OLD-WORLD EXTRA-Chapter 110: Spell Weaver

Lyra swung her dagger, cutting the head of one of the four hunters.

His head dropped to the floor, causing the rest of them to jump back in surprise.

They looked around with their guns up, searching for Lyra, but to no avail.

Giving them no chance to retaliate, Lyra slashed the second hunter's head off.

The remaining two hunters began firing at their dead comrade, hoping to hit whatever was killing them, their faces utterly terrified at the ongoing situation.

'Shadow Meld.'

Lyra was quick to rush out of the way of the bullets as she melded back into the shadows.

She quietly circled the remaining two, waiting for an opportunity, as her shadow danced due to the muzzle flash from their constant gunfire.

It soon stopped, however, as both of them began to reload in panic.

Lyra sprang into action, causing one more hunter to lose his neck as she silently watched his head slide off his shoulders.

The final member of the group was a woman, her steps hurried and her eyes wide with panic as she looked around, searching for Lyra.

In her frantic state, she fumbled with her gun, realizing with despair that the magazine was dropped...

Her gun had run out of bullets.

With a mix of desperation and resignation, she tossed the useless weapon aside, its clatter against the ground echoing in the tense silence of the library.

She then bellowed in desperation:

"PLEASE DON'T KILL ME! I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG! I SWEAR I'LL DO ANYTHING YOU WANT JUST LET ME LI-"

Her screaming was cut short as Lyra beheaded her like the rest.

"Too loud." She muttered.

Meticulously, she wiped the blood off her daggers, as her mind wandered.

'Well, that's everything taken care of...'

'I hope Emir is enjoying himself over there. Now, I just need to make my way back to Kiera and the rest of the group.'

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[Five Templar hunters are down, the other five Liberation hunters are left.]

[Great work, Lyra, but I'm running out of excuses here, so hurry up.]

[Thank you, I'm already closing in on them, so I will be done shortly. Keep fighting.]

[Hah, sure I will. I might even become an expert at excuses after this.]

Emir then focused back on his situation and repeated the same thing for what felt like the millionth time:

"Lookman, Madam Kiera would be sad if you killed this kid, do you guys seriously want to go against an elite family?" freewebnøvel.coɱ

Noah shook his head and said:

"Stop playing around, Emir. We both know that this isn't something that we want but something that we need to do. We can't budge..."

"If there exists a possibility of this kid having heard what we said, then we might fall into great trouble if he talks, so the safest thing is for us to kill him, you included as well."

"I understand your point, I really do... but I don't want unnecessary death, especially to someone the lady is acquainted with, so let's ask him first, alright?"

[You can start the fight in the next thirty seconds, Emir.] Lyra informed him.

Noah nodded.

"Sure, let's ask the kid a few questions... We might be blowing this out of the water."

Emir smiled inwardly, but his happiness quickly turned into a frown as Henry quietly raised his gun, aiming it at Leo.

He quickly activated his temporal perception ability and chanted:

"Aetheric Shield."

With his quick reflexes, he managed to block the gunshots with the shield surrounding his body.

He angrily eyed Henry as he bellowed:

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!"

Henry matched Emir in his anger:

"I HAD ENOUGH OF THIS! WE WILL KILL THIS KID AND THAT IS IT! IF YOU WANT TO SAVE HIM SO BAD THEN FIGHT US AND DIE!!"

Emir had finally given up on this farce as he said:

[LYRA, I CAN'T DO THIRTY SECONDS, THEY ARE ABOUT TO ATTACK!]

[Understood.] She replied.

He let out a defeated and exacerbated sigh.

"Okay, you guys win, you can kill him. I don't give a damn anymore. I seriously don't get paid enough for this shit."

Noah smiled and said, "Good choice, Emir, we are Ascendants. Knight ranked I must add, you wouldn't want to go against us."

Emir smiled and stepped back.

While he moved, he silently chanted "Aether Burst," and charged his Aetherstorm Launcher.

He then used his Temporal perception ability and eyed Henry.

As he watched Henry raise his gun at Leo again, Emir aimed his fully charged Aetherstorm Launcher at him.

Noah noticed it, but he was too late to interfere.

The room flashed white as the blast instantly reached Henry's face.

A brighter spark flashed as his SS rank-augmented suit forcefield attempted to protect him from the blast.

It somehow managed to block the blast with the entirety of its energy pack's juice, depleting

it entirely.

However, the blast itself knocked Henry out as he smashed into a nearby bookshelf.

Emir didn't have the time to kill him as he noticed that a fireball was heading straight in his

direction.

"Aetheric Shield!"

He quickly defended himself with his shield, as he manipulated it to simply deflect the fireball so that it wouldn't tank his Aether reserves by simply warding off one attack. While all that happened, Leo didn't bother to look back and ran away as quickly as he could, not wanting to burden Emir any longer.

Noah, a Spell Weaver, sprouted ice spikes exactly where Emir stood.

Emir's excellent reflexes allowed him to easily dodge the spells in the slowed time, but as he was not used to fighting against spell weavers or celestials in general, he failed to anticipate

Noah's attack patterns.

This led to him missing the water created by the melted ice as he sidestepped another fireball, which followed after he had already run through a set of ice spikes.

Emir, caught off guard, slipped on the icy water while he attempted to dodge another set of spikes, losing his balance in the process.

He careened towards a nearby shelf, nearly flipping upside down before crashing into it.

In that split second, Noah took advantage of Emir's vulnerable position and shot out a set of

deadly ice spears at him.

Emir, however, reacted quickly, relying on his shield to protect him from the barrage of attacks, which proved to be effective.

Unfazed by Noah's attack, he surged towards him, dodging the next set of ice spears aimed at

him.

Emir was in full momentum, but his speed was halted by a massive wall of earth that rose from the ground, almost crashing into it in the process.