Chapter 8: The Bitter Battle
"Wait a minute. Just as Ayton and Mir were about to make their move, Tumik suddenly called out to them.
"What's wrong?" Ayton turned around.
"It must be nearby...... Tumik muttered with his head down.
"What do you think?" asked Mir curiously, and Kakru looked at Tumik as well.
Tumik thought for a moment and raised his head and said, "Captain Rex told me before that what we escorted this time may have a lot to do with the Athals. ”
"What?!Isn't it a gift for the Emperor?...... Ayton?" Mill turned to look at Ayton.
"Don't look at me, I don't know anything. Ayton shook his head.
"Things should be in those two cars. Tumik gestured to the two transports parked nearby and not far away, "Kakru, can you still send us there?" he asked, looking down.
Kakru gripped his staff and tried to stand up, but felt his legs lose his strength and could only shake his head.
"It's easy to do, it's up to me. Ayton put his shield down, opened the breech of the barrel on his back, took out the pointed stake inside, and then took out a cylinder from his backpack and stuffed it into the barrel.
"Wow! I still have this, I haven't seen you use it since the last time I blew it up......" Mir grinned at the cylinder Ayton had loaded.
"How can you throw it away, although it is an experimental object, it is unstable, but I like the power. Ayton finished picking up the shield again, then looked at the transporter next to him and calculated the distance, with the length of his arm and the length of the shield, his body did not need to step out of the barrier to reach, so he took a step forward and picked up the shield and stabbed it towards the hull, the tip of the shield pierced into the hull to fix the muzzle of the gun, and at the same time the thumb pressed the fixing knob on the side of the shield grip, and the base of the grip was released and hit the trigger at the rear of the mortar along the two parallel slides under the action of inertia. The sheer force that was so inconsistent with the sound that it made the entire shield soar that it would have been able to fly far away if it hadn't been firmly grasped by Ayton's strong arm, and the back half of the transporter was almost shattered, and the surviving front of the cart was tilted to one side.
"It's all supplies, it doesn't look like this one. Tumik carefully discerned the scattered debris around him and found that most of them were clothing and food, so he looked at the remaining car not far away.
"It's not hard to rush this distance, I'm going to destroy that one too. Ayton said as he withdrew an empty cartridge case from the breech, then pulled out a new one from his bag, "Protect Kakru, and if you see that I fail, find a way to run with him." After speaking, without waiting for others to answer, he saw the right time and rushed over directly. Just as Ayton rushed out, Tumik found that the black shadows around him had turned around and chased in the direction of Ayton, but the speed was far from catching up with the former, and then the black shadows suddenly disappeared. Feeling that the situation was not right, Tumik kept his eyes on Ayton's direction and was ready to go over for reinforcements at any time, not taking his previous words to heart at all.
In the blink of an eye, Ayton had rushed to the front of the transporter, and he directly stabbed his shield into the hull of the vehicle, ready to fire the mortar. At this moment, a black gas suddenly erupted from the carriage in front of him, Ayton was startled but reacted and immediately turned from attack to defense and pulled out a shield to block in front of him, but this black gas seemed to be an entity, Ayton's huge body was directly overturned after being supported by the impact of the black gas in front of him for a few seconds, and even the canopy above was directly blasted out of a hole by the columnar black gas that rose into the sky, and the sunlight sprinkled all over the woodland through this hole, and everyone really saw the tragic situation of the scene after a short adaptation.
Ayton had quickly returned to the barrier with the momentum of falling backwards, and several people saw that the original transport vehicle had disappeared after the black gas erupted, without even a fragment, a black rectangular box appeared in the position of the original car, and a person who looked petite and should be a woman stood in front of the box; she was wearing a white slim robe, the cuffs and hat had a circle of gorgeous lace with gold patterns on a black background, the upper edge of the hood covered her face, and she couldn't see her appearance clearly, and a strand of long black hair hung out on both sides and put it on her raised chest, and the black qi was tightly wrapped around her body, although she stood in the sun, but from the perspective of several people, it was integrated with the dark woodland behind her, even in a white robe, it is a little difficult to distinguish the outline.
