[mystogan]

well it took me almost one month to finish this one, actually got caught into a lot of other stuff, so i couldn't manage to make time to write the story, and my exams will be starting soon it means less and less time to write this, but still i 'll keep writing little by little and post it as soon as possible.

with this chapter the current arc comes to an end and new things and some revelations will start from the next chapter.

i am happy that people keep reading my work, thank you very much, i hope you are enjoying reading it as much as i enjoy writing it.

"Chapter 15: Strike Back"

Spoiler for Chapter 15: Strike Back:

(Arwin) I see now, i am scared to feet but if i haven’t the courage to face these monsters then how can i ever face him

He put a finger in his clothes and using his blood he wrote something on the blade of greywand like making , he went to Erica he took her hand and made the same marking on her palm with his blood

“get ready”he said

They nodded to each other and dispersed, arwin approached Raegan and Fynn head on, fynn came forward, arwin was running fast, fynn swing his claws, he got on the ground and slided between his hind legs and below him and got to his other side, he quickly got to his feet and jumped away from fynn. He struck the greywand on a stone nearby, the blade pierced the stone and went through it. He swung the sword, the stone slipped from the blade and went flying towards raegan, he quickly turned and blocked fynn’s claws with greywand, he locked his claws with his sword cutting between them, fynn was using his strength to push arwin to ground, arwin used his strength and held him but was slowly falling down.

Raegan put a field of decay magic, the stone through it without any effect, raegan was startled,

(Raegan)Damn it, he figured it out

he snapped his fingers and shattered the rock in two in mid air, as soon as the stone split in two, he saw markings with blood on the inner side of the rock.

(Raegan)of course that’s why he used his blade, he first pierced the stone with his blade, to place the marking on the inner side of the stone.

Raegan was taken by surprise, the red markings shone and Erica appeared right in front of him in mid air where the pieces of stone were, she twisted and kicked in his face, then quickly summoned a simple sword and slashed him from his shoulder to his chest , in a vertical swing as she landed on the ground, spray of blood came from the wound on his torso and pouring the red on the ground, he fell back. Fynn almost had arwin on the ground and was about to tear his throat with his jaws, raegan falling down in pain formed a magic in his palm and fired a big compressed ball of decaying magic, Erica threw her sword towards, it decayed in mid air and only rust fell down, she quickly stepped back, when fynn was about to kill arwin in a moment, she touched arwin with the hand in which he had made the marking, instantly they both disappeared and the decaying magic hit fynn throwing him into the rubble of rocks. Raegan fell to the ground in the pain of his own wound. The two were teleported at a distance, they saw the werewolf squealing loudly like a dog, first his fur fell off then his skin started to burn and tear open, blood was sprinkling out of his body, the flesh blackened and decaying it fell off the body in bits, a puddle of blood formed below him, all the while the life still in the werewolf, it was moving vigorously like a fish out of water, tiny pieces of the decaying flesh and blood falling here and there, his organs and innards fell out of the body and streams of blood popping out of them and his squealing grew small and small.
Erica and arwin witnessed the entire scene, Erica turned her face away when the werewolf started decaying, but arwin was struck with horror and fear at the sight of gore of a live creature decaying and dying in such a way. He eyes wide and jaw dropped, his body was shivering with fear by the thought that he had escaped such a fate by a few seconds or it could have been him.

After some moments when the squealing was gone, he pulled her hand off and fell to his knees and hold his mouth to stop the vomit. Erica saw him

(Erica)what a pain, if he can’t handle it then why was he watching it with wide eyes

She patted in his back ,“come on, this was suppose to be part of the plan, get yourself together” she said

He got a hold of himself, wiped his mouth and got up, he saw at the werewolf only the skeleton was left with the floor painted black by the blackened blood. He saw
Raegan came infront of them holding his wound trying to keep his body in place, his face and eyes boiling with anger and pain.

