Walking through the gates of Era was none other than the demonic lolita Yumi. The demon was dressed from head to toe in Male Viking Armour accompanied by the Viking Male Helmet to provide her with the best protection. Floating beside her, hovering no more than a meter off the ground was her companion Venom the Duskull. The create was no bigger than a soccer ball and looked like the offspring of the grim reaper. On Yumi's back position with the handle to the right was her executioner's sword ready to be drawn at any moment. What was the little demons destination, it was the Rune Knight Headquarters, but she wasn't about to attack it with her current appearance, it would be foolish to do so with the way she looked at this moment, why give away her true self when she could be someone else? She would make sure to change her appearance before the raid with Physique disguise in order to cover up her attack.

Stepping into a secluded alleyway yumi pressed a hand to her chest where her heart was. Yumi's appearance changed as an illusion overcame her, no longer was she the 4'10" lolita, now she was 5'8" in height with the appearance of a super model with an incredibly busty and curvy figure. An appearance she had recently obtained when she was in Era last time. Yumi cracked her neck as she extended out her arms allowing magical energy to course through her veins, from her shoulder blades a pair of black wings sprouted out each with a 1.5m long wingspan. Yumi's body was lifted up as she grabbed Venom with her left arm, holding him close to her body and took off flying towards the centre of town where the Rune knight headquarters was located.

Yumi landed on the edge of the bridge facing south, the direction to which the front of the Rune Knight headquarters faced. Yumi released her hold on Venom allowing him to hover freely beside her. She unclasped her leather strap that held her sword and grabbed it with her right hand. Yumi drew the massive two-meter long blade holding it in her right hand. Naturally on the bridge was a small security team of four Rune Knight's whose attention Yumi had caught. The demon stretched her wings and shot forward, the knights were only twenty meters from her.  Moving at speeds of 20m/s Yumi covered the distance in a second before they had a chance to respond. Yumi swung the massive blade clipping two Rune knights in a single swing. Blood sprayed out into the air staining the bridge as she bisected the knights in half. Without stopping she continued flying in front of the third and swung the blade down cleaving him in two from his skull to pelvis. The fourth turned to run, but Yumi flew in and swung the blade from the right cleaving his head off, blood sprayed out into the air splashing across Yumi's cheeks.

The demon flicked her right wrist swinging the blade out to the right and flicked the blood off that stained her swords edge. She had killed the guards before they could raise the alarm. Yumi collected Venom and continued flying heading towards the path that led towards the top of the mountain where the Rune Knight headquarters as stationed. Yumi flew ten meters off the ground at 20m/s making a great time. Anytime she came across a patrol she would slaughter them swinging her massive sword with one cleaving them in half with one blow. Yumi ascended the mountain leaving nothing but a trail of bodies and blood behind her, she was living up to her name as 'The Witch of Carnage' a long time dark mage who for the last fifty years had left a devastating trail of bodies in their wake.

Reaching the top Yumi touched down and stretched out her wings, releasing her companion. The Rune Knight headquarters was only twenty meters away from her, the path she had come from was only ten meters from her. On each side of her being was a wide space she couldn't even calculate it, the width of the mountain the base resided on must easily be over fifty meters. Without another thought, the demon began to release her demonic presence allowing it to engulf the entirety of the mountain on which the base was situated upon. The aura would strike out over the area installing fear into all who came across it, affecting vision and lowering the stats of those weaker than Yumi.

Yumi plunged her left hand into the ground and roared ripping out a segment of earth half of the demons true size. Yumi hefted the piece of debris with one hand and threw it with all her might launching it towards the base, all the while lifting herself up into the air with her wings until she was ten meters off the ground, covering the height in half a second.  The debris was tossed towards the front door of the base to collapse it and make a loud bang to draw as much attention as possible, if her demonic presence hadn't already done so.

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Groggy and uncertain of where he lay, Kon rose from the hard road still wielding his staff with the aid of his left hand allowing him to quickly glean some information from his new destination. As it so happened the spirit of which he had been just only what he perceived as talking to only moments ago had seemingly teleported him from Orchidia all the way to Era town. The reasoning was unclear however he was able to determine that it was Era due the long time he had spent within the home of the Rune Knights. Perhaps the spirit was suggesting something that he had to be doing in association with that faction but what would an otherworldly magical being care for in regards to authority. “No matter, at least I’m out of those damn woods” Raising to his feet pushing himself up completely aided by the use of his staff, he patted himself and his clothes down to remove all the dust which had collected on him since hitting the ground.

