Chapter 304 - A Corrupted Perseverance

Once the Perseverance took over, Cecil immediately rushed forwards as he manipulated his weapons to attack everyone around him.

In his mind, the command he had given was 'Kill all the enemies' but in his sub-conscience there was something even more prevalent than his irrational command, 'protect his family'.

Under Perseverance's control, Cecil enhanced his body with Ether and charged at the soldiers in front of him. He killed anyone who was in his way as he made a beeline towards the Mag-cannons that were bombarding the Silvaria Kingdom's walls.

Anything in his path was skewered, chopped, and blasted aside. He single-mindedly made his way to the front of the army and once he saw the first Mag-cannon coming into his vision, Cecil jumped high up into the air and slammed down onto it with his spear, quickly destroying the cannon.

After destroying the cannon, he immediately used Ascending Blade and destroyed another one before quickly loading a Cyclone Bullet into his Gunblade and firing at another cannon. The bullet wasn't supposed to work, but he had injected his ether into the bullet before loading it.

The magic formation activated using his ether and sent the cannon flying into the air. It landed on another one which caused an explosion that destroyed the other cannons around it.

Alexandre had seen the commotion caused by Cecil when he was darting past and the line of soldiers that had instantly died, now with the explosions of his weapons, he roared and cursed in anger.

"WHO THE F.U.C.K IS THAT?! SOMEONE! KILL HIM!"

He could only watch in horror as the cannons were being destroyed by magic spells and waves of golden beams conjured by the young man who was rampaging around his cannon formation.

"DAMMIT!"

He thought that Mana couldn't be used and this was the same for magic spells, but seeing that this young man was somehow still able to use mana, he immediately roared at his adjutant, "SHUT OFF THE M-JAMMER! HAVE OUR MAGES BLAST THAT BASTARD!"

"But sir!"

"Just do it!! He can still use mana and that leaves us vulnerable! I don't believe this piece of shit can take on all of my soldiers!!!"

Alexandre thought that Cecil was only able to display this level of combat prowess because he could somehow bypass the influence of the M-Jammer and use mana. He felt a little betrayed because in his mind, the only way this man in front of him could use Mana was if he had acquired the M-Jammer nullifier device from the Empire.

'F.u.c.k.i.n.g Empire!'

"Sir, the M-Jammer has been shut off!" Alexandre's adjutant reported.

"Order the mages to blast that man into nothing! Stop him from destroying any more cannons!"

On the other side of the wall, the loud explosions immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the Silvaria Army because the explosions didn't sound like the ones caused by the cannon fire colliding with the walls.

Near the mountainside pathway, Lucia immediately felt the M-Jammer's effects disappear and she exclaimed.

"I can use mana again!"

"Huh?"

"HAHAHAHA!!! Bastards! Have a taste of my—"

"GROOOOOAAAAARRRR!!!"

Just before Lucia could finish her sentence, a roar rang in the air and interrupted her. She and Serilla widened her eyes at this familiar roar and they turned to look up.

"Silvy!"

"Silv!"

The large white wolf was rushing down the pathway and sending the Merkruz soldiers flying off of the mountain. He rampaged around for a bit and made sure he killed every soldier around him before he ran down the mountain path.

The Silvaria forces immediately began backing up and putting up their guards when they saw the white wolf charging at them.

Angelia who was near the back immediately noticed Silver and her eyes couldn't help but shine.

"What a beautiful wolf! I want it!"

Other than Angelia, the rest of the army turned wary when they saw this large monstrous wolf rushing down the mountain. Just before it could collide with the Silvaria soldiers, the wolf suddenly jumped up into the air and landed just before Lucia and Serilla.

The soldiers nearby immediately surrounded the large wolf, but it didn't show any sign of hostility. Silver didn't mind the people around him. He simply raised his tail and started lowering the people on his back onto the ground.

"Urk... that was an awful ride..." Ren complained when he got down. He stumbled a little and shook his head.

