--------///----Endis' POV----\\\--------

After everyone was with their raid leader, we had a small mini meeting where we delegated who would take what side, what our main method of attack was and some other boring stuff. After we sorted out who was getting what role, we made our way to the warehouse where the operation was going to take place. We decided that i would head in after our raid leader and take the second floor since i was the fastest, aside from the leader herself. It was tough getting them to let me handle it on my own but i ended up getting them to let me do it only if i would fall back if i had too. 

When we got to the back of the warehouse, we had a member of our team shift a part of the warehouse wall into a crawl space for us to head into. But before we went in, we had to wait for the forward party to bust in. The main thing our side was waiting on was the commotion that they would cause. And thankfully, we didn't have to wait long. Soon, we heard a massive vrash, which was most likely the guildmaster barging through the the front doors and starting the fight. Our raid leader signaled for me to move in after her and i followed.

When we got in, the first thing i saw was a whole lotta crates stacked up together and a small walk space, though the walk space wasn't an issue since the crates were stacked in a way that made it easy to climb them.

(Rudia) " I'll secure our entrance, you stick to the plan and head up to the second floor. Remember tp fall back if the situation calls for it.Move fast, kill quickly and don't die. "

(Endis) " Aye, aye captain! "

After that, i put up my hood and we split up. She was going to stay by the entrance and kill anyone who was already in the area and make sure the parties after us could move in and spread out easier. A good thing about being higher up then most of the people in this warehouse was that i could see anyone that might get in our way and take em out. That got easier since people were rushing towards the entrance to go fight off the guildmaster and the forward team. Thanks to that, my kill race was going good. I managed to get five kills before the side parties burst in... And from where i was, i could see Hari.

The side parties didn't seem to be facing that many people but they were still fighting, which meant Hari was getting chances to pass me out. I decided to get back to heading up to the second floor, but i made sure to cut some heads wherever i saw the opprotunity too. The second floor was a bit far but the stairway that led up to it was easy to spot. It was way easier to find it since there was a constant stream of idiots just charging down towards the fighting. I managed to rack up another four heads before someone actually stopped my dagger. 

(New target) " Assassin! Spread out, get past him and be smart with your magic! " 

The guy had a smart head on his shoulders since he not only stopped my daggers but he used steel to bind us together, which in theory would've worked. But unfortunately for him, i had darkness. I started pumping my darkness at full blast and corroded through the steel and slashed at his neck. He was too surprised about me breaking out so he wasn't able to react to my dagger and he lost his head. Then i moved onto the rest of the guys following behind him, who couldn't get past me and claimed their heads for my race. 

(Endis) " Let's see... one-four-seven-ten, counting this dude that's eleven more for me. " 

I didn't have the time to put them in a pile so i just kept running up the stairs to get to the second floor. As soon as i got there i ended up getting ambushed by way more then eleven guys. From what just happened, i was surrounded by atleast thirty people. There were a few strong ones but there were way more physically weaker guys here. Though i didn't really have much time to keep analyzing them since they started hurling attacks at me. I easily dodged those and started making my way to the strongest looking ones first so i could make the weaker ones panic, that and haaving weaklings left was easier to deal with then some stronger guys.

It took a bit more time and i had to be way more careful around where i dodged too since from what i saw, the second floor seemed to be where they were storing the smaller and more delicate stuff. I found that out another way too, other then just seeing and putting two and two together. When i dodged a few rounds of earth bolts, some of them crashed into a crate and made a weird plant and its fruits burst out. The plant let out a screem and then just flopped to the floor from wounds caused by the earth bolts. I had no idea what the fuck just happened but i couldn't let that distract me. I made sure to finish the rest of the small fry off before going to check up on the actual plant itself.

The thing had green "skin", a body that looked sort of like a weird mix between a worm and a messy jumble of vines. It had this disgusting "mouth" that looked like it would do a number on anything that found itself unlucky enough to end up inside it. The fruits on the thing were a different story since they seemed to be ready to be picked, though i wasn't about to pick fruit from something that looked like it could tear my arm into fine meat. Especially when it seems to have just died.

I left the weird ass plant and went back to working on the kill race... The mission... Both of them. The second floor didn't seem to have that many people, other the people i got ambushed by and the guys at the stairs. The second floor seemed to be more of a workspace area, which confused me even more since there was way more space for people that weren't here. The space could've been here for the people on the first floor but there should've been space on the first floor for that.

~ Where the hells are the people for this flloor? ~

I unfortunately found my answer when something blunt crashed into my side and sent me flying into one of the walls of a nearby workspace, which given that the ENTIRE place was living wood, hurt like a bitch. I shook off the surprise and pain and looked for where the damn ting that hit me came from. Though that wasn't hard since the source of the gods damned hammer was barreling towards me like a mad man. 

