"WHERE is her Highness!?" Cason blurted out with his deafening voice, his heart was beating loudly and–fast. Where were they? At first it was Duke Deoncan and her Highness, Princess Izel that has gone missing but now—
"Cason! Axis.. h-he is gone!" There was horror as those words left Gab's mouth, he was panting loudly, cold dripping sweat was on his forehead, he wanders his eyes around and with full of frustration both of his hands found its way to his hair as he held it tightly and groaned loudly. "N-No! How can t-this be!? Without t-them how are we going to win!?"
SLAP! A loud and hard slap went across Gab's face, as his eyes slowly widened, his breathing slowly stabled down. Cason who slapped Gab turns his back around in front of the man and sighed. "Do not panic and think Gab, what you were doing earlier will never be the answer to our problems such as like this. Think, Gab. Think."
"Yes, I will. I apologize." Gab came back to his senses as he shook his head and bit his lower lip for he felt guilty that he was in a state of panic when the Imperial Palace was being attacked by the Black Magicians. For fuck's sake he was trained for this, why will he panic now?
"Where are you?" With that being said, Cason flew up with furrowed brows, a heavy heart that was carrying the heavy burden of protecting the kingdom now that the trio had been missing in action ever since the attack happened. He opened up his palm and attacked the black magicians who were torturing the civilians.
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THUD! THUD! Elias sighed as he tries to slam his head against the wall, convincing himself that it was a solution for him to go back to reality and stop himself from killing civilians that are innocent, and yes. He was yet again under the spell of his brother, Callum. His heart breaks every single time his brother uses him as his doll for his selfish plans.
Elias was about to walk out and hide so that he can stop this killing but the moment his feet moved and was about to hide somewhere outside of the palace but a flying dagger went across his face, and as his blue eyes slowly yet oddly turned into pitch black as his hair, he smiles and attacks Kian with remarkable speed but Kian was trained for this, the Knight swerves his body and smirks at Elias.
"Are you their Master?" Kian blurts out from a distance, making Elias who was once again lost with hallucinations that his brother made for him, smirk. He was once again this maniac killer—a doll to be exact that his brother always wanted him to be. "Answer me!" Kian shouted on top of his lungs, pointing his sword in front of the man.
"There will be no more thrill if I were to say who I am, will it not?" With that, Elias quickly attacks Kian, making the Knight feel ticked as he tries to dodge the sudden attack from the man. "Please, run away." Elias yet again got a grasp of his real self for a few seconds and foolishly looked at the Knight who was risking his own life to fight him. "Run away now!"
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"HAHAHAHA! Growing tired, I see." Callum was having so much fun as for he was seeing how Ashleah, Nash, and Axis' stamina left them slowly for they continued to fight him, risking everything that they have. "I might end you all up, in here. Oh! Do you wish to see what's currently happening to your precious Empire as you try to fight?" He clasped his hands together and smirks as his eyes landed on Ashleah who glared at him even more than she was doing earlier.
"You are indeed crazy!" Axis blurts out before opening his palm and releasing a clear fire attack for Callum, making the Master of the Black Magicians chuckle as he opens his palm and creates a shield that made Axis' attack turn into dust. "Shoot, what are we going to do now?" Axis tried to look like he remained calm as he whispered the question to Ashleah and Nash.
"We have no choice to continue on fighting, Axis. It's our only option now." Nash blurted out before holding on his sword tightly and tried to slash Callum with it, as he was fighting Callum, Ashleah quickly took it as an opportunity to use her powers to open up somewhere inside of this unknown room or hole they were in.
Axis was about to do the same when so suddenly—"My child, I do apologize for being late in helping you." That familiar voice made the Trio stop, Nash who stopped got a punch from Callum making him fly across the other side where Ashleah and Axis was. Ashleah had her trembling eyes wander around, Axis gasped loudly meanwhile Callum, who had this confused expression chuckled lightly at them.
"Yes, you are so late." Ashleah whispered while gritting her teeth. "What were you doing to be this later huh!?" She raised her voice for the last sentence, Axis helps Nash to get up for he still was in a state of shock, it has been quite some time since they have had heard the God's voice.
"I still am a God and I do have a lot of things to finish, but here I am. I will help you escape this but the second you leave this place, all of this will be in your hands, I cannot meddle anymore or further than this." He sighs, before opening his mouth to continue his explanation, Callum who still had a weird look at them, tries to attack but soon then stops as he could not move even a muscle, he looked up and was loss for words as he saw the blinding white light on top of them that the Trio never noticed. "A choice must be made, think and use your minds. Who has the most powers within the three of you? And what can you do if you use that power?"
They furrowed their brows, and the moment they caught up to what God was saying, his voice was already gone through thin air. "You get it, don't you?" Axis smiles as he looks back at both of Nash and Ashleah who nodded their heads meaning that they did understood the clue that God gave them. 'I will give this one to you, old man.' Ashleah thought inside her mind before chuckling.
She flies high up above Callum which made he chuckle as he moves his body, was finally released by God the moment his voice disappeared through thin air. "He gave you clues, did he not?" He snickers, Ashleah raised an eyebrow for the man and shook her head pathetically at him. With that, Axis flew the same way she did, Nash was the only one left on the ground. Axis quickly attacks Callum which the man dodges with speed.
Ashleah opened her palm and took a deep breath as a purple with blue smoke came out, she smiled the moment her eyes slowly turned into purple, her hair floating in a scatter kind of way. Callum felt alarmed, he quickly flies high up making Nash who was down below them chuckle, and run to where Callum was standing earlier. With great speed, Ashleah releases her attack down below, making Callum widen his eyes, he was about to go down as Nash slashes the ground where he was standing but Ashleah together with Axis pushes him with their magic.
As the ground opens, they slowly get sucked out and fall from the sky above of the Imperial Palace which looked like a mess. "What did you fucking do?!" Ashleah blurts out as she saw their Knights fighting for their lives. She was livid as her purple eyes turned into dark violet, gritting her teeth, she screamed as they were falling unto the ground, Axis quickly helps Nash and flies away from Ashleah and Callum.
"HEY! Why are we going away?" Nash panicked the moment they set their feet on the ground, seeing the Knights running towards their direction yet their eyes was plastered high up on the sky, looking how livid Ashleah was. "We should help!"
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? No! That's not important anymore! Stop Prescott!" Gab's voice held terror and that exact moment, the side of the Imperial Palace got smashed by a flying body and it was-
"PRESCOTT!"
"He's sacrificing his life to stop that man." An injured Kian suddenly bursts in making Nash and Axis widened their eyes. A... SACRIFICE?