Warlock of War: My Ares System

"Ah… How amusing," We all chuckled in unison before getting serious.

As if the air around us began to the bend, the Bonebloom kid standing on his pile of corpses slowly backed away, only to firm his ground and raise his hand into the air.

The multitude of swords that floated around him doubled, allowing two swords to quickly chase after us with all their might.

Each one was sharper than the other, infinitely becoming more powerful the longer the fight began.

It was as if a blacksmith was sharpening the swords directly in the midst of the horrible bloodbath that was about to occur.

"Oh, I kind of like that sword," Cy muttered.

But… I'd say we were all holding our own as the sharpness couldn't affect us if we were never hit and something like a magic spell flying right at you in the midst of a battlefield was much faster than these puny things.

Once again, a ripple in the air around us caused the air to bend and distort our image, creating body doubles, triples, or even quadruples that dodged each individual sword.

The man was already tired out due to the need for him splitting his concentration between so many swords.

It was an almost impossible feat, yet he was able to completely control each and every individual blade that locked onto us.

"I'm jelly," Aisa smirked before making the first big move.

Her body dissipated into a cloud of snow, losing the scent of the swords chasing her and appearing right behind the man who just barely managed to block her twin daggers.

But those daggers weren't kidding around as they were coated in layers upon layers of thick and powerful lightning.

The man was shot forward towards us, almost getting sliced up by the blades he nearly lost cost control of.

"Pass!" Aisa shouted with a sadistic smile, and it seemed Bella was the first to receive the man, and she didn't hold back in the slightest.

As the man flew towards her, back first, she created a scythe of flames that curled around him and nearly sliced off the tip of his face.

The win was so close yet so far as the man desperately fought hard against us… though it seems his time was near.

Cy followed up with a magical slice from his spear that practically pushed through and bent the space around him in just a singular hard swing.

The man's sword, which he was using to hold onto this entire time, cracked and shattered without mercy, leaving his face pale as I came from below and struck my spear straight through his abdomen.

Blood spat from his mouth as his internal organs had been ruptured, and the only thing he could mutter was,

"Don't give it to that asshole," before dying with his eyes popping out from the burst of heat from my swift and controlled strike.

As we all gathered together once more and wiped the few drops of blood sprayed against us, Luna asked a question I had been thinking of the entire time.

"Why did he leave Orme alive? Is there something special about him that we don't know about?" Luna asked.

"Well, I could care less. We have a deal that we must fulfill, and once we have given him the relic, we will part ways. He will rise to the throne with us as his assistants, and…."

I lightly smiled towards everybody else, who all rolled their eyes, already knowing what the next step was.

"Ugh… The corpses stink," Luna muttered as we all searched for Orme, who was somehow still alive.

"Yeah, yeah, it's not like you haven't smelt worse… Have you smelt Cy's fart? Holy shit!" Bella shouted crudely, and everybody rolled their eyes once more beside me, who had found Orme under the pile of Bonebloom corpses.

"Okay~ this seems good enough," I muttered as I plopped him against the rocks of the ruined shrine of some sort and splashed him with some stored cold water.

It took a few rounds of splashing for him to finally wake up, but eventually, I was able to knock those gray eyes awake.

He gasped for air and sputtered words as he continuously glanced around, probably looking out for that horrible brother of his.

He then sighed a breath of relief upon seeing how it was us who had won.

"Was he tough to beat?" Orme asked, and I just shrugged lightly before dragging over the shadow of the girl we had allied with.

It was a shame she had to go so early, but there was really nothing else we could do besides get rid of the potential threat.

If she worked with us during killing that man, then that would've been great, but if she betrayed us right after and severely injured one of us with intricate planning, then I wouldn't be able to forgive myself.

"I guess we could use the corpse, but I'm pretty sure it has to be alive," He muttered before gesturing for us all to follow him.

We circled around the ruined shrine and noticed a plain smooth piece of stone right at the bottom of one of the dilapidated pillars.

He held the thumb of the corpse onto the smooth piece of stone, but it seemed to none of his surprises, it didn't work.

"Shit… the shadow needs to be alive," He muttered to himself, and Bella suddenly pushed us all out of the way as she had a bright idea.

She pulled the finger away and heated it up with her own green flame, just for a few seconds, though, as she didn't want to make it scorching hot or even melt it at the worst.

After the finger had finished heating up, a grotesque and nauseating sight that caused Orme to gag, she then placed the thumb right back onto the smooth stone, and viola… what do you know, the ruins began to shift.

"I already thought of that," Luna added just for the record as we all watched the rocks around us shift.