"This is taking too long, I'm joining in now," a large voice says. The paladins' downward momentum completely stops. Satoshi stands there, holding the blade of the paladin's axe, towering over the whole battlefield.
"I could have stopped that attack with no problems," Iori says, glaring at Satoshi. Satoshi continues to grin, continuing to suspend the paladin in the air.
"Yeah, but I was bored with just watching, so I decided to join in," Satoshi says. Satoshi lets go of the paladin, and the paladin starts falling. Before the paladin reaches the ground, Satoshi quickly punches him. The paladin blocks the attack but is sent flying. The paladin lands on the ground, but the moment he does, Satoshi appears in front of him. Satoshi goes for another punch as the paladin holds up his axe to block. Satoshi grins, "You've done that twice already," Satoshi says. His punch misses to the right, but it was never intended to hit. Satoshi pivoted to land a low kick and not a punch. The kick hits the paladin's knee, completely shattering it. "Add more variation than just the same move, it makes this too simple," he says. He pivots back to the right and lands a jab on the Paladin's stomach. He coughs up blood as he gets sent flying. The paladin rolls to a stop, kicking up dust all around himself. He starts to heal his knee as he gets up.
"This ends here," Dai'chi says. "Blade Demon Style, Third form, Demonic Rush." In an instant, Dai'chi disappeared before reappearing behind the paladin. Both of the paladin's legs get cut off as he falls to the ground. Blood pools around where his legs used to be. Dai'chi swings the blood off his sword to the side. He slowly sheaths it as he glares at the paladin. "This is over, we don't know how good his regeneration is, so make sure you erase him down to an atomic level," Dai'chi says.
"Don't worry," Aevum says. He starts to glow as his cloak waves intensely. "I won't leave a trace," Aevum holds his hands in front of himself as if he were holding a spear perpendicular to the ground. "O Rey imuh muzab dewor. Braekire e fmaeb ksek moabraf ksuiws di ahadoaf," Aevum begins to chant, 16 magic circles appear in the same line as his hands. "Fkopire ksuiws ksire saevahf zoks ksof fmay," He continues. The paladin begins to regenerate his leg, but it is too slow; he starts to crawl away. "O fidduh ksire muzab ul lobire, ksire muzab ul zekab, ksire muzab ul ksire aebks, ksire muzab ul yowskhohw, ksire muzab ul nebp, i dýnami tou chrónou, Vis sanguinis, et vis mortis. Ruhfidire di ahadi, Aowskluyn Fmaeb," Aevum finishes. A spear of eight alternating magic types forms in his hands. He prepares to throw it at the paladin.
"Aebks Moyeb," he quickly chants. Aevum throws the spear at the paladin. A magic circle forms below the paladin. A pillar comes out of the circle and hits the paladin to the side, breaking his ribs. The spear hits the paladin's arm as he is launched away, leaving nothing of that arm behind. The spear creates a massive explosion where it lands. Iori appears above the paladin as he is flying through the air.
"If you are as good as you act like you are, then this attack should be nothing to you," Iori says. She hits him with the hit of her scythe, sending the paladin flying into the ground. A massive crater is left where he lands.
"I was hoping I wouldn't need to use this ability so early in the fight. Load Save File," The paladin says, his body starts to glow as his body reverts to the state it was in at the beginning of the fight. "There goes my one time for today," he says. He gets up off the ground.
"Well, that ability is annoying," Satoshi says. His face grows into a grin as he starts to laugh. "But that just means that we get to beat him up more than we already have," He slowly starts walking towards the paladin, his body swaying as he laughs. The other Crusaders surround the paladin. The paladin grits his teeth, but then, at that moment, the paladin sees him walk out of the base.
"Noah, what the hell are you doing here?" he yells, leaving the crusaders confused. "Him over there in the hoodie. I know him," The crusaders turn towards Jesse, all glaring.
"I may or may not go by a few different names, not like it should be that surprising considering we all go by different names depending on the situation," Jesse says, not looking at the Crusaders. "Plus, it has been longer than 5 minutes of the four of you attacking him, which means he met one of the requirements to join the Crusaders already."
Iori sighs, "Fine, I guess that's true, but it's still up to him on whether he wants to join or die," She says. The four all look at him, hoping he chooses the latter. "Also, how do you and Jesse know each other?"
"I know Jesse because he keeps buying plushies from me in bulk. I came here because everyone he bought got destroyed, and I have a strict policy that you can't buy stuff from me and quickly destroy it." Dai'chi's neck snaps towards Jesse as he intensely stares at him. Jesse continues to look away. "And I might as well join. This battle isn't in my favor in terms of numbers, and I'm not too fond of dying, so I'll surrender. My name is Krytheos," he says. The crusaders all sigh, upset that he chose the boring option.
Dai'chi slowly walks towards Jesse, "So you're the reason those plushies keep showing up everywhere I go. You're dead," Dai'chi says. Jesse waves to Dai'chi as he teleports away. Dai'chi quickly disappears to find him.
"Welcome to the Crusaders, I guess, you are now one of us." The Crusaders all start walking towards the base. Satoshi walks up and punches Krytheos, sending him flying into the base.
"I wasn't letting it end as boring as that," Satoshi says. He walks to the base as Krytheos gets out of the wall.
"Did I make the wrong decision?" Krytheos says.
*End of Chapter*