"This is perfect. Just perfect! I am sure the King would be so glad to this news!" The envoy greedily laughed as he watched Elric's impressive figure wielding a sword made of Fire. This is on top of his overwhelming spiritual aura and the cheat-like foundation of the Dragon.

"Don't get your hopes too high. That specimen is mine." Arkhoz said as he controlled the ma.s.sive Mech to charge towards Elric. Its two ma.s.sive beam swords left behind flashy lines reminiscent of a car taillight.

Seeing his compet.i.tor making the first move, the Envoy smirked wickedly. 

"You wish to compete with me with that toy? You will only end up dead before you know it!" 

Right after saying those words, the Envoy's image suddenly dropped deep into the ground like falling into a deep black pond. 

In the next instant, the shadow under Elric's foot, expanded to a hundred meters, seconds later, ma.s.sive black fangs appeared from the vast shadow, devouring Elric in the middle like a sharks mouth ready to gulp him in one go.

The sheer power of the black fangs was filled with extreme conservation of Shadow Spiritual energy. A power mixed with the physical and spiritual attributes, ready to break Elric's body while corrupting his soul!

"Wing of Fire!", Elric's body quickly grew up a brilliant pair of wings and immediately flew upwards, escaping the black ma.s.sive shadow fangs. The dark black fangs were like thorns squirming out of the dark ground but still failed to chase over Elric's flas.h.i.+ng figure.

He was like a small phoenix getting chased by darkness made of long gripping thorns but eventually winning over it by sheer speed alone.

SWOOOs.h.!.+~

"That was close." but just as Elric managed to escape the ma.s.sive mouth, his instinct quickly kicked in.

His body spun mid-air, wielding his Sword of Fire, countering two ma.s.sive beam Sword from Arkhoz's Mech coming from behind! It was a sneak attack! 

KSIIING!~

One could only imagine how fast Arkhoz's advanced Mech as it managed to reach Elric in a blink of an eye despite its ma.s.sive figure. Not to mention, it still was able to replicate the same a.s.sa.s.sin type of aura that commands death in between the bright blades of its beam sword.

"This power!" defending himself from the ma.s.sive energy pulsating blades of the Mech, Elric felt the incredible force exerted behind the swing. Slowly, with his disadvantaged position, Elric's figure started to drop from the powerful push of the Mech's beam sword!

His body could not help but succ.u.mb to its overpowering strength as he was forced to fall down really quickly.

But Arkhoz was not done yet, now that his enemy has dropped really fast and is out of his melee reach, his ma.s.sive beam swords quickly rea.s.sembled to form a single gigantic beam gun, almost as long as its main body, and followed up his previous attack!

Zzt- BEBEBEBEEEEEWM!~

With a quick charge, it released a series of destructive lines of light that was strong enough to disintegrate even the strongest metal currently known!

However, Elric pretty much had enough skill to survive such a casual attack. With his ultra senses now warmed up and his third eye and Dragon instinct backing him up, he skillfully hacked and evaded the rest of the beams with great ease. Like a firefly dancing flawlessly in between the pa.s.sing beam of lights!

"Behind..." Elric's eyes swiftly moved from side to side, not daring to waste any energy, his figure quickly turned into a blur, escaping another ma.s.sive fang from the persistent Envoy coming from behind.

Right after missing Elric, the Envoy still continued to expand its reach, the ma.s.sive fang reached higher and higher from the ground seemingly intending to devour the giant Mech as well.

"Got you bug!" the envoy excitedly expanded its reach higher and higher!

Seeing the ma.s.sive dark fangs also going after him, Arkhoz swiftly bombarded the Envoy's vast shadow and the latter ended up exploding into ma.s.sive black clouds!

Seeing the receding black fangs back into the vast dark ground, Arkhoz harrumphed coldly,

"Hmp. Not today dark fart."

His eyes quickly scanned the surroundings and eventually locked into Elric's escaping figure. He was standing in the ground beside granny Kahayag and the eastern Dragon siblings. But just when Arkhoz was about to move towards Elric, he felt a sudden shock out strong enough to disable him for a moment.

It was a powerful spiritual shock shot by the Envoy towards him and Arkhoz happened to be caught off-guard at that instant.

CRAs.h.!.+~

The ma.s.sive silver Mech crashed on the ground, fortunately, it was made out of an extremely advanced material that despite cras.h.i.+ng down from a hundred meters, not even a single dent was left in its ma.s.sive design!

"What did you just called me?" The envoy stood before Arkhoz inside a Mech. The latter had quickly regained his focus as his giant Mech happens to possess an anti mental and spiritual shock. 

