Angel Monarch

Chapter 61: A Trail of Bodies

'Fuck, why did he came back. He should have stayed at his home longer.'

Faith was already placing back the dairy. Sadly, she didn't learn anything about Nightmare's plan, but time was up she needed to leave now.

Turning into a shadow, Faith went below the door and into the guards shadow. She couldn't use the same trick twice and time was running out. Faith didn't know if Nightmare can sense her or not, but she would rather not find out.

'What to do, what to do! There's nothing!'

As she started turning hopeless, when a miracle happened. The guard began to move in the opposite direction where Nightmare was coming from.

'Must be the end of his shift, that was lucky.'

But her luck wouldn't last long, the soldier moved in the direction of the Evolved guards. These guards could sense her and there was no escape route.

'Fighting it is then!'

The guard got close to them and before anyone could react, Faith appeared in front of one Evolved and stabbed him through his eye. Before he even hit the ground a different guard was dead as well. But the last three reacted quickly.

A sword was headed in Faith's direction, but it only hit a shadow. When training she figured out a great adventage she had. She could transform fast, which meant she could easily dodge physical attacks.

Faith made quick work of the three Evolved, their abilities were worthless against her shadow form. Leaving behind bodies will definitely draw attention, but she could probably escape before that.

Moving as a shadow with the girls guidence, Faith reached the entrance pretty fast. But now came the hard part, because of the murders she needed to escape fast.

'Looks like the killing will begin sooner than we anticipated. Good!'

Faith moved through the gap. As the guards sensed her, they only saw a rapier going through each of their vital organs. The murdering didn't stop there. She couldn't escape silently, so she cut her way out.

The patrols weren't prepared for an ambush, most were just regulars, but all were slavers. They lost their life by not standing up against Nightmare, Faith was only carrying out the sentence.

She felt amazing. Like a predator hunting in the dark and punishing evil.

But Faith never lost sight of her real goal, escape. After about 30 minutes of killing, she finally reached the wall. They were alredy prepared for her. Most of them holding weapons that could actually damage her shadow form.

'Lets see if I had enough training or not!'

Faith moved onto the wall, in front of her were 7 Evolved. She turned corporeal, against those weapons the shadow form would be useless anyway. After a couple of seconds Faith moved, she didn't have anything to say to them. All will be dead in a few minutes.

Her rapier cut a man on the arm, but he didn't care and stabbed towards Faith with his dagger. His attack went wide, because she was upon someone else already. The woman was slower than the man and got her heart pierced.

'6 left'

From Bea she learned how to fight multiple opponents. Never let them surround you. Always keep them in the periphery of your vision. Use their numbers against them, if they don't have enough cohesion, they will block each other decreasing the amount you have to fight at the same time.

With these principles she moved and parried an attack. Then drove her rapier into another Evolved's liver. Then she backed away and circled around them, this way she only have to fight two at the same time.

'5 left'

The man with the bleeding arm attacked first, two daggers were heading towards Faith's torso. She evaded one and deflected the other, which unbalanced the man and with a small push from Faith, he got in the path of his teammates attack and died. But his teamate didn't live long either, because a rapier went through his eye.

'3 left'

'It will become harder now.'

She couldn't use their numbers against them anymore, and fighting three enemies at once is a worst case scenario.

There was a man and a woman, the third she didn't know, it was wearing full plate armor. The armored one stood in the middle, while the other two were on his flanks in the shape of a crescent.

'Lets get this over with.'

Faith moved toward the man, but before getting too close she turned into a shadow. She was still visible, but then a bunch of shadows, that looked just like her began moving all over the place. They were quite crude looking actually, but moved fast enough to not get noticed.

The Evolved didn't know which to attack, so they attacked all of them. After about 10 seconds all the shadows disappeared, then a loud clang could be heard.

The person in the armor fell to their knees, blood was running down on his plate and the person was clutching its throat. Behind it was Faith with her rapier, she was exhausted.

'Controlling that many shadows took a lot and there is still two, fuck.'

The man had a spear, while the woman had a mace and a shield. Faith took a deep breath and engaged the woman first. It was a bit stupid but she was counting on the shock factor of her previous attack.

The woman reacted a bit too slowly. She swung her mace in a wide arc, which Faith easily dodged below. With the same move she stabbed the woman in the foot. She fell over screaming, but was silenced when she reached the ground.

Faith didn't have time to pull her rapier from the womans head. The spear coming towards her even managed to cut her on the side. The wound was painful, but Faith didn't lose focus.

Her sword already dissolved to shadows and she summoned a new one. The man attacked and she parried, but he was too powerful and she was put off balance.

Another attack came and with no time to evade, she dissolved into a shadow. But after a fraction of a second she already appeared and stabbed her sword into a very surprised man's heart.

The fight took about 3 minutes and the only one left standing was Faith, albeit not unscathed. There was a nasty lacaration on her left arm from the previous attack, she wasn't able to fully dodge it. There was also the cut on her side.

But she didn't care about any of that. Faith was already moving down the wall and into the city. Behind her shouts could be heard and an alarm rang.

She escaped without anyone seeing her. Or at least anyone who was still alive. The only thing she left behind, was a trail of bodies.