Word Of Chapter: “I saw one standing on top, but it was mountains to climb and reach the peak"
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In the forest, a shadows can be seen in very fast speed, leaving blurring images in each leap and hops from every trees to trees as they pass and guarding themselves from any ambush or traps ahead of them, the individuals that is moving fast are the two, Yinhua and Inoue, master and servant, martial practitioner and a legendary Celestial Maiden, in their mind there is only one thing they want to finish, to destroy the underground cave and to give a fair warning to the dark mages.
Yinhua and Inoue later arrives in the front of the underground cave as Yinhua chants the trap sensory techniques around her and Inoue, as she scan her ground, she found out there are several traps laid for the unlucky intruders, Yinhua the chants another useful utility chants for the two of them, like “Void Invisibility Technique” that allows their presence conceal and blend to their surroundings without making a sound as they walking or running for a moment of time, the “Sensory Disruptor Technique” that allows to disrupt any detecting and activating any traps that is close to them.
She also added another counter measures if the situation got sour, Yinhua and Inoue enters the underground cave and proceed to their mission hastily and careful, Inoue takedowns the dark mages that guarding the entrance silently but deadly, as Yinhua absorbs their soul essence and memories, peeing to the information regards to the locations and vicinity of the underground base, Yinhua proceeds as she start to loot on the fallen dark mages, implanting explosive materials and Inscription patterns in the area for the set up plan she will execute in finishing the whole base.
She memorized the layout of the whole area, the information of their higher ups and their cult, from code, pattern, passwords and keys, nothing escape in Yinhua’s computer like visualizing sight, all of the important details is scan in her mind, as she deciphers the information flow of the run of the organization, the base that she attacking now is just
a lowest command post, which make her felt a little disappoint.
The two proceeds as they murder and kill all the dark mages who can’t sense their presence, all of them dying silently by sword stabs and neck cut, one by one fallen quietly, each looting in the dark mages will exchange in explosives one in the settled area, Yinhua continuously absorb their soul essence and memories and gather intelligence, Yinhua’s eyes become brighten as she recovers the twenty percentage of her divine body reconstruction, as for Inoue she mercilessly enjoying the quite killing spree that Yinhua taught her to do in silent killing.
Yinhua found out the information a scheme that this cult involve on the plannaing of destruction of the one of the greatest magical institute in the west, the Arcana Levitania Institute, located in the middle of the floating lands of Aerho-Soriah, in order to reach this floating islands, one must take an airship like zeppelins or flying artifacts and magics, usually the individuals that going here are merely mages and magic traders.
“Inoue, there are many treasure rooms at the second floor, we will go there and collect it, we must take haste before the enemies became alarm of the situation, am I understood?” Yinhua ask as she rappelled in the lower floor.
“Yes master, I will watch your back then!” Inoue sweet replied as she follows her master.
Both the two are starting to massacre many guard less dark mages who is leisurely enjoying their post, as they sit and eat some foods given by their higher ups, as the two looted the spoils, and Yinhua continuously absorb their soul essence and reading their memories like an open story book as she continuously surfing in their past memories, Yinhua was overwhelmed as she discover their plot on taking down a well-known and huge Mage’s Institute like Arcana Levitania Institute in Aerho-Soriah floating Islands in the far west.
She found a candidate school for her plans to become a mage and accumulate more information about this world that she existed, maybe she can found a lead to cross a portal to go back to her past world or her first past life world, although the chances are slim for her, there still hope for her, Yinhua becomes fired up as she accumulate rich sources of soul essence and abundant informative memories of her enemies.
They entered the treasure room and start to vacuum all of the items can be found there, from different kinds of jewellery and precious stones, special yet mysterious plants and herbs, books of magics and other arcana development, and special items and set of weapons, Yinhua become to get interested in collecting these once in a lifetime items, she also never forget to plant the explosives and continuously ventured each room and kill the enemy on sight before they found out and discover.
“Master! Look what I have here, it is a stardust shards, there are so many in here, I need this to upgrade my equipment and weaponry to reach the class c plus,truly enough, we are really lucky indeed in this place” Inoue cheered as she start to pack the shards she picked and put them in her brace, Yinhua just smile at Inoue’s cute face as she hoarding all the treasures that seems important to her.
“Be sure that you will get the useful items, Inoue, but be careful of traps and detectors, who knows that the enemies maybe hiding somewhere in these rooms and waiting for us to be ambushed” Yinhua said as she remain her alertness and look to every parts of the places.
