With his shield at 99%, Rohan stood unbowed in the face of our many weapons. Sherry cast Small Meteor on him. It smashed against his shield and dissolved into dust.
“98%,” Maria called out.
Esme hit him with an ice arrow.
“97.9%,” Maria said.
Rohan conjured a morning star. The spiky ball at the end of the weapon was formed from golden lightning. “Enough is enough. All of you must lay down on the ground with your hands behind your backs. Do not resist as I bind your hands with energy tethers.”
“That’s not going to happen,” I said.
“You’re really intent on making this the most fun day of my life, aren’t you?” Rohan smirked. “I want to kill you all here and now, I really do. But it would be so much better for the common folk if I executed each of you in a grand ceremony at Chop Chop Square. It would reassure everyone that criminality has consequences. You see, without belief in the order of things, the world we’ve been struggling to rebuild since the Cataclysm would break down, and the Shadowsoul will win as it watches us tear each other apart.”
I hit Rohan with an Ice Blast, hoping it would freeze him so we could whittle down his shield. But the icicles simply recoiled off the shield.
“97%.”
Fucking frustrating. He was resistant to status effects, too.
How in the hell were we going to defeat him?
Ayla and Tara teleported into the room. They’d obviously decided not to stay in the soul cabin I’d thrown them into, probably because they wanted to help me, even at risk to their own lives.
Though I respected their decision, I hated that they were now in danger.
“Sorry, Remy,” Ayla said. “But I couldn’t just sit in that cabin and worry about your fate.”
“Neither could I,” Tara added. “We’re with you, no matter what.”
“Ah, looks like your backup has arrived.” Rohan let out a dark chuckle. “Soon enough, mine will, too. Soldiers will surround this villa. I suppose I won’t kill you. But I am going to cause you tremendous pain!”
He flung his morning star at Maria. I pushed her out of the way, taking the brunt of the hit. The lightning bit into my bones. It would’ve paralyzed me, but Ayla was wearing the Status Resist Ring.
Tara used Water Heal on me.
Sherry took the opportunity to hit Rohan in the back with her flame spear. But it did nothing. Rohan turned and smashed her chest with his morning star.
She cried out.
Tara healed her immediately. Esme poured a paralysis-curing potion over her head.
“Your healers are annoying,” Rohan said. “They really are preventing me from maximizing my fun. I think I’ll kill them now and leave the rest of you for my executioner at Chop Chop Square.”
Rohan shot a rope of light out of his hand. It wrapped around Tara’s neck. He shot another out of his other hand at Maria’s neck.
“You fucking bastard!” I conjured my ice katana and cut both ropes with swift slashes.
Ayla and Esme made sure Tara and Maria were okay while I kept my focus on Rohan.
“Impressive, Remy,” Rohan said. “No normal man would’ve been able to cut those ropes. It pains me to see you throw your potential away in this vain attempt to unseat me.”
Poking at him with our weapons and abilities wasn’t going to work. We needed a way to break his shield. And we needed it now.
But how? I’d never come across a shield like this. It seemed resistant to every single element. Every weapon type, ability, and status effect.
Rohan shot a beam at Esme. She smashed into the wall, and remained stuck to it. Ropes of light wrapped around her hands and legs, binding her.
Tara healed her, but it didn’t remove the status effect.
Rohan did the same to Sherry, and then to Ayla. Ayla resisted it once, but Rohan hit her again, ensnaring her. All I could do was watch in horror as each of my wives was immobilized.
I could still draw from their mana, though. I raged toward Rohan with my katana. But as soon as my blade hit his shield, I recoiled from the impact, as if I’d slammed my blade into a steel wall.
“It’s no use, Remy.” Rohan scratched his cheek. “How about this — join me, and I’ll spare two of them. Choose your favorite and your second favorite. The rest will have to die. The people need their entertainment, after all.”
“They are all my favorite, you piece of dangling elephant shit!”
“I’m sure that isn’t true. A man always has favorites.”
“Not this man.”
“I don’t believe it.”
“You’re a coward, Rohan. Hiding behind your shield. Fight me for real.”
Rohan laughed. “I’m the ruler of this island. I’m not going to risk life and limb fighting someone like you without a shield.”
Where was he generating that shield from? If only I could deactivate it.
