Flat-Brim Samurai Chapter 141 - Into the Tower
After the remaining guards on the tower bridge were dead Apollo deactivated his arts and they all continued walking towards the doorway into the tower. Immediately when they entered they saw three pathways.
Evan used his senses and knew that they had to head in the left direction. As they continued walking they noticed the lack of guards around. Apollo began to wonder (Have they positioned them in a certain location or is this place just empty? Of course, since this whole tower is so massive, it might just be the size that we don't sense many people around.)
Indeed, the scale of this planet sized castle and the massive spire made it so that it was almost impossible to cover the whole place, especially when they wanted to keep this palace inconspicuous. Once they were about to walk around the corner they sensed it. There were spirit realm creatures on the other side, they sensed the collars around their necks. It seemed that the runescript on the collars would imprison the creatures and make them servents.
One type of spirit would creature that was there had human-like features whilst also just being skeleton and muscle. They wore robes of red to cover their freakish bodies and over those robes they wore armor with a reddish black tint, they all emitted a similar greyish aura and wielded swords. They weren't the problem in particular, the biggest problem was the creature in the center of all of those, it seemed like a bigger and stronger version of the others that wielded a giant hammer.
Evan looked at his crew of about 18 people, he sent them messages via Information Translation ,"We will be calling those guys Skinners and we'll be calling the big guys big skinners for clarification. I've sensed a lot of them and all of them seem relatively weak but their numbers are quite large. The big skinner in the center is stronger then the rest and has about relative strength to Cias and Apollo. I will be giving the duty of killing the big guy to Apollo."
With all that being said they started to scatter out into the room, Evan made a barrier to stop any motions from being detected inside of the tower and they started spreading out and picking their battles. As Cias was demolishing the lower class spirit creatures, Apollo faced the monster in front of him. It stood about 8 feet tall. Apollo sword was out in front of him as he started activating Art: Battle Mode. He summoned Water in the air Art: Spinning Water Wave. These fastly spinning projectiles flung themselves at the beast, it blocked two of them and tanked 3 of the shots.
This made the monster angry as it stepped towards Apollo, each step was breaking the ground. It dropped the hammer's head to the floor and swept below Apollo CRUSH WOOSH, Apollo jumped, it stopped and angled the hammer towards Apollo once more. It flung the hammer upwards. Apollo put his sword in front of him to block the blow BOOM WHOOSH. The space distorted around the blow. Apollo used the upwards momentum of the blow and changed his Vector of motion to fly straight at the head of the monster. He accelerated with the help of all of his mobility arts at once and cleaved the head of the monster right off SWOOSH.
Apollo smirked (All that strength for that?) At that moment he saw the monster dissipate into Quison and wrap around him. Evan's eyes widened as he tried his best to make it over to Apollo but he was too slow. Apollo was gone, he had been teleported to a location that he didn't know how to access.
Apollo looked around the area and noticed that he was in a prison. The bars in front of him were strong but not enough to hold Apollo, not for long anyways. At least that's what he thought, when he grabbed the bars and tried to move them they wouldn't budge. When he tried to slash at the bars with Akarui, they wouldn't budge.
He then heard footsteps coming towards him, a man in a red robe appeared. His face was angular and his black hair was sharp and slicked back, his red eyes stared at Apollo ,"You'll find it difficult to get out of here, Don't worry however, you'll be in good hands. My name is Palund. I'll cut to the chase, we want you to join our side, since you made it this far and fought off one of our guards, we want to "Hire" you."
Apollo's mouth twitched and he said, slightly angry and mockingly ,"I don't really like to be voluntold what do to."
Palund said ,"Very well, you'll be joining us tomorrow anyways, so we're not too worried."
Apollo thought (In your dreams,) as the man slowly walked away again. Apollo had a plan to escape…
… The next "Day", they went over and got him, dragging him by his feet. The people were too strong to resist at the moment and he was put in cuffs that teleported on him, making him lose his mobility. At the end of the corridor, they opened an iron door which led to a room with a chair on it. They threw him onto the chair and he didn't resist. They strapped him in and started activating the arts surrounding the machine. Apollo began to feel an increasing feeling of his mind being taken over, the pain increased from low, to mild and then it felt like a million needles were stabbing directly into his brain. He resisted and resisted, the people there were shocked by how much Apollo's soul was able to resist the power that was being used. Then, out of nowhere, a sword appeared in his hand and absorbed all of the energy that was being used for Art: Mind Warp.
Apollo's muscles bulged as he broke out of his handcuffs. The guard closest to him ran, swinging down his sword, Apollo swiped to the side TINK, and slashed the persons stomach SWOOSH. As blood came gushing from the man, the infected wound filled with Apollo's Quison couldn't get any better. Apollo quickly stabbed the man right through the eye and out the back of his head. The other man jumped in the air and summoned Flame, shooting it at Apollo. Apollo couldn't dodge the speed of the blow and tried absorbing as much of it as he could. His skin was a little charred but it wasn't any type of pain that he wasn't already used to. He swung his sword and an accelerated water projectile launched itself at the person, slicing 1/3rd of the way through his neck. Apollo seemingly disappeared from vision as the man felt a wound appear in his stomach. Apollo unsummoned his sword and kicked the man to the ground, smashing his face repeatedly with his immense physicality and Quison infused blows. Apollo coldly opened the door and turned invisible once more.