97: Michelle Showed Her Might

Michelle Showed Her Might

Bam!

The gun shot, but it only shot toward the sky. The voice of a woman echoed, "So this is what he meant at the last second… And what he meant by 'don't trust anyone' was to never let your guard down. It seems that you need more experience."

Michelle appeared from Evan's shadow, deflecting Risa's gun to the air while slicing her neck.

"Michelle Graham…" Risa was surprised by her appearance. She thought Michelle disappeared to handle another mission. To think that she had gone inside Evan Young's shadow to appear at the last moment, no one could predict it, especially with that stunt from Kai Carter.

Michelle swiftly sent her head flying. She then turned to Ayaka and said, "Keep this in mind. You need to grow faster. We won't always be there to protect you."

She turned back again, glaring at the four incoming terrorists. "But we need to remove those four first."

"!!!" Ayaka finally understood. "Follow me."

She took a few turns, trying to escape from their eyes. The four were surprised when they saw Risa dying just like that, but they still needed to acquire Evan Young, so they had no choice other than to go after them.

The moment they took the turn and saw them, a magic circle suddenly appeared right below them, glowing bright red.

"Sh*t!" They quickly realized that they just walked into their trap.

Boom! 

Ayaka's magic bomb exploded, blasting everything in the area to smithereens.

Michelle was the first to react when she saw that all four of them managed to make a magic shield, protecting them from the explosion. Although they took quite the amount of damage, they were still not easy to beat.

That was why she decided to at least cut two of them down using this precious chance. She waved both of her short swords that were covered by dark fire, releasing a kind of sword attack.

"Shadow Slash!"

Because of the momentum, the four terrorists were unable to dodge this attack. Despite already putting up a magic shield, two of them failed to block the attack of the S-rank magician.

The attack cut through the shield and split them into two. She said to Ayaka, "Good job."

Although it seemed as though Ayaka was in the wrong, there was actually no complaint about her performance. She only let her guard down for an instant when they entered the woods, trying to think about their plan. However, that instant was what almost cost her life.

"Evan Young, move back a little, Ayaka will protect you from any other potential enemies," Michelle ordered before turning back to the two enemies in front. "I will handle those two."

"Are you sure? I can support you." Ayaka worried as the two enemies seemed to be elites. They previously could take down the other two because of the surprise attack, but this time, they were prepared.

"It's fine. The night is my territory, after all." Michelle smirked as a black magic circle appeared on her back, giving her a certain power.

"Moonlight Shadow."

Right after, strange fire began gushing out from her body, giving those who looked at it anxiety. Just like how Ikeda Kenzo's light element could give him a boost of strength and speed under the sunlight, Michelle's dark element also gave her a power-up in this dark night.

Another magic circle appeared in her eyes, giving her the ability of night vision. She clenched her two short swords, alarming the two enemies.

"She's coming!" One of them shouted as she took out her gun. Her comrade also took her sword and charged at Michelle as the vanguard, but she miscalculated Michelle's boosted speed.

Michelle swiftly appeared in front of her, swinging her sword on her neck.

The woman ducked down to avoid the swords, but Michelle immediately turned her body around and swung vertically from above.

Out of reflex, she dodged to the side, but she suddenly realized that dark fire was gushing out from her sword. It was at that moment that she knew her target was her comrade. "Alisha!"

"Shadow Slash!"

The sharp dark fire charged at breakneck speed, trying to cut the person called Alisha into two. However, because of the call, she somehow managed to dodge to the side and avoid death.

"Ah!" Alisha screamed in pain, watching her right hand cut by Michelle's attack because she was a split second late.

"Tch!" Michelle clicked her tongue as she tried to attack the sword user who was creating a blue magic circle on her hand. At the same time, Michelle's magic circle appeared right beneath the sword user's feet, manipulating her shadow to rise from the ground and grab her.

"Water Jet!" The sword user shot out high-pressure water, trying to blow Michelle away. Unfortunately, her attack shot toward the sky because the shadow pulled her wrist.

Michelle then swung her right sword, trying to pierce the woman's heart.

Despite being restricted by her own shadow, she was somehow able to change the grip on her sword and pulled her hand to block this attack.

