Chapter 312 - Prelude To The Catastrophe

The ground shook. 

And-

Half of the stalls collapsed. 

"What the hell!" I yelled. 

Dust, debris… and black?

'Soldiers?'

The soldiers were back?

My breathing increased. My heart raced. 

This was bad. 

Wasn't it going to take them at least a few days more?

But I didn't have time to worry about that. 

They were here, and they were right there. 

Smoke- the smell of burning. If I didn't act now, all this would just go to waste. 

They'd worked so hard to rebuild- so hard….

I had to make a decision and I had to make it now. 

'Damn!'  I ran. I ran straight for them. "Anyone who doesn't want to fight, just get the hell out of here!" I screamed and ran hard. 

My stomach also rumbled. 

Yeah, I shouldn't have eaten that stick of meat. 

Why the hell didn't I bring my sword? 

Slash! 

I still had my saber which I used to slice through any soldier that came in front of me. 

They kept pouring out of the ground. More and more and more. 

And their skin was rather something too. 

Of course, my saber was much stronger now but- "Do you ever wanna come out, you damn dragon-snake thingy?"

Yeah, no response.

Screams- chaos. 

People were running away; some were standing up and fighting. 

The black ones were tough but they weren't anything special. 

So far though, no sign of the purple soldiers. 

"Why is it always you?" The voice came from above. "And wait, they're back!?"

It was Rose, her voice was rather high pitched too. She probably thought I'd caused a commotion and flew here.

I couldn't blame her. 

I had a knack for making trouble. 

"Go warn the headmaster or something!" I said, kicking a black soldier. 

She didn't waste a moment and just left. 

Well, that saved time. 

"What do we do now!?" A student asked me. 

We were about twelve?

While the black soldiers numbered in maybe some few hundred and they had us surrounded. 

And thanks to the guys around me, I couldn't really use my powers freely either. 

Not the best situation. 

"Half of my family is still on the island. Just hold on for a moment and we'll crush these things and send them packing!"

I had no intentions of getting my family involved. I didn't want them to get hurt. 

But I had to say something to these guys. I couldn't have them breaking down on me now, could I? 

Weirdly the students were really relieved to hear that. 

Anyway- I continued pouncing on any and every black soldier in my immediate vicinity. 

How many did I kill? Ten? Twenty? A hundred?

Not enough.

But so far, I didn't see any purple soldiers and these black ones weren't really going out of their way to other areas either; they weren't even attacking the students around me. It was almost as though… they were… 'Targeting me?'

Damn it!

It should have been obvious.

The headmaster had warned me about this too. 

"Alright boys, sorry to say, but-" I grinned. "You're just getting in my way, would you guys mind getting the hell out of here?"

One of them literally burst out laughing while some grimaced. 

I didn't have time to explain shit to them.

But I did encase them in a barrier- and started running towards the back end of the field where it was a bit more open. 

As expected, the soldiers followed me, without even looking at the guys in the barrier. 

They were targeting me, alright. 

With a bit of distance maintained, I undid the barrier, focused, and created a plasma ball. 

Thud!

A beam of light pierced a dozen or so soldiers and they fell on the ground. The geezer was up in the sky. 

'Wasn't sunlight supposed to be hell for you?'

More help was coming. 

Anyway, I threw the plasma ball and it exploded, taking out about fifty or so of the soldiers. 

Still- more were coming and they were coming fast. 'Are their numbers endless or-'

Meanwhile, the headmaster came running, and so did quite a few members of my family. Grandma, Uncle, Mom and dad, and loads of cousins. They were working together to take down the soldiers. 

Marg wasn't here though. 

'This is easy…'

'Too easy.'

The shadow agreed with my sentiment. 

It was too easy and I had a feeling, things were going to take a very bad turn. 

After all, even last time, when I was so enraged, it took a lot more to deal with just three black soldiers, and now they were falling like flies?

My powers had improved ever so slightly but they definitely hadn't improved to the level where even a punch would kill these soldiers. 

Not to mention the soldiers never used any sort of abilities….

Something just didn't add up. 

A sound- almost like thunder!

"It seems the rumors weren't just rumors after all."  Finally- a gate opened just before my eyes. Red particles flew everywhere. "For once those bastards weren't exaggerating."

And someone or rather something crossed it. 

'The hell is that thing?'

It was purple- three times bigger than Uncle and protected by armor? Who the hell wore armor?

And it had horns and was that a sword behind its back?

I stood my ground, pointed my saber at the purple soldier. "You know, I know you're doing this for fun and all that. But honestly, I despise your kind."

The huge purple thing blinked twice, head slightly tilting to its left. "Oh, you understood that?" He-no, she giggled. "Interesting." The body was that of a guy's but the voice was feminine. 

She also took a battle stance, one left forward, one leg back, like she was swatting or something. And she just cracked her neck, pulling out the large sword. "Get up you maggots!" She yelled and almost all the fallen soldiers started getting up like zombies.

Yeah, easy my ass. 

The soldier just swung her sword. It was a big sword, very jagged. One moment she was twenty meters far- another- she was right in front of me. 

Fast.

The sword descended. 

I blocked it with my saber.

Thud!

A shockwave went through and my feet almost dug into the ground. 

I had both hands but I could feel my bones creaking. Barriers weren't doing a thing. 

Such power!

"Isn't this fun?" And then- she grinned and kicked me. 

I flew back- uncle caught me. 

"Oh yeah, killing innocent people and ruining lives is so interesting and fun," I snorted.

That hurt! 

I almost broke a bone.

Uncle was just next to me, and I could literally hear him snort. He was desperately trying to hide it. well, it sure wasn't working. 

I actually forgot for a moment that my family did all that for a living.