Chapter 171: Female General

"Do you really think that I will give it to you? After doing so much to obtain it?" Taking a look at the girl flying just right behind me, I almost fell down to the ground due to the shock making it a bit harder to control my repulsion. 

"I don't care what you did for it, but you will return it to me now." This time, there was no fake bravado behind the girl's words. Just an ultimate dedication and determination. Without any further ado, the girl rushed forward.

Clang!

Her sword bounced away when stumbling into the outer barrier or mine. As much as I treated this girl in particular as some kind of a naive goofball, seeing how cracks appeared on one of the three barriers I had erected around myself, I had no other choice but to acknowledge her strength. 

After all, even the man with the black wings from before was incapable of shattering my shield as quickly!

Poof.

As if some kind of the second wave of invisible attack struck the shield right after the physical part of the attack, the barrier shattered before the girl even managed to push for another attack. 

"Huh?" More surprised rather than scared by the display of the girl's strength, I instantly regained control over my repulsion, slamming myself through the mass of air away from the girl. Given how she had wings, there was no way for me to defeat her in aerial combat. With my barriers already proven to be only slightly effective, I wasn't naive enough to believe I could challenge the girl in her natural state when for me, flying was still just a quirk!

"GIVE IT BACK!" Shouting from the bottom of her lungs, the girl's face lost all signs of sanity, replaced with sheer wrath. Flapping her majestic wings once, the girl lunged downwards after me, wrapping her entire body with her wings as if to make it more aerodynamic. 

"No way." I wasn't a hero nor was I someone who would bother with prolonged yet completely unnecessary fights. That's why, instead of standing up to this girl, I simply continued to retreat, pulling out yet another barrier stone of mine. 

After all, I wasn't all that safe with just two barriers separating me from harm's way. Given how this girl was already capable of shattering a single barrier with a single hit of hers, I dared not to risk being unprepared if someone even stronger than her were to appear!

Slam.

There was no grace to my landing. With my body crashing right into the arms of metal-clad human soldiers, my freshly erected barrier shattered when countless pricks of their armours and weapons instantly pushed into the field of the barrier. 

Thankfully, my landing was still rather comfortable when compared to what that damned winged lass did. 

Spreading her wings in the very last moment, she allowed the shockwave of the mass of air being suddenly pressed at the men below to secure her landing. By the time her feet touched the ground, no man was standing on his feet anywhere around her.

"So you took the fight to the ground? Smart choice, I have to say." Given how I refused to fight her, the rage in the girl's voice somehow subsided. While the determination if not desperation in her eyes was still present, she was at least calm enough to continue our little talk.

Even if it would happen in the midsts of fighting.

"To the ground?" Hearing the girl's words I realised that her mind was too heated to realise the actual reason for my descent. Shaking my head with pity, I spread out my arms as if to point at everything and everyone that surrounded the girl. "No, I took a fight to where my allies are."

The girl's initial descent managed to clear the landing area for her from all the hostile elements. But this shockwave was only capable of pushing them off their feet. Rather than being a battle technique capable of seriously hurting someone, it was nothing more than clever use of the law of physics, the law of physics that this girl wasn't necessarily even aware of. 

But be it as it may, the moment of peace that this trick of her bought, was now over. With men standing to their feet and instantly rushing towards the danger, I no longer had to bother with the winged female. Before she could even execute a single attack more, a flurry of enraged human soldiers surrounded her, instantly forcing her back a few steps.

"I would run if I were in your shoes. No matter how powerful you are, you cannot win against the swarm of enemies like that." Shaking my shoulders, I giggled. "And it won't end anytime soon, no matter how many you will kill." Gracing the tirelessly fighting girl with a charming smile, I added. "After all, you are in the very middle of the entire human army!"

Instead of scoffing at my words, the girl slashed to the side, using her attack to redirect one of the swords aiming for her wings, before violently swapping this additional bodily element of hers, pushing two other enemies.

"Human army? We are the true humans!" Screaming with desperation, the girl turned around her own axis, using the drag of the air to once again knock the combatants nearest to her away, before flapping them once and rising to the air. There, most of the human weapons could no longer reach her, whilst the archers of the human army were just too busy with the entire mass of the mutants at the front to spare any attention to this random enemy crazy enough to charge right into the middle of their ranks.

"Seriously, I don't really care." Shouting to the girl before putting a wide smile on my face, I explained for some strange reason. "I'm not a human of this world, so it doesn't matter to me at all." 

Turning my back to the girl, I forced my way through the ranks. Even though the girl seemed to give up chasing after me for now, as soon as I would enter the flying mode once again, she was bound to come at me once again. What was even more dangerous, this little scuffle of her was bound to catch the attention of her own commander, making it quite a risk to ascend to the skies right now, as I couldn't tell whether a rescue party was coming for the girl or not. 

And if she was capable of destroying Sander's barrier stone with just a single hit, I dared not face an entire unit compromised of people as strong if not stronger than her!

At first, the lack of the girl's voice made me feel strange, but given how I managed to return to the prince's side relatively soon, the prospect of fulfilling the quest for this world made me too agitated to care about such little things. 

In the end, after what Ayda made me do to that female general of her world, made it quite hard for me to even talk normally with the girls. While I held this strange, innate repulsion buried deep within my heart, there was no denying that whenever I spoke with a female of any sort, the unpleasant memories of what cannot be called any other way than rape resurfaced in my mind, making me disgusted in my very own self. 

"I knew it was necessary but still…" For Ayda, it was most likely just the matter of allowing another pussy to coat my cock. I could tell even without asking that she didn't care about that tyrant female at all, unbothered even if she were to be gang-raped by a bunch of orc-like monsters from a random world. But for me,  born and educated in a society that actually put a huge emphasis on how devastating such an act is, I felt as if a huge part of my soul was tainted, resulting in the problem that started to recently plague me.

Thankfully, as I walked towards the prince, I no longer had the spare processing power in my mind to think about moral problems like that. Focusing my attention on the man in front, I could see how his eyes squinted when he saw me emerge from between his soldiers.

"I finished the task. I hope you are satisfied with the effects." Dressing a carefree smile on my lips, I reported to the prince. 

"I understand. That is, there is still one thing that confuses me." Staring daggers down at my face, the prince's face tensed up when he realised something. "Actually, two questions. First, if you managed to devastate so many of the enemies, just what did you do to get one of their generals to chase after you so much? To even go as far as rushing into the middle of my armies…" 

Shaking his head, the prince proved that what that winged girl did, was in fact something extraordinary and not to be expected. But there was actually something even more important in what he said.

'So that lass was some kind of general? Seriously?' As hard as it was for me to stomach the fact that the girl I just fought and talked with casually was actually some kind of big-shot figure of the other side. 

"As for the second question, why did you even come back? Didn't I give you the core in advance?" From how dead-serious and stern the voice of the price was, I could tell that this was the question he was originally willing to ask.

"It's pretty simple, actually." There was no point for me to let the atmosphere thicken beyond the point it already was. Spreading my arms in a commonly understood gesture, I explained.  "I wanted to ask if you maybe know where this sacred core originally belongs."