Scene 42

 

Another outlaws

 

Sun had gone down and there were nothing, but white clouds and thick wind in the sky. Sky had been dyed with dark blue instead of bright blue. With Jeah having gone, six Hellbeasts ran quickly as possible to reach their destination. Well, Velloke was unconscious, so it would be technically five Hellbeasts running instead of six. After few hours of stepping on rough and rugged rocks, they saw a flat cemented ground ahead. The forty second scene will cover the progression.

 

"Sheesh, glad we are moving to next village, I was sick of stepping these pebbles of rocks. They are in the way to get my shoes dirty."

 

When Kiiri complained thinking ot loud, Ai opened her mouth as though she was navigator.

 

"If we could pass this village, there would be forest and few villages with no threatening Mages. We could reach Empty World in 3 hours in my estimation."

 

They finally got on to the cemented ground as they were listening to Ai's words. Weirdly, they stopped right when they touched the ground. They stopped because place they had arrived wasn't a village.

 

"Umm, no offense, but are you sure this is a village?"

 

They saw what they hadn't seen before. What they saw was only cemented ground rounded up to leading somewhere else..About 50 feet away, there were few well constructed buildings settled here and there. The constructed buildings were tall and looked sturdy as if they were made by metals. Black buildings were for those who were traveling from far away from here and adventurers to stay in for few days. Some food stands, equipment stands, and luxury stands were built beside the buildings. Having them built beside shiny gray metals, they stood out in the area. This wasn't all, they could hardly see average Mage strolling down the ground. There were only groups of Mages who had huge amount of auras. Some were standing every stand and buildings guarding their territories.

 

"What gives? They look like they are preparing for the war."

 

Kyondame gasped and let her words out. When they were concentrated seeing what is front of them, someone tapped Ao's shoulder.

 

Tap* Tap*

 

Ao startled at the moment he was touched so he stepped away quickly turning around to see who it was. While he was at it, he made a battle stance to face any kinds of danger. But there was nothing.

 

"Cheezei! Are you guys outlaws too?"

 

They turned around with puzzled faces.

 

"Why you making faces like that? I am just asking if you guys are outlaw because you guys were staring at those Mages who are guarding the buildings."

 

"Ehem! And you are?"

 

Man with a fine physique, height of 178cm who was wearing hot red long sleeved hoodie and white baggy pants moved his red hair that was covering his eyes. His name was Koleas Polie, he was one of the outlaw Mage who had bounty. Behind him, there were two more. One was male and another was female.

 

Male' name was Aon Kunjio. He was in height of 5'9 feet wearing simple blue shirt and short. He had fairly long black hair that came down and on to his shoulders. In front of his dark red eyes, there were glasses so he could see better with his sharp eyes. In his hand he was holding a memo and other hand he was holding a pencil. He swirled the pencil as if though he was locked in a thought. One standing beside him was a girl named Juho Lavuj. She was quite tall for a girl having height of 5'7 feet almost same as Aon. She had long hair dyed in light brown mixed with black. She wore white and brown long sleeved shirt that matched with her brown eyes. Half way down, she was wearing blue jeans that came only down to her knees. Blue jeans had ripped in between showing her bare thighs.

 

Ao cleared out his throat.

 

"Ummm, yeah, yeah, we are trying to pass through these guards who are wearing black iron clothings. Have any ideas?"

 

Polie put his arms around Ao and Kyondame who was standing beside him and raised his voice quietly so that guards wouldn't hear what he was saying.

 

"My brothers and sisters, you are in luck, us three might not be much of a power, but with you guys' help we might just make it in time."

 

Ao and Kyondame looked each other with curiosity in their minds.

 

When they were facing eye to eye, someone appeared behind one of the guard and sliced the armor. Armor was strong enough to hold one slice, but all of a sudden, one who was holding a katana disappeared with a blurry after image and appeared all around leaving thousands of slices. When guard was about to collapse, the one who was wielding a katana held guard right away to avoid the sound.

 

Seeing what just happened now, they were speechless. They were just staring to see what the one with the katana would do next., but Aon stepped in approaching One of the guard. He blended with the crowds and slowly talked to the male guard who was standing beside the equipment stand.

 

"Hello! I am looking for someone strong, I happened to be weapon geek you see. Can I see your weapon that is attached on your waist?"

 

"No you may not, we are on duty to find outlaw Mages. They happen to be around here, so I heard."

 

Aon rubbed under his chin and asked. While he was asking, he moved his fingers in a unusual way as if he was planning something up his sleeves.

 

"Hmm, I'll say, so this outlaw guys, can I see their faces? I mean you should have their bounty posters right?"

 

The guard was just thinking he was just innocent Mage who was curios in a way, but when he was about to show the bounty, he saw his face. However, it was too late. He couldn't move.

 

"Wha, what?!"

 

"Only ten seconds to take an effect."

 

The guard didn't know what he was talking about, but when he saw a silver needle covered in blood, he finally knew what he was talking about. He realized he manipulated wind to make a toxic needle to attack without him knowing. The guard fell to his knee and finally lying down slowly as the toxic went through his body messing up the body system.

 

"It seems like you figure out how I did it. I am amazed how you figure out in such short amount of the time though.. It shows that guards are all professional."

 

"Hah, you say as if you know everything."

 

The guard smirked moving his body left and right losing control and balance. However he managed to stand on two feet, well for a minute. The guard raised the arm pointing upward at the sky.

 

"What the hell are you doing?"

 

Aon asked with puzzled face wondering what the guard was referring to.

 

"Say, would you willing to sacrifice yourself for others?"

 

"huh? Of course I would!"

 

Nameless guard smiled as he collapsed on the ground. Aon still didn't know why he raised his arm still. After he passed out, heavy auras filled in the air, before Aon knew it, five Mages who were wearing white overall surrounded him. Their faces were hidden by mask they were wearing. Every masks they wore had heart symbol on them. One of the Mage bent down to whisper at the guard.

 

"Don't worry, rest of your fellas are fine."

 

"You, you, you guys didn't! You heartless monsters!"

 

Yes, they were another outlaw Mages who were caught and gave the condition to sacrifice themselves as baits to save the rest of the outlaw members. Aon lost his mind with only rage on his mind. He screamed loudly with no conscious creating tornado around him. Tornado swirled around him to expand the distance to make even bigger tornado. However, when heavy pressure spinning wind was going to hit, there were sound of someone snapping. It was three times

 

Snap* Snap* Snap*

 

When three snaps ended Under the ground burst of the flame rise up to burn everything in its path. Thankfully, before the burst of the fire could hit him, One with the katana appeared where he was and moved him to safer zone carrying him.
One with the katana was names Veron Kartswal, he had dimmed pink spiky hair and sharp golden eyes. He was wearing light green bandanna around his head so that his forehead could be seen in public. His light green vest he wore outside of white shirt and wore white short that strangely matched with his vest looking like a fashion wear. He put his katana behind his head and asked standing tall in height of 190cm.

 

"So, which one of you trash try to hurt my friend? And which one of you guys planned to bait another outlaws to bait us in?"

 

One in the middle gave out a laugh removing the mask revealing half of the face. He was male. under the mask showed his sharp green eye and sharp teeth. Then he opened his mouth to ask mischievously. 

 

"Trash? Can you define this trash you are talking about? One those who goes against the rules? Or One those who try to do anything to catch them?"