“die now !!, all of you die!!!” he yelled

“this is our chance, let’s go”saying arwin broke towards raegan with greywand in hand shining green and spilling black, he slided on the ground picked up a stone in his left hand and quickly got up and threw the stone towards raegan, this time to avoid any risk raegan simply moved aside and the rock went behind him, raegan sent waves of decaying magic towards arwin, arwin threw the greywand towards raegan, the sword went through the magic unaffected, raegan ducked at dodged the sword. He got up and approached arwin, the next moment greywand thrust out of his chest piercing his heart, he stood still speechless in shock and pain, he turned his head and saw Erica behind him holding the greywand through his body, he coughed blood, a stream of blood ran down the sword and drip on the ground, she pulled the sword out caught his shoulder and stabbed again,he yelled spitting out blood and splash coming from his chest and back,Erica pulled out the greywand and slightly pushed him, raegan dropped dead on the ground.
The two stood still for a moment or two, arwin took a breath of relief,

“that went well”said Erica

“yeah”

“tell me, how did you figured out the stone thing? and why did your sword not broke against his magic?”

“well, you told me he could decay any material, when you were fighting them and when his attack struck. I saw the fabric of your clothes decayed much faster than the metal of your blades and the crystal sword broke even more slowly. so i thought may be rocks don’t decay, i mean we hear about temples and big statues of great figures are there from hundreds of years, are all made of stone and i have never heard or read exactly what does rocks decay into, even if the rock decayed it would take like hundreds of years. Although i was not sure, it was a gamble, i thought i could use teleportation to get close enough to him to strike with a powerful physical attack, so when you appeared right infront of him , it surprised him , that was the most crucial part.

And about the sword, well the greywand does not decay, decaying is the same as ageing of things, it does not age, the wizard from whom i took told me it was the same when she took it from another wizard before her and it hasn’t changed a bit. It’s not indestructible, it can of course break but it does not age” he explained

“i see”she said

(Erica)the teleportation markings he used, were just marking used in basic spell, the basic teleportation spell is sometimes used to avoid traps, it’s not a combat spell, but he somehow managed to pull it off. May be he isn’t as dumb as he looks.

“let’s move now”said arwin

“just a minute” she said, her pants were short in one leg and 3/4th in another and her boots were fine, but her top was in scrapes, both sleeve torn, below the chest and upper back portions were also torn, the top now only covered her bosom shoulder and lower back now, she used a summoning spell, summoned a top and a sleeveless short jacket appeared from a mage circle. She removed her top and was about to put the new apparel suddenly she realized that she was half naked in the presence of a guy, she flushed in embarrassment and covered herself with the top, she slowly turned her head thinking that arwin was there and ready to pluck the eyes out of his head, but he was nowhere to be seen.

“hey i found a way out!, we better move quick at meet up with the others!” he yelled as he had already moved forward.
She quickly got dressed and followed.

Gilbert stepped out of the greenhouse, small blue flames all over his body and a wicked grin on his face, the greenhouse behind him was filled with blue fire like a furnace, he looked behind and saw a figure covered in blue flames that was soon gone. He dusted off the flames on his body and moved forward.

Gus stretched his arms, twisted his neck a little,his hands were completely red from the tip of his fingers to his wrists, a splash of blood on his face, he walked to the window and wiped off the blood with a curtain and then walked away, leaving behind a hall with it’s floor flooded and blood splashes on the walls, at the centre lay the body of Edmyg in the puddle of his own blood, his arm twisted and broken, his leg barely attached to the main body and his body ripped apart at the neck and chest, as if one pierced his bare hand in his body and tore it apart.

Lukas and Wolgrin were battling by pressuring each other with their magic essence, the hall was shaking, wolgrin held out the black orb, Lukas couldn’t move by the magical pressure loaded on him.

“your essence is slowly diminishing young wizard, soon you will cease to exist,.....ah i sense four approaching us, wonder which guild they belong too”, said wolgrin

Suddenly he realized the four mages approaching them, a hole broke in the ceiling opened above wolgrin and gus jumped in attacking directly. wolgrin moved aside and caught him, he swung him and threw him aside, Erica and Arwin appeared sideways swinging their blades, he ducked and pushed them away with magic hold, a ring of blue fire appeared around him, he sucked in all the fire in his free hand and fired a fireball of the same blue flames at hit gilbert standing behind a pillar.

