Chapter 75: Books

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  In the bounds of Keigra, several of it's soldiers were assisting the healers in carrying the injured and  a few others from the higher tribes were also helping by lifting the large piles from the road and on the wayside, thereby discovering more injured survivors. Chief Miza who was pacing about and observing the destruction, takes notice of a Tenplar man and a Ripar woman carrying the body of a woman and a male child and laying them on the ground.
     The Tenplar man and Ripar woman stared at the corpses for a while and used their hands to close their eyes. 
   "So many people have died. So many injured and on top of that, many of the children of the tall order pilgrim academy are missing." Chief Miza said to herself, "Some adults of the higher tribes volunteered to lend a helping hand while some are worried and in search of their children in the academy. 
   In the events that has and is being played out, this leads me to one question: how did this happen?"
   "We were supposed to be their watchers… Their protectors." Chief Tenya's voice replayed in chief Miza's head which led chief Miza to exhale.
    "I didn't come here for this." Chief Miza said inwardly, "I came here to enjoy myself and see how far the next generation has progressed. Not this.
   While we were watching the tournament, those hivelings got in without our knowledge and brought pain and havoc on Keigra."
   "AIEEEE!!! MY LEG!!!" A masculine voice sounded.
   "I'M SO SORRY! I'M SO SORRY!!" A feminine voice sounded.
   "But now i am thinking about it, the hivelings couldn't have done it alone." Chief Miza said inwardly, "For them to get into Keigra and do something like this, it must have done with the help of insiders… Traitors.
   "So many people are dead because of them, and so many people are wailing for their lost ones because of those traitors…" Chief Miza said inwardly as she clenched her fists, "I came here for enjoyment but what i am receiving is pain and suffering. Whoever these traitors are, i swear with my blood…"
   "You will not get away with this." Chief Miza said with a scowl as her irises glowed.
    The blare of a shofar suddenly sounded throughout the region of Keigra, catching the attention of Miza and many others.
   "Hm?" Chief Miza said as she glanced back.
   "I recognize that sound." A female healer said as she fearfully looked back, "Are we still using that? I thought we have moved passed it…"
    "Almost everything in Keigra is destroyed but if that horn was blown then that means…. That means…" A redhead male healer said as he was trembling with fear.
   "We are under attack." A brown haired male healer said.
   In front of ruined Keigra gates, Keigra armies gathered and in front of them stood the red patterned soldier (Chapter 71) with a female soldier with blue glowing pattern round her armour.
    "Are these all of them?" The red patterned soldier asked.
   "Yes, sir. We have gathered 3,000 soldiers for the front line defense." The female replied, "Those that are able enough to stand back on their feet despite the carnage that took place."
    "What about the defense inside Keigra?" The red patterned soldier asked.
   "That is being taken care of, sir." The female replied.
    "Well they should hurry; we don't have all the time in the world." The red patterned soldier said, "With a code red threat being reported and the level of damage done to Keigra, we can't afford to waste any time and plus, we cannot get the Ritzku or any other barrier up since the damage done was too great. We just have to deal with things the old fashioned way."
   "Most times when we have a code red, we don't bother ourselves because of our defenses but now with the way things are, we are in great peril." The female said within, "As we are right now, we are struggling with the han energy we have left. Heck, the han alarm was only enough to warn us of an incoming threat but not the type!"
    A humongous black-purple portals opened from a great distance and out of that portal, a giant plant-like wolf stepped out of it, which left the Keigra soldiers shocked.
   "A-A forest wolf?!" The female soldier said.
   The forest wolf howled and countless humongous black-purple portals suddenly appeared and out of each of those portals, more forest wolves stepped out, filling the soldiers with dismay. The red patterned soldier's eyes widened while a fellow soldier subconsciously dropped his sword and fell on his knees.
   Elsewhere, Cifer while watching from his oval screen, smirked at the reactions of the Keigra soldiers as some of them stepped back in seeing the number of forest wolves
   "Oh? The kanless ones are afraid?" Cifer asked inwardly, "Well, it is only natural they would be afraid, considering what is in front of them. I was initially planning on sending terror beasts but to  control one is extremely difficult compared to forest wolves and now i have 17,800 at my disposal.
    Though they are nowhere as strong as terror beasts, but their power is not to be slept on; a single forest wolf can wipe out an entire city…"
   "At the very least." Cifer said inwardly with a smile as his irises glowed, "Perhaps i went overboard with amount of wolves sent; regardless, this is going to be quite entertaining."
    In another place, Balog was watching from his screen and he became puzzled with the appearance and the numbers of the forest wolves.
   "Huh? Forest wolves? When did they get here?" Balog asked inwardly, "They weren't part of the plan."
    Back at Keigra, many of the soldiers stood stiff with fear and as the forest wolves were slowly advancing towards them, several soldiers took a step back.