"Ren!"

"Oh...big sis Lulu and Seri... you're both safe, that's a relief..." Ren said in relief once he looked up and saw both Lucia and Serilla in perfect health.

"Master, are you okay?" Yuna asked as she got down from Silver's back.

"I'm fine!"

When Serilla saw the last person being lowered on the ground, she immediately dashed forward.

"Quinn!"

The butler was still unconscious, but there were no visible wounds on his body. Serilla immediately knew that her darling had taken care of all Quinn's wounds.

The rest of the soldiers immediately began to ease up when they saw that the large wolf was friendly. Kaiser, Anastasia, Fatima, and Angelia immediately rushed over while the boys remained in place. Just before the 4 arrived, the large white wolf suddenly disappeared in a flash of light and a small boy with long white hair immediately replaced it.

When Silver looked up, he immediately saw the 4 people rushing over to him and his eyes brightened. The 4 also saw his face and they couldn't believe what they were seeing.

"CECIL?!"

"BIG BROTHER!"

"Son?"

The soldiers around couldn't help but widened their eyes and gasp in shock when they heard their King, Queen, and Princesses call out to the small boy who had suddenly appeared after the large wolf disappeared. Matheus and Luca couldn't help but look over and notice the white-haired Cecil smiling brightly in the distance. Gabriel wasn't here because he was a non-combatant.

Kaiser and everyone immediately rushed at Silver and Anastasia quickly pulled him into her embrace and cried, "Cel! Sweetheart! Mother...Mother's glad that you're back!"

Silver smiled brightly and hugged Anastasia back while feeling a little apologetic at the tears she was shedding.

"I'm happy to be back too, Mother, but I'm sorry to say that I'm not Cecil!"

"Eh?"

"Huh?"

"I'm Silver!" Silver said as he answered their confused looks.

"S-Silver?"

"...Silver?"

The two parents and daughters looked carefully at the young boy in front of them. He seemed to be around his early teenaged years and now that they thought about it, it was kind of odd that their son and brother didn't age one bit after the last time they saw him, he should be a young man by now!

"I'm Silver!" Silver announced once again.

"Silver?" Angelia mumbled as she began to ponder. She was then reminded of the large white wolf from earlier and their family pet that also went missing alongside Cecil before things began to click into place.

"AH! You're Silv!"

"Ehehehe~ I knew that sis Angelia would recognize me!"

"But how? Aren't you supposed to be a dog?!" Angelia exclaimed in pleasant surprise.

"Hehehe! I used magic to transform myself!" Silver happily stated. His face was practically begging for Angelia to praise him. Finally, all of the Silvaria family members understood. This young boy who looked so similar to their son and brother was their family pet, Silver!

"Haha! Silv is human now?! That's so cool!" Angelia immediately hugged Silver happily and began petting his head. If Silver's tail was out, it'd be wagging furiously right now. Yuna, who was a few steps behind Silver, narrowed her eyes when she saw Angelia acting so intimately with Silver and the boy in question happily receiving her affection.

"Hey Silv, if you're here, then where's my big brother?" Angelia asked.

Serilla immediately started looking around when she heard Angelia's question, however, she couldn't find her darling anywhere.

"S-Silvy, where is darling?"

"Huh? Cel's not here?!" Lucia was checking up on Quinn's condition, but she started looking around as well and noticed that Cecil wasn't there.

Another explosion ensued from behind the walls, and this time, everyone could see a large Mag-cannon suddenly fly into the air before a spear punctured through it and caused the cannon to explode.

The spear was unfamiliar to almost everybody there, but it couldn't have been more familiar to Lucia and Serilla.

"N-no way!" Serilla exclaimed in horror.

Earlier, Lucia had already asked a nearby soldier to go call a medical team to look after Quinn. She saw the medic team rushing to them in the distance and immediately placed Quinn into a nearby soldier's care and rushed towards the walls.

