Step!
Step!
"Wait what?! A sacrificial ritual?! What ritual!?" Heimfher asked, he raised one of his brow in confusion and looked at Duskiell.
"A ritual to summon a deity, a god's lackey if you will, and that kind of ritual can only happen on a full moon, knowing that we're probably dealing with a cult here, they could be from the Dead Deity Order too, or worse.. Another different cult, they're definitely using the kidnapped as a sacrifice." Duskiell said.
He clicked his tongue in frustration, now that they've lost track of where their main base was located, they had no choice but to go back and prepare for another plan while searching for another objects that could be used for Bentley's magic.
"Let's go, we need to go back and meet with Murph." Duskiell tapped Heimfher's back, telling him to follow closely as his feets began to move forward.
Step!
Duskiellwanted to go back inside the narrow tunnel, yet he was stopped when he heard another footsteps coming from the other side of the sewer.
His head turned, eyes looking at the darkness infront of him, and he soon spoke to Heimfher.
"Hey kiddo, use your magic.. We have some uninvited guest." He said.
Which prompted Heimfher to nod as he obliged to the order.
"S- sure.. O' Ignis, heed my plea"
Whirrr!
When Heimfher summoned a fire in his hand, the footsteps that came from the sewer suddenly stopped, as if realizing that Heimfher and Duskiell were waiting for them.
A few seconds passed in silence, the footsteps nor the voice of both Heimfher and Duskiell was all gone, leaving the sewer hollow with the sound of water droplets that echoed throughout the darkness remains as the only noise there.
That is until.
Step!
The footsteps continued, Heimfher and Duskiell heightened their guard and prepares for a battle.
'Who the hell is walking in the sewer this late at night..' Heimfher thought.
His eyes widened after he saw three cloaked figures appearing at the end of the sewer, they slowly turned towards Heimfher and their eyes eventually met.
"T- that's.." Heimfher said before his speech was cut off by Duskiell who dashed forward unexpectedly.
"Tch, no matter who they are, they're definitely an awakened and not here for a good thing!" Duskiell whispered.
Dash!
Seeing Duskiell charging towards them with his sword out, the three figures instantly panicked and they gritted their teeth as their hand then stretched forward, their mouth chanted words for a God's magic, confirming their identity as an awakened.
"Shit! How the fuck did they managed to get here!" One of the cloaked figure said.
The other figure, one that was standing at the middle, noticed Heimfher being the only person from the Bureau other than Duskiell, and he decided to fight back.
"There's only two! We can kill them! Latch thy fangs and steal their essence! Vixparas!" He said.
A mouth formed on his palm as he was done with his chant, the mouth's tongue drooled and from the seemingly empty throat, a slug-like creature was shot out straight into Duskiell.
SHAA!
The slug-like creature shrieked, as its eyes was focused to Duskiell's neck, it opened its mouth, revealing hundreds of tiny fangs that filled every space within, similar to a lamprey.
"Pull out your dagger!" The cloaked figure shouted to his two friend.
Meanwhile, Heimfher was watching from the distance, he waited for an opportunity as Duskiell handled everything in close combat, he saw the slimy creature that was being shot by one of the cloaked man and realized that it was a parasite.
"DUSKIELL! AVOID BEING BITTEN BY THAT THING!" Heimfher screamed, with Duskiell screaming back at him moments later.
"I KNOW! SHOOT YOUR FIREBALLS BUT CONTROL IT! IF THE SEWER COLLAPSE IT'LL BE A TROUBLE!"
The battle then begins, Duskiell arrived infront of the three figures and he immediately swung his sword that was covered with flames from aura.
As the close combat battle ensued, the two cloaked men who was holding two daggers, then chanted their own magic power towards Duskiell.
"The yellow embers of chaos, bring thy punishment with bright spectacle, Fulgreia!"
"O' Ignis, heed my plea!"
CLANG!
WHIRRR!!
KSSHRRRKKK!!
WHIRR!!
The entire sewer was glowing with blinding lights as the fiery flame, and the bolt of lightnings clashed in a chaotic mix, Heimfher almost couldn't see where Duskiell was for a few seconds, that is until the lights slightly dimmed.
Duskiell swung his sword, and it was parried by the daggers, he shot a few of his flames to burn them, yet they countered it with their own flame and even lightning.
"Tch! You're quite annoying with a dagger." He said in frustration.
'I see.. So one of them is an advanced awakened.. That guy on the back was summoning parasite and couldn't help these two in close combat, that means he's only a support—
'A chimera, as far as i know, are created by the power of either the God of Fusion or the God of Amalgamation.. That slugs was definitely not from any of those gods, which means, one of these two have two god's power in their hands.'
CLANG!
WHIRRRRR!!
KSSRRHHHKK!!!
BOOM!
'Shit! There's no ending to these fireballs and lightning bolts..'
Shlack!!
Suddenly, one of the slugs that missed his neck was slowly slithering to his feet, and Duskiell had to kill it by stepping on it, he momentarily averted his gaze for a split second, and when he turned his head again, four different daggers was already reaching for his head and waist.
The daggers were coated with fire and the surging current of lightnings, making them extremely deadly even if it's just a small contact with his skin, for Duskiell, his conciousness looked as if time itself had slowed down.
