Kyle yawned. Once again, he ended up not sleeping even a little bit. He scratched his right arm, then stretched. Despite not sleeping at all, he felt somewhat refreshed still.
“Alright, let’s not waste time!” Igna said as they mounted their horses. Apparently, Irena had arrived sometime in the dead of night, and she was waiting by the gate.
“Where is Aoris?” Kyle asked her as they set off.
“She has chosen to stay and aid the elves. The Orchard is badly damaged, and my powers are useless to them.” The Priestess admitted. “I will ride ahead, if you don’t mind.” She suggested. Kyle shook his head, and she rode off into the distance.
“What’s with her?” Caille asked, raising an eyebrow. “She used to be a hell of a lot more annoying.”
Kyle chuckled. “Well, a lot happened.” Remembering her disastrous fight against an imp, he couldn’t help but feel l
The chirping of the birds woke him from his deep slumber. He didn’t move for a while and listened to their beautiful chirping for a while. Then, he yawned, and stretched his arms and legs as he rolled on his back, then pushed himself up and opened his eyes.“Good morning,” Caille’s voice sounded from his left.“Good morning,” He responded with a sleepy voice, then paused, blinked a few times, and then realised just what was going on. “Wait, what?” he muttered as he flinched and looked to the source of the voice.Caille was sitting on a large rock. Her oversized hat was placed next to her, and she was busy braiding her very long, green hair. “What’s wrong? You look like you’ve seen a ghost.” She said as if everything was perfectly normal.“Wait, wait.” Kyle shook his head. “When did you log in? I thought we were supposed to meet at nine o’clock!” He opened
The eerie silence sent a shiver down Kyle’s spine. He could hear his own heartbeat so loudly that he almost thought everyone could hear it.The long hallway they had stepped into seemed endless. They had been walking for a good five minutes without ever seeing a single other door, or hallway. It was almost as if they were walking around in circles, except the hallway was one long, straight line.“I don’t like this.” He finally hissed, unable to bear this silence anymore. He had thought he would be the one who’d have it easy, especially after having visited the mind blowing realm of the Celestial Plane, but for some reason, the dense, almost tangible darkness surrounding them affected him rather badly.There was a lump in his chest that made breathing awfully difficult. He shot a glance over his shoulders. He couldn’t see the entrance anymore, they had simply walked too far inside. He gulped.“We must be missing so
A drop of blood ran down Irena’s chin. “Huh?” She muttered, then looked down. Her eyes widened as she noticed the blade sticking out of her chest. “Oh.” She muttered as if it was completely normal.Kyle felt his blood freeze. A pain struck his chest, causing him to stagger, and stumble backwards. His legs gave out as he collapsed on the ground.A dark shape formed behind Irena. Then, it pulled the blade out of her back, letting her body fall to the ground. Seconds before she hit the ground, Irena vanished through a flaming rift.The pain in Kyle’s chest immediately began to subside.“Slug!” Caille’s voice sounded.Kyle pressed his hand against his chest as the pain slowly subsided. He forced himself to look up, to not his mind drift away with the pain.A slug, the size of a horse, appeared out of nowhere, and fell on the being that appeared seemingly out of nowhere, crushing it under its
“And now we try and get rid of these!” Caille hissed as soon as her cosmos skinned summoned being attacked the demon.Kyle nodded, but before they could even turn to try and get rid of the patch of thorny briars, the sudden appearance of a health bar at the bottom of their vision stopped them both in their tracks.‘Droigheann, Demon of the Nightbloom’ Kyle gulped. “We need to hurry,” he hissed as he looked over his shoulder, to see how the battle begun.The Demon of the Nightbloom took his blade in hand just as the being summoned into the material plane by Caille reached him. He struck her with his blade, sending her flying across the room like she had no weight at all. A black liquid splattered on the ground.Caille clicked her tongue. “She’s not strong enough – she doesn’t even know how to use that body.” She muttered as she turned her attention back at the briars
Kyle gritted his teeth. No, he wanted to shout, but he stopped himself. Accepting the deal was out of the question. He couldn’t – demonic powers, as tempting as they were, would bring him nothing but trouble.The Demon waited patiently as Kyle struggled to break free from the vines holding him still. His arms were pressed against his body, and he couldn’t move his legs at all. The vines continued to wrap themselves around him even as he struggled.“Why would you even offer me that?” he asked in an attempt to buy some time. He could feel his right hand move just a bit. All he needed was to touch the demon, and this nightmare would be over. “You don’t stand to gain anything.” He glared at the demon, desperately hoping he wouldn’t notice Kyle slowly wiggling his right arm free.The Demon chuckled. “Oh, I do stand to gain plenty.” He said with a prideful voice. “But it is of no concern to you &n
When the demon unsheathed his blade, Kyle expected to die within the next handful of seconds. What he didn’t expect was for the demon to proceed to ignore him and start drawing a circle on the ground. Then another, then a third…He drew a total of five circles, one around Kyle, and the other four intertwining with each other around the central one. Then, he proceeded to draw runes and inscriptions.“What is this?!” Kyle asked, only to be ignored. His heart raced as he tried to make sense of the inscriptions. The language they were written in was only vaguely familiar to him. Some characters were in elvish, while others were a completely different tongue.While he had never seen this spell array before, it’s purpose was very clear.“Hey!” He tried to distract the demon as he carefully continued drawing strange symbols and inscriptions onto the ground. Where his sword touched the ground, a dark mark was left behind
Kyle gasped for air as the demon watched him struggle. His gaze remained firm. He wasn’t going to budge.The young man struggled against the vines helplessly. He could barely breathe, his lungs were burning already. His vision began to darken as he felt his body grow heavy. No, he thought as his thoughts seemed to slow. He couldn’t lose consciousness now – he needed to be awake for when Caille arrived!“I can’t!” he somehow managed to wheeze with the last bit of air left in his lungs.The Demon’s expression immediately changed. His fingers twitched, and the vines squeezing Kyle’s throat loosened enough to let him breathe.Blood rushed to Kyle’s face, some colour returned to his cheeks. His lungs hurt, they burnt with each breath he took. He wheezed and forced himself to take slow breaths as the world spun around him.“You can’t.” The Demon stated with a slightly surprised expre
Where the blade struck the ground, darkness spread. The array of five circles and hundreds of symbols and inscriptions came to life, radiating darkness, seemingly consuming whatever light was left in the great hall of the temple of light.Kyle’s eyes widened as the spells took effect, one after another.At first, nothing happened. The array drawn on the ground all around him lit up, the lights drained from the great hall, leaving only a few dimmed sources of light. Yet, nothing happened to him. He had braced himself for pain, but he felt none just then.Then, he felt it. The cold penetrated right to his bones.“Last chance,” The Demon reminded him.“I can’t!” Kyle shouted again. The Demon’s lips formed a thin line and rested his hand on the hilt of his blade. “Very well then.”His eyes flashed purple, and Kyle felt a sudden pain in his arm. His eyes widened as the pain began to grow worse