Right
when Rein offered his hand to The Woman to help her stand back up. A group of
fully armored horsemen stopped their horse not far from them. The horses
neighed quite loud it took both Rein and The Woman’s attention. As they both
look to the horsemen, a lance was already hurling through the air towards Rein
coated in magic that make it look like thunder piercing the air.
Rein leaned back to
avoid the flying lance from impaling his head, and ready him self for any attack
that might follow. But just in a blink of an eye, the horsemen that were just
got off from their horse, suddenly already around him, just halfway from
inflicting their attack to Rein. Two on both right and left side, ready to
pierce their lance to Rein’s body. One leaping in the air towards Rein, with
his sword ready to slash Rein in two. All with magic imbued on their weapon.
Before Rein realized
it, The Woman was already in front of him. Using her magic to set the lances
launched from both sides off from their course in an instant, not hitting Rein by
any inch. Then for some reason the horseman that were about to slash Rein
stopped his swing. “Lady Tiana!” shouted by the horseman as he stepped back and
sheathed back his sword with his hand still ready on the sword handle. “Stand
down men” said Tiana calmly. “the man behind you possesses dark magic, milady! Please
step away so we can terminate him immediately!” said the horseman again. Both
horsemen with lance was ready to launch another attack on Rein, but then Tiana
said “No! The only thing that possessed dark magic is already dead, over there!”
as she looked away to where Ukhri body was. Only to found it was nothing but an
empty scorched ground.
Rein immediately stood
up, standing back to back with Tiana. He tried to form another lightning blade
on his palms but failed. As he tried again Ukhri dashed towards him up front
with a screeching scream. “ME FIRST!” Screamed Ukhri. But suddenly the horsemen
already launching toward Ukhri with their lances pointed to him. And the horseman
whose sword was sheathed back was now standing in front of Rein with his sword
on the left side of his body, grabbed by both hands, pushed to the ground the
tip was a breaking the earth below it.
Ukhri’s dash was
stopped by the impale of the two lance horsemen to the upper body, causing
Ukhri to spit out dirty blood from his mouth. Followed by a dash by the sword
horseman to just a step away from Ukhri, then an upward slash by his
electrified sword, and last a horizontal slash on Ukhri’s neck, cutting his
whole body in two, and separating his head away.
Rein couldn’t do
anything but stared from distance. A reckless shout from behind shocked him. “okay!
Now its dead! So stand down!” shouted Tiana to the horsemen. The horsemen
sheathed their weapon and cast away their magic and then walked toward Tiana
and Rein. “Lady? Are you a royal family member?” asked Rein to Tiana. Tiana turned
his head to Rein, not saying a word and then started walking towards the
horsemen followed by Rein.
Right after they all
grouped up, the horsemen got on their knees. “we received report from Sir Andras
that a large number of underlings were spotted near the borders last night!”
said the sword horseman to Tiana. Right after, one of the lance horseman
flinched and turn his head a bit to the side and said “i’m sensing a large
number dark mana far in the forest behind us, we should get back to the castle
immediately, sir!”. They stood up and called for their horse. Tiana summoned a
wooden horse that climbed out emerging from the earth right after she chanted a
spell, a kind of language Rein quite familiar with. The four of them got on their
horse, “climb on!” said Tiana to Rein.
Rein climb right up
behind Tiana, and the horses start running toward the castle. While on the way,
Rein asked Tiana about the spell she was chanting. “if i may ask, what language
was that spell you chanted to summon this horse?” asked Rein. “it was a language adopted from the archangels. If you ask how, its a part
of the story of the beginning of magic on men i forgot to tell about, it was an
archangel, not just an angel.” Answered Tiana. Rein was drowned in thoughts,
thinking that what got him down here on the world of men might have been going
for longer than he thought it was.
After quite a long ride,
they entered a small village, a suburban area of the town they about to enter
next. Both the village and the town were quiet, like a ghost town, there were
barely lights, only from the torch and street lamp with small fire lit in it. not
long after they left the town toward the castle, they stopped in front of a
large gatehouse with a deep and wide moat separating in between the Rein’s
group and the gatehouse. “Lower the bridge down! Princess Tiana is home!”
shouted the sword horsemen to a guard that just got to the top of the bridge with a
torch on his hand. The drawbridge lowered down as the guard get back in the gatehouse, providing a way in to the
castle ground for the group. And as they entered the courtyard, lines of
fully armored guards stood on both sides of the way. Not far have they walked
in the courtyard, the earth shook as something landed in front of the
already closed bridge, across the moat. They all look towards the gatehouse. A few
second of silence took in between all of them.
And then, a large black dragon destroyed the drawbridge to pieces, making a way in for it self.
