Chương 263: Chapter 246. Hallway Fight 1

In front of us was Princess Alice, Wendy, Ellie and Lady Cindy all walking to the right of us, blood was coming out of Princess Alice's nose and her pant leg was getting caught under her foot as she walked down the hall." Wendy? Ellie?"" Alle!?" Sarah and Anna both spoke as I tried to absorb and make sense of what I was seeing." Why are all of their eyes red!?" I said the first thing that came to my mind. They're like Baron Fracks's eyes!" This is not good!"

I rush and cast Barrier to stop them from walking further and further down the hallway. /Crack! / A shattering sound accompanied my Barrier's destruction." Who-" Before I could finish my words, a flash of moonlight made a trail in the dimly lit hallway, I guarded with Scarlet's blade. Pressure! /CLANG! /" Hm? Good reflexes for a young one." As my sword clashed with the person who attacked me, Anna was the first to speak as our swords started moving back and forth trying to push the other down." Pete!" / Clang!

Clang! Clang! / I looked at his face as I was the closest to him... Red eyes like the others." He wants you all! Walk!" Pete's shout caused the girls to begin their walk again." My Love!" Sarah calls to me, unfortunately I can't look back or answer, this guy's strong... Weirdly strong for what he looks like. He's so slim and non-threatening, where is this power coming from? He looked like a nice old man when I first met him." Still struggling? I see why you've caused such discomfort to him."" Who is "he"!?"

I figured since he'd already talked, I may as well see if he'd answer a question. The removal of his sword against mine and jumping back tells me he wasn't going to. Great, he's blocking us from stopping the girls." Darling!"" My Love!" Sarah and Anna come to my side. That brings me comfort as I think about what I can do." Excuse me, Dear Guests, I'm apparently more talkative when I'm like this." A smile full of glee revealed shining sharp teeth that could puncture armor if given the chance."

Why are you stopping us, Pete? Even if you do, we can just tell everyone what you and your master have been up to."" No, you won't." /Click! Crash! Crackle! Slash! / Pete swings his sword and the momentum started to affect the hallway. the sounds of slashes reverberated from Pete's location and deep cut marks began to appear on the walls and floor as it approached my Wives and me." Barrier!" I make a Barrier in front of us for protection." Barrier!" I place another on top of the one I already made." Barrier!"

I tripled up since I had the time. / DING! / New Skill! This book's true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience." Not now!" /CLANG! / A window popped up into my sight as my Barriers began to clash with the attack Pete released. Like I thought, it chewed through my first Barrier, but my 2nd and 3rd stood standing at the end." Angel's Preparations!" With my words, Sarah and Anna started to glow in a mismatch of gold, white and blue colors.

I had just buffed them with Armor, Augment and Armament of the Angels.

I found through training that having a code word for any specific combination of the 3 Buffing Spells allowed me to conjure the Spells quicker. / DING! / New Skill!

Fuck off, System! Now is not the time! My anger at the System almost made me forget the situation I was in. I silently activated Holy Mana Body on myself. I start to speak again." Sarah, Anna. Fuck getting answers from him, we need to beat him by any means necessary then grab the girls." I look to my right to see the both of them nodding to my words." Okay, Sarah, you'll be the main attacker, Anna, you'll be mid-range, assist Sarah as best you can and strike him if you see an opportunity, I'll provide support.

Sound good?" / Woosh! Woosh! / Pressure! Both of them begin to channel their mana as well as Sarah channeling her own Mana Blade into her halberd. Anna's new weapon that she was having Dale make wasn't completed before we left for Zana, I find it sorely missing for us right now. Instead, Anna was using a pair of daggers that seemed to be useable with her special abilities as a Divine Channeler. Apparently, the daggers were made of similar material as the special ores we found on our way to Darkheim.

Only they were older and not properly taken care of, so she needed to be "gentle" with them, or so that's what she told me. It didn't change the fact that her left dagger was glowing a bright green and her right a deathly black color. Seems that we were all in agreement that we were going to kill Pete in the 3-minute time limit I have on Angel's Preparation." Oh, ho! You 3 look so dangerous now. I wonder how I'll deal with this now!?"

