Chapter 173: Don’t Be A Baby
Agiel’s ability was called [Rupture], and it worked by reading the frequency of any object she was targeting and Agiel could then vibrate her mana in a way that would directly match that object’s frequency, and then she could increase the wavelength of her vibrations so that the frequencies would go through [Destructive Interference]! This would cause a great amount of pressure to build up inside the object, resulting in a rupture that destroyed the object with a lower frequency.
Agiel could do this with any non-living object! The air, water, sand, rock, metal! Anything at all! As long as Agiel was touching the object and could match its frequency, she would be able to rupture it! In fact, the scientists believed that if Agiel put in enough work, she would be capable of matching frequencies of non-tangible objects like heat and cold. They didn’t yet know what her abilities would do to these things, but they knew it would make her far stronger than she was now!
But even though she had still not achieved her full potential, there was no denying the fact that Agiel was a force to be reckoned with, and at this moment, Keith was finding out just how dangerous it was to face off against the commander!
Keith was in shambles. He was currently leaning against the wall while trying to catch his breath after the beating he had taken! Keith was sure his left arm was broken and there was a massive wound on the right side of his stomach that wouldn’t stop bleeding. His uniform was dirty and torn, and he couldn’t move two steps without limping. He and Agiel had been fighting for the better part of ten minutes, and Keith knew without a shadow of a doubt that there was no way he would be able to stop Agiel.
Normally, any sane person would have seen that Keith couldn’t put up any more of a fight and they would have simply apprehended him and taken him to prison! But Agiel was not a normal person! Keith had challenged her fighting spirit, and Agiel was not the sort of person to ever stop a fight halfway! Agiel was the sort of person who continued to attack until her opponent either died or lost the ability to fight completely!
BOOM!
Another massive sonic boom alerted Keith to Agiel’s approach, and he cursed as he tried to push off the wall he was leaning against and took in harsh breaths! Another massive boom echoed through the region and the large wolf that Jason had left there to help him in the fight was brutally thrown through a wall and out of the building!
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[Fenrir]
[Moonlight Wolf]
[Rook Rank I]
[Hierarchy Level: 1 [100%]]
[Subordinate Count: 10/10]
[Upgrade Points: 0/50]
[Upgrade Limit: Rook Rank III]
[MP: 2000]
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Keith watched as the wolf released a loud howl while falling more than twenty stories to the ground! There was a large wound scarring its right side, and Keith could tell that the wound would have been enough to kill any normal beast, but the wound was already starting to close and Keith was sure that the wolf would be as good as new before long.
"What the hell are these things?"
Keith had seen that wolf come back to life more times than he could count, and he couldn’t help but be grateful for that! It was only because of the Magic Beasts that Keith hadn’t already fallen in this battle! Agiel was like a wrecking ball that kept swinging back no matter how many times Keith tried to push her away! The beasts were taking up Agiel’s attention and giving him enough time and space to catch a breather!
BOOM!
Another loud sound echoed right in front of Keith and Keith looked up in shock to see the giant Adamantine Ant fly through the wall and into the room where he was!
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[Raya]
[Adamantine Ant Queen]
[Rook Rank II]
[Hierarchy Level: 2 [30.1%]]
[Subordinate Count: 0/20]
[Upgrade Points: 0/150]
[Upgrade Limit: Bishop Rank III]
[MP: 5000]
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The ant flew towards Keith, and Keith couldn’t even gather the strength needed to move out of the way! He raised his hand and tried to catch the beast, but before he could catch it, Agiel appeared from the hole in the wall and ran towards the beast with a terrifying smile on her face!
BOOM!
Agiel slammed her leg into the Ant’s side and another sonic boom echoed through the room as Agiel’s ability activated! Keith let out a cry of pain as the ant slammed into him with full force and he was thrown back through the wall behind him! He broke out into the open air and felt vertigo fill his entire body as the sensation of falling suddenly overwhelmed him!
Keith immediately called on his mana and forced the rocks falling around him to form into sand! The sand gathered under Keith like a cushion and solidified like a bulletproof vest just before he reached the ground!
SLAM!
Keith slammed into the ground with enough force to leave a massive crater there, and he coughed as intense pain traveled through his entire body! Keith didn’t even have the energy to cry out from the pain he felt when he impacted the ground! The sand had helped cushion the worst of the impact, but that didn’t mean it didn’t fucking hurt!
Keith stared up at the night sky with a tired expression on his face and let out a dry sigh. This was the worst night of his fucking life and Keith just wanted it to end already!
But Keith’s eyes widened when he saw a massive shadow block out the moonlight! He cursed internally when he saw that it was the Adamantine Ant that had fallen out of the building with him! The ant was freefalling through the air as well, and it was heading straight for him! Keith didn’t have the energy to move or defend, and his mana was far too low for him to use his sand to redirect it! It was going to fucking crush him!
BOOM!
But before the ant could reach the ground, Agiel suddenly flew out from the building and kicked it away so that it would land away from Keith! Agiel slammed into the ground in a low crouch before standing slowly, and Keith let his head fall back to the ground as he released another tired sigh. The sound of sand crunching underneath Agiel’s feet told Keith that Agiel was heading his way, and he blinked up at her as she looked down at him with a disappointed expression.
Agiel could tell that Keith was no longer capable of fighting, and the other two beasts were already starting to bore her since they weren’t intelligent enough to put up a good fight so Agiel decided that this fight was over. She used the tip of her boot to kick Keith’s hand lightly and Keith cursed.
"Fuck!"
"Don’t be such a pussy, you fool. It’s only a broken arm. Sigh~"
Agiel grabbed her gloves from her pocket and began putting them on as she continued talking.
"What the hell were you thinking, Keith? I thought you were smarter than this. Putting your job and your future on the line for someone that you barely even know. It’s not like you."
What Keith had done here today was insubordination and as his commanding officer, Agiel had every right to strip him of his position for disobeying her orders. But Agiel was finding it hard to understand what Keith had been trying to achieve by going against her command. Keith was the most reasonable person she knew so this entire situation just didn’t make any sense to her!
Keith blinked up at Agiel for a moment before he turned away. Was it really not like him? Was putting his life on the line for someone else something they didn’t expect him to do? For some reason, that didn’t sit right with Keith. Keith was someone who held the law above nearly everything! He believed that anyone who went against the law deserved every punishment they received for their actions. But that didn’t mean that he was not a human.