On a corridor inside a big building, the city lord assistant, Woodrow, was lying on the floor. When the giant eye scattered into pieces, everyone woke up from their delusion and they were quickly terrified when the monsters invaded the city. Panicking, the citizens started running out of the city but the monsters caught and slaughtered them without mercy. When Woodrow stood up and grabbed his head, he looked through the window and saw the chaos on the streets.
When the monsters were killing and devouring the citizens, Woodrow saw some familiar faces coming to the rescue. The Heir of the Covenant was riding on his guardian back, Arkasus, who was in his divine wolf form. Together, they were charging at the monsters. Ras slashed them with his sword while Arkasus summoned bolts of lightning and burned them to ashes. Together, they killed the monsters as much as possible. Looking through the window, Woodrow felt relief but he realized he should not waste more time. He quickly ran to the city lord's bedroom.
When he opened the door, he saw the city lord, Vivian, was sleeping on her bed peacefully and her face was full of happiness. Woodrow felt unbelievable that at this crucial time, Vivian still slept well. He then came and shook her shoulders very hard but she did not respond at all. Woodrow looked around and saw a big vase. Thankfully, it was full of water. He drew out all the flowers and splashed the water to Vivian's face.
Thankfully, Vivian woke up immediately. She got up and wiped her black long hair out of her face and saw the culprit. The water was very stinky and Vivian felt very annoyed and disturbed. She shouted, "What in the world are you doing?"
"We don't have time. Take a look outside," Woodrow shouted and dragged the city lord. As he expected, she was surprised as well. "Please give the order," he said.
"Okay, alright…" Vivian closed her eyes to cleanse her thoughts. When she opened her eyes, she said, "Tell the sorcerers to focus on protecting the citizens. We will escape out of the city."
"Wait, are you sure?" Woodrow was shocked by her decision.
"We're in the passive. We don't know anything about the monsters. Staying and fighting will result in disastrous casualty. If we moved out of the city right now, we still have a chance to organize and fight back. Do it now!"
Smiling in relief, Woodrow replied, "Yes, madam!"
Remembering something, Vivian asked, "Wait, do you see Kawerik?"
"Not again?" Woodrow was stunned and this time, he could not take it anymore. He said, "How many times have we tell you? That man is dead. He's gone. No matter how many times you deny his death, he is no longer in this world."
"But he was still here, with me, yesterday, after…" Vivian wanted to reject but then she stopped. She remembered what happened last night when she encountered Tenebria and her fellow. She then asked, "Where is Tenebria, and her friend, too?"
"We don't know yet, madam," Woodrow replied coldly. "Now if you excuse me," he said and left.
Back to the battle, when Ras, Mercedes, Vildred, Arkasus, Iseria, and Zaeon left to deal with the Archdemon, Yuna, Karzan, Tamarinne, and Al stayed and kept fighting Tenebria. Yuna summoned her big cannon and fired at the female Acolyte. When she dodged, Karzan charged at her and after trading a few attacks. However, Tenebria noticed something. Different than others, Tamarinne stayed behind and Al was acting as her shield and protecting her from sneaky monsters. It did not take her too long to get the reason behind.
"I think you have your attention in the wrong place," Tenebria smirked when she dodged all the attacks.
"Save your breath. We don't have anything to say with you," Iseria replied.
"I'm not stupid enough that I cannot see your weakness. Among all of you, there is one that cannot fight," Tenebria smirked.
At first, nobody understood what or who she was mentioning and kept attacking her. When Tenebria jumped back, she smiled mysteriously. Iseria and Karzan charged at her but then, she saw her eyes were looking away. Startling, they turned back and shouted, "Look out!"
From the air, a humanoid shadow figure jumped out of nowhere. It was Ravi, the girl who was Tenebria's subordinate. Wielding her big axe, she aimed at Tamarinne. Everyone was shocked and tried to warn Al but it was too late. Despite the big weapon, Ravi was very quick and when they thought it was too late, Al appeared in front of his Heir and summoned a magic seal to block the attack. But the attack broke his seal and created a large wound on his chest.