Looking down revealed much to his confusion that he was no longer wearing his traditional attire but instead some extremely flamboyant and most likely expensive robes. Where his old clothes had gone he didn’t know but he suspected that these new robes had been granted to him by the spirit, a reward perhaps for completing the silly games that he won against the spirit. All facts considered however the mage didn’t really mind the change as the materials of his new clothing seemed to be far superior to his previous attire and seemed to have magical properties woven into the very core of each fiber. The loss of his clothes also came with it the loss of the bandage he had adorned with his right hand, which would have resulted in the public being able to see the light in his right hand however his robes also seemed to come with gloves as well as shoes.

Perhaps the only true downside of having lost his old items were the minor things like his wine flask that everyone should have to take a swig from when thirsty, because of these losses he would head for the marketplace initially to purchase a new flask before heading to the Rune Knight Headquarters where he had needed to go to for some time to submit his resignation, something he hadn’t done for months since joining the Holy Knights. Technically at least according to their documentation, he was a rune knight though he no-longer felt such association. Moving to the marketplace at a casual pace the bottom of his staff tapped against the hard stone with a resonating click, click. His presence had all the more became more prominent to the community with the addition of his robes giving him a more sinister appearance before.

For now, at least this seemed to be in his favor as the rapid change in behavior when civilians spotted him allowed him to move through them as if they were butter. Reaching the marketplace, his senses were assaulted in both an unpleasant fashion as well as a pleasant one, with merchants shouting out their goods while the odors of them spread out enticing Kon to purchase from them. Attaining the goods that he needed from two main suppliers which he requested his orders be sent to his manor in Orchidia, admittedly it was a long destination for them to send such things but he had ordered a vast number of other things as well to warrant the delivery to his property.

The more urgent things with him like the aforementioned required flask now strapped to his belt along with his lunch consisting of a simple roll. Making his way to a main road that lead to the Rune Knight Headquarters, he noticed the cries of the public that substituted the otherwise happy voices of the town, eventually it wasn’t too long until he came across a small child that was trying to hide in a corner of the alleyway where he was passing through. Wanting to know what was occurring, he lowered himself to the girl’s level and spoke to her patiently and calmly. “Can you tell me what happened, little girl? Are your parents hurt?, I can help.” Sniffling to herself not turning to acknowledge him she spoke all the same. “Mummy and Daddy just told me to run as fast as I could and hide, I don’t know where they are.” Before breaking out into an even more passionate call of help, wanting her to stop out of just sheer annoyance, he resigned himself to helping her completely. “I’ll help you find them, now I need you to try to stop crying and tell me what they look like.”

A vague description was made and her mood was slightly brightened by his offer with all the helpful information gathered from the girl, he made a request for her this time. “I need you to find a Rune Knight officer or guard they are littered all throughout the town, tell them you’re lost and need your parents, I'll come to you if there are any issues okay?” Nodding to him, Kon rose and watched as the little girl fled in the opposite direction paying no attention to all the water that splashed onto her dress as she ran off.

Turning his attention to his new destination, he continued to walk towards the road and as he turned, he quickly realised why the cries of the community, blood was splattered all over the place on the bridge that was all too familiar with the holy knight where he too had a similar conflict however he had not lost his life which could not be said for the guards unsure of what had occurred he would have to investigate the area and hopefully speak to the people who saw the murders take place. All this would take time and that’s something that he might not have. “Here I thought I was going to distance myself from the rune knights.”

Scratching his chin, he came to a decision for the time being at least until the arrival of a rune knight to attend to the scene he would prevent it from being tampered with through the use of just one of his summons for now. Bringing his staff up slightly a crack of light formed above in the skies over the one of the slain guards that was on the other side of the bridge, Adriel came down upon corpse and hovered just above, meanwhile seemingly unaffected by the causing of his summon to his confusion, the Holy Knight stood at the front of the entrance with his staff ready to prevent any who turned to interfere with the bodies.

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The piece of debris sailed through the air, little bits falling off as it flew. The debris struck the front entrance to the Rune Knight Headquarter's with enough force it demolished in impact with a loud bang that echoed on the mountain top. The door collapsed in on itself as rubble was blown everywhere and dust rose into the air. Anyone unfortunate enough to be standing guard or walking past would be crushed beneath the rubble. The noise of the impact would echo on the mountain top, but due to the sheer size of the mountain, close to five hundred meters in height, it wouldn't travel down allowing it to only be heard by those stationed on top. This would leave the citizens of Era blissfully ignorant of what was transpiring atop the rocky mountain. The size of the mountain meant anyone who stumbled upon the bodies left by Yumi o the south side bridge wouldn't be able to simply rush to the Rune Knight's aid due to the distance they would have to cross. Even if they flew up the sheer height of the mountain would delay there arrival.

