The Next Day...

The four were walking across the plains, Kry being in front He stopped and pulled out a pair of binoculars and looked through them.

"Nothing yet..." He sighed and put his binoculars away, continuing to walk. Hugo looked at Kry and spoke.

"How do we know this is the right way? Maybe the path led elsewhere."

Kry kept looking ahead as he walked, answering Hugo. "Because the road which deviated from the main road can only go northeast from our current position as the main road keeps going north, it'll be a pretty useless road if it went off of the main road only to connect back onto it."

"Hmm..I see. So the Emperor's location is somewhere out there."

Kry suddenly stopped walking.

"Wait."

Everyone else stopped.

"Someone is walking in this direction." He observed through his binoculars.

Hugo and Altara summoned their battleaxe and greatsword respectively, Konstantine took out her pistol and enchanted it with lightning. Kry's eyes widened.

"It's Trench."

"Trench?? The general?" Altara asked, grimacing.

"Yes, the one Radius knows."

Trench's eyes suddenly beamed light blue.

"He has a Braveye!" Kry's eyes narrowed.

"Of course he does, shit!" Hugo walked in front of the group and summoned a shield in his other hand. "Well at least we have some information on them thanks to Krow. He must be in the Kalamitus..maybe he's their leader as he's a general."

Trench looked at Hugo and in what seemed to the naked eye he vanished.

Hugo's eyes widened. "He's vanished?!"

The group looked around swiftly, Altara extending his greatsword across his body.

"THERE!" Konstantine fired and the group looked in the direction she shot in. Nothing was there. "Damnit he vanished agai-"

BAM!

Konstantine was hit in the side of the head, knocking her out instantly. Altara flinched as this happened and looked at Konstantine fall, his breath becoming raspy.

"Alt! Focus." Hugo kept Altara from panicking, making him ease up and focus.

"Hugo. Let us combine our magik." Kry said calmly.

"No problem, bud!" Hugo grinned.

Hugo summoned two shields around each of the three and Kry applied an orbit to their bodies, the shields started to rotate extremely fast around them, not colliding with each other at all.

"Combination complete. Orbiting Protection."

Kry mumbled.

Altara felt a lot safer with two shields spinning around him.

"Altara, these shields will not collide with each other but can still collide with your body. This is the first step of Gravity Magik! Use your willpower and mould a barrier in your mind that stops the shields from spinning around you when you attack with your greatsword so you don't harm yourself! Halt my orbit when you attack!" Kry instructed Altara.

Altara's eyes widened after hearing Kry's instruction, but he focused ahead of him. Maybe Kry was preparing him for more teachings in the future...but Altara put these thoughts aside. They must defeat Trench!

"Stick close to each other!" The three went back to back as Kry ordered.

"I have a plan. Kry, lower the gravity in this area when you hear footsteps..hopefully that throws him off." Hugo spoke quietly to Kry, hoping Trench wouldn't hear.

...

Paf paf paf paf paf...

Kry heard rapid footsteps and lowered the gravity in the area, pointing at the sky as the group started floating slowly up. Trench flew past them and slammed into a tree, coughing blood as he hit the tree at an extremely fast rate, a large crack was also heard when this happened.

"Hahh...hahh.." Trench panted out, his right forearm was snapped and bent backward.

Trench glared at them with his blazing light blue eyes, grabbing a branch on top of the tree with his left arm to stop himself floating any higher.

The three looked at him and got ready for anything, but what they didn't expect was Trench's left eye to stop glowing light blue and turn into a light green. The group's eyes widened as they saw this.

"Apollo..."

"TWO BRAVEYES?!" Hugo looked in shock. "I never kn-"

"Me neither, yet we must focus! We outnumber him but his ability of speed is build to take on groups such as ourselves." Kry adjusted his glasses.

Trench's eyes, the right light blue and the left light green glowed. His right forearm slowly went back to where it belongs. Trench grunted in pain as this happened and shook his arm once it had healed.

"He started healing when he activated that green Braveye..He has speed and healing. We must take him out swiftly by pinning him down and striking." Kry adjusted his glasses and cleared his throat.

Trench kicked off the tree away from the group, soon landing on his feet as he went out of range from Kry's gravity and vanishing away from the group.

RATATATATATAT!

Bullets flew at the group from the west but thanks to Kry and Hugo's combination the bullets were blocked by the spinning shields.

Kry looked around. "Kh! He's so fast that we don't have enough space to swing at him, we must split apart!"

The three ran apart and as soon as they stopped running Altara felt a blunt attack to his side, he coughed blood and staggered to the side, stopping the spinning shields and swinging his greatsword at where the attack came from, obviously missing.

"Magik..I must sense his energy!" Altara thought. He recovered from his swing, going on one knee and planting his sword into the ground, leaning his hand on it. "Defend me!"

"I must be quick...and use my all." He desummoned his greatsword and planted both hands on the floor.

