[Zephyr’s POV] Mother. I need to save her. I need to get out of here. But how? Is there really a way out of here? Janus isn’t here to save me this time. One reason I didn’t want him to be by my side this time. He had suffered the most because of me. I didn’t want him to go through all that again. Never again. Damn it! The bitter screeching of chains rolling on the pulley filled the cell in dungeons as they pulled me out of the massive glass water tank. My ankles were tied together with chains as I hung upside down from the ceiling. Water drained down my body into the tank as I choked for breaths, coughing violently. I could feel my blood and water surge to my head, everywhere in my sinuses. “Hmm. Nah. Still not good. Drown him again,” Vidar said, and the guards freed the chains as I splashed into the tank once again. I sank into the depths of the tank. The world had gone silent once again. It was quite relaxing and silent inside the water if I ignored my body, toiling
[Zephyr’s POV]I reached out to the lightning shooting towards me and somehow I could grab it, veer it and absorb it in my palms.It didn’t hurt. It didn’t electrocute me. It seemed as if I had engulfed the power from the jade ring like a black hole engulfs light.Vidar widened his eyes as my hands snapped into claws.I aimed to slash directly at his neck and decapitate him when he quickly grabbed the container with blazing coal and threw it all at me.“NO!” I heard mother scream and the very next second she was between me and the blazing coal, shielding me from it.“Mother!”I changed my projectile at the last moment, pushing her aside.I landed on the dais as the ablaze coal showered on me. I very well remember how acid feels on one’s skin. And how skin chars in flames. This was a little less painful, but the feeling of having my skin melting was the same. But I had no time to care about the pain or the fire my clothes had caught because of the coal.I glared right into Vidar’s eye
[Zephyr’s POV]“Are you sure you can tear a barrier of hell with your bare hands, Zeph?” Archer yelled, shielding us from the firing and arrows of the Wenos army with his mana barrier. “Well, I shouldn’t question it at a time like this, but are you in your right mind?”“Oh, come on, Archer. Just shut up for a second. He is trying his best,” mother said, helping him cover.Noah led the troop. They were using everything they had to break Archer and mother’s barrier.The barrier had already formed cracks.“Damn it!” I cursed under my breaths. “Why isn’t this working now? It worked back then.” I felt the fluidity of the barrier around Wenos palace against my palm, but I could neither absorb it nor tear it like I did earlier with Devon’s shield.This shield was thickened and stronger. Yet I thought I had understood how my mana void worked. I thought it absorbed the mana from the magical war artifacts.But maybe I was wrong.“Fuck!” I kicked the barrier. “What now!”“Son, calm down. Try to
[Zephyr’s POV]I kept whistling in the eolian language, summoning a storm around Alpha Urza’s body as a barrier from the rest of the battlefield. Kneeling beside his body, I peered at him blankly. I held his cold hand in mine. With a blurry vision, I looked at the sky. Kaz’s men hovered over the Wenos palace. Through the blustering winds cutting me off from the rest of the world, I looked at my army that was in constant struggle with the Saint’s men. I couldn’t keep track of everyone from where I was, but I could tell that Archer and mother had left the battlefield a while ago. “We, the wizards under the Saint’s command, give you the Jupitus army a chance to retreat. Stop the attacks and retreat or else we will have to pacify you by any means possible.” A wizard hovering right above Asashi and Aera warned. So finally, Kazeal has openly involved himself in this war. “We do not wish any harm to the innocent. We are here to preserve peace and stop the war. If any of you launch any
[Kazeal’s POV]She’s gone.I had searched every corner of the Heat Knox tower.Diana has escaped.A stifling bitterness rose in my chest like a burning stab. My crazily pulsating heart was only darkening my thoughts and coherence.Clenching my fists and jaws, I shut my eyes.It’s not like I have never been angry before, but I had never experienced such an excruciating wrath before. Its extremeness was sinful.I stared at my palms.How did she slip out of my grip?The warmth of her body and the softness of her skin are still afresh in my hands.When did she obscure my senses?How in heaven did she escape?I don’t get it. I don’t understand this.Wiping my sweat around my lips, I sat on her bed. Raking back my hair, I held my burning head.Taking a deep breath, I licked my dry lips.There is no way she can escape this place on her own. Not even with her Messiah powers. The only key is with me and without my mana, the barriers around the tower cannot even be sensed by normal wizards.But
[Zephyr’s POV]What we have been preparing for has finally begun.Diana had waged a war against the outer world. By now, the demonic werewolves would have started appearing all around Lycannora.After demonisation she had changed a lot. Diana’s appearance seemed as a reflection of Serith herself. Her horns, the dark vine tattoos that wrapped around her hands and around her neck. Her blood-red eyes that had the power to stop time if she wished. Her aura that held the gravity that could alter dimensions and space. Diana’s presence overpowered almost everyone and everything on the battlefield.The goddess of the underworld had surfaced and the Serithian war had begun.It hadn’t even been an hour and the Wenos army seemed so subdued. There was no way mortals could keep up with a goddess’ incarnation. The only person who had the power to stand against Diana was the Saint.Devon walked closer to Diana and stood between her and his army.“Prince, what are you doing?” Ragnar asked Devon.“R
[Diana’s POV]It hadn’t even been a week to father’s burial, and Willa was gone. She hadn’t taken a single thing from the palace. All she left behind was a note saying that she no longer had a reason to stay in the Xenon pack.Often the walls that look the strongest are the hollowest. Reese was in the same condition.Most of the time, Reese stayed by father’s grave.“It’s dinnertime, Reese. Let’s go.” I placed my hand on his shoulder.He was lost in nothingness. Recently, silence had been his only response.I knelt beside him.He had completed father’s burial without shedding a tear. But that didn’t mean father’s death hadn’t affected him at all. And after Willa left, his condition had worsened. He was bottling himself up.Although he kept himself busy with the pack affairs and the war with Gloratia, it was at times like these I could see his pain in his eyes.Meanwhile, because of Serith’s powers, I knew father was in a better place, reunited with mother. Even so, I felt his absence
[Kazeal’s POV]Diana cowered into my arms, clenching on to me as if I was her last lifeline left. I was.“Relax, Dia. These are just nightmares.”These nightmares are my gift to you, my Messiah. I hope you see for yourself what you have done to this world.It’s still not too late. You still have time. Stop before things slip from my hands as well.I stroked her back as she drifted back into sleep. Another round of those nightmares that I had designed to break her slowly, but certainly.I sighed, peering at the ceiling, hugging her tighter as she panted with a slight tremble taking over her body again.“No… no…” she mumbled.I intertwined my fingers with hers.“It’s alright, Dia. Everything’s fine, just fall asleep.”Stay dreaming and leave the reality to me. I will bring everything you have misplaced in this world back to its place.*****“You don’t have to attend to meeting if you aren’t feeling well—” She had the power to make me speechless without even trying.Words seized from my