Yumi hovered in the air smiling evilly as the debris broke apart the door. Yumi grabbed Duskull with her left hand and put him on her back straping him into the leather strap on her back used to hold her sword. The companion was faced out to allow him to watch her back. With the door open the little demon shot forward covering the distance from her to the entrance in a second. Any survivors were quickly cut down by a swing of her deadly blade spraying blood across the walls. The demon entered the main chambers and quickly examined the room on each side were row of five support pillars ten in total. The demon ignored the pillars as she looked around, her destination was to find the main source of power that allowed the Rune Knight's Headquarters to operate. If she could destroy the power source she could activate an explosion to take out a large section of the building. The demon flew around sustaining her wings as she went left busting open a set of doors where she was greeted by a patrol rushing towards the main chamber, five knights in total. The demon rushed forward flying across the hallway and swung her blade without mercy, simulatniousely she would activate the Grimoire Heart Cursed Seal to enhance her speed and strength. Blood and intestines splashed across the tile floors as one Knight fell after the other. As one knight fell and Yumi advanced more would rush from the wood works. Knights even rushed from behind, but Yumi's companion Venom would alert her to their presence.

The tiles that were once a pristence white were stained blood red, as a two inch thick pool of blood filled the hallways littered by dozens of corpses. Yumi did not stop her advances as she flew on continuing her mindless slaughter in search for the buildings generator, travelling through the 5m long hallways, and rooms leaving a trail of bodies behind. The noise from the debris she threw that blew the door off its hinges had thrown the entire base on high alert as Knight's rushed down to the main floor. As the bodies were discovered someone triggered an alarm. The alarm began to sound loudly echoing over the entire mountain top. The alarm would send a remote signal to all guard stations down on the bridges to alert them to the enemy presence. The sound of the alarm rang in Yumi's ears, no doubt reinforcements from Era would heading up the mountain, but due to the size of the mountain they would take some time, and Yumi was planning to be gone by then.

Yumi continued on slashing and hacking her way through the base. Whenever she came across a group she would leave one alive and attempt to interrogate him in order to fish the information of where the buildings main power generator was located. Her luck had been running dry as they all refused to talk, so she ended their miserable lives, but eventually her luck began to shine as she found a Knight who turned out to be quite chatty, expecially when she threatened to cut off his little brother and shove it down his throat. It turned out the main generator was located on the basement floor beneath the main floor. After disposing of the chatty Knight, Yumi made her journey down. She was already half way through this maze of a building when and had left plenty of corpses that littered the hallways. Her sword was thoroughly drenched in the blood as she arrived at one of the stairways that led down, Yumi was at the west most corner of the building, she had travelled in far enough that she couldn't be seen from the main windows as she was at least three rooms deep. Yumi flew down with the speed of her wings she covered alot of ground in record time barely. Yumi entered into the basement and began to recall the directions she had pulled from the Rune knight. The basement featured the armoury, training room and generator. Right to the training room left to the other two. Taking a left Yumi swung her sword using to break down doors.

Yumi again met with resistance as guards rushed out, unlike the last knight's she ran across the level had increased. But they still stood no chance to the demon as her demonic presence washed over them inducing fear. The fear caused them to stumble and error allowing her to take their lives. Kicking open another door Yumi walked into the armoury, inside were a number of Knight's who were beginning to change into their armour, no doubt due to the alarms. The unprepared Knight's were caught of guard as Yumi charged in swinging cutting them down. The guards scrambled to counter attack but they hadn't the opportunity to arm themselves with their protective gear making them easy pickings. Yumi had caught them off guard, after all why would the Rune Knights expect to be attacked. Blood coated the entire armoury as Yumi went into action allowing the slaughter to begin once more.

Yumi thrust her sword forward stabbing it through the last guard and pinning him to a locker. Blood gurgled out his mouth as he dead. Yumi tore the blade out and began scanning scanned the armoury searching through it for anything that could help her endeavours. Yumi tore locker doors apart and metal containers open until she found her prize. Yumi's eyes gleamed with madness as she found a box full of explosives. The demon collected twelve of the explosives, those set up with a remote detonator. The demon tore a few strips of clothing from the dead knight's and fashioned herself a pack to carry the explosives and charge.

