Greetings readers~ I have just finished re-reading everything and corrected all the tiny mistakes~ Yay!
Rye Mellark- Haha i don't know about getting a beta reader, i will consider though as i think it might be necessary. I'm very glad that you hold this fic in high regard and that you enjoy my writing and this story *Hands another cookie* Well its nice to see two reviewers having the same opinion, hooray for peace!
Well then, here's the new chapter!
Evan stood near the barrier of the Temple of Time, he glanced at it warily. "Ready Mir? We have to do this quick." Evan felt the goddess of time beckon to him, signifying that he had been given permission to enter and quickly charged in, not needing to go through all those traps made him feel slightly better. "Mir, do you remember the area where they could have held her?" Mir nodded and swiftly glided, blending in the shadows of the pillars.
Evan swallowed another shrouding pill and gave Mir the same. He glanced around warily, taking note of the number of guards present. 'Master, I sense the Black Mage here. I feel sick…..' Mir complained, Evan nodded his head in agreement, the aura the Black Mage had made him feel like puking.
'Bear with it. I need to see if I can pick up Rhinne's power….got it! Why does it have to be so close to the Black Mage?' Mir whined at that thought, it meant going closer to the old tyrant, but still, they had to do it. Evan was about to step out until Mir growled with anger and rage. Evan turned to where the dragon was looking at and felt the same.
The Black Mage commanders had arrived.
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The Black Mage had faintly felt something enter, but it was so small and tiny that he shook it off as mere monster coming in, they had a lot those nowadays. However, this tyrant had been in a particularly good mood, Arkarium had just discovered the old spell of absorbing the goddess of time's powers a few days ago and the Black Mage wasted no time in learning it.
Today was the day that he put one step forward in his plans! Time would soon completely be under his control! Just this one spell and all of time's powers would be his! He had even summoned his commanders for this joyous occasion. The Black Mage stood up, his chains clinking eerily in the pin drop silent hallway as he made it to their conference room to sit and wait for his commanders.
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Evan wanted to curse out loud, of all days the commanders had to gather today?! He had made sure to stuck close to them but not too close as he blended in with the crowd of monsters to hear their conversation, his eyes darted to Von Leon, Hilla, Magnus, Arkarium, Guwaru, Orchid and finally Demon Slayer. "Do you think the Black Mage will successfully gain the powers of time?" Hilla asked to no one in particular.
Arkarium snorted "Of course! I helped him obtain that spell after all! It cannot fail!" The rest rolled their eyes at Arkarium, they really didn't feel like dealing with the old man. Evan was glancing more on Valfor then the rest of the commanders. "And? Where is the goddess of time held at?" Von Leon asked.
"Why? Want to see if she looks like your dead wife?" Hilla teased and just as she had expected, Von Leon's anger shot up like a rocket "Don't you dare mention her with your filthy mouth!" Von Leon then use his sword and slashed at Hilla, only to miss as Valfor intercepted before things got worse. "Calm down, she's baiting you." He promptly said.
Von Leon grunted in appreciation before calming himself, he would not let this….witch, bait him into something. But what Hilla said caught Evan's interest, he didn't know Von Leon had a lover. Then again, he didn't think Phantom could have one either until the thief mentioned Aria. The group reached the doors of the conference room and Evan could go in no further, the mage gagged before silently walking down to another pathway with Mir in tow, he had to find the goddess, picking up Valfor would have to come later.
The brunette had went into empty rooms and even passed by guards to see if they knew something, he groaned when he found out nothing, at this rate, searching would eat up too much time and judging by what Arkarium had said about them finding the spell to absorb time's powers, he didn't have that much time to spare. After the nth door he had broken into, he wanted to cry in frustration when he found nothing! How large was this place anyway?! Mir could only find the area, the dragon had no clue as to where the goddess's specific location is.
'Child, can you hear me child?' a voice asked, he wanted to thank whatever god there is, finally some directions! 'Yes goddess, loud and clear. Please tell me where you are, I seriously can't seem to find you.' Evan could feel the goddess give a amused smile at his frustration 'I only know that you are somewhere near me, since my powers can no longer stretch very far.' Evan held back a sigh, this is the goddess of time, he thought.
'I understand, I will continue searching for you.' Evan said as he gestured Mir to follow him as he picked up the pace. Evan felt something touch his shoulders and he jumped in shock, immediately turning around.
