Way of the Knights

Squad 6’s ship continued towards the coordinates. Only a few hours to go and they’ll reach the general area where they could station themselves and wait for the Abyssals.

Vanessa, Richard and Jeanne were already replaced by their teammates for the patrol duty. This however doesn’t mean that they were doing nothing. They are still in alert just in case an emergency happened but at the same time, they’re using this time to conserve as much energy as they could for the upcoming battle.

A few more hours passed just like this and their Captain informed them that they’re arrived to their destination.

“Kids, we’re here. Same rules as before. Layout traps and make sure that the bastards that comes here will never return.”

“Yes, Captain.”

All seven members of the squad exited the ship. The captain kept the ship itself in the meantime to keep it safe from any stray attacks.

The squad members moved in sync, it is obvious from their actions that they’ve done this a lot already.

Vanessa took the south and started laying down their trap for their enemy. She did it as fast as she could since there’s no telling when the enemy will arrive.

The trap they’re laying down is a simple formation. A pretty common one where it imprisons hostiles who come in contact with it. It’s simple but extremely effective. It has been tried and tested on numerous occasions since, it turns out that the Abyssals are incapable of deciphering how they work.

Due to this trap being a simple formation, it isn’t very hard to set up. It only takes an hour or so and it’s ready. Now all that’s left to do is to wait for the enemy.

The squad members took their position. They hid themselves in corners of the formation, ready to ambush the enemies that will eventually appear.

‘Get ready, Kids. Here they come.’ The Captain said through voice transmission.

Vanessa took a deep breath and prepared herself. In a matter of seconds, a ship made itself visible to them.

The structure of the ships was unmistakable. They’ve seen it multiple times at this point. This belonged to the Abyssals, the enemy is here.

When the ship landed on the area where the trap is, the Abyssals initially didn’t sense anything wrong with the area. But when they tried leaving to continue their trip, the ship hit an invisible barrier which is extremely sturdy.

That’s when the squad saw the Abyssals exiting the ship to figure out what’s going on.

“Richard, do your thing.” The Captain’s orders rang on their ears.

In compliance to the order, Richard immediately shifted. He jumped out of his hiding spot and exploded with a strong Spacetime fluctuations. The space around them warped and twisted, the Abyssals were caught off-guard and didn’t know what to do.

Richard’s actions caused the Abyssals to be pulled away from each other. He shuffled their locations and also released a fluctuation that will prevent them from contacting each other without harming his team’s.

Vanessa who had been prepared for this, saw several silhouettes appearing in front of her.

The Abyssals who were transferred in a non-compliant way, appeared confused and slightly panicked but that’s not what Vanessa was concerned about.

‘He gave me five of them. Cool, I guess…’

Richard, as the one responsible for shuffling the positions of the enemy, is also responsible for allocating where they will go and how many a squad member will face. The captain wasn’t fussed about the division and let Richard decide it according to his judgement.

According to what the HQ told them, their squad will be facing a total of three squads moving in one. Recently, the Abyssals doubled their efforts in trying to infiltrate Divine Realm and with that, the amount of soldiers one squad of them consists of, rose up as well.

Nowadays, one Abyssal squad has 10 members in it with 3 of them being stronger than the common ones. This meant that they’ll be facing 30 hostiles with the just the 7 of them.

While it might look like they’re at a disadvantage here, it’s best to know that the members of Squad 6 aren’t really the common folk.

It took the Abyssals a while to gather themselves. Only then did they discover Vanessa standing before them.

“Are you the one who brought us here?” One of the Abyssals asked Vanessa in a domineering tone.

“…who knows?” Vanessa shrugged dismissively, sounding completely unbothered by strong front of enemy.

“Where did the rest of my squad went? I demand you to bring here, now!” The same Abyssal demanded.

“Oh?” Vanessa looked mildly amused, “So like…are you expecting me to comply just because you said that?”

“…”

“You wouldn’t right? After all, that’s extremely stupid if you ask me.” She chuckled while twirling her umbrella.

