Warlock of War: My Ares System

(Findir POV)

I already wanted to run away after seeing so many corpses… it was sensory overload in every direction I stepped.

A battle mage had sent a flaming ball of fire into the trench that Aisa and Orion were in, but thankfully they were just out of range, so they took no damage.

Meanwhile, we were cutting down adventurers who tried to infiltrate the very last trench.

"SHIT! THE BATTLEMAGE IS GOING FOR AISA AND ORION!" Cy shouted, and I felt my stomach drop.

BOOM

But just before the battlemage could create two hefty fireballs in his hands, Bella interrupted his casting with her own fire that was in the shape of lightning.

A shock was sent coursing through his body, but somehow, he recovered instantly and charged toward us with so much bloodlust that it felt like I was facing a monster, not a human.

"Don't step back… We gotta work together for this one," Cy said with a weary smile before taking a deep stance and stabbing toward the mage.

He quickly shifted his head to the side and then punched Cy's hand, causing him to lose a bit of grip on his spear.

"Fuck…" I muttered before scratching my sharpened sickles together and then wrapping them in black whirlwinds.

"You're way too open… no wonder you're just a kid," The battlemage muttered before grabbing both of my arms, rendering me useless as I couldn't finish my attack.

I didn't even think the charge up was that long. Maybe a second at most, but he still managed to interfere with my attack.

"H-Hey! Stop!" Bella shouted as she sent another flaming bolt of lightning at the battlemage, causing him to stumble back a bit, trying to recover from the momentary paralysis.

BAM

All of a sudden, I felt something collide with my armor, and it felt like the worst punch I had ever received.

"They're focusing their fire on us. This mage must be important, so let's get rid of him now," Bella said, clearly trying to tell us that we need to work together harder.

Both of us nodded, and as I let go of my sore oblique, a pillar of fire erupted from beneath me, and Cy just barely managed to pull me out of the way.

"I came back here because I was ordered to get rid of all the weaklings! But I guess we got some strong kids!" He shouted with his face distorting into a large smile.

All of us subconsciously took a step back which was heaven's grace, as a few sharp spears of fire appeared beneath us.

My chin had been scratched, but at least I wasn't cut straight in half up my ass.

Zzzzzzt

Bella acted quickly upon seeing the guy charging up a few fireballs in his hand, paralyzing him with her skill and allowing us to easily close the distance.

Cy swung first, acting as bait for the man to turn his body and catch the spear, and as I swung one of my sickles, he immediately caught it… but now I was in a perfect position.

SHING…

"Huh?" I muttered as he had kicked me in the gut, pushing me just out of range from actually cutting him up.

BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM

Soon, I was showered in an endless stream of bullets, and as my ribs felt as if they were going to break, I took shelter underneath a corpse lying beneath my feet.

"P-Please don't kill me… I have a family… my kid just wants to grow up normal. Please… I want him to have a father-"

The thing I thought was a corpse was, in fact, an alive human being, and as he muttered his chilling final words filled with tears, he was shot in the back and head various times.

His tongue hung out lifelessly as his now fish-like eyes popped out of his head from the temperature of the bullets infiltrating his skull.

"Ack… Ack…Oomf… AHHHHHHH!" I shouted as his corpse slumped onto me.

My face paled with the blood of his corpse slowly leaking into the tiny cracks in my armor.

"Get the hell up!" Bella shouted as she struggled to pull me up from my slumped position, eventually having to put her back into it as she was also barraged with bullets.

She was resisting those battering bullets just to help me up…

"HUFF… HUFF… Huff… Huff…"

"You finally calmed down?" She asked while holding her stomach, trying to massage a bit of the pain away.

The bullets never penetrated our magic-reinforced armor, but they definitely did tons of bruising and possibly internal injuries.

"N-No… W-We have to get out of here," I muttered, but Bella suddenly slapped me in the face before she pulled me underneath a mound of corpses.

Both of us swallowed a heavy amount of saliva as the dead corpses seemingly stared at us with resentment.

"Wake the hell up… Cy is fighting for his life over there. We're lucky he's still kind of underestimating us; otherwise, we would be having a much harder time," Bella said, and I slowly nodded before gripping my sickles and then dashing towards the duel clashing before us.

Sparks from the battle mage gauntlets and Cy's spear flew throughout the air, as it seems Cy had already adjusted to his fighting style… but the damage he had already taken was too much.

He had hundreds of cracks in his armor and the riflemen not too far away were obviously avoiding shooting at Cy in case one of them strayed and hit their precious battlemage.

"BELLA!" I shouted, and soon, a bolt of fiery lightning zoomed past me, shocking the battlemage, allowing both of us an opportunity to attack… but Cy decided to back up and try to gain some distance instead.

p Fear had taken the reigns of his mind, and now I saw my chances of killing him slim even more.

SHING

"Fuck…" I muttered as a large wound opened up in the man's neck, but it wasn't nearly enough for him to die instantly.

Eventually, he would bleed out… but that is why he is now making a mad dash for cover towards a pretty open trench.

Pew… Swoosh