Chapter 224   - Join us!

Gary was lasting longer against the clone compared to Ark but he was struggling a lot more than he originally thought. Before the fight started Gary had placed his Black sword on the ground for fear he might use it by accident.

This match was only meant to be a sparring match, whatever Ray was planning to do with the clone they needed to clone alive.

Gary had planned to use his skill with the sword against the clone's brute force. It worked at first with Gary managing to dodge and lead the clone's attacks to where he wanted. But the clone was also fast managing to defend nearly all of the attacks Gary gave at it.

After fighting for a while, Gary was starting to wear out. With his body getting tired he no longer saw the white lines in his vision which told him where to attack. Looking at the clone it seemed like he hadn't even broken a sweat.

"I give up," Gary said, "If it continues on, I'll just get even more tired."

"Mike do you want to have a go?" Eve asked.

"Haha, and make a fool of myself. If Gary and Ark couldn't beat him what do you think a D class Adventurer like me could do?"

Then everyone's eyes naturally started to lean towards Lenny.

"All though I would usually take the opportunity, I'm afraid my magical attacks would be too powerful and destroy the clone, maybe another time," Lenny said.

That left only one person in the group that stood a chance against the clone and without even having to ask Jack had already stepped forward.

"Sorry boss, but I think this is the only time I'm going to be able to hit you without getting punished," Jack said as he pulled out his great sword.

The clone once again smiled and at the same time, the two of them clashed in the middle. However, the clone was similar to Ray and was arrogant. Although it was able to dodge Jack's sword, it wanted to take it head-on.

It felt like it had its full power even though it was only a quarter of the original. When the sword collided with the clone its fist was shattered and the clone started to disintegrate until it eventually disappeared.

"You idiot!" Garry shouted, "What have you done, you weren't meant to use full force."

"What but he smiled at me, I thought he could handle it?" Jack replied.

"Let's just hope that Ray doesn't get into any trouble in there," Lenny said.

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Inside the tower, Ray suddenly felt his clone disappear from outside.

"What happened, has there been an attack from outside?" Ray thought "But how, have they managed to defeat the others and the clone."

As Ray thought for the worst suddenly, he received a message from Gary.

"Sorry the idiot Dog, killed your clone. Stay safe. Gary."

Mark continued to show the symbol to Ray.

"You see this, the Dark guild, the shadow plague's legendary items. These are all great powers under his command."

"Look just tell me what do you want for me, I don't care for your boss," Ray said.

"What do I want, I just want this city to be mine and to see that dam mayor be torn apart from the beast below but if you are asking what my master wants, he wants to reason with you. To join our side, he believes that you two possess the same goal so why not work together."

In a weird twisted way, Ray and the shadow plague really did possess the same goal. The shadow plague wanted to rule all of Bronzland while Ray wanted to unite the whole land under the Red wings. Just their approaches were different.

If perhaps Ray had met with the leader of the shadow plague earlier, before he had met the people at Avrion, he would have agreed but the shadow plague had tried hurting those close to him and had even made him kill his own father.

"I will not join you," Ray said in a stern voice.

"Oh but you shall, otherwise that Mayor of that friend of yours will die."

Ray started to slowly walk over to Mark.

"What are you doing, are you trying to intimidate me?" Mark said as he stood up from his bed.

"I am a guild leader, do you think I'm weak like the others. I don't know why the Shadow wants you so desperately but you are just a boy."

"Let me tell you something." Said Ray. "I don't care what happens to the mayor. I don't care what happens to the city. The only ones I care about are those men outside, that are under my command and I guarantee each one of them would be able to defeat you in a blink of an eye."

Suddenly the tower started to shake as if something had hit the outside walls.

"Fire, continue to fire," the commander said as another catapult fired at the tower. The sounds of knights clashing in the halls below could be heard. The True infected immediately ran down to see what was happening and were engaged in combat with Jack and Gary.

Using Ray's dragon eyes, he could tell that the Mayor wasn't kept at the tower but somewhere else. It was simply a bluffing tactic used by Mark to stop the army from attacking outside. That's when Ray had sent a message to Jack and Gary to attack.

Mark was startled and pulled out his long sword. The sword started to glow with a slight blue hue. As Mark swung the sword a strong force of wind had followed but when Mark looked at where he attacked, Ray was nowhere to be seen.

"That's a nice sword you have there," Ray said. "Don't mind if I take it for myself."

Ray held Mark by the head with one hand and punched Mark's body with the other. Marks body went flying into the wall while his head was still held in Ray's other hand.

Mark the Fallen angel Guild leader had died.

"I know you're watching me," Ray said, "This is a warning to you and all your followers, if you get in my way, I will do the same to you."

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