Rohan walked toward Esme, who was still stuck to the wall, tethers of light around each of her limbs. He raised his morning star above her head.
“This one is your favorite, isn’t she? You have a special fondness for her. Let me guess — she was your first wife. Our firsts are always special, aren’t they?”
“What are you going to do to Esme?” I asked.
“I’m going to watch you cry and beg as I drain her of life.”
“Remy…” Esme looked at me with tears in her eyes. “I’m sorry I was so weak.”
“It’s not your fault,” I said.
“No, it’s yours.” Rohan laughed. “Too weak to protect your wives. Now you’ll have to watch the first one die!”
Rohan came down upon Esme with the full force of his morning star.
Just then, the ceiling exploded. A man crashed through it, his void spear forward. He impaled Rohan with it, then smashed a white orb into Rohan’s shield.
A white light immersed Rohan. It looked like static electricity.
“0%,” Maria said in disbelief. “His shield is gone!”
Leric thrust his spear at Rohan’s chest. Rohan caught him with his tether, then flung Leric against the wall, causing it to crack.
I took this chance to conjure my wind hammer. I smashed Rohan in the chest. He flew through the wall, creating a huge hole, and landed somewhere outside the villa.
I immediately ran toward Esme. I cut her tethers, then did the same for Ayla and Sherry. We all hugged.
“I’m sorry,” I said to them.
“Don’t be,” Ayla replied.
“We’d all die for you,” Sherry said.
Tara cast her Augmenting Rain on everyone. I felt revitalized. Ready.
I brandished my flame spear in one hand and my ice katana in the other.
“Let’s kill that fuck!” I said.
I rushed through the hole in the villa wall. Rohan had healed himself and was dusting off his princely attire. His shield hadn’t regenerated, thankfully.
“That fucking traitor.” Rohan gritted his teeth. “Those shields are incredibly rare. I should never have shared my secrets with a curseborn. He’ll pay with his life.”
I thrust my spear and slashed Rohan at the same time. He dodged my spear but my slash penetrated through his arm and across into his neck.
Rohan spat blood. While I wound up to slash him again, a Holy Heal immersed him. He backstepped away from me.
Adam and his holy soulbond Olana appeared at the head of dozens upon dozens of soldiers.
Leric and my wives came to my side. Johana, too. Everyone wielded their weapons.
“Kill them all!” Rohan shouted.
The soldiers let out a war cry and ran toward us. Some fired crossbow bolts at us. Others wielded spears and swords.
Ayla hit the mass of them with a Wind Blast. Sherry summoned down meteors. Esme went into her Ice Golem Form and shielded us from the crossbow bolts while smashing as many soldiers as she could. Tara and Maria kept everyone’s health topped up.
“Keep Adam busy,” I said to Leric and Johana. “I’m going for Rohan.”
Still dual wielding a spear and katana, I hurried through the mass of soldiers toward Rohan. Leric and Johana opened a void portal in the air. Tentacles streamed out of it toward Adam.
Adam tried to use his claws to cut them down, but missed one. Oil spilled out of the tentacle and immobilized him. Before Olana could cure him, a tentacle hit her, as well. Both were completely immobilized.
Rohan jogged away from me. He ran into an alley and reached into his soul storage for an orange bridging orb. Before he could toss it onto the ground, I sniped it with an ice arrow. Then I dual wielded water whips and lashed both his hands.
I pulled on the whips and forced him to kneel. Rohan glared at me with rage.
“You think this will make you… what… a king?” He shook his head. “No one will respect your orders. Not unless you kill thousands, first. You see, it’s only fear that creates order, Remy. Are you ready for that?”
I tightened the hold of my water whips just to watch him squirm. “I’m not going to rule by fear. I’m going to make people’s lives better. They’re going to obey me because they’re going to love the benefits I bring.”
“You’re so fucking naive.”
“Maybe so. I probably have a lot to learn about ruling. Too bad you won’t be around to watch me grow.”
I released my water whips, conjured my ice katana, and sliced his head clean off.
I picked up his dripping head and walked back toward the villa. I held it up to show all the soldiers that their prince was dead.
As soon as he saw it, Adam, who’d just broken free from the oil, tossed a bridging orb on the ground and ran through the door. He didn’t even bother to take Olana with him. I suppose that was a good thing; it meant we could help her.
The soldiers all dropped their weapons and surrendered.
