The Runic Alchemist

"Hey! Stop there!"

"Intruders! Intruders!"

Hell, Damian knew it was a wishful thinking that they could just leave without anyone noticing. Soon some five – six second rankers and a bunch of first rankers got behind them as they kept running in the hallway. Damian took out few runic scrolls and used one pointing behind his back while running.

A huge ball of half solid water came out of the big blue runic circle and crashed into the chasing knights, covering the whole hallway. Some fell, some stopped running, however some stubborn ones went through the large body of water holding their breaths and came out on the other side all drenched yet continuing the chase.

Damian finally reaching one empty open room, dragged still running Anthony behind him into the room and gave him the premium parchment scroll.

"Take this and stand near the window while pointing the drawing part outside the open window. Remember to open the window before pointing...."

"What are you.."

"Just do as I say !!"

"Okay.. Okay.."

Damian stood at the doorframe of the little room, taking out his short sword and three scrolls to face the chasing knights. He could not let anyone see that he could do space-time spells, Damian wanted them to think that he just disappeared in thin air or was still hiding in the room to waste their time.

Before Anthony could even reach the window the two second rankers reached at the door and the first one barged in with his spear pointing at him. Damian parried the powerful thrust with an upward swing making the spear go above his head and miss as he punched the knight right in the middle of his leather armor that sent him few steps back tumbling blocking the other knight\'s way in.

The unexpected power behind the punch surprised the spearman and made him break his stance for a second.

He hurriedly tried to firm his foot again and thrust his spear once again at Damian\'s head but just at that time the structure of green runic circle finished under the knight\'s foot, Damian attached his mana strings to the runic circle and changed the direction from horizontal to vertical facing the knight and raised it up to his own height.

The knight\'s eyes had a hint of suspicion as the spear was getting closer and closer to Damian\'s head and he didn\'t even bother to lift his sword up, however the suspicion was answered in just next second when a huge, powerful gust of wind threw the knight and his companion out of the doorframe.

Both knights and some others whom Damian had not noticed yet were thrown behind in tremendous wind pressure, crashing into the support pillar in front of the room. They were second rankers though and such measly damage was nothin to them.

But Damian did not do it to hurt them, just as the first knight got up and tried to rush in again a huge thick wall of solid dirt covered the whole doorframe locking Damian and Anthony inside. The wall also wouldn\'t be able to hold them for long as the heavy blows were already crashing on the wall orchestrated by the group of knights.

Damian quickly looked back and saw Anthony in position with the window open, he immediately activated the [Wormhole] spell and waited with baited breath seeing the black runic circle slowly forming with each second dragging behind.

The wait was killing Damian.

Finally before the dirt wall could fall, the purple wormhole appeared and Damian ran at full speed into it grabbing Anthony and pushing him along. Once outside Damian hurriedly canceled the spell and hid behind the building wall next to the barred window, successfully escaping without revealing anything at all.

Just the way they had come, Damian and Anthony traced their steps back with silent thief like walking, among all the chaos that was going on inside the building. Staying close to the building wall they crawl sneakily towards the nearest outer wall which was the one they had come climbing from.

The loud booming noises from the top floors of the headquarter building and the annoying high pitched alarm that was still going on were making Damian\'s head hurt as he slowly headed towards the big wall. Without being seen from any of the open windows.

Even though he could sense when someone was nearby, he had first hand witnessed today that it wasn\'t always reliable so Damian was not risking it at all. The chasing knights didn\'t know where they were and he wanted to keep it like that.

\'BOOOOOOOOM\'

\'khshhhhhhhhh....\'

\'CRASHHH\'

However as if someone was reading his thoughts and wanted to make a mockery out of his efforts, a dark figure fell from a great height crashing through all five floors of the headquarter building and landing right in front of crawling Damian and Anthony, making a big crater on the ground where just a few second ago another simple empty room was attached to the stone wall.

Now neither the wall nor the room was there.

When finally the dust settled Damian could get a better look at the man in the center of the crater. He didn\'t have to look though, Damian knew who it was when he was midway through 3rd and 2nd floor. They were still some 100 meters away surrounded by dust and rubble.

Their dark skinned bald leader groaned and with a considerable effort got up on his feet. Standing there with a sword in hand, he was looking up at the sky. Damian finally figured out the source of all the booming noises. He also looked up and found the person he did not want to see ever again in his life.

The burned knight with a glowing red sword in his hand was standing at the very top of the fifth floor, looking down at the bald leader who went missing right in the start of their infiltration mission through all the broken floors.

Even some random knights were also peeking out from other floors, trying to see what was happening and of course with the bald leader of theirs Damian and Anthony were also in plain sights for everybody standing there to see.

The bald leader of their miserable attempt of infiltration and rescue mission turned his head towards Damian and just stared at him saying nothing. Damian understood the meaning behind his eyes though, it roughly translated to \'If I live till morning, you are easy to find and if I die it doesn\'t really matter anyways\'.

The bald leader straightened his hand and got into a defensive stance of the mountain stands alone, seeing the familiar basic Dawnstar sword form Damian\'s mind for a second, imagined a golden haired girl looking down on him as he fell to the ground. Goddammit, he was getting all nostalgic and stuff at just 8 years of age.

Not to mention the situation was very freaking complicated to think about such nonsense right now.

The burned knight with one hand, jumped from one floor to another through the open holes he had made in the building. Finally landing few hundred meters from the big crater with his red glowing sword in his one working hand, just to be sure Damian had deactivated his [Eye of truth] and it was still glowing red. Which means everyone else could see it too.

"Look there!"

"That\'s the guy who I saw running earlier.."

"Hey, isn\'t that the killer kid..?"

"Intruders! Hurry get down everyone!"

Because of all the attention Damian and Anthony were getting, the burned knight for a second removed his eyes from the bald leader who was in the center of the crater and looked at the so called \'Intruders\' and of course... found the familiar faces.

At first he looked a bit confused as if trying to make sense of what he was seeing but finally his eyes widened and in seconds instead of charging towards the bald leader as he planned and who was ready for his charge, the burned knight pushed against the land beneath and launched himself like a bullet with a blinding speed towards Damian and Anthony.

Damian shocked to his core could only see a blur coming towards him at the speed of bullet train.

Damian couldn\'t even lift a finger before the knight was almost upon them, grinding his teeth and aiming his sword directly at Anthony and Sam\'s head, even though the action was like a blur to Damian the last part in which the monstrous knight with one hand which held a terrifying red glowing sword, launched a powerful overhand swing attack on them almost felt like a slow motion picture to Damian.

He could not move or breath but it seemed like the whole world had also slowed down on him.