BXBX NOVEL Chapter 235: Some things are better left unspoken
I knew her for a while, so I should\'ve known better. And yet, I carelessly allowed her to skip ahead.
When I felt the aura around her swirl, I merely thought she was about to ascend.
And after taking merely five more steps, the curtains to Fay\'s act finally rose.
BOOM!
Clearly understanding the assignment, Fay didn\'t bother to add any special effects to her charge. Just the sudden acceleration of her own volume was enough to send the air into a frenzy, resulting in a small shockwave that blasted our entire group right in our faces.
With the processing power of my improved brain, I could more or less make out what happened by connecting the dots between the various instances I managed to notice.
Fay rushed ahead, using her aura to shove the air in her path aside, collapsing the spell right on the axis of her sides, so that the rushing of the air eager to restore the balance of pressure would converge just behind her, pushing her forward for just a little bit more of added momentum.
The trees and bushes in Fay\'s path only served as her footholds, allowing the girl to move like a wild monkey, rapidly covering more and more ground, all the way to when she was just about to disappear from everyone\'s eyes.
But she didn\'t, for the last time she reached out, but rather than searching for a foothold, she slashed with her curled fingers instead, tearing into the fabric of space and leaving marks of dense, sparkly aura within those small rifts.
\'No, that\'s not it,\' I thought, right as the rifts collapsed under the powerful force desperate to mend the natural order. And once they did, the condensed, divine aura of the girl exploded in a flash of lighting.
Fay\'s hand left the spot a mere half a second before the face of a human soldier occupied it instead.
Crack!
The sound of Fay\'s attack was dulled, merely a fraction of the shock sent by falling lighting.
But as Fay\'s aura dissolved into the air and released all the energy stored in its thicker form, the poor soldier\'s face simply melted through, as if Fay\'s energy turned into an omni-cutting laser.
The noise created by Fay\'s attack was dull, insufficient, lacking.
The screams that followed were not.
"Hai!" Fay yelled, landing down on her hands only to swing her legs to get back to her feet, throwing the stone she grabbed on the way against her next target.
Decorated with a few sparks of Fay\'s divine aura, the stone shot through the air, and passed through the man\'s barrier as if it didn\'t exist before smashing the poor soldier\'s head into pieces. Yet, before his brains could splatter around, Fay already reached her next objective, this time casually passing her fingers through the man\'s throat… .net
And using the diffusion of her divine aura on those very fingers to disinfect them from the filthy flesh and blood she easily tore through.
Fay drilled her feet into the ground to kill her momentum and turned towards the last member of the first of the two groups approaching us. She bent her knees and pushed her left leg forth, jumping ahead only to crush the last soldier underneath her feet as she landed right on the man\'s shoulders.
\'Ugh…\'
Watching how the man\'s shoulders first bent, then deformed before finally cracking and no longer supporting the flesh of the arms in the task of keeping them attached to the man\'s torso…
Even after all I saw, this display of brutality was enough to shake me.
After all, who could enjoy the sight of the casual clothes Fay looked so adorable in, getting stained with all this dirty blood, flesh, and pieces of shattered bone?
As little as I cared about the humans of this world, strangely detaching them from my inner definition of what humans were, to begin with… the sight of their blood soiling Fay\'s clothes amidst all the gore she brought forth was still enough to shake me a little.
It all happened so quickly. Fay\'s savage moves threaten to elude me if I were to blink or lose focus for a single instant. Still, I held. With the speed at which I could process information and the cache of my wisdom allowing me to buffer said information at some insane rates, my eyes managed to keep up with Fay\'s moves.
Nine seconds.
That\'s how long it took for Fay to start from my side, massacre the first group as it appeared, jump deeper into the forest, and then return back to where I could see her.
Only the greater volume of blood covering her clothes gave testimony to what happened deeper within the trees, as the other group of enemies didn\'t get to make a single sound.
"I killed," Fay skipped back to right in front of me, standing down within my hand\'s reach and, due to her slightly lesser height, looked up at me.
\'She\'s just like a puppy asking for a reward,\' I thought, melting down inside.
She was covered with blood, I know. But the contrast, the gap between her adorable, proud little look and the wildness, the savagery of the state of her clothes…
"There, there," I muttered in a relaxed voice as I reached out and patted Fay\'s head.
This move believed to be condescending by some freaks of inhuman nature, perfectly displayed both my satisfaction with the job well done and also an overwhelming affection that only continued to blossom in my soul.
And to top it all off, with that adorable smile of hers now growing silly as it melted down my hand brushed her perfectly clean, white hair and rubbed the scalp of her head.
"You did great," I muttered, trying to resist the desire to just grab the girl and find a comfortable bush nearby…
Maybe it was the influence of Fay\'s killing, maybe the developed reaction to seeing the combat logs appear in the corner of my eye, or a sliver of the world\'s aura converging on my soul. Or maybe it was just Fay\'s beauty mixed with….
No, now that I thought about it and looked closer, for some reason, the hold of our bond relaxed. And with all of the above coupling with its influence, it was no wonder I felt like boning the girl while forgetting about all the other matters of this or that world.
"Blood and boner, truly it is," I muttered, pulling Fay for a slight hug, caring not for how doing so would get my own clothes dirty as well.
"Well then," with Fay to my chest, I turned around and looked at Makary, "do you get it now?"
Makary called out like that after such a shocking show and jumped a little as he hastily moved his eyes to look at me.
"Do I get what?"
I couldn\'t tell whether I startled him that much or if he was simply playing for time. Maybe I was still underestimating the man and he was already trying to get a better negotiating position in the talk that I was initiating?
"Our weapons are surely powerful, there\'s no doubt about this. And judging by what our enemies are armed with, we can pretty much expand here as much as we want, with hardly any opposition."
That much was obvious.
And while less than two squads worth of soldiers could hardly change or influence a thing, the perspectives drastically changed once we spoke about, as little as a single company.
The moment Makary would help me bring over a battalion or a damn brigade, the fate of this world would be sealed. And the moment army-grade military units of division and above appeared, the conquest would turn from careful and slow to recklessly quick.
In the end, the only limit in how quickly I could take over pretty much the entirety of this world… Was choked by how quickly I could organize people under my banner on earth and bring them over to this world.
But it all started from less than two squads worth of soldiers, Makary\'s scouting group, consisting of a total of ninety souls out of which Loraz was affiliated with the forest, Makary and his men were affiliated with earth while yours truly and Fay could hardly be included in such equation in the first place.
It all started with Makary\'s small group. So it was of utmost importance to establish certain ground rules before the inevitable would happen and Makary\'s strength grew unchecked.
"As we are right now, this man, an extremely weakened ascended of a divine clan, could handle your group. For me or Fay…" I shook my head.
Makary squinted his eyes.
By now, he could already tell where I was going with what I spoke.
"There\'s no end to money, fame, or whatever it is that you desire to find in this world. And I\'m more than happy to share its bounties with you, your men, and whoever we will end up inviting to support our cause here."
I took two steps forward, getting close enough to Makary to reach out and place my hand on his shoulder, a gesture that made even me shudder internally in fear.
Looking from the side, I could guess this scene had to look comical, given how relatively small I was when compared to this lean, tall man.
"I really need your help and I\'m willing to give you half the world for it. But don\'t forget that with the powers I found here, with the allies I made…"
I shook my head.
And instead of finishing my warning out loud, I simply looked Makary in the eyes.