I became a legion lich

91 Rescue

Kastil waved his hand and spheres made of light less than an inch long appeared around the bud, before breaking the sound barrier and accurately hitting the forehead of each of the traitors. Despite their absurd speed, they dodged any obstacle and killed all of their targets in an instant, showing not just the raw power, but the fine control Kastil had over magic.

“With that, all these traitors must be dead. The mastermind behind it all must have known that such an attack would be futile, there must be another objective. The question is how did they know I would be distracted today?” Kastil wondered aloud, her anger almost palpable.

A third wave of purple spheres appeared around the bud, causing Kastil to click her tongue in irritation. He was about to conjure the orbs of light again, when a purple orb appeared behind him. Sensing that the main enemy had finally arrived, Kastil conjured up all the spheres of light around him. before shooting the purple orb starting to disappear.

Kastil held back his power by being in a closed environment within his own body, but the attack would still have been enough to turn a lesser dragon into Swiss cheese. Strangely, the spheres of light passed through the target as if it were a mirage.

Kastil raised an eyebrow in confusion and turned to face the enemy. The enemy was wearing full armor made of intricately carved white wood. Elves, regardless of whether they were dark elves or high elves, did not use metals to make weapons or armor, but used magical wood with which they had the most affinity.

Translucent magic stones glowed with energy on his chest, shoulders and the backs of his hands. The wooden gauntlets in his hand were the most striking, the knuckles ending in flattened spikes, more like a blunt weapon than a piercing weapon.

“Who are you? How did you get through my magic?” Kastil asked, mostly to himself.

‘The purple sphere must have teleported my magic. I attacked the moment the teleportation took place, so it’s possible.’ Kastil thought, clicking her tongue in disappointment as she conjured another attack.

The unknown enemy rushed towards him, their footsteps leaving a trail of destruction on the wooden floor. The spheres of light appeared around Kastil again before being fired, but a purple glow spread across the enemy and he teleported behind kastil.

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“It’s useless, you won’t be able to reach me.” The spheres of light turned around and flew towards the enemy, hitting his body in an instant. This time, Kastil was sure the attack would hit him.

But much to his shock, the spheres of light were absorbed by the wooden armor, increasing the armor’s power rather than damaging it. Kastil was shocked and froze for a second, a second the enemy didn’t miss.

Stepping forward, he landed a right punch to Kastil’s jaw, sending his face back hard. A shock wave swept through the midwives’ corpses, but Kastil only took a step back, the punch leaving only a small scratch on her face. But his ego was badly hurt.

“How dare you hit a God in the face??” Kastil yelled furiously, trying to rip the enemy’s head off with his left hand, but he ducked despite the speed of the attack, before delivering a left uppercut to his chin, followed by a front kick to his solar plexus.

Kastil jumped back, reaching the other side of the room in an instant while glaring at the enemy. He didn’t understand how a mere mortal could hit his avatar 3 times. He had sent most of the avatar’s energy back to the bud, but he should still be superior no matter what layer of life this unknown enemy was on.

“I’m going to ask one last time, who the hell are you?” Kastil asked as he tried to stall for time. A fourth wave of elves had teleported outside the sprout and the royal guards were busy fighting them.

Individually they were superior, but there were only 100 of them as the high elves kept appearing. Furthermore, the high elves did not engage in melee combat and cast ranged magic focused on the bud, forcing the royal guards to defend it as Kastil was focused on the enemy in front of him.

“I thought you would recognize my fighting style, but it seems you never bothered to research the families of the people you destroyed. Do you recognize me now?” The man spoke in a husky voice that Kastil found familiar, before the helmet’s visor popped open to reveal the face of Selena’s father.

“As an old retiree just waiting to die how did you manage to hit me twice?” The anger and humiliation in Kastil’s mind only increased upon discovering the enemy’s identity. In her mind, Selena’s father was just a helpless carcass with its days numbered, but the man in front was a battle-hardened warrior with the vigor of an entire battalion.

