Fight for Freedom!!

Fighting for Freedom!!

Before leaving, Gerard did not forget to take the half-broken broadsword from the room into his hand. Chen Wuming did not try to stop him either; since they had already decided to fight to the end, having a weapon would undoubtedly increase their chances of winning a little more.

Just like that, Gerard walked ahead to scout the way while holding the half-broken broadsword, and Chen Wuming followed closely behind with Erza on his back. The few of them quickly exited that dark room, preparing to return the way they had come. The most important thing now was to get the injured Erza back to her quarters first. As for everything else, it would not be too late to make a decision once they reached the place!

However, just as they had not gone very far, rows of red magic circles suddenly flashed across the ground all around them! Then, mechanical heads slowly poked out from these magic circles one after another.

"Damn it! It's Magic Soldiers!!!" Gerard's expression turned extremely ugly, because their current position happened to be surrounded right in the middle by these Magic Soldiers!

"..." Chen Wuming's expression was currently so gloomy it looked like it could drip water. His bone-chilling gaze swept over the surrounding Magic Soldiers that encircled them one by one, a trace of a heart-palpitating cold glare flashing in his eyes.

Resolutely letting Erza down from his back, he then carefully placed her onto Gerard's back under the startled gazes of the two. Ignoring their shocked expressions, Chen Wuming instructed in a deep voice, "Gerard, carefully carry Erza well! As soon as I give the order later, don't worry about anything else, just run forward with all your might! Also, give me your sword..." As he spoke, without caring whether the other person was willing or not, he directly took the half-broken broadsword from Gerard's hand.

"What about you? What are you planning to do?!" Gerard asked eagerly. Chen Wuming's sudden, bizarre action made his heart feel instinctively uneasy. That feeling was as if some important thing was about to be lost, and this feeling was also extremely clear, making him unconsciously feel a wave of irritability in his heart.

Hearing this, Erza likewise gazed at Chen Wuming with the same expression. She similarly felt that inexplicable feeling from Gerard, and this feeling made her heart extremely uneasy.

"It's nothing..." Slanting the half-broken broadsword onto his back, Chen Wuming waved his left hand as if it were no big deal, smiling as he said, "I'm just going to be responsible for cutting a path out for you and incidentally covering your rear along the way, nothing big..." Of course, he was also going to attract the enemy's attention while buying time for them to successfully escape...

However, he would not voice this sentence aloud, because there was no longer any need for that. Since he had already made up his mind in his heart, why bother adding to the worries in others' hearts in vain...

"Nameless big brother--" She opened her mouth, but in the end failed to speak out. Although Chen Wuming did not deliberately voice it, they had already guessed his intentions. Under this extremely critical situation, what difference was there between so-called rear-guard action and courting death? They both knew very well in their hearts that Nameless big brother was going to sacrifice his own life to secure the safety of the two of them.

"Alright, there isn't much time left. When I count to three, you two run forward with all your might!" Having said that, ignoring whether the two of them had actually listened or not, Chen Wuming directly charged straight forward, carrying the half-broken broadsword without a single look back!

"One!" Raising his hand and bringing the blade down, Chen Wuming overbearingly and fiercely slashed right through the waists of the three Magic Soldiers blocking his path, cutting them in half!

"Two!!" Without a single moment to spare on the three fallen Magic Soldiers, Chen Wuming arrived in front of several other Magic Soldiers without any pause. Wielding the sword with both hands, he let out a low shout from his mouth, pouring his strength into both arms until the veins on them bulged out one by one. Chen Wuming instantly mustered all his strength and slashed fiercely forward once again with the sword! Only a series of dull thud, thud, thud sounds of blades cutting through solids rang out as a row of a full four Magic Soldiers blocking his view were all obliquely chopped into two halves!

"Three!!!" Chen Wuming carried the sword with both hands and kicked off the ground fiercely with both feet, his entire body instantly leaping into the air. With a ferocious expression on his face, he poured the remaining power in his body into this single strike, and then brought the blade down fiercely from top to bottom! Immediately, the very last Magic Soldier blocking the way was, without a shred of suspense, split straight down from head to toe into two halves by this fierce slash!!!

"Run, hurry up and run!!!" Without any joy from resolving the enemies, Chen Wuming raised his voice and roared hoarsely toward the two who were standing there in a daze, "Run forward quickly, hurry up and run!!! Don't look back!!!!!!"

"Take care, Nameless big brother--" Gritting his teeth fiercely and fighting hard to hold back the tears about to fall, Gerard dropped these words and then, carrying Erza on his back, ran frantically forward along the path his Nameless big brother had cleared for them without ever looking back.

"Heh, heh-heh-heh-heh--" Seeing that Gerard had carried Erza until they were out of sight, Chen Wuming finally felt his legs turn soft and dropped to his knees on the ground, panting heavily. That series of attacks just now looked simple, but in reality it had consumed the vast majority of his vigor, spirit, and physical strength. No matter how one looked at it, no one could understand just how nervous he had felt in his heart at that moment. Having never had any physical conflicts with people back on Earth, today was the first time he had fought with someone using his all! Fortunately, the fused memories in his mind contained a lot of experience regarding battles and the like; otherwise, he would have already been wiped out by someone when he and Gerard went to rescue Erza and fought those guards! But thankfully, according to the memories in his mind, that guy named Achill, the former owner of this body, had pretty decent close-combat capabilities! Perhaps it was because his magic talent was simply too poor that he had desperately worked hard in other aspects, Chen Wuming thought to himself...

