Legend of Mautau: Angelorum Lux

Ch 11: Zero

The windows shattered as the orbs blasted through them, exploding as they struck the wall opposite the window. All three of them had barely managed to take cover.

They heard their attacker call out, “At last we meet, Grey!”

As he extracted himself from Alexander, Grey exclaimed, “What the hell is this?! That suit, it’s that damned power suit I wore as the Black Knight! I thought it was destroyed!”

He and Alexander were now on the side of the bed closest to the door, while Amy had managed to get into the open closet, which was on the right wall from the door. Instead of continuing his attack, the assailant came to land near the edge of the window, a strong aura around him.

His head covered by his helmet, it was still not hard to tell his focus was upon where Grey and Alexander were holed up, as he was clearly facing them as he said, “Come out and face me!”

Alexander motioned Grey to stay put, but Grey stood and walked to stand before the enemy with a defiant look, saying, “Just who the hell are you?!”

The armored attacker laughed and said, “Weapons like us need no names, but as you have donned the title Grey, I suppose you may as well call me Zero.”

Grey raised an eyebrow and thought, “What’s with this nut?”

Suddenly, Zero formed a mass of EDE in his hand.

On his guard, Grey watched it crystallize into a polearm as Zero said, “It’s time to show the world just which of us is the real Black Knight!”

Zero lunged at Grey with a strike from his weapon.

Ducking and dodging the polearm, Grey formed his swords, unleashing his aura as he thought, “This guy is serious, and with that polearm I can barely get near him, especially in this cramped room.”

Then he thought of something crazy.

Yet seeing his limited options, he thought, “Well, it’s about the best idea I’ve got!”

Diving forth after dodging another swing, he tucked up into a roll, rolling past Zero and transitioning back to his feet to come out behind the armored assassin. Without a second thought, he ran up to the broken window and leapt off.

“Grey no!” shouted Amy.

It was too late. He had leaped from the forty-second floor, a fall even an energist as strong as him would not survive.

Quick to pursue, Zero leaped out after him, shouting, “I’m not through with you!”

Ignoring him, as Grey plummeted down towards the ground he quickly chanted, “Ego Voco Vos, Ventus Acies!”

Across both his blades ran light green runes, and swirling torrents of wind erupted around the blades. Pointing the tips of his swords toward the building, he channeled more EDE into his blades, and from the swords a burst of air propelled him across the skies over the city. Using his hover pack, Zero continued to pursue him, raining energy spheres after him all the while. Allowing himself to fall for a while, Grey pointed his swords down as he neared the wide roof of a small four story building in the middle of the city and used the wind once more to slow his fall and land safely.

It wasn’t long before Zero caught up, and stopping in the air he began channeling EDE into the blade of his polearm. Grey dodged as Zero descended on him and slammed his weapon’s blade into the roof of the building, unleashing a wave of volatile energy upon impact that cut through the roof in a straight line. Quickly generating another burst of wind, Grey propelled himself straight at Zero, but just as quickly Zero flew up into the air again to avoid being rammed. Yet Grey was expecting this, and he turned in the air and raised a sword to aim directly at Zero’s back as he passed underneath him. Swiftly gathering EDE, he channeled it through the sword to create a sphere of energy, and shot it up at Zero.