Chapter 58(?): teor – Part 2
I thought that we would be safe so far away from Goldport, but no, danger finds its way towards us again as I'm suddenly attacked by the feeling of having my [Gate] blocked.
"A [Gate] scrubber has been activated!" I warn the girls.
"What? We're in the middle of nowhere!" Alissa exclaims.
"Land the dinghy and I'll try to locate the source," I say.
"The Hollys didn't catch anything?" Ciel asks.
"No…"
A chill passes through our spines. If the heretics can cast four [teor]s in a few seconds, what's to say that they can't craft such a powerful scrubber?
We stop the dinghy and get ready for battle while I concentrate and try to find the source of the scrubber.
My heart sinks as the feeling happens again, overlaying with the original, then again and again. I count eight scrubbers in total. With a little more concentration, I find the sources to be coming from the eight cardinal directions. We are surrounded and the sources are converging on us.
"Get in! Roxanne, fly up! Directly up!" I order.
We quickly break through the canopies of the ginormous trees and the sun assaults us. Almost literally as we feel "pain" from the rays of light touching our skin.
"What's going on?" Ciel questions worriedly and casts [Heal] on us. Nothing happens and the sunlight slowly increases its "intensity."
I start to grow increasingly afraid as the sources of the scrubbers lift from the ground and follow us.
"Dammit! They are coming up!"
At the sa ti, I see through the Hollys small groups of dots raise above the canopies. Ten people in each group for a total of eighty.
A Kite Dragon above notices us and dives down, ready to strike. Ciel, Alissa, and Aoi strike at it and lightly wound it, allowing us ti to fly past it as it recovers from the strike.
"They are gaining on us! Faster!" I order and we hold ourselves on the dinghy as it reaches dangerous speeds. Even though it's reinforced now and won't break apart easily, it doesn't an that we are exactly "safe" inside it.
A Cloud Snake dives out of a cloud towards us and I start charging a [Lightning Bolt]. This monster is a snake actually made from cloudy matter. It likes to hide in clouds and strikes with blinding speed towards its prey, which would be us.
I release the spell and it imdiately stops. Its snake-shape is lost as it gets stunned and becos an innocent small cloud in the middle of the blue sky.
We start seeing dots above us that grow in size. Those are wild Sky Lands. Too far from the territory of the chiras, so they are likely crawling with flying monsters.
A Dragolite appears and the Kite Dragon switches targets. It stops chasing us to go after easier prey.
The eighty dots chasing us increase in size and even Alissa can now see them. Then I see sothing that makes my blood turn cold as it stuns .
The girls notice my fear seeping through the [Bind] and Alissa searches the dots, too, only to beco stunned like .
It's not hard to find them as their glow is eye-catching. Two n, each wearing a complete set of armor that covers all visible openings. A scary mask of a stoic man covers their faces. Their golden armor is set with enchanted gems of all colors, and it glows so brightly white that it hurts to even look at them when they get closer. A sun is engraved in the chest of the armor and its rays radiate out from it to cover every surface. A heavy golden cape with a blood-red lining flows from their shoulders as it flutters in the wind.
The Hands of the Emperor. One is coming from the east and the other from the west.
"WHAT?!" Ciel exclaims and goes silent, too shocked to speak further.
"They don't want us to escape…" Alissa mutters and grits her teeth.
Lina and Hana glare at the Hands as they finally notice the glow coming from them.
"Can I eat them?" Aoi asks, innocently.
I look at Gify and for the first ti, I see genuine fear in her beady little eyes.
"Can you escape them?" I ask her.
"Gih."
That ans "no."
I start to hyperventilate as my mind races with reasons for the Hands to so aggressively co after us, but nothing cos to mind. Not even in Ciel's wildest dreams would Katasko have the power to command the Hands to act, no, this situation is beyond what any of us ever thought could happen.
I check my "Status
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