Hugo and Kry looked at Altara.

"Good idea, Alt." Hugo mumbled, nodding to Kry and running to Altara to protect him.

Kry received a punch from the lightning-fast Trench to his stomach, coughing blood and grimacing.

"I'm okay..." He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.

"Shit! No..It's okay...Kry is fine..."

...

Altara sensed Trench and suddenly shouted out. "KRY! BEHIND YOU!"

Kry suddenly flipped the gravity around him, he floated up in the air dodging a kick by Trench who vanished after realizing he missed, Kry reset the gravity and landed back down on the floor.

Altara's nose started to bleed from the magikal strain but he ignored it.

Paf paf paf paf paf!

Hugo suddenly jumped over Altara and slammed his axe down behind him, cleaving it into Trench's shoulder. Trench coughed blood and his eyes started to shake, going wide as he looked up at Hugo.

"No.." Trench mumbled, taking out a Penknife from his coat and driving it into Hugo's throat whilst Hugo's axe was still in his shoulder. Hugo grimaced and coughed blood. Altara turned around and saw this going wide-eyed.

"GARGH!" Hugo coughed more blood and held the wrist of the hand the knife was being held in. Trench looked into Hugo's eyes.

"Hugo Blackblood...you really...really are a good match. But I am afraid you aren't on my level just yet..." Trench spoke after coughing blood, both eyes now glowing green as the wound started to heal around Hugo's axe.

Hugo's eyes suddenly narrowed, kneeing Trench in the face as he saw the light blue Braveye was now inactive. Hugo's axe ripping out the skin.

Hugo's throat was bleeding still but he looked at Kry, coughing blood and nodding.

"Hang in there Hugo!"

Kry thought as he forced Trench to the floor with his magik.

Hugo's eyes widened as he grimaced, roaring with utter rage as he summoned 10 battleaxes in the air above Trench. Kry used his gravity to slam them all down on Hugo, who kept summoning more..and more...and more.

"HYAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

BAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAM!!!!!!!!!!

Konstantine woke up and saw what was beholding, kneeling with a face of shock. Altara fell on his backside as he saw what was happening. Soon enough the flood of falling axes stopped, and Hugo stood there, dust settling as he slowly fell on his back.

"H-Hugo!" Altara quickly crawled to Hugo and looked at the gaping wound in his throat. Tears starting to appear in the corners of his eyes.

Kry ran over and slid next to Hugo, taking out Hugo's potion from his coat that Radius gave him and pouring it on his neck. Seeing that the rate the wound was reversing was slow he took out his own, pouring it on Hugo's neck as well.

Altara was sitting next to Hugo panicking. Kry watched the wound start to heal and exhaled in relief.

"He's fine. Thank the gods.."

Hugo's eyes slowly opened wide and he was met with Altara and Kry kneeling next to him and looking into his eyes. Konstantine walked over to the three, rubbing the side of her head where she was hit.

"You..stupid bastard. You used your own potion too..." Hugo coughed out some blood.

"Let your throat rest, Hugo." Kry put his own finger over his own lips

Hugo slowly sat up and felt his throat, before slowly looking in front of him at a small crater. Inside of the crater was a dead Trench who was barely recognizable thanks to the number of wounds all over his body. Hugo then looked to his side at Altara, giving a slight smile. "Hey."

Altara who was on his knees next to Hugo quickly smiled, the tear of sadness in the corner of his eye turning into one of relief, falling down his face. "You didn't have to do that.."

"I did." Hugo slowly stood up, not saying more as to not damage his healing throat. Konstantine glanced inside the crater at the destroyed Trench. "Jesus.."

"Come on..let's keep moving." Hugo mumbled as he walked past Kry, placing a hand on his shoulder as he passed him.

Kry nodded at Altara as Hugo started to lead the way. Altara followed Hugo alongside Konstantine who quickly followed along.

Hugo massaged his throat as he walked through the plains...

"Konstantine, is your head okay?" Hugo asked as he walked in front, still rubbing his throat.

Konstantine looked up at Hugo. "Oh, yeah it's fine. I'm more worried about the gaping hole that was in your throat."

"I'm okay now..."

...

"Trench...your Braveyes have returned to my disposal. Surely not...surely you didn't lose to them..." The old Nero was on a balcony still inside of the base where the group was heading. The old man grimaced at the thought of Trench being defeated.

He then looked ahead at the plains from the balcony, pausing for a second before talking out of his wrinkly chapped lips.

"Fine. I will go to them...and to him."

Hisssss~

Nero's body steamed with red magik.

Braveye Profile: Mercury

Braveye User: Trench

Allows Trench to move at the speed of sound giving his unarmed attacks more power if he launches them whilst travelling at this speed.

Braveye Profile: Apollo

Braveye User: Trench

Allows Trench to slowly heal any wound. If he activates Apollo in both eyes the wounds heal slightly faster.