Up in the blue open sky, the sun shines brightly at the top of the world, and below is the exact opposite. Man in armor, with helmets, shields, and swords are fighting each other to death, one side is wearing armor made from overlapping iron strips. These were held together by vertical leather strips on the inside,metal helmets covered the entire head except the face, leather sandal boots, double edge swords, and a rectangular red curved shield. The other was wearing armor on their torso that is shaped like a half cut diamond,leather helmets covering the top and side of the head, where the leather on the sides are just hanging and waves around. words and shield,leather boots that cover from the foot until half of the knee, curved swords and circular shields.
A man with a jacked body build wearing the same attire as the former, except his helmet has a red plume crest that goes from the forehead to the back.He is a Centurion.
He swings his sword from the back, the enemy replied by defending with sword, they came at an interlock,Medius then kick the enemy away.
(BASH)
“Ugggh”
As the enemy has been kicked away from medius, he holds his stomach. But medius gave his enemy no time to relax.
{Wind Strike}
Medius swing his sword, neck high, even if the enemy is far from the blade's reach.
(SWOOSH)
A wind following the arc of the sword swing, moves towards the enemy neck, with no time to react, the wind slice up the enemies neck, blood spurting out from the neck. He dropped on the ground like a puppet whose strings had been cut.
As Medius sees the enemy on the ground, he scans his surroundings, in front of him was a castle with 4 towers on each corner and in the middle was a tall building full of windows, at his back was a portcullis and a barbican. They are in the courtyard. It seems his comrades are still fighting the enemy, A man wearing the same armor as him, runs up to him, sword in hand, he was a young man named Felix, with looks between 20s and 30s, he has a cut body build, He was his Optio.
“Sire, we are running out of time, it's almost noon”
As he quickly pulls out something from his pocket, It consists of a circular flat plate consisting of engravings of numerals and a triangular blade in the middle. Which casts a shadow onto the flat plate.
“It seems we have more or less 15 minutes left, and yet the enemy are still large in numbers”
“What about the other century's?”
“They are having trouble and I doubt they could reach here in time, we are on our own.”
“Tsk”
“AGGGGHHH”
An enemy soldier charges at them, sword in flames. Felix prepares himself, while medius throws a wind strike head high towards the enemy.The enemy replied by blocking with his flaming sword. The wind strike dissipated but the flame went towards the enemy’s eye.
“Ahhhhhhhhh”
The enemy halted, knelt down, held his eye with his both hands,
(Swooop)
A dagger came flying and pierced through his neck, then dropped on the ground back first.
Medius then takes the dagger from the neck and sheathes it.
“The two of us will rush to the throne room and let the rest handle it here”
“Are you sure sire? I doubt that we can stop the summoning ritual with just the two of us”
“We have no time, most of our forces are occupied, bringing in a large force would slow us down. I would like to think that most of the enemy forces are outside too, Let our Tesserarius handle this.”
“Understood Sire”
“Lets go.”
Then they ran off towards the castle.
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They both arrive at the entrance of the throne room, A double 5 meter three-point arch metal door, with engravings on them, with a keyhole in the middle stands before them.
“Sire, It seems most of the enemy soldiers were already outside.”
“Yes, It was strangely quiet, well anyway, all we have to do is to kill one of the summoners, it will be enough to disrupt the ritual.Remember magic is ineffective, use brute force, hell.... It’ll be easy.”
“Everything is easy for you sire.”
And they both laugh.
Medius stood in the middle front of the door, looks at Felix, and nods.
“Here we go"
He kicked open the door, and the two sides of the door opens all the way.
(SWOOSH)
A streak of light suddenly came flying at Medius' head, he quickly tilts his head to dodge it.
(BAM)
Medius looks at the back and sees that a wooden arrow has been dug deep unto the wall.
“Damn”
He then look forward.There he saw a throne at the end of a 10 step stairway about 70 meters long, majestic pillars lining up along the wall, window arch on both sides that lets the sun shine through, A red carpet with laced will golden color on the side from the door unto the throne. In front of the throne was a group of about 20 hooded people in circular formation, on the ground was shining blue with unknown letters. Between them was a 2 meter tall muscular man with a swollen body build, wearing leather pants, metal boots and nothing on top but a metal shoulder pad that is belted in his body. He is holding a gigantic double edge axe as tall as him. It was fastened to a metal handle with engravings on it. On the side behind him was a red haired man wearing a hat, a green button down shirt, a brown vest, brown pants, a quiver on the back, and equipped with a longbow.
Medius and Felix brace themselves.
“I take the big guy, You take the other....Go!”
They charge towards the enemy. Felix kept dodging the arrows aimed at him, while medius kept throwing wind strikes, but were all blocked by the gigantic axe.
As Medius gets close and within range of the axe, the big guy swings his axe from the side, Medius suddenly stops and jumps away. The axe passes through Medius' torso just a few inches away.
Another strike from the big guy, but it is now aimed at Felix who was busy dodging the arrows,
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“Watch out!”
(SWOOOSHH)
The axe swung neck high, Felix unprepared, defended with his shield.
(CLANGG)
The axe and shield met.
(SNAP)
“Uagghh”
Snapping pain comes through Felix left hand, unable to take the force he was blown off unto the wall
(THUD)
Felix fell on the ground, face flat and now unconscious.
“FELIX!”
“Tsk”
Anger goes through Medius head, but he has no time to be mad as the big guy swings his axe from the back aimed at Medius, Medius quickly shifts his attention, sees the strike coming and dodge by side stepping.
(THUMP)
The axe landed on the floor fracturing it.
{Can’t Block those attacks}
Medius thought.The big guy prepares himself along with the archer for another shot.
