QT: Against My Will

429 7.53 – The Ordeal Part 6 – War Of The Wickeds

The people watching the ordeal had to replay the scene and put it on slow mode to get an idea of what happened. They still couldn’t find out why Ezikiel fainted, but they had a chance to see the happenings on Silvia’s side, “...”

The people operating the camera perspectives learned from their past mistakes – always show the situation on Silvia LeClere’s side, even when she was standing on the spot, doing nothing outside of the main battlefield area. Getting a view of the team’s strategist, it would be as if they switched to a whole different world and atmosphere. Her actions looked unbelievably silly, yet strangely reasonable at the same time.

To Elera, it looked like the female lead trying too hard to be ‘quirky’ and ‘clumsy’. Even though Silvia made some huge mistakes that would leave an average person to certain death – like attacking Moving Ivy head-on without prior training – the story promptly showed it was the best possible thing that could have happened, just because... she was the female lead.

Ziek, on the other hand, got his soul pushed out of the battlefield, the effect of his powers decreasing (thanks to that, Liam could save himself out of the Moving Ivy). He knew that his wife’s brain lost a few screws and she was trying to find them – her actions showed a mind that was struggling – it was getting more and more twisted.

|”Hubby, did the lack of opponents caused a dent in your sharp mind? How could you drop your guard during a battlefield?”|

|It’s not fun to know everything.|

|”Did losing become more fun than winning to you?”|

|Wife, could you chill out your nosiness? This husband of yours is not used to be a centre of attention.|

Not being used to something didn’t mean he hated it. In this case, it was quite the opposite...

.....

|”Wow. Wow. Wow. Where have you been hiding this cute shy blush of yours this whole time?”|

|I never hid it. You just couldn’t see it.|

|”Oh right... I still can’t see it, but I can feel it. Now, I understand why would some actors kiss during an action scene. I just felt like doing the same.”|

|I don’t mind listening to your little flirty tounge, but it’s about time you shut off your powers if you don’t want to drop dead.|

Bing Shi zipped her mouth.

Who wouldn’t be pleased by being a loved one’s centre of the world? Ziek didn’t place her on the tree to protect her. She asked for a place with the best view possible. One second, she would be behaving as if she was taking a rest and having fun. Then the next second, she would be all serious, taking some action against whatever... like his dulled senses during a fight.

... so... about what happened...

Silvia prayed for a few seconds before breaking small branches of the tree she was sitting on. Maybe she was bored? After all, she didn’t have much healing to do – that’s what most thought until she began to throw the sticks at the betas below her.

Before Bertha could realize Silvia’s intention, Silvia already jumped off the tree. Widening her eyes in bewilderment, she went to catch Silvia in reflex together with the other betas that stayed in the back (so as not to be a burden for the deltas and alphas).

Silvia dived straight onto the crowd below, and mind them, the audience was watching it in slow mode. Imagine the fast reaction the betas had to have: they outstretched their hands and caught her with combined strength, cushioning her fall, they then helped her to stand up.

Parting their way for her to cross through, they showed a particular type of teamwork and precise timing, giving her a queen treatment – pop in some epic music, and it would look like a choreographed dance.

Silvia exchanged her cane with an axe, took advantage of the female alpha’s perfect defence, and ‘marched’ in Moving Ivy’s direction to go for an offensive attack. She used the old-fashioned way of a woodchopper...? An omega that could barely carry the weight of an axe went for a frontal attack? The world had to be ending!

Moving Ivy had high magical resistance, yes; she didn’t touch it; yes, but did she realise how dangerous it would be if the female alpha didn’t cut the numerous vines and tentacles coming at her in time?! She was either too trusting, too reckless or too... genius?!

Some even began to think Silvia was holding back her powers so she could end up in the same classroom as Ezikiel or because she wanted to make her whole team shine. The way she slashed her axe and used her cane as a staff, it looked like she knew how to use them proficiently. She would halt midway through her actions and give herself a self-freeze, dropping things and tripping over nothing. If it wasn’t intentional so others could save her, then what else it could be? Nobody would have thought it was because of her struggles with what could be described as phantom pain.

Because Elera was looking at the ordeal from a reader’s perspective, Silvia LeClére appeared to be the type of female lead that was portrayed to have a weakness, which wasn’t truly a weakness. Clumsiness. But not your average clumsiness. She would only be clumsy when the plot demanded her to appear more ‘flawed’ yet endearing – a Mary Sue in short.

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Bing Shi dropped her axe and scattered as fast as she appeared. Not knowing when her body would fail her again, she only took action when she was sure someone else would be here to watch her back (the female alpha seemed to be a safe bet). She dispersed her barrier at the same time, not expecting she would cause Ezikiel to stop functioning completely, or more like her husband allowing it to happen.

The female alpha also began to feel tired. She placed Silvia that tripped midway through her escape on her shoulders, “&$#$%.” Though she was a bit annoyed, nobody questioned Silvia’s actions.

The team wouldn’t mind if Silvia stayed out of the battlefield the whole time and just gave out her orders, but this was an ordeal. She had to gain points too if she wanted to rank high.

Following the female alpha’s lead, the team quickly carried Liam out, running out of the EMP area as fast as possible. Ezikiel woke up too, and when they asked what happened, he just shrugged his shoulders and said that he got contaminated by Silvia’s clumsiness, which made everyone distance themselves from their team leader teasingly.

Ziek stood before the female alpha carrying his wife, offering his back for a piggyback, “Hop on.”

“Okay,” Bing Shi said while slipping back onto her husband’s back, “I had fun.”

Ziek perked his ears, she sounded cheerful as if she really enjoyed it, “Me too,” looking past her gas mask, he saw her sad expression. A delicate and fragile team leader was definitely not what she wanted to portray, but he was sure that except for a few individuals, nobody would look at Silvia LeClére the same again.

Now everyone was certain that Ezikiel’s ability lay in great physical strength. Despite his thin silhouette, he could keep with the alpha’s speed.

At the front, Bing Shi raised her cane to grab her team’s attention, “Everyone is going to reach point A on time, mark my words!”

The team looked up at the timer in the sky – there was one hour left. If they ran at top speed, only the strongest would be able to reach point A on time. This was a dog-eat-dog world too, where only the strongest survived, right? With additional baggage on their back, their chances of reaching point A would drop even lower. She was not going to order them to carry their weakest members, would she?

Ziek slowed down at his steps with silent laughter as Bing Shi began to poke the last team members with her sharp cane, starting their blatant bullying in the broad daylight.

“Ouch!” the last in the line cried out.

Bing Shi used the tactic which worked on her the most, force, “RUN, YOU SLOWPOKE!” Poke! Poke!

“Ahhh!” Shouts and screams reverberated within the forest.

Just because it was a dog-eat-dog world, it didn’t mean the weak should remain forever as weak, right? Bing Shi poked Bertha, “STILL TOO SLOW, HURRY!” Poke! Poke!