Dudgara chuckled as he stretched his arms on his sides as well as his neck. Then the monster in human form locked his gaze on Jake. He looked at him slowly from head to toe, and once again laughed. “I don’t know how to put my anger into action or words,” he said. His eyes were still locked on Jake. “I can’t comprehend how long it has been since I breathed fresh air. And that’s because of you!”Jake exhaled and stared at the man. “Who summoned you? Who broke the seal?! Was it Thalara?”The evil god smirked. “Too many questions!” he angrily replied. “I don’t care who broke that seal! What is important now is that I am here, together with my brothers!” He stopped, frowned and shook his head. “But you are here again!” “Are you that afraid of me?” Jake mocked the man. “Well, I can’t blame you. After what I did to you, I don’t expect you to like me.” “How dare you?!” Dudgara exclaimed in anger. “But this time, I will make sure that I will have the final laugh! I won’t let you go away!”J
Dudgara guffawed as he looked at Bruce who was on the floor screaming, and holding his wounded and injured leg. Then he slowly turned to Jake and smiled. The blue flames around him started to disappear as well. “The time you sealed me was just pure luck, Jake,” the evil god of sloth said, grinning at Jake. “Now, you’ll have a taste of…”But before Dudgara was able to finish what he was about to say, black liquid dripped from his mouth and black marks for his veins appeared all over his body, and they turned his skin darker and darker. He looked at his chest and there, he saw Jake holding the golden spear with Voragor’s aura which was pierced in his chest and penetrated to his back. Behind Jake was Bruce, standing and unharmed. And behind him was Hansel, and his whole body was engulfed by the blue flame.“H-How did you…”“Simple. I used illusions,” Jake said while smiling.“Illusions?”“Ah! I learned this from one of the servants of Tharanos. He could create illusions that looked rea
“Lyca! Lyca! Wake up!” Lyca slowly opened her eyes. She could still hear the voice calling her echoing, but her vision was blurred. She took a deep breath, but that made her cough after sniffing the metallic scent of blood. She felt a dull pain in her shoulders. She tried to pull her arms, only to hear the clanking of chains above her. She then realized that her hands were chained on a concrete ceiling and her feet on the ground. She looked around but all she saw was concrete walls and a door made out of bamboo. The bamboo looked fresh and that was an indication that it was newly built. “What the hell happened?” she asked herself as she kept on looking around. Until she remembered what happened before losing consciousness and was brought in there. She remembered finding Thalara and a man she was not familiar with. The man was tall but she didn’t see his face. She remembered getting into a physical fight with Thalara and some skeleton soldiers with the knights with her. Then they
Jake and the others started to roam around the place and they saw what Lyca had smelled moments ago— different creatures from Eldramoria. Not just creatures, sinister ones, with scary features and traits. And even Jake was shocked to see those there.“What the hell is Thalara thinking?” he asked while they walked around. “Why is she summoning these creatures? And she even unsealed weak mages from a long time ago.”“Well, your ex-wife is really unpredictable,” Bruce commented. “That’s one of her traits and I remember you telling that when we were at war in Eldramoria.”Jake did not answer. He continued to walk and as he remembered the time that Bruce mentioned. It was the time they were camping before an attack, and he remembered sitting with Thalara in front of a bonfire, when he said that in front of every warrior there. He knew that Thalara had gotten evil already. But also, Thalara was the only one, maybe the second one to make him feel alive and special. And he still couldn’t com
“If there’s something I will not forget about you, that is you don’t really consider anyone as your friend,” Damascus said. His body and leg armor was completed and the helmet was starting to form from his neck upwards. “Are you reminiscing right now?” Jake asked while looking back at his old friend. “It doesn’t suit you.”Damascus chuckled. “I don’t know. But I just want to tell you. One of your weaknesses. Yes, you’re strong. But if you tend to do things on your own, there will be a bigger possibility that you lose.”Jake didn’t answer. He just gritted his teeth as he looked at Damascus. He could not deny what his friend told him. He would rather do things on his own. Even with Thalara and Damascus on his side before, he would still choose to do what he decided to do on his own.“You have comrades,” Damascus said. “If you’ll not trust people again, then I won’t blame you. But Jake. Not everyone is like us. Remember that.”Damascus then screamed as the helmet was completed. Huge ho
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
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
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