"This should be the Atra woman that Captain Rex said...... But it's said to be a body and not a living person......" Tumik whispered.
"Doesn't that seem like a tough deal to deal with...... It's humiliating, but I want to ask if it's too late to run?" said Mir, who had already taken out a new drum from his backpack and mounted it on his sword, ready for battle.
"That's what it is...... The ...... that killed Ewen The murderer ......" Kakru stared at her with his eyes glued.
"We are the night owl's white night guards!Why did you kill Yago's soldiers, answer me!" Ayton decided to try to communicate first, but only to respond with silence. Suddenly, the white-robed woman rushed towards the crowd without warning, dragging a long black afterimage behind her, as if she was flying rather than running. Because of the barrier of Kakru, the three of them made defensive moves but did not dodge, after all, they only knew that magic was more effective in the face of unknown enemies.
Sure enough, after touching the barrier, the white-robed woman stopped as if she had hit the wall, but she immediately raised her right hand and put her five fingers together towards the light curtain, and the barrier shattered a hole like glass being shot through, and the black qi stretched in, and the arm gathered into a bundle and shot forward, directly through Mir's left leg and Kakru's right chest behind! Seeing this, Ayton roared and the blade of the shield slashed directly at the white-robed woman, and Tumik also stabbed the sword towards her hand wall through the light curtain, but they did not encounter the expected resistance at all, and the white-robed woman's body was directly cut in two by Ayton diagonally, and Tumik's full stab also brought her entire arm directly down. The black gas then dissipated, and Mir, whose left leg had been pierced, fell to the ground, while Kakru, whose right chest had been shot through, fell face down on the ground beneath him with blood staining the ground beneath him.
Ayton was a little surprised to see that the enemy was so easily destroyed, he used his shield to sweep the bones on the ground away, and then continued to maintain a defensive posture without letting his guard down. Tumik raised his sword and looked at the arm that was stuck in the tip of the sword, the shriveled pale skin against the bones did not look like a living person. With a swing of his sword, he flung the severed arm out, and Tumik nodded at Ayton, who was looking at him.
Just as Ayton and Tumik turned around to determine the safety of Mir and Kakru, Mir, who fell to the ground, suddenly pointed behind them and shouted, "Be careful!" The two immediately turned around when they heard the sound, only to see that the bones that had been broken into several pieces on the ground were quickly turning into ashes and turning into the previous black qi that continued to gather, and when the bones completely disappeared, a pure black human figure stood there, only from the figure that it was still a woman, she first looked down at her whole body like an ordinary person, and then looked at the broken white robe at her feet.
"So many years in the jungle...... Now is the moment when I feel the most crisis. Looking at what was happening in front of him, Ayton whispered to Tumik.
Tumik glanced back at Mir, who had fallen to the ground, and Kakru, whose fate was unknown, and felt that he couldn't go on like this. "We've lost two people who know magic, and now we have a way to try, which is to destroy that black chest. He whispered to Ayton.
"Really?" Ayton was ostensibly wary of the dark shadow opposite, but his mind was a mess and he didn't think there was any connection between the two, and he finally said these three words when he said a thousand words.
"I've actually seen a similar box before, and if I'm not mistaken, this thing has a lot to do with it...... And I can't think of any other way than to leave everyone else on the run for my life. Tumick looked at the enemy, then glanced quickly at the black chest not far away, which Karn called the Magic Coffin.
"If you're right, she'll definitely protect the chest, but our previous attacks won't work against her except for Kakru's magic......" Ayton said this, his mind was already racing to find a way to approach the box.
"I'll hold her back, and you'll find a chance to destroy that box. Tumik said categorically.
"No problem...... Ayton said, calculating the distance between him and the black box not far away, "How can that thing fight her without a substance?!Isn't this a suicide?!" He seemed to react to Tumik's words, thinking that he had misheard, and couldn't help but turn his head to look at Tumik.
"Kakru said that the most effective fight against magic is magic...... Trust me. Tumik closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his eyes glowed with a faint silver glow.