Even though Corvus's face remained calm, the bright red light that enveloped his body proved that internally he was everything but calm.
"S-stop!"
What was even better than indicator than the light of the wrath-based skill itself, was the fact that in the blink of an eye the white-haired young man was right in front of the blond prince and he was holding him up by his collar, glaring down at the shorter and younger youth, while the brown-haired heroine cried out and tried to get in between the two.
"Your highness, I have no idea why would you say something like that. I am an orphan taken in by the Wrath family - don't joke around about knowing my parents. It is very rude."
Corvus's tone of voice was absolutely calm and even more surprising was that even his eyes didn't show any actual killing intent that his hands, shaking from the bottled-up fury, clearly conveyed.
"What is going on? Corvus isn't that the prince?! What are you doing?! Calm down and let go of him"
Mika gaped and slid out of her bed, approaching the white-haired man from behind.
"...I am perfectly calm, Mika, I don't know what you mean..."
Corvus responded to her in the same calm voice that he used towards the prince while still holding onto Roan's shirt.
"No, you are not! Why don't you just...!"
"SKWEEEEEEEEEEE!"
Mika shook her head and scoffed - but her words were interrupted by a surprisingly loud screech of a monster, coming from the outside.
"!!!!!"
"WHAT?!"
Mary and Roan gasped in shock while both Mika and Corvus rushed towards the window, looking outside with exactly the same furious expressions.
"That damned creature is back!"
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64ce79d606107d003c23ea27", id: "pf-5140-1"})Corvus roared furiously, opening the window as soon as a blue shape showed up in the sky - and before anyone else could stop him, he jumped out and rushed head-first at the blue griffin.
"Wha...! Wait, what?! No! We need to stop him!"
Mary gasped in panic, grabbing onto Roan's arm and pulling him towards the window.
"Lady Mika, we need to...!"
"..."
Roan tried to call out to the ashen-haired girl, but she didn't even spare him a single glance, her body shone with a bright red light, exactly the same way that Corvus's did and she also jumped out of the window, biting his lips, so focused on the approaching winged monster that she didn't pay attention to anyone or anything else.
"Of for the love of the system!"
The blond prince cursed, watching the pair of Wraths run straight towards the approaching griffin - and although it wasn't easy to discern one speeding griffin from another especially if they were the same color, even with his miserable LUC stat of 13 Roan was confident in betting on which griffin was attacking the capital of the Wraths territory.
"My prince – the way it screeches...!"
Mary called out only confirming Ran's suspicion.
"Yeah – it must be Blueberry – but why on the system's name is she attacking the Wrath's mansion – and she apparently killed lord Pomegranate too!"
The blond prince shook his head in disbelief while clenching his head in disbelief.
"My prince – now is not the time to worry about that!"
The brown-haired heroine gasped shaking her head with a panicked expression.
"Yes, yes – I know, we have the whole special quest to complete..."
Roan nodded with a tired expression and put one leg on the windowsill with a clear intention of jumping out and following Corvus and Mika.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "64cc9e79c7059f003e4ad4b0", id: "pf-5109-1"})"That too – but more importantly – my prince – that is Blueberry!"
"...?"
But, surprisingly enough, Mary ended up grabbing onto the blond prince's arm and stopping him while sounding absolutely terrified.
"Yes – I know – still, we have to stop her for the quest and..."
"The ones we need to stop are those two! My prince – Cranberry and Zombie treat Blueberry as their daughter! What do you think will happen to this place if someone will actually hurts her?!"
Roan merely scoffed and shrugged his shoulders but the brown-haired heroine exclaimed in a trembling voice, causing the prince's face to turn pale as a ghost's...
"...dear system...! Cranberry alone is capable of bringing down a sigil monster – and sir Zombie...! Mary – forget about the quest - we must stop those two at all cost!"
Roan ended up reacting just like Mary, and jumped out of the window without any hesitation whatsoever, going as far as to use avaritia skill to buy himself more speed using the money that was put into the private treasury according to his first royal order – which was kind of abuse of power but ended up being the correct decision.
