System Change

Chapter 313: Alanah vs...

Alanah crashed into the ground, creating a small crater around her. Luckily, her assessment was correct. Other than some slight jarring to her organs, the impact was nothing. Her endurance was more than enough to keep her safe, even at high velocity falls reinforced by her vibrational propulsion.

She was also lucky that she was able to get her command off, as just when she hit the ground, the sound barrier fell back over her as Ryven descended. But the elven commander was too late. Every soldier of his without an abundance of wisdom or some experience that strengthened their willpower had fallen under her kill command.

The already chaotic battle had been ticked up a notch, and she hadnt left any leeway in what she wanted them to do. It was an indiscriminate kill order, and when the enemy outnumbered them hundreds to one, the most likely target of that kind of kill order was the person standing beside you.

But she wasnt finished yet. Her deathsworn had been waiting all along, and her order was their trigger. From behind the enemy army, five of her strongest began their attack. However, she wasnt able to focus too much on them entering the battle. She dodged to the side, narrowly escaping Ryven as he crashed into the ground where she had been only moments before.

The look on the mans face said it all. He was pissed. He was bloody and battered, but mostly, he was angry. Alanah finally let her face slip into a smile. She just couldnt hold it back anymore. Now that her sudden change of plans had succeeded, she decided it would be best to carry on down that path.

Instead of charging ahead at the seething man, she began her assault on the army. In the chaos and destruction around her, especially when she didnt have to worry about friendly fire, she was death. The only person who could possibly stop her current assault was Ryven, and he was still slowed from Marcuss ambush earlier.

She wouldnt pass this chance up. She moved through the army like a knife through hot butter, not bothering for any non-fatal hits. Alanah aimed only for the vitals, either piercing the enemies hearts or brains, or slicing at their necks. With her vibration fully activated, she made quick work of any elite that hadnt passed their second threshold in endurance.

This meant that she focused mostly on the magic users and those dressed like ranged fighters and assassins. She also wasnt discriminate toward the combined army of mostly humans and elves, she cut each person down equally. Man, woman human, elf there were even a few halflings and dwarves mixed into the army. She had to adjust her strikes to treat them equally, but she managed.

All the while, Ryven was trailing behind her, dodging the corpses and heads that fell before him. Two minutes and dozens of kills later, it seemed that most of Marcuss effects had worn off of the commander, as he was finally closing the distance between them.

Hed tried multiple ways to stop her slaughter, but with her resonance activated, and barrier or shield he cast was easily dodged. But now that he was back and building to full power, that would change. This was all proven seconds later as Alanah felt three barriers form around her before they collapsed in on her.

Instantly, she took back to the air to avoid being trapped. In that moment, she realized that she had a new annoyance that she didnt know she had fighting against someone wrapped in a sound barrier. And that annoyance didnt come from not being able to use her power on him, either.

As she floated in the air and slapped away a couple stray blasts of magic from the battling army, she looked down at the raging commander. And he was raging. He was yelling, and it was surely directed at her, but she couldnt hear it. She also couldnt quip back, at least not in any meaningful way. She expected the mans counter to her skills to be annoying, just not in that way.

Alanah rolled her eyes as she shifted away from another barrier, trying to trap her. At this point, she wished she had a more physical way of attacking at a distance. More than once she thought about throwing some knives from her storage, but all she had were masterworks, and she didnt really want to chance losing them. What if one of the soldiers made it back through the remaining Portal with one of her knives in his ass?

Ryven took flight and went all in. Wave after wave of barrier appeared in all directions around Alanah, and she dodged each by a hairs width. There wasnt any room for error. Also, more than once did she see the giant barrier around most of Savannah flicker. Having his Portal mages taken out and half his army fighting itself really made him lose his cool.

So much that he hadnt yet realized her deathsworn were plowing through the backside of the army. Who would be able to pick out a few people killing people in the middle of a group of people killing people, anyway? They blended in quite nicely, actually, and Alanah made sure not to let her eyes linger on them.

More than once did she think about commanding one or more of her deathsworn to make their way through the Portal and take out the remaining Portal mage, but these were her elite deathsworn, and sending them through was a guaranteed way to lose them. She would do it if she had to, but she didnt need to yet.Gét latest novel chapters on nov(e)lbj/n(.)c/om

Stop! Derek shouted, causing the prince to look over and frown. I dont think youre thinking this through.

What do you mean?

What I mean is, who is going to command the raid if you leave? I doubt they will listen to me or Avery. Plus, I really would rather not have to lead a raid. Besides, you heard it yourself. Your brother may have lost a hand, but he is still alive and well.

You dont get it, do you? Edgar questioned.

Dont get what? Derek asked.

That they are about to attack somewhere in full force, and if I dont leave this instant, with the time difference in the raid dungeon, the attack will be over by the time I get there, Edgar explained.

What? Why would they do that?

Because you are in here, Edgar said, causing Derek to frown. Think about it. Silvi was strong enough to kill a prince and two of his elites while chasing off an entire ambush team.

Yeah?

I dont know whats going on, but somehow, I dont think Silvi only has 75% of your stats. I think she has more. But, theres no way a regular Horned Rabbit could have had that many stats, even if you bonded when she was level 250, which we all know you didnt. Most Horned Rabbits die before level 25.

Derek raised his eyebrows at that. So?

So they should also believe that, but not the 75% of your stats part. They will think that Silvi was able to do all of that with just a fraction of your stats, which will make you a monster in their eyes. They will be out to kill her so they can cripple you before you return from the raid. If she dies, you will have soul-sickness.

Im not sure what skill Silvi used to circumvent the Great Systems regulations on dungeons, but they most definitely do not know about it. So, at best, they think shes still in Clayton, at worst

Shes in Savannah Derek finished.

Exactly, so Ive already wasted enough time. I have to go. You do what you can to get everyone to follow you. Beat them down for all I care. Im done with this.

Wait! Ill go Derek yelled, but before he could, Edgar had already torn the scroll in half and was surrounded by a bright white light. Within seconds, the prince and his wyvern were gone. Fuck!