After catching the glimpse of humanoid figure behind Albert, Charlotte immediately tied her hair into a bun and took a fighting stance. Albert also removed his sword from its sheath and pointed its blade at the spectacle class deathodd.
Albert glanced at Charlotte with side eye and showed Charlotte his back with thrusting the attached rifle on its windbreaker towards her.
Charlotte frowned with raising her golden eyebrows and looked at Albert with her crimson eyes, "What? You think I need this to fight?"
"Huh? No. No, no, it's not that! I am doing this for myself, not for you! I want you to assist me if something bad happens during my fight with that monster!" Albert said with a smirk.
Charlotte rolled her eyes, in a moment her facial expressions stiffened, "You know what! I will accept this offer of yours."
Albert squinted his eyes, "Well, I was certainly not expecting you to agree with me this easily." His smirk did not disappear.
"It's not that I am accepting this offer for you! I am accepting this because of something different." Charlotte exhaled deeply.
"Eh... what is the reason?" The smirk on Albert's face started to vanish slowly.
"You know what my caliber is, right!"
"I saw you using it in the refugee camp."
"Well, to put it simply, there is no water in the drainage system of this area."
Upon hearing this, Albert's smirk disappeared completely and drops of sweat appeared on his face. He turned his head completely to look at Charlotte. She looked at Albert with expressionless eyes and then again directed her gaze at the deathodd.
Charlotte aimed the nozzle of the rifle at the deathodd and prepared to fight.
Albert sighed. Then he started to run towards the spectacle with raising his sword backwards, copying him the humanoid figure also commenced his run, his right arm turned into a sickle.
CLANG!
Their weapons collided with each other producing sparks.
CLANG! CLANG!
The deathodd took some steps back after exchanging some strikes with Albert.
The sword Albert was using was not a holy arm. This sword was given to humans who don't possess a caliber. It was called sun dust. This sword is made from the remains of the extinct species of sun dragon. It has the ability to increase its efficiency based on its wielder. Its sharpness could be increased by accurately using the vital force, it is not necessary for its wielder to be a normal human, a defiant can also use it.
The retreated spectacle again commenced its attack at Albert; this time it has an upper hand on him.
CLANG! CLANG! SWISH! CLANG! WHOOSH!
Albert was forced to be on defensive, but he did not lose his control on the sword and blocked those attacks.
But one strike of the spectacle class deathodds was able to break through Albert's intense and skillful guard, it was a vertical slash directed in downwards direction. The sickle of humanoid monster was at the edge of Albert's eye,
WHOOSH-shhhh!
Charlotte fired a round of laser projectiles at the upper torso of the deathodd.
He jolted after receiving the laser head on and lost his balance, this provided Albert with some time to prepare for attack. He immediately jumped at the falling deathodd and swung his sword downwards.
The falling monster dodged the sword with turning his whole body in left direction, its face was in front of the blade.
Albert raised the sword upwards in left and again thrusted it at the face of deathodd. This time, it didn't pose much problem to the deathodd in dodging it as it has already jumped when Albert raised his sword.
SWISH!
Albert's sword sliced the air, forming an arc, Albert hurriedly swung the sword downward and rushed for the spectacle deathodd once again.
CLANG!
The monster blocked the sword, not only with his right arm sickle, but his left arm was also turned into sickle. He made a cross with two sickles and forced Albert's sword to stop, a competition of force was now established between the two with Albert's sword screeching downwards, he dragged his left leg and bent his right knee, dodging the horizontal slash of deathodd's left sickle arm.
WHOOSH-shhhh!
Charlotte immediately opened fire on the humanoid monster.
The laser beam caused deathodd to slide backwards, with his feet turned into sickle as well.
"Tch!"
The spectacle class deathodd grunted with rolling his lips curling downward, humanoid monster slashed the air with both his arm sickles, his feet turned normal.
It commenced its run in Charlotte's direction; its intense running was halted by Albert who slashed his sword in upward.
"Kwoh!"
Spectacle class deathodd avoided the blade and kicked Albert in the stomach through its left shin, Albert crashed into the debris of a destroyed building after flying through the air.
Charlotte again aimed at the advancing the monster,
WHOOSH-shhh! WHOOSH-shhh! WHOOSH-shhh!
She fired three rounds at the deathodd, with two being able to hit the cracked body of the deathodd. The fired rounds enabled Charlotte to contribute greatly in halting its movements.
A hole was made in the left shoulder of the deathodd, making his left arm sickle useless.
SWISH! SWISH!
Albert also raised his body from the debris and swung his sword twice in vertically direction. It was to reduce the stiffness caused by the collision. He then jumped at the still deathodd, raised his sword upward and slicing it in downwards direction, Albert ended up producing a slashing wound on deathodd's neck.
....
Erick's body was being dragged by a powerful being, his legs were gripped so tightly that for Erick it felt like his bone inside his shin would break at any moment.
Erick's eyes twitched as he felt the immense force gripping his shin, he opened them to see who was dragging him on his back. When he raised his head, he saw long black hairs tied in a tight ponytail.
"Melora!?" Erick yelled when he found the identity of the person dragging him.
"Huh!??" Melora grunted menacingly. After she saw that Erick was conscious now, she immediately let go of his legs.
TAP!
Both his feet dropped on the ground, with them producing a tapping sound.
There were five cadets in the area, including Erick.
Tom, Merivale, Bates were walking without a care in the world.
Tom looked at Erick with his black eyes, combed through his black hair and said, "Yo Erick! Finally awake, are we?"