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With his shield at 99%, Rohan stood unbowed in the face of our many weapons. Sherry cast Small Meteor on him. It smashed against his shield and dissolved into dust.
“98%,” Maria called out.
Esme hit him with an ice arrow.
“97.9%,” Maria said.
Rohan conjured a morning star. The spiky ball at the end of the weapon was formed from golden lightning. “Enough is enough. All of you must lay down on the ground with your hands behind your backs. Do not resist as I bind your hands with energy tethers.”
“That’s not going to happen,” I said.
“You’re really intent on making this the most fun day of my life, aren’t you?” Rohan smirked. “I want to kill you all here and now, I really do. But it would be so much better for the common folk if I executed each of you in a grand ceremony at Chop Chop Square. It would reassure everyone that criminality has consequences. You see, without belief in the order of things, the world we’ve been struggling to rebuild since the Cataclysm would break down, and the Shadowsoul will win as it watches us tear each other apart.”
I hit Rohan with an Ice Blast, hoping it would freeze him so we could whittle down his shield. But the icicles simply recoiled off the shield.
“97%.”
Fucking frustrating. He was resistant to status effects, too.
How in the hell were we going to defeat him?
Ayla and Tara teleported into the room. They’d obviously decided not to stay in the soul cabin I’d thrown them into, probably because they wanted to help me, even at risk to their own lives.
Though I respected their decision, I hated that they were now in danger.
“Sorry, Remy,” Ayla said. “But I couldn’t just sit in that cabin and worry about your fate.”
“Neither could I,” Tara added. “We’re with you, no matter what.”
“Ah, looks like your backup has arrived.” Rohan let out a dark chuckle. “Soon enough, mine will, too. Soldiers will surround this villa. I suppose I won’t kill you. But I am going to cause you tremendous pain!”
He flung his morning star at Maria. I pushed her out of the way, taking the brunt of the hit. The lightning bit into my bones. It would’ve paralyzed me, but Ayla was wearing the Status Resist Ring.
Tara used Water Heal on me.
Sherry took the opportunity to hit Rohan in the back with her flame spear. But it did nothing. Rohan turned and smashed her chest with his morning star.
She cried out.
Tara healed her immediately. Esme poured a paralysis-curing potion over her head.
“Your healers are annoying,” Rohan said. “They really are preventing me from maximizing my fun. I think I’ll kill them now and leave the rest of you for my executioner at Chop Chop Square.”
Rohan shot a rope of light out of his hand. It wrapped around Tara’s neck. He shot another out of his other hand at Maria’s neck.
“You fucking bastard!” I conjured my ice katana and cut both ropes with swift slashes.
Ayla and Esme made sure Tara and Maria were okay while I kept my focus on Rohan.
“Impressive, Remy,” Rohan said. “No normal man would’ve been able to cut those ropes. It pains me to see you throw your potential away in this vain attempt to unseat me.”
Poking at him with our weapons and abilities wasn’t going to work. We needed a way to break his shield. And we needed it now.
But how? I’d never come across a shield like this. It seemed resistant to every single element. Every weapon type, ability, and status effect.
Rohan shot a beam at Esme. She smashed into the wall, and remained stuck to it. Ropes of light wrapped around her hands and legs, binding her.
Tara healed her, but it didn’t remove the status effect.
Rohan did the same to Sherry, and then to Ayla. Ayla resisted it once, but Rohan hit her again, ensnaring her. All I could do was watch in horror as each of my wives was immobilized.
I could still draw from their mana, though. I raged toward Rohan with my katana. But as soon as my blade hit his shield, I recoiled from the impact, as if I’d slammed my blade into a steel wall.
“It’s no use, Remy.” Rohan scratched his cheek. “How about this — join me, and I’ll spare two of them. Choose your favorite and your second favorite. The rest will have to die. The people need their entertainment, after all.”
“They are all my favorite, you piece of dangling elephant shit!”
“I’m sure that isn’t true. A man always has favorites.”
“Not this man.”
“I don’t believe it.”
“You’re a coward, Rohan. Hiding behind your shield. Fight me for real.”
Rohan laughed. “I’m the ruler of this island. I’m not going to risk life and limb fighting someone like you without a shield.”
Where was he generating that shield from? If only I could deactivate it.
