(WITCH During Issue 12 WITCH fights Cedric)
"No—!"
Elyon cries out and tries to barge out from her bounds to get away and help Eric when he continues to receive a powerful electrocution.
"Arrgghh!" But Eric slowly walks forward to Phobos as he continues to mercilessly suffer him. 'Almost there!'
"Impossible! Nobody can't stand to my powers like that!" Phobos continues to pressure him with his powers. Before him is a weak and suffering young man but before him is a true monster who can withstand all the pain he has given to him.
By chance Eric pushes himself and catches all the energy and quickly and finally grabs on to Phobos' wrist off guard. "B-Because if you do, then I already decided to put my life on the line just to save and protect you now!"
Tears start to flow from Elyon's eyes. "Eric…" She then nods in confidence. "I will be a great queen Eric!"
'M-Mage's blood clocked reverse…' Eric starts to chant as a glowing magic circle appears above his arm. He then clutches his other hand to Phobos' forehead.
"What are you doing?!" Phobos yells as he continues to blasts his electrocution on Eric even harder. He tries to pull away from Eric's grip to get away, but Eric's hand was too strong.
"…F-From currents to brief curse!" Eric chants inside his mind as the magic circles rotates faster and faster. A sudden burst of light gleams around them as shockwaves spread throughout the surroundings.
Elyon closes her eyes from the glow which blinded her for seconds until the glow fades away to nothingness and suddenly faints to a dream as the glowing pendant glows from Eric's pocket.
(WITCH During Issue 12: Elyon is called by her mother)
Eric lies unconsciously dead on the floor with the confused Phobos puzzled and bewildered of what just happened. "Pathetic!" He disgustingly kicks Eric away and proceeds to approach Elyon. "Now I've got rid of that young boy, Now Elyon's powers are all mine, I just have to—" Phobos pauses for a second as he feels strange in him, like something valuable was taken away from him. He then realizes what he got into and boldly a charge back to Eric and lifts him up by the collar. "What did you do to my powers?!"
Eric slightly and mockingly smirks. "D-Do you really want to know? It's the same trick I used to free one of my comrades in your dungeon." he chuckles and says briefly on how he saved Grantaire as he fought Cedric.
Phobos delivers him to the large hole and continues to lift him up beneath hundreds of meters away from the ground as a warning. "What have you done to my powers?!" he desperately cries out.
"I've erased it Phobos." Eric replies as the nervousness begins to kick in as he sees below him are the clouds and the city below his feet. "I-It's the only way I could save Elyon from you!" he says and finally faints from exhaustion.
"You brat! You'll pay for this!" He yells out to him and releases his hands from the collar and Eric's lifeless body begins to fall through the sky and down to the ground.
"Upward men!"
Meanwhile below, Vathek directs the rebels to storm to the incline of the hill to the royal palace. He then turns to see a familiar looking lizard with a hooded being beside him on the other direction. "Ghjoel! What are you doing here? And that skinny new legionate! You brought him as well!" Vathek asks the humanoid lizard who is wrapped around with bandages and an arm slings to his support his left arm.
"I brought Martin to help me. I may be limp but I'm still useful." Grantaire replies as he limps forward to Vathek. "You got the message from Jolras?"
"Through telepathy, sure I do. That's why I brought the men here to backup Lyndon." Vathek says as he carries Grantaire on his back, and Martin supports him. After Grantaire settled on his back, he dashes forward on the incline. "But I hope were not too late, we try to rush from the south but it takes minutes to get here!"
"So are we from the north, but we used teleportation to get here." Grantaire replies.
"I can't believe they sent him to fight Phobos!" Vathek disappointingly mentions. "He's a young man and he may not be able to fight the powerful Phobos!"
"I-If may I ask!" Martin huffs and tries to catch up to Vathek and Grantaire. "I-Is this Phobos is as powerful as y-you say?"
"Phobos is not only royalty, but gifted with super natural magical abilities with a great mind as well." Grantaire replies at Martin. "Their bloodline is preserved for naturally gifted mages and wizards, even though his sister's present powers are powerful than his, but to control and to manipulate his magic on his own was his greatest asset. The only way to actually beat him is to fool him—"
"Hate to break it with you but what's that falling?" Martin huffs and notices a falling object descending down the sky by the palace.
Vathek stops and follows Martin's pointer. He and Grantaire glance at the descending being by the Palace walls. "That's no being! That's—"
"It's Atlas!" Grantaire shockingly recognizes him from afar. He quickly leaps out from Vathek's back and though his legs hurt badly he dashes forward to the palace walls under him. 'Erebo First Technique: Submerging Shadow!' His body melts and turns into a form-like shadow. His shadow casts on the walls and moves and climbs upward. As Eric's body draws near, in the last second before they link-up parallel to each other. He removes his body from the walls that turns back to his original form and finally catches Eric as he projects his body in a trajectory.
"I'll get you! I'll get you!" Vathek says as he moves feet to adjust where Grantaire will descend. He quickly raises his arms upward when he catches both of them safely in his arms. "Got you!"
Grantaire carries Eric's unmoving and bleeding body to the ground. "Atlas!"