Yumi continued on, with the rate of her speed even if someone had arrived to find the mess she was covering far to much ground for them to catch up especially with her flight speed of 20m/s. As Yumi got closer to the generator the numbers of guards had begun to decrease, she must have culled them to the point they had run out of fodder for her. Finally after meeting zero resistance, she guessed the armoury had been the last line of defence, Yumi arrived at the room containing the generator. The door was locked but it didn't stop Yumi as she swung her sword cleaving the door in half and kicked it open. Walking in Yumi's eyes widened, the room was massive and had at least four massive generators with a giant magical core in the center, two generators on each side. Yumi went to work and began to set the explosives on the generators, two per generator taking up eight of the explosives. The last four she placed around the magical core and began to set them up connecting them to a single detonator. With the explosives set it was time to leave. Yumi left the generator room flying back to the armoury, stashing the detonator in her bosom.

The demon departed from the basement, but instead of returning to the main entrance which was south, Yumi headed to the back of the base going north. She was going to avoid returning the way she came. With all the alarms going off and the only entrance being the south, this would allow her a clean getaway. She had left a massive trail of bodies leading into the basement, and since all the Knight's had gathered on the south side the north was clear leaving her a straight path. Yumi would fly to a spot at the back of the building and extended her left arm, pointing her left index finger. Black magical energy converged at her finger tip before a 1m diameter beam of magical energy was fired blowing a whole through a section of wall, this was her Renzoku Desu Beam. Yumi then took off flying north towards the edge of the mountain face.

Yumi held out her executioner's sword as she moved to the edge of the mountain. Yumi dropped the sword as she faced north. Yumi pushed half the sword over the edge and placed her left foot on the back of the flat blade near the guard. Her right was positioned a little away from the hole in the blade as she leaned back. Yumi then leaned forward and used her wings to push herself forward. Yumi fell over with her massive sword. The sword hit the cliff face and Yumi began riding down the cliff using her sword like some board, it was almost like Yumi was snow boarding. Yumi extended out her wings using them to help her steer as she rode her sword down the mountain like some crazy woman.

Yumi was rocketting down at great speed. As she fell Yumi pulled out the detonator out from between her chest with her right hand. She pressed down on the button. The reaction would be immediate a loud explosion would rockett out from behind her as the explosions blew up the generator. Yumi didn't care to look back, as she knew the explosion from the generator would be enough to demolish the entire lower floor and part of the base to collapse.

When she had fallen down four hundred meters with only one hundred to go, she would kick down on the back of the blade with her left foot digging the handle into the mountain face and extending the entire blade out as Yumi went parrel with the incoming ground. Yumi hooked her right foot into the hole of her sword and kicked pushing it out of the cliff and kicked it upwards. Yumi latched onto the handle with her right hand and extending her arms out going into a free fall, moving away from the mountain's side. The wind rushed beneath Yumi as she folded her wings and went into a dive heading towards the town of Era. Her falling speed increased as she descended. Yumi's eyes narrowed she needed to time this just right. 90 meters to ground, 80 meters to ground, 70 meters to ground. Yumi continued fall her sword tucked tightly into her body as were her arms. The demon was like a little missile and her target was the streets of era.

Yumi's eyes glowed she gripped her sword and threw it like a projectile launching it towards the edge of town. She could retrieve it at a later date. Yumi spread her limbs stopping her speeding descent as she began to sail towards the ground. Her limbs caught the wind beneath her slowing her fall. She was aiming for a roof top far away from the mountain, a good 50 meters away. As Yumi came closer and closer to the roof top of a building that was a good 5ms tall. Yumi was a good 20m above the roof top as she fell. Yumi's wings stretched out collecting the wind to slow her descent even further. Yumi glided down, her wings only effective as 10m height to enable her to fly. As she hit 5m above the building and 10m above her ground the effect of her wings took over. With a flap she was able to lower herself to the ground with a parachute like landing. In the distance a loud bang was heard curtesy of her sword impacting with the street 15ms up ahead.

The streets were in a panic as citizens screamed. Yumi took flight heading towards her sword covering the distance in three quaters of a second. She found her sword broke in two pieces lying in the stone. Yumi collected the half with the handle and flew off leaving the broken piece behind. Yumi flew into the alley ways moving through them covering distance before hiding around a corner. Yumi checked her surroundings making sure it was clear. With no on in sight, Yumi deactivated her wings allowing them to vanish. Yumi removed Venom from her back holding him close as she put her broken sword on her back, strapping in it place. The demon then cancelled out her psyique disguise returning to her lolita body. Immediately Yumi ran using the back alleys to get as far away from the center of town as possible. She would lay low before leaving town.


