Chapter 148 A Dance

CLANG CLANG CLANG

The sound of blades clashing against blades echoed throughout my ear. I looked to the side as Darwin blocked dozens of attacks, the archers too cowardly to even think of causing collateral damage. When I looked towards them I saw their gritted faces as they tracked Darwin's movement.

My attention soon was drawn by the voices of fear, the cries of pain, cries of sorrow, all a melody to my dance through their ranks.

With a thought my dagger was reflected, another appearing in my hand as I threw it towards one of the annoying cowards hiding in the back. I didn't even bother to look back, knowing that even if I missed that they wouldn't do anything about other than maybe move a bit farther.

My legs tensed, the soldiers I was dancing around tending in return as with a crack of the ground I dash towards them.

The armored ones had a look of fear in their eyes as I rabidly approached, my dagger held in front of me.

The elf in front of me widened his eyes in surprise as I looked straight into his eyes, my dagger poised to pierce his eye.

Numerous other elves desperately dashed at me, various lights appearing as they reinforced themselves even further than they already were.

"Too late" I mumbled out, as the dagger fell, my palm pushing it down.

Hundreds of arrows appeared in my sight as the archers finally gathered their courage, though they must have underestimated my agility as with a jump backwards I was out of range.

I smiled looking on at the scene of the armored elves being struck through. The arrows did not pierce all the way through but it did pierce the metag. Judging by the absence of grunts of pain I could assume that they weren't injured and it was only cosmetic damage.

Behind me Darwin fought, his spear swinging elegantly as if he was performing in some sort of dance with them. Heads flew and limbs were severed as the dance reached a crescendo.

A smile appeared on my face as I watched him, idly retreating and dodging the desperate strikes by the soldiers that I was fighting.

Eventually though I couldn't hold back my desires and with a leap I jumped over to Darwin.

Feet met wood as I landed on Darwin's spear, my dagger piercing through the head of his current enemy.

With a jump I was behind Darwin, a dance starting as we flowed together. Every attack made was purposeful, as we danced together. Our bodies touched occasionally as we cut heads and bathed in the rain of blood.

Everything has its own end and so did our dance. As the final close range enemy was killed, thousands of arrows were brought before us.

Darwin's grip on his spear tightened, green aether flowing off of him as his arm was reinforced. Hastily I jumped behind him as a giant slash of aether was sent out obliterating the arrows that had dared to block its path.

The archers were smart though, as soon as they had seen that I had retreated behind Darwin they had dropped to the ground, most of them surviving.

A bloodthirsty smile appeared on my face as I nodded at Darwin, my intentions being transmitted.

…

I watched as Aoif dashed towards the archers and mages in the distance, my feet carrying my body as I followed her myself.

"Guh" I heard Aoif grunt out as her body flew towards me, my eyes widening at the apparent minefield that they had created, dust flying around everywhere. Though it soon cleared up my vision returning to me. I didn't care for that though, my muscles tensing as I dash towards Aoif's body and catch her in my arm, snuggling her to my chest.

"Thanks" a blood filled face spoke to me, her feelings transmitting towards me. I couldn't help but smile, the feeling of bloodlust transmitting from her to me.

Ok our previous dance I had been so entranced that I hadn't even noticed her emotions but now that I had I couldn't help but produce my own bloodlust as well.

I let Aoif down onto the ground, immediately though, with a smile and a wink at me, she dashed forwards again. Though this time her eyes scanned the surrounding looking for disturbances.

I followed closely behind her watching out for any disturbances.

"Huh" I involuntarily said, my senses picking something up.

Aoif who felt my confusion avoided stepping where I sensed the disturbance, creating a mirror image of her dagger and throwing it at the spot.

BOOM

an explosion echoed out, the shrapnel narrowly missing us. It was as if they were waiting for us to cross some threshold as arrows different from what they had been using rained down on us.

Aside from the normal enhancement that I had seen the arrows being used with, they had something different about them. A strange glint of the metal as they flew towards us.

I wasn't going to take the risk and try to block nor deflect them. With a leap I grabbed Aoif and jumped out of her way of the new arrows.

BOOOM

An explosion rang out as the areas that the arrows landed in were decimated, dirt flying everywhere and limiting my vision. Though I wasn't blind for long as almost instinctively I activated my shared vision with Aoif and caught sight of their souls.

Looking around I could see all sorts of bright souls however there were some that were brighter than the others despite being of the same tier.

"Notice that…" I mumble to Aoif next to me.

"Yeah" she responded, her head nodding to me.

"Must be the mages, most likely why the arrows exploded too" I explain my thoughts to Aoif.

"Makes sense, want me to take them out" Although it was phrased as a question, the emotions I felt radiating off of Aoif showed me that she wasn't asking, no, she wanted to do this.

"Yeah, I'll support you"

A nod of her head and Aoif was gone from my side, using the dust cloud to cover her movements as she grew closer and closer to the mages.

My eyes narrowed as I noticed something, faint flashes of light were appearing here and there in the cloud of dust. Suspicious, I sped up, catching up to Aoif just in time to intercept an arrow that was aiming at her.

BOOOM

An explosion rang out in my ears, the force ripping Memoria from my hand and leaving wounds all over.

…

My vision turned red, the sight of Darwin taking a hit meant for me enraged me. However I couldn't act in this rage right now, I needed to get Darwin to safety. Though when I looked down to find and grab Darwin I saw a light green cloud of energy covering him, the shrapnel pushed out and the wounds healed.

I sighed a sigh of relief, giving Darwin a quick glance, my eyes signaling my intentions.

With that I dashed off, my body low to the ground as I dodged past countless arrows however there were some that were directed towards Darwin. The arrows arced, reaching the ground.

BOOOM

I looked back, a sigh of relief escaping my mouth as I saw Darwin in a completely different place, his spear piercing elves as he leaped around.

With that worry out of my mind I focused entirely on the enemies in front of me.