"You are a just nuisance. As long as you continue to bother me, presenting the Perfect Vessel to the King will only become difficult. Therefore, I will take care of you first. Bug."  The Envoy's figure suddenly expanded and turned into a ma.s.sive black serpent almost five times the size of the gigantic mech Arkhoz was controlling!

"I am not interested in your creepy Spirituals either. But since you insist wis.h.i.+ng to die on my hands, I will be more than happy to do so." Arkhoz slammed down his ma.s.sive Beam gun and it reverted back into dual-beam swords! He gripped each of them in his hands and leaped towards the incoming ma.s.sive black serpent!

In an instant, Elric's enemies started to go against each other instead!

Grabbing the opportunity, Elric decided to do what he must and that is to keep granny Kahayag and his grandma's body-safe, the two eastern Dragon siblings included.

As he flew, he could not help but nod at the sudden changes in the surroundings. The isolation barrier had been shattered so there was not one more cover to protect them from outside detection. 

Fortunately, not a single soul can be seen anywhere at the moment. Not even sounds! It was as if the whole city or perhaps the province, has been completely isolated from every human and animal!

"I am grateful those Guardians are pretty quick in doing their job. Any more delay and the surrounding people would have been devoured by that Shadow b.a.s.t.a.r.d." Elric mumbled to himself.

He was quite hesitant a while ago in showing his powers, knowing his real destructive abilities. 

As much as possible, he wanted no innocent lives to become collateral damage. He's got enough from his last rampage ten years ago!

The Guardian's effort did not go unnoticed with Elric's expanded senses. He knew pretty much that the reason his enemies were now going all out is that all the other innocent lives had been taken cared for by the Guardians.

True to their mission, they were indeed the Guardians of the Human realm. It was just unfortunate that they haven't made any move to at least a.s.sist him.

In less than five seconds, he reached granny Kahayag who actually seems to have gone further away from her previous spot. It seems that they were trying to move away from the battlefield as discreetly as possible and Elric could not help but smile in her initiative.

Seeing they were still saved, Elric heaved a sigh of relief before turning away his face, Elric whispered to granny Kahayag who was under the cover of her own isolation barrier. Keeping her and the Dragon siblings safe from the destruction of the battle while also escaping the enemy's detection.

"Granny, it's getting more dangerous.  I need you to escape real quick from this place right." Elric told Kahayag. 

"What do you think I am doing?" Granny Kahayag sounded irritated. Elric could not blame her. Aside from moving as discreet as possible, she must also maintain her spiritual focus and avoid the stray shots fired by Elric's enemy or they would end up as good as dead!

The two siblings, Lesse and Long looked like innocent children who were too traumatized to utter a word. As much as they wanted to ask anything with the hundreds of questions currently clogging their head, they could only delay them for sometimes in the future, if hopefully, they survive today.

If only it was Kahayag alone and the two siblings were not with her, she would have used her ability to fly away real quick. Unfortunately, the enemies Elric currently facing possess speed capable of chasing after them. Not to mention Kahayag's severely weakened state from overexerting herself a while ago.

Once they revealed themselves again, the enemy could use them against Elric. It was out of Kahayag's quick thinking that she quickly decides to leave the fight as quiet and steady as possible under the cover of her isolation barrier, all while Elric was making the two monsters busy with him.

"We will do our best to move out as fast as possible. You go end it real quick too!" Kahayag added.

"I will try. But the enemy seems to be plotting something else. I don't know what it is but my instinct keep telling me to watch my back." Elric whispered as weakly as possible back to Kahayag.

Frowning, Kahayag said, "Just focus on the fight. End it as fast as you can. Don't mind us. Go!"

Elric nodded in agreement. His eyes refocused on the two ma.s.sive figures taking on each other.

"I have to go." He said as he quickly spread his wings of fire wide. 

But just when he was about to fly, when he suddenly felt a stab coming from behind.

"Sh*t." Elric could only mutter one word before his vision suddenly turned completely dark. He tried to summon his spiritual power but as if he was locked in a dark void, he can't do anything.

His Elemental Authorities have been locked. He can't feel his physical body and even his senses had been isolated.

In his actual body, Elric was lying to the ground with a black, cursed-looking knife lodged in his back.

It was from Kahayag and the knife she had just stabbed Elric with is called the Soul-Sealing Knife.

"I am sorry Elric. I hope you will forgive me. Trust me, I am doing this for us all." Kahayag said as she finally broke out of the isolated barrier, revealing herself to the detection of the two monsters battling outside.

Kahayag casually glanced behind her, looking at the shaking faces of Lesse and Long. With a wave of her hand, a spiritual shock knocked both of them as if their soul was getting sapped out of their body.

Elric, Lesse, and Long were left unconscious beneath Kahayag's feet, wearing an ever determined eye.