Since her mana was now usable, it didn't take long before she arrived near the wall. Serilla was right behind her and just before the girls could get onto the walls, a large flurry of magic spells exploded just in front of the wall.

"NO!"

"CEL!"

It was then that a bestial roar suddenly rose from behind the wall.

"GAAH!!"

Silver who was still talking with Angelia immediately let out a pained cry as he clutched his head in pain and his white hair slowly began turning gray. Yuna rushed forward and pulled him away from Angelia.

"What's wrong?!" Angelia asked when she noticed the pain Silver was in.

"...Silver's Master is losing control..." Yuna replied.

On the other side of the wall, Cecil had been bombarded by a large concentration of magic spells. His auto-pilot mode had not registered the spells and only continued to attack the Mag-Cannons single-mindedly.

This caused him to be hit by the spells and it smashed his body deep into the walls. When the spells landed on him, Cecil was partially knocked out of his Perseverance mode and his Corruption's mind control immediately kicked in, the two weapons' mind affliction were trying to wrest control from each other.

He roared back at the humans in front of him and immediately activated one of his pact's abilities. The pact crest on his hand was an 8-pointed star and one of the points started glowing. He subconsciously activated the ability which would give him the strongest increase in combat power.

In the next moment, his body immediately started changing, fur began sprouting from various parts of his body and his hair grew longer and began flaring around behind him as his ether-levels immediately started to increase.

His nails turned into sharp claws and his teeth grew into fangs. The enemy soldiers began to freak out when they saw Cecil's abrupt change. He looked more bestial and the overwhelming amount of killing intent that he was exuding frightened them.

In the next moment, the soldiers felt that they were suddenly frozen in place. Cecil had spread out his Weapon Intent before he disappeared from his spot and flashed right in front of the soldier that was closest to him. He ripped the poor sob's throat out with a swipe of his claws and immediately began manipulating his weapons to impale and slash apart everyone around him.

Alexandre was appalled when he saw Cecil's bestial transformation. However, he didn't cower and had his mages send more magic spells flying at Cecil.

Cecil sensed this and smirked manically. His spear flew into his hands. After wrapping an absurd amount of ether around his spear, he immediately threw it at the mages who were preparing their spells in the distance. A large amount of ether mixed with Spear Intent exploded and decimated everything in the area that his spear passed by.

Cecil continued to rampage around and decimate everything and everyone in his surroundings. Even as the soldier's landed attack after attack on him, Cecil didn't care and instead turned more berserk and manic. His attacks became more vicious and even when the enemy in front of him tried to flee, he immediately chased after and punctured his hand into their guts and ripped them apart.

This time, Alexandre was horrified. What he was facing wasn't human. It was a monster. No human could wipe out the number of soldiers that this monster had just killed with only a single throw of his spear and massacre even more soldiers in such a ruthless and vicious manner.

"RETREAT!"

Hearing the command, his adjutant immediately sounded the horn for retreat, but it was immediately cut short when Providence cleaved the man in twine. Alexandre immediately stumbled back and was luckily saved from having his body pierced by Serenity.

Cecil only smirked when he saw the soldiers backing away. The horn for the retreat was cut short so they didn't properly hear the order. Alexandre decided to abandon the people in the front and ordered only the people near him to retreat.

"They should at least be able to buy me some time to escape!"

Cecil didn't pay the retreating soldiers any mind. He flashed next to a Mag-cannon and threw it into the air. He flashed by a few more cannons and threw them up as well. The large cannons all landed in front of the retreating soldiers and created a blockade of cannons that effectively blocked the army's path of retreat.

"GRAAAAAHHHH!!!" Cecil raised an excited roar and flashed into the enemy lines. He started slashing, clawing, and stabbing his way through the army. His weapons were all flying around and killing the soldiers who were charging or running away from him. Cecil would occasionally send one of his techniques out and decimate the soldiers, further plunging them into despair.

