As Casey and Biskie wondered how they should deal with Justin, who was actually Myles living in Justin’s body now, Hawkins flew down and landed next to his daughter.His jaw hardened. “Who did this to her?” he glared at Casey. “Is it you?”“Eek!” Casey quickly shook her head.“Is it you?” Hawkins looked at Biskie who also shook her head. “Then, who did this?” He was busy fighting a nether knight, so he couldn’t focus on anything else until now.Biskie and Casey didn’t want to give Justin’s name away as it seemed like Hawkins would likely kill for what Justin had done.Hawkins picked up Ria along with her severed arm and quickly flew away because Ria was in a critical state due to blood loss.Biskie and Casey looked at each other.“Even though Ria had a divine shield, how could she get wounded like that?” Biskie wondered.Dirk, Biskie’s divine dagger, replied, “The one who attacked her used spiritual energy, so it rendered the divine shield a lot less effective. It won’t be easy for he
Half of the nether knights were defeated, but the rest of them left with the Nether King through a portal, which none of the city’s mages dared to enter through.The black-eyed people reverted back to their normal selves.The battles ended, but the entire city had suffered great deal of destruction and damage. The healing mages got busy, treating all the wounded. Still, the tensions between humans and woke-animals were there.The woke-animal mages with earth ability got together and tried to join the island that was split into when Justin and Myles’ had briefly collided.Rockell and his family were safe. Hipster and Foxie were also safe, but Hipster’s family had died in the hands of human mages.Almost every ward lost a significant number of people, but not a single soul in the Sheep’s ward died, though a lot of them were injured.In the lowest floor of Lord Luke’s tower.The torturers were taking turns to play with Myles who was in Justin’s body now. He had cuts all over his body. Hi
Biskie and Casey were staying at Ria’s house, which was now Hipster’s house, to be precise.“Where did Myles go? Normally, he’d find us by himself, but this time, he’s not back yet, and Ria was also taken by her father. It’s not looking good for us here, either,” Biskie was biting her nails as Casey defended the house from the flaming attacks being thrown by woke-animal mages hired by Hipster.Hipster believed that taking Ria’s house was a sign of bad luck, and so he had decided to destroy the house. Despite knowing that Casey and Biskie were inside, he still told the mages to destroy the house. And the mages happily obliged.The tensions between the humans and woke-animals were running high at the moment throughout the city as the recent disaster had shown everyone that the coexistence of human kind and animal kind was nothing but a pipedream given how one side kept shifting the blame onto another.“Biskie! I can’t take it much longer!” Casey hissed.“What? What do you mean you can’t
In the sheep’s ward.Penny and Elder John were repairing broken homes together. With Penny’s ability, she was able to carry heavy objects and place them where they needed to be placed, thus making the work easier.“I’m sorry, John,” Penny apologized after seeing John struggling to work. He was sweating and panting from overexerting himself. Even his back hurt. “I couldn’t bring a vehicle in time. Now, the security will be too tight for us to travel safely.” She had counted on buying a vehicle from a friend who was a woke-animal, but contrary to her expectations, her friend didn’t give her the vehicle.“It’s okay. You’ve done what you could,” John said.Just then, Luke landed not far from them and kept looking around. Seeing the tall woke-wolf, John rushed over. Penny recognized Luke straight away, though she had no idea until now that Luke lost both of his hands.“How many died in this ward, John?” Luke asked.“Thankfully, none,” John said tensely.“Everybody survived, huh,” Luke was
Not everybody was allowed entrance to the underground chambers of the lord’s tower. Only the top 100 ranked mages were allowed to enter after getting permission from Lord Luke.Many mages wanted to see the man that had killed Verella who was still at the absolute top of the rankings even though it had been more than a year since she last contributed to the city.Naturally, Hawkins, the Manglers, and many other mages wanted to see Justin at least once. However, they didn’t get the permission, as the chances of them killing Justin were high.The only person that was allowed entrance into the underground chamber other than Luke right now was Bryant.Currently, Shreya and Blue Dog were in the Wolf ward, about 2 miles away from the lord’s tower. There were four eagles standing at the four corners of the rooftop of the tower, watching over the entire ward.“Can’t we get any closer?” Blue Dog asked, looking frustrated.“No. I’m already using an aerial barrier for camouflage, but those woke-e
A few minutes earlier.Tightly bound in stardium chains, Myles was rotting in the underground cell, hanging by his arms that bore his whole bodyweight. He was hurting. He was thirsty. He was hungry. He was angry.With his tongue gone, he couldn’t even utter the heavenly mantras anymore.He had probably never been in this type of a disastrous situation after he had become strong in his past life.But he didn’t panic because he knew that it wouldn’t do him any good.He just patiently waited, hoping a chance would show up. Any opportunity. If it knocked on his door, he would gladly grasp it with all his heart and might.Some time later, Bryant entered the room and unsheathed his sword.“Tell me, Justin Alves. What body part do you want me to cut first?”Bryant released red aura through his sword. Myles’ eyes slightly widened and drew in more light, as he believed he found a way to escape from this nightmare.“Do you want me to start with your legs?” Bryant asked. “No. That’ll kill you s
Ria woke up and found herself lying in a bed. She tried to get up, but she couldn’t move easily because of her injury. It seemed like someone had attacked her severed arm back to her shoulder, which made her feel a little at ease, as it also meant that she wasn’t in the hands of an enemy. It took her a whole eight minutes to get off the bed. She was still sedated, or she probably wouldn’t even have been able to get up because there was so much pain in her shoulder region. Moreover, it was her dominant hand. Every step took her four to five seconds. “Justin, you bastard… I’ll never forgive you for this. If I find you, I’ll rip your head off, I promise.” It angered her to no end when she remembered how he used her as a shield to block Luke’s attack. She opened the door and stepped into an open, roofless hall. However, what puzzled her was that there were no household items or any tools anywhere in the hall. Come to think of it, even back in the room she just came from, there weren’t a
In the middle of the night, Shreya and Blue Dog were still waiting for an opportunity to sneak into the city lord’s tower.Because woke-owls had replaced the woke-eagles and watched guard in all four directions from the top of the tower, there was no room for them to make even a single mistake.If not for Shreya, Blue Dog would have long tried to do something, but she told him to be patient.After a couple more hours, one of the owls left the spot for some reason. Before the remaining three owls rearranged their formation, Shreya sent wet soaps flying into the distance and created air bubbles out of them. The rising bubbles caught the attention of the owls, and this allowed Shreya and Blue Dog to speedily close the distance.However, the tower entrance was closed.Shreya didn’t need that. She lifted Blue Dog along with him up into the air, and they infiltrated the tower through an open window at about 80 ft high from the ground.A woke-parrot was soundly snoring inside, mumbling somet