Archris and Caroline arrived at the Vipers hideout, and Caroline was flabbergasted by what happened. With a gaping mouth and wide-opening eyes, she slowly walked and looked around the room that Archris had made as the main office of the Vipers.“Woah! This place is kind of creepy but cool,” the young woman commented while looking closely at some displays in the room. “Was this a museum?"“Not really,” Archris replied. “This used to be an office in an amusement park.”“Amusement park?”“Yeah, the amusement park where hundreds of people died two years ago,” the young man answered. Then he went to his fridge and opened it. “Anything you want to drink? Uhm… Ms… “"Anything is available as long as it is not alcohol,” Caroline said with a sweet smile. “Uhm, yeah… Just call me Caroline. No titles, okay?”That smile made Archris face turn red. He also suddenly stopped moving and was stuck, looking at the young lady in front of him.“You’re a bit weird, Archris,” Caroline commented with a smil
Archris slowly let go of Caroline and he fell on his knees, drenched in sweat and panting. He had burns and bruises in different parts of the body. The explosion caused a huge crater at the beach. Luckily, it was a secluded beach and nobody got hurt except for him. He coughed and shook his head when he saw blood when he spat.“Archris, are you okay?” Caroline kneeled to see his condition. He nodded and smiled faintly but he coughed again, and more blood came out of his mouth. “No, you’re not okay,” Caroline said, then she looked around to see if there was a better place he could pull Archris. But she didn’t see any, so she took out her phone. She was about to make a call to Jake, but there was no signal.Caroline started sobbing while helping Archris to sit down comfortably. “Is there magic that you can use to heal yourself?” she asked.“There is, but I am too tired and damaged to cast it,” Archris said before coughing up blood again. “Then what should we do? I don’t know but I fe
Jake had settled everything with the board of directors and shareholders of their company. He was expecting them to be mad at him for the negative effect he caused the company because of the fight he was involved in last time. However, the board and the shareholders took it as a positive marketing strategy for them.And that was thanks to Sebastian.“Thank you for working on things while I was unconscious. I owe you this time, Sebastian,” Jake said to his so-called stepbrother. “You can have a vacation if you want, and I’ll pay for all the expenses.”Sebastian smirked. “Anywhere?”“Yeah. Anywhere, as long as you won’t do anything illegal,” Jake replied with a snicker. Then he stood up and approached a table where a bottle of whiskey was placed. He poured some into a glass and gave it to Sebastian. “You know, I’ve always wanted to take revenge on you because of what you’ve done to me. But I didn’t think that you would be this useful to me.”Sebastian took the glass of whiskey, but he d
“Damn it, Jake! That was scary!” Sebastian whispered to him as they waited for the investigators to come. “I thought I was done for!”Jake sighed, but he didn’t look at Sebastian. “Well, that was a surprise attack, and we could get killed if I was late to cast the barrier.”“But I wonder why that man did that, like, who was he working with?” Sebastian questioned. “As soon as a person rises to power, everyone around him could be a potential enemy,” Jake said while staring at the stainless steel table in front of them. “Also, we don’t know where Anthony Smith is yet. You know Kranous, right? They told you about him."“Yeah, a loyal servant of Tharanos, the evil ruler you sealed in the world where you lived,” Sebastian replied. “Archris and Karlow told me about him.“If I won’t be able to catch and seal him, then bad things won’t stop happening,” Jake said.Sebastian was about to reply when the door opened and Police Captain Cruz entered the room. Then a tall man in a decorated military
News about what Jake did in front of the city police station broke out like a fire on the internet. It even became a topic of discussion on different shows and in the news. He received negative criticism because of that, and once again, it affected their company.But Jake didn’t bat an eye at those. He continued to create the drugs and ointments that were already bringing a lot of money to them.However, something has changed, and it was Jake himself. And people around him noticed it.“Mr. Drummond, the client wants to move his appointment today to Friday. Is that okay?” Ms. Hanson asked Jake as she entered the room.But instead of answering yes or no, Jake just glared at the woman before sighing loudly.“I’m sorry to irritate you, sir. I’ll just tell the client that it’s not possible anymore,” Ms. Hanson said while looking at the floor.“Didn’t I tell you already? No moving of appointments this week!” Jake shouted. “I am sorry, sir. I just…”“Are you seriously going to justify your
Two days had passed, and Jake continued to observe Caroline. He would talk to her like before, trying to control his temper every time. He also tried to convince her to stop learning magic, but she said it made her feel alive again.It was actually true, as he saw his young sister smile and laugh again like there was no tomorrow. Something that he hadn’t seen since their mother died.“Professor, are you okay?” Archris suddenly asked when Caroline went to the restroom.Jake exhaled deeply as he looked at Archris, then he shook his head lightly. “I am not okay, Archris. I feel like Voragor is really trying to control my body.”“Then let’s just face him and defeat him.”“That’s easier said than done, young man,” Jake replied. “We can’t just release him here, and you know it. If I could just kill him by killing myself, I would gladly die rather than let him control me over time.”Archris pouted his lips and sighed deeply. “But scarier and scarier every day. And I can actually see that you
Jake opened his eyes slowly, but all he could see was nothing but black. It was the darkest darkness he had ever seen or experienced. It was so dark that he couldn’t even feel his limbs and fingers.He asked himself what happened, but he couldn’t find the answer. He suddenly felt sharp pains all over his body, and he started coughing. He felt like he was being choked, as he could feel a very hot hand in his neck.Then he heard a very familiar voice.“This body of yours will be mine, Jake. Then I will take your powers, and I will destroy the remaining worlds."He was sure it was Voragor, but still, he couldn’t see anything.The grasp on his neck was getting tighter and tighter. And he felt like losing consciousness again. But he knew that once he completely closed his eyes, it was over. So he put his hand in front of him, and he was able to grab the arm of the one choking him.“No! You’ll not be able to do that! I won’t allow it! Never!” Jake screamed as he stood up and pushed down the
They continued walking inside the ruined garden and saw more skeletons of knights and warriors who fought there. And it could be seen in the burned garden that a very huge fight happened there.Jake asked Lyca to scout the place for anyone alive since she has the strongest sense of smell and senses. Karlow was tasked with guarding them from behind.They didn’t encounter anything strange until they reached a huge tree. It was a tree as tall as a five-story building and was once renowned as the tree of peace and life, as it used to give anything that a righteous leader could ask for his people.But it was already burned, and not a single leaf was there. And the ones that made them more shocked were the skeletons with armor hanging from their branches. There were more than ten of them, and those were tied tightly to the tree’s branches.“Silver armor and eagle crests are on their chests. They were the gatekeepers,” Karlow said as he looked up.“Gatekeepers? The guards of the caste and th