61 Chapter 9: Serena... Ariel..? (2/2)

”You know... originally i came here on an assassination request of the merchant Floyd's daughter... But you three are clearly worth a lot more than that...”

Serena began to move her mouth, forcing herself to say something.

”Hm? What's that?”

”D..rop... Dead...” She said as she cast ignis in front of her arms

She then slammed the Ignis and her hand on to his arm, which resulted in it being burnt, He slightly loosened his grip once it happened, but it wasn't enough

”Interesting... So you can cast without being able to talk... A magicians greatest weakness is to only be able to cast once he's said the words... You are truly interesting.”

Ariel gathered Air a few feet behind them and secretly propelled it at him as she did her best not to let him notice. She propelled 5 of them straight at his back, and also subconsciously lowered the power so that it wouldn't kill him...

[Just a bit more...] She thought to herself as they were about to hit him

There was contact, the 5 wind blades all managed to hit, but it wasn't watch she wanted, It hit a shield he had formed on his back, shortly after she propelled them.

”Was that your doing?” He asked as he looked at serena

Serena showed smiled at him as she nodded.

”Lying won't work on me. It was you wasn't it?” He asked as he looked at Ariel

Ariel nodded as she had run out of air, her consciousness was fading

”Lea..ve... her... al...one...”

[Damn it... I'm the older one... Why am I so useless... John... Sorry...] Thought serena as tears streamed down her eyes

”P...lease... Don't... Hur...t... the...m...” Said Ariel as tears flowed down her face

Shortly after that, they both fainted.

”What? Done, Already, how boring.”

The man let go of serena and Ariel and they fell straight to the ground

”Hopefully this wasn't enough to kill you, ah well it's fine, there's still that kid, speaking of kid. I wonder how he's-”

The man was interrupted by John who said ”Serena... Ariel..?” as he walked over to them

”You... How did you break through my dark domain?”

John ignored the man and walked over to them, it was clear that he was drained from the way he was walking, he had used up most of his magic to break out of the Dark Domain.

The man simply watched as john kneeled down beside them

”Serena... Oi... Wake up... Ariel... Come on... Stop joking around...”

John's mind wasn't in the right place. He had spent time in a domain which consumes at the persons mind and exhausted his mana. He didn't even check to see if Ariel and Serena still breathing.

”Can't you see? They're dead” Said the man

”They're not... They'll be fine...” Said John as tears began to stream down his face

”No, they're dead, I killed them”

John turned his head and faced the man as he stared straight at him with a blank expression.

The man stared back with a nervous expression

Shortly after, John fainted and collapsed on to the ground

”Did I really feel threatened by a kid...” muttered the man

Dark clouds began to gather above them, and a storm was coming.

”Well, time to take these three back...” he muttered as he moved his hand to grab them

Before he grabbed them, his hand was stopped. It was john, He grabbed on to his hand. John's grip was strong, the man tried but couldn't shake it off. As he was distracted by that, he failed to notice that john was mumbling something

”Earth Spike,” Said John

Once the man heard that, he felt a chill go down his spine. The man used all of his strength and managed to break free of the grip took that opportunity to leap back

A split second after his jump, the earth rose in the form of a spike in the location where he was at. Shortly after the earth regressed back to normal and John stood up.

His eyes were closed and he began muttering something again

”He's unconscious?!”