Chapter 194 - Brutal King, Merciless Queen (3/3)
At some point, the dread that the still living black hand group mercenaries have for Lucien matched the fear they have of Oya.
While Oya plucked heads off with brutal bites and split bodies in half with her big sharp claws, Lucien cut heads off with his red katana and pierced hearts with his golden naginata.
They seemed like two tornadoes of blood in the crowd of mercenaries. Where they went, blood splashed out like rainwater.
If Lucien"s incredible speed and senses were not enough, added to the absurd difference of strength between the Zero Realm and the Mortal Realm, he still managed to make a ridiculous use of two soul weapons.
Already covered in blood, Lucien smiled at his enemies.
The golden naginata appeared in his hand, so he threw it towards the mercenaries.
*Woosh*
Quick as lightning, smooth as a breeze, the naginata pierced two mercenaries in the chest before disappearing from being too far from Lucien.
Then he spun his body around as he lowered to dodge a mercenary"s blow behind him.
The red katana was already appearing in his hand as he cut the mercenary"s body in half with a brutal horizontal strike.
In less than a second, he was already jumping backward while holding the katana in one hand, and the naginata appeared in the other.
The other mercenary who tried to pierce Lucien with a spear saw him jumping and thought he could fly because of the height of his jump.
For a second or less, that mercenary could have sworn he saw Lucien smile, and he really looked like the devil.
The man"s mouth cannot help but open as he was surprised and tried to curse Lucien.
*BAM*
*CRACK*
Lucien fell on top of that man while shoving his naginata"s blade into the mercenary"s mouth, tearing muscles and breaking bones all over his upper body.
Seeing that man being disemboweled in that absurd way, all the mercenaries around Lucien retreated, lacking the courage to try to attack him, even from behind.
Lucien laughed, taking great pleasure in the fear his enemies has of him. He again jumped towards other mercenaries.
Before Lucien land on the ground, the naginata shone more brightly in his hand, and he felt that the great golden gate inside the naginata trembled.
Lucien smiled because even though he wasn"t sure, he believes that to open the gate, he needs to increase his connection with the naginata, and for that, fighting seems the best way.
While Lucien soaked his naginata in the blood of the mercenaries, L.u.s.t, at his side, cut throats quickly with her whip, without making a brutal show like him. But killing many mercenaries as well.
Mia also stayed near him while killing the mercenaries quickly with her daggers.
*ROAR*
But Oya, like her master, was not afraid to get covered in blood while shattered the mercenaries.
Of the thousand mercenaries of the Black Hand"s group, half were already in pieces on the ground and the other half would not remain alive for more than a few minutes.
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While Lucien fights the Black Hand"s group on one side of the battlefield, on the other side, his other women fight the adventurers.
Despite not feeling good fighting the adventurers, even the most loyal to Ivan, Olivia knew her place and didn"t think twice before joining Lucien"s group, just like Scarlett.
Lucien"s troops were fighting in absolute sync with his wives. Be they wizards, archers, or infantry, all of them were all executing their roles perfectly.
The adventurers numbers were more than ten times larger than Lucien"s group, but the adventurers were unable to use area attacks because of that Rose, Angela, Marie, and Lena maintained solid stone and ice barriers defending their group.
Maggie, who was also in the Mortal Realm, used her fire magic, which, although was not her strongest point, it is very powerful compared to the adventurers who were still in the Zero Realm. So, she attacked them with big fireb.a.l.l.s.
Karl, one of Ivan"s main comrades, knew that Ca.s.sidy is powerful for making Ivan back down. Still, the big guy wanted to avenge Leo"s death and help his people by defeating Ca.s.sidy.
He ran towards Ca.s.sidy with a large ax while the mages of his group cast offensive spells at her.
Ca.s.sidy continued to fight the adventurers around her while Angela blocked all spells aimed at her.
Angela also threw ice spears towards Karl and his group. She killed most of his comrades, but Karl managed to break the ice spears aimed at him with his great ax.
"HAAAAA!!!" As soon as he was close to Ca.s.sidy, he jumped at her while starting a mighty vertical attack.
Ca.s.sidy raised her sword horizontally to block Karl"s attack.
"Leave him to me, please!" But before Karl"s ax touched Ca.s.sidy"s sword, Kylee jumped in front of him while attacking with her great ax.
A tiny girl, actually smaller than the big ax in her hands, against a two meters tall guy, with arms thicker than the girl"s waist... Everyone could predict the result of that encounter.
*CLANG* When the blades of the great axes clashed, a loud sound of metal echoed across the battlefield, suppressing other sounds.
*BOOM* Then the wave of force generated by the direct shock of two people with incredible physical strength exploded, creating a small crater below the feet of Karl and Kylee.
Although Kylee is very strong and was boosted by Lucien"s special milk, Karl"s strength, after several weeks using the emerald crystals, could not be easily overcome.
Neither of them moved back a step as they faced each other.
"HOW?! You are just a little girl!!" Karl couldn"t help exclaiming as he used all of his strength to push his ax towards Kylee.
Kylee was not really using all of her strength, but just enough to hold Karl"s ax.
One of the main lessons that Lucien taught her was not to try beating enemies with similar strength to her with force, but to use her intelligence, agility, or even the size of her body as an advantage.
And Kylee didn"t just want to beat Lucien"s enemies. She also wanted to stand out by fighting very well so that he would be proud of her and pamper her much, later.
Kylee smiled as she spoke just one word to Karl. "Dead."
Then Kylee let the shaft of her ax slide through her hands as she ducked.
Karl was taken aback by Kylee"s sudden movement and lost his balance by falling forward because of the great force he was putting towards her.
