Sam didn't want to get into a war with these feathered right away.
He wanted to escape this area first, scout, and take action later. But everything happening here made him lose patience.
He would just use this chance to teach them a small lesson and also make them understand just why they should have stayed out of his way.
Sam took the blood scales and placed them back in the storage, they are currently not needed.
Yanwu and Sky are doing well. They are working as a team and already burned down a dozen feathered. But he still kept an eye over.
The Captain guided the rest of the feathered and is planning to surround Sam and then subdue the beasts after he was caught.
But Sam just smiled and aimed his guns.
He is only using the normal metallic bullets that are used to fire different elemental attacks.
His current choice is lightning.
He started shooting and the first two shots didn't miss, the two bullets lodged themselves into the chest of the feathered that is coming towards him and the lightning bullets paralyzed him. This made the feathered stop swinging his wings for a second and he became unstable.
Sam used this chance to shoot another two bullets into the wings.
He didn't aim for the head. He still has some reservations about starting the all-out war. He is in the middle of nowhere of the enemy territory, if he started a slaughter now, the situation would become dire. He has to find out where he is and where he needs to go before he could do anything drastic.
Even if he doesn't want to kill them, the damage is not laughable at. The Feathered that crashed into the ground screamed so loud that the rest of the feathered could feel his pain.
Sam didn't stop with that. He started shooting and he moved like a slippery eel in the water.
The advantage of the harbinger is clearly showing now. It is faster and it is more versatile than its wings.
The captain who was still confident a second was stunning.
One feathered after another is falling down and crashing into the ground.
Various elemental attacks are flying in the air rapidly and most of them are flying towards Sam, but not a single one landed.
She couldn't help but look down and feel pressured at the number of injured. The only silver lining of this is that none of them are killed. At least not yet.
The fight continued. The only person Sam was unable to hit is the captain.
She is faster and her combination of personal wings and the wind element are perfectly blending together and she is the only one who managed to dodge the bullets sent her way and even counter-attack.
The team surrounding Arkiv is currently hovering in the sky as they watched the battle, but Arkiv cannot do that as he is still locked inside the formation.
He really wanted to get out of the formation now, but he knew Sam wouldn't tell him to stop if there was not a good reason.
So, he decided to wait for a while. The only problem he wished he saw the battle happening far away.
The spot he was in doesn't have a good view. Most of it is covered by large trees. He can occasionally get a glimpse of Sky and Yanwu, but that is it.
He is even a bit frustrated.
Sam doesn't know that not the frustrating battle was making Arkiv frustrated just because he couldn't see. If he knew of this, he would have sent a bullet his way.
Now, Sam is already having a bit of trouble.
The feathered that are injured are moving down on orders of the captain. They are in no condition to fly, so they are walking.
The enemies are dwindling and soon the feathered that supposed to guard Arkiv also joined in the fun.
Now they are moving in a formation and Captain managed to save some feathered from the bullets. Even with the guns, it is becoming a bit difficult to deal with them now.
Soon he thought of a remedy.
He let the blood-red scales out and they are flying around in large circles.
Sam smiled and started shooting once again when the bullet went past the feathered and just when he thought he dodged it, the bullet hit the blood scale behind him and ricocheted the bullet towards another feathered.
The situation once again titled in Sam's favor.
The captain is losing her calm by now.
Sam has become a nightmare to her as he dealt with the feathered like they don't even matter. It is almost like a shooting practice to him.
Except for her and some others, no one is fast enough to dodge the bullets even if it is just Ricochet without any guidance.
So, she thought of something and gave the order for everyone to retreat.
This surprised Sam.
Now there are only four people left and the rest of the feathered are either under retreat or guarding Arkiv once again.
Sam knew these four people would be able to dodge the bullets, so he didn't bother using them.
He took out the sword once again and got ready to a fight.
His body glowed with golden light as he swung the blade.
The Golden light blade created a beautiful golden arc in the air as it moved towards the feathered.
The blazing light made them involuntarily close their eyes and they were momentarily distracted because of the flash.
But within a fraction of a second, they understood how dangerous it is to do that and opened their eyes, only to realize how late they were.
By the time they opened their eyes, Sam's sword is already in the chest of their companion.
The captain got angry and she looked at him coldly before saying.
"You can only blame this on your impudence."
As she spoke, she activated the wind elemental fusion and launched herself towards Sam.
Sam just smiled, he took the sword back and slashed the feathered in his wings before making him crash into the ground.
Harbinger is now completely covered in wind elemental energy and he made his move.
As the captain chased him, every sharp turn he made, the harbinger released a large wind blade that was shot either at the captain or the four assistants she had.
She now had a proper understanding of how dangerous the harbinger and Sam are. All this while it was not possible to use the harbinger as a proper attack weapon because there was minimal space and Sam couldn't take a large enough curve to launch a decent-sized wind blade. But now everyone is on retreat, so he is doing it to his heart's content.
If she brought the group back on, he would resort to guns and bullets and if she didn't, she would need to continue facing the troublesome harbinger.
This is a nightmare for her.
She couldn't take it anymore and looked at the feathered and ordered.
"Full retreat."
She joined the group as they started moving away from Arkiv.
Sam heaved a sigh of relief.
At last, he didn't cause too many casualties, in fact, no one is dead and he also got peace.
Now, he can go and rescue Arkiv out of the situation and get out of this place to find a safe hideout and plan the rest.
He recalled Yanwu and Sky who are still craving for more battle and let them take a rest.
Both beasts are ecstatic, their bloodlines are finally satisfied a bit and now they are going to brag to the rest of their peers.
Sam heaved a sigh as he moved towards Arkiv calmly.
"That took some time. If you had tried to break out of the formation and succeeded, this would have been what you faced with injuries all over the body."
"I understand. Just how tricky are these assholes to think of such a way to take us down. But what surprised me, even more, is the fact our coordinates are given this way."
"Well, that was my surprise too."
They made small talk as Sam observed the formation to break it open. But at this moment, he felt a sense of danger his instincts are screaming of it, even Arkiv felt it.
A spear made of concentrated wind launched itself down from above as the captain dove from the sky.
The spear was not aimed at Sam or Arkiv it is actually aimed at the formation nodes.
Sam was a bit surprised, he didn't see this coming at all. He looked at Arkiv with a complicated gaze, if he wants to dodge, he could do it, but Arkiv would definitely be under attack.
Arkiv looked at him and yelled.
"What the hell are you looking at? Get lost from here."
All this happened in a second and Sam doesn't have time to defend against such an attack, but just before he dodged from the place with gritted teeth, the captain smirked and her attack which was already fast enough suddenly increased in speed and before Sam could leave the area of the formation, the attack neared him.
Sam was shocked for a second, but since he couldn't dodge, he channeled his energy through his leg and slammed it right into the ground.