As more and more soldiers began to run away in horror from the monster, the war had turned into a one-sided massacre. When Lucia and Serilla got up onto the walls, they stared in horror at the sight of the bloodthirsty man, who was their husband, slaughtering every Merkruz soldier around him.

"CEL!"

"DARLING!"

""STOP!!"" The two cried out in unison.

Just as they were about to dash forward, Lucia and Serilla were immediately stopped by an overwhelming pressure that blasted them backward.

In the distance, Cecil had raised Corruption high up in the air and was gathering an overwhelming amount of Ether around its blade.

The soldiers around him had thoroughly perished and all that was left were the ones in front of him and the ones that were still trying to retreat further at the back. Some had been able to blast away the cannons that blocked their path while others simply climbed over it.

Alexandre was looking back at the berserk Cecil and cursed him in his heart. 'Bastard! Just wait until I get back! I'll thoroughly annihilate you and that f.u.c.k.i.n.g kingdom!'

It was then that Alexandre noticed the overwhelming pressure that Cecil was exuding and the golden sword he was raising over his head.

"W-what?! How could a human—"

His words were cut short when Cecil swung his sword down. A largely concentrated beam of ether shot forth and blew apart everything in front of Cecil.

'N-NOOO!!! I-Is this how I die?! I-I haven't even—'

"RAAAHHHH!!!" Cecil raised a bestial roar after he swung his sword and bore witness to the destruction he had caused. In his mind, he felt exhilarated. This was the first time he had used his powers without restraint.

Everything in front of him had been vaporized in a cone-shaped form and it had carved out the somewhat narrow mountain pass. There were some soldiers still alive farther away, but just as Cecil was about to give chase, two pairs of arms quickly wrapped tightly around him in the next moment.

"Darling, stop!"

"Cel, it's over! You can stop now!"

The two arms wrapped around him were his wives'. Even if he was in a frenzied state, Cecil still instinctively knew never to harm these two women. However, because of Corruption's mind control, Cecil still tried to shake the two women's arms away and pursue his enemies.

"RAH! GRAHHH!!!"

"Stop! You can stop now! Please stop!" Serilla repeatedly said.

Lucia didn't say anything and only tightened her grip around her husband.

It took a while, but the low guttural roars began to die down as Cecil slowly began to relax his tensed body and mind.

The weapons that were still flying in the air around him began dropping onto the ground one by one as he slowly began retracting his Weapon Intent. His transformation also began to fade as his body slowly returned to his human form.

"..." Once the tension left his body, he collapsed and his body began bleeding profusely from all the injuries that Cecil had piled up.

"Cel!"

"Darling?!"

The bleeding started abruptly and it stopped not long right after. Cecil's innate recovery began to kick in and his wounds started closing up. However, his body and clothes were still bloody and the larger wounds didn't properly heal.

Lucia immediately began pulling out gauze and ointment while Serilla started stripping Cecil's armor and clothes. The two started to bandage and perform first-aid on their husband's wounds. They did it with practiced movements because they had long since gotten used to Cecil doing reckless things and coming back home battered and wounded.

His excuse for not healing himself up using his own Healing Arts was because he wanted his wives to do it for him. Now that he needed it, the girls were thankful that they learned how to do this themselves, otherwise, they'd only be panicking right now.

Back on the walls, everyone from the Silvaria Kingdom bore witness to the destruction of the Merkruz Army that was single-handedly caused by the man who was now lying in the embrace of Lucia and Serilla.

Silver dashed forward, jumped down from the walls, and quickly transformed into his wolf form. Once he landed on the ground, he swiftly dashed over to his Master's side.

"...Is Master alright?" Silver asked.

"He's fine...just worn out and unconscious... I think he used both Perseverance and Corruption..." Serilla said.

"There are still some enemy soldiers remaining... should we—"

"No, Silv... that's enough killing for one day..." Lucia said tiredly as she tightened her embrace around the man in her arms. It was the first time she saw Cecil lose control and it wasn't very pleasant.

"Alright...hop on my back. Let's go home."