He shook his head fiercely, casting all these irrelevant thoughts out of his mind! Gazing at the Magic Soldiers stepping closer to him one by one, Chen Wuming's mind became crystal clear.

Now was still far from the time he could relax! Clenching the broadsword in his hand tightly, Chen Wuming endured the fatigue all over his body, gritted his teeth to brace the hilt of the sword, and forcibly made himself stand back up!

"As a standard otome-game-loving shut-in in my past life, I once dreamed of transmigrating to other worlds in my heart..." Clenching the broadsword tightly and swaying as he straightened his body, he suddenly grinned and murmured softly as if talking to himself, "Now that I've finally managed to get my wish, I certainly don't want to die in such a stifling way..."

"Since I don't want to die yet, the ones who die can only be you lot--" As he spoke, Chen Wuming stretched out his free left hand and roared up at the sky with a ferocious expression, "You better succeed, damn it! Requip!!!!!!" Roaring, all the magic power in his body surged into his left hand in one go.

"Clang--" A pleasant sword hum suddenly rang out beside his ear. Accompanied by a ripple of space beside him, a snow-white magic rapier appeared in his left hand!

"Phew--" Seeing this, while feeling a wave of relief, Chen Wuming also felt a deep sense of fortune! It seemed it was indeed just as he had originally guessed; with a different soul, even for the same body, the manifested magic talent could be vastly different! At the very least, his currently demonstrated proficiency in using Requip Magic was far better than that Achill, the former owner of this body, ever was!!

"Now--" Holding the sword in his left hand and the broadsword in his right, Chen Wuming looked down proudly upon the Magic Soldiers before him with full confidence, and roared excitedly, "It's this big guy's turn to flip the tables!!!" Finishing his roar, gripping both weapons tightly, Chen Wuming charged forward toward that group of Magic Soldiers without a single look back.

Meanwhile, on the other side, after Gerard had run for a while with Erza on his back, trouble arrived. A group of supervisor guards holding magic staffs, leading a massive number of Magic Soldiers, firmly surrounded the two of them!

Although Gerard fought valiantly, alas, he was ultimately not a mages, and the enemy's numbers far exceeded his side. After knocking down more than a dozen Magic Soldiers in a row, Gerard, whose stamina began to run out, was finally struck by a mage's magic from the opposing side and lost his combat capability.

The result was obviously that Gerard was captured and then brought by the fat and thin mages into the dark room where Erza had previously been imprisoned. As for Erza, she was escorted back to the shabby quarters by two supervisors once again.

"Erza sister! You, what's wrong with you?" Shou rushed forward with a worried expression, supporting Erza's shoulders and asking with concern, "Where's Nameless big brother? Where's Gerard? Didn't the two of them go to rescue you?" Hearing this, the others also gazed with worried expressions at Erza, who looked as if her soul had left her body. As for the reason behind Chen Wuming and Gerard's sudden disappearance, they had actually already guessed the purpose of their disappearance roughly when they first discovered that both of them were missing at the same time! Needless to say, they had definitely gone to rescue Erza!

However, seeing that only Erza had returned now, and that she was even escorted back by others! The hearts of everyone present suddenly plummeted fiercely, feeling as if their hearts had plunged deeply into the bottom of a valley...

Could it be that something had happened to the two of them?

This thought suddenly arose in everyone's hearts, and everyone's expressions instantly could not help but dim. This was the result that everyone was most unwilling to see...

"Nameless big brother... Gerard..." She muttered a few words in her mouth, and the look in her eyes became clearer and clearer. Finally, two rolling, scalding tears could no longer be controlled as they welled up from the corners of Erza's eyes. "Ah--"

"Boom--" With a loud crash, a figure was sent flying heavily. Everyone, shocked by this scene, then all stared in a daze at the culprit who caused it—standing right there was Erza, with two clear trails of tears hanging down her face and a resolute expression, her gaze revealing incomparable bravery and determination!

"Erza?! Could it be that you..." Everyone stared at Erza in shock, their faces filled with astonishment and disbelief.

"Someone is rebelling!!!" The supervisor who had been sent flying clutched his chest in pain, but unable to care about anything else, he immediately pulled on his voice and roared loudly.

"What?! Someone is rebelling?! You're courting death!!" For a moment, those supervisors who had snapped out of their shock all became alarmed and angry in succession, grabbing their weapons and shouting loudly as they rushed over this way!

The only thing we can do is fight!

The words of the two echoed clearly and repeatedly in her mind. Having completely figured things out, Erza ignored the shocked gazes of everyone, raised the iron shovel in her hand, and said in an incomparably resolute tone, "Pick up your weapons, everyone! Whether we obey or run, we will never be able to obtain freedom! Since that's the case--"

"Then we only have a fight left! Stand up for freedom! Let us fight for freedom!!!"

"Awoof-awoof-awoof--"

"Fight for freedom!!!"

Awakened, the oppressed crowd finally awakened anew under the encouragement of Erza's soul-stirring words! The blood that had cooled for a long time was likewise stirred into boiling once again beneath Erza's brave, youthful figure!!!