's.h.i.+t s.h.i.+t s.h.i.+t!'

the s.h.i.+eld began to form but before it fully formed it was. .h.i.t by a steel spear that effectively broke the formation of energy units and destroyed the s.h.i.+eld

"f.u.c.k!"

*BANG*

the sky carriage was. .h.i.t by spears and Mars felt a mind numbing pain from his shoulder and his left thigh right before he suddenly felt weightless and hit the roof of the sky carriage as it hurled towards the ground, moments later it began cras.h.i.+ng into trees slowing the speed of the sky carriage somewhat before it hit the ground with a loud bang...

Mars felt his entire body burning and rapidly cooling at the same time with a blurry consciousness

"f.u.c.k me..."

Mars turned and sat up before he opened his eyes and found he was in a forest

"where is..?"

Mars looked around and spotted the sky carriage a little ways away, it was mangle beyond requisition and behind it was a trail of broken trees and destroyed luggage, seeing the destruction Mars's muddy head got clear

"the others! aw f.u.c.k!"

Mars tried to get up but felt a mind numbing pain from his leg and looked down at it

"oh for f.u.c.ks sake..."

there was a steel spear piercing his thigh to make matters worse it was bent in a way that made it hard to pull out

"you know what, fine you can come too"

Mars began crawling towards the sky carriage but found Lily on the way there, she had also been thrown from the sky carriage and was in way worse shape them Mars with all her 4 limbs bent the wrong way her head was turned to the other side so Mars was unable to see if see was alive or dead

"f.u.c.k, Lily hold on!"

Mars dragged himself over to Lily and activated his [Energy: healing] skill with 100 units of energy before he touched Lily with his hand

"please work!"

luckily it worked as a half transparent membrane spread over Lily's body and rapidly began to heal her, Mars watched as her limbs bean to restore and bent back into place with loud cracking noises sounding out form her body and soon the transparent membrane disappeared

"LILY!"

Mars shock Lily and within a couple of seconds she began to show signs of waking

"thank G.o.d..."

Mars having confirmed she was okay began crawling onward towards the carriage where he soon arrived at the mangled body of the carriage and after transforming his hand he tore a hole into the carriage and yelled

"anybody hurt!?"

"Mars? we're mostly okay, but Lee is hurt!"

"bring him here quick!"

a few moments pa.s.sed before Mars saw Lee in the opening he had torn, he was clutching his stomach were a giant bruise were formed, there was also blood around his mouth and his eyes were filled with tears, it also looked like he had trouble breathing

"hold on a second Lee"

Mars once again activate his [Energy: healing] skill with 100 energy units and soon the bruise disappeared form Lee's stomach as well as the other small injures he had, then Lee looked at Mars with sparkling eyes

"Mars, your amazing!"

"yes I know... go wake up your sister while I remove this piece of junk from my leg"

"okay Mars"

Lee went over to his sister meanwhile Mars sat with his back against the mangled body of the sky carriage and took a closer look at his leg

"yep this looks bad..."

Mars gritted his teeth and simply started pulling on the bent steel spear that was pierced through his thigh, but quickly found it impossible to simply pull out by himself

"Chloe?"

"yeah what is it?"

"can you come out here for a second, I need an extra pair of hands"

"...sure"

Chloe crawled out of the hole Mars had clawed in the hull of the mangled sky carriage she looked a little ruffed up with numerous bruises visible all over her body from the rough landing

"Mars your leg!"

"don't worry about it, it's just a flesh wound"

"...I'm pretty sure it's not just a flesh wound Mars"

"yeah I know, I just always wanted to say that, well whatever just help me remove this piece of metal"

"there's something I need to tell you first"

"...what is it"

"Moira and Chris... they're gone"

"...s.h.i.+t"

Mars. .h.i.t the ground in frustration and for a moment his eyes were covered in guild and sorrow before a few minutes later they became clear again as he took a deep breath

"...help me remove this"

"...okay"

Chloe put her hands on the steel spear and looked at Mars

"you ready?"

"yeah, do it"

Chloe began pulling the steel spear while Mars gritted his teeth and soon the spear was almost removed from his leg

"that's fine Chloe, let me do the rest..."

"I don't think that's a good idea"

Mars took over and with one last pull he removed the steel spear but also most of the a large piece of flesh form his leg

"f.u.c.k that hurt!"

"...told you"

Mars ignored Chloe and activated his [Energy: healing] skill with 50 units of energy and soon the giant wound on his leg closed and Mars stood up and stomped his leg into the ground a few times

"...all good, now for the fun stuff... Victoria you awake?"

Mars called out and less then a second later Victoria jumped out of his shadow

"you... called... Mars?"

"yeah, can you set up a perimeter around the crash site and tell me when our guest arrive"

"...okay"

Victoria merged with a nearby shadow and disappeared from view

"well then let's get the others out"

Mars turned around and faced the mangled body of the sky carriage and yelled

"stand clear!"

after waiting a few seconds Mars transformed his hands before he slashed out with his claws and cut the side of the mangled body to pieces allowing the others to finely come out, Karen had light bruises but Adam looked completely fine

'well he properly has a few tricks up his sleeves'

Lily and Lee walked over and stood next to Mars as they each grabbed one of his hands to hold while they looked towards the carriage with sad tear filled eyes, no doubt Lee had told his sister about the casualties among the group, Mars squeezed they hands tight and asked Chloe

"what about the coachman?"

"...he's gone too"

"I see... does anyone have anything against me burning the bodies?"

n.o.body said anything so Mars waved his hand and sent a flame into the mangled carriage that burned the bodies of the coachman, the vice princ.i.p.al and Chris while Mars mumbled

"may their souls find peace..."

for a while n.o.body said anything and the only sound was the twins quietly sobbing until Victoria's voice sounded in Mars's head

"they're... here"

"okay..."

Mars took a deep breath and let go of the twins hands

"Mars?"

"don't worry Lily I'll be right back"

"...okay"

Mars turned around and began walking in the direction of the bandit group that was closing in while his body slowly transformed into his half dragon state

"need a hand?"

Mars looked to his side and saw Adam was leisurely following after him with a smile on his face

"...sure why not"

while Adam like all elvers looked slender Mars could feel a mighty force form him, it was like he was the eye of a hurricane or the surface of a deep lake, n.o.body could guess what was going on behind that smile of his, Mars stopped observing Adam and looked ahead while he walked and soon he spotted a group of bandits with a senior mage in the middle

"there they are... I want half"

"...no problem, then I'll take the other half"

Mars gave a furious grin

"only if your fast enough"

and disappeared from view and reappeared in the middle of the bandit group before he reached forwards with his hands and grabbed the face of the mage and before any of the bandit reacted he gave a twist of his hands

*SNAP*

"what the f.u.c.k!"

"he killed Morgan!"

"b.a.s.t.a.r.d!"

one of the closest bandits lunged forwards and swung a iron club towards Mars but abruptly froze mid action, just as Mars and the rest of the bandits were puzzled by what happened Adam appeared right next to the frozen bandit and grabbed one of his arms

"...around it goes"

a horrible sound sounded out form the bandit, Mars only just managed to see what happened before the bandit was turned into a mangled mess of blood, flesh and minced organs

'Adam he sped up the movement of his arm by probably a factor of 10... he's a time mage'

the bandit had been twisted into a mangled mess by Adam but Adam looked as usual with his calm smile on his face

"what's wrong Mars, weren't you going to outpace me?"

"...oh you're on now"