"Ambush!" Gallard shouted loud and hard. He immediately leaped out of the building onto the ground, using walls to descend then he slain the approaching orges to the central building.
"Let there be light!" Hesta held the long sword, pointing it into the skies and in the next second, a light descended from above and illuminated the ground. The dark night had instantly turned into day peak in an area of 1km.
The adapter soldiers gained benefits from the light as they became more agile and stronger. The sleeping soldiers now awake immediately joined the fight.
Hesta scanned the surroundings, even with this mini daylight effect and buff she casted from her skill "Light's Domain" and it can't still shroud the whole area in light.
Why the sudden ambush?
They did have some scouting items... Or probably a Special item or Class like oracle... It can't be, our information said that the orge boss is just a normal dark mage, nothing all. This is the same as the other den in the three station subways.
Tsk, my men are losing!
From a matter of minutes, Hesta's battalion of 100 adapters immediately dwindle down to 75, even 25 of them are injured and cannot fight.
And battle is still not over!
Gallard, busy protecting the central building with his men in group, was immediately pushed inside by another group of stronger orges.
The Orge Brutes!
They are much more larger orges, atleast 1.5x of size with massive and long sword that the group of Gallard didn't manage to drive off but got the opposite instead.
"Let's use the size of the room to our advantage!" Gallard walked back with his group of 5 men, all are frontliners.
The group of orge brutes with 5 numbers heard this, and they're not so brute as they thought. The orge brute didn't follow them inside, instead rushed back and join the other kin into killing another group from another building.
"Fuck! What a cunning piece of green fuck!" Gallard cursed in his hoarse voice before turning around to another round of orge raiders that wanted to stop the light coming out of the building.
Hesta, above of the same building, can't fight in her state as she needed to hold the skill for it to work and it wouldn't take too long as her level 2 mana is already consuming itself down.
I can only hold for 1 minute at max.
Please, Lord of Light, let it over fast!
Her plead didn't reached the god she worshipped as number of her men kept decreasing. Added to this are the injured and scared soldiers who ran away in fear.
Just as the situation got worse, Xavier and Noire appeared at her both sides, smirking as they found their prey.
"So, you're the source of this light, huh?"
"I bet you can't hold it more than 30 seconds, now..."
Just as Noire and Xavier was about to slice her neck at the same time, a blurred image appeared infront of Hesta and blocked the two blades coming in with great difficulty.
"We met again, kiddos." Gallard appeared, he tasked his surviving soldiers below to stall time for them as he felt that the red haired lady was in danger and open situation.
"Cannot be helped it then." Hesta withdraw her sword from the skies and pointed it to the two at the same time they leaped back, Gallard beside him and the two infront, both side dashed forward.
Tang!
The blade of Gallard which Xavier owned in the past met the Sword Saint' sword of Xavier who was owned by the old man in the past to collided in the air, neither side got pushed back this time.
"Level 3 strength, huh. I have the same too!" Gallard pushed Xavier with all his strength and dashed forward again.
"Strength? I call this physical stats!" Xavier's body blurred and immediately appeared infront of the old man, past his sword to reach for slice, the former used his free right foot to kicked the latter far enough for him to arrived at the edge.
At Noire's side, both lady are clashing with their blades. One red haired lady is using a long and heavy blows while the latter black haired lady is parrying and even countering them with elegant drawing techniques.
Neither side didn't use any magic, they're pure of blade techniques, respecting each other... But this didn't last long.
Noire augmented the body of Hesta using her own bloods from her bleeding wounds into solid lock of snake like rope that coiled around the red haired lady's legs, arms, and torso. In a pervert's perspective, she seems to be gagged in ropes.
"I like you, so live for me." Hesta, unable to move, was kicked by Noire off the building rooftop along with her long golden sword that she tightly held in her arms.
It also didn't take long for Xavier to push back the old man, enough for him to notice Hesta falling and leaped out to jump with the defenseless lady.
The two stared at the falling enemies as if they made their own rival that night.
The 100 adapted soldiers went down to less than 50, all of the surviving one are either fled the moment they feared their lives or ran away with Gallard with Hesta in his arms, arms and legs are entangled with blood and bruises in her body.
"The night is still not over." Xavier pulled a wooden staff from his back, it was the very same staff that Daniel brought back with him and now being used by Xavier to push his 2.5 spirituality stats to singly temporary enhance his magic to level 3.
From the tip of of finger pointed at the skies, a drop of blood appeared and flew in the dark sky. Blood from the nearby corpse under 500 meters begun to drained out of their bodies and followed the blood of Xavier in the air and in under a minute, a large blob of blood appeared in the air.
Floating and reflected by the pale moon, the large blob of blood seems to be the crimson moon hanging in the skies.
Xavier was abled to do this by temporarily copying Noire's vampire class and used the nearby corpse bloods and the range of level 3 magic and 2.5 mana to form this large crimson sphere in the skies.
"See you in level 20." Noire laughed as she said the joke.
Xavier smirked, he pointed the finger from the center skies to the southwest, the crimson sphere followed.
"Go forth, Crimson Cries!"
With a command, the crimson sphere, shook and 1 meter spear like needles formed as they left the crimson sphere, forming and immediately shooting towards the skies into the southeast. They formed and reflected by the moonlight, forming a meteor shower like spectacles that flies in the dark skies.
...
Hesta woke up in the embrace of the old man Gallard, by now, the hard solid coiling blood from her legs, torso and arms melted and dropped down the ground.
The remaining soldiers who followed them are less than 25 and was tired enough to be forcefully rest in a secured building, far from the chaos where they used to stay.
Hesta, back to the feet, saw the meteor shower like rain of blood from the skies traveling from where they are earlier to the large armies in the southeast district center.
Hesta, without the power to stop it, along side Gallard and the injured loyal soldiers, can't help but only watch as their former comrades there met their end.
I can't do anything this time, AGAIN!
...
At dawn, the remaining group of Hesta met another orges horde than stalked them out. Her soldiers sacrificed their lives for Hesta and Gallard to ran away from their predicament only to met another monster, it was a huge furred body lycaon alpha with injured wounds on his body.
Both sides are injured but Hesta and Gallard easily subdued the lycaon alpha who managed to get away again from death and ran away. Just as they're about to ran again towards the west, the two met another horde of orges, they didn't stems from the east, but from the northwest subway station.
"Life is really hard." Gallard commented as he draw his sword and so Hesta.
Hesta's mana is still recovering like her wounds, Gallard can't use crowd control spells because he's basically a swordsman so the two fought the horde of 20 barely surviving their attacks.
By now, the two leveled up, but their state in only getting worse. Just when they're about to get executed by the orge brute the horde accompanied, an arrow flew in the air and consecutively hit the forehead of the orge brute until it finally pierced the skull.
From the distance, a fat man with leather armor and long bow appeared. Accompanied him is a stunningly beautiful blonde girl with good curves, basically a total opposite of the man.
"It seems the two of you are having a hard time."