The four mages got up and approached wolgrin again together, wolgrin used the black orb golden lines emitting from it, he blasted a large force of magic throwing everyone behind, the windows of the hall shattered open, the pressure of his magic essence suddenly increased very high, cracks started to appear in the ceiling and the walls, Lukas fended off the pressure with his own magic essence but could not move while doing so, others had crashed in the hall at different places and were unconscious except arwin, he caught his head and was yelling in pain as if his brain was about to explode, Lukas saw this and realized may be weaker minds were not able to resist this magic.

Now that all the windows were open ,sunlight fell into the hall and on lukas from all directions, he needn’t move, he used his light magic and a light screen appeared blocking wolgrin’s view, giving Lukas few second to react, he moved with blinding speed in the light, he first came to arwin and hit him behind his neck and knocked him unconscious, he then moved towards wolgrin just before he reached him the light screen wore off, but Lukas was close enough to strike, he hit wolgrin’s orb hand as hard as he could and pushed him with another hand, the orb was knocked far away behind and went out of a window. Wolgrin and Lukas both fell to the floor, Lukas quickly got up even though paining, he came to wolgrin who was still lying on the floor out of breath,

“yo..you are nothing but just a tool,... you have no idea what’s happening around you, the council must be destroyed” said wolgrin

“funny how such words only come out when one’s neck is in another’s hand”said Lukas

“fine, then be with it”said wolgrin, Lukas formed a magic in his hand and kept it over his neck, a laser shot out and pierced through wolgrin’s throat, a spurt of blood came out of his mouth and was dead.

Lukas got up and quickly jumped out of the window, there was grass everywhere, at some distance he saw an object shining under a rock, he took out a bag of cloth, he put his hand inside the bag and picked up the orb, he flipped over the bag and tied it. He went inside, the others were getting to their feet,

“well, our job here is done”said Lukas
By the nightfall they arrived back at Isengard, they were back to the guild and the job was done.


“ “......council need to be destroyed.” Is what he said”said Lukas

“i can’t exactly tell what he might have been pointing at, even if there were some cracks in the council, let them deal with it ”said Marco

“and what do i do of this”asked Lukas holding up the bag of cloth.

“store it in the vault for now, i’ll contact the higher ups soon”, Lukas nodded and he quickly glanced at the window, he went there and peeked outside.

“what’s the matter”asked Marco

(Lukas)i thought i saw something...... my imagination?

....................

At the magic council...

A young man named Ewen, the youngest of the six main members of the council,he wore a blue shirt with a white vest with black lining over it, white pants and a long full sleeve coat, from back the coat reached till the back of his knees, he walked into Gareth’s office.

“Ewen, what brings you here this evening?”asked gareth, as he was making notes in thick book, Gareth was the eldest of the six, he was short and old, he wore grey robes and a dark brown coat over it.

“i looked into the matter of the guild named Scourge Chaos”said Ewen

“i have already taken care of it, it was getting out of hand i din’t had time to go through any formalities”said Gareth

“that’s not why i am here, the guild rebelled against the council so we had to put them down”said ewen

“you very well know how the system works, we cannot afford to take this lightly, if we do not maintain this fear among other guilds, then mage war would break out every other day, that is the one of the main purpose of the council, to maintain the fear among the guilds of getting destroyed”said gareth

“i understand it, but it has been a long time since a mage war and has been silent ever since, but this event is giving me bad vibes, it is not new for a war to start with a rebellion, it’s feels like a calm before the storm”said ewen

“even if the guild i sent for the job fails to undo scourge chaos, we can take a direct heavy action and end it for good”said gareth “even if this act is a start for a war it will not proceed”he explained

“what if all the guilds turned rebellious, then even the council won’t be able to stop them”said ewen

“that will never happen, because most guilds fight among each other for power or to sort their own conflicts, none of them rebels, they are not slaves, there is absolutely no chance of a large rebellion taking place against the council. Even if it happens it will never work, the Archmage has made sure that the strongest guild answer to him”he said

“i see”said ewen,but still unsure.

“and it has been peaceful for everyone like this. It’s very unlikely that anyone will go through the trouble of starting a war”said gareth.