Wicked Reincarnation

Chapter 170: Attack 11

The moment Lia realised what abomination met her and what mistake she committed by breaking open the door, she instantly poured out her life force to control the corpses, "Come here quickly!"

The corpses moved but Lia also knew that the corpses outside have managed to get rid of the soldiers or else it wouldn't be possible for her to resurrect new corpses. When the corpses bolted out of the door towards Lia, Lia instantly shut the door.

The door's lock was broken and Lia could feel the ghosts pounding against it. It was a good thing the door opened outside. Anything heavy that could barricade the door was enough to keep the ghosts outside but quite a few still managed to escape.

"You all purge the ghosts! You find something heavy!" standing in front of the door, Lia commanded her corpses without needing to think twice.

As fast as possible, Lia needed to head to the palace. She wasted too much time here. If she knew what Min was doing, she wouldn't have come here, instead just gone straight to him.

If these ghosts were let out into the capital, Lia feared that the remaining immortals wouldn't survive. They might have eaten a lot but the more they ate, the more of a desire for immortal's flesh they'd develop.

It was a mistake to mess with the doors. They were locked for a reason. Lia saw her corpses chasing the vengeful ghosts who wanted to feast on her flesh.

The corpse she ordered to bring something heavy came back with a black iron safe. The second it put it on the ground, a loud bang vibrated. Lia tried to heave it in front of the door but it was too heavy. It didn't budge.

Blankly Lia said, "Move it in front of the door."

With ease the corpse used its feet to slide it to the door as if it was showing off its strength.

Lia didn't waste more time and headed out of the entrance. Seeing the massacred soldiers, Lia relinquished her corpses. Her life force was still inside of them but now she was able to control it to dissipate, meaning she artificially created a time limit.

Now that no soldiers were present anymore, Lia was able to scout the place to see if there was a passage that linked straight to the palace. However, after carefully checking any possibilities with no results, Lia gave up.

If there was any, it definitely couldn't easily be found but at the same time, the palace was just a few metres away. There was no need for such a path. The downside of the palace was that the only entrance to inside was the front.

There were no other ways that led into the palace. Lia has been in the palace and lived there, there was no way she missed any hidden paths. This was disregarding the fact that Min modified the palace and added some.

From the headquarters, Lia couldn't straight up march to the palace, after all she had to go through the plaza with all the soldiers stationed there.

Instead, she decided to hide behind the buildings and watch the plaza, like she did in the beginning before Timo caught her. Coming to this decision, Lia quickly moved back and made a big circle around the place she was.

Occasionally soldiers would patrol but they posed no problem, as long as no captain appeared Lia could manage on her own.

From the broken houses, Lia threw a glance at the plaza to assess the situation. The numbers of soldiers didn't die down but even seemed to have increased. With only 10 corpses, Lia stood no chance. She had to either wait here for the others to come or find a way to distract the soldiers and get inside the palace.

***

A few hours prior. Just after Lia, Mika, Susa, Noel and Nana left the first layer, Xavi and his men held back Kil and his. Xavi knew he had to bring the fight into a less open space. Out of his eye corners he saw his men taking on Kil's. Xavi didn't have to worry about them and could easily focus on Kil.

But the problem, however, was Kil. Kil stood in the ruins roaring with laughter, "You've got guts for a youngster. I was looking forward to fighting with that big bro of yours but show me what you got!"

Being called a kid was endurable for Xavi but taking an insult that Noel was older, better and bigger than him, didn't sit right with Xavi. Even if Xavi couldn't beat Kil he at least needed to get a good punch on him. Also, drawing out as much as time as possible.

Xavi knew of Kil's power to absorb ghosts and grow stronger. There was one advantage, the fact that there were no ghosts. But no matter how Xavi looked at Kil, it was obvious that Kill was buffed enough. He had already feasted on some ghosts.

"Not saying anything?" Kil's fierce and battle-crazy eyes stared at Xavi.

"There's no need," Xavi decided to humour him if it meant to draw out time.

"What? Little boy, your voice so quiet. You gotta shout, your tiny body needs to force it all out but I'll be generous, you can't overexert by screaming, so," Kil lunged off the ruins and in a wide arc, not even taking a second, landed before Xavi.

Caught off guard, Xavi's eyes widened and he was barely able to take a step back as Kil's face was so close that only a paper-thin distance was between them.

Kil's crazy eyes, the smell of sweat and the heated aura he gave off, made Xavi feel like he was facing the devil.

This was not good. At close-range, Kil had the upper hand.

"Look how nice of me, I even came closer, so you don't need to shout hahaha," Kil stood straight and held his stomach to laugh, "What you gotta say?"

"Thanks," Xavi had neither the wit nor teasing talent Noel had nor the poisonous tongue Lia could bring out, all he could do was to do things at his pace.

"Good boy, good, " Kil seemed to have a blast with the fact that Xavi looked like a young boy, "I gotta be honest, beating a little kid like you to death's no fun. A shame, really."

With his last word, Kil pulled out of a punch. Despite him expressing his shame, his face said otherwise. What Kil felt was no remorse nor sadness, what was vibrantly engraved in his expression was adrenaline, craze and pure enjoyment.

No matter who his opponent was, Kil enjoyed fighting. He did think it wasn't morally right but he could see the determination in the young boy and knew that he had been through a lot to be unfazed standing in front of him.

The instant Kil's punch made contact with Xavi, instead to doge, Xavi charged a power orb and let Kil hit it. The blast from that knocked Kil several times backwards. Using the time, Xavi ran towards the ruins, while charging several more orbs to attack Kil.

In order to slow Kil down and prevent him from catching up, Xavi did the best he could. His fragile body that no matter how much he trained wouldn't physically improve, ran the fastest it could. If Xavi didn't distract Kil while running away not even in less than a second Kil could catch up.

Xavi wasn't aiming to kill him, he knew it was impossible, what Xavi planned was the critical injury that would render Kil unable to use his power.

If Xavi was successful, then even killing Kil wouldn't be impossible.

But Xavi needed to catch Kil off-guard at a close range which was hard. Since Kil was akin to a brawler, he was used to guarding his vital spot at close distance. He mastered defence and offence at the same time.

Xavi needed some kind of strategy to land the fatal blow on Kil. The ruins of the large mansion would provide some leverage for Xavi, even counting the fact that Kil would jump over the ruins. It was still better than the plain open ground.

Almost at the ruins, Xavi charged a last power orb. Before he sent that one, he turned around, witnessing Kil getting closer. Without wasting a second, Xavi let go of the orb, sending it off his fingertips. Kil grinned and evaded it.

"How many of these balls are you gonna have fly at me? Little boy, this no fun, do your best!" Kil wiped the dust remnants of his hair and steadied his feet on the ground.

Xavi knew that Kil planned to jump on him, that was why Xavi grabbed a wooden piece and threw it at his face. Just before it hit him, Kil caught it but didn't anticipate the power orb that flew around him hiding in his blind spot to strike him in the back.

Surprised, Kil fell to the ground. Realising what happened, Kil laughed, "Not bad, kid, not bad. That's more like it, show some spirit. No one wants a boring fight!"

Xavi clicked his tongue. His power orb did too little damage. Just when Xavi wanted to adjust the force of his power orb, from behind a soldier swung his sword at Xavi-