Seal of Light - Enlightened
Chapter 11: X : Oh Fearless One

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Somewhere on the other side of the mountain

Navi'Sai stood in front of the black pillar.

With his seal and his left hand fully lit up, he slowly placed and slipped it into the pillar.

Navi'Sai felt the sudden reaction of the person inside who took a strong grip on his hand. He quickly pulled it out and as the body finally came out of the pillar, they both landed on the ground ending up with the person mounted on top of him with a ki-blade pointed at his throat.

"Who are you? What do you want from me?" There was fear and anger as the newly saved captive spoke.

Navi'Sai realized that it was a young woman who was on top of him. A young pretty woman dressed with an all black skin tight leather assassin suit with a red scarf.

"I am Navi'Sai, I came here to rescue you."

The young woman fiercely looked at his eyes, with her ki-blade still pointed at his throat. She acknowledged the sincere reply and retracted her weapon. The tension came down, both of them noticed the very awkward position they are into. The female bended back on a fancy manner and stood up and helped Navi'Sai while he was dusting his clothes.

"I thought you were the one of those with the demon earlier, by the way, I am Willow."

Navi'Sai took the handshake offer and replied. "Wait... I think...hmm... Willow Autumn?"

"Yes, that is right. How did you know that?"

"Willow Autumn. Great! Your mother, Lily, is an acquaintance of mine. We were sent here to rescue you and the other captives taken by the rat-demon Nezumi." Willow felt a bit of relief to what she just heard from Navi.

"Wait, did you say other captives? And there are others out there also doing this rescue operation?"

"Yes, that's right, we have to go now. My friends are on the other side of this mountain. I hope they are not having much trouble."

"No, wait," Willow interrupted just before Navi'Sai made his next move.

"Why would I trust you? This could be a trick. You will bring me as offering to your Demon lord."

Navi'Sai responded with a flattened face. With a mocking face and a dirty look, he quickly took off his shirt.

"What is that? What are you doing? Don't you dare move an inch closer to me you pervert!" Willow threatened as she shy away from the half naked Navi'Sai.

Navi'Sai turned about and showed a round spiral shape starting to draw itself on to his back. The object drawn added several curved lines outside the main circle. It was an ethnic drawn sun. "I am the Navigator of the Carriers," Navi'Sai said with authority.

A giant shadow passed through them as Navi'Sai speaks. It was a drake, a black one, with its red round burning eyes and a five meter length wing span. It flew up and then dived to their direction. "Oh no, let's move Navi'Sai."

Navi'Sai unresponsively watched as the drake dives closer. Willow moved back to a safer distance.

As the gap between Navi'Sai and the drake closed to less than four meters, Navi'Sai's body suddenly lit up, and with a quick leap going up, he unleashed his ki-blade and slashed the drake from its throat going up to his belly and then finally cut out away and landed safely in front of Willow with his ki-blade pointing back to the falling beast.

"W-what kind of warfare was that? I have never seen anything like that before. You effortless killed that giant beast with a single slash."

"Nope, he's not dead, I just peeled out his temporary skin, there's a human soul in there."

On the middle of the drake's burning corpse, someone slowly stood up. His body was shaking and could not merely make a step forward.

"Even if you defeat me, I have already finished my purpose here. I have released Casus'Lucem from his prison. He will be out from that giant black pillar any moment now!" The man hysterically laughed. "No Sieg! What have you done? Have you lost your mind?"

Navi'Sai performed two quick leaps before reaching Sieg. Willow followed. Navi'Sai caught Sieg before his body fainted to the ground.

"Y-you are the new leader of the carriers, please replace my brother Jimmy. I was forced t-"

"I know Sieg, the angel Kei'See told me so. This is our mission, to rescue each and every one of you. And if the Demon lord reached the ground, then we will make sure he's not going back to that pit or to his king in hell. We are going to destroy him here once and for all."

A strong statement said by the fearless leader.