A Wanderer's Lies

Chapter 115: The Power of the Golden Six

Chapter 115: The Power of the Golden Six

"Lucy!"

Amara leapt and grabbed the girl before she dropped to the ground, assessing the damage.

The result?

'What is this? She was standing right here, what happened? It's like she just went through hell and back.'

"I told you not to worry." Lucy let out, her tone faint as Amara stared, Eli running toward them as Jett and Cain stayed frozen.

"All the damage that is inflicted upon you all, will fall upon me."

Everyone couldn't help but slightly gasp.

'You mean...my Gallick Gun...she's still alive after enduring it?'

Tato thought, realising he hadn't paid enough attention to the others.

"Lucy..."

Amara muttered as Eli placed a Senzu Bean in her mouth.

"You should be dust right now. You're pretty durable." Eli commented as Lucy somewhat gained some strength, sitting up.

"I guess." She replied simply.

However, before Lucy could do anything else, she felt two hands grip both her shoulders and Amara pulled her in.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry about what I said." Amara embraced Lucy with an empathetic tone as the latter simply stayed frozen.

"I know I have no right to ask this..."

Amara unhanded Lucy as her tone changed to that of seriousness with a hint of pleading.

"...but please, find Ava. Save her."

Lucy paused, her expression still indifferent, causing Amara to feel clueless about how she reacted to this information.

"With Cain and Jett fighting that man, it leaves us, and your abilities are the most versatile and suitable to..."

"I'll do it."

Amara was cut off as Lucy nodded.

"Really?" Amara asked, seemingly shocked Lucy was so cooperative.

"I'll save her. Trust me."

Trust.

It was the same thing Lucy told Amara before. Though before she wrote it off, now, after everything, it held unimaginable weight.

"Thank you. I'll never forget this."

Lucy stood to her feet, sword in hand as she faced the forest.

"Cover me." Lucy gave a thumbs up as Amara let out a warm smile, causing Lucy to stare.

That smile... was one she enjoyed. It washed her with a sense of fulfilment.

It meant something.

It meant she could help someone in need.

'It means I can be the Hero.'

In the next second, grumbling could be heard as Tato ran his fingers through his hair, gripping so hard he started to pull out strands.

"Stage 1, damnit! These are Stage 1 students! Why am I..."

Tato fell into a rant, mumbling to himself as his broken mental state became more and more apparent to the others.

So much so that Jett drew his attention back to the man while Cain tossed a Senzu bean in his mouth, finding some strength to get up and stand beside Jett.

"It's up to us. We can't get hit. We can't let Lucy suffer because of us."

Cain mumbled, his eyes glued on Tato.

"The final stretch," Jett added, his eyes calm despite the tension in the air.

However, before anything, Jett looked at an item in his hand.

A ring.

'I almost used it...'

He thought, his eyes looming on the ring. After a second, a hum could be heard as he sent it back to his Dimensional Space.

'It's not worth it, for now.'

"Ready?" Cain asked, to which Jett nodded.

"Damn you all!"

It didn't seem like they had much time to prepare, Tato yelled out, his hands returning to a familiar position.

"Galick Gun!"

The purple beam shot out with a BOOM as Cain bent his legs, prepared to counter, however, Jett stepped forward, confronting the beam.

"Jett..."

"Trust me."

Before Cain could finish, he was cut off as an aura of determination oozed from Jett.

"ME..."

Turning his body and preparing to fly away, he paused as not too far away from him loomed Jett, one arm stretched out toward him while the other pointed in the opposite direction.

"HA..."

"Damnit!"

Tato yelled, pressing his two forefingers on his forehead.

"No, you don't!"

Looking to the side, Tato witnessed Amara's two fingers stretched to inhuman lengths, sharp as needles as they lay millimetres away from his two eyeballs.

-SHRK

"AHHHHHHH!"

Tato screamed in agony, clasping his hands on his eyes as they oozed blood.

"ME..."

"DAMN YOU ALL! I will not lose!"

Upon saying this, Tato's Ki started to expand rapidly, and a yellow barrier formed around him as his energy condensed more and more.

And it didn't take a genius to realise what he was doing.

"He's crazy. He's... self-destructing!" Amara yelled in the hopes that the others would hear her, which they did.

All this happened Eli stared with a straight face, soon clicking his tongue in frustration.

"Now!"

Jett yelled.

This was it. If this failed, none of them would have the strength to keep going. It was their last attempt.

Their final hope.

"HA!"

Cain yelled as he shot out his arm, the blue beam shooting out vaporising the tall trees in the way as it resembled a shooting star.

Though it was far less powerful than before.

"X Burner!"

Jett yelled, a thin yet massive burst of flames shooting out from the arm pointing away from Tato.

But for the other arm, the one pointing toward his enemy, a colossal beam of thick fiery red burst exploded with a BOOM as the two attacks met in the middle, both striking the barrier around Tato at the same time.

-BOOM

The attacks clashed against the barrier, struggling to break through as the barrier and Tato's Ki increased, all while Tato let out a furious, "AHHHHH!"

"KAIOKEN, T-TIMES FOUR!!"

Cain's aura turned red as even his skin seemed as though it had changed colour, countless veins bulging on his body as his beam grew in size tenfold.

The ground below him crumbled as he struggled to keep his footing.

However...

"What..."

Cain mumbled with a strain in his voice, noticing the black shadowy tendrils wrapped around his waist, making him regain his stability and balance.

Following it with difficulty as even the movement of his eyeballs caused him pain, his eye met with the laying of Daniel's, his arm out as he controlled the tails.

Cain stared with wide eyes for a second, soon nodding as he looked back.

"They won't...they won't stop it in time," Amara noted, her tone almost quivering as she wore a desperate expression.

"AGRHHHH!"

"AHHHHHHHH!"

Despite this, both Cain and Jett let out a feral howl, pouring every drop of power they had left into their respective beams.

The result?

-BOOM

In the next second, a nuke-like explosion that expanded to half the forest erupted, swallowing everything within it; its shockwaves were sent through all of Ashton and then some.

An explosion so strong that there was no hope for anything inside ever returning.

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Okay, that's it! I promise, that's the last chapter without Isaac in it for the rest of the arc.

Next chapter title: Gap

NNext chapter title: Full Power

NNNext chapter title: Nothing Happneed

That's right...you see the titles? Shit is about to go down.

If you don't wanna wait, there's always the /JustMYSTERY

Also, as usual...POWERSTONESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!