Volume 1 Chapter 20 The Prospector’s battle

The prospector was running.

The action of running is such a basic thing for humans or beasts to do. However, today he would be running for his life.

The whole thing was a trap, he had been schemed against by the ones known as the Twin Star Wings of Hovium.

Needless to say that he wasn’t in a good position, his defenses had been breached two times since the start of the battle.

As a Bala-level Pathseeker himself, Alexander clearly understood the bad position he was in, the two of them were in the same realm as him.

While he was stronger than them individually when they teamed up his loss was almost certain,as the saying goes two fists cannot defeat four palms.

While hiding behind a bear-sized rock, the prospector started reviewing his possibilities. At the Bala level, most Pathseekers would have researched or created three to four unique spells and could have bought or two spells from large organizations.

The problem was, Alexander Crisk had always been a loner seen by other Pathseekers as an evil one, he had often been labeled as a demonic pathseeker.

He hadn’t been able to find a righteous organization that had been willing to sell him any spells.

From the few principles he had been able to understand, he had been able to create three spells. But among those spells only one was high-tier.

His other two spells were considered middle-tier, maybe upper middle-tier under the right circumstances.

The reason he had attracted the rage of the Twin Star Wing was because he had been caught during one of his attempts at strengthening his trump card.

Alexander then started looking at the current state of his body; he had been hit by a magical projectile in the back and had received an axe hit on his forearm, fortunately his defensive spell had lessened the damage taken.

His sweet time of peace did not last long, soon after looking at his injuries, he heard Cloven Keith of the Twin Star calling him out.

Cloven said: “We know you are behind that boulder, you have almost no friends and you have no way to call the few you have , you are injured and famished”.

His brother Roy took over: “We don’t want to kill you Alexander but you stole something precious from us.”

Seeing the Prospector's lack of response, he continued: “Listen, I believe we can find a middle ground. How about that, you leave the Inglom Crystal to us and in exchange we let you go?”.

The Prospector however knew that the only reason the two brothers weren’t attacking was because they were wary of his trump card.

The three spells he had weren’t enough to deter those two but if he chose to attack without any restrain he had a chance at pushing them back.

However he couldn’t allow himself to hand over the small amount of Inglom he had been able to get after so much blood and sweat.

So he chose to fight his possible last fight, he reused his defensive spell to refresh his defense and got ready for the battle that was to come.

-Alex.C. : Rocky Battle Skin

At a fairly rapid pace his skin grew a layer of rock on top of it, turning from human flesh to a rock hard exterior.

The Prospector jumped out of his hiding hole and sent his own offensive spell toward Roy Keith.

-Alex. C. : Pebble Spear

As his Chus gathered and transformed under the use of his principles, the two brothers started their own offensive.

Roy bended the string of his bow while sending his own Chus to form a projectile. While Cloven placed himself in front of his brother.

The half meter-long rocky spear that Alexander had created was sent flying toward the Keith twins.

-Cloven Keith Star Spell: Astral Axe Blade

With superhuman precision Cloven swung his axe toward the javelin barely before being hit.

The two spells met a few centimeters of Cloven’s face.

Cloven’s spell had an axe acting as a support greatly strengthening its power, the moment he struck the chances of Alexander’s spells causing significant damage fell to barely ten percent.

The spear broke under the starlight of Cloven’s axe, meanwhile Roy had finished loading his bow and unloaded two projectiles in a few breaths of time.

-Roy Keith Star Spell: Stellar Arrow

-Roy Keith Star Spell: Stellar Homing Arrow

While one of the two projectiles forced the Prospector to move, the second was sent with the intent to hit him.

Alexander dodged the first arrow by half a dozen centimeters before running away from the second.

While doing twists and turns between the rocks of the quarry they were in, the arrow continued to relentlessly pursue him.

Dodging around when there was only one threat was less difficult than dodging around multiple threats.

-Roy Keith Star Spell: Stellar Homing Arrow

-Roy Keith Star Spell: Stellar Homing Arrow

With three dangers lurking near him, he wasn’t able to dodge correctly and got hit once.

Crack!

The arrow hit his left cheek, chipping away the entire defense of the bottom half of his face.

He turned around and hit one of the two arrows with his pickaxe, destroying it. This action saved his life, destroying one of the two dead omen was a good choice.

Crack!

The second arrow hit his chest; the area right in front of his heart no longer had any defenses.

Very quickly, Cloven arrived behind Alexander’s back and attacked with all of his strength.

-Cloven Keith Star Spell: Starry Sky Replicative Axe

Large amount of light started coming out of Cloven’s axe, and a myriad of flashes were created and dissipated in a blink.

Crack!!!

The entirety of the Prospector back was injured, his defenses weren’t enough to stop Cloven’s strongest method.

The veins on his back had all exploded, his back was entirely drenched in blood.

He turned around and tried to hit Cloven with his pickaxe but the Star Path user had already backed out enough not to get hit.

Volley of arrows started raining down on Alexander forcing him to move far from Cloven. While retreating the two of them took the time to refresh their defenses.

-Alex.C. : Rocky Battle Skin

-Cloven Keith Star Spell: “Broken Star Veil”

Rage filled the Prospector’s mind, the trump card he could only use once a month, he was going to use it in this fight.

He rushed toward Cloven without minding the few arrows that hit his legs and shoulders.

He swung his pickaxe in a frenzy while Cloven tried his best to dodge.

The two of them hit each other a few times, breaking down the defense of the other with each strike.

From time to time an arrow would be sent toward Alexander from the rear.

The distance between the Prospector and Cloven was barely a quarter of a meter.

Without much thought, Alexander activated the power hidden in his pickaxe.

The souls of the dead could be heard, trapped in a pickaxe after death. They were mourning their terrible fate.

Their howl of pain resonated in the quarry.

The energy produced by their souls, activated a spell that had been left in the magical artefact.

-Hitting Souls away like Iron

With all the strength he could gather, Alexander landed a mind shattering hit on Cloven’s chest.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

Every layer of defense that Cloven had set up was destroyed one after the other. His right ribs crooked inward as he was sent flying.

-Roy Keith Star Spell: Broken Star Shard

As he was about to retreat, Alexander received a fully charged arrow in the thigh.

The two sides had suffered enormous damage and both had decided to retreat.

The Prospector looked at his thigh with Chus infused eyes and could see a compacted and highly corrosive Chus slowly spreading in his body.

Meanwhile, Roy started moving his unconscious brother away from the quarry.

None of the two sides got what they wanted, the Prospector wanted to leave unscratched and the Twin Star Wings wanted their Inglom back.