Epic Of The Demonic Sage

With the death of the two cannon brothers, the pressure on the army of the Inanis army significantly reduced. But even still there were two areas where the attacks were still coming from, the west and the north.

In the north, Count Gabriel was doing his best to kill as many soldiers as he could but even that was a tough task to do on his own. Thankfully he was going to get some help soon.

Lucius saw that the Lost had completed their first task and were now free to proceed. He looked towards them and sent out a signal with hell energy to attack the enemies on the western side now.

"ENG!" The Lost Grunted in response, startling the nearby enemy soldiers.

They finally noticed that the southern regiment was entirely wiped out and were startled. The wind curtain that was set up by the enemy soldiers that was also blocking the line of sight of the other regiments, plus the Inanis army being in the middle made it so that they couldn't fully see there.

Once the wind curtain went down, they thought that the regiment was either taking a break or had accomplished their goal. What they didn't expect at all was that there was no more southern regiment there.

Instead of that, all they saw were five tall warriors clad in Maroon armor. They were bulky and looked like bulls on the battleground as they rushed towards the western regiment.

"ENEMY REINFORCEMENTS!! Commander! It's the new reinforcements from the Inanis family!" some of the soldiers shouted to quickly pass the message.

From one soldier to the next, the message swiftly reached the commander who came to the southern side to take a look. And what he saw shocked him. There were five warriors all who were fearlessly rushing in.

"How the hell did the southern regiment get wiped out?! How is that even possible?" The commander was shocked.

And just as he said that one of the Lost used his gift and started to roll on the ground, turning into a large ball that spun at rapid speed and emanated gray gas. Another one of them jumped straight into the sky and reached a height of twenty meters.

"What in the name of Alana!" The commander was stunned.

A human jumping that high was only possible due to a gift, but even then a gift like that would have to be either rare or Epic ranked at most. But if it was just a gift specialized in jumping it wouldn't be too useful in a battle like this.

The commander knew very well than to underestimate the enemy and knew that if the enemy had jumped, it was bound to have some motive behind it.

"RETREAT! I SAID RETREAT!" The commander ordered decisively.

"What?!" The soldiers around were shocked.

They were on the winning side and didn't know why they were retreating now. 

Suddenly an explosion was heard on the northern side and made the ground shake.

"Ahh!" 

"What the hell!" 

"Watch out!"

Several of the soldiers both from the Inanis family and the Drew Army were caught off guard due to it and stumbled. The commander couldn't help but look to the north too and saw a tall smoke tower rising from the middle of the Northern Regiment.

A whistling sound came from behind him and he saw the Lost that had jumped into the sky falling towards them. A metallic glint had appeared over his legs that were joined together.

The Lost had its arms close to his body and looked like a nail falling from the sky.

Lucius of course saw it and smirked.

"Pile Driver, the user can jump high and fall like a strong metal pile, impaling anything that comes in its way." Lucius recalled the gift that the lost had.

It was one of the more recent Lost that Lucius had made and was also a criminal. The only difference was that his gift was not like this originally Pile Driver was actually a corrupted gift and its original was called Ascending Jump. 

It was a rare ranked gift and the criminal that had it was arrested for espionage and murder. Apparently, the man who had it had stolen information from several nobles and even some military outposts. 

He was able to jump over the tall walls using his gift and quickly enter it before running away with the information. He had committed several such acts and had been on the run ever since.

The only reason he was caught was due to luck. He had come to the Inanis territory due to some information that he had gotten and was eventually caught because another criminal had leaked his whereabouts. 

With that in hand, the guards of the territory laid a trap and caught the man. Since his gift was only usable in open areas, he was greatly restricted in closed spaces like buildings. And that was exactly where he was caught.

Lucius of course took full advantage of it and quickly got him transferred to the reeducation center to be transformed. He wasn't fully sure if his corrupted gift would unlock or not since many Lost with rare ranked gifts were unable to do so right now.

Out of the fifteen Lost he had, only seven of them had unlocked their corrupted gifts and of these seven, two of them were ones with uncommon ranked gifts. 

This was the first time Lucius was seeing their gifts in full effect while also being used against enemies and thus he was quite excited.

The whistling sound continued as the Lost descended at a rapid speed.

A cloud of dust of debris was launched up from the ground as he hit the ground. The ground trembled due to the impact and cracks spread all around the area where the Lost had fallen.

A few seconds later the dust cleared and one could see the aftermath of the entire area.

A five meter wide crater had been created with a meter wide hole in the center of it.