About half an hour before the appearance of the skeleton soldiers.“Did we really defeat Kranous?” Butler asked while they were walking fast down a spiral of concrete stairs. “I won’t say defeat; that one was a hell of a monster,” Falco replied. “But I am pretty sure that we hurt him so badly. Look aroundus;, hisdomain hasn vanished already.”“But the questions are, where are we heading, and is that young man on your back still alive?” Hansel asked while keeping his eyes behind them, making sure that nobody was following them. “He just lost consciousness,” Falco replied right away. “He used so much magic power that it was almost drained.”“Well, that’s good,” Hansel answered back.“But what bothers me now is that the strong aura of a thousand mages from the bottom of this place just vanished, that was…” Butler commented. “That was impossible,” Falco interrupted. “Also, I felt two to three more strong presences down there, but then they also vanished in an instant. And not only did
Archris tried to free himself from the giant serpent that was coiling around him. But he couldn’t do anything. He tried to cast a spell, but nothing happened. And that was the time he realized that the snake was more of a sealing magic that prevented his magic aura from coming out.He looked around again. He knew that what he was seeing was just a mere illusion and that he needed to get out of there as fast as he could.“My illusions aren’t just illusions. They are made of your experiences and fears, and they make sure that the victim gets the best of it! ”He moved his head from left to right. His breathing was fast as he looked for the source of the voice he heard, but he didn’t see anything. Nobody was there.“Mortals can be easily swayed by their emotions and memories, and that leads them to their death. And my illusions control emotions. Now, I hope you enjoy the show!”“Damn you! Stop hiding! Show yourself and fight me!”“I am working on it with the knights as well, so I don’t h
Jake gathered the seven noble knights, Lyca, Caroline, Archris, and Eleazar, inside the mansion. The walls were destroyed, but still, that would be the best place for them to have a meeting. Lyca then asked Amarha and Archana to send a telepathy message to everyone saying that they could relax for a while, but they couldn’t leave their posts.While they were on their way to the mansion, their attention was caught by two military helicopters flying over the place. Jake used his enhanced vision to see who was in the chopper, and he saw armed snipers and a machine gun. He did not know what they were planning, but he could sense that they were not completely allies.As soon as they took shelter in the ruined mansion, Jake asked Lyca and Caroline about what happened. The two ladies answered right away, telling him about the skeleton soldiers who suddenly appeared and attacked them and how the three noble knights helped them fight those monsters.They also informed Jake about Mabelle and t
“Why are you here? Why didn’t you go to the evacuation area?" Jake asked Sebastian as he poured some whiskey into a glass. He then put the bottle of liquor on the center table, where Caroline put glasses for everyone there.Sebastian sighed as he looked at Jake. “I thought it'd be best to stay here. I mean, I have to protect this place. At least.” He said that, then he took one of the glasses and poured himself some whiskey.“But the situation is now beyond dangerous, Sebastian. Even if you stay here and guard this building, you won’t survive the power of the enemies,” Jake responded.“Even so,” his stepbrother said. “I can’t just leave this place. This is the only thing I have, Jake, and you know that.”Jake didn’t respond to that. He understood Sebastian very well. They actually shared the same sentiment about the company. But for him, life is more important than anything else. He knew it as someone who had died twice already.“Hey, what are you guys drinking? Some alcohol?" Falco a
Kranous laughed boisterously as he slowly stood up from the ground. Then he leaned closer to Jake, moving his head from side to side and wearing an ominous evil smile. Jake tried to move but he could not. He couldn’t even blink his eyes, and he was having a hard time breathing because something he couldn’t see was squeezing his whole body.“My… my… my…” Kranous said mockingly while walking around Jake’s petrified body. The wicked smile was still on his face. “Did you really think you could defeat me that easily? We have fought many times already, Jake. You should’ve known better.”“What the hell did you do?!” Jake shouted. Kranous stopped in front of him and smirked. “The likes of you are always blinded by hatred. Just like the three stupid jerks there,” he said then he glanced at Archris and the two knights. “When they saw me, they charged right away without checking the surroundings.”The villain then snapped his fingers, and what appeared around them made Jake’s and the rest’s ey
Jake didn’t waste any time. He quickly withdrew his golden spear from the spider and faced Kranous whose face was in shock for what happened. Jake dashed towards the villain, but the dark entity vanished in front of him before he could stab it with his spear.“You always shock me, Jake,” Kranous said as he emerged behind Jake. “I guess I have to stop playing now and be serious in killing you.” His armor started to fall to the ground, leaving his naked body exposed. Jake jumped away from him, anticipating any attack any time. He suddenly felt a heavy pressure in the atmosphere and he knew that something scary was about to happen.The villain’s skin started to shed, and each time it happened, the skin turned into ashes like it was burned by something. The monster’s brows knitted, as he gritted his teeth and clenched his fists. He looked like he was in agony. But Jake didn’t have time to watch it transform into something else. So, he dashed towards Kranous and thrusted his spear toward
The dark aura that was lingering in the place slowly disappeared. The skeleton soldiers went back to the ground like they were sucked by something from below. Their screams and roars were heard, until it became so quiet. “Did we really defeat him?” Archris asked Jake before falling on his knees. His magic energy had depleted already to the point that healing magic couldn’t do anything anymore. There were black marks below his eyes, and his lips were already chapped. Jake rushed to help his former student. He quickly cast a healing spell. It helped in healing the physical damage that Arcrhris received from the fight but that did not bring back his lost magic power. “Did we really finish him?” Archris asked again while Jake was helping him to sit on the ground. “Is it finished?”Jake nodded his head. “It’s done. The three servants of Tharanos are now gone. And all of that was thanks to you guys.” He answered before looking at Archris then to the knights who were walking towards them.
