Rise of the Crusader Chapter 85

85 tal Man

“They are already here.”

It wasn’t up to a second after Sylvia spoke, and three n jumped out of the water and stepped onto the ship.

Sylvia took a step backward when she saw the three n who had just appeared. She then imdiately took out the katana from its sheath and assud a battle stance.

It wasn’t just Sylvia that assud a battle stance when she saw the three n, Xavier also steadied himself. He had eyes on the three n with his hands clenched into a tight fist.

The three n were of the sa height and possessed similar face to one another. Their physique was also quite similar, and the only difference that could be said to exist between the three of them was their hair.

One of them had brown long hair that was tied into a ponytail, the other had short gray and the last man had black curly hair, but was however bald in the middle of his head.

“They are stalling,” Sylvia mumbled.

While the three n didn’t say a word since they co on the ship, their stance asserted what Sylvia had just said.

And as Sylvia stared at the three of them, she couldn’t help but get the feeling that even if she wanted to flee, she wouldn’t be able to. Though the three of them weren’t excluding any unfathomable power, Sylvia could sense danger coming from them.

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Suddenly, Xavier spoke, “We can as well call this a suicide mission now they are here. But, if there’s soone who should survive among the three of us, then it has to be .”

With that said, and Xavier dashed out of the ship.

Xavier moved extrely fast, and within a few seconds, he had activated the ergency drive he arranged just in case the situation were to fall out of hand.

The drive had already appeared beside the ship, and Xavier was about to jump out of the ship when a fist that was made of steel struck him in the abdon at full force.

Blood flew out of his mouth as he was sent flying backward from the blow. His body hadn’t even touched the deck of the ship when he received another strike on his back.

Xavier’s body curved into an arc from that blow he received. And before his body could even hit the ground once, a figure appeared in front of him and slamd his body right on the deck of the ship.

“Pfffttt!!” Xavier vomited a mouthful amount of blood from those waves of attack.

The attack ca so fast and unpredictable that he wasn’t even able to spot the person who was hitting him and not to take off using his golden flas of hell on the person.

As Xavier was slamd on the deck of the ship, the person who had been dealing with him as though he was a punching bag erged. And once Sylvia laid eyes on him, she didn’t waste any ti and imdiately attacked.

XIU!

The sound of sword strikes sounded in the surroundings as before Sylvia even got to the man she had begun to slash her katana at him. Each katana strike was at full force, and Sylvia was careful enough to contain her attack so as not to damage the ship.

XIU! XIU! XIU!

It was a sword strike after another, Sylvia didn’t hold anything back and continued to slash her sword at the man who simply maneuvered his way around her.

After a few seconds, Sylvia moved a few steps backward. She took a deep breath, and she loosed the bandages which were on the left side of her face.

“Hehehehe!!!” A bulky middle-aged man with dark shiny hair, who stood at a height of 6’5 and was wearing a black shirt and trousers, chuckled when he saw Sylvia.

An expression full of mockery could be seen evidently on the man’s face as he stared at Sylvia.

“You still have so moves left. Okay, then, why don’t you give it your best, I won’t move an inch from here.” The man stretched both of his hands out as he spoke.

anwhile, a deep frown appeared on Sylvia’s face when she heard the man. Sylvia had already loosened the bandages which were on the left side of her face, so her expression was now visible.

Sylvia’s mouth opened slightly, and she said, “Kirin.”

After Sylvia uttered the word in her mouth, the clouds shrouded imdiately and within seconds, lighting began to move rapidly around each of the clouds in the sky.

The atmosphere was suddenly enveloped in an intense pressure that even the expression on the face of the bulky middle-aged man changed very quickly.

“Kirin!” Sylvia spoke in a loud voice this ti around, and suddenly, the water began to tremble violently.

The water which was steady and peaceful a mont ago suddenly beca chaotic. Followed by the sudden change in the movent of the water also ca the wind, which was moving in a frantic motion.

