“Alright, I hid the bag well, I’m sure the cops won’t get it before us.” said Rares.

“What’s the plan though? Thought of something yet?” said Stefan.

“Actually, yes. For the past few days I have had a plan in my mind. I don’t have a map of the zone, but I did check the facility myself. It is a building protected by cement walls, 2 meters tall. There is a gate which they use to exit and enter the facility using vehicles. There is also a secondary gate, which has a guard on each side, in and out. That is the way for soldiers that enter the facility by foot.” said Rares.

“That seems really straight forward. How big is the building?”

“Not too big, considering that their most important floor is the basement.”

“Alright, what’s the plan?”

“First off, I noticed that they keep fuel in barrels. I can launch a fireball up to a distance of five meters. If I manage to hit the barrels, not only will they won’t have vehicle fuel anymore, their walls will also be damaged.”

“What about ammo? Do you know where they keep it? I’m sure I am not able to parry more than 3 bullets at a time.”

“I don’t know about ammo. Perhaps they hold it in their basement. Anyways, the 2 guards stay there all day and all night. The plan is to detonate a bomb in the opposite corner of the small gate, so they will go and check it out. Meanwhile they check out the explosion and pass by the side of the wall with barrels, you will boost me up and I will blow up the barrels right when they pass by.”

Stefan thinks for a second then speaks again.

“Alright, but what if a soldier remains on the grounds in case of anything?”

“Oh… You’re right. Hmm, it’s harder than I thought… Hey, do you have the strength to instantly slice the guard’s neck without him getting to scream?” asked Rares.

“I’m not sure… What if I’m not fast enough?”

“It will be late at night, we’ll just catch him in a moment where he’s not paying attention.”

“Hold up, how much explosive are we talking about here?” asked Stefan with curiosity.

“About 23 red cylinder things , 11 egg shaped things , 4 bombs with clocks which I have no idea how they are named.”

“Mhm, what if we throw one of the 23 cylinder bombs at the barrels? Meanwhile they’re checking it out, we can prepare another bomb which will kill them.”

“Whoa, that’s brilliant! But what if they scout the outside area?”

“I will stay by the corner and instantly kill them if they try turning our corner. You just focus on bombing. Oh, we should also destroy their vehicles!”

“Oh, yeah! Let’s go to the place where I hid the bag now. We can discuss more on the road there.” said Rares.

Rares and Stefan get up from the beds and begin walking to the location of the explosives.

"So, do you know anything else about them?" said Stefan.

"Yeah, they go in groups of 6 if they aren't in a vehicle. And they have some rule which doesn't allow them to go 10 meters away from one another. We were lucky that the other 5 soldiers didn't catch us." said Rares, relieved.

Stefan nods in agreement and keeps thinking about the plan. After a few minutes they reach a block of flats.

"Stay here, alright?" said Rares as he went into the building.

Stefan waits at the entrance for a few seconds, then grows anxious about the police catching him there, so he enters the building as well, but when he does so, he bumps into Rares carrying a fitness bag.

"Oof! Watch where you're going! We don't want to detonate them this early." said Rares.

"Sorry! Sorry, won't happen again… " said Stefan, sheepishly.

Rares is confused due to why Stefan appears so scared, but chooses to ignore it.

"Alright, let's go now." said Rares, as he took the lead and walked in the front.

Stefan follows Rares once again. Soon enough, they both reach the base, so they hide behind a building.

"Wait, that's it? That's the base? It's not as big as I expected." said Stefan, slightly disappointed.

"It doesn't matter. It's for the better that their base floor is small." said Rares, holding the bag in his arms.

Suddenly, they hear a humvee approaching. They both look curiously, as the humvee stops in front of the big gate, which slowly opens, then proceeds to enter. The gates close shortly after.

"Oh man, they really are military people. That car looked sick! Too bad we're gonna destroy it." said Stefan.

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"In total there should be around 20 soldiers. Don't think that they're too few, remember, one head shot and you're gone." said Rares.

"I don't even understand why we must liberate this city, what's the point?" said Stefan with a huge confusion.

Rares rolls his eyes and he's visibly annoyed by his words.

"You should've said that long ago, now finish the plan, which you created as well. Don't be a scaredy cat now." said Rares, as he got up and started walking towards the back of the base.

Stefan quickly gets up and follows him, afraid of being alone.

"Here, we should be on the right side of the base." whispered Rares to Stefan, as he lit up a dynamite stick then threw it over the wall.

A few seconds pass and an insane explosion occurs.

"Our fuel! Scout the area! Don't do nothing!" screamed a man from within the base.

Rares quickly lights up more dynamite sticks and throws them over the wall as he runs around the base, blowing up their vehicles as a consequence. Stefan holds his sword, just in case he needs to block enemy attacks. A soldier comes around the corner and he instantly swings his sword and chops off his head. The sword remains stuck in the wall but he struggles a bit and takes it out. Rares keeps throwing dynamite around the base, damaging the infrastructure. Eventually, the base collapses and Rares runs out of dynamite. A group of fully loaded soldiers go to Rares' direction. Stefan quickly takes notice of this, based on the sound of their footsteps.

"Throw your biggest bomb! In front of you, now!" yelled Stefan.

