Burning Soul

‘Wait! He knew Aeneas. By name? And who was he? Why did he attack a woman?’

A lot of such questions were going on their minds, but Aeneas knew who was standing before him.

“What are you doing here?” Aeneas asked in a serious tone.

He was looking calm but only the one who was able to look at his eyes knew that he was boiling up inside, like a volcano waiting to erupt.

Theo couldn’t figure out the reason for his sudden change in behavior. He along with Vivian were helping that injured woman. She was knocked out by the last punch by his hammer, which was soaked in blood.

As they were looking at each other, the dragon opened its eyes and roared while casting a dragon spell. No one knew what it was chanting as no one was proficient in the draconic language, but whatever it was, it was going to be huge. That spell was concentrating a lot of mana essence at the core of the magic circle.

As the casting finished, it all got awfully quiet for a moment before a ray of energy busted from that circle, onto the warrior holding hammer, mercilessly.

The impact was so huge that everyone thought, the enemy had washed away, the whole mountain shook. Aeneas, who was standing nearby, had a different look.

“All of you keep moving, don’t stay here.”, He turned back and looked at Theodore.

He then looked at Nuae who was holding on to his straight daggers, “None of you are a match to him.”

“We are in your way huh?” He replied with a bitter smile

“Yeah! You are!” Aeneas was dead serious now.

Listening to this everyone had a weird expression. ‘No match? Who’s? Isn’t he dead by now?’ everyone thought. The woman was also so badly hurt and thus Catherine had stepped in along with Sylph to heal her quickly.

“How can you be sure that he’s a great threat to us? Aren’t we at advantage here?”, Naomi was looking at Aeneas with a questioned look. He didn’t even move from where he was and just pointed towards the place where the enemy was standing a while ago.

…

As the spell lost its effect, the ray of energy slimmed and then finally dissolved mid-air. There was a lot of dust in the air as the spell moved the whole floor as well.

After the dust settled, what stood shook everyone. That hammer guy was still standing without a scratch. He has faced great draconic magic without any barrier and was still standing, it looked like he faced the spell with his hammer allowing him to stay face in its protection.

“Ah! That was rather refreshing!” His words carried weight.

“Why wouldn't he survive that? That’s the power of the Ace!” Aeneas said to Naomi in a low voice. He had an awkward smile on his face as he said so.

“Ace?” This word echoed through the cave as everyone let it out loud. Another ace from that great war was here and was on a rampage. Everyone was baffled as they were supposed to be allies, so why were they fighting?

“That cleaned all the dirt on my Mjolnir, but I’m bored by this play. I hope your Ace will entertain me any better.” He looked and sound quite confident in his skills

“Don’t you dare butt in, filthy monster!” As he said so, a seemingly invisible spell hit the dragon throwing it in one of the sides of the floor.

The hit was so hard the Dragon went unconscious the moment it hit the wall.

‘There’s no doubt that this is no ordinary guy.’ Everyone had it written on their face.

“Didn’t you hear me, Move back! He ain’t your match!” Aeneas was angry and his tone was unusually high.

Hearing this Naomi and Nuae who was standing close to him jumped back to safety. Theo, along with Vivian and Catherine were already at a safer distance from the prominent war.

“So considerate of your allies huh? Don’t worry! They’ll all follow you to hell.” As he said so, a huge magic circle appeared above Aeneas, a 7th tier magic, one of the greatest,

Mjolnir Slash: The signature skill of Mjolnir users. Upon casting increases damage on physical attack by 50% for a single hit

Before anyone could even blink, a huge bang and the area where Aeneas was standing was smashed by intense force, the hit was so big that it caused a huge shockwave which made the whole area dusty.

…

“Aeneas!” Theo’s shriek was loud and clear in that closed room.

“I ain’t that easy to kill, kid!” His sound resonated from the depths of the floor.