   "They don't pay me enough for this sh*t!" A soldier in a blue pattern said as he turned back and took to his heels.
   Several soldiers followed suit, filling the atmosphere with their screams in the act.
    "LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!"
    "I'M NOT READY TO DIE MEANINGLESSLY!!"
   "GET OUT OF MY WAY!!!"
  At the time this was going on, the female soldier grabbed the red patterned soldier the shoulder.
   "Sir, we have to retreat! We cannot fight these things!" The female soldier said.
   However, her words seemed not to be going through as the red patterned soldier was still staring at the wolves.
    "Sir! Sir!!" The female soldier said as she shook him relentlessly.
    While this was happening, the red patterned soldier was having flashbacks of his family; in one of those flashbacks, the soldier remembers himself happily carrying his baby in his arms while his wife and children stood beside him with happiness as well.
   "So this is it, huh?" The soldier said asked with closed eyes after the recollection.
   The red patterned soldier stood on his feet and glanced at the female soldier.
   "Go." The red patterned soldier said.
   "What?" The female soldier asked in confusion.
   "Go now." The red patterned soldier replied, "Go now while you still can. There are sections that are preparing escape routes in the city; make sure you join them and gather as many civilians as you can to leave Keigra."
   "But commander-!"
   "That's an order … Captain." The red patterned soldier cuts in.
   The female soldier stared at him for a while and nods her head in response and as soon she turns her back to run, the red patterned soldier turned back at the wolves. While staring at the wolves, the soldier remembered his family again and sighed with closed eyes.
   "What am i doing?" The soldier asked himself, "Maybe I'm not thinking straight anymore."
   "Oh well, it doesn't matter." The soldier said as he removed his helmet, "If i'm going to die, then i might as well do it while standing my ground."
   As the soldier was speaking to himself, the forest wolf in front began to charge a large ball of green light from it's mouth. The red patterned soldier remembered his family's faces once again which led him to close his eyes and raise his right fist in the air.
   "Wait for me. I'm coming." The soldier said within himself.
   The forest wolf in front released the attack towards the man which resulted in a powerful green explosion and filled the entire place with smoke.
    "What do you think you are doing, idiot?" A masculine voice said.
   The red patterned soldier opens his eyes and sights the chubby Graundar man (from chapter 71) standing in his front.
   "You think yourself some kind of hero or something? Or have you minors forgotten that you are not alone?" The chubby Graundar man asked as he glanced back with a smile.
   The soldier turns back and become shocked as he sees several people from the major walking towards his direction.
   "What was that man doing?" A Ripar man asked.
   "Trying to play hero, i guess." A redhead Kenar woman replied.
   "Those people were trying to get us to safety because of the forest wolves. Seems they've forgotten what we can do." A black haired Ripar with a buzz cut hairstyle said while smiling.
   "I don't care about that." A brown haired Tenplar woman said, "Many of us are looking for our children and that's when these things decided to invade? None of them are going to get out alive!"
   "I second that." A bald Kenar man said.
   "Oh?" Cifer said with a smile.
   "Warriors, are you ready?!" The long black bearded Ripar man asked while smiling as the major tribe adults stood behind the Keigra soldier and the chubby Graundar.
   "YES!" The adults replied.
   "Hehehe! This is going to be interesting!" An orange haired Kenar male said with a musical tone while grinning and cracking his knuckles.
  "I'm killing them all!" A redhead Ripar woman said.
    At the time the adults stood gazing at the forest wolves, the chubby Graundar glanced at the Keigra soldier.
   "Go." The Graundar man said.
  The Keigra soldier stood on his feet and left and shortly after the soldier left, the chubby Graundar turned back to look at the forest wolves.
   "What a good way to relieve stress, huh?" The chubby Graundar asked with a smile.
   The adults began to pick up the pace and the grin of the chubby Graundar grew wider.
   "FOR AGAROTH!!!!" The chubby Graundar said with a deepened voice as his irises glowed.
   "FOR AGAROTH!!!!" The adults responded.
   "FOR MY F**KING CHILDREN!!!" A Ripar woman said.
  The adults charged towards the  forest wolves with a battle cry and the wolves roared and responded in the same.
   In the red leafed forest as many humans and hivelings were fighting, a Kenar girl fell on the ground, clutching her injured belly while groaning in pain and in her front stood a Kenar male, looking back with a face filled with worry.
    "Dammit…!" The Kenar male said.
  As the Kenar male was staring at the female, several hivelings ran towards the male to attack, only for a huge green sphere to knock them away from the side.
   "Quit it." A feminine voice said.
   The Kenar male quickly sights the person to be Raen who was scowling at him.
   "Do not lose focus during battle." Raen said.
  "I'm sorry but there isn't much we can do." The Kenar male said, "We are outnumbered and outmatched. Our enemies know everything about us; every trick in the book."
