Wicked Reincarnation

Chapter 173: Attack 14

Behind the wall of a house, Lia was still looking at the plaza filled with soldiers. For some reason, her heart felt heavy and she grasped her chest.

It was as if a piece of her soul completely shattered yet it was an alien and complicated feeling. A slight dread made itself present. This feeling pulled Lia into a swamp fighting to get out. Suddenly, Lia became anxious.

Her heart started to race faster, faster and even faster and her fingers were itching. As if her whole body urged her to do something to get rid of this vacant space that was left inside of her.

And that was when Lia decided to make her move. The entrance of the palace was a gate connected to stone walls that surrounded the palace. The gate was located at the end of the plaza. The walls have been fortified with power even before Min's reign, so it was impossible to climb over them.

Going around the soldiers from the left and right was futile as the soldiers had a 360-degree view in the open space. The only place the soldiers couldn't discover was in the front where Lia hid behind the houses.

Apart from that, there was no other way but to straight go through all of the soldiers. The initial plan was to have Xavi and the others distract them but because of the ambush, things have changed.

Lia was alone and needed to get into the palace on her own to find Min. There were in total 5 squads with each 30 soldiers scattered in a formation on the plaza. Lia looked behind her.

At the moment, she could only control 10 corpses, she needed to use them wisely. If the soldiers managed to kill her corpses, she needed to immediately control new ones. However, carrying corpses with her was impossible. Having the corpses carry their fallen brothers was also impossible.

The only thing Lia wasn't sure of was the range of her life force. How far could the corpses be for her to control it? It was a crucial fact Lia didn't think of considering before. Would it be useful to pile up some corpses at the front?

The distance between Lia and the plaza was at least around 200 metres. It didn't seem much but having to fight against many soldiers to get through made the distances long and tedious.

One option that could work was to lure the soldiers away from the plaza before outrunning them and getting into the plaza. But how many would follow her? And the bigger problem was that even if Lia went inside the palace, the soldiers would catch her then.

However, waiting for the others wasn't ideal either. Lia briefly closed her eyes. What would Yano do? If Yano was here, this might be easy for him. Why couldn't he come and help? But it was an unreasonable thing to ask of him because the Mortal World was in danger too.

After a deep breath, Lia prepared herself mentally. Gathering some corpses in one spot, she held her hand over it, the familiar white smoke emitting out of it.

ut then, Lia raised her hand and caught the stone that was flung towards her. Slowly, she raised her head and saw not far from her an injured Kil. Despite being hurt, his steps were so light Lia didn't even notice his presence until the last second and only because she heard the stone flying towards her.

Kil grinned, the dried blood surrounding his mouth cracked and put creases in his skin, "Not bad."

Lia had a bad feeling, "What are you doing in here?"

Lia stood up and stepped away from the corpses. She couldn't let Kil catch on she could control the corpses. More importantly, Kil being here meant something must've happened to Xavi.

Then the feeling she felt before-

"I was wondering why none of you charged at the palace but instead wanted to hold us captains back, but I see now," Kill approached Lia.

Kil could barely regenerate his power neither did his wounds heal but at least they stopped bleeding, "You're the trump card, that's why."

"You sure are full of yourself," Lia's face was cold but her hands trembled, so she balled them into fists, "What happened to Xavi?"

"Who is that? Oh, the little boy, he-" Kil thought for a second, "Well, you can see for yourself."

Lia was at a disadvantage. If she fought Kil here, it'd only attract the soldiers bringing Lia's death quicker than she could run. There was no way this could end peacefully. She needed to lure Kil away.

"Very well, you seem to be confident in your abilities. I can see you're hurt, shall I perhaps," Lia gave him a warm smile and walked further towards her right, away from the plaza, "Go easy on you?"

Kill laughed at these words, "Little girl, you need to work on your provocation skills."

"But I wasn't trying to provoke you. I was simply worried for you," with that Lia ran towards Kil but instead to attack him, she jumped off the ground the moment she was an inch away from him. Her body flew over his head and landed behind him. Then Lia sprinted towards the second layer in hopes to lure Kil away.

As expected Kil was following her but Lia was shocked to see that he moved faster than she anticipated he could in his condition. He was actually catching up but then he did the most unexpected thing.

"Ghosts! I need ghosts and someone call Maria here!" Kil was doing the very thing Lia wanted to avoid. Alarming the soldiers. If things already went this way, Lia would use this to her advantage.

Instead of going towards the second layer, Lia changed her course and headed straight to the plaza. With the soldiers already aware of her presence, Lia decided to go for the palace. If she took everyone with her to the second layer, then the others would be in danger as well and they were already occupied with the captains.

However, the downside was that Lia couldn't use her power because there weren't any corpses lying around. The mass of soldiers scattered, some went away from the plaza possibly looking for Maria who could heal Kil. But now that Lia thought about it, where was Maria in this battle? What was she doing? Which side was she taking?

However, the good thing was that Maria didn't seem to act as their healer. If she helped them, then Lia and the others would be at an even worse disadvantage.

Seeing the oncoming masses of soldiers pouring towards her and behind her was Kil, Lia had only one option to break the wall in front of her.

Kill the soldiers, pave the way to the palace and then to bring an end to this war. Enough blood was spilt, enough immortals have died. There was no use in continuing this.

"Are you seriously going to run into them? Quite brave," Kil didn't make things easy for Lia. He was on her tail and her movements were limited.

Arriving at the beginning of the plaza, Lia dodged to her left as a group of soldiers came, evading by a hair Kil's punch that tore a hole into a soldier.

Lia was sure that one punch of his might knock her out for good. Wasn't Kil hurt? Where did this power come from?

"You ain't getting to Min."

"Hah," Lia sneered as she jumped over a few soldiers, took a sword from one of them and with a swoop sliced a soldier's head off, "Your loyalty to Min is sickening. Does being near him make your heart flutter so much you're willing to sacrifice your life for him?"

"Little girl, you got a nasty mouth," another punch was sent Lia's way but she deflected it with a blade as her feet lifted off the ground and simultaneously kicked a row of soldiers away. But it was inevitable that Lia couldn't dodge all of them.

Soon, in less than 5 minutes, Lia's body was heavily injured but she was able to make at least 1/5th progress towards the palace.

Her arm holding the sword was covered in blood that ran down to her hand and the sword slipped due to the wetness. Lia could barely take a step as Kil grabbed her from behind and flung her into the air.

The wind slapped Lia in her face and the ground got dangerously close, Lia quickly turned her body midair and somersaulted until she landed on her feet but failed to see the large spear that was thrown at her.

The sharp tip of the blade stopped right in front of Lia's eyes.

"Kil, stop here."

This voice, this figure that stood protectively in front of Lia. His blonde hair and his familiar back brought tears to Lia's eyes.

"Leo, what you doing?" Kil dragged his body in front of Leo.