Chapter 93: Bringing down the Rain 1

The monastery of the Sun’s crown was wholly made of marble. The white paint of the building and the aesthetic design of the building stand out. On the roof of the building lies a statue of the sun. It glows with brilliance and even the rainy day could not stop it from glowing.

On the front of the building were heavily armored men armored halberds and tower shields. Their faces were covered by their helmet and only their eyes could be seen through their visors. They are the honor guards of the monastery and even in rain, they stood still, watching the flagstones of the compound. The monastery compound was surrounded by iron and silver fences reinforced with stone.

The monastery is situated on a big land just inside Dunwich. But even so, the monastery is separated from the church and orphanage for matters that are a secret to the sun’s crown.

The guards are brave and pious clerics that are lesser than paladins. They could become a paladin in the due future as long as they do their best in honoring the duties of the sun’s crown. Thus they are here under the rain.

The rain has been going on for days now. Not once the rain has stopped and the honor guards of the monastery, despite their hardened bodies could feel the coldness of the rain. Yet, they never will falter for they believe that the God of Light will shine upon them.

The Guards here are kind people. Specifically, they are poor old levies who fought their hearts out in many places and have achieved enough merits to become anointed knights. Their fate towards the sun’s crown and the goodness of the God of Light has reached to the point fanaticism. Of course, they aren’t evil they are just mere men that believed in their God and was blessed to become knights.

Evil and such likes are nonsense. Everything is guided by self-interest and duties.

The honor guards have killed.

That does make them evil?

No, they are not.

Evil is only evil when one does it willingly.

Good or bad doesn’t matter.

At least right now the one that was easily looking bad is the one clad in black, whose striding with such vile aura and presence.

The guards could see through their visors the man in black. He was wearing hooded overcoat and mantle around his waist that covers his body. They could see a glimpse of the man’s odd black body armor and the straps around it. They became wary of this man. The two nodded each at other and marched towards the man.

The man clad in black stared icily at the two as the droplets of water flow down the ends of his hood. He continued walking while not showing his hands at all.

The guards felt their hearts solemn as the rain. They already faced many monsters and experienced battles that could crush a man’s soul. So how could they be afraid of someone like the man in front of them, whose clad in black? To them, he was far better than a beast or a giant undead mantis.

“Halt, in the name of the sun’s crown stay where you are!”

The first guard demanded.

The man clad in black stopped before he could reach the gates. He looked the guard and then oddly up the building. His eyes scanning like a hawk around the place.

“State your business and show us what’s inside your cloak!”

The second guard demanded.

The man clad in black didn’t move. He stood there silently and all the guard could hear was the rain falling upon their helmets. The silence between the guard and the man clad in black was unnerving. The first guard frowned underneath his helm while the second guard slowly pointed his halberd towards the man clad in black.

He wasn’t a true ascended knight but he knew an enchanting magic that would allow him to fight with the strength of one. The other guard was also learned of such magic and he was careful. They were guards of the sun’s crown and even though they think it was laughable that someone other than the non-humans would fight the sun’s crown, they still keep their guards up. They believe that letting their guard down would be a mistake. Not to mention that the man garb in black was becoming suspicious as time goes on.

The guards had the right mind to suspect the man garb in black. He was silent and for a minute all he did was eye the guards and the surroundings. His unlit golden eyes were so impassive and as if he was a mechanical doll. He didn’t move for awhile until suddenly...his fingers twitched.

The guards could feel Mana circulating around the fingers of the man garb in black. Knowing this, they immediately took a stance, pointed both halberds and circulated their own mana into their body while shouting.

“Stand down!”

The circulation of Mana continued but the man in black didn’t move at all. He merely watched the two guards panic as they try to guess what the next move of the man in black is. They didn’t know if they should apprehend or chase away this man.

They didn’t know what to do and was lost. But even as they were lost they watched and prepped their minds for an attack, only for the black garbed man to suddenly halt his own mana. They sensed that the mana around the man has calmed down.

An eerie feeling came upon their hearts. What was the man in black trying to do? Was he here for something? Or is he just testing them out? They wanted to know his intentions and now that they felt provoke. The two guards could only nod at each and started to walk slowly towards the man.

But that was a mistake!

The man suddenly flicked two black pellets. This pellets hit the ground with a spark and slowly the smoke spread around the place.

The guards were alarmed and they started coughing. Then they heard sounds of something being thrown and before the guards could react. Two metal wires were already wrapped around their necks tightly. The metal wires tightly gripped around their necks. They felt like they were going to choke! They then tried to cut the metal wires while coughing, only for the metal wires to suddenly issue a crackling sound.

The guards jolted, they yelp and then shouted as they get electrocuted. The rain was up and with their metal-clad appearance and the rain water. They became heavily conductive electric rods that sparkled within the gray appearance of the area.

The guards danced and they fell to their knees. They were knights that enchanted their bodies so how could they easily be beaten like that?

The man in black seemed to know and quickly while the smoke was still in effect. Hit the two guard’s right in the head, using his hands that were currently as heavy as steel.

The guards felt the impact and immediately felt their ears ring, and their vision shocked. They looked at the man in black’s silhouette before they lost their consciousness. Who was that man? They asked themselves.

The man garbed in black saw the guards fell down. He then preceded five steps away from the guards and turned his attention to the monastery. The monastery was filled with guards like the ones he just defeated. Knocking them out cost him precious mana and seeing how many the guards are inside the room. He could only frown.

He used a pulse like energy and used it to detect them. And with the commotions he just did, surely they appear out of the building and rushed him.

He was currently confident that he could take them on using the weapons he has holstered around. But still, he had a different idea on how to take them on. After all, currently, they are inside one marble building and are still trying to get out after hearing the commotion he made.

A brave man would draw his sword and wait for them to come out and battle them all together. That would how things would go if he was a brave man with the ability to match enchanted knights.

But he was no enchanted knight. He was someone that worked on a different borrowed mindset.

Thus he took out the crossbow behind his waist and loaded it with a bolt containing a heavily sealed flask. He then pressed his cheeks at the stock, aimed the sights at the building and pointed it at the pillar that supports the building.

And he pulled the trigger.

The bolt with a heavily sealed flask flew then towards the building.

It then hit the marble stone and there was a slight sound of a mechanism being triggered inside the flask.

And what followed after was an astounding explosion that created shock waves strong enough to rustle the trees around the compound!

The marbles flew and the sun’s crown that was glowing on top of the building heavily crashed down at the flagstones of the compound!