick bark.
"Catch her", the knight ordered as he used his speed aided by nature's wind to chase after Kaelyra, who sped through the darkness, dodging a couple of arrows covered in aura from the hunters. Some chased with their sword, and some shot arrows but found it difficult to hit a nimble elf in the forest.
"Hundred Arm Shadow", Eryndis shouted out loud, catching the hunter's focus as she raised her staff high from down below. A dark grey and violet mana covered her body before entering her shadow, which suddenly expanded all the way around her, covering almost a fifty-metre radius. Before dozens of shadowy arms escaped her shadow and elongated to chase after the hunters.
The hunters turned and slashed at the shadowy arms, but just as they were about to slice through them, the arms suddenly entered the shadows of the trees and travelled from shadow to shadow to flank the hunters from behind.
Some hunters were fast enough to block the arms that came from their own shadows, but some were too late, and the shadowy arms grabbed their legs.
CRACK
The moment the shadow arm gripped a body part, it instantly used all the Spirit it had to crush bone and tissue before dissipating…
AHHHHHHH
Seven hunters screamed in pain as they felt their legs and arms crack before more arms lunged at their throats, trying to end their lives.
"Holy Spirit of Light", the knight chanted as he raised his hand, which had a crystal flower on it.
"Cleanse the Vile Darkness", he said, and the crystal flower suddenly activated, shining a bright gold that tore through the forest and immediately evaporated every shadow arm with the slightest contact, not just that but also attacked the arms hiding in shadows.
"No…", Eryndis said as she felt the power of the flower relic, it was a direct counter to the dark elves' Shadow magic.
Kaelyra didn't hesitate as she stopped using her shadow spells and relied on her level three aura to explode out onto the handicapped hunters, trying to finish them off quickly, but her main focus was to look for a way out as Eryndis's spell was countered really hard, and their fighting chances were down to zero now.
"Not so fast", Kaelyra turned around mid-air as she heard the knight shout at her and strike down with his twin curved swords covered in Peak level 3 aura. His strength was so overwhelming that he sent her crashing next to Eryndis below.
"Kaelyra, are you okay?", Eryndis helped her companion stand up when she saw that her dagger was now broken in half.
"Fuck", Kaelyra muttered as she threw away the broken dagger and drew her bow from her back. She aimed at the knight who was standing twenty metres above them on a thick branch.
STEP STEP STEP
One by one, the unscathed hunters stood on branches surrounding the dark elves below, their eyes gleaming with wicked excitement at seeing the helpless women below.
"Lord, can we please have some fun before we kill them?", one of them snickered and said.
"Yeah, the hunt has been tiring, Lord. They would help heal our tired bodies, heheh", another commented with a laugh.
"First dibs on the priestess. I like them thick", the scout said, and the other hunters looked at him and shook their heads. He always had that perverted and slimy nature. They still remembered how he violated the priestess over and over again in the camp they raided and personally killed her after.
"I don't understand what you see in these filthy creatures", the knight finally spoke with his cold green eyes staring down at the pair below.
"But you're allowed to do whatever you want as long as they're dead by sunrise", he announced, and all the hunters around him smiled.
"I will kill myself before I let any of you disgusting bastards touch me", Eryndis shouted as she held her staff tightly, faking courage she didn't have. They all knew her spells wouldn't have any effect with the knight's relic.
UGH
Suddenly, all eyes went to the scout who stood there shocked. He looked down to see a short blade stabbed into his stomach from behind. He looked up at his lord before….
AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaah
The scout was snatched back through the darkness of the forest; they all couldn't see him anymore but heard his scream get further and further away before he went silent. That's when they realised their hurt comrades were quiet too…
"GROUP UP", the Knight shouted as he completely ignored the dark elves and jumped ahead towards where the scout was dragged to.
SLICE
THUD
His sharp ear twitched as he turned around to see four heads fall on the grass below, decapitated from their bodies that hit the ground afterwards. "WHO", he shouted as his heart beat faster and faster; a green aura covered his body from head to toe, and the winds picked up around him.
