Dark Magus Returns

Chapter 873: Strike Of Love

The raindrops were coming down heavily, and it was filling the battlefield in front of the town of Flendon. The hard ground was becoming muddy, making everything more exhausting for those fighting.

Lifting one's feet and even just dragging one's body became harder. They had been constantly fighting, and the added weight to their clothes was just making it harder.

At least, this was the case for those that weren't typically Pagna warriors.

The guards that had fought with the Crimson Crane last time had some form of Qi inside them, but they were still amateurs compared to those they were going against.

Dealing with the rain was quite easy for them, but for the guards and the town's people, they were finding it difficult.

One man swung his sword, his body weight causing him to lunge forward, and then he slipped on the ground, landing in the mud.

When the man looked up, he could see a warrior with a sword in his hands ready to end his life. The sword was swung down, but a loud clang was heard.

Right after, the man that had just swung the sword was seen flying through the air.

"We can't keep fighting in this rain!" Tilon shouted. "Everyone, we need to retreat!"

The others from the Crimson Crane could hear Tilon's loud voice, and he wasn't the only one that had come to the same conclusion.

All members that were leading a squad had decided to move back. They couldn't continue going in deeper anymore. So slowly, they started to back away as best as they could, until they reformed back in front of the gate.

When Alba had returned with her squad, along with the others, she could see their numbers had lessened by a bigger margin this time-around 1400 of them were still present, and two hundred of them were on the walls firing arrows away.

Alba looked out to the battlefield. There were too many people in front of them, so she couldn't even catch wind of where Rayna and the others were, so she could only believe in them.

"Alright, now's the time!" Alba said, raising one of her swords in the air. "If you feel exhausted and have reached your limit, take the pills given to you by the Dark Magus, we will continue to hold out!"

The Crimson Crane members had the Cursed pills, but they were just taking the regular pills for now, restoring their Qi. Staying in one spot and gathered together, they could last longer this way.

However, it was harder for them to move about and strike. Using this decision to guard in front of the gate meant that they had no choice but to rely on those that were deep within the enemy territory.

"We have a huge target to hit. We have to keep giving support!" Andy shouted from the walls. "Continue to fire deep into enemy territory, ignore the front line for now, I don't want us hitting our own men!"

While the intense battle was taking place, moving closer and closer to the walls of Flendon, inside, Rayna and Anna were still fighting against Umonke.

Thanks to Anna's planning, she was able to get them in a favorable position. They had one member of the Behemoth Clan, a middle-stage warrior, under their control, and they were using the special golden headband artifact.

They were slowly wearing Umonke down, but the one that needed to deal the biggest and lasting strike in Anna's plan was Rayna.

"You have the strongest attack of us all, so you need to finish this!" Anna said as she charged forward.

Umonke held onto his sword tightly, and right when he saw Anna coming in, he swung it sharply through the air. Anna managed to sidestep just at the right moment.

'She moved before I even swung down. Even though I'm faster than her, it's almost as if she can see my moves!' Umonke thought.

Umonke could hear a sword striking at his neck desperately, and he lifted his sword to block it. Just as he did, though, he lost sight of Anna, no longer seeing her in front of him.

"Just focus everything you can on attacking!" Anna shouted.

Several blasts released from her hands, hitting Umonke on the back and pushing him forward. He wished to turn around, but just as he was about to, he could see Rayna was already in front of him.

Three people attacking Umonke-already hurt and being pushed forward. His mind was unclear, uncertain of what the best course of action would be.

"ARGHH! You should have never attacked Flendon! You should have learned your lesson the first time!" Rayna screamed as she thrust the spear right through Umonke's chest.

The sword was upon her, close to her neck, lightly touching her skin.

Anna peeked her head from behind Umonke's body and could see the blood dripping from his mouth, and eventually, his body fell to the side.

Another one of the Behemoth Clan's pillars had fallen.

"It's done..." Rayna said, breathing a sigh of relief, opening her mouth to let the rain hit her tongue. "We finally did it."

"Yeah... but his sword was faster than my calculations," Anna said, as the system was wrong. The sword moving at Umonke's speed shouldn't have touched Rayna, yet she had a small cut on the surface of her neck.

'The system can only calculate based on what it sees and make predictions, but it's not perfect. Umonke must have drawn out more power at the last moment. It's best to keep this to myself. I only got Rayna involved in the plan because the system stated it was sure to work.' It was the first time for Anna that the system had failed her in such a way.

Right after seeing that Umonke, the pillar, had fallen, the man with the golden headband ran forward, facing Anna.

"I did as you asked, now can you please take this headband off—" the man's sentence was cut short as Anna swiped her hand, cutting his neck.

The man fell to the floor, and right after, the headband expanded, allowing her to pick it up.

"I know they're the enemy, but he did help us out in the fight," Rayna said as she came over. Although they had defeated one of the pillars, they were still deep in the Behemoth Clan's

army.

"If he had the chance, he would have killed us in a heartbeat for his fake glory and achievements that this clan has," Anna replied. "Besides, the only way to take off this headband is to kill the person wearing it.

"At least, that's the only way I know of, and I have a feeling that we might need to use this headband more."