The spear went by his head sharply, fortunately his blade was in his hands, he ducked under the spear's shaft and grabbed the hilt of his tachi with both hands.
In a slant slash he removed the upper half of the guard's body, the blade's slice started from the man's upper spine and ended below his chest.
Lucian immediately leaped into the height of a tree vanishing temporarily, a guard who had seen everything, although from a distance, alerted his mates with a loud wail.
A gathering quickly formed below him.
- What is it?
- How did this happen under our watch.
- It's an Assassin.
- Assassin? I thought they were extinct.
They investigated the morbid body with no fear, they could possibly be afraid as they were thirteen in number and more were probably on their way.
[ Technique Activated : Eidetic Kinesthesia ]
Now the troll had been multiplied by bounds and limits, his primordial enhancement enhanced his physical form in accordance to his will.
His photographic memory made him remember everything down to the iota of a detail mostly including every combat knowledge passed down to him.
Meanwhile his eidetic kinesthesia made him fully aware of the body of living beings and allowed him to predict their actions and movements.
One could say without the down sides of his techniques he was in his strongest form, he jumped down from the tree landing with an mini explosion which killed four guards on impact.
He leaped away from the gathering and further into the district, they charged at him, the first blade to be swung at him got met head on.
The wielder felt his hands go numb, the force left him and he dropped lifeless, he wasn't fast enough to react to the round house kick that struck him on the temple.
Lucian stabbed his blade into the unconscious body's chest, he did a summersault but stopped midway and spun his body like a helicopter propeller with his legs being the main reason.
His head was faced downwards, hovering midair totally defied physics especially for someone who did have the ability of flight or levitation.
Soldiers were kick brutally in the neck as they got to close to Lucian's helicopter kicks, when his momentum died he ended it with a flip snagging his blade in the process.
He cut an approaching soldier in vertical half, separating his upper half from his lower body, an attack came from his side, he effortlessly dodged it and lunged a very close range attack while sliding his blade into it's scabbard.
The guy's metal plate armor got heavily dented as Lucian's knee hit him in the stomach, not ending there Lucian landed with a left rear punch to the neck dropping that guy too.
Now the remaining six people were skeptical in attacking alone and decided to rush together side by side, but that was their biggest mistake yet.
Lucian sidestepped twice to the left and dove to the ground, as he flew he reached into his pocket, retrieved a revolver and aimed at the lethargic squad of attackers.
As they ran side by side they aligned at a point even if it wasn't perfect his idea could still work, * Bang *, a single bullet flew through the first guard's left shoulder and went in a straight line out of his right shoulder.
It continued with the same energy going through the sides of the guard's till it flew out the last, Lucian landed with his back, he followed the momentum, pushing himself into a roll which he used in standing up.
Before the men could start falling, he jumped in-between the gaps of which they maintained separation, his bloodied blade reflected a beam of moonlight.
Everything seemed to have slowly stop moving as Lucian was now running on empty fuel, like a berserker he slashed the second man's waist temporarily sparing the first.
Jumped out the gap and jumped into the gap between the second and the third, the blade penetrated the neck bone detaching it from it mundane position in one go.
Lucian didn't even allow the blade to exit the man's neck before he dashed to another the following person, if someone were to stay in an aerial view and observe Lucian' movements, they would say he is moving in a zigzag.
Jumping between gaps and out, with a flash he might as well be done, he collapsed to the ground finding not strength to rise.
[ All techniques have forcefully been deactivated ]
Time returned to it's usually flow, although Lucian was long done a gust of wind burst through the bodies following his trail.
The bodies stood for a momentarily before falling.
Blood slowly spread across the stone augmented ground, Lucian had to go the footsteps and voices of incoming guards alerted him.
His organs were decaying, his bones were as weak as noodles and his muscles had contracted, after his techniques were deactivated his immortality kicked in.
But it wasn't fast enough to save him from capture, " Child Of Light, Bless Thy Word, With Might I Heal, With Pain I Scorch, With Versatility Thy Exist. " He chanted weakly, five rectangular bars burnt themselves into his left arm.
This meant he could use the embodiment of light five times, it happened anytime he chanted any of his mantras.
But a catch was if he recited the mantra of shadows or darkness while his light was active, the current mantra recited would substitute the former.
He had used his darkness mantra to teleport previously meaning he could use it four more times but as he recited light his darkness had been replaced.
From the alleys and buildings of the Bem Salva district multiple people emerged and charged at Lucian, " Child Of Light, Bless Thy Word, Heal Thy Provoked Being ".
A burst of light engulfed the templar garrison in whole, stunning every single being in the garrison and beyond, Lucian stood fully healed, he was the only unaffected person in the garrison.
" He wiped his blade and sheathed it, " Ten bullets remaining, I didn't know the bigger the injury the brighter the light, huh, intriguing " he said disappearing into the shrubbery of the district.
As the bright light dispersed into the normality of the night a young man emerged, cladded not in the regular chainmail armor of the templars but something far superior.
His blade jingled and his metal armour shone under the street lamps of the most important district in the garrison, his eyes were closed and his silky bun tied hair dripped of fresh water.
His straight nose shuffled in the air, he smelt something very familiar, " Blood ", he said opening his brown predator eyes, meanwhile he had always been walking towards a gathering of guards and knights.
Murmurs permitted in the gathering, it died down when the noticed the boy, " Guard Evelyn, what's the ruckus about " he asked a female guard.
The knights demeanor changed instantly from one of confusion to respect and adoration, as a child looking up to her role model.
" Squire Theodore, it seems we have an assassin in our presence, a total of thirty guards and seven knights have been found dead without our realization " she said with a bow.
" Not an assassin but a collector, I trust with your weakness and impotence it would have been relatively easy, be useful and secure every governing personnel… " he ordered and everyone dispersed into a sprint.
" I would purge out the intruder " he said vanishing entirely.