In a desperate rush, he shoved his opponent away from him and threw his sword towards Lira with all the might he could muster.
BANG!
The sword pierced the shoulder of the crazed soldier, pinning him to the ground, a few steps away from Lira.
This was all he could afford before his opponent lunged back on him, taking him in a head lock.
"@%@^@&"
"Ahhhhhh!!"
Both opponents let out guttural sounds as they fought to co on top; Alex trying all he could to get out of the headlock, while the soldier fought through the pain of holding onto the hot body if his opponent, keeping him in place.
’At least they didn’t fail!’
Orion’s eyes flashed, taking steps towards a small crater where the boulder used to sit.
SLAM!
Alex dug his fingers into the ground beside him, and pulled as hard as he could, his skin ripping from how hard he flexed.
The pain couldn’t register anymore at this point as he pulled harder, trying to take his body up from the ground. Sothing the soldiers fought desperately to prevent, digging his claws into the side of his head to disorient him.
Unfortunately those claws if his weren’t sharp enough, else he could’ve pierced through his skull in one go.
"STTTAYYY DOOO@%@WNNN"
The soldier growled, a mont of sanity peeking through before fading faster than it ca.
Like wood to fla, those words seed to only rile the anger burning within his opponent as Alex pushed his ability to another level, his skin darkening more till almost looked black with more visible veins drawing maps in him.
’Burning his life force? All for that chatter box?’
Orion continued watching from the side, taking out a small box from his storage bracelet.
Crunch! Crunch!
His silence was broken by the sounds that ca as he took the contents of the box towards his mouth.
With his life force as additional fuel for his ability, Alex was able to overpower the siodoer trying to keep him from getting to his feet.
"GET OFFF EEEE!!!"
His voice ca in a loud roar as his hands found their way to the man his back, ripping him off in one smooth motion, slamming into the ground.
"@$@%#%"
What ca after was nothing but pure beastiality as the black, rage filled fists of the recuit decended on the soldier smashing him till all that was left were bits and pieces of flesh with nothing to associate the victim with a soldier.
"Ahh, ahh!"
With the battle over and no one else to beat out the anger in his chest, a feeling of emptiness foreign to him made itself known, settling in that heart of his where anger had once resided.
"Tch! Tears? He’s got to have better than this!"
Orion scoffed, seeing the tears streaming down Alex’s face at the end of his fight.
Unwilling to watch the recuit lose himself to his sorrow, he switched his attention to Lira who had gotten back in the fight with the help of Alex.
In fact, her fight had ended with Alex’s sword impaling the soldier in the chest.
Even now as Lira stood in front of the soldier whose life was fading away, there was no hint of sanity returning to the crazed soldier. Whatever thod they used had to be permanent.
Unlike Alex, Lira didn’t lose herself to the rage or sorrow. What was going on with her wasn’t sothing Orion could wrap his hand around as all she did was stand blankly watching as the life slowly faded from the soldier.
"Could’ve been better."
Orion muttered, taking back the box into his bracelet before gutting to his feet whole dusting the crumbs off his hand.
Walking towards the two of them, he said loud enough for them to hear,
"Alright, you’ve gotten what you wanted now. I’ve dealt with their leader too. We should leave, now!"
Orion said to the silence of both subordinates.
They might have been consud by their emotions, but they both understood their positions with Orion and approached him despite thier lack of oral response.
’That’s good. Now, let’s se—??!!’
Orions eyes narrowed into thin slits, his aura bursting out of him in an instant, knocking back the approaching Alex and Lira.
Yet that didn’t prepare him enough.
Stab!
The sound was clear enough to snap all three recuits pit of their daze. Alex’s and Lira’s eyes widening as five sharp clawed fingers showed themselves through Orion’s gut, in the sa way he had killed the middle aged soldier.
At least that was what he thought seeing the lifeless body fall to the ground.
"H–how?!"
Orion’s voice cracked, coughing a mouthful of blood as his eyes captured fully the one who attacked him from behind.
The middle aged soldier stood behind him, looking to be on his last legs. How he manged to survive till this point and pull this off, beyond any of their understanding.
"Arghh!"
For the first ti, Orion face expressed an emotion. One that wasn’t a stranger to everyone present — Anger.
His aura rose furiously, the gauntlets appearing on his hands instantly with golden dust floating around them.
"Arghhhhh!!"
In one swift motion, Orion had sliced off the soldier’s arm, turning around to grab him by the neck.
"I doesn’t matter how you survived. I’ll make sure you stay dead this ti"
His voice was low and dark, the gold dust floating around the gauntlets gathering to form a glowing orb of pure internal energy hovering right above his palm.
"Hahaha. Fool!"
The soldier said one more ti before having his skin and guts evaporate the mont the scorching hot ball of energy ca in contact with him.
’You won’t be making it out of here alive anyways!’
That was all he could think of in his last monts.befire he was reduced to nothing but ash scattering away on the blood soaked soil of the field.
"Ugh!"
Orion grunted, falling to a knee with his hand holding the injury tightly.
"Boss!"
Alex and Lira rushed towards him imdiately, helping him to his feet again.
"We can’t go out now. At least not in this condition!"
Alex said and Orion could only hold in his dissatisfaction.
He was right.
The strongest amongst them who they would’ve depended on in the fog was now injured quite seriously and the two of them could barely walk well without getting shot with concentrated doses of pain.
"They’ve all turned to dust!"
Alex made a random comnt, looking towards where the bodies of the dead soldiers had once laid.
"Captain!"
"Captain!"
Just then the, another voice joined them in the space and they all turned their heads to see the soldier who had ran out in the beginning of the fight.
"Ah! I was late. They’re all dead. Hahaha!"
The soldier said erratically, exhibiting the sa mutations as his comrades.
’Now?’
Orion thought, preparing himself for another battle.
This was his definition of the worst case scenario for him, especially of he managed to get in contact with the rest of the soldiers who went on ahead and gained so reinforcents.
"Oh well, it doesn’t matter. We were all going to die either ways!"
The soldier said before losing himself to the mutations.
’What does that an?’
Orion’s mind rang in alert.
The soldiers had all fought like they weren’t going to make it out alive of there anyways and the middle aged man’s words had only added to that suspicion.
Even in death, his last words was to call them fools, sothing Orion jad disregard as the madness of a man consud in death.
"#@&#/&!!!?!"
"@^#
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