The Villain's Story

Chapter 262 [262] Against The Odds.

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In the midst of a bustling mall, chaos erupted as a battle between Sabrina and the Rogue Wind Elemental breaks out. Shoppers scream and scatter, knocking over displays and fleeing for their lives as the two opponents trade blows. Debris flies everywhere as the people rush to safety, some even viewing the ongoing battle.

*CRACKLE*CRACKLE*

Sabrina, crackling with electricity, darts around the central plaza of the mall, trying in vain to get a handle on her opponent. The Wind Elemental, full of contempt, toys with her, tossing her around like a rag doll with powerful gusts of wind and blasts of air that send her flying across space. The raging winds of tempest throw her around, and her best efforts at trying to get in an attack are also in vain.

She unleashes massive bolts of lightning, hoping to strike true, but the Rogue Elemental simply dodges and weaves around her attacks, always just a step ahead. The air in the mall grows thick with energy, and the lights flicker and dim as the two opponents unleash an unrelenting barrage of elemental power. The Rogue wind elemental's wind batters Sabrina.

'...I need to buy time...'

[Alan!]

She thought, and called for her bodyguard. She knew she was outmatched in this battle, so calling for her monstrous bodyguard was the appropriate choice. He could teleport here with ease and slay the Rogue wind elemental. Yet she received no response.

Despite her best efforts, she is outmatched. The Rogue Elemental is too fast, too agile, too powerful for her to gain the upper hand. Slowly but surely, she is worn down, taking blow after blow until she is battered and bruised. Each bolt and each single target skill of hers is unable to pierce the Wind elemental's protective winds. It attacked her with a flurry of wind Blades, each of which harmed Sabrina greatly.

[Alan...!] But yet again, no response from her bodyguard.

'...of all the times he had to be sleeping...It had to be now!' She lamented her luck. Her knees crumbled as her blood seeped into her clothes, drop by drop it fell to the ground, as she did as well.

Seeing that Sabrina was defeated, the Wind Elemental stops its attacks, hovering in the air, waiting for her next move. For a moment, there is silence in the mall, broken only by the sound of the wind howling through the corridors and storefronts. A low howl escapes from it. A laugh.

'...So it was treating me as a toy?'

What terrible luck... She had to meet the one monster which was extremely resistant to the attribute of Lightning... Worst of all, she couldn't even use her strongest Field skills due to fear of accidentally hurting the civilians around.

The only option she had was the Darkness element...But no.

Her body quivered as she thought about it. She did...not want the Element to corrupt her.

'Anything...but that. If it wants to play with me...then let it be so.'

She can do only this...Make a final desperate attempt for a 'strong attack'. If it succeeded, she would win. If not, she would just protect herself with Mana as it played with her like a ragdoll. She makes a desperate lunge, unleashing a massive wave of lightning that slams into the Elemental with electrifying force. For a moment, it looks like she might have won, but the Elemental simply shrugs it off and retaliates with a final, devastating blast of wind that sends the Mage tumbling across the ground.

She crashed into the wall...Although she enhanced her body with Mana, it was useless...She still felt pain. Immense pain.

[...wake...up...please.]

She tried to contact Alan again with the spatial Bond, but just like all the other times...She Failed.

And her final hope was crushed as well. The rogue Wind elemental did not play with her as a toy as she had expected. It only laughed.

It raised its hand high up in the air, and a torrent of wind blades gathered into it.

This was it...This was how it was going to end her.

'...so this is how I die?'

she thought as she gazed at the attack that was charging with only one eye, her vision bloody.

...Damn...this isn't how I wanted to go.

'Sorry...mom...Sorry da-'

"Take this you bitch!"

Interrupting her dying words, was a shout accompanied by a Giant, Archaic sword of Light that stabbed the wind elemental. Finally, some damage was done.

The Elemental screamed in pain, its attack, which was being charged up was interrupted and now backfired on it.

The sword of light disappeared and in its place, multiple spears of light stabbed the elemental, although they weren't as strong. They still did the damage. It focused its attention on the attacker, A Golden haired girl with a bleeding nose, her hand held high, a Magic circle emanating from it.

It roared at her and began its enraged attack.

"Here, Come with me!"

As Sabrina was unable to move, she could only gaze at the battle. But then she heard a familiar voice. Mary, who Elaine had gone to find, was here.

Her eyes warned her to run away. A normal person shouldn't be near a monster with mana because even being near was dangerous. And she didnt know how she managed to avoid the Smaller Wind Elementals.

