The Successor, The Fall of Morrow (4.1)

(Updated)

“Oi, Antione, vat do you zink Cecilia’s signal is going to be?”

“I don’t know, Dieter. We’ll know it when we see it.”

“I mean, I get zat Blaze is going to burn ze webs, but vat is Cecilia going to do? I heard she vas strong, but vat exactly can she do?”

“She has regeneration magic.”“So vat is her signal going to be!?” Dieter began to get anxious of waiting. Everyone had just synced their watches, and were waiting on Cecilia and Blaze to initiate their distraction for the operation. “I mean no disrespect, but vat could frauline possiblyt do with the signal tover? ”

“You’ve never been to the front lines, or heard about her, huh? Well, not surprising since she was never publicly revealed,” Lucas joined in on the conversation.

“Heard of vat?

“She’s the second and only person alive able to use Ki, and the only person in this world to have it and magic,” said Lucas.

“Ki?” Dieter spouted. “You mean like zat voman fifty years ago, Jennifer Reese?”

“Yup, just like that woman fifty years ago,” Lucas smiled as he said that.

“I thought that was just a game! All virtual reality un stuff.”

“Nope...it’s pretty real. It’s not your fault. Lots of people confuse her magic for super strength.”

As if the sun had returned and blessed this area with light, fire stretched from one side of the arachne's web and spread throughout its entirety within seconds. Black silhouettes of the spider demons now fled for their lives, or dropped dead from the sheer intensity of the heat. One thing was certain, this was the largest bonfire anyone here had ever seen.

“There’s Blaze…” Lucas sat down and closed his eyes. His oculus magic, a gray dome visible only to him spread out a hundred feet.

“So...is dat it?”

Scores of monsters charged or flew over to the burning tent like literal moths to flames, exactly as Ren had planned. The soldiers raised their weapons ready to fire now that the field was brightly lit and the monsters were in sight, but Ren raised his hand and signaled them to hold their fire.

“They don’t know we’re here. All they know is that Cecilia and Blaze are in there.”

Ren was still waiting on Cecilia’s signal. Monsters gathered and surrounded the fire, waiting for it to snuff out and pile on the intruders.

Hot wind blew past everyone’s face, the fire pulsed in a single explosive wave, and a crack that everyone could hear so vividly clear despite their distance; echoed. The signal tower rocked back and forth, the monsters in both the air and ground were hesitant; unsure what had just happened, but some instinctively knew the danger that came ahead and backed away. The burning tent fell over, the flaming webs stuck to monsters that were too close and crushed them. But that was not the end of it. Multiple gusts of wind pushed over the burning web on the opposite side of the signal tower’s fall, extending the damage, catching monsters in the air and ground, and trapping them underneath to die a scorching death.

“Ohhh...Scheisse…” the words left Dieter’s mouth as naturally as his breath.

“To answer your question, she’ll drop it on them.”

“Now!” yelled Ren.

Snipers aimed at the sky and a volley of thin plasma shot through the air, burning through the flesh of the largest and easiest targets they could find; chimeras, wyverns, and manticores dropped from the sky. The assault team fired at will whatever was in their line of sight, and focused fire when Lucas alerted them of a breach in his oculus radar; hellhound heads melted, holes blew through a troll’s body, and incinerated zombies in an instant. The first phase of the plan was a success. The hellspawns army were in disarray, and scattered all over the place. According to Ren’s best guestimate, they had a minimum of one minute to freely shoot before they were found. That is, unless the monsters choose to focus their attention on Cecilia and Blaze.

Thanks to the fire, everyone could see the collateral damage of the two in the distance. It was easy to tell who did what. Mounds of debris exploded as monsters were sent flying into them. Spits of fireballs, sea of flames, and fiery tornadoes went rampant left and right as if every natural disaster was concentrated in that one area but on fire. The hilarious thing was, if they tried really hard, they could just barely hear Cecilia’s fists and kicks on impact.

Everything so far had proceeded accordingly to Ren’s predictions. One by one, monsters fed the Earth with its corpse. By now, the monsters should have alerted each other of the attacks on their flank, and chosen between the two parties. Naturally, they’ll target the ones who aren’t causing so much chaos in the center; and leave them to the stronger monsters- demons, balrogs, and Lust.

“Ren, we’ve got flocks heading our way and counting, they’ll be here in a few seconds,” Lucas notified.

“Use a single rail and retreat to the next checkpoint,” said Ren.

“Got it. You all heard the man!”

With their final shots, all eighteen soldiers fired into the sky, their rail rounds penetrating every creature in the bullet’s path making it rain blood and cadavers. Lucas, Douglas, and the soldiers fell back, leaving Ren and Joshua to eliminate as many pursuers as they can.

“So...would you happen to have enough parts for a gun?” Joshua swung his lance in circles as a warm-up.

“There might be in these,” Ren walked over and placed his hand on a mound of debris. “But I have no idea what kind of parts are in here.” Light escaped Ren’s hand and extended throughout the mound. The entire thing condensed into a small circle of light then expanded in sporadic shapes until it became a giant wall made from the materials within it. One less direction for them to be attacked in. They were now entering the hardest part of the operation; staying alive.

“The soldiers need the firearms more than us anyways.”