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nI decided to take a step back and let my friends handle this… as this is what they needed: something to destroy that last piece of mercy that they held for the enemy.

nThe man before us wasn’t just any regular soldier as he used the darkness of the storm to his advantage.

nWith his shadow powers, he was able to easily pop out from anywhere he wanted in the trench, but my friends were too enraged to just let this slide.

nFindir sunk both his sickles into the ground, creating a burst of wind that shot chunks of earth into the sky, revealing the man’s location as he tried to slip into another shadow directly on the ground.

n“He can’t use shadows in the sky-“

nBefore I could even give them some advice, Findir, in a blind rage, swung both of his arms like a pair of claws, crossing them and shooting two whirlwinds at him.

nThe man was being crushed from both sides by two whirlwinds that slowly began to intertwine with each other.

n“ARGHHHHHHHH!”

nHe let out a blood-curdling scream while Bella gathered a large ball of fire in the palms of her hand, even bigger than what the battle mage from before could create.

nFWOOSH… BOOM

nThe ball of fire created a mass of flames in the sky that fell to the ground, still continuously burning the man who had practically been charred to a crisp… but he was still hanging onto his life.

nHe coughed up a cloud of black smoke upon landing in our trench, all three of them slowly surrounding the guy.

n“You don’t deserve to die so easily,” Cy muttered before wrapping his spear in a red aura that sparkled with tiny flames.

n“Kill him quickly. We have to get Aisa to a doctor,” I said before heaving her onto my back and preparing to run down the trench.

np I was sure other places had been attacked, so we needed to try and save as many of the medics as possible.

nThey are precious to the survival of our side, and if necessary, we might have to retreat with them… but that also means ambushes to our front lines would be too open for the other side not to take…

n“Sh-She’s still alive?” Cy looked up at me, and I nodded while feeling Aisa’s blood soaking into the cracks of my armor.

n“Yes, so quickly! Kill him!” I shouted and decided to just point my sniper at him, but Cy quickly finished the job by cutting the man’s head off.

nThe three immediately began to run behind me as we took off down the trench, running into a few stray soldiers but managing to kill them with the help of Cy.

nHe was still enraged by the previous attack on Aisa…

n…

nAfter running for about half an hour, we finally reached the other side of the trench, where a large skirmish had broken out.

n“Kill all the enemies. Even if you think they’re on our side, just kill them. Show no mercy,”

nThere were at most a hundred soldiers in total duking it out in the trenches, so I gave the kids in front of me some directions before placing Aisa down against the dirty wall.

nA medic immediately noticed her and rushed over to her, placing a green light on her chest, which was helping to close the large wound.

n“Why the hell are kids here? Did you come here to be heroes or something?” The medic asked as she opened Aisa’s mouth and placed a green pill on her tongue.

nAisa, who had just woken up, immediately swallowed the pill as she recognized it as a pain nullifier.

n“No… We came here for experience,”

n“War isn’t a good teacher… Also, I’m gonna need to use another skill that is going to hurt like a bitch. The pill might not even do much, but it’s worth a shot,” She muttered before switching to a yellow light, and Aisa almost fainted from the pain.

nShe grit her teeth so hard that I could hear them grinding, so the healer took out a towel and placed it in her mouth.

n“Bite down onto that….”

nAs the healer was patching up Aisa, I looked back at the mini-war, which had commenced with my three friends absolutely tearing up the competition.

nIt seemed all the special people were gone, and now all that was left were fodder for my friends to level up.

n“Dude… where’s your spear? Go help them out,” I soon heard a breathy voice talk to me, and when I snapped my head around, I saw Aisa completely patched up.

nThe only thing holding her back from jumping into the action was her exhaustion which was through the roof.

n“That thing is too big to carry around… I was planning on summoning it when I went onto the battlefield, but I can’t do that in a trench. Not only would it kill multiple allies but also break the structure of the trench, causing the dirt to collapse on us… I can only sit back here and watch….”

n“Well, it’s not like you’re the best fighter out of all of us, so don’t beat yourself up,” Aisa smirked as the adrenaline slowly washed away, leaving her mind even more numb than before.

n“Fufufu… Go ** yourself,” I muttered.

n“You kids are handling this quite well. Even making jokes with such a gruesome sight in front of you… Also, were you the ones who said the backup was coming?”

n“Oh, I just said that in order for them to stop bugging us… There is no backup… well, I guess we are the backup,” I smirked before slumping down next to Aisa.

nMy heart was racing like I had just fallen in love with the battlefield…

n“Are we retreating after this?” I asked the medic, who began to heal some of my bruised limbs.

n“Most likely. That also means we’ll be sent to the front lines, so you two are lucky… snipers don’t go to the front lines,”

nI just gave Aisa a little smile, and she smiled back before hearing the last of the screams beside us slowly fade away.

n“Those are some nice eyes you three have,”

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