The team felt eerie as the man looked at them with madness in his eyes.
They unconsciously stepped back, as the man smilingly walked towards them.
"Hehe! Now, I have another interesting bodies to research to! Thank you, you three for your bodies!"
He bowed towards them as he said his piece.
They frowned as he looked at him.
*TIINNGG!!
Suddenly, a ringing sound echoed as they looked at the man in vigilance.
"Oh?! Its done crystallizing!"
The man looked at the altar with mysterious markings.
In there, a blood red crystal was floating in the air with an ominous drak and bloody aura flooding out the whole cave!
"Wh-what is that?!"
Marco and the others couldn't help but step back as they felt the aura bearing down into their bodies!
It wasn't that it was very powerful or heavy, the aura that was emitted was more like soul wretching and full of fury and vengeance feel to it!
"Oh this?!"
The young man arrived in front of the crystal as he held it in his hand nonchalantly.
"Well.. this is the real reason of the ritual.. that information that was given about the ritual giving powers?! Naaahhh!!
Haha! That was just a ruse.. that Ritual was a one time thing.. this.. this is different!!"
The young man then smiled creepily as he looked at the three of them.
"This is the long tine project of our organization!
Blood crystal!!! This is made of blood of hundreds and hundreds of people!!
The more blood the bigger the crystal is! "
"What the hell are you going to do with that thing!!?"
Marco shouted.
"Well... According to the higher ups... Its for the glory of the ancestor!"
"Glory of the ancestor??!"
The three of them looked puzzled.
Even the young man looked puzzled as he said his words.
" Well, to be honest with you.. I really dont know.. but we have actually been gathering these blood crystal since the beginning of our organization!"
"The beginning??? T-then..."
Marco, Akai and Eiji knew the earliest time since the Sword Of Freedom had existed.
"Yup! Its been 500 years since we have been gathering blood crystals!
We have been massacring villages and towns here and there for years now hahaha!"
Although they don't know what these crystals do, nor do they understood why this man just told them this information, but what they know was that, they need to kill him now!
"YOU BASTARDS! EIJI! AKAI! LET'S KILL THIS SON OF A B*TCH!"
*SWOOSH!!!
With a furious yell, Marco rushed towards the young man as he brandished his katana!
*Tinng!!
The young man slapped his treasure pouch and a broad sword appeared, he then easily deflected Marco's attack.
Before Akai and Eiji could help Marco though, the remaining 13 swordsmen subordinates also woke up from their stupor and helped their boss!
"You damned brats!"
Gritting their teeth, they launched attacks at Akai and Eiji.
"D-Dammit!"
Marco saw that Akai and Eiji won't be able to help him for the mean time, and he knew that he can't win against this man at all!
So he had to stall for time, until either Eiji or Akai finishes their fight!
"Wind Cutter!!"
With a loud shout, Marco used the wind cutter technique, then a blade made of wind shot out from his katana, slicing the anything that in front of it!
Yet his opponent stood in front of his attack, not intending to dodge it, nor did he look particularly afraid of it!
"Haahh!!"
With a small shout, a brilliant light erupted in his sword as he swung towards the incoming wind cutter!
"Brilliance!!!"
*Ziinngg!!
"Wh-what!!??"
Marco's wind Cutter was destroyed but that wasn't what really shocked him.
It was the technique used by the man in front of him!
"Marco!!"
*SWOOSH!!
Akai and Eiji arrived just then after finishing off the remaining subordinates.
"That technique..."
They too, saw the technique used by the man.
Although it was just a C rank technique, where it originated was the real problem!
"Excalibur Kingdom!!"
Akai slowly uttered.
Marco and Akai also frowned.
The man using the signature technique of the Excalibur Kingdom meant that he was once a swordsman from there!
But the question was, if the kingdom knew he was a member of the Sword Of Freedom organization or not.
If they did, then killing him would be fine.
But if they didn't know, this would become an international dispute and unless they give them a concrete evidence, then they might go to war otherwise!
"Huuuu!!!!"
Eiji took a deep breath.
He knew that everything here was evidence enough! So all they need to do was just.... Kill him!!
*SWOOOSHH!!
"WHAATT?!!"
The young man was stunned at the speed at which the katana's blade was approaching his neck!
*Baaannngg!!!
"Aarrghhh!! Acckk!! Ack!!!"
*Psshhtt! Psshhtt!!
Trembling he looked at Eiji in horror.
He managed to dodged the attack, albeit slightly.
It still managed to slice through his neck though, with blood spurting out everywhere!
Although because of the various kinds of body experiments he had gone through, the resilience of his body was very strong!
*PSSHHHTTT!!!
"AACCKK!!!"
But that was about it..
Marco and Akai appeared instantly and pierced his heart and head!
*Thud!
Eiji looked at the man's body falling into the hard ground with blood of the people they kidnapped in it.
"Let's go!"
*Ziinngg!
Sheathing back his katana, Eiji slowly said his words to Marci and Akai, who also nodded.
They too, like Eiji felt sad about what had happened to the people that were kidnapped, but they still need to report what happened today to the IAI Department!
They also had to make sure that the three kids that were taken just before they arrived are okay, but that would be the job that the IAI Department had to do, as they still had to be hidden from the common people's lives!
*End Of Chapter.