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Freud had finally completed the spell after two days. He had pushed aside all other work and focused solely on the barrier, he had gathered information and soon deduced what the barrier could be made of. Now he just had to alert the others, Freud had sent them away on a mission to Rien when he had heard that there was a planned attack there, Aran was more then willing to go and had dragged EunWol along(quite literally by the collar) and in turn the pirate dragged Luminous and Mercedes along.
And again Phantom didn't tag along. Speaking of the thief, he had not seen him anywhere. Two days ago he had just gave the hooded man's reply to his invitation before disappearing and Freud has not seen him since. This worried Aria since the thief did not seem like his usual flirty self. Freud went to pick up the carte that Phantom had left him should he need anything from the thief and launched it into the air, feeling it disappear.
Phantom came into his room shortly after "Yes Freud?" he asked with a smirk. Seems like the thief was back to normal "Could you gather the others when they come back later today? I have finished deciphering the barrier. Also, do let Aria know that you're fine, she has been worried sick about you." Phantom nodded and disappeared once more.
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Phantom, was in fact not completely hundred percent fine. The thief had continuously chanted the name Evan like a mantra countless of times and found that he knew nothing about that name. But then, the boy called him mentor in the vision, which meant that he had taught the boy before but, to the thief's frustration he had no recollection whatsoever of the sort. Phantom sighed before composing himself and entered Aria's room.
The empress's room was filled with paper and requested help documents pilling on a desk. The empress had accidentally fell asleep on the desk and was frowning in her sleep. Phantom found this endearing but Aria still needed to rest on a proper bed. Funny how she told him that not too long ago. Phantom easily and gently lifted Aria bridal style and carried her to her bed before laying her to rest on the soft mattress, pulling up the blankets at the same time.
Aria stirred in her sleep but did not wake up, mumbling something about unsigned documents. Phantom chuckled before giving Aria a gentle kiss and left a rose as well as a carte beside her.
The thief didn't manage to catch the empress's smile as he left.
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Mir had clamped a claw on Evan's mouth before the boy could shriek and sighed in relief, they had almost given out their position. In front of them was a pure white ghost with a gentle smile, but what had scared Evan was the fact that she was transparent and the boy wasn't really fond of ghosts.
"Oh pardon me, it appears that I've scared you." She said apologetically while bowing. "N-No that was my fault. Who are you anyway?" "My name is Laura, I'm actually Von Leon's wife." Mir had to clamp his claws on Evan's mouth again."O-Oh sorry for the outburst, I just didn't know that Von Leon had a wife." Laura gave a gentle smile "No harm done. Could you hear my request out? I'll lead you to the goddess of time if you do." Evan nodded, it sounded harmless.
"You see, Von Leon was not what he is now. He used to be a kind soul, adored by all his people, I loved him because of his fierce yet gentle personality. However one day, I was murdered and it all changed. I was killed by a black mage commander, the one you saw earlier, Hilla. She had one of her skeleton warrior dress as an Ereve knight and purposely left the crest of an Ereve knight which led Von Leon to believe that it was Empress Aria's fault for my death. I kept calling you see, but he had fallen too far in his path of revenge, his cold intentions prevented him from seeing me but I just want to tell him the truth of that day. My request is that you could get him to be able to see me."
Evan was slightly shocked at how much that story was similar to Phantom's except Phantom wasn't lusting for revenge in this time. But one time in the future, he had seen what Phantom looked like when he was furious, that was the time he saw Orchid in the resistance base. The thief looked like he wanted to kill, to slaughter and had left using what bit of self control he had to do so. Phantom had prowled in his room like a beast for the next few days until Evan had got him to snap out of it.
"How do you suggest that I do that?" Evan asked "You must sway his intentions for revenge even just a little bit, only then would he be able to see me. Could you please do this?" Evan nodded and bowed "Of course. It will be beneficial to me as well. Me and Mir would do our best." Mir growled an affirmative.
Laura gave a grateful smile before gesturing ahead "Now for my part of the deal. I remember a certain young gentleman getting lost here?" she said with mischievous and amused smile making Evan blush, he had hoped that the girl had forgotten that.
Oh my, what do i have planned for our enemy lion? Hmm~
Evan: I forgot that i get lost easily...
Fang: Haha Its fine, that's what makes you more endearing! *Serious face and thumbs up* Now end this, its been two chapters since you did that.
Evan: Haha...Please Review~