“Don’t waste time with this wench, Sire. It’s obvious that she wouldn’t play nice so let’s give her a lesson so that she’ll stop messing with us.” Another Abyssal stepped forward and suggested.

The other Abyssal looked convinced: “Might as well…anyway, she looks acceptable. Don’t break her completely, I could use her for a bit.”

“Roger that, Sire.” The other Abyssals replied and then charged at Vanessa like starving hounds.

“You boys seriously don’t know how to treat a lady properly.” Vanessa snorted as she saw them flying towards her.

She skipped backwards and immediately disappeared in a veil of smoke. Confusing those who were previously charging at her.

As they began searching for her trace, she appeared behind one and ruthlessly twisted the neck of her target, causing a crisp bone shattering to echo around.

Everyone sharply looked at her direction on to see one of them plop down like a sack of potatoes. Vanessa vanished again much to their dismay.

Believe it or not, the Abyssal who’s head was ruthlessly twisted wasn’t dead. He thought he was but since his core was left completely intact, his head just twisted back in place and he stood up like nothing happened. ƒ𝚛e𝘦𝙬𝗲𝒃𝓷𝒐𝘃𝘦𝑙. 𝒄o𝓂

Well, what Vanessa did to him hurts a lot but he’s alive and that’s what matters.

“You’ll pay for that, you fucking wench! Show yourself!”

In response to that, Vanessa showed up once more and did the exact same thing to the same person again. She even let out a mischievous chuckle before vanishing again.

That poor Abyssal who’s neck got twisted twice in a row, was so incensed that all he saw was red. As soon as he got back up, he immediately threw attacks everywhere in hopes of hitting Vanessa.

Alas…he failed to hit her.

And his neck got twisted again for the third time.

Vanessa released a full blown laughter at this point. It was clear that she was playing around and that angered the Abyssals a lot.

As a result of this, they gathered around that poor guy to prevent her from doing it again.

“Aww…you took my toy away. I was planning on twisting his neck some more…” Vanessa appeared from afar, looking visibly sad and disappointed.

The poor victim nearly spat out blood from sheer anger he felt. He never felt so humiliated in his entire life more than now and it only took a few minutes for that to happen.

But still, even in his angered state, he can recognize a frightening enemy if he sees one.

The fact that this woman can appear and a disappear at her will without them noticing it makes her extremely dangerous. The man, who’s neck got twisted three times in a row, isn’t unfamiliar with the battlefield but he still got played like a fool.

None of them felt a thing. They never knew when or where she’s going to appear next and that’s something that would make this battle harder than they initially thought.

“Arrgghh!!!”

The Abyssals were stunned, they sharply turned around only to see Vanessa standing in front of that domineering Abyssal earlier with a blade on her hand stabbed at the man’s genitals.

Vanessa ruthless pulled the blade out and disappeared before the Abyssal could even lay a finger on her.

“Sire!!” The rest of the Abyssals finally reacted.

They were visibly shaken by what happened. They could’ve sworn that they were staring at her from afar so how the hell did she manage to stab someone in the crotch without them knowing.

Nevertheless, the man who got stabbed is now suffering immensely. Again, since his core isn’t damage, this wouldn’t kill him. But that doesn’t make this injury painless.

“How’s it? Can it still stand-up after being stabbed?” Vanessa’s mischievous tone echoed on their ears, giving them the shivers.

“How…dare you…wench!!” The man painfully uttered while clutching his crotch and glaring at a distance.

“You look like you’re about to cry. Is it really that painful? I can’t relate, sorry.” Vanessa wasn’t even hiding her mocking tone at this point.

“Show yourself! Stop hiding like a coward and fight us up front!!”

“Again…are you really expecting me to do that just because you said so? Are you stupid?” Vanessa scoffed while remaining invisible. “You expect me to stand still and let you hit me just because you demanded it? Wow, talk about being an entitled son of a bitch.”

“If you have the ability, come and try me.” Vanessa chuckled, “You won’t escape this place unless you kill me anyway.”