"This...."
"???"
"Is..."
'nothing... Compared to master's sword intent!!'
*Swoooshh!!!!
*Zziiiiinnngggg!!!!
As he said his last sentence in his mind, Eiji unsheathed his katana, he then instantly arrived in front of the young man with the tip of his katana threatening to slice his neck off!
*SWOOSH!!!
As though the time paused, Eiji looked at the shock and horror of the young man's face!
The silvery ki as well as its sharp aura, cut through the pressure of the Grandmaster as though it was a hot knife through a butter!
'What!? What Speed!!!'
That was the only thing the young man could thing of, as the blade of Eiji's katana was nearing his neck ready to sever his head!
*BBZZZZZTTTTTTT!
*BAAANNNGG!!
Yet, before Eiji could slice through the young man's neck, a clap of thunder was heard beside them, a sword coated with lightning ki managed to intercept Eiji's blade at the last second!
And this was just enough to make the young man back of one step!
Yamada, the Grandmaster, was emanating his full power right now as well as lightning ki all over his short jian sword!
*PSSHHHTTT!!!!
But even though this made Eiji sword unable to sever the young man's neck, the silvery ki of Eiji still managed to cut through the Grandmaster's Aura and the lightning ki around it!
*Ziiinngg!!
Yamada opened his eyes wide as he looked back at the young man he was supposed to protect!
*Psshhh!!!!
"Aaahhh!!!!"
A blood trail could be seen from below his right cheek until his left chest!
Although it wasn't deep, it still made him bleed a lot!
"Your highness!!!!"
Yamada was now very angry, and even more afraid! The young man might only be a Master level right now, but his father....
"YOU LITTLE BASTARD!!!"
*BOOOOMMM!!!
*BAAANNGG!!!!
Like a sonic boom, Yamada's shout generated so much force that Eiji was blasted and stuck into the wall ten meters away from Yamada!
"EIJI!!!!!"
"EIJJJII!!!"
Suddenly, loud shouts was heard, as Gautam and Marco arrived.
Eiji looked at them coming in his rescue, he smiled lightly then.
*Thud!
He dropped into the floor unconscious!
"D-DAMMIT!!"
"MARCO! TAKE EIJI WITH YOU!! YOU GUYS RETREAT FIRST!"
"B-but! What about you?!"
"GO! DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME! RETREAT!!!"
"..."
Although conflicted, Marco knew what he needed to do, carrying Eiji in his shoulders, he ran back, intending to escape!
"Do you really think I would just let you guys escape?!"
*Boommm!!!
With a deep and angry voice, Yamada's sword was enveloped with lightning ki with a loud thunderous sound along with it!
"Thunderclap!"
*BZZZTTTT!!!!
With a shout, a burst of lightning shot out from his sword, It shot towards Marco who was carrying Eiji in his shoulders!
"NO YOU DONT!!"
With a loud shout and jumping in front of the attack, Gautam slashed his katana as he also attacked with his own ki!
"Wind Cutter!!!"
*Swoosh!!
*BAAANNNGG!!!!
Their attacks met head on as the whole area around them shattered into rubbles!
Gautam, being just a master level, was overpowered by Yamada's attack, but he managed to block it just enough for his body to be able to take it!
"Aaarghh!!"
Although, it still injured and made him vomit mouthful of blood!
His chest area, where he was struck was numb and he could also feel electric shocks all over his body!
"Aaahhhh!! Haaahhh!"
Panting slightly, Gautam still stood and pointed his katana at Yamada.
Gautam knew that even right now, Yamada was just using over 70-80 percent of his power, but this was enough to incapacitate them!
This person was holding back as the ceiling of the castle might collapse, and from the looks of it, the young man he was protecting was injured by Eiji, and was now unconscious!
He had also seen the body of the count.
Blood was sleeping out of his orifices!
He had already died from a while back, his internal organd crushed by the pressure, he couldn't be more dead than dead!
Gautam also knew that by now, Akai should also be done with his task, in a way, they had finished 50-70 percent of the task, the task which was to retrieve the stolen resources and the intelligence need to know, well they could forget about the stolen goods, as for the intelligence? They need to survive if they had to give out the intel!
So Gautam knew that he needed to buy some time until they escape far away, and at the same time maybe survive!
---
"Marco! Eiji!"
*Swoosh!
In the darkness, Akai's voice was suddenly heard as he appeared infront of Marco!
"We don't have much time! We need to retreat! There's a Grandmaster here!"
"Yeah! I felt that too! Let's go! Lets meet up with Kato and Koji!"
"Yeah!"
*Swoosh!
As they ran in the hallways they heard footsteps in front of them.
*Ziinng!!
Unsheathing his katana, Aka went in front to protect Marco who was carrying Eiji.
"AKAI! MARCO!!!"
Then they heard Kato's voice!
*Sigh!
The both of them sighed in relief.
"Haaahh!! What happened?! Did you meet a Grandmaster?!"
Koji asked hurriedly.
"Yeah! Eiji was the one who confronted him first though! I don't know what state he's in right now, Captain Gautam told me to escape as he intended to hold off that Grandmaster!"
""WHAT!??!""
Koji and Kato was shocked, Gautam may be talented and strong but he wouldn't be able to stop a Grandmaster!
"I- You guys go! I'll help Gautam escape!"
Without any hesitation, Kato said so as he started to ran towards where Marco had come from!
"W-wait!"
"I'll go with him! Don't worry! Even if we die, we wont let anything happen to Gautam! We can't let the young ones be the one to do the sacrifice!!"
Koji said so as he smiled!
Akai and Marco was shocked, they could only bite their teeth in frustration, they knew they couldn't help with anything right now!
They were just...
Too weak....
*End Of Chapter.