The 3 captains guarding Zykar charged one by one, “Kill him!” Zykar ordered, “Seriously being a coward huh?” Ludwig asked. “I am no such coward!” Zykar yelled out. As a captain tried to gun down Ludwig with energy bullets, but he opened several starlit gates, and another one behind the captain, killing the captain with their own attack.
The 2nd captain had a sword and shield, who swung at him, but Ludwig deflected the sword swing with ease, and impaled the captain through his shield. The last captain had a lance, and barraged him with a bunch of jabs, but Ludwig evaded them easily, and decapitated the last one. “You monster?! Do you not have any mercy?!” Zykar yelled out, “The way I grew up, I lost the aspect of mercy.” Ludwig said with a cold remark, Ludwig raised his sword into the air and swung down on Zykar.
Suddenly a barrier of lavender energy caught Ludwig off guard, “Sendo? What in the world are you thinking?” He thought, “Didn’t Rin advise you not to kill any G.A.A. agents of below 500 in ranking?” Sendo asked.
Zykar found the opportunity to run, and stumbled down the stairs, Sendo took the group with Ludwig into a shelter, inside a small city, where a few people were resting. “You all made a grave mistake, that innocent old man who asked you to save his daughter, was a Level 8 Iya.” Sendo lectured the group, the group was trying to listen but their wounds were too painful for them to ignore.
“But he seemed human!” Edward claimed while clutching his arm, as everyone in the group also believed the older man was indeed human. “Iyas level 6 and above are capable of shape shifting into human form, level 8 and above are capable of mimicking actual human emotion.” Sendo said.
“Alright, now what do you want with us?” Satoya asked. “Alright I'll cut to the chase, the 9th capital is completely destroyed.” Ludwig said in a serious tone, the whole group was shocked, the 9th capital was the largest capital in the world, with around 3.1 billion people as its population.
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“What? How? A war?” Satoya demanded as he was handed a Rejuvizym by Sendo. Satoya stabbed himself with the syringe, and the hole in his side was healed back in a matter of 5 minutes.
“I have my ways.” He replied, “This fact is a double sided blade, most of the G.A.A.’s power, around 280 million (Their total powers are 710 million), but it is also where over 619 thousand of our powers reside, which means our whole military power was halved.” He added on while cleaning his sword from blood from his skirmish to save the group.
“I won’t tell you guys how I found out, but it was obvious from the start, but I guess it can’t be helped because this capital is unable to catch onto any communication from outside due to the Iyas targeting the main communication tower.” Ludwig also said, and then the group heard an explosion, Sendo and Ludwig vanished to investigate the explosion.
“So nearly half of the human population is gone now..” Rayna said as she was taking a sip from a water bottle, the group was silent again, before Edward slowly took out his phone to check the time.
“We should get going.” Edward said after he checked the time, it was 2 PM, so the group slowly stood back up trying to think of a plan. “Satoya, it's alright, the girl is in a better place now.” Isaac said to Satoya who was still traumatised from the brutal scene.
They walked outside to see Ludwig, Sendo, Fujishiro, Yuisino, and a samurai with 2 katanas fighting someone, but before they could attempt to help, all they could see was a man with short black hair, and in a black trenchcoat, with purple symbols on the sleeves, there was also a well forged plating on one side of his shoulder.
“Who are they fighting?” Rayna asked, as she squinted, trying to see who those 3 were fighting. “He is getting away! Ludwig, and you guys, I'll pursue him, go take the civilians to a safer place!” The samurai with 2 swords ordered in a calm voice. “Is that Ashina?” Johnathan asked, and the samurai with 2 swords had grey hair, dark teal eyes, upper body had lightly armoured clothes, while wearing heavy samurai platting on the bottom.
The man in the black trench coat sent a giant slash at the 5 void hunters, the samurai managed to dodge the attack, while Sendo, Fujishiro, Yuisino, and Ludwig were sent flying, Sendo landed next to the group, and coughed up some blood.
“Ashina, are you sure you can take him on?” Sendo mumbled. While wiping off blood from his mouth, “So the samurai is Ashina.” Edward pointed out, they saw 2 giant blue slashes far away, and another one, the 2 giant slashes seemed to have been reflected, and a giant blue slash completely sliced through multiple buildings, and went toward them. “That slash is going towards us!” Sakonori yelled out to the group.