Absolute Soul
101. The Muara Fort

After Haikal's condition improves, Jack decides to continue their journey towards Adele's eastern district with the unconscious Shear shackled by a magic chain.

They had several Vergs as opponents but luckily this Verg-Verg was no stronger than Normal-class and the highest number only reached five each time it met so it could still be overcome without much difficulty.

"Am I going to keep quiet in the middle like this? Shouldn't I be on the front row?" Haikal grumbled unhappily over his current position.

"You're aware of what you're saying, Haikal?" Verna turned to Haikal looking at the young man with a sharp look.

Haikal threw a face not daring to answer, Verna's cold sharp gaze was more than enough to shrink Haikal's guts. Although she looks elegant like a noble girl in general, Verna is a girl full of emotions. Just a little mistake could lead to endless lectures.

Haikal's state had indeed improved thanks to the Jade Phoenix Cecil's healing abilities, but that didn't mean he could fight right away after recovering. His body was still far from being prima, especially after using Black Karma.

Different from the previous one where Haikal used Black Karma on a small scale to finish off Verg and the Blackout members around the academy in order to open the way for Salvia and Heru, this time Haikal used the technique on a large scale.

If it needs to be compared before Haikal only uses no more than 10% of Black Karma's strength and soul energy, but when facing Shear he forces his body to receive Black Karma's power up to approximately 50% of all his strength.

Even if 50% is not yet how much and still far from 100%, in the case of Haikal if it is larger than that, his body cannot withstand the magnitude of the increase in Black Karma's strength and ends up with injuries that are not just pain alone, even death is not impossible.

Therefore in order to prevent Haikal from fighting for his recovery to go faster, he was placed at the midpoint of the group formation with Verna and Salvia beside him, while Heru was in the front row alone.

Haikal sighed realizing he could not do much.

Haikal did not accept his restricted position and movements, but inevitably he had to obey Verna's words. Not only was he not in top shape, but it was also Verna's sharp gaze that immediately whirred her guts.

In the course of Haikal and others saw a lot of traces of battle, ranging from destroyed buildings, countless blood spots, and human bodies or Verg who was no longer alive.

Verna and Cecil, who were visibly disturbed by the bodies, appeared pale, they suppressed nausea and tried to look away along the way, while Haikal, Jack, Heru, looked away, and Salvia seemed to see nothing.

Initially Verna wanted to ask the cause of their non-problematic attitude at the horrifying sight, but he soon recalled the events of two years ago that led Haikal and Heru to witness similar or perhaps more horrific events.

For Jack himself Verna can understand a little bit the past of the young man, then in the case of Salvia he lost his mother at a fairly young age. Maybe that's what makes Salvia not too disturbed by environmental conditions that are usually impossible to find behind the city walls.

At first glance Cecil is not very comfortable to see human corpses or Verg scattered here and there, especially when dividing his senses with Jade Phoenix, but that does not mean his vigilance is decreased.

"The walls of the estuary's defenses are visible and they don't seem to have any significant damage" Cecil said looking from afar through Jade Phoenix's eyes, "They are also fighting Verg from land and sea!"

Jack nodded softly at Cecil's words before pulling out a piece of card from his Forbidden Magic Card pile. The card immediately melts into a grain of particles and is absorbed into Jack's body.

"Salvia, Verna, prepare a long-range attack with your widest range. We have to subtract some Verg from the ground" said Jack who now creates tens to hundreds of magic spears hovering above the sky attracting the attention of Verg and other Blazers in the distance.

Salvia and Verna did not refute, they immediately exerted their own full strength. Salvia with Awakening accompanied by the concentration of soul energy, Verna uses the form of Elemental Dress that has never been shown.

"Awakening: Snow Valkyrie!"

"Elemental Dress: Purple Wolf!"

Salvia's white hair slowly turned pink followed by her now similarly colored irises, while Verna is seen wearing a long bright purple robe to reach the heel accompanied by her fingernails that are slightly elongated to form small claws. His pupils also slightly elongated to form purple-colored beast eyes.

Salvia created a large amount of pink snow which was then deployed towards the Verg horde in front of the fortress in the form of a whirlwind of snow, which was then deployed towards the Verg horde in front of the fortress, while Verna focused the soul energy on her two hands before being thrown into the sky and split into thousands of tiny needles.

"Niflheim Magenta Blizzard!"

"Purple Pack Rain!"

Along with the snow whirlwind of Salvia that leads to dozens of Verg in front while ripping off everything that stands in his way, thousands of Verna's purple needles hit the Verg-Verg from above and delivered a shock electric shock to every living thing affected.

The Blazers who were fighting in the fortress were surprised to see an unexpected wide-scale attack from within the city, they wanted to immediately be aware of the source of the attack but they had not had time to react there was another attack hit Verg from the same direction.

"Magic Javelin Rainfall!" jack exclaimed after flicking a finger, gliding his magic spears.

Tens to hundreds of golden green spears shot out from the sky like torrential rain attacking every Verg there, especially Verg who was beyond the range of Salvia and Verna's attacks.

Screams after screams rang out loud from every mouth of the wounded Verg, but as if not allowing the Vergs to counterattack, he said, Cecil's Jade Phoenix in the air fluttered its wings releasing waves of hot green flames towards the surviving Verg.

His fourth combined attack managed to finish off most of the Verg Normal-class downwards, but Verg above Normal-class was still able to stand up despite injuries in some places.

"The Wizard-type Blazer is most suitable to fight against a large number of Vergs like this," Haikal commented as he rubbed his chin to watch the power crumble of the combined moves of Jack, Verna, Salvia, and Cecil, "Isn't that so, Heru?"

Heru raised his eyebrows hearing Haikal's comment, "You're sure this is a good time to comment?" He then pointed at the number of injured Vergs starting to run up to them.

"There's no harm in commenting on how awesome their moves are, right?" Haikal smiled wryly as he shrugged before activating the Soul Saber and retrieving the fighting horses.

Heru shook his head slowly at the attitude of his best friend, but at the same time he also wanted to comment on the devastating attacks that should be impossible to find at the level of the candidate Blazer despite the combined attacks.

"You can handle them all?" Jack asked with a breath of breath drained of soul energy, the girls were also no less tired after unleashing an attack as strong and wide as just now.

Jack knows that even though these Vergs are injured, it does not mean that Haikal and Heru can overcome everything just by themselves, let alone the number is not just a number of fingers.

Haikal shook his head slowly in response to Jack's question, "It is impossible to overcome dozens of Normal classes with just the two of us, so you should start taking Sakuya's pills to recover your soul energy as soon as possible."

"I don't want to make you rush, but help us from behind as much as possible" Heru added after removing and wearing Twin Kong.

Jack nodded slowly before taking out a bag filled with pills, he picked one up and handed the bag to Verna, "Hurry up and eat, we don't have much time to recuperate."

Verna immediately followed Jack's directions and took a pill and swallowed it in one gulp before giving the bag to Salvia and began to sit concentrating on recovering the soul energy.

It kept repeating until the bag fell into Cecil's hands.

Haikal drew and exhaled a series of breaths for a moment in order to increase the concentration and pressure of soul energy, his eyes becoming so sharp as the black patches of Black Karma spread to a part of his body, "You ready, buddy?"

"Are you asking me or yourself?" Heru laughed mockingly, then co-increased the soul energy pressure and took a fighting position. A greenish-brown aura overflowed his body.

Haikal channeled a certain amount of soul energy at the Soul Saber and prepared to swing his sword, while Heru concentrated his soul energy on one fist, then kicked the ground darting forward and unleashed a concurrent attack throwing down a number of Vergs at once.