“As expected of a rat. Come here! I’ll relieve you of your misery!” With a swing of his hammer, he cleared the dust off the air. As the dust got out of his way, Aeneas was visible to everyone, he was right in front of him in a defensive pose. He was holding on to the same sword from earlier.

“Tsk! You ain’t worth holding this sword, you filthy murderer!” saying this he raised his hammer and slammed right on to his sword to break his defense.

A huge clang sound followed by a shockwave made everyone’s ears numb. Aeneas’s strength was no joke as well, after all, he was an Ace too.

With a crossed sword formation, he took the slash head-on and repelled it pushing him back a few steps, but Aeneas gave him no chance of getting his grip on the fight.

‘Boost’, a light-speed up buff and he sped up as he jumped, midair.

His action was predicted by the other guy as he blocked Aeneas the moment he moved. As they landed back on the ground, a melee fight broke out.

To be honest, for some reason, Aeneas was being overpowered, of course, while fighting, a Hammer is never a Match of a Sword. But it looked like Aeneas lacked magic as well.

With his enormous buffs, the guy with the hammer was overpowering Aeneas.

Theo and others watched as Aeneas was getting hits one after another.

“This ain’t looking good, we need to act fast,” Nuae suggested looking at the fight.

“What’s wrong Aeneas? Did you tire already? You’ve gotten dull.” His mocking tone was really pissing Aeneas, but in the situation, he couldn’t even move let alone attack him.

He was trying his best to block his attacks but attacking both physical and magical attacks was a bit too much, even for him also the magic he was using was no joke. Each spell was at least 4 tier magic and he was consistent with his attacks as well.

“Can’t we do something?” Vivian asked Theo with a worried look, to which he didn’t reply.

One could see the frustration in the eyes of Naomi and Nuae. They were both paladins and yet couldn’t even move their fingers. This was the pressure of the fight between those two Ace’s.

…

As this was all going on, the woman opened her eyes a little bit, it meant she was now better than before.

As Cate and sylph noticed it, they looked at Theo and said, “We’ll buff his defense using our long-distance magic. It won’t be enough, but we can help. You all look around for what we came here for.”

Hearing this Theo realized they had to go to the top floor to get the shard.

He looked at the woman who was half awake and said, “Miss! You need to rest. Don’t push yourself!”

Hearing this she replied in a very low tone, “Help her! Help the dragon, you must save her! She’s the key to what you are looking for.”

Hearing this they all looked at the dragon who was lying on the ground and seemed in pain.

Theo turned back to the lady only to find her missing.

“Huh? What? She was right here? Where did she go?”

As they were looking around Theo heard a voice and he suddenly looked in the direction to see whose voice it was.

“What happened?” Vivian asked looking at his sudden reaction.

“Nothing! But how can we heal the dragon! And is it even safe….” He then pulled out his pendant which he was wearing this whole time yet was keeping it hidden so as to keep it safe, it looked delicate after all.

Holding on to it he continued, “And will it even work.”

He closed his eyes and gave an awkward smile, “Guess I’ll believe you.” He said as he walked towards the dragon.

“Theo! It’s dangerous.” Vivian pulled him by grabbing his shoulder.

“It might be, but we need to find the Tear of Oizys. And it seems like, we can’t push them either.” He replied pointing towards Aeneas and Cate fighting the hammer guy.

Saying this he walked to the dragon and stood right in front of it. The dragon was so beaten up, it didn’t even bother to move its enormous body towards Theo. He closed his eyes a while holding the pendant and chanted faintly,

“O spirit of eternal heavens, lend me your strength.” What followed not only shook him but all the bystanders including Aeneas and the enemy as well.

A faint figure appeared in front of Theo, as he kept his eyes shut, and the dragon submitted to him. It suddenly transformed, right in front of everyone. But that wasn’t frightening enough, the person standing next to the faint figure really frightened everyone, even the hammer guy.

All this happening and Theo had his eyes shut!