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Chapter 14

"ADVANCE!" Dante's voice roared throughout the battlefield. "Rush them!" His troops, mainly Knights and Assassins, took a moment to ready up, then ran after the Chivalry. Some of them stayed to fight for a moment, only to loose, and most fled the battlefield. Their Hunters were shot down by ours and their Wizards did not know the true meaning of magic due to their confined education. Prontera was a small place, yet they thought they could learn there by mere books. The people of Payon lived in harmony with nature...they studied with nature and mastered even the hardest skills.

I was taught the full power of Grand Cross here while hunting with Raisu.

"You two alright?" Tempest ran up to us and knocked a Knight out with his mace. "Jeez, Raisu, take it easy." He cast Heal on a deep cut in the girl's arm. "Every time..." I took a seat on the ground and watched the army being chased off. "Hikaru, any wounds?"

"With that armor?" Raisu joked. "He's a freaking tank." I laughed and shook my head.

"Naw..." Crono rode up to us with Raijin and Hanya behind him. "He's just fat. The blubber protects him...somehow..."

"Oh shut up." I replied to the joke. "I own you either way."

"What? No...I own YOU." We laughed and joked throughout the rest of the day, while repairing the walls and cleaning up the blood of course. No one died, but a lot of people were knocked out and injured...from both sides. The people of Prontera were to be judged by the Governor of Payon. We never saw them after they were taken in the palace.

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"The God of Anger you say?" I had told Dante about my condition...as recommended by Raisu.

"Yea." I replied, ashamed. "I went berserk two times already. I don't want to stay any longer and endanger Payon...but.."

"You don't know how to get there?" Dante leaned back in his chair. I nodded. "To get to Yggdrasil...you need to find your way to Niffleheim." At this, I looked up, surprised...and a bit scared.

"The Town of the Dead..." I said under my breath.

"The Yggdrasil tree..." Dante stood up, took a scroll from his pile and opened it across a table. I followed him to the table and looked. "It's roots, there are four main roots." He pointed it out on the diagram. "Each of them connect to a city or town. We only know of Niffleheim right now..." He stood up and looked out the window. "And every single man we send there..."

"What happened?" I asked, wondering if I really wanted to know.

"They either never returned or..." Dante hesitated. "or they would return, traumatized...saying that the place was dead."