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AbyssalDaemon- Haha~ I'm glad you're enjoying this story~ Yes Freud will eventually find out but i can't say about Rhinne though, who know's what i have in plan~ :P
Well then, off to the chapter~
Evan woke up to the funny feeling of someone petting his head, the brunette squeaked and immediately turned to the one who was petting him, Von Leon. Evan pouted before noticing that his injuries are healed. "I healed them for you using potions, that was the least I could do." Von Leon said while chuckling at the boy's reaction. "And why were you petting me?"
"Your hair looked soft." Von Leon said looking completely serious making Evan sweat drop. "Weird reason….oh god! How long was I out?!" Evan asked hastily. "An hour, quite a fast healing rate actually." The brunette nodded before pushing himself up and throwing his hood on. "And where do you think you're going?" Von Leon asked with an eyebrow raised.
"I need to go help the others. Do you want to come?" Von Leon gave a wide smirk as he cracked his knuckles "Thought you would never ask, I have a fellow commander to meet with. I was hoping you'll let me join you because I doubt this…Freud person would trust me so easily. By the way, I haven't caught your name."
"Its Evan." The brunette said while grinning at the thought of a new ally and beckoned to Von Leon, signifying his answer as the two dash through the hallway.
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When the former commander and Evan had arrived at the scene, the place look unrecognizable. The beautiful and artistically crafted pillars and walls were nothing more then rubble now. Evan saw EunWol unconscious while his back was leaning against a broken pillar and Valfor collapsed on the floor at one corner, Luminous stood in front of a pile of rubble that was once Guwaru, the mountain of rocks were slowly reforming but Luminous blasted them to pieces each time, leaving Guwaru no chance of regenerating. The rest of the commanders however, were smirking like they were onto a big joke. "This is bad, your friends probably didn't know that the black mage gave us something that will help us regenerate slowly during battle." Von Leon said while ripping out a black necklace and throwing it onto the floor.
"Is that the object?" Evan asked. Von Leon nodded and eyed it with disgust "I refuse to have anything that that asshole gave to me. Luckily he doesn't give such gifts so often." Von Leon scoffed. Evan scanned the heroes while measuring the extent of their injuries and quickly formulated that they would not be able to hold on for long. The brunette turned to face Von Leon at sound of the lion's teeth grinding as he glared at Hilla.
Evan chanted a magic buff and Von Leon smirked in gratitude before transforming, the large beast roared as it charged out of the hallway with enraged eyes. Hilla smirked "Looks like someone finally decided to show up, might as well give up you're out numbered." Mercedes glanced behind with shock as Von Leon charged towards them, she held her cross bow gun out but was surprised when the beast slashed at Hilla instead.
"H-Hey! Is your eyes broken or something?! The enemy is that way!" Hilla pointed at Mercedes. Von Leon scoffed "I will NEVER forgive you, you witch!" He growled and slammed both fists downwards, which Hilla managed to avoid by a hair.
"An internal argument?" Phantom asked Freud who was nearby, the scholar shrugged as he sent waves of water at Orchid who was planning on attacking Phantom when he wasn't looking "Pay attention." Arkarium sent a black lightning bolt at Freud which pierced the auburn mage at his thigh. "I would say that you should do the same."
"Freud!" Phantom yelled and attempted to dash to the scholar's side if not for Orchid's interference "Your opponent is me pretty boy." She growled. Von Leon was relentlessly attacking Hilla, Mercedes use this chance to do the same as well, the elf queen had not forgotten what Hilla had said not too long ago.
"And THAT is for insulting my ears!" She yelled while her arrow pierced Hilla's leg, Von Leon would have sweat dropped if not for the seriousness of the situation. Magnus 'tch'ed, Aran prevented the nova from going over there to slice Von Leon into two.
"Just give up. You barely can stand much less try to wound me with that toothpick of yours." Maha was pissed that he was being called a 'toothpick' Aran gripped the weapon tighter to prevent it from rashly attacking Magnus. "Need I remind you that this toothpick caused your injuries? It would be hilarious if rumors went out that you were heavily injured because of a 'toothpick'." Magnus bit into the bait easily and charged towards Aran.
Meanwhile, Evan who was forgotten at a corner was arguing with a black jar that he finally managed to find in his inventory. "Come on pretty please!"
'Kid, I'm not your tool.' the thing growled inside Evan's head.
"I never said you were! I'm begging you here! Could you please help me get those necklaces?" the thing scoffed.
'Get it yourself, I thought that cloak would help you blend and not be noticed.'
"It wouldn't work on them if there are no large crowds to help me hide my presence! And besides, if they knew I was targeting it, they would make it so that it would be harder to get, its easier if you took them all at the same time! Come on pleaseeeee." Evan whined in his childish self.