I got out of the workspace and tried to get a height advantage by climbing up to the walls but my luck must've run out since this mass of walking iron had nature magic. He made the wall i was climbing shoot out spikes, but i was already on alert so i made a earth shield layered in darkness and jumped away from the wall.

(The walking mass of iron) " Tch. Fucking assassin. "

Despite being in pain and the voice being muffled, i heard it. 

(Endis) " Whoa, timeout. You're a girl? I know the other races can be big but holy hells your built like a brick shithouse. "

The reason i was as surprised as i was, was because she was an almost three meter tall rhino beastkin with a warhammer bigger then me. The armor had a horn where i thought a rhino kins would be so i already had a inkling, which after seeing her charge the way she did only built on that suspicion. Her armor covered her from horn to toe, she had a slit on her helmet to see through and some other smaller slits to breath but other then that there weren't many openings i would've been able to take advantage of. But despite all the armor, it didn't seem to slow her down at all. Though given what she was, that shouldn't have been much of a surprise. 

(The walking mass of iron) " WHAT'D YOU JUST CALL ME? "

(Endis) " A brick shithouse? What? All the armor making it harder to hear? "

(The pissed walking mass of iron) " YOU'RE DEAD YOU FUCKING RAT! "

That seemed to do the job since she slammed her hammer against the floor and sent out a wave of steel spikes in my direction. I dodged those easily but then they burst into shrapnel, which was a bit harder to dodge. I got a few shards stuck in me but i couldn't pull them out yet without a healer to patch me up. I could run faster but this would have to finish this up quickly if i did.

~ For now i've got to avoid the spikes... AND THE CHARGE! ~

I didn't get much time to breath since she immediately broke down the spikes and started charging at me. She even started to shift the war hammer into her armor so she wouldn't have to hold it. Even though she charged fast, i could easily run faster, though the suden roots coming from the floor were making it harder for me to run since if i wasn't careful about them, they'd catch me. I didn't want to run the risk of getting caught in that charge so i started coursing darkness over my legs so i could keep the roots from tying me down.

The brute didn't seem to like that since she stopped herself by making the floor grow a wall that she crashed into. I didn't get why she would do that but after the wall came down, she seemed to be looking at me differently. I could tell she was still pissed but she seemed to be thinking... Which was bad.

(Endis) " What's the problem? Big bad brick shithouse scared of a little darkness? Need someone to hold you hand you big bitch? "

Trying to piss her off was obviously working but she seemed to be keeping that in check, which was going to make this fight harder the longer i had to deal with it.

~ Should i fall back? Her armor's too thick and i'd end up making it harder for me if i run for too long... My shit talking's working but at the same time it's not... Maybe i'll give this a try before turning tail. ~ 

I crouched down and put my daggers in reverse grip as i coated my body in darkness. I had to coat the shrapnel too but i was going to bank on a healer in the side parties being able to patch me back up. My full body gear was thin and didn't have a lot of closed areas. I was focused in speed so my gear was focused around my legs, had a thin portion of my arms and a bit of my arms, my face was covered but only my nose and mouth was since my darkness mask was only meant to keep the bottom half of my face covered. My midsection was only covering my vitals, and my daggers were coated in serrated darkness so even if i couldn't get the kill, she'd be in a world of pain.

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(Endis) " Don't blink or you'll miss it. "

As soon as i finished that line, i went as fast as i could and aimed for her eyes. I thrust forwards and managed to get one of them but the other was stopped when she shifted her armer closed, which made me lose both daggers as they were stuck in the closed face plate. I managed to get away by ckicking off her chest but i didn't like that i couldn't secure that kill. Since i corroded the shrapnel that got stuck in me, i was bleeding an annoying amount, and that war hammer hit wasn't making it easier. Because of that, i decided to turn tail and head down to get healed while the brick shit house was screaming out and clutching her lost eye. 

I de-materialized my armor and made a mad dash out of the second floor and made my way back to where i came in. On the way back i ran into a few guys that were trying to run away so i added them to my count and kept going. I eventually made it back to where we got in but there was a problem...There seemed to be some bigger then the brick shithouse fighting my raid leader and the second party. This guy looked like assassin, which is kind of annyoing to fight, even if it's a nornal one versus one against assassins. Though from where i was, i could see this guy wasn't a normal assassin. From what i could see, the guy was a cheetah kin so his natural speed was playing a huge factor in his ability to handle the leader and the party fighting him, which was only made harder due to the narrow fighting space they were in. 

I couldn't just barge in, i had to wait for a moment that i could jump in and give them support. Though the more i saw, the more difficult finding that kind of opening. The cheetah apparently had lightning AND air which made him faster then what was already a ridiculous advantage due to his natural speed. He would even use the small space to his advantage by jumping too and off of the crates whenever anyone would get close or try to wrap him up. But not everyone's perfect, sooner or later he'd fuck up. And thankfully it was sooner. The raid leader had managed to get a glance off in my direction and made eye contact with me, which she seemed to giver her the push they needed since she went in with the other party and managed to get the cheetah to lose his footing.

