As soon as they heard the distant rumble, Rax and the others froze. Cold sweat trickled down their spines.
Two chas were pursuing them. One was flying above with a nacing hum, the other galloping across the ground with thunderous steps.
"Fuck, how did they find us?" Rax muttered, panic rising in his voice.
Igaris clicked his tongue in annoyance. He should’ve known these fools couldn’t be trusted with matters requiring precision and secrecy. Their carelessness had likely compromised everything.
He could have escaped easily.
But he won’t.
Because, he needed them. Their intel, their contacts, their network.
So he stepped forward, placing himself between the chas and the trembling group of thugs.
With a blink, the Architect’s Eyes activated, scanning the terrain within several kiloters.
And only two chs were seen.
If they were official Law Enforcers, surely an entire squadron would have followed. This wasn’t standard procedure.
"Strange," Igaris muttered. "Just two?"
He focused, his vision penetrating the reinforced cockpits of the chs. What he saw made his expression darken.
They were wearing the official insignias of the Law Enforcers, elite units at that.
They had high-ranking chs even. Probably B or C Rank.
But then, a question echoed in his mind.
"If they are Law Enforcers, why only two of them?"
It didn’t add up. Not in a warzone town like this. Not for soone labeled a ’Monster from the Other Side.’
Aluna and Daisy’s current bodies were different. Because of this, Igaris didn’t recognize them as his ex-fiancées.
He didn’t know they were the one of them who betrayed him and his family.
Still, the mont he laid eyes on them, sothing primal stirred inside him. A wave of killing instinct surged through his veins, irrational but undeniable.
"So... you’re the Monster boy who slipped past the defenses of the Warzone?" Aluna asked, her voice calm yet charged, her ch’s piercing eyes scanning him with cold precision.
Igaris didn’t answer, but his grip on the sword tightened.
Instead, Rax stepped forward, trying to buy ti. "How did you find us?"
Daisy chuckled from within her cockpit, her voice crackling through external speakers. "Heh. You street rats haven’t heard of X-ray vision, huh? We tracked your sorry little trail while you were underground. Honestly... with your brains, I’m surprised you even made it this far."
She leaned forward, her ch flexing, tallic muscles creaking. "And trust , our chs can do a lot more than just scanning rats."
The hulking ch she piloted grinned with a chanical snarl as it raised both arms. Twin sabers extended from each forearm, radiating deadly light.
"Hmm... Why aren’t you speaking, Monster Boy? Are you mute or sothing?" Daisy taunted, her voice laced with mockery.
Igaris held back the rising tide of bloodlust threatening to consu him. The mont he saw them, the urge to kill had ignited without reason. But he suppressed it, focusing instead on the oddity of the situation.
He narrowed his eyes, then finally spoke,
"Are you two so confident to defeat ? If that’s the case... you’re gravely underestimating ."
Aluna snorted coldly. "I alone am enough to defeat you, monster."
Tension crackled in the air like static as her words echoed through the alley. Her ch’s wings fluttered slightly, giving off a shimr of refracted light like a poised butterfly before a strike.
But then Daisy stepped forward, raising a hand between them. "You’re clever, Monster Boy. So let’s not play gas."
She paused, then said bluntly, "Yes. We have another motive to approach you alone. We’re not here to kill you."
Her ch’s eyes flickered as she continued, "We want sothing. Summoner Arts to be exact. If you give us so ancient technique, we’ll let you go. Unhard."
Igaris remained silent.
Daisy’s tone dropped a pitch, turning cold. "But if you try to attack us before that... we’ll transmit your location directly to HQ. The Law Enforcers will hunt you to the ends of hell."
The sun rose brightly in the east, casting a serene glow over the land, but Igaris’s heart was anything but calm.
The bloodlust surged with every passing second, intensifying the more he spoke with them.
He clutched his head, a splitting headache pounding through his skull.
"Kill them! Kill them! They betrayed us!"
Unknown emotions, long buried, began to claw their way to the surface.
They felt familiar... yet distant, as though echoes of a forgotten past. Sothing deep inside scread that giving them Summoner Arts would be like shooting himself in the foot.
Aluna and Daisy watched him in silence, their confusion growing as he stumbled slightly, still gripping his head.
"Hey... what’s wrong with you?" Daisy demanded, stepping forward. "Answer us!"
Slash!
As soon as she stepped closer, a flash of white crossed her vision. Then the Monster Boy was gone from sight.
Thud! Thud!
Instead, her ch suddenly felt lighter and smoother to operate.
But warning alerts rang out without pause.
"Warning! ch’s health is below 60%!"
With astonished eyes, she looked down at the ground wherr both of her ch’s arms lay there, severed and lifeless.
It had all been done by Igaris, who had used the Godslayer Sword Style’s First Form: One Strike, One Cut.
This form could slice through anything like butter. Rock, tal, nothing could resist the edge of that sword.
Daisy stood in horror. She hadn’t even seen him move, let alone had ti to raise her dual sabers to defend.
What was worse, the monster continued hacking away at her ch without rcy. His eyes were crimson, filled with a hatred that felt personal and deep.
But she had just t him. Why was he looking at her like she had committed an unforgivable sin?
What she didn’t know, and couldn’t even imagine that this so-called monster was Igaris, their forr fiancé and childhood friend... the one they had betrayed.
"Clang!"
Just then, Aluna ca to the rescue, defending Daisy with her own massive longsword.
This one was forged from Mythril, a rare tal known for its unbreakable durability and sharpness.
But—
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