I regressed and became the Sword Ice King-Chapter 188 - - Trip to the East 7

"Ca–Captain!" Colyn cried out in shock at the sight before him after descending to the interior of the carriage. A puddle of blood had begun to form around Azby as she muffled in pain while her body jerked on the floor. Her eyes had rolled over her head and foam formed in her mouth.

’Shit! She’s not good at handling pain!’. He thought as he hurried up to her when He noticed her severed limb. He hesitated for a moment, his hands shaking and stretched out, his thoughts reeling in for a solution. ’The bleeding! I need to stop the bleeding l!’.

He rummaged around their belongings that were placed against the wall until he found a bottle of white liquid.

He quickly pulled out the cap and rushed back to the unconscious body of Azby.

She had been forced into a state of shock from the pain, and it caused her body to turn off. Thus, she went unconscious.

The cut was at her shoulder, and the blood had continued to pour out in large amounts. At this point, it was most likely she would lose her life to loss of blood and not a demon or assassin.

He poured the liquid over her arm, and a searing, harsh sound began to hiss as her shoulder glowed white. The blood coagulated and solidified.

’It was a good idea to buy those healing potions….but her arm’. He thought, his gaze focused on her dangling left arm. It was only held by thin layers of flesh. There was no way they could heal something of this magnitude, and the uneven cut made it much worse.

’I have to cut it off….’ He thought when He grunted and bit his lip in contemplation. ’Can I do that? Can I really decide that for the Captain?’ He wondered but at this point, there was only one way to ensure it healed properly.

He held onto her arm, ready to pull it from her body and closed his eyes, perhaps building the courage to do so. ’....I’m sorry, captain’.

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Raph was busy with the horde of Demons when he heard the scream that occurred from the Carriage. He had just punched a demon to the other side of the Rocky Peak when he glanced at the Carriage with a raised brow.

’That was Azby. Did Something happen?’ He wondered when a Walking Worm swung its pedipalps towards him like a guillotine.

He simply sidestepped the large creature, allowing the scythe-like pedipalps to crash into the side of the Rocky Peak with a loud thud.

He then kicked the creature’s head upwards with a powerful force, causing a throbbing pain to assault the demon as its snout smashed against itself, cutting its tongue and spilling blood in an agonizing display of gore.

He ran across the Side of the Rocky Peak, dodging and slicing the creatures that came his way until he reached the Carriage.

He then jumped into the air and landed on the top of it with a light thud.

He quickly maneuvered himself into the Carriage with skilful motions and landed in front of Colyn, who was next to Azby’s unconscious body.

He noticed the pool of blood as well as the bandage on Azby’s left limb, which was gone.

’Something did happen’.

He turned towards Colyn.

"Will she live?" He asked.

Colyn glanced at him, and for a moment, Raph was caught in the familiar gaze that haunted him for days in his past life, during the Demonic War.

When friends and families of fallen Knights would come together, they would hold this gaze, an uncertainty in what they’re doing. As if they feared that they were making a bad choice.

He glanced at Azby, and then at Colyn. "She will be fine, Colyn. We need to focus on finding the Mastermind and escaping from this mess. Those demons don’t get tired, but we will"

The man remained motionless for a moment, his gaze flickering with uncertainty. He turned towards Azby with a sigh. "She always finished a mission without a pinch, and her drive was our drive. Do you think this group can function if she dies?" He asked with a sigh as he stroked Azby’s forehead.

Her heart was still beating, though slowly and she was barely breathing, but she had lost too much blood. To the point that the pool of blood had yet to dry up.

Colyn was grateful for having the speed to come up when he did because if he had not, then she wouldn’t even be in a state of unconsciousness but a state of nothing. She would have been dead.

The thought alone caused Colyn to tremble. Anger and confusion began to sip in, and his thoughts began to reel in as he contemplated ways to find the culprit. ’They have to pay! Whoever did this has to pay!’ he muttered in rage, his gaze slowly turning to see from the rushed blood flow in his body.

"How…how do we take them down?"He asked.

"Well, for starters, we have to get away from these demons and find a stronghold. Running around like this when their numbers are only increasing will just be a waste of time".

"A stronghold? But there are no places around here where we could stay". Colyn raised a brow in confusion.

"Oh no, we need a temporary one". He walked up to Colyn and pulled out an orb from his storage ring. "Before I set off for this trip, I had gotten a few items just as you guys did. I may have something that could help with Azby, so ensure you do as I say until we escape this successfully".

Colyn was at a loss for words as he held the orb, recognizing it nearly instantly. This was, after all, a protection orb, something that was difficult to find even in the Black Market. His thoughts began to reel in, as he stared at Raph. ’His identity isn’t so straightforward after all’. He quickly stood up and headed towards the opening of the Carriage. Stay tuned for updates on novelbuddy

Luckily, most of the demons were after the three carriages with the goods and left out theirs so they weren’t necessarily being chased.

"All I need to do is find a temporary location where we can fend them off, right?" He asked as he stood at the edge of it.

Raph nodded in response and Colyn sighed, just before climbing back to the top of the carriage.

Within the next few seconds, Raph could hear his feet stumping the Carriage and jumping into the air.

He glanced at Azby, a sigh exuding his lips as he did so. ’I guess the Mastermind is strong…what a hassle’.

Well, there was nothing he could do about it. He could join them and fend them off, but without taking care of the root cause, it would just continue until they get tired, and they will get tired.

He chuckled, a smirk forming on his lips as he swung his blade across the air, forming a crescent arc that would slice metal like butter.

’Time to go take care of some Hindrances’. Yes, they were nothing more than that. Hindrances, and he would kill them all.

With a cold chill emanating from his presence, he jumped out of the carriage and, in the blink of an eye, charged forward with immense speed, causing a sonic boom as he did so.

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While Raph left, Colyn had charged forward towards the carriages of the Merchants. He was running across the hard stony road, dodging the fallen demons as well as the active ones that tried to kill him.

’My MP is running out, and I won’t be able to use most of my skills at that point. We need to get these people to safety".

He ran with his full brute force, catching up to the third Carriage, where his teammates were currently fighting from.

The number of Demons from the sides of the carriage alone would send one to death from fear, and their persistent nature in getting what they want would put one in a state of panic.

But his teammates held on, though not without injuries. Cruz seemed to have lost the use of his left eye as blood dribbled down from it.

His magic robe was torn and soaked in different areas with his blood and some from the demons, but his predicament was better off than the other two.

Lucky was unconscious and unable to actively participate anymore, and the number of cuts on her clear skin and robe would leave one to wonder if she were still alive.

Rodrick still fought with the same energy as he always did, but he was sustaining more wounds than the others, barely holding himself from falling to his knees.

’This is bad! How are we...?!’ Colyn could hear the self-doubts as he observed their conditions, but at that moment, something clicked. "No! RODRICK! Hold on a little longer!". He cried out as he pulled his bow into the sky.

"Master Skill! Arrow Shower!" He shot three into the air, and a bright light blew in the skies, forming a fog before loud whistle noises echoed, followed by a rain of arrows that shot down like missiles.