Chapter 32：Mages (2/2)

He would stick to this guy for the entire battle. If he didn't learn anything, so be it. But he had to risk.

The temptation was too huge for Mack to resist.

The battle was a non-stop killing and this small fight was only one of the thousands that were happening at the same time.

Kill or be killed.

Mack moved behind this powerful warlock and followed him like a duckling would follow his mother.

From time to time Mack would help in battles involving acolytes and other warlocks, but never saw a mage come close to him anymore.

It seemed this powerful warlock thought was bennet him to kill acolytes. Or at least, was what Mack believed.

~clash~

~clash~

Another bout and another acolyte's head. As time passed, more and more Mack improved using the sword.

He observed the other warlocks fighting and tried to do the same. Some movements were even hard to see, but Mack was able to grasp the basic pattern of attack and defense used by the warlocks.

After a few more hours of fighting, Mack saw something he didn't even think existed before.

A small mage tower.

The tower only had 5 floors but in this battlefield it seemed to exalt itself as if had a hundred floors.

Several mages were around the tower in what looked like a defensive formation and no warlock tried to approach it.

It seemed they knew something that Mack didn't knew.

The warlock in front of Mack kept walking in a straight line in direction of the mage tower unfazed by the mage's formation or the warlocks that stopped attacking.

A Few seconds later the same powerful warlock put both his hands on the ground and Mack could see the warlock's lips saying something. But no sound came out. Light constructs could not talk.

~crack~

~crack~

~boom~

The Earth split itself in front of the warlock and a thin but profound crater started to open and extend in the direction of the mage tower.

A few seconds later the crater reached below the tower.

And Mack could see the tower tilting to the side, just like the Pisa Tower from Earth.

A few mages happened to be on the path of the crater to the tower and fell on them. Unable to fly or even run, the few mages were engulfed by the crater to never be seen again.

The warlock pressed his hands on the ground more and more and the crater started to expand the sides. Until....

~boom~

The mage tower fell to the ground. Killing both mages and warlocks in the process.

The few mages remaining, seeing their tower was gone, started to run back to their defensive line, only to be pursued by the warlocks.

Mack had no clue what the tower was capable of, but seeing how important it seemed to warlocks and mages, he engraved that information in his mind.

But more important than that, he engraved how a single warlock was capable of destroying it. And also, how he destroyed.

Mack was sure he would need to do the same in the future.