Tamarinne was stunned. She quickly caught Al as he failed down. Suddenly, Ravi stopped moving. Her eyes were lifeless and she then turned back, looking at Tenebria and charged at her.
"What are you doing?" Tenebria was surprised, as well as the others. Then, she quickly realized that the young girl was under controlled by someone else, and there was only one person besides her that was able to do so.
"Don't talk, Al! Stay with me!" Tamarinne's hands were trembling when blood bled out of Al's wound. The others then withdrew and stayed closed to them.
Although she was very annoying, Tenebria felt amusing. Then, she approached to Ravi and pointed her finger on her forehead, and woke her immediately.
"My queen? What am I…" Ravi was shocked and stuttered when she realized who she was attacking.
"Don't bother it, my little child," Tenebria comforted her and pointed at the Heirs and their guardians, "It was them who made you attacked me. Would you please kill them all, for me?"
"As you command, my queen," Ravi coldly replied before she charged at them, which made Iseria, Yuna, and Karzan had to fight with her.
As the battle went on, the Heirs realized their strength was weaker. It was due to the result of their battles with each other. As if it was not worse enough, Zaeon, the giant who was Iseria's guardian, was being hurt by the giant Archdemon. But it was not it alone, behind the giant monster who had tentacles under its mount, another giant monster appeared and attacked Zaeon as well. It had the lower body of a snake while its upper body looked like a muscular man, with a head of a combination between a male goat and a crocodile. It had two arms attached by two sharp blades that could even cut Zaeon's tough skin. When he was blocking its sharp blades, the other one attacked him with its tentacles and hit him down, creating a small earthquake.
When Tenebria was staying behind, she acted normally but she knew she had used a lot of power. Thankfully, Ravi was buying her some times and she used them to recover. Looking at Al and Tamarinne, she smiled a smile full of pride when they both were struggling with patching his wound. Suddenly, she heard a voice, or, more like a song. Someone was singing. She looked around a saw a glowing light coming from Tamarinne and Al.
As she was hugging him, Tamarinne was singing and Al was closing his eyes, and enjoying her song. It was not a normal song. It came with her own power. When she was singing, Al's wound slowly stopped bleeding and closing, until it completely vanished. Al got up and he felt stronger than before.
But he was not the only one who felt that. Iseria, Yuna, and Karzan were feeling it as well. As their wounds were slowly recovering, they attacked faster and stronger and gave Ravi a lot of troubles. Tenebria felt the disadvantage and she charged at Tamarinne but Al jumped out and attacked her. She dodged but Al was quicker. He successfully kicked her on the face and pushed her back. As he jumped on and attacked from the air, Tenebria withdrew and rushed to Ravi, before she pulled her back and called some monsters to attack them.
"Sorry for disappointing you, Tenebria. I cannot fight doesn't mean I'm useless," Tamarinne bravely spoke on and it made everyone smiled.
Although she was surprised, Tenebria did not lose her calm. She kept her smile and said, "It seems I underestimate you. I have to admit that you did make a few surprises for me. I really want to play more with you but I'm feeling sleepy right now."
When Tenebria finished, she opened a portal gate and prepared to leave. Everyone quickly charged at her but the monsters stopped them from getting close to her.
"Until next time," Tenebria mocked them the last time before she left with Ravi.
When Tenebria and Ravi disappeared, they heard a loud noise and it came from Zaeon, who was defeated by the giant monsters again. One of them used its sharp tentacles to attack Zaeon when he had not stood up yet. Fortunately, Iseria gathered all her flying sword, created a defensive green magic seal to protect her guardian but she did not have enough strength to maintain the seal. When the tentacles pierced through her seal, Zaeon quickly grabbed Iseria and turned around quickly, using his back to protect his Heir. When the snake-like monster attacked them, Vildred, Ras, Mercedes, and Arkasus quickly came for their aid. Looking at their wounds, Tamarinne did not wait too long and acted immediately. She sang another song and recovered their wounds and their stamina.
"That young girl is really something," Vildred was surprised when he heard her beautiful song and he was amazed at her power.
"Let me introduce you to our new Heir, Tamarinne," Ras half-joked and said.
"Would be great if I hear her singing in another day," Vildred smiled and his eyes looked serious again when he turned to the army of Archdemon. He then said, "Let's deal with them first."
