Swoosh!

Before my mind had the chance to think, my body moved.

Thank God, it moved…

As the arrow was about to hit my forehead, my hand instinctively grabbed the arrow, the tip grazed me a bit and I fell from the arrow’s force but most importantly-

I’m alive…

But this is not in the least over…

The archer probably assumed that this was a killshot, well, even I thought it was one… guess I underestimated myself.

I lost my left eye but I can move, I can fight.

I hid a few meters away from the entrance of the crevice and moments later people came... wait… not exactly people, I’ve seen drawings of them on history books, they were supposed to be extinct; elves!

The books described that elves were serene and nature loving beings but what the hell? Shooting a person on sight…

The dude with the flashy get-up suddenly lifted his fist, as if to halt his companions; troops rather. One person walked toward the crevice and as their anticipation grew, I moved-

Despite how discrete and stealth I was, as I clad myself in electricity… the crackle was deafening.

I’m not in my right mind right now, they took out my eye and was planning to kill me, who wouldn’t get a little crazy over that?

I unsheathed my dagger and as I was about to slash his head…

I was reminded that these are people.

Maybe not humans but they are people. They probably have a family waiting for them at home, just like me-

I then switched to use the back of the dagger to hit his neck, enough to knock him out.

“Tylos!” [Kariya]

“Tch!” [Orion]

And here I thought I’d take out two or three more before the ones up front notice, this damned captain…

“Engage!” [Orion]

There were about twenty elves right in front of me; out for the kill-

“All of you are the first persons I’ve met ever since I came here and this is the greeting I get…!” [Lan]

Half with staffs and half with swords huh-

I increased my arcana output then a sword slashed at me, with my speed it was easy to react.

As I took a step back to dodge his strike, I hand chopped the back of his neck and as he was about to get slammed to the ground, he met my knee.

“Gah!”

One down, more to go-

“Don’t falter, he's alone! Engage!” [Orion]

Before I knew it, a few arcana blasts were headed my way but that was when I was still there, their attacks hit thin air while I was already elbowing their stomachs. These magicians… their arcana is way stronger compared to Vinyl’s but they have really weak physical attack tolerance. After a minute, all of the magicians were out for the count, specially, since the arc is in the stomach, their arcana flow is gonna be all messed up even if they weren’t knocked out. Now-

These sword dudes…

Clang!

A sword came out of nowhere… this guy’s fast!

“Kariya, just like we practiced!” [Orion]

“Yes sir!” [Kariya]

As I was parrying one of them, two elves showed up; on my left and on my right.

!!!

This pressure! The two elves took a stance as if to slash-

The one I parried leaped back then at that moment, the two elves took a really fast step accompanied by a slash towards me.

One slashed above and one below…

“I-impossible!” [Orion]

I twisted my body in between their swords and after my first spin, I used the momentum to slash at them. Due to the imbalance without solid ground, I was parried but-

My dagger cut their swords in two

“Ah!” [Kariya]

“Kariya!” [Orion]

I manage to land a follow up kick and that made the female hit a tree a few feet away

As I was about to kick the other, he parried my kick with his arm-

“Argh!” [Orion]

Then we took a step back. Both of us staring at each other since we were the only ones left then-

Suddenly, he lifts his fist then opens it

Moments later, arrows came flying to me-

“Like that’ll get me a second time” [Lan]

“Tch” [Orion]

I dodged the arrows with nimble footwork; going forward, backward, side to side.

As the last arrow approached, I caught is with my hand then-

“AAAAAAAAAHHHH!” [Orion]

“Now we match, hurts doesn’t it? [Lan]

I pierced the arrow through the commander’s eye then focused all my arcana to my fist then hit his abdomen without restraint.

He fainted.

A little bit more and he’d be dead.