"You can't possibly think about injuring your own lower limb just to get out of this frozen state?" asked Willy.
"Who would be dumb enough to do that? Well, I will use this method...." said Jeff.
Jeff smashed the flail onto ground, unleashing earth barrier to destroy the ice constraints on himself.
With the help of the earth barrier, he was able to jump higher as well.
While in mid air, he aimed full force to smash his flail onto Willy.
Before Jeff could jump down and strike, Willy unleashed another tsunami with last bit of his magic energy.
"Shit--" said Jeff, realising too late that he was also wide open in the air, getting struck directly by tsunami as a result.
"Huff....Huf....I...I guess that would be enough...." said Willy, as he saw Jeff lying on the ground with massive damage he took.
"Interesting....Hahahah." said Jeff while still lying on the ground, smirking and staring blankly.
"If you are just bluffing to not feel the pain, forget it. Don't act tough, I know you are at your limit." said Willy, hardly able to stand.
Jeff stood up.
"What? Are you saying I would give up so easily? You little piece of shit, you know nothing about us!" exclaimed Jeff, despite being badly hurt.
"Stop this nonsense...or are you waiting for reinforcements while buying some time? Unfortunately they won't come upstairs. We locked them underground." said Willy.
"Reinforcements? Oh, those underground troops. Maybe you are right.... However...." replied Jeff, pulling out multiple knife.
He threw them into air, and struck them with flail to aim for Willy's head. Knife were thrown with rapid speed.
Willy couldn't properly move or react at correct time. He thought he is done for but....
"Hm....Seems like I had forgotten about your friend there." said Jeff, looking at Kael who slashed knives with his sword to protect Willy.
"Kael....the other weapon you hold is..." said Willy.
Kael nodded as he handed over the jet black wand to Willy. The weapon Willy was looking for suddenly recharged some of his magical energy. Willy had also felt great amount of power.
"Shit....here we go again. You guild members would never give up, don't you? Fine I will kill you both here. I was planning not to but you leave me no choice now!" exclaimed Jeff.
Jeff swung his flail, aiming toward Kael and Willy.
But before Jeff could even react, Willy had launched full rapid ice shards constantly with bullet hell speed.
Jeff wasn't able to react to this speed..
Jeff badly got hurt.
"How dare you....How come your attacks got faster and stronger....Damn it, you must be high level mage. You must be higher ranked." said Jeff, groaning in pain.
"I don't know about that but I guess I am still sure that I can defeat you now." said Willy.
Kael determined that Willy may be higher ranked guild adventurer.
"Now I see....I heard that there was one S ranked mage who had a jet black wand with a dragon sculpture design.... carved out on it. It is you....." said Jeff, breathing heavily.
Jeff swung his weapon again as its chain wrapped around Willy's shin bone.
However Kael cut down the chain vertically to free Willy from it.
Jeff had nothing left but the flail's handle which was not much of a useful tool.
"Give up now. You lost, surrender yourself. Accept your crimes. I am here to arrest you." said Willy.
"was here...." muttered Jeff.
"What? I couldn't quite hear you." asked Willy, still on his guard.
"I said only if our BOSS was here you wouldn't even dared to stand like that! Die!" exclaimed Jeff.
However, Kael was already behind Jeff. He knocked out Jeff.
Jeff realised that Kael had effectively snatched away the flail's handle and used it against him.
"Good job Kael, we need him so we can investigate about The Saints. We need to bring this organization down otherwise they will continue to commit such cruel things they did so far. We will seize this area too." said Willy.
Kael and Willy took Jeff with them, heading downstairs to escape.
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When they both left the tower, they saw guards were still trying to seize prisoners back but couldn't do it because of a certain someone.
Willy looked proudly toward them.
"Kael, do you know that Noel isn't the type to lose. She hold katana as if her own part of the body. She is also a S-Ranked adventurer like you and me. She is my childhood friend, you see." said Willy, watching Noel taking down guards effortlessly with just a baton.
"Even if she doesn't have her katana with her, she can make any similar weapon use like katana. I will give her the weapon later otherwise she might end up killing all guards accidentally haha. Well, let's capture these guards." said Willy, while putting down Jeff to a safe spot.
"Please look after Jeff so he won't run away. Though he is tied, I can't trust this dude. Meanwhile, I will handle the situation with other guild members so we could capture all guards working for The Saints alive." continued Willy.
Kael nodded in response, standing on guard so Jeff won't escape aftee he regains his consciousness.
Kael watches Willy moving forward in the middle of the conflict. The guards and prisoners stopped mid fight, feeling a strange aura about Willy.
Noel looked extremely happy to see that Willy was alright. She had withdrawn from the battle as if she could tell what will happen now.
"All the members of The Saints, your commander is already down. Jeff is the name I assume?" asked Willy, confidently.
"No way....this can't be!" exclaimed Guard, looking at Kael and Jeff.
"If you don't want to get hurt, please surrender yourself. I will make sure you won't be charged with extra punishment as a result." said Willy, warning all the guards present around.
"What? Do you take us for a fool? Hey boys, he seems to be so full of himself after defeating our commander. But he can't fight us on his own! Attack-"
Just before one of the guard could finish his sentence, Willy used single ice shard to badly hurt the guard.
As the guard struggled to stand up, other guards began to step back.
With the magical wand in Willy's possession, he could unleash his true potential despite having low on magical energy and injured.
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To be continued...