'You're not taking her. Over my dead body!' Godfrey wrapped his lightning tendril-wings around six crimson lightning bolts.

It crackled through his wings, forcing him to grunt deeply as he was electrocuted massively. There was something odd about the crimson lightning. Godfrey swiftly deactivated Fusion and his strength soared.

He wasn't perfectly balanced like before and lost the perks of another voice telling him about attacks beforehand, but he got the strength in exchange.

He pulled the cage apart with his lightning wings, only for an energy beam to blast into his back at that moment, during that temporary second his focus was on the cage alone.

Godfrey fell from the sky, his mother and Victoria slipping from his grasp. The eagle caught Valentina and Victoria as they watched Godfrey, with smoke billowing from his back, falling hundreds of feet toward the ground.

"We are sorry you have to witness this." The Giant Eagle summoner, in his agent attire, said as his eagle and the Griffin shot energy beams and lightning into Godfrey's body, forcing him to fall faster as they dealt damage.

"But that boy is a menace!" the Giant Eagle summoner declared. "People with such strength and grudge against the authorities end up causing havoc. We've had millions die to people like him."

"No! Godfrey!!" Valentina screamed at the top of her lungs while Victoria struggled to unleash her summon, pushing against the eagle's claws, but it was fruitless.

Then, they heard the loud sound of Godfrey crashing into the earth. A great amount of dust rose, and the asphalt road cracked for over three hundred feet.

Some people thought a bomb had been thrown nearby, but this destruction was caused solely by Godfrey landing with both feet planted into the earth like thick steel poles.

His legs were spread wide, already set in a stance as he leaned back, drawing the arrow of the giant bow already manifested with his entire body before releasing.

It tore through the great mushroom of dust, crackling with intense lightning.

Trail Blazer!

The arrow got stuck in the Eagle's throat.

Without pause, Godfrey tilted his body and unleashed a second arrow. As he fired it, the air exploded.

The Griffin summoner dodged, but it was too late as he saw the tip of the huge arrow right before his eyes. It pierced through the chest of his griffin.

Both summoners lost consciousness, falling to their doom along with their dead summons.

Rushing, Godfrey caught his mother and Victoria, but almost a hundred cars had arrived at the scene.

Godfrey was already bloodied and almost unrecognizable. His clothes were torn to pieces, leaving only a little piece acting like a short.

As he watched policemen emerging from their vehicles and dozens of guns being pointed at him, a portal appeared and Lament calmly stepped out.

Three other portals appeared, and Tempest, Ballista, and Mountain also emerged, all in Black-Out State.

Lament slammed the bottom of his halberd into the ground, shattering it. Black, cold mist billowed out of the earth, it rose up, and from it thirteen-feet-tall riders and their mounts emerged.

Their mighty war horses were completely covered with black cloth, blue ghostly eyes staring through their Spartan-like helmets with crests bearing pale white foliage.

Their armour was as dark as night, and their huge halberds were swung over their thick pauldrons.

One hundred Night Cavaliers rode out, charging at the policemen the moment Lament's mount neighed.

The faces of the policemen paled as high grade bullets made from the shell of a lord tier flew but bounced off their armour.

Meaning, what they faced was an army of 8.5 lord tiers, led by a 10.5 king tier!

A machine-gunner yelled as he fired mana-packed bullets, but even when they pierced the armour of the lord tiers, they didn't fall.

The moment the cavalry met the rows of armoured vehicles, cars, guns, and the policemen's summons, it became an instant one-sided massacre.

They trampled over vehicles, sliced apart thick armoured trucks, crushed smaller summons, and took the heads of the larger ones.

Lament moved gallantly on horseback, finding none worthy of receiving a single attack from him. His brothers fought the battle, and even they were not at their best.

Ballista spotted four helicopters two thousand feet away, nocked four arrows, drew, and released them. The arrows split into twelve, piercing through the helicopters. Their explosions lit up the sky like fireworks.

