Chapter 315 - Third Stage of the Competition (20) (1/2)

Lile was jumping around in water flipping her fins. The audience above gasped. They all held their breaths. Dmitri was looking as pale as a ghost. His heart reached out to his wife, but she couldn't listen to him. There were too many spells around the segment. Ed and Cora choked on their words. Was this Adrianna's end? So soon? This is how the competition was supposed to end?

Isidorus looked at the sea and kept waiting for Adrianna to come out of it. There were smiles on the faces of some ministry people while the others knew that this was the end. The wizard kingdom would now fall into the hands of the most vicious power. Vikra had won.

Every person in the audience was quiet. It was as if they all knew what was going to happen to them in the next few days. For Isidorus it was the worst thing that could happen. His last chance to save his world had failed.

Meanwhile Lile started talking to Zephyr who was in her cell. Just before coming to the competition, Zephyr had contacted Lile. He had visited her house. He knew that her family was a follower of Vikra and that they had been secretly supporting him. He had told her that he would help her in defeating Adrianna on one condition.

”What is it?” Lile's father had asked.

”I will be crowned as the king of the wizard kingdom and we won't go for the crown. We would create another crown and bury the existing one,” he said very clearly.

Lile's father smiled viciously. ”Okay. But what if you betray us?”

”There is no chance that I will betray you, but there are a lot of chances that you would betray me,” replied Zephyr. He knew about their nefarious nature.

Lile's father nodded. Zephyr wasn't an idiot that he was talking to. ”Okay. Tell us how you can help us.”

Zephyr said, ”I will be staying in my house and will enter Lile's cell. From there I will be able to help her. Together our magic should be enough for Adrianna. She won't be able to defeat both of us.”

”Why from your house? Why not ours?” he asked.

”So that you stab me once Lile wins? Haha, no! I would do it from my house.”

”But you need another person to also go in a trance to enter their cell?”

”Not necessarily. Both Adrianna and me cane enter anyone's mind and stay there as long as we like and that person would never come to know unless we want it.”

Lile's father was shocked and his eyes became wide. He knew that Zephyr was a direct descendent of Vikra and hence very powerful. What he didn't know was that Zephyr was capable of much more. The only person that even came near him to magic and powers was Adrianna. Ziu was also nothing in front of them.

Lile's father did not ask questions because it was of no importance now. He didn't want to complicate things any further. A bond was made, which would break after the competition was finished.