'So first you trap me here, refuse to let me out, have not spoken to me until now except that one time when you really needed me and you expect me to help you?'
"Hey, wanting to be trapped in there was your idea, I couldn't let you out if you had no medium or you would disappear and I was busy!" The thing scoffed again 'Alright alright, just stop screaming. I swear if I go deaf I will bloody slaughter you.' Evan smiled and hugged the jar, laughing when he felt the jar shiver. 'You do that again and I will kill you when I get out.'
The jar started releasing its black magic and multiple pitch black arrow headed chains soon came out, it snaked its way towards the commanders and swiftly shattered the weak chains holding the necklace before it grabbed the necklace and brought it back, causing all the participants in the battle to freeze.
"But that's…..!" Arkarium began "The black mage's chains." Magnus finished while tracing the long cut that the chain inflicted on his chest with a growl. "But that shouldn't be possible!" Hilla and Orchid screamed. Von Leon was silent as he eyed Evan with wide eyes. The heroes also pieced together what happened and stared at the jar warily as the chains reeled back inside.
'Oh? This thing seems pretty useful, I'll be draining it of its mana kid.' Evan gave the go ahead and watched as the jar absorbed the black mana and spat the necklace back out when there was nothing left. 'bleeh, tasted like crap. Though I did managed to recover a bit. Don't disturb me when I'm sleeping kid.' Evan just stuffed the jar back into his cube inventory and took out his wand before joining into battle.
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Mir turned left and right to avoid trees as Rhinne held on for dear life, the dragon growled as he sensed the black mage coming after him while launching every dark magic spell he knew to deter the dragon from escaping. "Umm Mir was it? Where are we going?" Rhinne asked after the dragon twisted around again, they had long left the temple of time and were currently somewhere in the forest.
"Master told me to bring you to Miss Alicia if we were chased by the black mage since she has the power to shelter you." Mir explained and Rhinne breathed a sigh of relief "For a moment there, I thought you two didn't managed to completely plan it out." Mir roared as one of the black mage's spell singed his leg. "Mir! Are you alright? Shouldn't you rest?" Mir shook his head "No...need, we're almost there…..!" Mir grunted out as he flew faster towards the world tree.
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Hilla screamed as she dissipated into black mist as Von Leon thrusted his claws through her body, the lion sent his lasers at the black mist who slipped away and fled the area, the lion gritted his fangs, how could he have forgotten that that technique was Hilla's final failsafe?! The witch would reform after sometime but would not fully die if he could not eradicate that mist.
Von Leon glanced down at the elf queen who was panting on the floor as his eyes trailed to the other heroes, any further and they might die if this battle continued. Von Leon's eyes met with Evan's and they both nodded, the lion gently picked up Mercedes much to the elf's protest before smacking Magnus away when the nova was close to exhaustion and picked up the already fallen Aran.
Evan picked up EunWol and Von Leon went over to pick Valfor much to the brunette's surprise. "You mentioned him before you collapsed." the lion said promptly and grabbed EunWol from Evan's shoulders. Freud saw what they were doing and motioned for Phantom and Luminous who could still move to retreat to Lumiere. "Von Leon could you please hand them to Freud for treatment? I'll hold them off here, tell mister Freud to escape and that Rhinne would most likely have been brought to the world tree for protection." Evan said as he materialized Luminous's shining rod and fired off several blasts of light magic to cut off Orchid and Arkarium from chasing them. Von Leon nodded and went to the scholar's side.
"Leave now." The lion roared as he slashed Nagini away and placed Aran, Mercedes and EunWol on Afrien's back. Freud didn't need to be told twice as he told Afrien to return to Lumiere "And you?" he asked Von Leon. "I cannot leave that boy fighting alone, I have my own ways of escaping but the boy did say to tell you that if you wanted to find the goddess of time, she would be at the world tree. Now Leave!" Freud hesitated and only began to move when Von Leon shot his laser at him in warning, the scholar dragged Phantom and Luminous back before they took off.
Von Leon clutched Valfor gently in one paw and ran back to where Evan was to find the boy holding strong against the two remaining commanders. Although the brunette seemed out of breathe and mana, he was still battling against the two and even managed to push them back "They've gone now, we need to move too." Von Leon said and abruptly grabbed Evan before leaping of the temple of time. Evan screamed and yelled at the sudden move until the lion turned back into his human form and whistled, a large drake caught the three of them and took off, the brunette turned his head back to see Orchid and Arkarium flinging magic spells and very unpleasant words at them to no avail before collapsing from exhaustion.
Hehe~ You guys thought that Valfor would be confronted by Evan first right? Ha! Nope~ Von Leon was first(and unexpected)~ Alright, lets play the guessing game! (Though its probably very easy anyway) Who's the mysterious black jar~?
Evan: Zzz...
Fang: He's asleep. I'll end this~
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