A Terrible Evil Villain And Their Destiny

Chapter 16: Warehouse Trouble

Corporal Nico Reese was currently in an old warehouse filled with a bunch of old adventuring equipment. On the ceiling hung an old siege car, various pieces of equipment were either in class display cabinets or boxed away. He was surrounded by four demon masked individuals, each one armed with a different weapon.

One stood on an upper landing armed with an energy crossbow pointing it at him. Two of them stood on either side of Nico. One held an energy sword and the other had some type of hooked blade on a chain. The fourth stood at floor level but was quite a distance away, pointing a staff at him Nico assumed that the fourth was a spellcaster.

Nico tried his best to keep his eyes on all of them as the two melee fighters inched ever closer to him. Nico gritted his teeth; it was going to be hard to the with four of them by himself normally and right now he also had to protect to children.

Standing right behind him was two of the Coldwater children, Sable and Gareth Coldwater. The two of them cowered behind him in fear, though Nico wasn't exactly sure if being behind him right now was actually the safest option.

How did it get to this? He thought. A third Coldwater kid, Bryson Coldwater had instructed him to follow the two as they snuck off into a warehouse filled with old adventurer's junk. This current situation was not what he was signed up for and he definitely was not trained for something like this.

Never before had he had to ever face four assassins in a dingy warehouse while protecting two royal children. Nico had no idea how to properly fend his opponents off while keeping the two kids safe. He really wished the guard that was assigned to them was here. But no they just had to sneak away from him and enter alone with Petyr.

Nico noticed that the assassins signalling to one another and were about to make their attack soon. He had to be ready for it. As he readied his own enchanted blade, he did briefly wonder what exactly Bryson Coldwater was busy doing.

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Bryson and Lila sprinted through the alleyways, relatively slowly to be perfectly honest. The two of them had begun their sprint quite quickly, however they very quickly moved in a beleaguered jogging pace.

"Oh... okay... this was stupid idea." Bryson panted out.

"Why are you so slow?" Lila complained.

"I'm seven! What's your excuse?" He snapped back.

"I'm bad at running! Besides I had to run to get you already." She indignant.

"How long until we get there?" He asked.

"I don't know... twenty minutes?" She said between breaths.

"Gods be damned. We may as well have not bothered!" Bryson complained.

"Don't you have some sort of trick as a Coldwater?" She asked.

"We both know that's not how magic works!' Bryson snapped, then he gave a small pause, "Wait, actually I might have something."

"You do? I wasn't actually serious." She said in surprise.

"Yes. Now shut up and let me concentrate." Bryson said annoyed.

He took out his deck of playing cards, with a single flick the entire deck of cards spilled out. The cards all joined together and, swirling around they formed a staircase that lead up to the roof of the building they were next to.

Bryson took tentative step forward, checking out if it could hold his weight, finding it solid he began to ascend the stairs.

"You coming?" He asked looking back at Lisa.