The threads which were wrapped around them were suddenly let loose.
Their figures dropped to the ground before Lara quickly got to healing them.
Violet slowly descended before running up to the group.
They all looked at Ria with a look of admiration.
Ria let out a deep breath. "May you rest in peace." She muttered before turning to them.
Seeing everyone looking made her quite nervous. She mistook them for being mad when they were really impressed.
"Hehe… Sorry for only showing up at the end… I was trying to get him to drop his…"
Ria's eyes landed on the fight which was going on in the other side of the garden.
She was at a loss for words, so much that she didn't bother to finish what she was saying.
A strong gust of wind, was blowing towards them, causing them all to turn their heads towards the source.
Kylo felt his heart sink along with a chill going down his spine.
A large tornado suddenly appeared before them, spinning towards Ruby at insane speeds.
The duchess could be seen, floating in the air, swinging her fan towards ruby.
With every swing of her fans, her bells rattled, and a burst of wind was emitted towards her.
Ruby avoided these bursts as she leapt from side to side. Her movement was limited as she was trying to keep the attacks on her side of the garden.
The duchess was a wind manipulator like Kylo, and yet she outdid him in every single way.
"Do we help?" Violet asked.
"Don't! This is just between me and her! Focus on getting away for now! The tornado is going to attract more of those moving corpses and horned ones towards here!" Ruby yelled out
"What did she say!?" Ria shouted
"I don't know! I can't hear her with all this wind!" Lara replied
The moment they said that, their eyes landed on the walls around the garden.
One by one, zombies could be seen climbing over.
It started as a few at first, but gradually, the number increased. Until it was eventually a hurd heading straight towards them.
"Guys…! Incoming!!" Kylo shouted
At the same time, a signal could be heard coming through Ria's communication device attached to Ria's pants. She had attached it just before leaving.
[The raid against the fleets will be commencing soon! Everyone get in position!]
But there was too much going on, the burst of the wind overlapped it to the point where Ria heard nothing.
The girl ran straight at the duke. Her expression didn't change at all, her eyes remained closed as a mysterious invisible force passed right by her.
Again and again, as she drew closer more of the forces passed right by her.
The confusion in the duke's face was at it's highest, as she appeared before him. Her sword swing in motion.
*Swoosh* *Clang!*
She swung her sword down, it seemed to cut partially into something invisible.
But it wasn't the duke. It was something ahead of him.
For a moment, just a single moment as she opened her eyes, she saw it. The shape of the thing she had cut through.
It was a giant arm.
But not just one, multiple ones. The arms were extending out from behind him, and they were what had been trying to grab her whilst she ran.
They also explained how the people's heads burst. The hands, would simply crush and tear them off.
An arm, suddenly swung at her, but before it could hit, it suddenly diverted right past her, missing again.
She didn't dodge or anything. It just missed.
[Vector manipulation.]
A vector. In other words, a quantity having both direction and magnitude.
This girl's ability allowed her to shift both the direction and magnitude of things as she pleased. Of course there were limitations.
But with her ability she was constantly changing the direction of all the dukes attacks which were heading at her, making her seemingly untouchable.
[Vector Manipulation – Cut]
Her katana suddenly sliced through the duke's magic arm, causing it to disperse before she thrust her sword at him.
*CLANG!*
Her sword was suddenly knocked back along with her.
As she slid back, she got into the stance once more.
"Oh I see.." He muttered, with a cold look in his eyes. "So it's that kind of ability…"
She proceeded to leap at him once more, and the two clashed.
*Clang!*
Gray's figure was pinned in the spot by the paused chains. He couldn't move a step, much less avoid the countless blades which were heading towards him.
Despite that he was smiling.
"There's no point in avoiding. After all, I've already won." Said Gray, his hair covering his eyes.
The blades stopped right ahead of him as he said that. A gust of wind burst towards him, pushing his hair back.
Not an ounce of fear could be seen in his eyes, as he stared right at the king.
"You've won? What kind of a sick joke!? You cannot even move, you are as a good as dead!" The king shouted, infuriated.
"It's not a joke." Said Gray. "The quest was to defeat you. I challenged you to a fist fight, you used your ability throughout the fight multiple times. To use your ability in a fight meant for fists, doesn't that make it your loss?" Gray asked.
None of this was intentional. In fact, Gray only realised it after his ability wasn't working.
He first thought it was because the king must have been tampering with it since he could also control time itself.
But after thinking about it for a while longer, he remembered the quest and what he had said. The system was the one preventing him from using his abilities because of the challenge he had proposed.
To fight using their fists. [A/N: Chapter 105]
It was because he had realised this, that he was able to win.
Gray wasn't happy with the way he won, it felt as if he cheated. But he didn't have time to waste fighting a man in his consciousness.
He needed to get back and help everyone.
The king snapped his fingers.
Countless time blades appeared around Gray.
The room began to move in a way which resembled a puzzle.
The chains grew tighter around Gray, but the look didn't fade from his eyes.
"If you'd like to fight again, using our abilities. I wouldn't mind, although I'd probably lose in less than a second."
Upon hearing this, the king facepalmed himself before walking back to his throne.
"Ha… Hahahahaha… HAHAHAHA!!".
He burst out in laughter.
[Quest Completed: The King has been defeated.]
The feminine robotic voice echoed throughout the room.
"Certainly… That would make it my loss, wouldn't it? Very well."
As he sat down, a strange mark appeared on Gray's forehead.
[Reward: New Bloodline Ability has been acquired.]
