Vengeance of the Returner

"War commander! An envoy from the Outlaws of Barani requests your audience." Said one of Nix's soldiers entering inside the tent where Nix was busily plotting discussions with Nagendra.

"Let him in."

Nix said with a nod and soon a man entered the tent.

He bowed and began speaking without raising his head as Nix looked at him with his cold eyes that could literally freeze him.

"War commander of Ranrak, I pay my sincerest respects! I am here to..."

"For fuck sake. Cut to the chase."

Nix cursed.

"Our commander Waltner has come forth with a proposal."

"Okay?"

"He demands you to surrender to return at peace. He will let your leave alive as a favor."

"Hah..."

Nix sighed and severed his head in an instant before those inside the tent could even blink their eyes. He was tired of it. He was tired of all those bullshit and he knew damn well that there is no favorability in this damned world. Outlaws are backstabbers that cannot be trusted. It even includes Waltner who once helped him. He had chosen that cursed path and Nix had chosen his cursed path.

No matter what, there is no backing down. At the moment he was an enemy. And Nix knew all well, that Waltner is one hell of a vicious man when it comes to fighting.

"You could have made him cough up some information."

"From a mere soldier?"

Nix asked looking at Nagendra with contempt. Sometimes he felt like Nagendra's ideas were dumb and comparable to his beginning self.  In fact, Nagendra wasn't dumb he didn't get the ability to see through the man while Nix was able to.

The man that acted as an envoy was mere level 4 and his class was exactly made to be soldiers and he did not belong to a clan, it made it clear that he was a vagabond. Whose path was similar to that of Dark Nix. A talentless, luckless man.

Nix didn't need to pity him. Though he started his speech with respect the message was disrespectful to both him and his soldiers.

"Hehe, Darling..."

A vile woman wearing dark clothes appeared behind him and embarrassed him to soothe his anger.

"Hah... Rosalie."

"Do you want me to destroy those soldiers?" She tightly hugging him from behind.

Both Camila and Cinzia were dumbfounded.

It was true that Cinzia met her in Ranrak. But after that, they didn't meet each other. She was still mysterious and troublesome as ever.

Rosalie could cleanly shave off about five thousand to three thousand soldiers. If she chooses to she could indeed destroy a small part of the thirty thousand soldiers.

"It's good that you are here but, let's not make a hazy move. We will be attacking them soon enough."

He uttered and walked out.

The army was in the perfect formation. He was quite taken aback by the fact that this was not the war he fought during synchronization. This implied he has yet to witness the real war.

"Attention!"

Nagendra yelled and all of them stood straight in unison facing in the direction where Waltner's army has camped at.

"Soldiers raise your flags!"

Immediately the flag holders raised the hand flags towards the sky.

"March!"

Nagendra yelled loudly.

The sound of the metal boots and the spears hitting the floor echoed as they approached their enemies.

Meanwhile at the opposite,

Waltner smirked looking at the army approaching him and saw two men leading them through his telescope.

'Seems, like those kids have chosen death.' He uttered inwardly with a smile and turned towards his army,

"My comrades' let's start hunting those savages and claim their lands!"

This was the difference between a leader and a boss and Waltner was an inborn leader. He addressed them as 'my comrades' and made the goal common to all of them. In fact, that's what would drive people to move. If they need to fight for someone else's cause they wouldn't like it or nor be interested.

Well, this is how some people lead people to attain their cause.

"Yes! Yes!"

The unruly men yelled and began running without proper form and Waltner didn't care either. What would a mere ten thousand soldiers do to thirty thousand soldiers? It might sound naive but Waltner was actually one.

"Everyone stop in your places!"

Nix yelled in a loud voice.

The men who marched towards them stopped in their places as they suddenly felt a change in the terrain.

"Haha! Haha!"

Waltner laughed and blew the large siren he held in his hand.

The very second men emerged from the sands amidst the army which was just two thousand meters away from the Outlaws. 

It totally shattered Nix's expectations. He thought he'd just fight but, if it wasn't for doom prediction vision he wouldn't have predicted his enemies.

There were about at least two thousand soldiers that emerged out of the sand-covered with sand brown cloth similar seemingly made just for the sake of war and each of them was a well-trained assassin.

Their camouflage was very impressive that they didn't dare imagine some like this to occur. On the other hand, this is something that was needed to be expected. Nix was stunned.

"Man, just continue to march on! Tell them to start using the siege weapons!"

Nagendra shook Nix to get him out of it.

"Fuck! An ambush!"

"Soldiers do not lose you will! Start shooting!"

Nix yelled and pointed his sword towards the barbaric men who came running.

As soon as he commanded. The weapons that were already loaded and the ballista cannons shot their ammo.

"Archers Shoot!"

"Mages shoot fire!"

All the captains who were dedicated to unique battalions commanded. 

Nix had considered things like this to be happening. So he made a simple plan. Since the regulars were quite powerful compared to the soldiers, he made them take positions in between the ordinary soldiers along with few crusaders.

This gave a balanced power level and as a result, this gave a sense of insurance to soldiers although it did not mean much. 

The regulars that were amidst them began to defend against the assassins. They all passed the ability of sensing mana which was mandatory as such they already drew their weapons to fight. 

This did not mean victory in the least the two thousand assassins did not emerge from a single location they were mixed and jumbled. This had easily revealed the idea of Waltner. His plan was to break the solid formation and attack them in an unruly way.

"Everybody tighten the formation and do not break it!"

Nix yelled.

The bloodshed was brutal, the severed heads and limbs, the droplets, and the spraying of blood painted the soldiers and sand. The cries of Krigons and Mutinos. The collision of weapons against the shields. That was the beginning of the war.

The men were battered equally along with the assassins that intruded. The concept seemed something similar to some historical warfare and Waltner blended it great. Whilst Nix was practically inexperienced in such things.

As the battle continued amidst the army the outlaw army had reached them halfway.

"Haha, This is your loss Ranrak!"

Waltner shouted and inserted his mana into the sand by punching through the ground.

Immediately a wild sonic wave collided with the men in the vicinity and soon a reddish wave of mana expelled throughout the area and then emerged a hollow of traps where the frontline soldiers were located at!

It was a large pit that was seeming deeper than one could imagine.

"Step back! Step back! Step back!"

Nagendra yelled.

He had lost his composture as well whilst Nix was at a loss for words. He just blankly stared at the blood battlefield standing like a statue, stunned at his place.

"Ahh! AHh!"

The screams and cries of soldiers entered his ears.

The whole vicinity was disrupted and chaotic. Both Camila and Cinzia descended their mounts clutching their weapons. 

"Rosalie... Can you intrude into their army?"

"Alright my darling."

She said as her cherry red lips arched up.

She turned and looked in the direction of the outlaws and slowly her wings protruded out of her back. She once again turned towards him and when she was about to open her mouth Nix nodded his head said.

"Sure, I oww you. Now please..."

Nix said looking at her while pointing in the direction of the Outlaws.

The archers of Ranrak shooter their flaming arrows and killed the frontline outlaws and the assassins close to them. The krigon battalion continued to defend the mages who shot their fireballs.

"Haha, Isn't that waltner?"

Reegan said whilst laughing as he peered through his telescope.

"Indeed"

Nix nodded and slammed the chain on the Mutino making it growl and spread its wings.

"Rebecca join me."

He ordered her and she latched on to the ladder as Nix passed by her crew.

He decided to use one of the small neon explosives he had brought and directly confront the city's owner in a one-on-one battle.

Waltner didn't seem to recognize Nix in the slightest. He smirked looking at Rebecca and mounted on his Mutino looking at Nix.