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40. Miku's whisper
As I opened my eyes, I saw a dark pitch light crippling in my hands. Where am I? Where is Miku? What happened?
I scanned my body and found nothing suspicious, the only thing that catches my attention is the dusty cold floor. I stood up and looked for a way out of this dark chamber.
"Hey! Is there anyone there? Please help me out of this cell?" I shouted, but the silence only answered me with grin.
I went on the edges looking forward to any door around but nothing seemed to be an exit. I lifted my left foot and kicked it out with my ankle.
I felt the hard block that pierced in my skin stunning me without even doing anything. A reddish spot started to pop out from my ankle, the feeling of something is sewing my ankle bends me down.
The first thing that came into my head is healing myself using my elemental blood manipulation magic, but using it will drain my energy and mana flow. So instead of doing anything I just lay down and formed a cherry scythe to destroy the walls.
Without further delay I swung my scythe with my feet buried in the ground. A few seconds later, the walls broke open and the light from the little lamp shot my cold body with its own warmth.
I walked past the rocky cave and found a vast cell filled with fragile and skinny looking demi-humans, as I scanned the cell I found Tina locked with other Demi-humans. She knelt down with a vale of fresh wounds on her body, beside her a dwarf with a chubby body.
I hid myself inside a wooden barrel, there I snuck a glimpse and saw the dwarf swinging his fist on the girl. Seeing that stuff happening my blood pressure built up and reached the tip of its limits. I narrowed my eyes and cast an earth barrier to shield Tina.
Before the dwarf could react I pierced his head with my vibrant scythe and casting the blood out of his body. The other demi-humans quickly dash out of the cell and run towards the exit.
I held Tina's hand with a huge doubt in my back, I twisted my lips and helped her stand.
"Quick, Tina! We have to escape!" I pondered while my chest raced through my body.
"Who are ya?" She muttered, pulling out her hand on me. "Why do ya know my name?" She added with her eyes glaring like a fireball.
"Huh? Did you get hit by a rock on your head to forget me! Tell me where you took Miku?"
"What the hell are ya talking about? Who is Miku?"
"Aren't you the one who takes us here? Where are Lady Shi and Megor?" I retorted.
"Who are ya? Why did ya know my parents name?"
My head was spinning with so much information, I just zipped my mouth and continued to find the way out of the cave. Tina was too reluctant but she still led the way out of that dark cave, we released other demi-humans and found lady Shi and Megor laying inside a cell without consciousness.
Tina used her holy magic and healed the two with his eyes sparkling with worries. I helped her carrying parents, but a girl identical with Tina showed up, she had a peculiar tail that is the same as Tina.
Why are there two Tina here? Does it mean that the one we had for supper is the fake ones and those in the cell are the true demi-human.
"Who are you?" I asked about reforming my scythe in my arm.
"Oh..! So y'all the one who caused the havoc here? I thought ya gonna sleep for a while but turns out I made the wrong choice."
I swiftly slashed her body but a simple hand sign broke my scythe. She clicked her fingers and everything became silent, the ground became cold as the dead body and the serenity turned into snowy mountains. Followed by her murmured, "Icy Temple Domain"
I tried to move but Tina's hand stopped me, and glanced at the same girl as her.
"Don'cha move or else we are going to die!"
As I did what she told I asked myself where I Am, and why I felt a tremendous amount of dark energy leaking out from her eyes.
"So y'all knew well about this Tina!" The girl muttered as her body started to glow with light spots.
Just before I could even breathe, her body turned into a dwarf girl with golden hair and purple eyes, her little body and pointed ears made me feel uncomfortable.
"Just' as y'all knew, this is my domain. Within this area ya'll experience the heavenly punishment of the ice angel!"
"Y'all're Sano the ice mage, right? Why did y'all have to do this?" Tina mumbled while placing a flower in her palm.
"Nothing in particular, I'm just tired of slacking off and wanna play with Megan's toys."
"Megan's toys? Are ya saying that the dwarf Princess was the mastermind behind the slavery?"
Slavery? Does it mean that everyone in the demi-human tribe was captured by the dwarfs, then what about those demi-humans that we encountered upon entering the tribe?
"Indeed! Everyone of the stink bugs like ya are the toys of the Princess. It was too funny that dogs like ya are easy to manipulate!"
Tina gritted her teeth and placed both of her hands on his face, then a pitch and green garden changed the half of the icy domain into a farm-like space.
"Nature domain!" Tina mumbled.
The edges of the two domains created a crack and a mist appeared on it. The mist engulfed the area and the crack became bigger than the tallest building that I've seen in the kingdom of Lionaris.
"Too bad, I'm looking forward to playing with ya but my interest turned into a sloth!"
Sano glared at me and with a blink of an eye, she struck my head with her piercing hand. Upon the hit struck me I saw a white light wave making me feel I'm floating with air. Although my sight blurred and my body felt heavy, I still formed a blood cutter and managed to scratch the face of the naughty girl, Sano.
I stumbled in the ground and Tina quickly rash to help me, Sano placed her hands on her gentle face and saw the crimson liquid flowing from it. Her eyes shifted into despair as she made a cross sign on her fingers.
"Hallowed sword!" She muttered and an ice sword appeared.
"Ya have to pay with this!" Sano shouted, once again she dashed towards me but Tina took out a magical sword out of nowhere and clashed with Sano's heavy strike.
I'm wondering why they didn't even use their powers to fight back against the prevailing abuse of the dwarf, why they let dwarfs treat them like slaves and let some of them die. Are they planning something?
