Hmm...maybe once I complete the Story of Saga, I can compile it, as well as adding extra notes and stuff accordingly. Well, with spaces in-between, it's about 60 pages long...around 20,000 words...
To think that it became 10 times longer than what I originally planned for it...
Anyway, busy life. Here's Part 12.25, quite short interlude on Isdera and Signum. Next will be Wira's...probably within 6 to 8 hours time, since I've got homework to do.
Spoiler for Part 12.25 :
~Part XII Verse 9 ~ Sword x Bow~
~Isdera~
[Sturm Falke!]
A heavy force struck my blade from afar, pressurized…as if threatening to smash through a even a single opening in my defenses…the shockwave from the blasted arrow slammed me towards the castle wall, which was already shattered from her previous attacks on me…
My face bloodied, bruised from her previous one-twos of continuous Storm Falcons… my body was severely injured…there was even 2 gashed holes near my arm and shoulder… God.
A hard-hitting sword knight who’s also a powerful archer… So this is the true form of the Blazing Flame General…Signum.
Bloodied, battered… Death’s probably smiling at my face at this moment. But I’m still alive.
“Saleen…I’ve got one question to ask you…”
Lowering down her bow…but still in position to attack me, my head looked up as she, unwavering, stoic almost as if there was no question to begin with…
“Are you human? Since you can’t seem to just back down and just die already…”
What am I…? What a ridiculous question, especially from her. She… Because it’s her, she should know the answer to that very well. I slowly stood up as I answered…
“Ahh… yes, I am human… Weak, cautious and pathetic…Just an ordinary human.”
‘People who say that are the most dangerous of all. Don’t think I’ll hold back, even in your current state.”
I smiled… Was it a compliment? Or an insult? Whatever. It doesn’t matter…what matters is that we’re both giving it our all.
“True… I was always underestimated. My inability to fly, use basic spells, conjuring armors… Because I was always underestimated, my enemies were open. But you’re different. You never once held back. You have fought me with all you’ve got… And that’s why…I too…Air Bullet!”
Conjuring up my wind magic, a compression of pressurized bullets made out of air and wind, I magnified and multiplied their numbers to several and shot them towards Signum. But as expected… she’s not even remotely threatened by that weak presentation…
“That again…It won’t work.”
“Maybe…but!”
Within a split second, just prior to the Air Bullets hitting Signum’s armor, I threw a smoke bomb to the ground, concurring the direct timing of the air bullets, which despite being repelled without damage, conjured up a small gust of wind, covering the fields ranged, and taking that instance… a moment where sight is blinded, I grabbed my blade, Zulfiqar and rushed towards the direction Signum was at…with the only thing I can do, which is fight with my sword.
A rush of wind…and a simultaneous sound of cartridges being loaded…how nostalgic.
[Load Cartridge!]
But the 2nd…was different.
[Explosion!]
[Schlangenform!]
From within the ripples of the air, a heavy burst of metal struck towards me…I held down the force, Zulfiqar upfront, but the burst of strength…a repeated clash of metals, like a snake using it’s fangs to rip off my skins in motion… It was only a short moment… my arms, scarred heavily from the continuous attacks… and from within the smoke…Signum held out both the blade and the sheath…with cartridges loaded… and once again…
[Bogenform!]
“This is the end… Knight Isdera.”
[Sturm Falke!]
And then…darkness came.
General... Saga...
@Aaron...I'll wait to see what you have cooked up.