Kylee quickly took a dagger from her belt and pierced Karl"s belly as he fell. Then she quickly avoided his falling body as she went behind him.
She took her black steel naginata from her storage ring and pierced Karl"s back as he tried to get up.
"Haaaa!!!" Karl cried in pain and spat a considerable amount of blood while Kylee pushed the naginata all the way through his chest and stabbed Its blade in the ground.
He held the naginata"s shaft with both hands and tried to pull it out of the ground so he could move, but his body was weak because he was losing all of his blood through his mouth and the big hole in his chest.
"You shouldn"t have tried attacking my master"s Queen." Kylee slowly picked up her great ax from the ground.
Then she put the cold blade of the ax on Karl"s neck, before lifting it half a meter.
Karl knew that his death was inevitable. But his most significant feeling was not fear, but shock. He couldn"t believe that after becoming so powerful and reaching SS-rank, he would be killed by a little girl like this.
Ivan, who was fighting Ca.s.sidy, saw Kylee lifting the ax above Karl"s neck. He was also shocked that a little girl was preparing to execute his friend that way.
He couldn"t help remembering Leo being executed by Oya and he can"t bear the death of another of his friends like that.
"KARL!!!" Ivan panicked. Both of his hands burned as he suppressed the pain of focusing his chaotic mana like this to use his ability to the maximum.
Ca.s.sidy tried to attack him with her greatsword, but Ivan held the blade of the sword with his hands on fire. His skin was like magma, so he suffered no damage from Ca.s.sidy"s sword.
He tried to kick Ca.s.sidy while holding the blade of her sword, but she jumped backward, dodging his blow. He released the blade and threw a big magma ball at her.
Even if Ca.s.sidy dodged the magma ball, it could hurt other people in Lucien"s troops, so Angela made an ice barrier to block it.
But the magma ball pa.s.sed through her first ice barrier, forcing Angela to make several other barriers until she managed to stopped the magma ball.
Buying time was Ivan"s intention when he threw that magma ball. As Ca.s.sidy dodged it and Angela made the ice barriers, he ran towards Kylee and Karl with all of his speed.
Time seemed to be in slow motion while Ivan saw Kylee"s ax descending towards Karl"s neck.
Karl seemed to have noticed Ivan running towards him. He looked at his friend and felt some hope of living.
Ivan knew he wouldn"t reach them in time, so he started creating another magma ball in his hands.
But then Ivan saw Karl"s expression go from hope to sad at the same time that he felt great pain in his chest.
He looked down and saw the black blade of Ca.s.sidy"s sword pierced through his chest.
"But how?!" Ivan exclaimed without understanding how Ca.s.sidy could have reached behind him since the distance between them should be dozens of meters.
Still, Ivan was more concerned about Karl. When he looked ahead again, he could clearly see the blade of Kylee"s great ax cut Karl"s head off.
*Thud*
The head of another friend rolled on the ground, leaving Ivan sad and furious as ever.
"NOOOOOO!!!!!!!" Ivan screamed out loudly as the fire from his hands spread to his body, covering him with magma.
Lucien, who was paying close attention to everything that happened on the battlefield while killing mercenaries, quickly mounted Oya as they ran towards Ivan.
When the magma of Ivan"s body reached the sword that Ca.s.sidy had thrown from afar on his back, it started to melt even the incredible black steel, showing how powerful his ability is.
Ivan was unable to control his ability well as he reached the Mortal Realm using the crystals in their raw form, which caused his mana to become very unstable.
He was in a lot of pain. Still, with magma all over his body, it was easy for him to start throwing several magma b.a.l.l.s at Kylee.
Angela started creating several ice barriers to defend Kylee while she was also trying to dodge the magma b.a.l.l.s.
But then when one of the magma b.a.l.l.s crossed several of Angela"s barriers and was going to hit Kylee, Oya landed in front of her, and Lucien deflected the magma ball using the blade of his golden naginata.
"YOUUUU!!!" Ivan cried when he saw Lucien and Oya again.
He understood that the responsibility for the death of his friends was not on the tigress, the little girl, or Ca.s.sidy, but on Lucien. He is the leader of the group that is killing his people.
Lucien smiled as he sent mental messages to Marie and Lena.
Before Ivan could throw another Magma ball, ice and water started to fall on him. Despite the ice melting into water and the water evaporating just by touch with his skin covered in super hot magma, the girls continued to throw more ice and water on him.
Ivan tried to walk towards Lucien, but his speed began to slow as the magma on his body cooled under the girl"s magic attacks.
Ca.s.sidy was a little sad that her great sword had melted, but she was delighted that her revenge was going much better than she could have dreamed of before meeting Lucien.
She walked towards Ivan while Lucien and Oya also went towards him.
The adventurers panic when they became aware that Ivan was in trouble. They tried to approach him to help, but they were unable to get through the lines of Lucien"s troops who kept moving forward.
The adventurer"s arrows and spells couldn"t get through Lucien"s wives" barriers, but Maggie"s fireb.a.l.l.s and the attacks from Lucien"s wizards" troops were breaking their barriers and killing them easily.
In less than half an hour, nine hundred of the thousand mercenaries in the Black Hand group and two thousand adventurers had died, among them almost all of the rank SS and S died.
And now, Ivan was kneeling in the middle of the battlefield as ice and water fell on him, and two people were walking towards him.
The woman was the Queen who was supposed to be dead but now walked on the battlefield covered in the blood of her enemies, whom she had no mercy for.
The other was a man with frighteningly attractive horns, riding a tigress whose brutality could only be compared to his own.
After this day, the couple would be the protagonists, or rather the villains of terrifying tales, which would be told for many years after they left this world.