I just watched the two swung their sword and parried each of everyone's attacks. I smelled a tiny smoke from the spark of their sword and saw a little fire sprouting from their ground.
It seems that the cave was rich with charcoal and other minerals. I cast a support spell on Tina to help her fight, but Sano uses a null magic to make my magic fade.
She dodged the vertical swing of Tina's sword and slashed her body, resulting in a huge step back on Tina as a blood slowly cascaded on her body.
"Reverse!" Tina muttered and a white smoke emerged on her wounds mending it up.
"Sh*t..!" Sano shouted while throwing her ice sword on the ground, she raised her hand and stopped moving.
"I surrender!" She muttered.
'Why did Sano give up? Is she up into something?' I asked myself.
But before I could even think about it, another girl emerged, she had twinkling eyes and a brown robe.
"Looks like ya have a fan!" The girl muttered.
"Yes, my Majesty!" Sano replied, she bowed down her head.
Tina and the other demi-humans around also bowed their heads so I did the same thing.
"I told ya to release them, and it turned out that y'all were playing with Tina!"
"I'm sorry Majesty! I'm just thrilled to be with her!"
Once again my head stirred up, something was really wrong with everyone. I can't describe it but I could feel a bit of an absurd flow of events.
"Follow me!" The girl muttered.
"Yes, my Lord, Megan!" Tina mumbled.
I followed everyone out of the cave and went into a huge village on the slope of the mountain and gathered in a round arena. The girl or lady Megan as they referred as, walked towards the balcony of a tower facing us. She stood frozen for a minute until everyone became silent, she took out a seal and showed it over.
After everyone saw it they knelt down and gently shouted her name, "Long live Queen Megan!" They shouted.
To my surprise, Sano and another man appeared on her back. They stood beside the queen and glanced at the whole kingdom. The queen continues her speech and the other dwarfs and demi-humans start to cry.
"As everyone knows, the kingdom of Ishanaq is the haven built by both demi-humans and dwarfs, against the prevailing darkness of the Titans. Now marks the significance day as I, the royal Princess of Ishanaq stop the tyrant rule of my father. The past leadership painted the whole kingdom with its darkness and the abuse against demi-humans started to make everyone angered." The queen explained, she took out a head and showed it to everyone.
"This is the head of the 14th King of Ishanaq, the head of my father, and the head of everyone's suffering. Our plans successfully managed to break the seal of the dark side and return the light for the new hope." The queen further exclaimed.
"With the help of everyone—" the queen suddenly glows with light and turns herself into another lady, an image of Lady Shi, Sano on the other hand, turned into Tina. Meanwhile, the man beside them turned into Megor.
"We managed to master the illusion magic and use it to turn the table down against the king and his cabinets! Now please witness the execution right against the other loyalists of the late king!"
From the other side of the tower, 14 individuals were kneeling on the ground with their heads wrapped with a basket. The knights on their back slowly pushed them to the balcony and one-by-one their bodies fell making them die.
Upon seeing the individuals death everyone clapped and shouted with joy, they danced, sang, drank alcohol, and ate food.
I felt disgusted with what happened, my stomach suddenly ached and I almost vomit thinking about how everyone reaction upon the death of those individuals, why can't they just resolve everything with peaceful manner, why they have to killed them, and why everyone rejoice with someone else death?
I can't really resist being disgusted so I tried to find a solemn place, but I suddenly remembered Miku and asked myself where he was. All I can remember was our conversation with lady Shi who turned out to be the queen and Megor, the chief of the demi-human tribe. Our conversation stops at Miku revealing that he killed his own sister, I don't really understand why he has to say that or he was just lying.
I glanced back at Megan, the new queen of the Ishq kingdom and found a peculiar shadow lurking on her back, as I scanned it further, I saw a mist floating on the air. A few moments later the queen stops her statement and gestures at her back.
"...and let me introduce to ya, the one who contributed the most in the plan, no other than Miku Ayala y Salvador, the dark mage from the north."
As I heard his name I felt a chill on my heart, my body trembled and my fear built up. I knew something was really off, but after seeing Miku with the queen, I felt betrayed and struck with many questions.
Why does Miku almost knew everything, and why he always played a huge rule with other? He seems to be normal, but his existence make me wonder, 'what if he was just manipulating everything? How could a boy almost younger than me do that?
I could even think about the possible scenarios a head but it seems too dark and it made me wonder if I made the right decision to follow him.
I watched him in the balcony as his little body stood on the top of everyone, he opened his mouth and as I heard his voice I saw a gleaming palette of the dead bodies, a ruined kingdom and a wail of crying children.
From there, I saw him slashing the head of everyone's head and grinning with dark feathers on his back. I'm not afraid of him, but I'm afraid of his capability, I'm afraid of his future, and I'm too afraid of seeing him dying.
He stopped on his message and glanced at me with a piercing glaze, it felt like he was teasing me. He continued his glaze until I almost forgot my own name.
Gazing at me he mumbled "...I knew you are thinking about your decision, but I can guide you through the path of the peace, because my the PEACEKEEPER!"
With that the blue skies become coated with dark clouds and a spark of thunder peek a little. Miku wear a dark robe with a moons and hemlock petals design and the rays of the star struck him like an angel in the darkness.
Once again he spoke up and declared something, "With the power of peace we will proceed to stop the regime of the prophet of earth in this land and the Titans!"Download Novelah App
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