The group of soldiers quickly comes around the corner and starts shooting their assault rifles. Stefan tries his best to parry the bullets, as Rares picks up a C4, but doesn't know how to activate it, so he throws it then proceeds to throw a fireball at it, as Stefan kept trying to parry bullets, and even got shot several times in his body. The bomb explodes and all the soldiers perish easily. Stefan drops his sword and falls down on one knee, panting.

"Hey, are you alright-"

"Ah, I don't know, am I? After being shot several times to wait for you to throw that damn thing!" screamed Stefan at Rares.

Suddenly they both hear the voice of a teenager.

"Boys, I'll take over from here, run away until I finish the job."

Stefan and Rares quickly look around each other, but suddenly a fire elementalist jumps over the wall and throws a blast of fire, pushing both Stefan and Rares back.

"Feeling tough, punk?" said the elementalist with a frown, as he cracked his knuckles.

He looked around the age of 17, a powerful flame aura pulsing out of his body and a bright thick coat of energy covering his body.

"We're done for." said Rares, in pure shock to Stefan.

Stefan frowns, clenches his teeth, grips onto his sword then activates sword mode.

"One minute. That's all it takes." said Stefan in his mind.

The elementalist creates a circle of fire beneath Stefan, Stefan dashes out of the circle towards him. The elementalist launches a fire projectile, Stefan uses an energy punch to destroy it and keep going.

"50 cm, that's the ideal range he needs to be within so I can strike him." said Stefan to himself.

The elementalist launches a wall of fire and pushes Stefan back. Rares throws a grenade at the elementalist and surprisingly deals a significant amount of damage.

"Hey! Knock it off, idiot!" yelled the elementalist at Rares.

Thanks to this, Stefan is able to reach him quicker and get into combat range. Stefan proceeds to launch a punch, but his hand is caught by the elementalist. They both push into each other full force, but Stefan uses his energy arms and pushes him back, meanwhile the elementalist slides back, Stefan rushes and punches him, pushing him into the concrete wall of the base. From there, Stefan releases a barrage of punches into his body. Stefan's sword mode ends shortly after, but he catches the sword and tries to stab him, but Stefan suddenly can barely move anymore. The elementalist starts to chuckle.

"Meanwhile you were crazy about punching me, I reduced the humidity within the air. Good luck trying to breathe in your local super Sahara." said the elementalist.

He proceeds to deliver a strong flame charged punch into Stefan's jaw, knocking him unconscious. The elementalist walks over to his body and starts pushing it a little with his foot while smiling.

"Heh, pathetic." said the elementalist with a shit eating grin.

However, Rares slowly sneaks behind him, then right when the elementalist starts to laugh out loud again, he pulls the pin, chokes the elementalist and puts the grenade in his mouth. After a few seconds of struggle between Rares and the elementalist, his head blows up and kills him instantly. Rares falls back and looks upon the gore and dead body of the elementalist, he looks on his hands and sees blood. His hands start shaking.

"Ok, ok calm down, calm down, calm, it's over… it's… it's over, you won, come on Rares, come on, you won, be proud… " he said in his mind.

He slowly gets up and picks up Stefan on his shoulder. He tries to lift his sword but it's way too heavy.

"Wait, what? How the… why is it… God! Why… he wields it so easily, I suppose it's some magic quality or something…" said Rares to himself.

Rares looks around the ruined base then remembers that everyone evacuated, so he proceeds to go into the base together with Stefan and the bag of explosives. Rares reaches the basement where there sleeps a man at a desk, coincidentally where the computer is. Rares groans and drops the bag down and lies Stefan next to it. Rares goes over to the computer, it has no windows open. Rares sees a text file on the screen. He opens it slowly, which reveals a document revealed as "Operation Angel Reaper". The document states that this file is a rebuilt lost file, so numbers may not be precise.

"Year: 1823

World: Elementalist

Status: 0.3% complete

"The angels have betrayed us long ago. They banned the creation of gods, limiting us to the power of a champion. We will show them that champions are even worse than gods. We will. The plan consists of… " "

However that is all the text Rares laid his eyes upon.

"What is this? Are those words? I don't know how to read… I wonder why those words are thicker than the rest. It seems important. I should tell him when he wakes up, maybe he knows how to read. Oh, man, I still don't know his name… I'm such a bad friend…" said Rares in his mind with worry.

Rares sees an USB stick stuck in the computer unit.

"Ooo, what's this?" he said, followed by plucking it out and putting it in his pocket.

Rares looks around the basement, he finds nothing else interesting. There are some ammo boxes, he scavages through some drawers and finds a dozen rations. With a bright smile, he takes out the explosives from the bag and replaces them with the rations.

"Oh boy oh man, he'll be so thrilled to eat those after how much he's been fighting!" said Rares with a smile.

Rares notices a bookshelf.

"Wait, what if not only he knows how to read, what if he likes it. Hmmm, I should get some books for him."

Rares looks at the books, and chooses the ones with red cover.

"Of course, red means best, I'm so smart!" said Rares happily.

He puts the books as well in the bag, then starts to spread explosives around the basement and the base floor. He takes Stefan and the bag onto his shoulder then goes out. He hides behind a chunk of the wall, then shoots a fireball at the explosives which detonate instantly, forcing the building into collapsing at once.

"Whoa… That was something else…" said Rares, amazed.

Suddenly, he hears an electric sound behind him. It was the cat, with a gun of some sort.

"Goodnight." said the cat, then proceeded to shoot his head, blacking out Rares in the process.