Burning Soul

…

In the chamber of wisdom, Aeneas and Dimitri were taking a stroll through the shelves of countless books, so many that if it were laid on the ground it’ll cover more than a village at any time!

“Before I say anything, why not you tell me what your version of the story is?”

As he said Aeneas had a confused expression with a hint of anger,

“My version!

Oye! Are you kidding me?

It happened right before my eyes!” He replied with a raised tone.

“Yeah!

And so, it happened before everyone’s eyes and yet we get to hear in many versions!

Tell me what happened?” He asked him again,

this time taking a seat on one of the tables in the library.

Aeneas took a seat as well and said,

“I really believed I’d never had to talk about it!

It’s my vengeance after all!”

…

After a brief moment of silence, he realized there was simply no way to dodge it this time,

“I remember that fateful day as clear as it might have just happened yesterday! We were summoned by the King's table in the southern region.

They had already forged an alliance between the northern and themselves, we were summoned by them to fight in that bloody war.

‘You are the chosen ones!

Only you can defend us!

The beast-men tribe has said that they will be able to defend their sides,

we need to fight off hard as the hell’s door will be opening closer to us!

We have to work harder.’

One of the seven kings spoke to Ace’s who had shown up there.

‘These people!

My King,

please reconsider they have not ever fought on our side, let alone anyone’s!

How can we trust them?’ one of the ministers spoke to which the kings replied,

‘They are chosen by the Plane!

They are destined to slay the enemy!

If we can’t even trust them, what good are we?’

His reply was a sharp intuition for those who were to oppose their decision.

This clearly wasn’t going to make everyone happy, but the kings held the absolute order of power!

…

After addressing was done, we gathered at one of the balconies of the castle as everyone else enjoyed their meal, for some this was their last as they were enjoying that way!

Hina was worried for some reason,

after all, she had just become an ace and wasn’t fond of all these killings,

Hina was good at defending us!

‘Oye!

Tomorrow is a big day!

We need to prepare!’ Lanius was always like this,

way more impulsive and a really hard worker, Others were very good allies too,

we had fought a lot of wars and won as well; we were the Aces!

The next day was something none of us wanted to wait for, we wanted to step out and put a stop to this war!

But we all knew it would not be that easy!

…

The next day in the morning we all assembled in the main square!

Out of seven kings, there were 3 fighting from our side, they had elaborated their plan earlier and we were to head to the war zone, ‘The Crimson Wasteland’ you all call it now, but back in the time it was a very large and wide-open area known for beautiful flowers,

I and Hina would call it the Silly Valley!

It was her who came up with this name though! The war wasn’t going to be easy; we all knew because we were outnumbered by the factor of 100 as to 1!

‘Listen my comrades!

There stands the evil!

We have but one task, pierce it with all your might! Am I clear?’

One of the commanders commended to which everyone started to cheer up! It took us no less than 10 mins to reach the war, but it was no longer a Silly Valley. Our faction was a tiny bit late!

‘That’s so cruel!’

Hina wasn’t sure of what was war anymore, the hell’s forces had massacred every single village in their way and had thrown the heads only in their direction to block the path!

Every single soul-less head was lying cold, without their vessels!

How could we keep our calm at such times?

Lamius was the first to lose his composure,

‘Damn these bastards! Aeneas I’m going in!’

This was something everyone had in their minds, but our targets were the Spawns as those were some monster’s others couldn’t handle.

With me on command, we charged in crazy.

With everyone on my side, we had no hard time crushing through them, and finally, we were confronted by the arch-demon!

It took us more time than we thought it’d take!

He was strong,

a lot stronger than all of us combined!

Though with Arboria’s king’s help we were able to seal him off!

The war was put to an end for good!”

…

After hearing this Dimitri asked,

“Then?”

“We were betrayed by the people we fought for!”

...

Hearing this he went silent for a second,

“What do you mean betrayed?”

“We were standing right there; Hina was finally happy that the evil was being perished for good, the seal wasn’t fully active yet... the Arch-demon was dragged down first!

Just as she was happy,

a spear came out of nowhere and hit her!

We weren’t on our guard surrounded by our allies!

Just as it hit her another spear came in flying and hit another one of us!

I was mortified and couldn’t move a bit; another one came in flying towards me!

I couldn’t even dodge it!

Damn her, Hina jumped in to save me!

I should have been the one to die!

I couldn’t even say goodbye to her!

Lamius grabbed me and jumped out of the warzone!

Those spears were being thrown by her!

Serena!

Why!

Why were we betrayed?

Why was I not killed instead?

Why?

It had to be her?”