Yinhua remain play safe in her movements, never neglecting her senses in the enemies trap and magical defences, she remain calm and calculate as she survey the whole grounds of the treasury, it is also because of her past experience in the past life where she is too greedy in the treasures and found out that she was caught in the trap, that gives her a lesson that she will never forget, to be remain on guard when exploring the ruins and other special yet abandoned buildings of every kingdom and empires that she will ventured with.
“Yes master, your servant will follow” Inoue replies as she retain her alerted stature and start to pack all the important treasures and finish it, after looting and hoarding the whole treasure, what was left is the explosives and exploding inscription pattern connected to each other, the two keep venturing each rooms and killed the enemies on the side, be it a man or a woman, Yinhua doesn’t give any slightest care because if she not remain on guard, the trickery of the enemies will be conquer her.
Sooner the two reaches the side hall, they witness the hundreds of the dark mages that talking to each other and exchanging conversation to each other, Yinhua and Inoue can hear them clearly, looks like they are talking about the next plan of their commander regards to the occupying the whole territory of the Fregalia dukedom and annihilation of the retainers and enemies of the duke that also includes them.
Yinhua also listen to the information regards to the enemies higher ups like Archmage Noctus who excel in dark arts, Archmage Draken in magma and molten arts, and also the head of this command of Yinhua’s target, the new level one Archmage Ditas who is apprentice of Archmage Noctus who follows necromancy, also their respective captains, the three both level ten mages, Raul who excels in earth magics, Margarette in fire magics, Greenie who are focus on nature magic, level nine mage Delfin in wind magic, and the lowest, level seven mage Sena, a prodigy in lightning magic, although not complete names, Yinhua knows these mages are very strong opponents especially the one who breakthrough to the Archmage level one, Ditas, this woman said to be a sadistic lady.
“Do you even heard from our captains that our commander Archmage Ditas has murder the whole family and servants of Lord Vilmoire and Lady Sasha, she even massacred their armies, what’s more disturbing, she even overkill the poor Lord Vilmoire” One of the dark mages said as he speaks in calm tone to another.
“Forminable, such a powerful leader, I believe that the Archmage Noctus nurture her as well” One said in matured voice as she clenched her fist and looks amaze.
“I wish I was too become a servant of Archmage Noctus, in that way I can have my own army and occupy a good spot of magic areas” one said in shy voice as he lower his head.
“Then do your job to find a way to become closer to the archmage, who knows what will happen?” Said in energetic voice by another dark mage as he gesture his hands in agree.
“Well, I hope that the plan will be succeed, I’m just wanna go back to the Runic Dark Pit Academy, usually if this event may take long, I will be late in the graduation ceremony” one said in cute voice with little uneasiness she felt as she holds her book tight.
“Yes, I hope so, who knows what will be the outcome, oh! By the way, have you heard the drastic advancement of Lightenguard Kingdom?” the calm tone one said as everyone sooner focuses their sight on him.
“Yes, I heard all about it, also the war that erupts on the Lightenguard territory, I heard they used only small numbers to fight a hundred thousands, quite a feat, although they also have Archmages levels, and a one Magus level, those monsters never shown their selves in battle field and let the Lightenguard army deal all the impending army of Duke Christopher’s alliance army” mature voice dark mage as she explain the other details.
“What’s more? I heard the powerful warrior and knight like Duke Christopher is killed by a single Lady name Sakura, that woman also beautiful, strong and a genius in particular, she also the source of the improvements of the whole Kingdom of the Lightenguard, I bet, the royalties there are treating her special and precious” Said by the energetic one as he then put his right hand in his chin.
“Well, we are lucky that she is not our enemy here, or else even our captains are getting a hard time to deal with her, for what I’ve heard from the rumors when I’m visiting the Le Veil Village, she was able to subdue the Legendary Celestial Maiden “Sword General” Inoue Yamato” Said by the shy voice dark mage.
Everyone of the dark mages stared at the shy voice one, it was an utter silence, even a single needle that gonna fall from the higher place can also be heard, all of the eyes are focus to him alone, he was even felt shock upon the reactions of everyone in his speaking about the Legendary Celestial Maiden, some of the bystanders are dwenching in cold sweat all of the sudden, like when they heard the Title of “Sword General” Or the name Inoue Yamato, they felt a huge lightning strike hits them.
“S-she subdue the tigress, the one who destroy the whole kingdom in the past, the unbeatable in sword fights, one of the members of the Chaos Striker where not even a single mage can even have a contract in the past, are you sure?” sudden cold voice coming from the dark mage in the side with disbelieve in what she have been heard.
“Y-yes, that’s true, she subdue her, even the Legendary Celestial Maiden like Inoue Yamato are bowing in front of Lady Sakura and plead to her to have a contract with her, although she was reprimand and kicked out by her , she keep coming at her and persuade her to have a contract as far as I know when I was there” He replied and lowered his head in complete shyness.
