Sacrifice: Time of Mine

"That disloyal slut!"

Before the others continued to curse, they felt the heat behind their back and the ball of fire hit them as if they were bowling pins, not sparing the women or the children.

"STRIKE!" they heard a fading shout as they saw the ball of fire follow Edora.

The person herself heard this when Edora felt the heat from her behind. Feeling her instincts rile up, she jumped to the side and somersaulted with the princess in her arms.

She snapped her head to where the fire ball was to see a familiar face.

"Young Master Kalin!?" seeing the person she expected last to see, Edora couldn't help but widen all of the orifices on her faces.

"Yes, it is me!" Kalin proudly pointed at himself. Letting loose after all those years of hiding his power and pretending to be an idiot was too ecstatic!

"Rank Cee!?" Edora almost felt her jaw dropped.

"AHAHAH! Give me the princess now!" Kalin flicked his finger as a spear of fire came out of it.

"A master!??"

"Okay, stop being surprise now."

Edora jumped to the side as the spear of fire began a small forest fire that slowly spread.

"Sniff, sniff, Houie, do you smell something burning?" in one of the small residences meant for servants in the Trading-Hills Resort, Stresson whispered.

On the same bed, Houie frowned, "Just sleep. If you touch me again, I will spread the news of you being gay!"

"I said it was an accident!" Stresson shouted back. They were laying on the same bed, with a distance facing back to back.

"Are you serious!? You stroke me, dude!"

"Goddammit! I slipped, okay!?" Stresson shouted in frustration, "Why even are you naked in the room. Are perhaps wanting to seduce me!? You didn't even lock the door! And why the fuck are you hard at that moment!? Aren't you the gay one!?"

"DUDE!!  I REMEMBERED THE NOBLE GIRLS IN THEIR SWIMSUITS, WHY WOULDN'T I GET HARD!???  WHO THE FUCK WANTS TO SEDUCE YOU!?" 

"AHHH!!!"

"AHHH!!!"

Both yelled for they had feeling a complicated sensation within them.

"You hear that?" Kalin frowned a little after he heard some sort of scream from far away.

Right now, Edora was breathing raggedly. She can't gather any strength against a Rank Cee Fire Elementalist while carrying the princess. 

If she put the princess down and she made a mistake which made the Young Master Kalin take the princess' unconscious body, how could Edora explain this to the King and Queen?

Kalin pointed his finger up as a spark of flame appeared, "I don't want to kill the princess, you know. Everything will be solve if you just give her to me."

"Give your ass!" Edora glared.

Blushing, Kalin covered his behind, "I'm... not into that..." he bashfully said.

After the Royal-Knight Captain saw the giant fire that came from the direction of where the King and Queen of Karan are, she knew that help wouldn't arrive anytime soon.

Meaning, it's either she fell into fatigue and suffocate soon or give everything she got to kill this fire monkey!

"Oh? Finally surrendering?" Kalin laughed while still covering his behind.

Edora placed the princess down and unsheathed the sword on her waist.

"Heh, okay...-" Kalin laughed when suddenly, his field of vision was filled with glaring eyes.

As if time was slowed, he felt something pierced his stomach, not letting it penetrate further, he pushed his palm forward, a breath of fire trying to come out of it.

Edora immediately retreated upon sensing it. She wouldn't want to sacrifice herself to continue that fatal hit. She still have to take the princess away.

"That was... startling..." Kalin painfully smiled as he softly caressed his bleeding belly. The blood soaking his clothes red.

Fire Elementalists are great for their firepower, quite literally, but their regenerative ability isn't top notch compared to a Plant Elementalist, or even Water Elementalist.

"Healing Scorch." but the young master have something in his sleeve that closed the wound.

Taking this chance to attack again, Edora became closer with her sword in front.

This time, Kalin was prepared as heat emanated from his body. Three formless books were already out, popping one after another.

Edora felt danger and took a step back but her peak swordsmanship helped her attack from a distance. Her blade left tracings of light as it frantically moved in crescents, up and down, side by side, spin, around, and thrust.

Chains of movement erupted one after another while Kalin fought back bare-handed, using the martial skills Galion taught him secretly. His body was glowing from the heat, exhausting Edora faster. But the young master is not safe as he grunted in pain, receiving wounds from time to time.

He didn't have any weapon on him, making him in a disadvantage. But he knew that if he persevered, this Royal-Knight Captain will soon fell into fatigue. By then, she is no different from a corpse.

'Bleed him until he die!'

'Burn her!'

The young master's hands were glowing red and would heat up the blade upon contact. There was a series of clanks and thuds as he showed mastery over close-quarter combat.

Although against an experienced Royal-Knight Captain who clawed her way up to the peak, he was still on the side of defeat.

Only due to his Rank Cee Fire Element did Kalin began tilting the table to his side. The grass that he was stepping one were burning into ashes. The combustion of fire inside of him fueled his movement. His healing elesp, Healing Scorch was slowly trying to close all his wounds.

His skin hardened through the heat and also allowed fluidity on his movements.

However, even though he stepped onto the winning side, pushing the Royal-Knight Captain back, he slightly trembled from her intimidation.

The confident and focused gaze this knight was showing was suggesting something else.

Feeling fear, Kalin released the rest of his energy as flickering flames appeared around, burning Edora. But her confident face was immune to the changes as if she had everything on the top of her palms.

But Kalin was not finish, he is a Rank Cee Elementalist, although he lacked true experience that comes from life-and-death battles, he was prepared enough.

'Take this!'

The flickers like blinking stars became bigger.

"-Argh!" 

But before it turned into seemingly infinite spears, Kalin felt pain in the middle of his torso. Just as his eyes rolled down, he saw Edora's left hand helped her right hand twist the blade inside of him.

"...ahh.." the glow of his body was dispersing.

Edora slashed her sword from his insides to the right. This broke her blade before it successfully sliced Kalin from middle to the side, unable to reach and even wound his left arm.