   "If the enemy knows every trick in the book, then you throw away the book." Raen replied as she turned her back on the Kenar male.
  "She's right." A masculine voice telepathically said, causing Raen and the Kenar male's irises to glow.
   "Izaiya?" Raen asked telepathically.
   "Listen to me, all of you." Izaiya said as the humans from different forest telepathically heard his voice, "I don't have much time so i am going to clarify something here: the hivelings have knowledge on our strength and weaknesses; on our skills and techniques but they are limited.
   They don't have full knowledge of everything concerning us and the things we have hidden. So if you have anything you haven't shown a soul, be it techniques, abilities or forms, now would be a good time to show and use them.
    Don't use the book they know, use the ones they don't know and trust me, there will be a higher chance of surviving."
   After Izaiya had  finished communicating, Raen slams her fist against her palm and began to crack her knuckles as she sights more hivelings coming towards her.
   "So it seems we can agree on something." Raen said.
   "R-Raen, what do we do?" The Kenar male asked.
   "Didn't you hear him?" Raen asked while still facing forward, "Drop the book and fight. Show what you have been hiding, but as for me…"
   "I intend to go on a rampage." Raen said with a smile as her irises glowed.
   With a battle cry, Raen charged towards the hivelings and creates a green sphere on her left hand stretched out sideways;Raen swiftly threw the sphere up in the air which diverted the attention of many of the hivelings and with no time being wasted, Raen slams her fist on the ground which created a  tremor and a rift that caught the hivelings off balance. 
    Raen hastily leaps in the air and kicks the sphere down towards the hivelings, which resulted in an explosion that threw many of the hivelings away and filled the place with dust-clouds. A male hiveling groaned in pain and stood on his feet, only to for Raen to emerge from the dust-clouds and knock him out with a punch and from there, Raen began to knock down several hivelings with her punches, kicks and headbutts
  "Bring it on!" Raen said as she knocked down hivelings with her fist and foot while dragging the hair of a female hiveling at the same time.
    Witnessing the actions of Raen, the humans there became shocked.
   "No way." A Graundar girl said.
   "I don't believe it." A Tenplar male said.
   "She ... She is turning the tide all by herself." A Ripar female said at the time Raen was still running and knocking down several hivelings.
   "What are we waiting for?! Let's join her and overrun these bastards!!" A Graundar male said with his raised fist.
   The Graundar and the other humans quickly charged with a battle cry towards the direction Raen was moving. Meanwhile in the grey leafed forest, Grei walks past several hiveling bodies that were laid on the ground with an unimpressed demeanor.
   "Trash." Grei said.
   Back at the red leafed forest, Raen and the others were still rampaging on several hivelings and during the time Raen was knocking down several hivelings, a male hiveling tries to attack her from behind, only for him to get intercepted by a knee to the side of his face that sent him sliding on the ground and hitting a tree head-first.  Raen turned back and sees the person to be Yulin and Yulin peeps at Raen.
   "Looks like you could use an extra hand." Yulin said while smiling.
   "Thanks." Raen said with a smile.
   "That's far enough, human." A feminine voice said.
   Raen and Yulin turns and sights the person to be Xarafi who was being accompanied by Camina and a couple of other hivelings.
   "Uh... Who is she?" Yulin asked with a raised brow.
   "I have no idea." Raen replied.
  "Ooh, Xarafi, i can feel the pressure of that human there and she is clearly no joke." Camina said.
    "Is that so?" Xarafi asked, "I will be the judge of that."
    Xarafi walks away from Camina and heads down towards Raen and Raen responds in the same way by walking away from Yulin and moving towards Xarafi. The humans and the hivelings stood still and watched as Raen and Xarafi stood face to face with each other while having their arms crossed.
   "Camina believes you to be strong but in my eyes, you are just going to be another overhyped victim." Xarafi said.
   "Oh really?" Raen asked.
   "Your power though says you are different from the other humans i have killed." Xarafi said, "So before i get rid of you, i'll have to ask..."
   "Any last requests?"  Xarafi said as she placed her forehead against Raen's.
   "Yes. Just one." Raen answered.
   Raen swiftly struck Xarafi with a punch to her cheek that left her stunned and made her eyes become pupilless.
   "Get the hell out of my face!!" Raen angrily said.
   Raen immediately unloaded 13 punches on the cheeks of Xarafi and finalized everything with an uppercut that raised her high a bit and lay unconscious on the ground, which brought shock to Camina and the other hivelings.
   Balog was also filled with disbelief as he witnessed the incident from his screen.
   "What the...?"
 Meanwhile at the red leafed forest, many of the hivelings were still in shock and were short of words at what just happened.
   "X-Xarafi..." Camina said.
   "Who is next?" Raen asked as her irises glowed.
 

 

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