Road to Valhalla

Chapter 41: The Savior

The garden grew darker and darker under that glass roof and cloudy night. Still, it was strangely enchanting as if something was calling me to sleep. And I might just have caved in and slipped into its embraces if it wasn't for this unexpected intruder.

I felt like I had lost my consciousness but in fact I wasn't half gone yet. I noticed Albus's face twisting into the most terrifying expressions.

"What an unpleasant way to enter. Who might you be, sir? A friend of that dying guest over there perhaps?"

"Yeah but for someone as half assed as you to have done the number on him, I'm rather disappointed in this friend of mine", he said with utter disgust and a familiar voice that brought nothing but relief to me.

"Oh? Aren't you one to be forming opinions so quickly even before we have met in battle?"

He chortled, though I couldn't see his face.

"I barely need to do that. That is one of the cursed weapons of your master, I presume. The only problem with these trinkets though, is that they