Chapter 529 - 522. Burning Fire
"Zein," Agni called out to the guide the moment he climbed the elevated ground of the command base.
Both Zein and Kei turned their head, and Agni could see their eyes lighting up with relief. The scout wasted no time and no chance, pointing at the fragments that seemed to be entering their second berserking phase thanks to the clone’s tantrum after half of its eyes got obliterated by Bassena and the combined might of Naoya and Senia’s skills.
"The biggest one!" Kei shouted. "Don’t let it get closer to the watchtower!"
With that simple instruction, Agni skidded toward the fragments battlefield. The Watchtower in question no longer looked like a Watchtower, but the lower part was still intact, and some espers from the support group were protecting it agitatedly, as if there was something inside.
"Come!" he instructed the Unit’s personnel. "Be careful with the black fume."
"Khan!" Zein called out to the berserker and threw a sealed box. "Antidotes!"
Agni caught the box and passed it to the Unit’s magician. He raised his thumb and resumed his advances, pulling out his claymore and igniting it in fire. The blazing light took the hulking fragment’s attention for a bit, and he took the chance to let out a taunting roar. It was a skill that would make his opponent focused on him no matter what, and by how the fragment was snarling and stomping toward him, it worked for a fragment as well.
In fact, it worked so well that even the other fragments turned their head toward him.
"Captain!" the magician threw two vials of antidotes to Agni; one he drank, and another one he poured upon himself.
"Haa...alright!" He snarled and swung his blazing claymore like a bat, striking the charging fragment and flung the hulking creature back, away from the watchtower. He laughed, and the louder his laugh was, the brighter his flame burned. "Come! Come at me!"
He said that, but he was the one coming onto the fragment. He kept using his claymore like a cricket bat, smacking the fragment again and again, getting further and further away from the watchtower. Since the other fragments were looking at him anyway, he laughed louder, like a maniac, and burned his claymore even more, blinding the creatures from the shining jail up there.