"Arkasus?" Al then turned to the fluffy ball when acted strangely.
"He must be exhausted," Ras commented when they looked at Arkasus who were lying on Mercedes' arms.
"Arky's stomach hurts," the guardian said in pain.
"Probably because of the raw meats you ate," Mercedes said and stroke his fur.
"What about you?" Ras said when he looked at Vildred but the long black hair swordsman could only sigh tiredly. They did not even need to say to understand what the others meant.
"Ras?"
When Vivian and her people were escaping from the city, they saw the group and saw they were fighting the monsters. With the help of her and other sorcerers, they were able to push back the small monster but Zaeon, Karzan, and Al were fighting the two giant monsters and let the others took a break.
"Citylord Vivian?" Ras was surprised but he felt relief when he saw her. He said, "I'm glad that you're okay."
"I would say the same as you too. Thank you for helping my city," Vivian show her gratitude to him and his friends.
"Don't mention it, fighting Archdemon is the reason I exist. How are you doing?" Ras replied and showed his concern.
"I'm not sure of what we are fighting to so I decided to prioritize the safety of the citizen first. Then we can think about counter-attack later," Vivian answered.
Looking at how calm the sorcerers were, as well as a large number of citizens were safe, everyone was surprised at how Vivian's leadership. However, it was not the right time to stop and chat. Ras and his friends cooperated with Witchaven's sorcerers and protected the citizens. However, the Archdemon kept coming from nowhere.
Suddenly, they heard many loud bangs and explosions appeared, stunning and pushing back the monsters. When they looked behind, Aakhen's army, led by Pavel and Cerise, were coming for the rescue.
"Finally," Iseria looked Pavel and Cerise, and then she smiled. She quickly approached the Administrator of Aakhen and showed her gratitude, "Thank you for coming."
"Let's save the talk later," Cerise commented.
"Wait, is that... Al?" the young gunman looked the familiar face and spoke on surprise.
"Oh my, it's really him", Cerise looked at Al and she was speechless as well. However, both of them knew there was something need to do first.
From a far distance, a line of artillery was keeping firing at the monsters. Meanwhile, Zaeon, Karzan, and Al quickly understood the situation. In a second of losing his focus, Al was attacked by the tentacle monster. Zaeon quickly used his whole right arm to block for him, resulting in the tentacles cut off his arm. Angrily, both Karzan and Al worked together and cut off its tentacles, and then the snake-like monster charged at Zaeon, forcing Al and Karzan to split up. When Iseria ran to her guardian, Zaeon was not showing any sign of weakening. He even stood up bravely and focused his energy in front of his chest.
"Al, Karzan, get out!"
When the giant guardian shouted, both of them immediately jumped back to their Heirs, before Zeaon released a deadly blast that burned the tentacle monster. The snake-like monster dodged and tried to attack Karzan. When it raised its both arms, Karzan drew its attention in front of its while Iseria and Al landed on its both arms. When the two of them were running on its arms and slashed them to pieces before Karzan used his invisible swords and cut the head of the monster. To finish it once and for all, Iseria gathered all her flying swords and chanted a magic seal above it, before she released a giant sword and cut the monster into half.
As for the tentacle monster, after Zeaon's blast, it was still standing, however, it was weakening. While no one knew what he was intending to do, Ras looked at Vildred and they nodded together. Vildred crossed his arms again and summoned his purple demonic snakes. And then, Ras rode on one of them and charged at the monster. From behind, Zaeon focused all his strength again and released a powerful beam from his chest, and shot at the monster, burning and destroying its skin, revealing a big red ball inside it.
While riding on a demonic snake, Ras could not hold his smile. It had been a long time since he fought with Vildred together, and even though Vildred once went to the dark path, he returned from out of nowhere and stood with him again. Riding on the demonic snake of Vildred, it was a fresh experience for Ras. And when he closed to the red ball, he stabbed his sword to it. A second later, the red ball broke into pieces and Ras landed safely on the ground. The giant monster was finally defeated, the smaller monsters withdrew and disappeared in the crimson portal gate, in the victory cry of the alliance.