“One versus Two, seems kinda unfair don’t you think?”
Medius smiled while asking jokingly, He noticed that the two were not bothered by it.
{Heh, What a rigid opponents}
Medius complained on his head and returned to his stern expression. Medius shifted his gaze at the summoners, He swiftly took a dagger and threw it towards them.
(CLINK)
The sound of metal hitting each other, it seems the archer hit it with his arrow. Medius returned his gaze, but the big guy was already charging at him, A quick charge making medius unable to run away. The big guy thrust his axe at him, but medius dodged. The big guy did not stop with his attacks.. Medius could not do anything but dodge.
{Tsk, No time for magic}
Medius Thought.Every thrust and swing from the big guy, Medius steps backs. He kept losing ground.
(PAT)
His back and the wall met, it seems he has pushed back far too much.
The big guy, swings his axe from the side, Medius with no space to dodge, blocks it with his shield.
(CLANGG)
Medius bone rattle, pain course through his body, and was flown back to the wall away from the ritual
{THUD}
Medius vomited blood and fell on the floor on all fours.
(SWOOSH)
Another arrow coming for him, Medius dodge by just barely jumping on the side. The Big guy is already charging towards him. Medius dodge again by jumping on the side.
(THUMP)
The Axe dug unto the wall cracking it. The big guy removes his axe from the wall and readys himself for another charge and the archer for another shot.
{I’m severely outmatch}
Medius, with no way of escaping, prepares himself while wiping the blood out of his face.but his vision was slowly being blurred by white light, it seems to be coming from the ritual, as he looks towards the two, smiles could be seen,The room was slowly being engulf by the light, Medius tries to look at the ritual but brightness was intense that he shielded his eyes with his hand,he can no longer see anything on the ritual, he quickly took dagger from his waist and throw it at the ritual and hopes for it to hit something. Suddenly the bright light disappeared.
“BAAM”
A great force of explosion comes from the ritual. Medius was flown back to the wall and lost consciousness .
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The first thing that woke him up was the intense pain on his back. It seems he was leaning on the wall.He opens up his eye. The first thing he saw were both of his empty bloody hands lying on his lap. His shield and sword on the side. He tries to straighten up his body, but it only exaggerates the pain.
“Ouchh, That hurts”
As his body was fully straightened, He looked straight and saw the throne, a big hole in front of it where the ritual was supposed to be, and no one else could be found.
“Everybody’s gone now.”
He shifts his head slightly to the left, and there he saw Felix lying on the ground
“I guess not everybody.”
He tried to stand up, but the damage on his body was severe, pain coursing through his body, he slowly stood up using both of his legs with his back on the wall, he did not bother to pick up his sword and his shield.
He moved towards Felix, he then picked up Felix and put him against the wall, he put his hand near the nose of Felix, He waited with a worried expression.
……
Then he could feel a blow of wind on his hand
Phew
He gave a sigh of relief, and his expression lightened.
“He’s still alive.”
He stood up,walks towards the throne, and by walk, means his limping. When he finally arrived at the edge of the hole, a tunnel could be seen but it was already blocked by rocks. He notice something on the other side of the edge, it seems like a splash of blood.
(KATA)(KATA)
He hears footsteps, he looks behind and it seems the footsteps have still not reached the door.
(KATA)(KATA)
It seems that the footsteps are now getting closer.
The cause of the footsteps finally arrived.
They were his comrades, 6 of them. Their eyes widened as they saw the catastrophe in front of them.
“SIRE!”
They quickly get close to Medius, As they were about to arrive, Medius fell on his knee.
“Sire!, Are you all right?”
“No, My back hurts like hell, but first go check first on Felix there”
Medius pointed on Felix
Three of the soldiers went towards Felix and tended him.
One of the soldiers helped Medius stand up by putting his arm around his shoulders, and they walked towards the door.
“Wait,”
Medius pointed at the blood he noticed.
“Go and check that one”
One of the soldiers proceeded there and checked it with his hand.
“Sire, it’s blood”
“Hmmmm”
{I might have hit one of them}
Medius concluded to himself
“Understood, lets go”
The soldier stood up and joined them.
“What about the other centuries?”
“Sire , they are rounding up the soldiers, it seems they have surrendered”
“Sire, were you able to stop the summoning ritual?”
The other soldier who was carrying him asked.
“What do you think?”
“Ahhhhhh.....”
The soldier hesitated.
“No sir?”
“Hahahaha”
Medius laughs out loud and the soldiers have a mixed expression of confusion and fear of offending him.
“Actually I’m not sure myself, The bright light signifies success right? And the explosions signifies the failure, I actually remember there was a poem about that?”
“Aye sire, But I can’t recall”
“Ahh, Well, I did see the bright light, but after a few seconds, an explosion occurred, so I guess it's both a success and a failure?”
They finally arrived at the doorway, along with the soldiers who were tending to Felix who was carried by two soldiers side by side.
“How is he?”
“It seems he broke his arm sire, other than that are bruises”
“Guess his fine then”
“We saw the bright light from the courtyard sire? Did we fail?”
One of the soldiers carrying Felix asked a question
“I think the summoning ritual was successful, The bright light signifies it”
The soldier Gasp and looks at each other in shock
“Calm down, listen”
The soldiers calmed down and looked at medius.
“Just before the ritual was finished, I was able to disrupt it, I injured one of the summoners, We saw blood near the ritual.’
Medius pointed at the back with his thumb while still looking forward.
“I’m sure the stray was summoned here, the white light signifies it, but due to the disruption he was not summoned here.”
“Then does that mean we have to hunt it?”
“Aye, It must be killed”