"Immergence...That technique is quite a nuisance." Ilora says to me.
"Let's go, chief!" I say as we rush Ilora.
*Swoosh*
Ilora smirks.
"Ice magic: Ice wall." Ilora summons a huge wall of ice surrounding us.
"It is true that your technique is quite a nuisance but...I have found a way to deal with that nuisance of a technique." I see Ilora in front of me and break that ice.
*Crack*
The ice shatters but I don't see Ilora there that means.
*Click*
A small ice cuts my shoulder.
She is using reflection of the ice to hide herself from me and I only have few more seconds before my immergence runs out...This is bad...I should have thought about this possibility.
On the other end,
All the councillors have separated from each other,
Oki stands in front of a small person in a hoodie.
"It has been sometime hasn't it, Oki?" A cute girlish voice under the hoodie asks. "Has it? Wait, do I know you by any chance?" Oki asks the girl.
The girl turns over her hoodie and a girl with a cold look who has orange hair and almost the same coloured cat ear with a white patch to it appears under it.
"Oh, you're the ex-queen of the cat clan aren't you?!" Oki asks with a smile. "It's been a while Trip!" Oki says with a smile.
"What's with your smile? You should be shocked on how I am even alive to even though I have a grave at our place." Trip says to Oki.
"Don't be ridiculous, you know that I already knew that you were alive since the beginning, so stop acting all dumb, Trip." Oki says to Trip with a cold smirk.
"Tsch! You and your power to detect the living by their smell...You were such a nuisance." Trip says to Oki. "I know I am." Oki smiles.
"WHY YOU!!!!" Trip rushes Oki.
*Swoosh*
"Who would you be?" Donna asks a woman with no eyeballs as she stands on edge of the cliff.
"I am...Death...If you stand in front of me...You will die." The woman says to Donna.
Suddenly, several hands appear from behind the woman and grab Donna tearing him apart.
Donna widens his eyes with sweat all over his scaly body. "What was that?! Illusion magic?! What is with that woman?" Donna seems to be in a panic.
"Well then, who do we have here?" Hora smiles.
The person in front of Hora summons a bow and arrow and shoots it at him. Hora catches the arrow. "That was slow-"
*Boom*
The arrow explodes.
"Damn...I didn't expect that...I guess this is going to be a fun battle." Hora smirks.
"Wait a minute, aren't you the Elf whose heart we had for a while?" A man with silver hair asks Vasteria.
"What if I am?" Vasteria questions.
"You were caught off-guard huh...How very interesting." The man says.
"Just because I was caught off-guard doesn't mean that I am weak by any means, I am much stronger then you could ever imagine." Vasteria says.
The man smirks, "My name is Ivan Donald, I will be glad to kill you with my own hands Councillor."
At the edge of a forest,
"Your immergence has run out of time." Ilora says as I breathe heavily from the toll that the immergence gives me. I tried using the sword but the speed of fire the sword generates is not enough to keep up with her speed of ice and also her mana is on another level...I don't know how to manipulate chi yet...This is...
"This is the end for you, Henry, I am sorry but I will have to do this." Ilora says to me as I look at her. "Spike up!" Ilora says as spikes all try to crush me.
Immergence was my only chance at getting a win against her but...There isn't much that I have improved on over the last month or so...I am...Still pretty weak compared to all of the other people around me...If only I had some power like them...If only I knew about more about my magic, I think...I would have had a chance.
This is the end for me...I guess...This is how it all is going to end huh. I close my eyes waiting for my death.
"Hey cool guy!" That voice...
"You aren't thinking about giving up just yet, are you?!" I open my eyes and look at Jacob protecting me with a flame barrier around us.
"Jacob...You think so you can stop me?" Ilora looks at the barrier and says.
"What's with your facial expression?" Jacob questions me. "Since big bro Caster died, you have been like a walking dead man." Jacob says to me.
"It was my mistake...He died and now Ilora...I am the one who has been the reason to his death and the reason Ilora left us..." I say to Jacob.
Jacob walks up to me.
*Smack*
"Guh!" Jacob punches me in the guts.
"WHO THE FUCK EVER SAID THAT THIS WAS ALL YOUR FAULT?!!!" Jacob screams out loud.
"Listen closely to me Henry..." Jacob looks at Ilora.
"Big bro Caster died protecting what was precious to him and Ilora left of her own will." Jacob clenches his fist. "You know, I don't call you a cool guy for no reason...You are cool and you had won my respect since day one...You were the reason that we some bunch of delinquents even had a chance to qualify for something like a rookie knight tournament...You were the one who got us the victory in the final game, you were the one who gave us all the confidence to become knights...You have been in your own world and that is why you haven't realised how much you mean to us...At least to me, you mean a lot Henry and I am sure Caster would have thought the same way about you. You have taught me that I should never give up no matter what when I saw you fight against Hayden...I thought that I want to be just like you...That person who fought him was the person I know...That is the Henry Marshal that I Jacob Fire-fist idolise and always will...SO TODAY I STAND HERE TO TELL THIS HENRY, YOU SHOULDN'T GIVE UP NOW OR EVER NOT BECAUSE YOU'RE MY INSPIRATION BUT BECAUSE YOU'RE THE CLOSEST THING TO A FRIEND THAT I HAVE HAD!"
At that moment...Jacob Fire-fist...He was a completely different person. That man didn't have any kind of fear within his eyes rather...He had a look of a man who was ready to fight and die for his friend...So how could I...
I smile.
"I am sorry, Jacob...I guess I needed that punch..." I look towards Ilora. "Let's take her down together and bring her back, what do you say?" I ask Jacob. "You got it, cool guy!"