"Lord Corvus! Lady Mika! Stop! You cannot harm that griffin!"
"!!!"
*SWISH* *SWISH* *SWISH* *SWISH* *SWISH* *SWISH* *SWISH* *SWISH* *SWISH*
The blond prince with his body shining with brilliant yellow light caught up to the shocking Wraths and called out just in time for the barrage of storm talons attack to be unleashed upon them by none other than the Blueberry herself.
*BOOOOM* *BOOOOM* *BOOOOM* *BOOOOM* *BOOOOM* *BOOOOM* *BOOOOM* *BOOOOM* *BOOOOM*
Luckily, all of the attacks were misses and only the garden in the back of the mansion suffered the damages while the humans dodged to the sides.
"Don't harm it? Oh – I will not harm it – I will kill it!"
Corvus, who ended up jumping close to Roan, called out in a furious voice and his body let out an even more vibrant red light that made the white-haired man look as if he was set on fire.
window.pubfuturetag = window.pubfuturetag || [];window.pubfuturetag.push({unit: "663633fa8ebf7442f0652b33", id: "pf-8817-1"})"SKWEEE!"
*WHOOOOOOOOSH*
"GU-HUAGH...!"
The emperor griffin screeched and dived straight down – the single flap of her glowing wings ended up both stopping her completely and unleashing a devastating shockwave that young Mika didn't manage to dodge in time and ended up getting flattened to the ground and spewed a mouthful of blood.
"MIKA! YOU DAMNED BIRD!"
Corvus roared and rushed towards the girl – but ended up changing his direction at the last second and jumped up straight towards the massive blue griffin.
"SKWEE?!"
That clearly took Blueberry by surprise as she released a shocking screech and flapped her wings desperately trying to get away but it was obvious that she messed up and would have to suffer the full power of the empowered punch by the absolutely furious avatar of wrath.
"YOU CAN'T!"
"...?!"
"SKWEE!
Wit and almost impeccable timing Mary riding on the champion griffin arrived and they both tacked Corvus, knocking him out of the sky, allowing Blueberry to gain some much-needed distance.
*SLAM*
"URGH...! Wha... WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE?!"
The white-haired man crash-landed into the flowerbed and got up in the flurry of multicolored petals, shouting in a frenzy, glaring at the brown-haired girl and her jet-black mount.
"We are trying to tell you that if you harm that monster something far more threatening will come and...!"
*WHAM*
*SMASH*
"GHU-UAGH...!"
Roan ran to Corvus and tried to explain things to him, but was greeted by a devastating punch to the stomach that sent him flying right into the wall – and through the wall.
"MY PRINCE!"
"SCREE!"
Mary shouted in panic and Anry echoed her with his screech as he dived straight towards the incapacitated prince who most definitely didn't have enough DEF to brush off the head-on attack of the ira-empowered avatar of wrath.
"THAT THING KILLED LORD POMEGRANATE – IT WILL DIE!"
Corvus spared them but a single glance before pointing up at the emperor griffin watching them all from above while curiously tilting her head, as if amused that the humans are fighting amongst each other.
"CRI – CAPTURE THOSE FOOLS AND DON'T LET THEM INTERFERE ANYMORE! MIKA! HELP ME OUT! I NEED TO TO GET UP THERE!"
The white-haired man shouted commands without even checking whether anyone was listening – but with his luck, that was obviously the case.
Within a few seconds, Cri came rushing from the mansion together with a group of other humans and elves while the ashen-haired girl was by Corvus's side before he even finished his sentence.
"What am I supposed to do...?"
Mika gasped, wiping off the blood from the corner of her mouth.
"That blue shit thinks that it's funny to watch us – struggle – I have a charge skill that can change direction up to three times – I want you to launch me up – once in the air I will down that damned bird and we will turn it into a mincemeat on the ground – everyone, or at least the two of us."
Corvus declared, reaching out his hand towards the younger girl.
