“A Rexronic core huh? You mean this thing?”

I pulled out a purple core that had tiny white lights glimmering. It had a weird texture, it was kind of fleshy. ‘Fleshy’, is that even a word? Honestly, being with Elizabeth made me stupider.

“Hmm, yes, it is.” He inspected the purple orb.

The cold gaze quickly turned into a happy one, but quickly returning into this man’s usual poker face. His white hair blew from the sudden gust of wind. At this precise moment, a flash of movement occurred. The sound of a sharp blade piercing the wind was all I heard before, my body jumped to the side.

It took me time to register this, that man decided to attack me? I take my gun out of my pocket and blast a bullet in my eye, the projectile is about to hit his face before it is deflected from some sort of thin air.

Some sort of force shield? His eyes gleamed of anger, it was as if they were saying; You bastard! His men moved to attack me before he waved them back.

“Huh! You forced me to use my last defence has a resort to your attack, I’ll kill you myself!”

The gasps of the soldiers reached my ears, “What is the Master going to do, he’s really going to fight this man!”

He as fast as the wind launched at me with a combo with his great sword. The sword had an elaborate hilt and a long curved polished pristine white blade, it glinted reflections from the bright sun. SSSH! The blade moved so fast even the air was probably split, but my body moved on its own escaping the deathly blurs of movement.

“HRR! Goddamn bastard!”

The man roared with anger as he released a new strike, it was charged with energy, raw energy was emitting as blue flames around the blade. No… not around the blade, the blade was expelling this energy.

SSSH!

The sound of a blade piercing my chest, blood gushed over my torso, blood rolled down my mouth. The feeling of death was all too familiar, I had grown accustom to this.

DOPAN!

A series of bullets pierced this guys face, now his previously furious face, had turned into a bloody mess. I could feel the world fading out, darkness was consuming my eyesight, I was dying. The pain from my chest had vanished because of the huge amount of adrenaline being concentrated.

The man roared with fury, but his killing intent was futile compared to the massive holes spread across his once handsome face, how could a mere man defeat me – was most likely what he was thinking. He did bring a knife to a gun fight. Who the hell needs magic? When you have the power of automatic weapons.

I looked at my body, it was entirely draped my red. My body fell to the ground. The man’s guards tried to take grasp of the situation, without they’re commander they’re purpose is gone.

“Rescue the king! Secure the premise and take the captives!”

It seemed they’re second in command took the position. I looked back at Chandrelle, she froze out of fear, why the hell won’t she use the items?

“Um…”

She tried to say something but during this chaos no one could hear her, all I saw was her mouth move. She pulled out the teleportation crystal, the crystal itself was very valuable, from the appearance of the item, it was clear that it was worth a lot.

But instead of using it, one of the soldiers had caught it in his eyes. His jaw dropped, he quickly took out his bow and an arrow that pierced Chandrelle shoulder. She collapsed to the floor, with a heavy thud. She clenched her fist, but she could not stop her body from passing out.

Damn it, if only she used the goddamn crystal!