However, while the wind and the sea experienced drastic change, the entity that experienced the vast change of all was the sky. And it was what everyone on the two ships was staring at.

The clouds had turned into a thundercloud, and after Sylvia uttered that word the second ti, a giant figure with a striking resemblance to a dragon appeared in the sky. The giant was brimming with unfathomable power and lightning was coiling all over its body.

“Y-You...” The bulky middle-aged man stuttered as he felt an imminent threat coming from the entity above him.

When the bulky middle-aged man ca in contact with the so-called kirin that was ntioned by Sylvia, he didn’t need to be told, and he imdiately used his powers right away.

The bulky middle-aged man was one of the iconic tahumans in the world, and he was none other than tal man.

And the instant he saw the giant that possessed a striking resemblance to a dragon, he imdiately covered his body with a hardened tal-like substance.

His hands were then clenched into a fist, he was about to launch himself at Sylvia when suddenly, she vanished from the ship. tal man would have scanned through the surrounding for Sylvia, but that was the least of his problem, as the figure above struck an attack at him.

“This bitch...” Xavier coughed out blood from his mouth as he spoke, “She is going to kill everyone.” Xavier mumbled in a low voice.

While nurous bolts of lightning struck at the ship, there were mainly focused on dealing with the man who was wrapped around with tal. The lightning locked onto the whole surrounding, making sure that tal man wouldn’t be able to flee even if he wanted.

A long, low rumble resounded in the sky, and as the lightning struck the man’s body, a loud crack rang out.

“Hmm” tal man’s body shook violently, he, however, managed to stand still in his position. And it wasn’t even up to a second after the lightning struck him that another one ca forward.

The battle had quickly shifted from the ship onto the sea, as tal man maneuvered his way through the lightning. In this battle, those pair of boots that gave him the ability to move on water certainly aided him.

tal man was able to dodge a few of the lightning, but so left him no room to escape. He was being bombarded all over the sea with lightning, and when one of them struck him, he staggered a few steps backward.

Before he could even regain composure, he already saw another bolt of lightning rushing toward him. However, this ti around, tal man clenched his hand into a tight fist, and struck out a full-force punch at the lightning.

BANG!

The collision between tal man’s fist and the bolts of lightning sent him moving a few steps backward. But, for so reason, a smile appeared on tal man’s face after the punch.

“There you are.” tal man said.

A bolt of lightning was rushing towards him, but before the lightning could co in close contact, tal man moved. Once he advanced towards the lightning, nurous bolts began to erge, but regardless of how many they were, tal man kept moving forward.

“Got you.” tal man muttered.

tal man stretched his hand at one of the lightning that was coming his way, and as he grabbed it, the lightning transford into a figure of a person whose body was covered in bandages.

Sylvia’s eyes widened, and she stuttered, “Y-You...”

With a sneer appearing on tal man’s face, he tightened his grip on Sylvia’s neck until he had a bone crack in her neck, and he then threw her to the ship.

Sylvia’s body rolled a couple of tis on the deck from the throw, before she then settled. After Sylvia suffered the hit, the giant figure and the thundercloud in the sky disappeared imdiately.

tal man took a few steps, and he appeared back on the ship. He stared at Xavier, and Sylvia that were laying on the ground, and his lips curved into a smile.

However, the smile only lasted for a few seconds, and it turned into a frown. He turned towards the three n who were on the deck, and said, “Soone is missing!”

The three n glanced at one another when they heard tal man, seemingly dumbfounded. “Apart from the people who were captured, it was only these two we saw on the ship.” The man who was bald in the middle of his hair spoke.

“That’s not right,” tal man shook his head.

anwhile, underneath the sea, a figure drove a speed boat across the sea. He was wearing a scuba set, and he moved at an insane pace.

The figure was none other than Devon, and the speed boat was the sa drive that Xavier had built for monts of ergency.

A boat that was capable of moving underwater.

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AN- What are your thoughts on creating a discord channel for MVA?