“That’s because you’re weak. You’re used to crushing others with raw power, so your skills are on the same level as an amateur.” Selena’s father mocked him, making the veins on Kastil’s forehead pop.

“Me, weak? Let’s see how long you can say that.” Kastil tried to absorb the sprout’s amber energy, but the constant arrows of darkness tainted the sprout, forcing it to either stop or suffer. The ebony arrows had melted wherever they hit and drew the darkness of the world energy that poisoned him.

The amber energy was balancing the darkness, but Kastil couldn’t move more energy into the avatar without poisoning himself. Also, new ebony arrows were being fired continuously, so it was only a matter of time before he needed to send more energy to avoid being poisoned.

‘Parasitic ebony, huh. He brought a troublesome plant. The seeds of this plant grow inside other plants, using the darkness to drain their host trees of vitality while poisoning them. I thought I had extinguished these things from the sea of trees, how did this old man get his hands on it?’ Kastil wondered.

“Do you really think I didn’t prepare myself before I came here? You’re free to take the energy back as much as you want, but only if you don’t care what happens to the little sprout.” Selena’s father continued to mock Kastil.

“The energy I have now is more than enough to kill a nobody like you!” Kastil conjured a small padded orb from within and placed the baby inside, before jumping against it. Kastil still didn’t understand why this old man was immune to his magic, but he was sure that just one punch would be more than enough to kill him.

“Thanks for being so stupid, you asshole!” Selena’s father laughed, his expression changing from anger to ridiculous. Kastil didn’t understand the reason for his change, until he felt two purple spheres appearing in the room. A dark elf and an high elf came out of the spheres, before holding Selena’s unconscious body and the sphere of light where the baby was.

They stashed the empty purple crystal in their pockets and paid for another nearly full one, before feeding them what little mana they had, quickly teleporting and running away.

“NO!” Kastil yelled angrily, realizing his mistake. He tried to turn the outer part of the sphere into spikes to kill the elf, but he had already teleported and was beyond his reach.

Selena’s dad took advantage of that moment of distraction and landed a punch in the ribs, followed by a kick to the temple that threw his head against the sprout’s floor.

“Fuck! You old shit, I’ll rip you to shreds along with your whole shit family!” Kastil yelled furiously as he swept his fist trying to hit him, but Selena’s father had already retreated.

“Do you really think my family is still in the sea of trees? You’ve been so busy sitting on your own dick on that throne that you didn’t even notice almost the entire family of a duke disappearing.” Selena’s dad said, a smile spreading across his face as he realized he didn’t need to buy any more time.

“What are you laughing at, old man?” kastil asked suspiciously, not wanting to recklessly approach the old man anymore. He didn’t want to admit it, but Selena’s father’s moves were much better than his, despite the fact that he was physically superior.

“No, I’d love to stay and fight you, but I’ve already accomplished my goal. See you never again, you shit.” Selena’s dad flipped him the middle finger, a purple glow starting to envelop him.

“You will not run away!” Kastil yelled, pointing her hand in his direction and firing a 5 meter icy light cannon. Even if the old man somehow absorbed his magic, the cold would still turn him into a frozen corpse.

Unfortunately for him, the old man also had an affinity for water. He conjured a thin layer of ice around his body that acted like an igloo, keeping the temperature around his body at a bearable level.

Seeing this, Kastil jumped at him, his pride refusing to accept that he would be defeated without landing a single blow. Kastil pulled his arm back as soon as he got in front of him and punched him with all his might, but the old man grabbed him by the wrist and threw a shoulder throw, throwing him with all his might against the ground.

“Don’t you get tired of proving to me how stupid you are? You shouldn’t have jumped on someone about to teleport.” The old man laughed as he tightly gripped Kastil’s arm as stepped on his back, preventing him from getting up. The purple glow enveloped them both and they both disappeared, leaving only a hole in the ground where they were originally.