My Gene System

Riku provoking them with his words because why not? No one had any idea how his weapon exactly work. At the same time, none of their shields or armor could block his rapid attack.

"It's your call... Do you want to continue the invasion? Or each one of you could safely back to your place and lessen the people who died." Riku was letting Xelin pick choices even though he already knew the answer.

In his opinion, he could not see by their eyes that they would retreat in this invasion. Or to put it simply, the attackers had an idea of what we were going to happen to them once they come back to the Rattin Kingdom without the victory. Of course, all of them would die as the King's order.

Tsk!

From afar, Xelin clicked his tongue and followed up with a smirk on his face. Yes! He was felt insulted after hearing this man's words, however, he was aware that it was not the right time to fall back.

"Don't make me laugh, bastard! If you really want to end this invasion you should kill all of us." Xelin said in an annoyed, starting to experience numbness to the spot where the bullet hits him.

[Heal-!]

And all of a sudden, a green magical circle appeared next to Xelin. It was Vole, despite his current condition he tried to use again his healing spell. However, Riku stopped them once again by just simply using his gun.

Bang!

He received another shot in his arm and seemed to touch some of his arteries as he could not raise it.

"I already warn you, don't make anything stupid, or else you would die without even noticing it." Riku said in a serious tone while seeing the mild smoke released by the lips of his gun.

"Damn it! What I can't see it coming..." Vole was frustrated since he could not now use both of his limbs.

"Why are you just standing there?! Attack that bastard!" Xelin ruled all the attackers that surrounded him so that he can buy time for himself to heal his wound. Why he doesn't use his magical power in his current position? It was impossible because he could not use his arms to make gestures that were needed before enchanting his magical skill. Aside from that, even he was able to cast his magic, still, he was sure that he could not control it perfectly.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

The loud gunshot that could also hear inside the Arzotoc village easily enveloped the place. It was the main reason why none of the attackers could move their feet after seeing someone fall to the ground along with tiny holes on their foreheads.

[Fire Razor-!]

Not too away from him. He felt that there was someone who tried to attack by using his magical power. But the problem was, his casting duration was not fast enough to release that skill so he immediately received a rapid bullet directly on his head which made him fall to the ground.

Bang!

Bam!

"He's unstoppable..." Emma spits out of her mouth as she was really amazed at the scene that occurred in this place right now.

Meanwhile, When Riku noticed the attackers were hesitant to attain a closer distance to him. He stepped forward while rolling the gun in his hand. "Are you sure you want to continue this? I'm still giving you a chance."

They were gritting their teeth, didn't know how they were going stop this man from dominating in this invasion.

Moreover, Riku was pursuing them to fall back not because he wanted to assure the safety of the village. It was actually because he hadn't had enough bullets to wipe a single one of them.

Three bullets, that was the exact bullet if he had right now. So that, if the attackers are persistent to attack him, he was certain that they were going to the bad side.

"I'm gonna ask you one more time. You are going to leave or we are continuing this?" Riku asked them in a deep tone, after that, he made a warning shot to show that he had infinite bullets.

Bang!

Well, it was the right decision for him. Why? Because if he continued to act like this, the attackers would surely stop engaging him.

No one could answer him, knowing no matter what kind of choices they would pick here, still, it was the same, they would die.

Deafening silence covered the place but they could do? Either they die by this man's hands or they will die by King's hands.

Bang!

To pressure them, Riku killed one of the attackers. It easily dropped to the dried surface and the blood was splashing to the numerous corpses were lying.

"Don't push to my limit. I'll give you a chance to live and make a new life." He started to wander around, didn't care even attackers have surrounded him. "What do you get in this bloody war? It doesn't have any benefits to us, it just makes us suffer and kill our beloved someone. Honestly, we can talk about this so we can avoid this. But what did you choose? You choose the violent one, all of you are stupid!"

Riku was scolding them, trying the attackers to realize what would happen if they continue this. Well, with his promising words, that was possible.

"You are too late, it's already decided. No matter what you say here, no one would try to listen to you. Why? Because each one of us doesn't want to die, so if were you killed us right now before we have the chance to do that." Xelin tried to explain the actual scenario that they experienced in their kingdom.

'It looks like there's someone forcing them to do this. That is the thing that man try to say with me?' He uttered to his mind, at the same time, understand their current situation.

Furthermore, massive numbers of people already died and the cause of their death was not the one that the certain person was hoping for. To describe their corpses, their limbs, heads, eyes were brutally scattered all over the place and the place had the scent of iron.

"It's not too late, bastard. Always there is way, and sometimes it depends on your decision." He darted his eyes at Xelin since he was the one who have to make the decision. "What's your answer?"

At this point, Xelin could not do anything. Also, he was aware that the unknown man noticed he was just buying a time as he pointed his weapon towards him. "I'm going to make my decision, but don't point at me your weapon. I have no intention to do something stupid."

He was looking at him with his serious eyes it seemed he was saying the truth. However, Riku wasn't stupid to listen to his words, knowing if he committed one mistake here the situation would surely change.

"Do what you want! But I'm not going to remove my gun against you. I'm a man of my word so if you didn't do something stupid, I'm not going to pull the trigger."

Even that was the case, Xelin was still slowly regaining his footing while enduring the severe pain on his shoulder. "Fine..."

As soon as he got backed into the stood-up position. You could see the extreme pain in his expression. "I want to challenge you!"

And out of nowhere, Riku heard something he didn't expect. Yes! He thought that this man had no intention to step back, but the thing was, the challenge he mentioned. The challenge was the explanatory word, however, he had no idea what was the real deal about this.

"A challenge from what?" Out of curiosity, he asked Xelin, so he could easily understand what this man trying to say.

"I want to challenge you a duel. Just two of us no one would interfere. If you succeed to win against me, my team will retreat without hesitation. But if not, we are continuing to attack your village and kill you at all cost." He said in a persuasive tone.

Emma's eyes were widened after hearing the words coming from this man. In her mind, if that was the condition, the attackers would fall back without forcing. At the same time, there was a downside to this because if Xelin managed to win against Riku, it was sure the Arzotoc village will be destroyed.

She tugged her robe while shaking her head. "You don't have to fight him in a duel, Riku. We already had the advantage, don't let that man fool you." She suggested as she wanted to avoid the worst-case scenario.

He looked at his behind along with a smirk on his face. "I understand that, Emma. But let him realize the difference between our ability." He said those words to mock him.

"S-So, you are accepting my challenge? " Xelin stuttered but had a hidden smile since no one ever had been able to win one versus one battle to him.

"Fine, do what you want."