'I can't sense anything, nothing at all…Just what is this…', he thought as this was the most frightening thing that could happen to a skilled elf. Elves were proud of their sharp senses, especially in the forest; nobody was better than an elf at picking up movement and noise in a forest, but right now they were getting hunted and there was no sign of the attacker.
AHHHHHHHH
Another dragged into the depths….
HELP UGH
An elf was split horizontally through his waist; his upper body survived a couple of moments of horrible pain before he died with his organs spilled on the ground behind the dark elves who hadn't moved an inch. Kaelyra held Eryndis's hand.
The knight couldn't take it anymore and jumped from the branch to the middle between all the trees and directly above the pair below. He held his blades close before rotating his body around and cutting through the air with his green aura flaring up.
"WIND SLASH", he shouted as a green circular slash flew out with winds rotating around the slash; it cut through seven trees, knocking them down and causing a great crash with dust flying everywhere.
HAH HAHA HA
The knight breathed heavily as he landed ten metres away from the dark elves, who cautiously stepped back from the freaked-out knight, especially because all around him he saw corpse after corpse.
"Their dead, their all dead…", he muttered, looking at his trusted squad of experienced elves who were butchered in the veil of darkness.
SWOOOSH
The three pairs of eyes went to the south in the darkness between two broken trees. They heard the sound of something splitting through the air, and the sound only came closer and closer.
Slowly, they could see a tall man's silhouette in the darkness, and a metal chain spinning in his right arm with a short spearhead in his left hand.
"It's…", the dark elves said in unison as they saw Ali walk out of the darkness with a black aura covering his body like armour, he wasn't wearing anything to cover his filled out upper body but now was wearing black pants.
Ali's aura was more than five times denser than the knight's aura and much more threatening and powerful, even though they were both in the same realm. Ali's aura would release shockwaves in the air around him non-stop as he walked closer and closer with his expressionless face.
"Human, You WILL PAY", the knight said as he saw someone he hated even more than the dark elves, a human…
Ali didn't say anything as he simply kept walking forward with the chain in his hand spinning faster and faster. Bushes and branches were flying away from the winds the chain created.
FLASH
Ali suddenly exploded forward, leaving behind a small crater, as he reappeared directly opposite the knight whose green eyes opened wide and his swords hadn't even come up to protect him…
Ali's speed was monstrous…
KICK UGH
Ali kicked the elf from below, sending the Elven knight flying up with no control. Even his winds couldn't help him with the speed he was flying at…
"WIND SPIRIT MODE", the elf shouted with pain in his abdomen from the kick. Instantly, green winds gathered around him, forming a shield around his light armour, fusing with his aura….
BUT…
SNAP
A metal chain zipped past his eyes mid-air, and the next thing he knew, he felt the chain spin around him fast before clamping down all around his body, squeezing his arms together through the wind armour with overwhelming strength.
SPIN
Ali swung his elbow and spun the elf through the air before he brought his hand down, and the elf was pulled straight down, slamming into the ground before the pair of dark elves made the jump back, as a dust cloud kicked up.
UGH UGH UGH
The wind armour was no more, as the knight was now panting headfirst into the ground, with only feet visible from the ground. Ali walked through the dust cloud and pulled him out. The knight's face was bloodied, and his left eye was crushed along with his broken nose. His handsome, fair face was now fucked up….
"I will be avenged…COUGH COUGH", the knight said as he felt the chain tighten even more, crushing his ribs under the pressure.
The dark elves looked cautiously at Ali, who didn't give them any attention…
"How did you track them?", Ali asked with his cold tone….
"Filthy dark elves smell, hehehe", the knight mocked and laughed through the pain.
"Sure", Ali didn't ask another question as suddenly the chain lit up with electric red, and the knight was fried alive by Ali's Force Lightning.
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