The fight raged on, and the earth trembled under the weight of chaos.
More shadow wolves poured in like a living tide, darkening the land with their eerie presence. The sky once golden with morning light now seemed dimmer as if the sun itself recoiled from the encroaching darkness. The air grew colder, thick with the stench of fur, blood and dead body.
Leon darted across the battlefield leaping pass snapping jaws and slashing claws with practiced ease. His breathing once heavy, grew steady as he fell to the fights deadly rhythm. His movements were fast - almost casual - despite the carnage around him.
A light smirk crept on the corner of his lips as he observed the sea of glowing crimson eyes before him.
"That's damn too many..." He muttered, his voice low and calm. "Well... this is getting interesting... But first I need to reduce their number."
He pivoted slightly calling out over his shoulder without looking.
"Hey, woman, come and help me here.. Don't just stand around and watch"
Lira flinched, realizing she'd frozen again. Her knuckle whitened as she grips her sword. She's just been saved, and by this man she barely knew. Her pride hit her, but now wasn't the time for this.
Earlier, when Leon came out of the inn he headed outside the village and rested on top of the tree. Sprawled comfortably of a thick branch of a tree outside the village.
He was resting when he heard a loud shout of attack, he first wants to observe the situation, but when he saw Lira, almost eaten by the wolves he moved with fast and precise movements.
He didn't think before he make a move, he just did it casually.
Now Leon's expression was cold looking like a predator, his eyes are sharp like a steel. He's the embodiment of a predator among predators.
Lira clench her jaw, then took a defensive stance holding her sword beside Leon, exhaling sharply as she scan the sight of this many number of wolves.
'Damn it... To think I was saved by him. Argh!!'
It feels like a humiliation for her, but there's no time to think about that now as she need to fight. She moved forward, her blade slashing through the air cutting down a wolf that leap at her infront. Black blood sprayed across her clothes, but she didn't falter.
Leon chuckled as he saw her make a move.
"Tch.. You better keep up."
Then Leon decided to move again, much faster than before. He moved forward into the swarm of wolves and he's like vanishing.He cuts through them with smooth surgical precision.
His every movement was clean, precise and deadly slashing through the enemy with ease.
His dark eyes scanning the surrounding, the enemy, looking for an opening, a gap and weaknesses of this wolves to eliminate them faster.
But he can't see a single gap on these many number of wolves. It was stressing enough for a huge number of wolves to attack so suddenly, and he also wasn't used on fighting beasts as there were no such beast on Murim. He only fight with a martial artist not a beast.
The fight continue and Lilianne, who was watching the gruesome fight has a bad stomach, she only came here to assist as all she knew was the knights were the one going to attack the shadow wolves nest. But she didn't expect that they were the one who'll be attacked.
The fight continue, screams could be heard even from a long distance.
"Ahh!!, Argh!! HAA!!"
Screams of the knights and the new recruit. They were so loud that cover the whole battlefield.
The fight continue, blood splattered everywhere, wolves and knight can be seen on the ground, their body was cut, bitten, bleeding, and burning from the fire magic.
The foul scent of the burning body could be smell, but no one give it an attention because to them this fight is a life and death. Whether we survive or die.
Captain Alexander looked at the sight of his men on the ground, wounded, bitten, blood flowing everywhere, he have a complicated look on his face. He didn't expect that the wolves will attack with such number, originally they were the one planning to attack waiting for the right time, but they were the one who was attacked, caught off guard.
Looking at this sight, the scent of blood filled the air.
Then the wolves rushed forward at him with extreme speed, wanting to tear his body apart. But instead of dodging it he faced it head-on, he rushed forward to the wolves and swung his sword cutting through their body one by one.
As he look he saw a massive number of shadow wolves running towards him, it was at this time that he finally decided to use his final moves.
He held his sword high, look up, and suddenly a faint blue flowing aura emerge from his body, covering his whole body like a clothes. Not just his body, these blue aura also covered the sword.
These aura, first calm suddenly erupted.
"Crack!!"
The ground beneath him crack as the aura covered his sword and body. He held his sword tight and his aura erupted again as he rushed towards a huge number of wolves in front of him and slash.
The wolves which was moving at an extreme fast speed was cut in an instant, but the cut was not clean, the wolves body which was cut then exploded like there was a bomb hidden on its body.
Particles of blood float into the air as he continue to slash his enemy using his sword.
Leon, who was fighting the wolves looked slightly at Alexander and saw the unusual energy around him. The energy was like an erupting volcano, it was explosive.
The power of this energy was strong, it explodes everytime it hits something or someone, this is completely different to what he knew about energy or Qi. But this energy around Alexander was like an eruption of energy, for him, who only knew the use of energy in a calm way like using it so casual, it was like a knew knowledge.
This energy did not flow, did not circulate, instead it roared. Each movements wasn't an extension of the self, but a violent reaction, a clash between will and force. It wasn't about harmony but destruction and domination. In this world energy wasn't something to be guided just like in Murim, the energy is used to be unleashed and bring destruction to others.
It shattered Leon's understanding of the way to use energy, where he once believe that mastery came from control but now he knew that power here was measured with destruction not balance.
The more Leon look the more amaze he is, even though his way of using chaos energy was different from the way the people murim use. The chaos energy was a force of a true destruction, even the space will shatter once this is use. But this energy is different from chaos he knew, even though it's destructive it was still weak compare to chaos energy.
The sword on Alexander, glowing with a destructive force keeps on slashing the enemy on its path, like it did not care everything around him.
At the same time the knights, fighting alongside Alexander, their faces show happiness and proud, someone said.
"Finally, captain Alexander used his aura, his befitting of the title of Two Crest Aura Swordsman"
"Indeed, with this we have a high chance of winning on this battle"
"Don't just chat around and fight, the enemies number is increasing"
Someone exclaimed.
"Ah, right." The knights responded upon hearing this.
The two crest aura swordsman, it was this term on how people measure the strength of the swordsman. One crest means the weakest, but the power is ten times of that of ordinary people. The two crest, where Alexander is, is second to the weakest, but still, the gap between one crest and two crest is huge. If a one crest aura swordsman fought against the two crest aura swordsman, he will inevitably lost easily. That's show the power difference of the two.
But right now Leon wasn't aware of this, he just wants to focus on fighting and reducing the number of enemy.
With precise and calm control he unleashed his Qi from his dantian through his body, and move like a snake towards the enemy, slashing them one by one with looking back. Leon just wants to end this fight to rest, as his current body, even though was strengthen by Sutra Iron Body, still cannot endure this type of battle when he was to face an enemy like the shadow wolves, who only much faster then ordinary human, but also deadly and work coordinately.
This show the difference between them and the human he once faced, but still the human he faced before is a hundred if not a thousand times stronger than these beast.
He continue to move much faster than before, slashing through the enemy, the other knights also looked at him with awe, not just them but Lira herself, this was the first time Leon used this kind of move, except from the night she saw him practicing.