Far away from the battlefield, Cassie placed a call.

"Has the target been secured?"

The reply she got was faint gunfire.

"What kind of summoners is this?!" a voice cried. "We're no match. We're already retreating from the battlefield. Over two hundred policemen are dead! Including the Lord Tiers and Lieutenant Randy!"

"What?!" Cassie's eyes shook as she turned to the green-haired man seated calmly beside her.

Bram opened the door of an already speeding car and unleashed his summon, a Throne Tier Tiger Knight Beetle, before vanishing into it.

The sonic boom made by the beetle's sheer speed sent Cassie's car swerving to the side.

***

Godfrey was on his back. He was out on mana for the first time in months, and for the first time in his life, he had slaughtered almost three hundred people.

It felt like he was dying.

His adrenaline rush had finally died down, allowing him to realize his legs were badly damaged from withstanding that fall with his feet.

A wreck of cars and the signs of a devastating cavalry that no one would ever want to face were everywhere. The corpses of policemen and their summons littered the blood-soaked ground, the trail stretching several hundred feet.

Godfrey could feel it, he was dying.

His mind was blank. He couldn't see any light at the end of the tunnel.

Where would they run to? Calling Isolde was fruitless, her phone was switched off and wasn't even surprised about it.

White appeared and formed glowing water that rotated around Godfrey, lifting him off the ground. After the third rotation, his wounds were gone, as were his old scars.

He slowly dropped into his mother's lap.

Godfrey slowly opened his eyes.

"White. You look different."

The stag turned around as if to show him its new, glamorous form. It made Godfrey chuckle weakly.

"I'm tired," he whispered to his mother, who gently caressed his hair.

A vehicle switched on its headlights as it drove toward their side. The door opened, and he saw Victoria. She had somehow worked her way into using the car without a key.

"Let's go—"

Something moved past, and two neat lines appeared at the center of the car as it split into three.

A green tiger beetle, seven feet tall, with feet made of swords screeched to a stop twenty feet away. From the car to the beetle were red-hot lines carved into the asphalt.

Bram deactivated Transposition, a skill that allowed a summoner to stay in their summon's space the same way a summon did in a summoner's soul space.

His aura alone made Godfrey feel small.

"I intended to kill you, but alas, you survived," Bram said while looking at Victoria.

Then he faced Godfrey and Valentina, his eyes locking onto the glass shard the woman held close to her.

She planned to kill herself.

Had it not been for that, he would have killed Godfrey instead of targeting Victoria. Godfrey wouldn't have even known when or what killed him due to the beetle's speed.

"If you die here, your son dies," Bram declared boldly, his silver buttons gleaming softly with each step he took.

In the next step, his beetle burst forth, it was so fast that it was already before them, and the wind had not even reacted.

But at the moment the shockwave arrived, a blue-skinned eleven-feet-tall Oni Ronin parried the beetle with his katana.

Arian stepped out of his Ronin, his eyes locked on Godfrey.

"You're finally at the crossroads."

Godfrey's eyes narrowed.

He could finally see it, the light at the end of the tunnel.

A swirling mist of light appeared, and Arian picked him up.

"Out of mana again. Not odd when you have those knights. Let's go, Ma'am," he said to the stunned Valentina and Victoria, who hurried toward the portal.

"I'll be damned if you leave here, Vagabond!" Bram roared.

"Well then…" Arian looked at him from the corner of his eye.

"…Be damned."

The beetle moved, but the Oni teleported, stopping its attacks effortlessly.

"No! Bring that woman here!" Bram fused with his beetle, and it glowed. Sword marks crisscrossed the entire street, tearing it apart, but the portal was gone. Arian was gone.

The Oni Ronin remained harmlessly, having blocked the super-fast sword strikes. It sheathed its katana, turned, and began to walk away.

It removed its hand from the katana's handle to the wakizashi – and at that moment, it vanished.

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A/N: I guess volume III has officially bloomed.

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