"Send those hoods at me, and I will weaken it well enough for you to be exposed on multiple fronts. Turn your back away, and I will have a free hit. You can't move now, its game over for you, Argil."
Athel was on the defensive, carefully blocking each slashes from Argil, minimising the damage she's receiving. The situation is in the clearer's control by now, time is at their side. Rather than risking a battle with her archenemy, the optimal move is to stall for time, and its certain that the Laughing Coffin men would have been cleared out before her HP bar goes empty.
"So you're taking revenge for your dead friends by not attacking at all? Funny to think that you would dishonor your guild's post mortem wish, Athel the Butcher."
Argil continued his stream of slashes towards Athel, with that slight smirk at the situation in the face of his possible impending death. His hostile exchange of words is his last move he can make, and if Athel snaps, she dies. But if this doesn't work, the better option for him is to carve out his own gravestone.
Those words rang unease and disturbance to Athel, her nemesis is right in front of her, and ironically the way to win the battle is not to attack him with her own hands. She had tightened her grip on her axe, putting herself on a fine line between rationality and losing it. She maintained her defensive stance, clenching her teeth as she held against Argil's attacks, both verbal and physical.
"I will throw your sword down their graves, as an apology for my dear friends ~"
The inconclusive battle between Athel and Argil have given the clearers more than enough time to clear the stranded goons of the PKer guild. What's left, is the wall of men between the last Lieutenant and the clearers. Varen's legs have been regenerated by then.
"I'm not good at this, but it will be a 'siege'... We will work on 3 sides, and thinnen the wall of men from the outside, one by one, and once the numbers get weak enough, we'll storm in to kill the last Lieutenant."
Akemi commanded as the siblings positioned themselves on two opposite sides, facing the stationary wall of men as Akemi sent herself to the wall of men, signalling the start of this siege. Isamu followed up, adding on his efforts to trim down that last stand of the PKers. Slowly but surely, the acts of Akemi, Isamu and most probably Varen, would weaken that meat wall as each second passes.
"I don't have to take revenge now, because someone else would do it for me ~"
Athel let out a smile of relief as she let go of her defensive position and swang her axe diagonally down Argil's torso, as a familiar dagger jabbed down Argil's neck from behind. The last detachment of Argil's troop has mostly been cleared away as Akemi's red spear thrusted through the Lieutenant's mouth, reducing him into the last set of green petals in the Hog's Beach.
"We won, you all can rest in peace now, Asaka, Nao, Hayate, Isoko----"
Athel started limping towards the scattered body of Argil, picking up Argil's sword while muttering the real names of her late classmates. The battle has ended, it was an first and overwhelming victory for the clearers, thus every single member of the party are left with single digit HP.
"Those throwing knives from your dead friend doesn't do much damage, but I can finish the this mess from afar with that HP you all have~"
It was Willow, standing at a distance and holding up Enyo's throwing knife and the axe.
"But you all have spared my life, so I'm returning my favour, consider us even from now on. But try entering the range of those knives, and the Hog Beach will belong to the dead~ Next time we meet, only one of us will live to tell the tale."
Willow walked away from the scene without much regard.
Athel trickled down a cold sweat for a moment, she had forgotten about that initiate Willow. That explains why Willow wasn't with them just now. Finishing 4 people with less than 10 HP would be an easy job for anybody. But then, Athel was confused on why that girl have spared them. Still, letting loose a mere Initiate for a Warchief and fifty men from the damned PKers guild is well worth it. Now healing up with her potions, she watched Willow walking away as the sole PKer left from the Hog's Beach.
"This grinding spot is ours now, we can peacefully make Bacons."
Akemi sat on the beach, watching the small waves crashing on the shore, commenting with a sarcastic overtone. There will be a lot of things for her to do when she gets back, like getting her guild here & such. Now that a grinding spot is open, this could even the ground between the clearers and the PKers.
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