I took that moment to rush in for his head. But right before i got to his neck, he radiated lightning outwards and made us all fall back. It got worse since his fur even got charged and stood on end, which i didn't know actually did anything or was just a side affect of him doing that. 

(Cheetah guy) " Nice try, but i could smell you amatuer. " 

I couldn't help but feel annoyed at being called an amatuer, but for now i was going to have to let it go. Me and the leader ended up on the same side while the party of three that were helping us ended up surrounding him from the sides.

(Rudia) " The hells hapened to you? "

(Endis) " Nature and metal rhino with a big ass warhammer. "

(Rudia) " Tch. Neither of us got an easy opponent... Our luck's horrible. "

(Endis) " You can say that again, that brute made me have to fall back. I even need some patching up so i can keep myself in top shape. "

(Rudia) " Alright, stay close. "

Thankfully, our raid keader doubled as a healer and started to patch me up. After this was over i would have to take the other members of the party out for a drink since they were doing their best to keep the cheetah off of us while we talked and healed. The raid leader was a damn good healer since her light patched me up in under a minute. As soon as i was healed up, i formed my armor again and went right back into the fight. I took the buden off of the party and helped put pressure onto the cheetah. As i was, i wasn't as fast as him, even with my armor giving me a boost, but i was close enough.

With me back in top shape, the raid leader helping to pin him down, and the other party helping to pin him down, we were making progress. Slow progress but progress all the same. The narrow walkway worked for us too since he was restricted in what he could do without damaging the goods. His earlier stunt had damaged some of the containers which seemed to make him think twice about using his lightning for ranged or bursts. But that didn't stop him from using his air to deflect my daggers, which was annoying. But his face when my daggers got inches away from his neck was worth the effort. And since i was geared up and my daggers were coated, the time i got inches away from his neck had gotten us an advantage since my darkness was starting to eat away at him. Even though it was slow and might run out soon, it was working since he was starting to get sloppy.

Eventually everyone was starting to get wounds on him, which was even better since our raid leader had poison to go with her light. And my darkness seemed to be making whatever poison she'd managed to get into his body speed up since his face was getting paler by the second.

(Cheetah guy) " Fuck it... Fuck the goods. I don't want to die! "

He started to charge himself with his lightning and was pulsing it outwards despite the containers being in the way.

(Rudia) " We've got to end this now! Move in! "

We all moved in and rushed him as fast as we could but he didn't need a lot of time to infuse his body with lightning. He dashed forward and tore into a member from the party and our raid leader. He seemed to be going for the kill but she actually forced his daggers to stay in her side.

(Rudia) " NOW! "

That was the moment we needed since despite how hard he yanked, his dagger just wasn't coming out. We rushed Him and while the other members went for his spine or lungs, i went for his head. He even turned his head and saw us coming towards him, but that was all he could do since the wounded member of the party had used the floor against him as she shifted the floor to root him in place. He saw us coming and couldn't do anything about it so he just seemed to give up. That's when my dagger sunk into his neck and took off his head. Though i couldn't celebrate since our raid leader was wounded pretty badly, but she was healing herself as fast as she could.

As soon as i saw that, i just dropped to the ground and disabled my gear. It s always exhausting to fight another assassin, especially someone who must've been blessed by a god of speed to have that many advantages. The members from the party helping us had gone off and brought over the wounded girl, who shifted the floor, and brought her to the raid leader. They started to help each other heal and we took that time to relax as much as we could. Though while we were relaxing, i couldn't help but hear the sounds of fights still going on all over the place... Then i heard AND felt it... The brick shithouse was running somewhere... Not in my direction, but somewhere.

Other then that, i couldn't help but worry about how the kill race was going. I was sitting at a good fourty seven... But then i thought about something that might've given me the lead just in case.

(Endis) " Hey, how many guys do you think would be equal to the big cat we just took down? "

They looked at me confused so i just had to let them in on the kill race. 

(Rudia) " THAT'S what you were talking about! Ugh, kids these days... But to answer... I guess he would've taken atleast 10 people to take normally. Maybe if we had a guardian then we would've had an easier time but since fighting an assassin is the hardest thing for another assassin and the target himself was a highly skilled assassin... Then it would've definetly taken ten of us to take him down without risking our lives. "

(Endis) " Perfect. I'll use that to boost my score. And if she doesn't believe me i'll just send her to you, that work? " 

The raid leader just laughed at that while the others just smiled.

