Chapter 106 - 105: One Vs Seven

The black-haired young man with tall stature walked in front of the massive door. Placing his hand over the door, he asked,

"What's inside this door?"

"A holy vault." answered the virtue of diligence without much explanation. 

"What I mean was the contents of this holy vault."

"Oh, apologize for misreading your question. Even I don't have much information, but from what I know, there seem to be many rare holy artifacts, and also there seems to be a divine one sleeping inside."

"So it's our job to guard this vault for the divine one to have good rest before he wakes up." said the virtue of humility, joining the conversation. 

"Do you all think that we deserve to be the successor of the seven virtues?" asked the virtue of Gratitude. 

The angelic white-haired girl, the virtue charity walked towards the massive door, near where the other six virtue was standing. 

"We can always try out best to follow thei----" 

Her facial expression hardened, she swiftly turned around. Unsheathing her sword she was barely able to block the incoming attack.

Due to not being able to place her foot on the ground properly, she lost her foot balance. Tripping to the ground, she was knocked back. 

For others, it happened in an instant. Following the sound of,

Clang!

The virtue of charity was knocked away, but before crashing into the ground she regained her footstep. 

"It won't be that easy after all." 

Said the person who attacked the virtue of chastity. The person held a polearm, that consisted of a metal pole with a slender double-edged blade at the end of the polearm.

The polearm closely resembled the shape of a snake.

Regaining her footwork, The white-haired virtue of chastity, asked,

"Why do you attack me, masked one?" there was no trace of anger or caution in her tone, she rather asked him in a peaceful manner. 

And, yes the masked one was Grey himself. He wore a matt black mask with no particular feature in it, except for the two cat-like pointy ears.

"My goal is to enter the vault, and it doesn't seem like you will just let walk by in the vault."

"I don't understand your reasoning for wanting to go into the vault, but we can'---" before she could complete her sentence, Grey dashed forward with his polearm. 

With a right swing, Grey aimed for her face. But before he could even connect his attack, he was forced to block the incoming boulder of rock. 

Crossing both of his arms, Grey blocked the attack. The impact pushed grey backward, but even after taking a direct hit, he didn't lose his balance. 

But the direct hit did its damage like cracking Grey's several bones in the arms. 

The boulder of rock was shot by the virtue of Diligence, he was a mage class. Standing sharp on his feet, he focused all his attention towards shooting any ranged attack when necessary. 

Before Grey regained his composure, 

Clang!

another attack was thrown at him, this time it was the virtue of charity himself. He had dashed in front of Grey before swinging his greatsword. 

Grey was forced more back, as he blocked another attack, this time it contained more force than that of boulder rock. 

So one the bulk one is a rock type mage, what kind of monster is he? how can someone cast a rock attack so quickly? 1

Grey turned his attention towards the Virtue of charity, the black-haired one. He was holding his greatsword with all of his attention focused on Grey. 

This one, the sheer force he swung his greatsword gave me the feeling that my wrist would break in half just by blocking it. Is he a physical enhancer type?

With a dash, Grey clashed his polearm with Chairty's greatsword. After three exchanges between their weapons, Grey quickly went in for the fourth one, But he was forced to step back, barely evading the incoming projectiles. 

One of those projectiles grazed Grey's neck and thigh, the cut that was made on the neck was nothing much, it was so shallow that it didn't even bleed out and it healed back as soon as the cut was made. But another cut on Grey's thigh was deep, which resulted in an excessive amount of blood being poured out of Grey's thighs.

Without stopping, he kept dodging the seemingly endless shower of throwing knives. Dashing away to take a little distance, Grey created an ice wall to block off the endless stream of throwing knives.

"That ice wall can block my throwing knives?" 

Raising his eyebrows, asked the virtue of Humility. The endless amount of throwing knife was the power of a holy artifact he was wearing, it was a bracelet around his wrist. 

Each knife had an impact enough to create a small crater upon hit. But it didn't seem to break Grey's ice wall, even though it looked fragile. 

Grey froze the cut on the thigh to stop the bleeding, before dashing sideways. Upon reaching a certain distance, Grey gathered mana in the palm of his hand to perform a ranged spell. 

Stretching his palm, he pointed it towards the virtues. As he was going to shoot the condensed icicle blade,

"What the---" 

A certain white-haired girl appeared in front of Grey, it happened so fast that it almost felt like she teleported herself in front of Grey. 

But it was in an instant, it wasn't a teleportation power, it was just her raw speed. 

Before Grey could even react, a piercing pain ran through his shoulder. Which was followed by a splash of blood that poured out of the shoulder.

Grey was stabbed in his shoulder with a slender blade, but all Grey could see was an innocent set of eyes looking at him. Not innocent, calling it pure would be correct.

With a muffled Groan, Grey didn't pay much heed to his stabbed shoulder as he quickly created a little fireball explosion in his palm to create a distance between him and the white-haired girl, she was the virtue of chastity. 

But as he was knocked back multiple sets of boulders and throwing knives were thrown at his way which made it impossible for Grey to stop at any point. Simultaneously while dodging those ranged attacks Grey froze his stabbed shoulder. 

Without being able to dodge all the attacks there were many cuts and wounds all over his body, but nothing major.

At a certain point while dodging he was again closer to the virtue of charity, the great sword physical enhancer type.

"Are you physical enhancer type?" asked Grey as he blocked his incoming attack.

"Yes, how did you find out?" asked Charity, he seemed to not be bothered by Grey's question. His main curiosity was how did Grey found it out. 

"As a fellow physical enhancing type, it is not that hard to figure if a person is a physical enhancer or not." 

The Charity swung his great sword in right swing, which Grey dodged since he can't afford to block his attack. Each block takes a toll on Grey's wrist. 

"You are a physical enhancer!?" asked Charity surprised.

In retaliation, Grey boasted his physical strength before swinging his polearm at the charity. They both were pushed back, as their weapon clashed with each other. 

"This should answer your question." 

"Yes, there is no doubt you are a physical enhancer. But it is hard to believe since you are also able to use a rare element, Ice. You are strong I admit it, but perhaps you should give up since we are trained to fight since we are kids. 

You can't win even if we fought in one on one fight with any of us, we are stronger so you should give up. And also the fact that there are seven of us and there is only one of you"

Grey dashed forwards, swing his polearm, he said.

"One versus seven is the indeed unfavorable situation." 

He exchanged a few attacks with Charity before Chastity intervened with her incredible speed. But this time Grey was to evade her even before she was able to close the distance between them in instant. 

Most of Grey's attention is towards her since she is the most trouble someone among them all. Evading, Grey stepped away and this time he found himself in close-quarter to a short stature blue-haired guy.

Grey swiftly swung the back of his polearm, clashing with the blue-haired Guy's short sword. Grey quickly tried to regain his position,

gah! 

A sudden pressure of blunt trauma passed through Grey's abdomen, this was because of being hit by the back of the sword in his abdomen. 

But how? thought Grey. The Blue-haired guy was definitely in a different position, there is no way he could recover his position so quickly. 

Was he that fast? No, unlike the white-haired girl, this actually happened in an instant. Some sort of teleportation? No, this is definitely something more than teleportation. 

The blue-haired guy with who I clashed my weapon and the blue-haired guy who inserted the back of his sword in my abdomen is a different person.

Even though they have similar mana signatures, they definitely different people. 

Taking a step back, Grey glanced over the other blue-haired guy who was standing a little distance away.

Both of them are twins, so perhaps are they switching places with each other?