Chapter 212: Anima(Part 11)
"D-Damn it...!" Yelled the Water Mage who Kia was fighting, unleashing a barrage of water blasts towards her.
She swiftly raced forward and weaved through the space, evading the attacks while closing the distance, before lunging forward as she closed in on him, unleashing a rapid slash of one of her blade, inflicting a deep horizontal gash across the middle of his chest.
A sharp cry of pain rang out as blood streamed out of the wound, the hooded figure gritting his teeth as he began to charge up a Water Spell, before Kia swiftly cut him off with a powerful slam of her foot against the middle of his stomach, sending him flying back before his back collided against the wall of the barrier, a pained grimace on his face as he shakily tried to get back onto his feet.
"I’ll give you one chance...surrender quietly and take this barrier down. Do that, and I’ll spare you, I’ll simply turn you in for questioning. But refuse to surrender, and I’ll have no choice but to kill you, and it’ll be nice and slow, and very painful. Personally, I’d prefer the latter, but it’s your choice," Kia smirked maliciously, as she swung her blades across.
She was bluffing, she wasn’t planning on killing him either way, since she wanted to avoid the possibility of getting a lecture from Jules. It wouldn’t take her much trouble to restrain him without killing him, but she was enjoying toying with him.
"Sh-Shit...I’m not going to betray my comrades, you human bitch! And if I’m going to die, I can at least take you with me!" He exclaimed, drawing out a Spell Card.
Kia shot forward as fast as she could, unfurling a rapid slash of her left blade and slicing right through the hooded figure’s wrist before he could activate the Spell, a sharp cry of pain ringing out before she slammed the bottom of the handle of her right blade against the side of his head, a loud thunk echoing out as she knocked him out upon impact.
She let out a quiet sigh as stepped back as he slumped against the barrier, a trickle of blood running down the side of his head.
"Looks like the barrier isn’t fading, guess I have no choice but to wait till it wears off on its own or someone else deactivates it. This guy might have a Spell on him to deactivate it, but I can’t just randomly activate whatever Spells he’s carrying, that could be dangerous. And what was the Spell he was about to activate just now?
Based on what he said, he was trying to kill me along with himself since he thought he was about to die. If I hadn’t cut his hand off in time, what would have happened? This is concerning, the others might be in more danger than they think," Frowned Kia worriedly, as she stared at the Spell Card clutched in the hooded figure’s severed hand.