There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 529

Chapter 529: Chapter 522. Burning Fire

"Zein," Agni called out to the guide the moment he climbed the elevated ground of the command base.

Both Zein and Kei turned their head, and Agni could see their eyes lighting up with relief. The scout wasted no time and no chance, pointing at the fragments that seemed to be entering their second berserking phase thanks to the clone’s tantrum after half of its eyes got obliterated by Bassena and the combined might of Naoya and Senia’s skills.

"The biggest one!" Kei shouted. "Don’t let it get closer to the watchtower!"

With that simple instruction, Agni skidded toward the fragments battlefield. The Watchtower in question no longer looked like a Watchtower, but the lower part was still intact, and some espers from the support group were protecting it agitatedly, as if there was something inside.

"Come!" he instructed the Unit’s personnel. "Be careful with the black fume."

"Khan!" Zein called out to the berserker and threw a sealed box. "Antidotes!"

Agni caught the box and passed it to the Unit’s magician. He raised his thumb and resumed his advances, pulling out his claymore and igniting it in fire. The blazing light took the hulking fragment’s attention for a bit, and he took the chance to let out a taunting roar. It was a skill that would make his opponent focused on him no matter what, and by how the fragment was snarling and stomping toward him, it worked for a fragment as well.

In fact, it worked so well that even the other fragments turned their head toward him.

"Captain!" the magician threw two vials of antidotes to Agni; one he drank, and another one he poured upon himself.

"Haa...alright!" He snarled and swung his blazing claymore like a bat, striking the charging fragment and flung the hulking creature back, away from the watchtower. He laughed, and the louder his laugh was, the brighter his flame burned. "Come! Come at me!"

He said that, but he was the one coming onto the fragment. He kept using his claymore like a cricket bat, smacking the fragment again and again, getting further and further away from the watchtower. Since the other fragments were looking at him anyway, he laughed louder, like a maniac, and burned his claymore even more, blinding the creatures from the shining jail up there.

When the fragments were roaring furiously together, Agni snarled and ran forward, advancing, stepping away from the command base, away from the aid and guide station, to the edge of the battlefield where the fight was happening at the start, before the clone was rampaging and causing the fragments to go berserk.

Well, they weren’t the only ones who could go berserk. With Ashur preventing the others from getting near, Agni was soon getting surrounded by fragments from all sides. Staring at the enclosing fragments, he recalled the state of his lover a few hours ago; the wounds that hadn’t completely closed even with the help of healing serums, and the ghastly pale face of blood loss and mana drain--a husk of closely dying man.

"Haa..." he took a deep breath and pointed the claymore at the fragment in front of him. "At least one of you," he snarled, pouring mana back into his core to induce reflux. "I’m going to destroy at least one of you."

With the sound of crackling thunder, the flame on the claymore blazed fiercer and enveloped the berserker, whose red hair grew longer and danced widely like the fire itself.

And he struck.

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"Flame Berserker Agni Khan," Kei muttered as she watched the change on the battlefield. "It had been fifteen years, isn’t it? If he’s not stuck in the Borderland, he could probably climb to the fifth floor."

"Indeed," Zein allowed himself a little relieved sigh.

With the Captain taking the role of a stormy bait, the other espers could concentrate on attacking the distracted fragments. It would be hard on the man, but Zein could recognize vengeance if he was one.

As long as he doesn’t die--Zein thought. Berserkers used their emotions as fuel, so with the rage he had now, the Captain might be even stronger than Ashur.

"Let’s concentrate on the clone now," Zein exhaled harshly. The clone had become even wilder, and the vibration of its rampaging tentacles could be felt all the way to where they were.

Or was it the vibration from the rattling chest?

Zein glanced at the new shard, which was as quiet as the core. But then again, it wasn’t really a time to chat. "Condensed the energy," Zein told the shard. "Don’t bother to purify the place, just make sure to lock them up."

The shard buzzed, and the area of light shrunk considerably. Zein regretted not bringing the twins here, but those two would probably get scared anyway. Moreover, if they brought the shards, the clone and the fragments would probably go crazy from the start, and it would be bad without the reinforcement from the Castle and the Borderland.

Didn’t matter now--Zein turned toward the fight in the distance again.

"Kei, tell Ashur to drag the Captain out after twenty minutes, he’ll need a guiding by then."

"Okay."

"Silva,"

[Captain?]

"I’m going to focus on the assist team, so manage the rest between you--focus on the damage dealers for now. In twenty minutes, assign Dean to guide Captain Khan."

[Understood]

"Cohen," at last, he patted his bodyguard. "We’re going to the assist team."

"Yes, Young Master."