Too bad for her, Michelle didn't stop there and immediately she swung her other sword, aiming to cut her from her head.

Because her sword was stopping Michelle's other sword, she had no choice but to make a magic circle to block it. Despite her attempt, she saw Michelle's sword release dark energy again, telling her it was her doom.

"Shadow Slash!"

The overbearing attack from an S-rank magician shattered the magic circle and killed the enemy.

Michelle had no time to waste and immediately charged at the other person.

Seeing this, the enemy tried to shoot her a few times. Unfortunately for her, her bullets kept getting dodged. As her last struggle, she made a magic circle right in front of her gun. The moment she shot her gun, it was converted by the magic circle, creating a very powerful attack.

Michelle cut her down and immediately turned around to shout, "Ayaka!"

Knowing she wouldn't be able to land a hit on Michelle, she chose to attack Evan Young with all of her power. However, Ayaka also saw this and formed two magic circles. One was her fire armor, enveloping her with fire and creating a large fire shield on her hand, while the other one was a magic shield.

Ayaka created two layers of shield and appeared a few meters in front of Evan.

"Kh!" As she had expected, the attack was powerful, destroying her magic shield almost instantly. Luckily, her fire shield was far stronger than her magic shield.

The force pushed her three meters away before exploding, letting Ayaka take the full brunt of the explosion.

Luckily, she had covered her entire body with fire armor, allowing her to receive the attack without any injury.

Michelle also could not help but give her a thumbs up and said, "Nice."

She came back to Ayaka and Evan, "We should go far away from the base first since it's extremely chaotic right now. And I think we can only wait for Kai to arrive."

"We're not going to him?" Ayaka asked.

"Yes. If we keep moving, there's a possibility that the enemy might spot us. So I suggest we search for a hidden place and stay there until tomorrow. I believe no one here has difficulty staying outside, right?"

Both Ayaka and Evan nodded. It was the basic ability they needed to have, so they obviously had no qualms about it. "Are any of you hurt? I can heal you."

"Nope. You can-" Before she could finish speaking, she saw four people carrying someone, and because they weren't very far, the other party also noticed them. "Oh no."

Michelle was surprised to see that it was the general who was being carried by them. Kai said that General Cindy and Her Assistant Risa were on different sides. Seeing that Risa was the terrorist, the one who carried Cindy would most likely be terrorists too.

"Run!" General Cindy shouted, using all the energy she had. On the other hand, the terrorist saw that their team was wiped out and was enraged. The leader immediately commanded, "Team A has fallen, I am sure that Leader Risa is also down. Call Team C and D to our position right now! We will kill them and take Evan Young with us!"

"Yes!" The others also started charging toward them.

"Run!" Michelle shouted, causing Ayaka and Evan to quickly turn around and run. Michelle quickly used her Shadow Slash to buy them some time.

Ayaka asked, "Are we going to kill them?"

"Didn't you hear what they said? If we're going to be surrounded by ten elites, it's better to run instead. Our mission is just to scout the enemy base and become Evan Young's bodyguards, not to subjugate the terrorists," Michelle answered. "We might be able to finish them shortly if we can make another surprise attack, but after seeing their comrades killed by us, they'll surely be alert."

"Indeed, They can also use the general as their shield." Evan suddenly broke his silence.

"Yes. That's the problem. By the way, from the looks of it, she was in a paralyzed state. She was awake, but she seemed to be unable to move. Can you heal her?" Michelle asked Evan.1

"Yes. As long as they are not dead, I can heal them, but it will take some time since I'll need to dissolve the medicine... Unless they use a very potent one." He nodded.

"Your healing ability… Why don't you join our group?" Michelle suddenly asked an unexpected question.

"We are in this situation and you are asking that?"

"True… Well, Kai seems to be interested in you."

Evan was astonished at first before then showing a disgusted expression. "Is he?"

"No. Your efforts will be rewarded someday, even without doing that… is what made him interested in you."

"!!!" Evan recognized that line and looked away. However, before he could answer, Kai, the one who was said to be interested in him, appeared right behind the enemy side, alarming both friends and foes.

"Change of plans, we're striking them now!" Michelle stopped and turned around while creating her swords.

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