The Runic Alchemist

Finally the wolf boy lost his consciousness and with it lost his huge wolf form. Damian really had one hell of a surprise from him in the middle of his fight, he even had to cut his water edge spell short, canceling it to handle it.

"What happened..?" Damian asked, confused as to what the fuck he had just fought against.

"Vilmar… The humans killed Vilmar.. Eldoris humans.." The bunny girl said, sobbing in between.

"What !?" Kazak growled in anger besides the two kids.

"Then he transformed and killed all of them.. but also injured many others.. If it wasn't for…" The gorilla kid was the calmest of the bunch, yet Damian could see his own frustration and sadness looking at their dead friend's body beside them on the ground.

'Fuck ! I knew I should have killed those bastards when I had the chance.. But it was just a small group who attacked, there are still many of them fighting shoulder to shoulder with everyone.'

Damian looked at the boy, hoping he might still have some life left in him but there was nothing. His mana signature had also vanished completely.

"I will take them out.. Maximus, they need you.." Kazak said, as his ethereal white tiger lifted all the kids with the dead one.

Damian just nodded. There was no point in making excuses or saying meaningless words of comfort, they still had people to kill, all else will come afterwards.

Storing his sword away, Damian summoned his fiery spear. Enough of killing runts, it was time to deal with the root of their confidence. The five remaining second rankers of the battle, from the Ashenvale had formed a sort of team and fought together. Till now they decimated Eldoris soldiers as no captain had a good enough chance to attack any one of them. Damian was thinking about going with Kazak and some of the captains but there were still multitudes of men and monsters fixated on each captain who did not show overwhelming strength to get out of their encirclements.

Damian helped as much as he could with his wooden spears that exploded among enemies upon landing but he alone could not keep up. Most of their damages were because of that five man team and if he could just solve that, the rest was just a question of perseverance against their numbers.

Damian calculated, Royce was nearby and that blonde captain was too and with another beastman pugilist that Damian could get out dealing with the first rankers surrounding him, he had the least amount..

Damian ran at full speed, crossing unfolding battles everywhere, sometimes even jumping from atop everyone, landing near his unit. Sam was going wild with his lightning enhanced body cutting people left and right, though with the nature of his strength he was fighting alone. Damian gestured him to return as he also ordered Einar to reconvene with their main unit, that had Yovan commanding the group of mages, blasting everything in sight as spellswords and pugilists protected them. He was the one of very few who fought as a group, they were far more effective he had to say.

Once nearer Damian pointed at Royce's unit which was surrounded by monsters and first rankers all around, Sam understood the mission. Similarly Damian sent Einar towards the blonde captain, Youvan's group changing their targets to support Einar as he charged with his spellswords. Damian himself charged towards the beastman pugilist warrior, who was fighting alone against a lot of these monsters and first rankers. Damian stabbed and pierced them from behind, his every move precise and overwhelmingly powerful for such a level of enemies, soon the beastmen and him were fighting side by side as he burned them under his spears flame nonstop. Even though the rain was making it hard, his spear's flames were undisturbed by it, as Damian did not let it burn on its own, instead just showered them with pillars of fire like a flamethrower gun, burning them to death even with the rain.

Once all had freed, Damian gestured towards the five second rankers, killing their people with no one being able to even go near. They understood what was to be done, as they all charged at the team with their units, since they weren't alone but surrounded by their own first rankers and monsters. Sam, Yovan and Einar handled them along with many other vice captains as Damian and the pugilist beastman cleared a way straight to the five second rankers, who were arrogantly waiting for them.

Damian had to admit that they fought really well together, but that alone won't do against him and the people around him, Royce started chanting behind them, believing in them to protect him as the two Ashenvale captains attacked towards him with sword arcs nonstop to disrupt his chanting, the young blonde captain and the beastman handled the attacks as Damian also drew two runic circles simultaneously : one of air blade, modified of course, sending the opening of the spell above to get mixed in the rain as it fell on their heads while his another spell wormhole stood ready to surprise them anytime.

The beastmen and the blonde captain forced the two spellswords to fight one on one getting really close as the two mages among them also chanted defensive spells, a pugilist was standing guard, alert of Damian to approach them. However he did not do it as Royce's spell launched, sending some kind of ethereal warrior lady glowing golden, just coming out of the light element runic circle and attacked flying towards the 2 mages, but they had already erected air shields to defend themselves.

Unfortunately for them they had neither seen Damian chant or hear him as over tens of air blades shot from above, burying themselves into the flesh of the two mages, who heard it at the last second and still managed to protect their heads but their bodies were cut as they screamed in pain, being bloody. Their shield broke as the golden warrior lady attacked the pugilist with her spear rather ruthlessly, Damian also giving them the surprise of lifetime sneakily opened his portal behind the mages and aimed his flame spear with full power, the flimsy defense having mages could not even see what was coming to them before burning to ash.