[mystogan]

This is the final battle now, everything is done, all the ends have been tied up, all roads came to this. we are into the final battle of this story. i will upload the next chapter very soon

Chapter 41: Battle of the Council

Spoiler for Chapter 41: Battle of the Council:

The war among the guilds was over and what wizards remained walked the destruction that was left in the aftermath, the streets were running with blood, bodies piled the festival that started with celebration and happiness, now only mourn and death remained.

“so what did he say exactly?” asked arwin, he and fiora had returned and joined the rest of them

“he said he will take care of Kevin and that our battle is over” said gilbert

“so what now?” asked erica

“I guess we all go our own way now, we all knew this was our last battle” said gus

“I’d like to speak in on that”, a voice from another side as Ewen and Avaline walked in. Exhausted and roughed up from the entire night’s chaos.

“you!?, I thought they must have destroyed your palace and all the people in it as well” said gilbert

“There is a lot more going on than you think”said ewen,“the entire high nobility and the guild masters are under Belzarius’s control. My speculation was right he intends to take control of the entire working order of this nation. If he is not stopped we might as well look forward to countless wars among wizards and the rest of the nobility across the land, whatever peace we have achieved among the guilds and the nobility will be gone and this land will be destroyed. Your fight might be over but a much bigger battle is going on. We must stop him and I need your help, we here are the only people who can do it.”

Gilbert looked at others and they were more than eager to help for the good, but they were just as exhausted and injured.

“alright, we will help but we need some time to rest and gather our strength” he said

“we will leave at dusk, you have until then” said Ewen

“Leave?, where is Belzarius?”

“He and Gresilda have gone back to the council, leaving hypnotized and blank nobility behind in the palace, he will be ready for us. There is something else you should know, belzarius may have been the one who operated this coup but the mastermind behind this is Vincent Klaus and as I have heard, one of your wizard is familiar with him. Regardless he will be there as well” said ewen, he and aveline turned to leave, “meet me at the crossway of the market district after the sun is down. I have to make some preparations”

Gilbert turned and looked at arwin, he was stunned and trembling, “so it seems we still have things to finish and battles to fight. Everyone get some rest for now.”, he came near to arwin who was completely blank as if there was nothing happening around him, he placed his hand on his shoulder, “you alright?” he asked

“yeah I am fine” said arwin, “ I need some time” and left quickly walking away.

During the noon, arwin went far away from everyone and sat somewhere at the corner of a field and Zeke was simply pacing around at his annoyance,

“why do you look so gloomy?” asked Zeke

“you have seen my past do you even need ask?”

“but isn’t this the perfect opportunity for you, to take your revenge” said zeke

“yes it is, but after the last time we fought everything that happened around me because of it. It all lead to everyone getting hurt, some even dead and caused me so much pain. And then he disappeared for good and I thought I had lost him and lost my chance forever. All this time I lived believing that I failed and now there was nothing I could to about it and I had to live with it, I just couldn’t let go of it and that failure has haunted me ever since because it was stuck with me forever and worst part of it was that I was even beginning to live with it. But now that fate has laid another chance for me, all that hate and anger has surfaced up boiling and i cant think straight anymore, that he was the one who has been pulling the strings all this time. While I was living a lie and dint knew anything!, he was still here! I thought him lost and believing that I had failed forever!”

It was hard to breathe and his eyes were teary and he was shaking, Zeke simply watched him.

“………….i am scared” he said arwin, “I am scared and I don’t know what to do”

He stayed there for the rest of the day.

It was sun down now and was time to leave, arwin joined the rest. He was calm and composed. His feet were shaking this morning but now he stood tall and firm, something had changed in him and now his thoughts were clear than ever before, he knew what he had to do.

“I am going to open a portal that will take us to the council, we will find them and put a stop to this madness” said ewen. And so he opened the portal and they went in.
They appeared together in the gardens on the council and as soon as they touch their feet on the ground they were surrounded by the knights of the council, guards directly under the order of the council. In front of them were the tall four towers of the council.

There were seven of them fighting with a hundred guards. Gus attacked breaking through their armor with brute strength and Erica fought head on carving through them with her swords. They were backed up in a group towards the entrance,

“go on ahead” said erica, “we will handle them here”

They nodded they entered the towers while Gus and Erica stayed back fighting one after another wave of the guards.

As the fight took place below, the rest of them hurried upwards.

“There is no way we can look for them everywhere, we need to spit up” said ewen, suddenly arwin made a magic explosion making a smoke screen. Arwin fired up the lightning on his body and with blinding speed moved ahead alone. By the time the smoke cleared he was gone.

“What the fuck is he doing?” said ewen

“I know, he ran off ahead all by himself” said gilbert

“I do not have time for this. Avaline, take fiora with you and go in the east wing of the tower. Gilbert and I will go after awrin” said ewen and they quickly moved.

