Chapter 50 (1/2)

Lindyss gasped as frigid air rushed passed her face. She plummeted towards the sea of white below her and gritted her teeth as a translucent blue membrane enveloped her body. Her hair fluttered behind her as she fell through the clouds. She frowned when she saw the land beneath her. Did Exzenter send me to- No… What did Vur do this time?

A fang shaped rune appeared on her forehead and it, along with her eyes, glowed with a purple light. A pair of translucent violet batwings materialized in the air behind her back, spanning the length of two grown adults. Her wings flapped as she hovered in the air, observing Niffle. A trail of destruction started from one end of the city to a collapsed crater on the opposite edge. A few charred and collapsed piles of wood were all that remained of buildings on the line of destruction.

Lindyss sighed and flew towards the crater, while rubbing her temples.

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“This aura…,” Stella muttered and frowned as she floated in the air. She was watching Vur experiment with the lightning elemental when her eyes narrowed and she raised her head towards the sky. “It’s her.” She clenched her hands as her eyes turned blood-red. Her horns let out a black glow and her clothes rippled around her.

“It’s Au-,” Vur said as he raised his head and instantly lowered it again with a groan. The hemisphere of mist around Vur and the fairies trembled before dispersing. Lindyss descended in front of Vur, separating him from Stella.

“What did you do to him?” Lindyss asked while baring her teeth as lightning crackled down her arm.

Stella snorted and a tendril of black smoke flew towards Lindyss. “You should worry about yourself, witch.”

Lindyss pointed her arm towards the smoke and lightning flowed to her palm.

“Silence.”

The lightning in Lindyss’ hand dispersed and her vision went white as a piercing pain drilled her head. The black smoke enveloped her, causing her to cough and hack before she fell to the floor.

“Did you forget my specialty after four hundred years of lazing around?” Stella asked as she descended to the ground and sauntered towards Lindyss. “I didn’t forget. I will never forget that day you took everything from me. Every day, I’d curse you in my head, even as the demons tortured me.” Stella emanated a black mist as she loomed over Lindyss’ body.

Lindyss clutched at her throat, trying to grasp the smoke around her neck to no avail. Her face turned red and veins bulged around her neck. She looked up at Stella with wide eyes.

“Stop! You can’t hurt Auntie,” Vur said. His eyes glowed golden and a faint image of a blue dragon head materialized in the air above him.

Stella turned her head towards Vur and raised her arm. “Sleep.”

Vur’s eyes widened and his body grew heavy. His head drooped and his shoulders twitched as he struggled to stay standing. He took three steps forward before falling forward.

Stella turned her head back to Lindyss. “I’m not going to kill you,” she said as she smiled and the black smoke receded. “That’d be too merciful.”

Lindyss shivered as she looked into Stella’s blood-red eyes. She gasped for breath and propped her upper body up with her elbow. Stella placed her palm on Lindyss’ forehead. Lindyss convulsed as a red glow flowed into her body. Her eyes rolled up until only the whites were showing and she let out a low moan. Her eyes turned pink, then red as saliva dripped from her mouth.

Stella smiled as she took a step back and turned towards the fairy trio. She extended her hand towards them. “Come, let’s enjoy the show.” Her eyes were no longer red, but her horns still shone with a black light.