Rohan walked toward Esme, who was still stuck to the wall, tethers of light around each of her limbs. He raised his morning star above her head.
“This one is your favorite, isn’t she? You have a special fondness for her. Let me guess — she was your first wife. Our firsts are always special, aren’t they?”
“What are you going to do to Esme?” I asked.
“I’m going to watch you cry and beg as I drain her of life.”
“Remy…” Esme looked at me with tears in her eyes. “I’m sorry I was so weak.”
“It’s not your fault,” I said.
“No, it’s yours.” Rohan laughed. “Too weak to protect your wives. Now you’ll have to watch the first one die!”
Rohan came down upon Esme with the full force of his morning star.
Just then, the ceiling exploded. A man crashed through it, his void spear forward. He impaled Rohan with it, then smashed a white orb into Rohan’s shield.
A white light immersed Rohan. It looked like static electricity.
“0%,” Maria said in disbelief. “His shield is gone!”
Leric thrust his spear at Rohan’s chest. Rohan caught him with his tether, then flung Leric against the wall, causing it to crack.
I took this chance to conjure my wind hammer. I smashed Rohan in the chest. He flew through the wall, creating a huge hole, and landed somewhere outside the villa.
I immediately ran toward Esme. I cut her tethers, then did the same for Ayla and Sherry. We all hugged.
“I’m sorry,” I said to them.
“Don’t be,” Ayla replied.
“We’d all die for you,” Sherry said.
Tara cast her Augmenting Rain on everyone. I felt revitalized. Ready.
I brandished my flame spear in one hand and my ice katana in the other.
“Let’s kill that fuck!” I said.
I rushed through the hole in the villa wall. Rohan had healed himself and was dusting off his princely attire. His shield hadn’t regenerated, thankfully.
“That fucking traitor.” Rohan gritted his teeth. “Those shields are incredibly rare. I should never have shared my secrets with a curseborn. He’ll pay with his life.”
I thrust my spear and slashed Rohan at the same time. He dodged my spear but my slash penetrated through his arm and across into his neck.
Rohan spat blood. While I wound up to slash him again, a Holy Heal immersed him. He backstepped away from me.
Adam and his holy soulbond Olana appeared at the head of dozens upon dozens of soldiers.
Leric and my wives came to my side. Johana, too. Everyone wielded their weapons.
“Kill them all!” Rohan shouted.
The soldiers let out a war cry and ran toward us. Some fired crossbow bolts at us. Others wielded spears and swords.
Ayla hit the mass of them with a Wind Blast. Sherry summoned down meteors. Esme went into her Ice Golem Form and shielded us from the crossbow bolts while smashing as many soldiers as she could. Tara and Maria kept everyone’s health topped up.
“Keep Adam busy,” I said to Leric and Johana. “I’m going for Rohan.”
Still dual wielding a spear and katana, I hurried through the mass of soldiers toward Rohan. Leric and Johana opened a void portal in the air. Tentacles streamed out of it toward Adam.
Adam tried to use his claws to cut them down, but missed one. Oil spilled out of the tentacle and immobilized him. Before Olana could cure him, a tentacle hit her, as well. Both were completely immobilized.
Rohan jogged away from me. He ran into an alley and reached into his soul storage for an orange bridging orb. Before he could toss it onto the ground, I sniped it with an ice arrow. Then I dual wielded water whips and lashed both his hands.
I pulled on the whips and forced him to kneel. Rohan glared at me with rage.
“You think this will make you… what… a king?” He shook his head. “No one will respect your orders. Not unless you kill thousands, first. You see, it’s only fear that creates order, Remy. Are you ready for that?”
I tightened the hold of my water whips just to watch him squirm. “I’m not going to rule by fear. I’m going to make people’s lives better. They’re going to obey me because they’re going to love the benefits I bring.”
“You’re so fucking naive.”
“Maybe so. I probably have a lot to learn about ruling. Too bad you won’t be around to watch me grow.”
I released my water whips, conjured my ice katana, and sliced his head clean off.
I picked up his dripping head and walked back toward the villa. I held it up to show all the soldiers that their prince was dead.
As soon as he saw it, Adam, who’d just broken free from the oil, tossed a bridging orb on the ground and ran through the door. He didn’t even bother to take Olana with him. I suppose that was a good thing; it meant we could help her.
The soldiers all dropped their weapons and surrendered.
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