The group split and for another half an hour they kept moving and searching for their enemies. Avaline searched the quarters and found no one then they were going through grand library,

“wow, so many books here, what are these all about?” asked fiora, looking about in awe

“on everything, from magic to history to science and everything” said Avaline

“I’d like to spend some time here someday” she said

“wait till you see the deeper sections of the library but come on now, we are not here for sightseeing---”, said avaline and suddenly jumped on fiora and a blast of magic blew away book case behind them.

“now look here what I found” said gresilda as she stepped in front of them, she was dressed in magic robes and a blue aura was trailing off of her

“Gresilda, you decided to follow Belzarius and now you will share the same fate” said Avaline

“Then there isn’t much left to talk” she said and fired another blast of magic at them, they dodged it and it exploded on another shelf of books.

Avaline spread her wings, beautiful of white feathers and jumped high and dived towards her, she deflected her away with a ward. Whips of runes circled around her, she deflected them with counter spell and conducted her magic through the runes and hit Fiora spilling blood. A fist landed on gresilda’s face, avaline turned around her grabbing her and lift up high using her wings, she turned midair and slammed her back on the floor cracking it underneath.

(Avaline) she is a lot powerful than this, blank attacks like this won’t bring her down I need to do something

Her wing magic was wearing off and she came to the floor. Suddenly she felt a tight grip around her and wasn’t able to move, gresilda levitated her squeezed further until she heard a few bones crack then threw her in the debris. Gresilda realized there were runes spread out around her and fiora was standing far enchanting a spell from a book and she was trapped in a circle. Avaline stepped out stumbling and created a tempest surrounding her, the wind was so sharp it cut all over her body, she fell to the ground bleed oozing from the cuts in her flesh and moaned in pain. Avaline saw her and then she felt someone behind her, gresilda appeared behind her drenched in blood, avaline looked back and it was just a puddle of blood there. She grabbed avaline’s head and poured her magic into her, her eyes were shinning with bright light and she yelled as her mind was tearing with her magic and she fell unconscious.

Fiora ran deeper into the library and she followed her, she was hiding from gresilda and looking for a book that might help. A few minutes later Gresilda grew tired of playing hide and seek and destroyed everything around her, she blew away every bookshelf one by one and soon found Fiora crawling out of the rubble.

Fiora was injured gravely and would not be able to fight physically, but when gresilda attacked her she opened a book and the magic emitting from it threw her off. Fiora summoned a high spirit from the other world.

“This ends here” said fiora and they continued.

At the other end of the tower Ewen and Gilbert were facing off against Belzarius in the meeting hall of the council. They had been fighting and suffered injuries.

“so predictable of you to split up, Gresilda is killing off the rest of your teams.” said Belzarius

“don’t you see Ewen I am fighting for us, for the wizards. For long has the nobility been suppressing us but no longer, we will rule this land, you should be by my side” said Belzarius

“No! we did have peace with the nobility which you have broken. Nothing good can come out of more wars with the nobility” said ewen

“you disappoint me. But you cannot stop me now I am much more powerful than you” he said

“we’ll see about that” said gilbert and spewed blue fire from his mouth
Belzarius released a shockwave that blew away the fire and threw them into the walls. Gilbert got up wiping the blood off his face.

“distract him for me” said gilbert and covered himself in flames, he lit several places of the hall on fire and he transformed himself into flames and moving from the lit fires from one to another he moved so fast that it simply looked as the place was on fire and gilbert was not even there.

Ewen moved in close and attacked. Belzarius blocked his fists and caught his throat and slammed him on the floor. Ewen’s body started to melt and exploded into a spray of acid which was a decoy, as belzarius was taken aback by it, he appeared above him and hit him with magic infused strike that sent him flying back and crashed close to one of the flames lit in the hall. Gilbert suddenly appeared out of the fire and attacked, belzarius blocked him and threw him off, but gilbert made a successful physical contact on his arm and quickly stepped back.

Belzarius got up and then a purple flare appeared on his arm, he tried to put it off but it just won’t go off and the fire was burning through his arm now, he used magic but still it burned and was spreading. In that moment he pierced his arm and yelled as he cut through it, he cut off him arm using his magic and threw it away. He then quickly sealed the wound to stop the blood and gore dripping from it.

“you little shits!, die!” said belzarius, he removed a talisman and thrust it into his chest pushing it though his body and inside spraying blood before him, it was shining through the cavity in his torso covered with blood flowing from it. He started to change, his size increased and the skin tore off forming new hide on him, horns came out from his head and he changed into a monster with a brown and red hide twice in size with a ram’s skull on top.

“now there will be only death” said the monster, his voice sounded other worldly
He lunged at them, a single swing of its arm sent them flying.

“any ideas?” asked gilbert, getting back up

“yes” said ewen, “we keep fighting”
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As the battle below raged on, arwin was on the top floor. He had left others behind trusting that they will take care of others down there. He had located Vincent’s magic essence and was proceeding towards it, every step he got closer was also closer to the point of no return. This was it, everything that happened every choice he made had led him here at this moment.

He finally reached at Belzarius’s office and he knew what waited inside for him, he could just turn around and run away from all this. But he knew no matter how far he ran and no matter how long, this curse will never leave him. So whatever must happen now is the time.

And then he stepped in……………