(Rudia) " Do what you want. As long as we make it out alive it's fine. "

(Endis) " Thanks. Well i'd better head out and deal with what i left behind. "

(Rudia) " Try not to die, it'd be a shame if we lost an interesting kid like you. " 

(Endis) " I'll be fine you hag. "

(Rudia) " HEY! I'M NO- GET BACK HERE YOU SON OF A! "

Too bad i ran out before i could hear the rest of that, but i knew what she was going to say. I ran towards the sounds of the brick shithouse and eventually found her in the least expected spot. Fighting the side team Hari was a part of. Since they entered at a side where there wasn't a mass amount of containers, they could go as wild as they wanted and not damage anything. Though i don't think that would've mattered seeing as she was fighting as if she was in the wild.Though it was more then the way she was fighting... It was the way she was acting.

(The VERY pissed brick shithouse) " WHERE'S THE FUCKING RAT?! COME OUT YOU GODSDAMNED COWARD! "

(Endis) " ... I almost don't want to go over there anymore.... Haaah... Fuck it. "

I armored up and kept height for as long as i could before i had to move to the low ground. While she was rampaging, i had to keep my eye out for any openings that i could take advantage of... But so far the only things i saw were the thin slits on her legs and  the even smaller ones on her back. But i was going to have to risk it. While she was being proccupied by them, i changed the darkness coating my daggers and switched from serrated edges to as sharp and corrosive as i could get, though the blades themselves were going to break down if i kept them like this so i had to be fast.

As soon as she slammed her massive warhammer to send a wave of spikes, i went for it. I dashed forwards and aimed right for the slits in her legs, and i actually cut into her... Though the reaction wasn't what i was expecting. As soon as my blades went into her legs, she backhanded me, which sent me flying, and turned towards me. 

(The VERY pissed brick shithouse) " RAT! THERE YOU ARE! YOU'RE FUCKING DEAD! "

(Endis) " Ughhh... Shit. Of course you hit like a castle, you godsdamned brick shithouse. "

(The VERY pissed and hysterical brick shithouse) " SHUT THE FUCK U- "

Thankfully, my darkness corroded her tendons and forced her fall to her knees as the other parties rushed her the moment it happened. Though when her armor started to fall apart and her head was exposed, i had to throw one of my last spare daggers at her throat and claim the kill before Hari could steal it.

(Endis) " Ten points for ENDIS! "

Though before my dagger reached, Hari smacked it out of the air with her tail and took the kill!

(Endis) " Oh come on! "

Hari just smirked and started to walk over.

(Hari) " Oops, guess my tail slipped. "

She held out her hand to help me up, which i took but that didn't make it any better.

(Endis) " Yea, yea. I get half the points since i took her eye earlier. "

(Hari) " Half? How's that supposed to work? It's one head? "

(Endis) " The big ones are ten. So i get five you get the other five. "

(Hari) " Hmmm... And how many would these five get you up to? "

(Endis) " Fifty one. What about you? "

(Hari) " Fifty one! Huuuh!? No way in the nine hells did you get fourty six! We're counting the corpses! "

(Endis) " Technically, no. I got another big guy that was causing us problems. And i would've had this one too if you didn't take it. And easy, i remember where they all were. "

(Hari) " Tch. Fine. And i'd be at thirty... Ugh. "

(Endis) " I win then. "

(Hari) " No way, there's sti- "

Suddenly the horn, to signify that taking the assigned areas was finished, started sounding out from the forward team and the other side teams. I heard it from where i was from and even the raid leader for this team sounded it off.

(Hari) " OH COME ON! "

(Endis) " I'll be sending you to the shop with the finest daggers later. "

(Hari) " Tch. Lucky. "

We bantered some more but eventually we regrouped up and secured the place. Luckily there weren't any casulties but there were parties who had some members in critical condition that needed to be sent back to the guild soon or they'd die. The guildmaster took them back first and left us to handle the area until he got back. It was quiet but after that, nothing much happened. Me and Hari collected the bodies of our kills and counted em up. When she saw that i wasn't lying, she let out a highly frustrated grunt.

--------///----Present----\\\--------

(Endis) " And eventually we made it back to here. That's essentially it. For now i'm thinking of checking out the stuff Nillio has, and if he doesn't stack up to what your dad says, then we'll head over to the most expensive seller we can find. "

(Mina) " Well damn... We missed a lot. "

(Endis) " Well obviously. You guys did sleep through an entire raid. "

(Reina) " I don't think we'd be able to do anything even if we were there... Or maybe i'm just talking about myself. "

(Endis) " you're right. As you are, you'd have been a burden. "

(Reina)  " ... I know... It still hurts to hear it though. "

(Mina) " You'll have to get used to things like that Reina. Being an adventurer is tough. "

(Reina) " I know... Well? What do we do for now? "

(Mina) " Well... I don't mind checking up on Nillio. If my dad says he's good then he's good. "

(Reina) " Ok. Then i guess we'll be heading to Nillio today. "