Adventures in Dragon Sword Island!

“Eugene, your targets are about 500 meters north of your position.” Sakura said to Eugene through a wireless communication device.

“Roger that.” Eugene said in response as he ran through a grassy field in the direction that Sakura directed him to. His guild mate Ling who was the Guardian Warden of this island, Dragon Sword Island, had mentioned that many new problems had arisen on the said island that was threatening the lives of its citizens. As Ling was a member of the guild, Unchained Soul decided to help vanquish these threats when they weren’t busy taking down dark guilds. In a way, these side missions on Dragon Sword Island were much easier than what they did usually as they mainly had to deal with only a few enemies at once here rather than a whole guild’s worth of enemies on normal missions. As he stopped at the top of a small hill, he saw what he was looking for and then some. He saw a girl with blonde hair and a light green dress who seemed to be only slightly younger than him being attacked by his targets, a group of bandits who apparently have held hostage a numerous amount of people from the nearby village, all of them being young girls. What a bunch of perverts. Eugene thought to himself as he recalled that bit of information while watching the scene play out a little. He decided that he would stay in the shadows and out of sight unless the girl actually needed help. From experience he knew that if he stepped in unnecessarily, he could hurt one’s pride by doing so. Even when he did need to step in, the result was the same for some people. If it was the same either way, Eugene usually waited.

From the looks of things, the girl was doing quite well for one who was completely outnumbered. All of her foes were also using magic too making it even more impressive. The girl seemed to be using fire magic to overpower her foes, despite not appearing to be a user of it due to her choice of dress. Eugene had expected her to use a plant based magic like himself. Unfortunately, this situation didn’t last long as the bandits started figuring out her battle patterns and restrained her. An Earth Magic user used his magic entrapped and covered the girl’s hands and feet together with his element and even covered her mouth. This was to block off the normal ways a fire magic user could use their magic which was usually through their hands, feet and sometimes their mouth if they learned how to breathe fire. A Water Magic user than trapped her within a large sphere of water, probably to make it even more difficult for her to fight back and to make her fall unconscious so that she’d be easier to take away.

“Man, I really can’t just sit back for this one huh?” Eugene said to himself as he walked towards the battle scene. As he walked through the small crowd of bandits, they didn’t even take notice of him. It wasn’t until he spoke out that they noticed his presence. “Wow, I know you guys aren’t very popular with the ladies, but I didn’t think you’d be desperate enough to resort to kidnapping a girl.” He said to tease the bandits which succeeded in doing so but it also shocked them as they didn’t realize he was there until just now.

“Where’d you come from!?!” They exclaimed in shock from the sudden appearance and anger from the comment.

“Wow, you didn’t notice me even though I’ve been watching you guys for the past 5 minutes?” Eugene asked, furthering the bandits’ shock. “Don’t worry though, I’m used to it.” Using their shock to their advantage, Eugene drew out a bluish colored sword in his left hand and walked towards the girl who was still trapped in the water sphere. “Sorry about this in advance.” He said to the girl with an apologetic smile as he inserted about 1/4th of the sword into the water sphere and said “Freeze.” Immediately after he said that, magic flowed from his body and into the sword which made the entire water become frozen solid with the girl in it. The girl should be feeling extremely cold at this point, especially since she’s a fire magic user who is more accustomed to heat. Eugene then muttered another spell and after a few seconds, his right arm began glow a little before he used that arm to punch the sphere which was now made of ice, causing it to crack, shatter and fall apart. “Sorry about that, it was the fastest way to get you out of there. It must have been cold right?” He said with another apologetic smile as he caught the girl. He then remembered the girl couldn’t answer him anyway because he still hadn’t broken the restraints the Earth Magic user made. Knowing that he wouldn’t be able to break through those safely without hurting the girl, Eugene decided to just knock out the Earth Magic user to dispel the magic. He set the girl down and put his coat over her to make sure she didn’t catch cold. Since he wore a long coat anyway and he was taller than her, it was more than enough length wise. “Just give me a bit.” He said as he made the blue sword disappear and a dark black one replaced it.

“Get him!” The leader of the bandits exclaimed, finally regaining his senses. Because of the loud shout, the other bandits as well got out of their shock and began charging at Eugene.

“Wow, it took you that long to snap out of it?” Eugene said with a smile as he brandished his sword at his foes. “Alright then, bring it on. Panzer!!” He exclaimed, making his body glow red temporarily before enemy attacks hit him. However, thanks to his spell, he was unaffected. “Allow me to return the favor, Forest Dragon’s Cactus Machine Gun!” He slammed his hand on the ground, summoning several cacti shaped plants that circled around him and the girl. All of their needles were pointed towards his enemies. “Coating, paralysis fluid and hell pepper juice!” All of the needles glowed briefly after he said that. “Now, fire!” With that command, all of the cacti began shooting their needles at the foes. While the needles themselves didn’t have much offensive power, the liquids that coated the needles definitely had an effect on the enemy. They were already beginning to become sluggish due to the paralysis liquid and the hell pepper juice made them feel like they were burning. Eugene too this opportunity to use his sword to cut them all down, with the flat of his blade of course since he didn’t want to kill anyone.

“Wait a minute, two guild emblems? Appearing out of nowhere? It’s the Ghost Dragon Slayer!” One of the few remaining bandits said in fear before he was knocked out by a heavy plant thrown at his head.

“Idiot, ghosts aren’t an element.” Eugene said calmly having been the one who threw it. “But yeah, that’s what I’m called sometimes.” He said with a carefree smile. Before knocking out another one who was trying to get away.

“We picked a fight with the wrong guy…” The leader said in fear as he too tried to back away…..

A few minutes later…

“Ah, I’m finally done!” Eugene said as he stretched a little before talking into his communication device. “Hey Sakura, I’m done here and all of the bandits are tied up. Get someone to put them in jail or something.” He then went over to the girl who he partially forgot about in the midst of the battle. “You okay there? I think you should be able to move normally now since the spell is gone.