His confident grin made it easy to tell he was enjoying this, but what is this weird feeling? He never showed a hint of this type of behavior in the past 2 days we've been here? He's been professional for the most part. I channel my own Mana Blade and take down my Barriers." Sarah! Anna! Be careful!" With my words, I brought down my Barriers. /BANG! / And like that, Sarah launched herself from our location and rapidly approached Pete. / Crash! /" HAHH!"" Now, now! That's not good enough, Princess."

Pete side steps Sarah's forward lunge. The pressure from her halberd still caused the floor under the halberd to burst and break. The attack left a hole all the way down to the first floor." Holy Bolt!" A white bolt of death came flying at his torso before he landed. /Boom! / Did I get him? Smoke from the bolt's explosion took time to dissipate. /Clang! CLang! CLAng! CLANg! CLANG! / Based on the growing sound of what I'm guessing a sword and halberd were making I'm going to say no.

Anna and I approach as the clanging grew louder." You're not normal, old man!" Sarah's voice filled the hall as the smoke cleared and we saw a stoic Sarah standing unencumbered despite the intense sounds we heard. Her breath was steady, and her eyes were staring sharply at her opponent. On the other hand." Hah... Hah... Hah... Who would've thought such a young one would be this skilled? Just what kind of training have you gone through, Princess Sarah?""

The hard kind, my Parents are 1 of the 5 great War Potentials of this Country for a reason, old man. It only fits they'd try to grow that kind of power in their own Children. Now, do me a favor, old man, before you pass out. Tell us what you and your master plan on doing to our Friends!" Pressure!

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"!" Bloodlust began to leak from Sarah's body as she continued to speak, her eyes began to grow darker as if she was losing herself to her emotions." Holy Heal!" I cast my Spell on her. The bloodlust abated and her eyes regained their usual Brilliance." Thank you, My Love." Without turning her head so she could keep her eyes on our opponent, Sarah had thanked me. This situation has played out a few times before today. Her Job of Calamity Spear Demon is a double-edged sword.

Her strength has continued to increase by a great amount because of it, I mean she had Skills she can't even show us since she said that using them could wind up destroying her surroundings due to the mana or physical actions she would take using them. But with all that, a debilitating effect comes with all that power. It's similar to a "Berserk" state in an rpg. She would fall into it occasionally when she trained with me.

Simply put, when she feels any kind of strong emotion during a battle, her Job Class's influence makes her lose herself in the fight. When with me, she said that she can't help but feel our Love for each other. It seems that whether positive or negative emotions causes the effect to kick in. However, thinking of it as something like an a debuff, I tried using Holy Heal on her the first time it happened. And because of how powerful Holy Heal is, it can return her to her regular state of mind.

But her state of mind change... It happened almost too fast this time. Maybe negative emotions cause the Berserk state faster than the positive ones? I wonder if experience with the Job Class will eventually have her build a resistance or immunity to the that problem? I mean it's fine when I'm here, but what would happen when I'm not? That's the thought that scares me." You want to know? It's simple! You'll never see them again! Until you join them on the other side, Princess! Hahaha!"" Silence!" /SHING! Crash!

/ Sarah brought her Halberd down onto Pete. Sarah's attack was so heavy and fast that she cut into the wall behind Pete as well as his body. From his shoulder to his hip, the blade of the halberd left Pete's body almost completely vivisected." I'm sorry, Anna, My Love. Seems I couldn't collect and information."" That's fine, we can figure out what to do after we save them."

I reassured Sarah since she realized after striking Pete down that we could've used some answers, but I did say it didn't matter, so now we just need to head down the hallway. Anna and I move to Sarah, I turn to Anna to see if she can find the girls using her eyes." Anna, can you find the gir-" GRIP! JUMP! /Bang! / pain." HAHAHAHA!" When I turned my head, I saw something impossible, Pete was attempting to cut Anna in half, I grabbed her quickly and jumped back from the sword swipe.

I saw some of Anna's hair fall to the floor. He's going to pay for that in blood soon.