'S- Shit!' Duskiell was caught off guard, and he realized the attack too late, his arm movement wasn't fast enough to block every single daggers and when he closed his eyes to brace for impact, a fireball exploded right infront of him.
BOOM!
Duskiell and the two cloaked men was thrown by the explosion force, he rolled on the ground, tumbled over his own body before he stopped and stood on his knee.
"Huff.. Huff.. That kid– Heimfher?.." Duskiell said as he turned his head around, he saw Heimfher smiling with a fireball in his hand before he spoke to him.
"Don't worry about all that slugs, you can count on me."
Once Duskiell heard Heimfher's words his attention instantly shifted to his surrounding, he wasn't focusing before due to the constant attack from the two cloaked men, but after things had calmed down a little, only now he realized that there were more slugs than what he had expected.
As it turns out, the cloaked men that was producing those slugs have been battling against Heimfher, and not him.
Duskiell saw how many slugs there are that have been burned and he couldn't believe that Heimfher was able to accurately hit everything without causing any damage.
'The floors are still intact.. Did he controlled his fireball to only explode like a firework?!..' He thought.
His body kept screaming in pain, but Duskiell held on a little longer as he heard the two cloaked men behind him stand up, they haven't given up, and from the looks of their mouth beneath their hood, Duskiell knew that they won't stop until either he or one of them dead.
"Goddamnit.." He scoffed while forcing his body to stand in his two feets.
"O' Ignis, heed my plea."
A fiery swirling flame appeared on Duskiell's hand, he gripped his sword tightly and stared at the two cloaked men infront of him.
Boom!
Heimfher supported from behind as one of the parasitic slugs almost latched on to Duskiell's leg.
Slowly, Heimfher took a step forward, he wasn't just going to stay at the backline, he knew that Duskiell was almost at his limit, and he will have to end the fight before he collapsed.
"Hey.. My mana is almost depleted, you better be quick.. Or else we're fucked." The cloaked mage said, he grunted with each new slugs that he produced from his palm.
'Damnit! that kid is still not tired yet.. How much mana does he have!? I've summoned over 50 parasite at this point and he still haven't showed any sign of fatigue.."
The tension grew, and with a blinding flash, Duskiell and the two cloaked men dashed at the same time, their blade meets at the center, creating sparks as their attacks were all parried by the others.
CLANG!
CLANG!
"Go!" Duskiell said, he let go of the swirling flame on his hand, letting it fly over to his opponent.
"Watch out!" One of the cloaked men shouted, he jumped to the side and avoided direct contact with Duskiell's flame.
Whirrr!!
The swirling flame grew in size when it was about to hit the ground, turning into a fire whirlpool as the air around the sewer was being sucked into the center of the fire.
"Shit!"
Shortly after the fire whirlpool was formed, Duskiell saw one of the cloaked men on the side closing his eyes as he was momentarily blinded by the burning flame, using that opportunity, he dashed towards him and swung his sword.
Slash!
The cloaked men that was being approached by Duskiell instantly swung his daggers back, yet he was a bit too late due to his own recklessness, in the end both of his arms was cut off by Duskiell, blood poured onto the ground and stained both Duskiell's face and his sword.
"AAGHHHHH!!!!" The cloaked man screamed in pain, his eyes was shaken, his mouth stuttered and his tears flowed endlessly.
"H- HEY!!" The other cloaked men saw his friend's limb being cut off and was horrified, his legs went numb and he almost couldn't move his body, but after forcing it as hard as he could, he decided to run back to his other friend who was using his magic.
"Hugo! What do we do now!" He said to the cloaked man, his name turns out to be Hugo.
"Tch! We underestimated them, prepare to run away!" Hugo replied. he was planning to distract Duskiell and Heimfher with all of his magic.
Using all of his remaining mana that he had in his body, Hugo chanted his God's magic again, however instead of summoning another parasitic slug, he desired to go further.
"Latch thy fangs and steal their essence, Vixparas!"
An elongated vines was shot from the mouth in his palm, the vines was coated with thorns and when the vines fell to the floor, it branched into two separate vines as if it was doing a mitosis.
The vine pulsed like a heartbeat, slowly making its way towards Duskiell, branch after branch, the vines kept splitting exponentially, after Hugo's mana was emptied, he quickly fainted and went unconcious, his friend had to carry his shoulder while his other friend who laid on the ground, was left to die on his own.
"This is.. Fuck! Where do you think you're going!" Duskiell shouted, he watched as Hugo and his friend slowly left their vision and wandered into the sewer once more.
"Keukekuk.. We aren't planning to get caught yet." Hugo's friend smirked and chuckled at Duskiell's hopeless effort.
The vines had covered every path that Duskiell could take, and it even starts to go underwater, sucking the liquid into its body like a thirsty cactus.
'Keughh!! If i step on these vines, it would be hard to get rid of them.. And my blood would be sucked out.' He thought.
"Heimfher!" Duskiell called out Heimfher before he collapsed, his legs finally gave up and was unable to bear his weight anymore.
"D- Duskiell!" Heimfher quickly turned off his fireball and rushed to Help.