"Defend the camp!" Lord Harold shouted to the soldiers.

They have been pushed back to their camp and are surrounded. The camp is filled with wounded soldiers and knights including Rithia, she got hit by a spear above her waist while defending other recruits.

Gildas mustered his students and ordered them to defend the camp at all cost while he will be in the front lines.

What made the battle worse was the traitor recruits with Liana, the fanatics gave them the same power of the demons. Now they can disappear and reappear in battle.

Exhaustion taking its toll among them, their arms and legs seem to weigh a ton whenever they try to move. Dello has taken command but he himself has no idea what to do at this point, he was stabbed by a knife earlier and hasn't told anyone yet.

Finn can barely stand, using his sword as a support. They watched as the battle continued around them. Men dying, bleeding, begging for help but no one came. Horns and drums kept battling each other in the air while the desperate voices of officers giving their soldiers orders continously clamored in the distance.

"Where do you think he is now?" Thren asks them, looking at the hills hoping there is a sign.

Dello sighs and raises his head proudly. "It doesn't matter where he is, as long as he comes and we're still here. That's all that matters"

"Easier said than done, fool Dello" A voice behind them mocked. They all know whose voice it is. "How are you all?" Liana asked. Emerging from the tents.

They look at her with great surprise but not because of how she snuck up on them but because of her appearance, pale and sickly. Black veins marking her face from her eyes to her cheeks.

"Now tell me, where is Marcus? She asks, pointing her sword at Dello.

He steps out of the safety his friends and stands just a  few feet away from Liana's blade.

"He'll be here" Dello replies, gripping his sword tightly with an intention to strike Liana first. "Unfortunately you won't be alive when he does"

Dello attacks Liana directly, evading her sword and plans to thrust his sword to her chest but before his blade could touch her, she disappears into thin air and comes back behind Dello and stabs him right through the back.

Excruciating pain covered his entire body and blood poured out of the wound. He could feel Liana playing with the blade while it's still in his gut. He drops to the ground and his face lay flat on the mud

"Get away from him!" Ortos cried out, wildly swinging his sword towards Liana but she disappears again. Thren predicts her next move and he covers Ortos' back and luckily he manages to stop Liana's blade coming out of the shadows.

"Well well" she mutters. Smiling at Thren. "You all have changed"

"Yes we did!" Finn manages to cut Liana's shoulder but her armor mostly kept the blade from cutting deep. She flinched and Merriell pushes her away from Thren.

She tumbles away from their group but only to be recovered by the other traitors. "These peasants still don't know their place" One of them said.

Liana picks herself up and fiercely stares. "Kill them" she ordered and her allies disappears into thin air.

"Back to back!" Finn cried out. Each member slammed their backs to another making sure that they are well protected and just in time too. The traitors emerges and crosses blades with them.

Meanwhile, Liana takes away Dello's sword leaving hers still stuck on his bleeding body. Dello groans and forces his hand to grab Liana's leg.

"And...where do...think you're going?"

"I'm going to find the little whore that took my place"

Dello laughs but in pain, " I didn't...know you...thought of yourself as a whore" He chuckles but blood coughs out.

In anger, Liana kicks him in the face. Temporarily blinding him but he could hear her walking away and towards the healers tents.

Later dark clouds came and brought rain to the battlefield, making the ground worse. A rider arrives and yells. "The reserve is being called to the front! The enemy is using the rain to push through!" He rides away and vanishes in the maze of tents.

"Finn! What do we do?" Ortos asks as he pushes back his foe.

"Why me!" Finn angrily replies barely able to hold his opponent any longer. He looks at Dello, still not moving and his blood beginning to mix with the rain and mud. He opens mouth to say something but then Owen suddenly appears out of nowhere and kills his opponent. 

"We're moving to the front! What the hell are you doing!" He angrily shouts at them. The traitors fear that he is a strong opponent so they disappear into the shadows, most likely going back to join their main army.

"But Dello..." Zel says. They all look at the Dello. Their hearts weighed with each second they looked at him.

"I'll get him to the healers! You go to captain Gildas now!" Owen orders and Finn and the company follows but takes one last look at Dello just before they rain cover their shadows. 

Owen approaches Dello and stops just a few inches away. Dello manages to stay conscious despite the serious blood loss, he turns his head and sees Owen's boots change. 

"I can't believe it was that easy" Owen muttered but in a different voice, he kicks Dello and says. "You remember me Dello?" 

Dello painfully looks up and sees Roland, another noble born recruit but this one had a particular grudge against him. "Roland!" Dello groaned. 

"No time to talk, I'll make this quick" Roland raised his sword high and is ready to thrust it deep to Dello's flesh and it would kill Dello instantly. "This is for embarrassing me back then!"

"That was...a fair duel"

"Fair or not! Insects like you should know their place!" Roland slowly lowers his sword and mad expression on his face clearly says that he is enjoying this but as the tip of his sword nearly reached Dello's back. 

Roland is struck by strong force that makes him step back and a hand grabbed his sword and pulled it out of his hands. Petrified of the sudden turn of events, Roland stared at the unfolding shadow right before him. 

"Marcus?" Dello whispers as his eyes finally gives in and passes out. 

*Near the healers tents* 

"Where are you, you little whore" Liana announced as she looked through the tents, looking for Rithia. "Aha! There you are"  She found Rithia sleeping calmly alone in a tent without her armor on.

Liana makes sure that no one is around to disturb her. She stares down at the Rithia whose not aware of what is about to happen. Liana cleans her sword with Rithia's hand. 

"Such nice hands you have. I wonder how nice they will be once I'm done cutting them off" The rain grew harder and lightning pierced the skies. "Better make this quick. I'm going to start with your hands, then your feet. If you wake by then I will continue with your lips and eyes but I will spare your ears. Even if your dead I want you to here Marcus' agony once I get my hands on him" 

Another lightning explodes in the sky creating a blinding light and a shattering sound, Liana pays no mind to it but little did she know. When the lightning struck someone entered the tent when the sound of thunder followed the lightning which covered the sound of footsteps.  That person is now standing by the entrance of the tent and staring at Liana. 

"I know you are young but i guess I can get a nice cut from your breasts and hang them on Marcus" Liana pulls Rithia's hand out and prepares to cut it off. "Let's start shall we?"

"Careful not to cut yourself Liana" The person says which makes Liana pause for a moment, making sure if she really heard a voice and once for certain. Her hands trembled in surprise, her lips turn to a mad grin. She turns around and looks at the person. 

"I never thought you would come here alone" She says. letting go of Rithia's hand and prepares herself for a fight. 

Rithia wakes up but still gravely weak and can barely move her eyes but when she finally did, a tear gathers to the corner of her eye and slides down her cheek and she lifts a corner of her lip.

HI THERE! THANK YOU FOR READING AND I HOPE YOU LIKED THIS CHAPTER. PLEASE VOTE AND COMMENT. SO MANY THINGS HAPPENED THIS CHAPTER. WITH DELLO AND RITHIA BEING INJURED AND A BUNCH OF OTHER STUFF. I HOPE YOU ARE GETTING SOME IDEAS ON WHO ARE THE TWO SAVIORS OF THIS CHAPTER. BY THE WAY IF YOU NOTICED THAT LIANA SUDDENLY BECAME MORE SADISTIC. IT WILL BE EXPLAINED WHY LATER ON. 

THANK FOR READING AGAIN :) NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE POSTED SOON!