Chapter 32 - Man Hunt

They all proceeded to shoot arrows towards Eric. It was hard to predict when to dodge. As there were twenty archers randomly shooting arrows towards him.

Eric could feel several cold arrows he dodged while almost getting hit.

He felt the arrows scratching the surface of his skin and ripping apart parts of his clothing.

He blasts a fireball whenever he isn't dodging arrows. Which seems rather difficult to doo, resulting on unsuccessful hits most of the time. He doesn't think that he will be able to fight off all twenty of them.

Unlike in Crutal Kingdom, he fears for his life now. As so many innocent people could be saved and escape slavery if saved by him on the future.

And on Crutal Kingdom, he could shoot freely.

Here he needs to be careful to not cause a collapse, which would put many lives at risk.

Just when he felt that he won't be able to keep this up for a long period of time, reinforcements finally arrived.

The Grand Masters seem to have made their way down to the volcano and with effortful teamwork, they controlled the lava upwards towards the rest of the lava controllers.

What was awaiting the remaining ill.u.s.tratio archers, will give them eternal nightmares if they make it out alive.

But under such circ.u.mstances, the chances are as slim as a single hair.

Molten lava, coming from tens of ways was approaching the archers. Once closing up to their target, the lava was forced to blend together. Forming a ocean wave like scene.

Except this wave would rip the skin off of your body.

However when the lava was making their way in mid air, not even a small drop of it touched Eric. Either way he wouldn't feel the burn. But the lava at this scene wasn't holding still and would slam Eric against the hard ground.  Amazing compared to the part that Eric was right in the middle when such wave was forming.

Making Eric look like he is doing the Lava Controlling. Which made it a whole lot more terrifying on the Archers points of view.

The lava went above Eric and quickly made its way downwards again aiming for the archers.

The blow was so devastating that it killed all the remaining archers almost instantly.

And the people who were in the protective fire shield that Mogranius provided, were even able to hear the half screams one archer made as the lava was pushing him against the shield, burning him alive on the spot.

But of course that display was short lasting.

All the excessive amount of Molten lava that was pooling around on the main entrance, was quickly dragged back by the Calidum Lutum in a excusitie manner.

Making it safe for Mogranius to break the shield.

Due to the absolute control the Calidum Lutum had over the lava, the body of the victim shot by Guard Commander Chan wasn't burned in to a crisp. The lava didn't even touch him.

Near the body was of course the crossbow Guard Commander Chan carelessly left behind.

Perhaps this is what King Xakro the lll(current King of Crutal Kingdom), meant by

"We have a new weapon that will aid you in battle."

As Guard Commander Chan seemed to be the only one holding a crossbow.

Crossbows were invented not to long ago. Less than a decade to be exact. And they each cost a hundred gold coins to purchase.

Rather expensive as most people earn fifty gold pieces a month.

However, no one ever saw crossbows that shoot explosive ammunition.

What sorcery is placed behind this so called "Weapon" is not certain. But for sure Stefan would love to examine it after all of this.

As Mogranius broke the fire shield that took half of his stamina, Commander Alia instantly shouted

"Get them. Do not let any of them survive this."

As Eric was flying on mid air, he instantly flew his way towards the tunnel, hunting for Guard Commander Chan and the four archers that were escorting the coward out.

Ignoring the fact that he lost half of his Stamina, Mogranius blasted fire off of his feet and followed Eric shortly after.

The guard who was saved by Commander Alia also unleashed a harsh, rage filled, animal like roar and followed Eric and Mogranius, aiming to brutally end the attackers lives.

Although Mogranius was flying, he was shortly after given company by the ten foot tall guard who was shaking the ground as he was running.

Expectable from a five hundred pound man.

Reaching and shortly after passing Mogranius, it was rather interesting to see a large man run. And his speed was astonishing as well. But i suppose that the rage behind his eyes made him run a little faster.

Eric who was a bit more further ahead, saw well that he was approaching the cowardly ill.u.s.tratios. Although the archers near Guard Commander Chan were qualified as an elite team, they didn't seem to have shame in running away.

But when Eric was able to spot them. The archers weren't running.

He saw his father who seemed to have utilized a stick, breaking the firm wooden bows of three archers which of course disarmed them. As for the fourth archer, he was being continuously stepped on by BlackWind until he was no longer able to stand up.