Jaden crashed through a building and lay amidst the rubble. His mask was cracked as blood dripped out of his wounded head.
"Blasted... hell," he cursed and groaned as he forced himself to stand up, muttering the healing spells.
"Minor heal."
His hand moved through the debris, looking for his sword, but he couldn’t find it. He furrowed his brows and looked behind him. A short scream left his lips as he did so.
"What the?!"
Behind him stood a nightmare... frozen because it was holding the [All-severing Moonlight (Replica)]. Jaden stood up and drove a [Shattering fist ★] into the nightmare’s abdon like a cannonball, shattering it into pieces. He called out to his weapon, and it lted before slithering towards him.
At that mont, a ssage appeared before him.
[Level up!]
[Host has reached level 15!]
[Level up requirent increased. 100 -> 200]
’... that’s just great!’
He thought and repaired his mask before dismissing the screen and walking towards the dreamgate.
While doing so, he finally focused on the building; it didn’t look like the ones you would see in a historical drama; instead, they appeared modern... though they seed a few decades behind in developnt.
Most of the building walls were already full of cracks, hinting at poor managent. Jaden looked at everything and mumbled.
"Am I at the outskirts?"
’No wonder the reinforcents still haven’t arrived...’
He finally walked out of the building, and his eyes fell on the gate guardian. It was nearly two ters tall, its body was broad, unlike the lanky body of the ones before; a wolf-skull mask of black bone covered its face, and four eyes glead beneath it. A wreath of magma stones, strung like prayer beads around its fiery neck.
Jaden’s expression turned dark after he examined the gate guardian. The gate guardian was currently commanding the other nightmares instead of fighting itself, which proved that it held intelligence unseen within C-ranked nightmares.
"No wonder they say, anything that can go wrong... will go wrong."
Jaden lifted his hand to call out to his sword. But he stopped, his steps halted.
’Why am I even doing this?’ He questioned himself, he had no selfish reason to help these people, he would gain nothing from it, after all, ’Then why? Ah—’ he finally rembered why.
Do not allow such emotions to weaken your resolve, Judy... You have to beco a great man, after all.
Jaden chuckled as he rembered the words of his fa-... his mother. Even though it was just a few passing days for Jaden, the photographer. But to Jaden, within the illusion, the mayor’s son, it was his whole life.
He heaved a sigh, his eyes turned sharp, and he called out to his sword.
"I can’t just go back on my promise now, can I?" he muttered before his body blurred due to how fast he was.
Sshhk.... Sshhk...
A few D-ranked nightmares that were leading an assault on other arcane knights suddenly lost their heads, and Jaden appeared before the gate guardian. His sword glowed brightly as he channelled his mana into it. The air froze under the coldness emitting from the sword, and the steam rose as he swung the sword at the gate guardian.
The gate guardian was slow in its counter, and Jaden’s sword dug deep into its abdon, freezing its insides. Jaden tried to take his sword out of the wound, but it was stuck. The gate guardian lifted its hand and smashed at him. Flas coiled around its fist.
Jaden skipped back a few steps and commanded the sword to co back. However, before the sword could co back to him, the gate guardian shouted, and its fla turned deeper, the ground beneath it began to lt and climb on its body, forming an armour.
’Blasted Hell...’ Jaden cursed in his head, lifting his hand. He tried to cast a few long or short-range spells, but before he could do so, the ground beneath him split apart and lava flooded out of it.
He moved in ti, but the lava still managed to reach his left leg. Jaden placed a hand on his mouth, stifling any scream from leaving. He groaned shortly as the lava’s heat began to eat at him.
"Ugh!"
His eyes turned bloodshot, as tears welled up at the corners. Water elentals moved, healing the burn and easing the heat, but it was too late. The gate guardian reached him and threw another punch. Jaden stopped the punch with both of his hands, but the flas that were dancing around the nightmare’s fists began to burn him.
"AHHHHHH—" a pained scream left his mouth as the heat began to dig deeper. Jaden’s eyes dropped and fell on the [All-severing Moonlight (Replica)]. He commanded it once again, and the sword lted and rged into his body.
The heat began to die down, his eyes turned calm as before, and he was ready to fight once again. He gritted his teeth as his knees buckled under the weight of the nightmare’s arm.
"Ugh!" he let out a low groan, and blood dripped from his lips as he tried to push the nightmare away.
At that mont, the nightmare lifted its leg and slamd it on the ground. The ground shook. Jaden wobbled and lost his balance.
He hurriedly looked up and saw a fist enlarge in his vision, and the world suddenly blurred.
The fist landed, and Jaden’s bones twisted unnaturally, cracking under the sheer might of the nightmare. The dark flas tried to seep in, but the cold of [All-severing Moonlight (Replica)] stopped it.
His vision turned red as blood gushed from his wounds, his body went numb, and the pain started to recede, but the nightmare punched again.
"Augh!" Muffled groans and screams left his lips, and the nightmare once again lifted his hand to strike at him.
Right at that mont, a soft, feminine voice full of power echoed within the street, cutting through all others.
"My, my... Are we late?"
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