Chapter 128 - Attack Of The Spies (Part Six)

He pulled out both of his wind blades and began to slash down the beasts, and the horde was comprised of Legendary Tier Beasts. Steve was killing them all on his own while Jasmine was strengthening the barriers of the City.

The movement he made was fluid, and there was no room for any extra movement. He never wasted his energy and was cutting them all down.

He took a step back and analyzed the situation. He needed to save up his Mana reserve, but he also needed to kill them swiftly. He clicked his tongue at his dilemma.

"Screw this. Let me go all out", he muttered as he snapped his fingers and a hundred Wind Blades appeared out of thin air. His clothes were fluttering as he took a step forward, and the Beasts seemed to have realized something, as they were cowering in fear.

"Kneel!", he said and the moment the words left his mouth, the beasts began to kneel in front of him. They were submissive to the point that his power had successfully overridden the Mind Control.

But that didn't last for long, as after a while, the beasts began to get up and pounce towards him. Steve just dodged them all and raised his hands in the air. 

"DIE!", he said as he brought down his hand and the blades began to stab the beasts in the heads, and they died effortlessly. There was blood and bodies strewn across the floor, and Steve was standing in the midst of it all.

He dusted himself and walked back to the entrance and looked at the other two tunnels which he had blocked. Both of the barriers were holding up well, and any beast that neared the barrier was cut into pieces.

So, the beasts were quite a distance away from the barrier, and Steve was now thinking which group he should face first. He checked the time and it had been twenty minutes since the battle had begun.

He turned his head towards Jasmine and saw that she was still casting her spell, and it seemed like it would take longer than she had expected. 

"Illusion Magic sure is tough to handle", he muttered as he passed through the barrier on his right, and he altered the left barrier to allow her entry into the tunnel when she was done with the spell.

He wanted to take his time and deal with them slowly as he wanted to analyze the depth of mind control. He was sure that he had overridden the mind control for a moment, but it was regained once again. 

"Whoever is behind this, seems like they are good at this", he said as he pulled out his Wind Blades. He didn't bring his weapon along as he knew that he would be dealing with something insignificant to him.

He yawned as he cut the head of another Legendary Beast, and thrust his blade into another, He didn't use the technique he used before, instead, he was biding his time and cutting them down slowly.

"It seems like the Mind Control on them is not pretty solid. In the last moments, they tend to have the normal violent behavior they usually have. It seems like the higher the grade of the beast, the lesser the control. With this fact, I can confirm that anything above Emperor is impossible for this person to control", he concluded his theory.

Right after he had finished off the last beast, he came out of the tunnel and saw that Jasmine was done with the preparations. She was now in the final tunnel, and Steve just stood outside the barrier looking at her.

She was now weaving her way through the mobs of Beasts with her daggers, and nothing was stopping her from killing them. Her fighting skills were top-notch, and she hadn't begun to use the power of her Magic yet. 

Illusion Magic was specific magic that was a complex form of the Light Element. People who have the Light Element are rare, and if someone is related to the complex elements, then it makes them a formidable foe to face against.

Even the Darkness element had some people who were affluent in some complex forms, and if someone with just the Light or Darkness Element tries to master these complex forms without the affinity to it, it would take the said person several years just to master a few of them.

Jasmine was using her daggers, and they were attached to a ring that she was wearing on her middle finger. She threw the dagger towards a beast that was charging towards her and it pierced through the skull, and she flicked her finger to pull the dagger back.

"She has an impeccable aim, as usual", he thought as he was admiring her from afar. He had a smile across his face, and his eyes were filled with love and admiration for her. After a few minutes, she flicked her daggers to remove the blood that was on them.

She came running back to Steve when she saw him standing right outside the tunnel. he took down the barrier and embraced her, and she was just in his embrace for quite some time. 

A laugh resounded again, and the voice spoke once again. 

"Seems like these are just small fry. Maybe I should indeed up my game. What shall I send out next, Stevie?", said the voice and it disappeared. Steve was shaking in his boots in anger the more he thought about the person behind the attack.

"Princess, the attack seems to have come from someone within the Kingdom. Please keep watch over the King. We can deal with whatever comes our way", said Steve as he pulled out a device from a pouch on his hip.

Jasmine tensed up the moment she heard him inform the Princess. She wasn't sure but she did have her speculations. She looked up at Steve and saw something she had never seen in his eyes before.

"You have come here too? But when did you enter this Kingdom?", thought Steve. The emotion Jasmine saw in his eyes was one of pain, sadness, anger, hatred, but most of all, it was a thirst for revenge. 

(Deep in the Woods, an Unknown Location)

A man was humming a tune as he was walking down the stairs. He had a pink hue around him, and he was spinning a bunch of keys in his hands. One of his hands was in his pockets when the pink hue went off.

"Ohh? They have killed them all? Well, I shouldn't expect less from the SSS Class Adventurer, the Steve Hudson", he smiled as he reached the bottom of the stairs. He put one of the keys into a keyhole, and the sounds of the locks turning could be heard.

The gate in front of him was opened and he walked past it. There were cages all around him, and in it were men and women. And even children in some of the cages. The man reached in front of a cage, and he looked at the man that was trapped inside of it.

The man who was inside looked at the man that stood in front of him. He was shaking with anger and the first thing he did was get up and try to attack the man. 

The man pointed a finger at him, and the pink hue began to cover him around again. The man who was running towards him stood motionless. The man began to speak.

"Haven't you done enough to this Kingdom? What more do you want! I am the head of the Royal Magicians!", he bellowed. The man that had the pink hue around him just picked his ear with his little finger, showing he was annoyed.

"Oh well, I have come here to destroy the Royal family, if that is what you are looking for. And if you want to know who I am", he paused and clicked his tongue. 

"Not that a dead man will be needing it, but I will have uses for you too. It's best to keep you alive, and thus we must get acquainted. I do not have a name, for I was not born of this world. I am a higher entity, and people call me 'ARES'", he said with a smile.

The head of the Royal Magicians was now looking at the man with fear in his eyes. He was quivering and his lips were shaking. He threw his head back and began to laugh out loud.

"Ares? You are nothing but a cheap imitation of the God of War", he spat on his face. Ares was furious, and he clenched his hands. There was killing intent in his eyes, and the bloodlust he released made everyone in the cage tremble.

"IMITATION?! KNOW. YOUR. FUCKING. PLACE. MORTAL!", he said with contempt. He began to control his anger, and the bloodlust was brought down.

He motioned his finger and the man was brought forward, and he placed his hand on his forehead.. After a few moments, Ares began to change.