The news about what was happening in the city reached the office of the President, then through news, and social media, the whole world started to be aware of what was happening there. The leaders of different countries called for a meeting, and they questioned everyone from the country about the situation. They blamed the President of the country where Jake was in for hiding the truth about these people who possessed special magic powers. But little did they know that there were also people who can use magic in their countries. And those people started to move to the city where the fight was happening. It’s not that they knew what was going on, but they rather felt that they were needed in that place. Jake gave assignments to everyone. He divided the people they have into six, but he didn’t ask them to fight the evil gods head on. He asked them to just observe the area and report what was going on in each place where the evil gods were located. “Have you reached Lyca?” Archris
Karlow quickly dashed to Damascus and he carried him on his back. He knew that he wouldn’t be able to match that form of Valaree, and that retreating would be the best option for them to save their lives. He wanted to fight but he didn’t want to waste the second life he had now. So, he couldn’t be reckless. But he hadn’t gone far away yet, when Valaree jumped in front of him.“Don’t look at his eyes!” Damascus said faintly. Karlow quickly looked away from Valaree and he started to run to the other side. “You can try looking at his chest. Just avoid looking at his face, or else you’ll be tempted to look at those eyes.” Damascus said again.“Damn it! How can I fight like that?” Karlow exclaimed.“Just put me down,” Damascus said. “I will just slow you down. I am done for. So, just go and fight without thinking about me.”Karlow snickered. “As if a noble knight like me can do that to a comrade who saved my life.”“Ah! Damn it! Let me go!” Damascus shouted.Karlow was about to answer b
Damascus immediately ran towards Jake and hugged his friend tightly. Then he sat on the ground while catching his breath. “You could’ve killed me with that woman,” he said while looking at the ground. “You even saved me from death.”“So the healing spell that I cast down there healed you?” Jake asked. “But you were dead. You were dead even before we got there.”“That’s what I knew as well. But I guess, you have awakened something that wasn’t awakened even by the strongest mages in history. Or maybe even the Aetherlock,” Damascus replied.Jake looked at his friend. He did not say anything, but he thought about what Damascus said. He knew he didn’t have the magic to bring dead people to life. He didn’t even try using the reanimation magic even before. So, there must be a possibility that what Damascus said was true. “Anyway, we don’t have much time to think about it right now,” Damascus suddenly said while slowly standing up.Jake nodded and his brows knitted when he saw the bodies of
“Damascus?!” Thalara shouted after coughing up blood. “How come you’re still alive?! Damn you!”Damascus snickered while looking up at her. “Have you forgotten? I was once called ‘The Immortal Damascus.’ And once you have an Archmagus Maximus friend, you’re unlikely to die easily. Right, Jake?”“You son of a gun, I thought you hit the bucket already,” Jake said with a faint smile on his face. Tharala cast a spell and the sword that was pierced in her slowly moved and was pulled out. The sword fell but Damascus caught it. She then cast a healing spell but Jake dispelled it, causing her wound to bleed more.“Does it hurt?” Jake asked as he slowly floated around Thalara. “How does it feel to be stabbed in the back by someone you know?”Thalara did not respond. She just gritted her teeth while pressing the wound to at least lessen the bleeding. “You think that’s painful?” he asked again. “But that was nothing compared to the pain that you caused me.”Thalara then smiled and looked at Ja
The Vipers and the Wolves started to attack. They used all the magic powers they had to suppress the evil gods and Tharanos. Archris quickly ran towards Jake and he pulled him away from the chaos. “Bring him inside Caroline’s barrier,” Lyca said. “We’ll fight with our comrades here. We have to be in the front line. You know our mages wouldn’t last long and that there will be bloodbath in just a matter of minutes. So, move fast. Okay?”Archris nodded his head. Then without a word, he teleported together with Jake near the evacuation area. Caroline then touched the barrier and let them in. “Oh, no,” Caroline exclaimed. Alica beside her was crying and the people started to crowd around them trying to see what happened to Jake.“Come on, Caroline. Don’t cry,” Jake said. He was trying to hide the pain, but his face couldn’t. Then his body started trembling. “Caroline, we don’t have much time,” Archris said. “Heal Professor as fast as you can. We have to go back to the battlefield.”“B-