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Something was definitely alarming was afoot and he couldn’t help but sense the heart of the problem would be making their way if not already be at the gates of the Rune Knight Headquarters. There was no telling what the individual or individuals for that matter responsible for the killing of these guards were up to exactly, surely it was not a prison break out as the prison was situated at the peak of the mountain, no Kon believed it was something far more damaging though he would likely be unable to aid in the defenses against the assailants. A loud bang resonated from above with a terrible outcome to be implied from it, “they’ve broken through the gates, fuck.” He couldn’t just stand there he wanted to do something but alas he couldn’t until at least a dozen Rune Knights donning thick plate steel armor rushed over to him demanding to know what was happening.

“Gentlemen, the guards are dead and your headquarters are being sacked, protect this area for the good of the realm stop whatever dare encroach a single step out of the mountain not friendly.” He spoke out to all of them as they continued to pace over to him, as he had he summon return to his side. Seemingly to recognize his authority some of them agreed to him as they were likely free out of the academy, meanwhile a more senior officer barked at him. “Who are you to give orders to me?, I mean to us?” Taken back at the man’s attitude towards him he responded calmly and with a tinge of distaste towards him. “I am a member of the Rune Knights and likely your superior, notice the difference in the attire?, we don’t have time to debate this, the other areas around the mountain need to be reinforced, with you here this will allow me to get to where I need to go, don’t even argue with me or I will not hesitate to just mow you down myself.”  

The passion of his comments even silenced the eldest of the knights, wanting to establish order from the chaos, he spoke in great urgency while he meanwhile began to summon his other angels. “I want you to create a barricade on both sides of the bridge and defend it from here and there.” pointing towards the sides closest to them. Once that their orders had been made with him not giving any further instructions with this perhaps taking 5 minutes or so, he jumped onto the largest of his summons, in particular, it’s back, latching onto the various grip spots that the angel proved him. His angels flew 5 meters above and parallel with the edge of the wall that separated the streets from the gap that too separated the mountain from the town itself, the angels, however, flew with Adriel flew just 5 meters away from the wall, Cassiel 5 meters from Adriel and Seraphiel 10 meters from Adriel.

They flew from his former location at the southern bridge to the south-eastern allowing him to scan briefly for irregularities, then continued onwards to the eastern repeating the process twice, it was midway through reaching the corner that separated the North-east and the northern gate that a great explosion occurred from above. Still grasping his staff in his right hand, he climbed up to the head of the summon to gain the best point of view to see what had occurred. While he was unsure of what happened, it could be suggested from the flames and the smoke that the headquarters had been attacked quite significantly as well.

His task would not stop however in ensuring that the rest of the entrances to the rune knight headquarters were protected. While the other locations were at least slightly protected it seemed that someone had allocated the guards that should be overseeing this northern bridge to a different location, which was completely understandable. A rather noticeable and distinct noise grew louder and louder, even over the roaring flames were quite some distance away from him. The noise was that of raw metal scratching against hard rocks, a familiar sound to any experienced fighter or wizard, wanting to identify the origin he searched and searched up until he began to see something rather curious, what appeared to be a woman, a woman riding on something metal, a sword perhaps?

Such a behavior after the explosion from above was suspicious, to say the least, so as the girl continued downwards, he dashed onto his second largest summon which merely wiggled slightly before accommodating his weight and spread out his Seraphiel as to warrant him further potential coverage with spell use. Recognising that the conflict would likely not take place at the bridge itself with the woman evidently not stopping he motioned for his summons to position themselves instead of on the wall itself onto one of the nearby rooftops.

Nothing could be done however as the girl had positioned herself to land in a location he would be unable to target with his or his summons’ spells that however did not prevent him from observing, as she picked up the broken sword to which she had thrown down earlier. Wanting to be more subtle about his recon over the potential criminal who was now fleeing from the scene, he whisked away both of his summonses, Cassiel and Seraphiel meanwhile he remained to cling to Adriel very carefully.

While it seemed like she was the fastest of the two he had the high ground, something that should not be underestimated in concealing one's presence from below and Era town was his home for some time due to his association with the Rune Knights so he knew the town like the back of his hand. The tracking itself was lengthy, he didn’t think she would stop with her flight however after some time she disabled her magical wings which made sense, what didn’t be what happened next, the woman changed to someone whose face he couldn’t forget but name who he never learnt, it was the same small girl who stole the magisters index from him after he killed that other girl she held hostage, just what was she planning, this confirmed that she was responsible, but for now he couldn’t attack her at least not here, there were too many innocent lives at stake, he would have to wait. Almost hitting himself for letting that murderer go, he watched as she disappeared. “Fuck, fuck, fuck.” Resigning himself to another failure against that woman he climbed off the angel gingerly, feet hitting the rooftop without a noise and watched as the fires continued to roar endlessly on the peak of the mountain.

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