Child of Destiny

Arthur and Leonard were doing everything that they could on battling Shiella but just like what they were expecting, all of it was nothing in front of her. Every time they tried a coordinated attack, she would always have a response to counter them.

But the most troublesome part of fighting her was the freezing status effect that they were getting from her skills. Such a troublesome effect was starting to stack up which made their movements slow down.

With their stiff movements, fighting Shiella was close to impossible. And since they couldn’t fully showcase their real powers, getting beat up was the obvious outcome for them.

Shiella’s spearmanship might be less impressive than Arthur but it had a much solid foundation. Mixed with her amazing spell casting, accurate precision, and the stacking freezing effects of her spells, battling her was very difficult.

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In the meantime, while the three of them were busy in their battle, there were a couple of players hiding in a distance while observing them.

”Is Sir Thirio and Sir Maximo are still not here? It has been a while since we contacted them,” said one of the players while trying his best to hide his presence.

”I don’t know. But from what I’ve heard, they are tracking the Sword God right now,” replied the other person while trying to make his voice as quiet as possible.

”At this point in time? Didn’t they come here to know what happen to Kristle? Why are they so obsessed with annoying that guy?” said the previous guy with a knitted brow.

”Well, that is understandable. After all, he is the Sword God. They will be able to prove themselves to the council if they manage to take him down,” said the other person.

Then, all of a sudden, they felt that the temperature around dropped greatly. They could even see their breaths in front of their eyes due to how cold it was.

”Is it just me or it is really getting cold in here?” asked the guy while rubbing his arms.

Hearing that, the other person knitted his eyebrows deeply before turning his head to his colleague. ”Now that you mentioned it, I think that it is really getting cold-…”

His words paused for a moment as he saw a silhouette behind the other guy. A sudden chill ran through his back when he saw that sight and slowly moved his eyes upwards to see who was the person standing behind his colleague while also trying to complete his words. ”-… here”

Then his entire body suddenly trembled as he saw Shiella unknowingly appear here.

”How-… how-…?” that person started to stutter as he couldn’t believe that Shiella was here. He was pretty sure that she was fighting against Siegfried and Simba earlier.

With full difficulty, he tried to turn his head towards the spot where he last saw her. But just like what he was expecting, he could no longer see a battle going on in that place.

In the meantime, his colleague couldn’t help but knit his eyebrows when he saw those actions. He then turned his head behind him to see what was going on.

Then his eyes turned wide open as he also saw Shiella standing in there.

”Ah-…!”

He wanted to say something but he couldn’t even mutter a word from his mouth as his entire body immediately turned into ice in the very next moment.

At that time, the other person already turned his head back at Shiella and happened to witness that sight. He opened and close his mouth, trying to say something. Unfortunately, no words managed to come out.

Shiella stared at him with cold eyes before saying with a chilling tone. ”I will ask questions and you will only answer it truthfully, understand?”

The scout from the corrupted cult could only nod his head repeatedly as he fully understood that he didn’t stand a chance against such a powerful ’being’ inside the game.

On the other hand, Arthur and Leonard were also clearing the area, executing all of the scouts that they saw.

”You guys are quite skilled at hiding, aren’t you?” said Arthur as he stared at the group of scouts that he caught savagely.

”I am going to let you experience what I experience just recently. No-… I will let you experience twice as much,” he added as the look in his eyes became even more ferocious.

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In the meantime, somewhere in the Sky Deceiving Valley, Thirio suddenly stopped his tracks and frowned deeply.

Beside him, a knight also stopped his steps and turned to him. ”What is it??

Thirio continued to wear a deep frown as he answered. ”I lose contact with our scouts.”

”Huh? All of them? And all at the same time?” asked the knight as he also started frowning his eyebrow.

”Looks like they have been discovered by the Frost Goddess,” said Thirio with a heavy tone.

The knight nodded his head before commenting. ”Given her capabilities, it is not strange for all of them to get captured.”

Thirio was still frowning when he suddenly said. ”But from what I’ve heard, she is busy fighting against the Dragon God Siegfried and War God Simba.”

”Huh? But I heard that they are closely related to each other. How come they are fighting among themselves?” said the knight in confusion.

”I am also not sure about it. Who knows if it is actually a scheme that is set up to lure us out?” said Thirio.

”Tsk! And here we are thinking that this is an opportunity to finally prove ourselves in the council by defeating the Sword God,” said the knight while clicking his tongue repeatedly.

”Change of plans, we are heading back and assist the others,” said Thirio before quickly turning around without any hesitation.

”Are you going to inform the team leader? We can’t deal with them with just us,” said the knight.

Hearing that, Thirio suddenly halted his steps before turning his head slightly to look over his shoulder before saying. ”Do you think I am an idiot? Of course, I know what to do, Maximo.”

The knight who had the name Maximo chuckled a little when he heard those words. He seemed to didn’t mind the cold tone that Thirio had.

”I am just reminding you. Why are you so agitated?” said Maximo with a teasing tone before quickly adding. ”Is it because that the Empyrean Talon is here right now? I seem to recall that you got your ass kicked by one of their members.”

He then took a brief moment of pause before rubbing more salt on Thirio’s wounds. ”It is the Nameless Swordsman, am right. Oh! Wait, he is called the Battle God Sickarius now.”

Thirio gritted his teeth when he heard those words while glaring sharply at Maximo. But no matter how much anger he had, he still couldn’t refute those the latter since it was true that he got beaten by Sickarius in a one-on-one battle and it even cause the failure of their operation in the Elven Kingdom.

”Tch!” Thirio turned around and continued walking while clenching his fists tightly.

*******

Sky Deceiving Valley, Mercenary Guild.

Lewin was currently waiting for Thirio’s report when Killion suddenly rushed into the room with full urgency.

”Captain! Captain Lewin! We have a huge problem!” said Killion hurriedly as he entered the room.

Lewin frowned his eyebrows deeply when he saw his actions and glared at Killion. ”You better make sure that it is something important, or else I will make sure to have you lose a level or two.”

But despite the threatening tone that he had, Killion continued. ”The Sword God and the Frost Goddess seem to join hands together. A couple of our scouts saw them traveling together.”

Hearing such a concerning report, Lewin couldn’t help but to frown even deeper since it was going to be very troublesome if it was true.

Ding!

That was the moment when he received a message from Thirio.

Quickly opening it and skimming through it, Lewin frowned even further as the situation seemed to get out of hand.

”I guess we have no other choice,” he muttered before turning his attention back to Killion before giving some instructions. ”Go tell the others to make haste. Our time is getting short.”

”B-but-… we still haven’t completed all of the five tokens to open the gate. We only have three of them currently,” said Killion stutteringly.

”Then go with the second method. We don’t have a choice since the Sword God and the Frost Goddess are already in our tail!” said Lewin sharply.

Killion was about to stand up and do what had been instructed to him when Lewin suddenly added. ”And contact the other Captains. Inform them that they need to get in here as soon as possible.”

”Also tell them that I will contact the headquarters to send some Messengers as reinforcements,” he added with a heavy tone.”

Hearing those words, Killion seemed to have a sigh of relief before bowing at Lewin and quickly heading out of the room.

”D*mn it! Why is this Kingdom full of monsters?” cursed Lewin before opening a communication panel and calling someone.

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