Thalara’s intelligence was hard to match. She was the queen, the leader of the forest priestesses, and once, hailed the greatest forest priestess ever lived. She had led the elite faction, and protected them from extinction even before Jake arrived in Eldramoria. She had won many battles already, and was a feared tactician during the war of Eldramora against Tharanos.And Jake just forgot that. And that mistake put him in a terrible situation.He was still dizzy from the punch he took from Tharanos. He could feel his body, but couldn’t move. He wanted to crawl away, as he knew what was coming next. And heard an unsheathing sword. And he yelped when he felt something was stabbed in his back. It was so painful but he couldn’t even scream. “Jake!” “Aetherlock… I am sorry…”“No! You aren’t dying yet!”The ring on his finger illuminated a bright light, causing blindness to those around him. It was so bright that even the people in the evacuation area had to cover their eyes.Jake felt a
Jake looked at the five evil gods behind Tharanos. He remembered all of them, and the struggles he had against them flashed in his memories. He might have defeated Voragor and Dudgara, but he knew that fighting the remaining five together, and Tharanos would be a suicide. From the left of Tharanos, he saw the evil god of Pride. A woman in a red leather suit that was not zipped properly on the chest part because of the chest's massive size. Her name was Samarah. Next is the evil god of envy, a man in deep blue armor. He had blue eyes and long hair. He was called Ingo. Beside him is a man without a shirt, the evil god of lust. He was just wearing pants and leather boots. And his physic was so nice like he was a perfectly carved sculpture. He also had a blindfold. He was known as ValareeThen almost beside Tharanos, is a bald man with a red beard. He was wearing armor made of gold and a cape laced with shining gemstones. He is the evil god of greed, Mammonar. And the last one, was a sma
Tharanos put for marks around the evacuation area. Then he cast a spell. A black translucent barrier appeared and covered the evacuation area. The normal people didn’t see it, but Caroline did. And she suddenly felt fear when she saw it covered the place.She looked at her brother. Jake was still on the ground bound by binding magic. She tried to call him, but his eyes were closed and not responding.The evacuation center went into panic when they saw what happened. They still couldn’t fully understand what was happening, but they knew that they were in grave danger. They started shouting at the police and military, asking for assurance that they would be safe. Others were asking when the rescue would be coming, and some were forcing themselves out of the place.It was chaos, and the officers and authorities were having a hard time controlling the crowd. And in the middle of that, some fights broke out. A woman and a middle-aged man then approached Caroline. The woman pushed her fro
Tharanos slowly descended from above, his eyes locked at Jake and Thalara followed him with a proud face. The tyrant god-like creature that once terrorized Eldramoria softly landed on the ground, and even the people inside the barrier felt the strong and dreadful presence from that man and they started squirm and ran behind the officers and Caroline. But Jake did not waver. He just stood in the spot where he appeared while looking at the man who was just casually walking towards him. The dark aura emanating out of Tharanos did not affect him.He then looked around and he could not help but sigh when he saw the city was lit by the fire created by the evil gods walking towards where they were. The buildings and houses were destroyed. The whole city was already in ruins. “You look worried,” Tharanos said. His steps were accompanied by black lightning and smoke. “Are you worried about the city?”Tharanos raised his hands and the buildings behind him all fell down. Jake looked at the dir
Jake sat beside Damascus’ not moving body. His head and shoulders were down, and he kept on sighing. There were no tears coming out, but the fury in his heart kept on growing. And it was greater than the sadness that he was feeling at the moment. He touched Damascus’ shoulder, hoping that he would still feel a bit of life from his former friend. But there was nothing. The body in front of him was lifeless. He stood up and without saying anything or looking at Lyca, he headed to the stairs leading down. His face was dark, and his eyes were glaring. There was also small lighting surrounding his body and fists. And the most notable of all was that the Aetherlock was shining brightly.Lyca and the two knights could feel Jake’s fury, and that stopped them from saying anything. They just followed the Archmage until they reached the final floor of that dungeon. It was a long pathway and on the sides were also cages filled with ominous creatures in Eldramoria. However, the floor contained