Burning Soul

A bright explosive halo engulfed Merida making her face lit up.

Vivian who was lying right next recognised her right away! “Merida!”

‘Ah! She is totally staring daggers at me!’ Clarke could feel her gaze, “Ah! You just relieved me of my contract huh! How generous of you!” He tried bluffing for the moment.

“That was not within my calculations but, I can get away with it!” He prepared to strike again.

“The poison is spreading dear!

Let me see what can be done!” Merida tended to Vivian’s injuries while completely ignoring him, that ticked him!

Just like before, he launched a strike while holding both of his daggers, his speed greater than before.

This time his target was Merida!

Boom!

Just an inch away from her, he suddenly froze in the air followed by an explosive spell launching him backwards.

The force was so huge that he literally blew through the trees! Such monstrous force, it made him vary.

Coughing out spat full of blood he looked straight at her with dead eyes,

“Don’t you dare interfere with me! I will get to you myself!” Merida clearly had no mercy in her eyes,

“As if I’ll let you do………” He got back on his feet and tried talking back but was interrupted by something!

A sudden wave of pain urged from his back as if he was hit by a rock!

“Found you, scoundrel!” Herald had kicked him hard while gripping on his arms, that caused him not to fly away and all the force moved through him!

He made an unpleasant sound; the echo of the hit could be heard throughout the forest!

“Crap this!

I didn’t get paid for this shit!” Clarke was rather scared now, for him the wizard was enough of a headache but now, one of the legends! It was overkill!

“The tenth of Xenos! Clarke!

Looks like your escorts need some retaining now!

Don’t worry, I will personally look into it!” Herald grabbed him by his neck while he drew a polearm out of thin air!

He looked at him with blank eyes, as if he had a history with him.

“My time’s over, Let’s have this fun sometime later shall we!”

Clarke slipped out of his grip by turning his body into a cloud of thick black smoke, just as Herald tried to grip on him Clarke threw two small portions of bottles mid-air while shouting out loud of its content, “You catch me and they’ll die, catch these and they’ll live! The choice is yours!”

As he had no other way Herald jumped to catch the potions leaving him unattended and letting him free!

“What the heck!” He cursed out loud but was late as he had slipped away, though he left a note on the ground.

“I will get the one who dares kill my client!”

The region of the forest turned awfully silent as he vanished, Milot who was most infected let out a sigh while Herald turned to tend to Agnes, she was still in shock after what she had witnessed and was weakened due to hunger and thirst!

“Can he be tracked!” Herald asked,

“He was quite smart at running, instead of running on the ground or flying away, he jumped into shadow realm to slip past you, but all I can say if he’s headed further north-east” Ember who headed to pick up the injured Sentinel replied to him,

“I see!” Herald tightened his fist,

“By the way!” He looked at Merida who was busy trying to slow down the spread of poison in Vivian’s body.

“Who are you?”

“Right now, is not the place neither the time, we need to take them both to someplace with exceptional healers! They’ll die at this rate!” She replied without even looking at him,

“Fortunately, we can do it right now!” Dimitri and others finally arrived with their Chariot.

“Let’s get them back right away, I’ll follow him!” Herald advised,

“That’d be useless now, he’d gone way farther! For now, let’s head back!” Dimitri suggested back,

“But, I can’t just…” Herald was being persistent but was stopped by Dimitri yet again, “Read the mood! You’ll only walk in his trap, think this through!”

Taking a deep breath in and out he replied, “You might be right! After all, it's rather strange to see one alone!”

He walked to the chariot,

“Just as stubborn as ever huh! Looks like you haven’t changed a bit!” Dimitri pointed while walking to Milot who was being helped by guards,

“Not a work old man! If not for that poisonous blade, I’d have got him for good!” Even in such troubled situations, he put up a smug face!

Looking at the situation Duvrion tried with the portal and it worked! “Let’s just use it for them!”

Vivian was the first one who walked through along with Merida and Herald while Ember managed to bring the injured one to the spot in time.

As Milot was hit quite earlier he was in bad shape, he couldn’t even walk and had to be carried with guards, looking at his situation Duvrion wasn’t happy, “That’s why you are not ready yet!”

“tch!” Milot was humiliated at his state