The sword finally reached the guardian’s hand, and with that, he got up and exited the building against which he had been launched. In the distance, he saw the one that inflicted him with such damage, and without any thought, he dashed towards him.
As he was coming closer, he sensed something coming from his left side, and he deflected a sword that was thrown against him, but that didn’t stop him; he was focused on the one in front of him, so he jumped and swung his sword, trying to cut him in half.
Ariadne noticed that even after launching Edmund’s sword against the guardian, it continued to target Edmund. So she quickly dashed down the building and instantly used her sword like a bat at an angle that barely missed Edmund’s head. She then hit the guardian's sword with all her might, worried that if she aimed for its body, the sword would still hit Edmund.
She noticed that the guardian's sword was heavier than theirs before. This made her appreciate fighting with Edmund and how the two together made the fight much easier because of the hero’s sword style. She could launch the guardian to the second floor of a building on the right side with difficulty.
Ariadne wasn’t confident she could take down the guardian by herself, but with Edmund behind her and seeing how he was in a worse state than in her first life, if she backed down, he would die. She was put to the test right after as the guardian launched himself against her, but Ariadne was prepared, and just like in her training with Edmund, she used the force of the enemy’s strike against him on her subsequent strike, relaunching the guardian but this time a little further on the street.
Now, she was on the attack. Edmund always said never to let the enemy have time to think; always attack, even when defending, and so she did. Attacking and defending with a barrage of strikes with each swing, the strength of her body wasn’t against her enemy. Still, to control her sword and direct the strikes to a point after some strikes, just like in training with Edmund, she needed to land a final blow just because she couldn’t handle the force generated by the fight as Edmund did.
The guardian was blocking her full-strength strikes like it was nothing, just like in the temple. Again, she remembered how fighting with Edmund made it so easier; that thought made her slip up and almost get hit and blocked awkwardly, making her be launched against a building to the left of the street. With almost no time to get, she was attacked again and began to trade blows with the guardian inside the building, destroying everything on their part and cutting the structure like it wasn’t even there.
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She wasn’t losing but wasn’t winning either, and for how long that would stand because, during her training, she would take breaks because of how taxing the movements were, she thought as he grabbed the guardian’s head and slammed against the wall, pushing it, making it break into the building to the side.
Ariadne followed right behind, giving it no time to get up. She slammed him with her sword, but it blocked right in time. The guardian kicked her on the side and quickly got up, but it felt pain in its back and face. It noticed that Ariadne was breathing heavily, and her guard was down, so it took this opportunity to attack. Because of her way of fighting, she was resisting with incredible difficulty.
The radio operator was still running, trying to follow Ariadne, but he had lost her. He heard loud sounds coming from his right, so he ran towards them until he exited an alley into a large street. He saw someone kneeling in the middle of the street to his right and loud sounds coming from the buildings on the left.
He ran closer to the person on his knees in the middle and saw that it was Edmund with black marks all over his body and blood dripping from his forearm. Fighting against that thing alone with one of his bare hands was no joke, he thought as he passed him, trying to confirm whether Ariadne was fighting against the guardian.
He couldn’t help Edmund because the trucks were exclusively for the soldiers; it would take too much time to heal Edmund, and with that time, soldiers' lives could be lost. That was the general idea. The radio operator saw Ariadne fighting against the guardian as they passed to another building, and he saw a glimpse of the two through a previous hole in the wall.
‘Her Highness is fighting against the guardian; start the sacrifice now.’ The radio operator spoke on his radio.
His words echoed to every other radio operator who signaled to start the sacrifice. The push was continuous until Ariadne killed the guardian, or they all died. Egor looked at Kurt and gave him a thumbs-up.
‘Follow me!!!’ Egor shouted as he jumped over the cover he was behind.
Through the frontline, the soldiers charged, some into heavy fire and others into nothing, as that was precisely what happened to the far left of the city. Zaken, the leader of the Angel-1 platoon, noticed this and pushed towards the center, leaving teams with radio operators to continue moving forward as they supported Angel-4 on the center-left.
As Ariadne was thrown out of the building by one of the guardians, she noticed that it wasn’t as strong, and the sounds of the battle started to be louder. To her left, she saw that Edmund was still there, but closer to her was the radio operator who gave her a thumbs up before running into an alley, so it all clicked in her head; the sacrifice had begun.
The guardian walked out of the building, but instead of looking at her, his eyes were directed toward the sounds of the battle raging on the frontlines.