Re: Player

[Rivas's POV]

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How do you define absurd? I don't think I had a better definition for it until now.

A guy who appeared in the middle of the desert, in the caravan we were supposed to bring back to the Mayor.

He was weak… worthless… enough to just be killed by the meager flick of my finger. Yet, he managed to strike a deal with me. I could say that the conditions prompted me to do that, so I didn't put much emphasis on it. He was pretty much going to die by visiting Mirag Town, anyway.

Mirag town had become a den for dark mages and 1000 of sacrifices were going to be made tonight in front of me as I stood there watching it, helplessly. I couldn't do anything…

Even though that Son of God, Amir, made a pact to not harm my companions, I doubt I was going to survive. This was the last task of my life… dying to summon a God that may destroy the entire world…

At the end of it all, just moments before God was going to be summoned, moments before I thought everything was lost… A voice came from the same man I deemed as worthless.

"Just wait for 10 seconds. Don't do anything for 10 sec… and I will handle everything… I will save everyone."

He said as both I and the Mayor turned back to him. Though he paid no heed as he moved towards the Necromancer who belonged to the dark forces.

"Who are you-"

And in a single slash…

He killed the guy, whom even I would struggle against to the best of my ability.

"10," he counted as he began glowing a little. He was a light magician? How come I didn't sense that before?

Though that wasn't all. The dark chains inside my heart… they vanished against the light that came from that person.

-Whoosh!!!

And then he vanished… before appearing in the crowd below. And before anyone could realize it, he ran across the entire area, connecting to each and every person down below, freeing them from the curse that was placed upon them. Just like he freed us.

"9" He counted again… before he moved towards the circle…

My eyes failed to notice… but the giant circle where everyone was present before, standing ready to be sacrificed, that circle was empty, with the people sleeping at the corner. And near the center of the circle stood that guy with a rather calm look.

"8," he sighed, as if he was tired of the whole thing. However, he lacked any fear of death or lack of confidence as he… used dark dagic?!!!

'Wasn't he a light mage?!!!' my eyes widened as I couldn't believe it. Was something like that even possible?

-BOOM!!!

Amir appeared in front of him with a rather furious look. His eyes observed him, while he took out a scythe before he asked," who are you? No… what are you?"

Though that guy didn't answer anything as he kept breaking the circle and changing it with his own magic. It was rather seamless, even I felt lost to how beautifully the threads of the circle broke and reformed.

"It's not normal… is it?" I asked the Mayor, who was more adept in magic than I was.

"It certainly isn't," even the Mayor was shocked to see it. His eyes concentrated on the duo in the circle before Amir finally jumped at that guy.

Though that guy dodged it swiftly as he jumped with the rest of the threads in his hands, still reforming it without any break. His eyes weren't even looking at Amir. He was fully immersed in his work.

Amir, obviously attacked him with a dark fire, which hit him before one can even blink. However, that guy just glowed even more, rendering all those attacks useless while he continued changing the circle.

The Necromancer was dead. The Illusionist lady was too weak to join in. Amelia was busy chanting inside the church. She probably had sensed something was wrong, but she still continued chanting.

As for the Mayor…

"Are you not going to help Lord Amir?" I asked as I gulped, without losing sight of either of them.

"The 10 seconds are not over," was his reply as he kept observing the fight with his hand on the sword.

-BOOM!!!

-BOOM!!!

-BOOOM!!

Like fireworks in the sky, Amir's attack kept echoing all over the place, but the guy easily dodged it without making even a single mistake. It was as if he already knew where they were going to come from.

He seemed rather weak, but his speed was nothing to scoff at. Calling him fast would be an understatement. It would be difficult to say whether it was Amir who was fast or was it him?

Every encounter was a close one. Every attack was dodged with precision. But to continue making changes to the circle even in such a fast-paced fight…

"This is absurd…" was the only thing I could mutter as I looked at the time ticking rather slowly during these 10 seconds.

"3," the Mayor counted as his hands shook on his sheathed rapier. Almost ready to jump in the fight.

"2," and I followed his count as I too was prepared to fight. Were we even necessary in this fight? We didn't know… but we had a part to play… as soon as-

My eyes widened as I saw Amir landing on the floor at the center of the circle. Though what surprised me wasn't him, but the chains that came from the circle binding Amir to the ground.

"1," that man counted as he channeled Dark Magic into the circle and Light Magic towards Amir. Amir… was losing?

"AMELIA! STOP CHANTING!" Amir shouted at the top of his lungs, as his eyes looked rather afraid. He was terrified of this man…. Who was about to defeat him in less than 10s? Just how absurd that is…

Amelia stopped chanting immediately as she ran out of the room… but the chant continued right from where Amelia left… it wasn't her though…

"[Lier noau mpia ubet pii]" it was the guy who looked at Amir with a rather mocking smile while he continued chanting.

Amelia was about to rush towards Amir, but that guy threw a flower at her.

"A flower for the lady," he smiled as turned towards Amelia. The flower, black as hell itself, began absorbing all the mana from Amelia. And before she could react, the Illusionist, the old lady, pushed Amelia away from the flower at a quick timing, saving her from the blast that occurred after.

Meanwhile, Amir, who was bound by the chains, got absorbed by the circle… without being able to do anything. His eyes froze, shocked in horror, as he looked at that guy…

"Who are you?" was the last thing he spoke before vanishing into the circle altogether.

-Whoosh!

Then that guy appeared right behind us. His eyes looked at me and then at the Mayor. In his arms was the unconscious Amelia, sleeping with agony on her face.

"I have teleported Amir somewhere he can't come back from for another decade or so. You can give the Aurelian Empire everything you want. But don't tell anyone about me. You never saw me clearly. And about Ameliana. Just say that you don't know anything about her either. It was the Illusionist who chanted," he spoke before he vanished from our sight as well.

Leaving us with only questions… and gratitude.

'I should have at least asked for his name… 𝚋𝚎𝚍𝚗𝚘𝚟ｅｌ.ｃ𝚘𝚖

"We are alive?" I fell on my knees as I looked down at the peaceful look on the people who were waking up one by one, not knowing what the city had just gone through.

"Looks like… we are," the Mayor almost cried as he looked at the people in the city.

Ah! My companions! I immediately hurried towards the people that I cared about…