"We have to go, hurry!"

With Sabrina's arm on her shoulder, she ran as fast as she could to safety, Sabrina practically limping.

"What are you doing?! Use Darkness and help me! Who cares about the corruption If we're all gonna die?!"

Sabrina heard Elaine's shout, with her vision gradually fading she could barely understand it but...

She was afraid, to put it simply. her eidetic memory kept making her see the scenes of her uncle completely falling into the Darkness...it tormented her.

Her memories collided with her thoughts. She contemplated and contemplated...Like a movie, her trauma went on inside her head.

A smaller wind elemental had attacked just then! Mary barely avoided the wind scythe, but Sabrina and she were now separated.

She couldn't make anything out. Sabrina's senses dulled as time flew.

She saw the Wind Elemental slowly approach Mary, as Mary backed up to a wall.

It attacked, and Mary closed her eyes in fright.

And then it happened.

A whip of darkness interrupted the scythe, and more tendrils of Darkness wrapped around the Wind elemental.

It screamed in pain as its body corroded away, its very mana core, eroded by darkness.

It died painfully, and Mary tried to help Sabrina get back up after its death. She couldn't approach her, the air around her was foul, and the Darkness Energy emanating from her corroded everything around her.

"That's it! just make an opening for me!"

Elaine's mana-enhanced shout was all Sabrina could hear.

She raised her hand towards the rogue wind elemental, her blurry vision was making it hard to see.

But her target was big enough for her not to care.

All she needed to do was create an Opening.

[You have cast the Magic: 'Spear of Darkness]

[You do not possess the skill, Power is proportional to input Mana and affinity, along with an understanding of the darkness Element.]

A spear of darkness, nothing as the world had seen, erupted from Sabrina's Hands. The spear was as big as a Car, and it made its way to the wind Elemental with great speed.

It collided with the elemental and eroded its winds. Its protective armor of wind was gone. Revealing its core, a core as large as a human overflowing with Wind attributed mana.

'This is my chance.'

Elaine, With her eyes, ears, and nose bleeding due to overuse of skills couldn't handle thought upon seeing the opportunity presented before her.

The wind elemental's cries of pain shook the mall, it fought off the darkness invading its body, but like a parasite, the darkness only continued to expand.

But it stopped soon, As The owner of the Darkness, had passed out. Unable to continue any longer. Mary carried the unconscious Sabrina away when the darkness moved away.

From Elaine's hand, a large magic circle of golden light emerged, decorated with intricate and archaic patterns, the magic circle expanded. And a Sword Of light, stronger than any she had ever conjured appeared.

[Sword Of Judgement (S) has been cast.]

A skill she couldn't use unless she wanted severe damage to be done to her. Just using this skill would have a great price to pay. The Sword Of judgment was nearly out. Enough to smite the rogue elemental. She couldn't use it to its full potential, but now, with the protective wind gone, she could kill it.

And just then, just as the Sword of judgment was going to be launched, An impact from behind hit Elaine's neck, canceling the Skill.

'...what?'

She fell to the ground, slowly losing consciousness. The final sight she saw was of a hooded figure, wearing a black mask. But that mask could not hide his Wolf-like eyes.

'...That was close.'

The hooded figure thought. He gazed at the rogue Wind Elemental, gathering it's barrier once again.

'We need as many bodies as we can...But I should ensure the survival of these two.'

He thought, Considering the status of Elaine and Sabrina, if they died here everything would go down. They couldn't let the Wellington and Titan guilds investigate this issue.

He carried Elaine's body, and was about to go to Sabrina...but just then he heard a peculiar noise. The noise of a weapon which was rarely used Nowadays. The sound of a gunshot.

*BANG!*

He looked back at the Elemental and saw its core cracking, the Bullet accurately hitting it even in this wind.

His eyes opened wide in Surprise...and he heard another Gunshot. This time the bullet hit him, right in the head...breaking his mask. The impact was great enough to make him drop the unconscious Elaine.

"Gah!"

He collected himself, and as he saw the wind Elemental dying so soon, He made fining the Shooter the next problem.

'I wasn't supposed to use this now!... But fuck it!'

He reached inside his robe and took out a Purple stone the size of his palm, just the energy the stone releases was foul. And he threw this Stone towards the Wind Elemental, towards it core.

And the Core and the stone combined with one another...giving birth to an entirely new monster. As the Hooded man grabbed Elaine and ran.