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“I-impossible, t-this can’t be, she,,, she really subdue her, maybe you just misheard the information you have been heard, not even the Wizard and Magus can quiet display a power to subdue her, this can’t be! It was lunatic and suspicious! Where is that woman, I want to interrogate her!” the cold voice said in quiet pissed off expression as she start to stomp her feet in anger and disbelieve, she starting to leave the room and give a cold aura to everyone.
“Well I don’t know what’s the reason for such as her to bow down to Lady Sakura and continuously pleaded just to take her as her servant” He said again as he too begin to leave the room and move to the corner where Yinhua and Inoue hiding and keep going to his destination and leave the crowd staring at him in amazement in his news to them.
Yinhua looks to Inoue and give a poker face expression, while Inoue scratches her head upon what she been heard in the dark mages conversation, everyone in the room are starting to chat about the quite feat that Yinhua shows to subdue Inoue, exchanging their thoughts about the methods of Yinhua picks just to hypnotize Inoue to have a contract with her, both the two felt awkward, Yinhua and Inoue steps backward and wait for their prey to enter the corner where they was hiding and give him a silent kill.
Sooner the shy mage enter the corner and there he meet his end, he was stabbed through the heart and not even release a signs of shock or even a voice, it was a flawless kill, Yinhua absorbs his Soul Essence and memories and then looted his things and belongings, Yinhua then signals Inoue to plant the explosives in different parts of the room that also cannot be easy to see and Yinhua implants the explosive Inscription Patterns to them as serve as the trigger button.
They leave the room sooner as they finishes the planting of the explosives and continue to venture the whole base, looting all the items and put them in the magic purse and merged them inside the brace, and continuously setting up the explosive materials that are hard to be seen by an eye, they encounter many dark amges and they killed it silently, as Yinhua absorbs their Soul Essence and loot at their items, they making sure that they will not leave even a small evidences, sooner Yinhua’s magic bomb planting operation finishes, later on after a few hours, the implanting of explosives are finished up, Yinhua is somewhat totally excited because she gonna troll once again the whole people.
“I thinks that much of the plenty, but for now, let’s give them a wake up surprise” Yinhua said as she signals and prick her fingers.
“BOOOM!!!”
An explosion triggers, it was a powerful one of the top of that, everyone in the headquarters became alert, they starting to rush to their defence post, and prepared their own relic and magic arts as they felt horrified in the power of the explosion, as for the unlucky ones who caught in the explosion, all of their body parts turn into pieces and for much worse their body becomes ashes and dust.
“W-what the hell is that?!”
“We are under attack! Everyone, be prepared!”
“Sh*t! How the enemies find out our secret base?”
“We’ll totally f**ked up, everyone on battle station, kill all enemies on sight!”
Every Dark mages in the other side of the rooms and floors are starting to panic like there is an earthquake and make a huge stampede and uncontrollable tantrum in each rooms, some of the explosion triggers in the pricking and snapping of Yinhua’s finger, many are running of fear, some are become in total madness because of doesn’t know anything in the situation they come in and start to fight them for their lives, killing their weak comrades who are blocking their pathway, just to leave and escape.
“Get out of my way! I need to live!”
“No! The base is collapsing? I don’t want to be buried here alive!”
“Tsk weaklings shall die; we must find the perpetrator and kill it!”
“Gonna die, gonna die here, f**k get out of my way!”
Yinhua and Inoue laughing at the panicking dark mages, they were disarray due to intense fear and shocked, like the whole base will fall along with them, and thinking what will happen them, they trembling and just wanna go home and forget this place and just finish their training and fight for their lives to live in order to achieve their power level, Yinhua then proceed to the main room as she plants another explosive in the door.
“Once the explosive burst from this door, you will know what to do Inoue! Yinhua said as she looks to Inoue and then finish the inscription patterning.
“Yes Master !” Inoue immediate replied.
“Okay, time to breach!” Yinhua said as she then triggers the Inscription Pattern that connects to the doors and making a huge explosion that can cause the whole room to have a faint quake in the both sides.
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Suddenly in the smoke rains a hurls of swords in every direction but all of them are blocked by a magic barrier, all the swords are continuously raining to the barrier and in an unstoppable force and speed.
“Sh*t! What the hell is going on? Crap where did this barrages of swords formation come from?” the black coated male one said as can be seen in his bulky figure while suit up in dark Victorian clothing styled and adorned by some few frills and stapped belt in his left tight, as his cape fluttering in the wind by the force of power he makes for a magic barrier to block the penetrating Sword barrage of Inoue.
