"Hello, what's wrong, Lumilia?" Souta took out the transmission talisman as he felt that Lumilia was trying to call him.

"Souta, what's your chance if you're going to fight those B-ranks?" Lumilia asked him.

"Hmm...? Fifty, no, forty percent," Souta replied to her while looking at the thick smoke and flames in front of him. The five-story building was gone. It became a ruin in just a few seconds.

The explosion was so powerful that it instantly shattered the barrier around the building. It was simply devastating. Even the B-rank inside the building couldn't predict that the power of this explosion was so high.

As expected of Nuke Yuko.

"Then, you have to leave that place and rendezvous with Jeanne and her group," Lumilia said.

"Why?" Souta asked her as a strong wind blew and it cleared the smoke and dust in the surrounding area. He could see the adventurers lying on the ground full of blood.

"I'm the strategist so you should follow my instruction. If you're not fifty percent sure if you could defeat those B-ranks then it's better that you pull back. I'm not going to send you to fight a battle where's your chances of losing are high." Lumilia said in a loud voice.

"I'm saying if I'm fighting alone. You see, Lynn is here and also my partner Yuko just arrived here and brought terror. What an amazing scene!" Souta said to her as he glanced at Lynn then at the direction of the building.

A figure of a bear was slowly standing in the middle of the ruined building. Its eyes flashed before it looked in the sky and roared powerfully.

ROAAAAAR!!

The roar shook the entire area and it swept the flames and dust like a gust of wind. The mana of the bear spread out before it shrunk back coating Yuko's body.

"I've got to say that our chances in winning this battle are higher than you imagine," Souta said in a low voice as he squinted his eyes while staring at Yuko's figure.

The structures behind him trembled strongly and crack formed in the glasses inside any structures. Some of the glasses were shattered because of Yuko's powerful roar.

"Fine... I'll leave it to you. Report to me once you're done." Lumilia sighed.

"Thanks," Souta said before he cut the connection. He placed the talisman inside his pocket and said, "Lynn, heightened your senses. We're going to finish this one before the others arrived."

"O-Oooh!" Lynn nodded at him before she took a deep breath. She was going to do her best to support Souta and Yuko.

Grrr!!

Yuko felt her body was numbing. The impact of that fall was so hard for her. She was lucky that she had a tough body so she endured that powerful impact.

She noticed some movements in the rubble in front of her. A figure of a woman with bob-cut brown hair rose from the fragments of rocks.

Cough!

The woman coughed heavily as blood flow out of her mouth. She then noticed something. She moved her eyes and saw a huge bear standing in front of her.

"What!?"

The woman quickly took a distance away from the bear while aiming her palm at it.

"[Water Bullet]!!"

Several small concentrations of water shot through the air. The bullets landed on Yuko's body creating a loud sound but it didn't do much damage to her. Her natural defense simply deflected most of the bullets.

A tier 1 spell isn't that strong for Yuko's current defense.

'This is bad. I need to get away from this. I couldn't fight because of my injuries.' The woman thought while holding the wounds on the side of her stomach. She would be able to give Yuko a trouble if she wasn't injured.

Yuko looked at her with her gleaming eye. She then took a step forward.

[Agile Burst]!

[Swift Feet]!

'I need to leave this place as soon as possible.' The woman quickly casted spells that could increase her speed when she saw the bear stepped forward. She then...

Thud!

She bumped into a person and she fell down on her butt.

"Ouch!"

She looked ahead and saw a man with dark green skin. He had short black hair and his pair of golden-colored pupils were glowing.

The man was holding a sword with a crimson blade while looking at her with a wide grin.

The woman's complexion changed when she saw the man. Behind her was a powerful bear and in front of her was a man. Judging from his aura, he wasn't weak.

She realized who's the man in front of her. There's one man who's known for being a tamer and powerful combatant at the same time. Most of the adventurers in the Ladro City know that Souta was a tamer and his pet was a Red Fur Bear.

He was none other than Souta Ieshi, the commander of the Dark Oculus Legion.

"You can struggle all you want but I think it's futile," Souta said before he slashed his swords towards the woman.

Blood spurted out.

...

The group of B-ranks arrived at the scene and what they saw was a total annihilation. Their comrades were lying on the pool of blood. Everything was ruined.

"Ramie!!" A B-rank swordsman hurriedly went in front of a woman. This woman was the one who was assigned to guard their base.

"Ramie!!" The swordsman looked at the woman named Ramie with a worried expression. He turned his head and looked at his comrades.

A woman with a priestess's clothes stepped forward. She was the healer of their party. "Let me heal her." She said in a serious tone.

"I'll leave her to you." The swordsman said and the healer went beside them.

The shielder of the group looked at them and said, "We're all in a bad situation."

"Yeah, the forces of our enemy are already in the city. Everyone didn't expect that a legion war would occur and the enemy is already waiting for it." The mage of the group nodded at the words of shielder.

"This city became the battlefield. It never occurred to us that a legion war could be this bad." The shielder said while looking around.

Most of the time in the legion war, each participant would try to feel the movements of their enemies first. They would send some people to the base of their enemies but what's happening right now was different. The only thing they could do was gather their forces and defend against the possible attack of the enemies.

They didn't even have a time to investigate or gather information about their enemies.

"Uhm..." Ramie slowly opened her eyes. She looked around and saw her comrades around her. "Everyone, you're here."

"Don't worry, we'll protect you." The swordsman said to her with a gentle expression.

"I'll heal the others too." The healer said to them. The C-rank members of their legion were still alive. She could save them if she healed them at this moment.

"Here." The mage took out a mana potion and gave it to the healer. He knew that healing all these people would consume a large amount of her mana.

After half an hour, everyone woke up because the healer gave them first aid. They gave them healing potions so that they could walk alone without the help of others.

"The enemies must be gone after they attack the base." The shielder said to them.

"I will fight them." The swordsman said with rage in his eyes. He couldn't forgive those people who hurt his precious comrades.

Suddenly, they stopped talking and looked at the ground. The floor turned black in an instant before several black tentacles rose.

[Shadow Bind]!

"Enemy attack!!" The shielder shouted as he tightly gripped the shield on his hand.

"Damn! You will pay for it!" The swordsman roared angrily before he pulled out his sword and began to attack the black tentacles.

"We need to get out of here!!" The mage shouted at his comrades.

"Why?" The shielder asked.

"Look above us." The mage said as he looked in the sky. "No, it's already too late. So that's why..."

Everyone followed his line of sight. They saw several layers of barrier forming around them.

The shielder and mage understood why no one was attacking them. They thought that the enemies already left but they were preparing to imprison them using barrier spells.

Then, a black mist filled the space inside the barrier. It was the worse scenario for them. The enemies wanted to eliminate them at this moment.

"Stay close to each other!! Don't leave anyone's line of sight!" The shielder shouted as he instructed his comrades.

"We don't know how our opponents will attack us but prepare yourself for the worse!" The mage opened his mouth.

Creepy silence enveloped everyone as no one dared to utter a single sound. After a few moments, they heard faint howling sounds. It feels that someone was whispering in their ears.

"Welcome to the journey of despair!"