Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix

"Heh, it seems that we are finally going to fight side by side again, Rain," Roan said while smiling. "The last time, we had to run, but not this time."

"Why is everyone raising so many death flags?" Rain thought.

In the end, that was war, Rain could only do his best to protect those closest to him… or he could just charge toward the middle of the enemy's camp and destroy their crystal. Still, he decided to wait for the chance to come first.

Rain stepped in toward the enemies, and instead of punching or piercing their chests, he hit them with the palm strikes… that wasn't much his style, but thanks to his Charge and Limit Breaker, he was able to send the enemies flying and spinning in the air to the distance… Some of them had their torso smashed, but they exploded in the air and far away from Rain and the others.

The others realized that they could do the same, and soon they did that. Roan moved his sword to the side and then charged. When the enemies tried to impale or hit him with magic, he would move to the side with a single small step, and then he would bodyslam the enemies, paralyzing them for a moment thanks to the impact, and then swinging down his sword…

The wound had been relatively light, but it covered the whole armored torso of the enemy. The damage began to spread, but then Roan kicked the enemy away and made him explode twenty meters away.

Since the enemies didn't have that much mana, their explosions only covered a range of ten meters, but that had been enough to hit their allies and make some of them explode as well… things were getting quite chaotic.

"Are they planning to sacrifice all of their soldiers?" Roan wondered while biting his lips in shock.

Roan soon recovered his composure when he saw Jori swinging his sheathed sword around from one side to the other… he was able to knock down the enemies without making them explode, even if they had shields… still, when he was about to pass by them, they began to explode… Reca quickly pulled him away with the tip of her spear, and he barely avoided the damage.

"There is no point in showing mercy… the enemies will make the sparred soldiers explode in one way or the other," Reca said.

Jori got up, taking a deep breath… it seemed that Reca was cautious of killing the enemies as well, and she just used sweep strikes to keep the enemies from being pushed backward… she had a life inside of her, so she couldn't be reckless despite her words.

"I can't find the enemy that uses the magic bombs… where the fuck is that son of a bitch?" Rain thought while looking around.

Rain couldn't risk leaving his friends alone, and he had to react fast to cover for them if something happened, after all. So, it seemed that the best option was to keep decreasing the human army numbers a bit at a time while being cautious.

Soon enough, the whole group was able to sense tremblings coming from the other side of the city… the magic people finally joined the fray, and considering the number the explosions, it didn't seem like they were having much luck on their side.

"Rain, look…" Roan said after grabbing Rain's shoulder.

Rain looked in the direction that his father was pointing, and then he saw a tower emerging in the middle of the city… it was a bit too far away to see who was there, but he could see two people there… he could only imagine that they were the king and Joanis…

"From this distance… I can't do anything without magic," Rain thought.

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Someone else thought that they could… that someone was Seadrei… although he never saw the king and Joanis, one didn't have to be a genius to realize who could be those there.

In the next moment, Seadrei jumped upward with all his might and then made his body move backward like a spring. Then, he threw the spear at those two…

The spear flew like making the sound of a lightning bolt, there was no time to react to it, but in the end, the weapon didn't even reach those two. It stopped a couple of meters away from them, hitting another barrier.

The resounding impact of the sea emperor's colossal spear against the protective barrier surrounding the king and Joanis sent shockwaves rippling through the entire area. The city itself seemed to crack in response to the sheer force of the collision. Rain, along with those watching, was left in shock at the barrier's remarkable resilience.

As the strike landed, Rain couldn't help but assume that this barrier was specifically designed to ward off physical attacks. The realization presented a considerable problem, for it was evident that conventional physical force would prove ineffective against it.

The question of how to breach or dismantle such a formidable defense troubled him, casting a shadow over their strategies and intensifying the difficulties of the battle ahead.

"I never heard of barriers like the ones Joanis can use… where did he get such knowledge?" Rain furrowed his eyebrows.

In the next moment, the sea emperor made his spear return to him… that was one neat ability to have. For a moment, Rain thought that he didn't value his weapon all that much, but it seemed that he was wrong about that.

The sea emperor didn't do anything else but look at the tower with annoyance in his face… he at least knew that he shouldn't leave his men behind and charged recklessly… they would try to follow him even though a sea of explosions after all.

"Something is wrong about this," Jori jumped backward and then looked around. "They don't seem brainwashed, but they don't care about seeing that they are being used as bombs when they die…"