“Raul, hang on I will build a defence here, where are the other captains? Some wretched creature enter our base and passed to our security, whoever it is, look like it already planned about our base from the beginning” The coated female one said as she was mesmerized in the situation that they are now facing, she is now making a chant spell to support his comrade from being pierced from the floating swords that keeping penetrating the magic shield, as the sparks glows due to force applied to it.
“Do something now Margarette, I can’t hang one on the strength of this sword play, my magic shield will be depleted, f**k never been prepared for this earlier” Raul said as he gnashed his teeth in rage and keep fighting the force of the penetrating swords in his front that been blocked by the magic shield and his strength.
“Fire within thy soul, burn within thy heart, up rise the fiery kind, blazes the whole skies, “Infernal Pillar”!!!” Margarette spelled as she smash the ground with her palm and from the deep underground burst a fiery fire that consumes the floating swords, leaving a massive fire of destruction to the room, Raul cover Margarette in the intense force.
Before the two can react in time, a rain of swords falls from above and start to fall in the area of the two, which made the two shocks in surprise, Raul summons a rock wall formation with a stone roof to shield the two of them, the swords start to pierced the walls and destroy the little by little the wall, it was unexpected for Raul and Margarette, they didn’t anticipated this event to be happen, they are both unprepared for a sudden attack of the enemies.
“Sh*t, where the hell is that f**ker hiding, it’s totally pissing me off” Raul said as he then make another earth defence magic and cover both the two of them from the piercing swords.
“Show yourself cowards! Or else I’m gonna hunt you down and turn your whole body into a mud!” Raul shouts as he keen sensing any close presence, he then alerted himself in the possibility of ambush behind his back.
“Then the two of you will be my opponent, do your best and entertain me” A female voice can be heard by the two as they saw from the smoke screen an image form, after a few walks, it was wearing in white coat and her face was covered in mask, in her right hand a huge broadsword, in her left a very long Odachi can be seen.
“Tch, underestimating us, you’ve got some face to tell that to the captains of this squadron of our base” Margarette said as she stands up and look to the female figure in front of her.
The female hooded mask was definitely Inoue, but the weapon and swords she use are coming from Yinhua in order not to reveal her weapon and identity in order to catch and kill all the enemies who lowered their guard, even though she is wearing a mask, in her eyes, murderous intent leek and killer instinct becoming so strong, that even the two dwenched in sweet as the felt being intimidated by the opponent in front of them.
“I’ve never underestimate you, but I’ve also showing some handicap ffor respect at this fair battle, be thankful that this battle will be an honourable one for you” Inoue said as she starts getting closer to the two.
“Margarette, you will focus on blind spot of her range while I will fight her in close range to buy time for your finishing shot, I feel this f**ker are not an easy one ot deal with base on her power earlier” Raul said to his female comrade while preparing his magic crystal blade as it glows in shining sky blue colouring and then he focus his mana on the blade.
“Ok, but be careful!” Margarette said as she prepare her fire chant and mana flow in her hands, fiery aura starts to emits on her body as she glows like a fire.
Both the two fighters face each other, Inoue knows that these fellas are not an easy one compare to the mages she face on the road to Le Veil Village before, she also keep in her mind about the lessons and methods to deal with the enemy taught by Yinhua, Inoue understands her current situation as she tighten the grip to her sword and make fighting stance as the blades that resting in the ground floats suddenly beside her and making a sword-like wings in her back.
On the other hand, Raul never forgets the strategy taught by his former and deceased master, Magus Granada, in earth formative spells and runic magics, he then prepare a fighting stance like he was did in his past experience in knighthood before becoming a mage and follow the path of his former master, and starting to think what strategy and tactics may be used to deal a forminable yet mysterious masked-white coated female individual in front of him.
“Asking for death about to come, you’ve got a good resolve I presume” Inoue said as she saw the walking Raul comes neared to her.
“Defeat a two powerful level mages, are you crazy or something? Tsk whatever!” Raul said as he speeds his steps while prepare to charge to his opponent.
“She said “For those predators that about to caught a prey, they will be revealed an opening to their own certain death” let see then!” Inoue said as she prepares herself to the incoming battle mage.
“This is the biggest mistake of what have you’ve done in stepping our territory!” Raul said as he prepares to swing his magic sword to strike his enemy target.
“And your biggest flaws to deal with” Inoue said as she then start to take a step and prepare herself to swing her sword too.
“AAAAAGGGGGGHHHHH!!!”
Both the two roars as they about to meet and their blade is about to clash to each other, one versus two, Celestial Maiden versus mages, it was a clash of fate, for only one side will remain standing in the light while the other will fall into deep darkness.