I raged around destroying everything in my path. While I was tearing things down and starting fires, I made sure that I was close, but still untouchable. I wanted to make sure that anyone that had the task to watch the dungeons was focused on me.
Tough there would till always be a few humans around that would stay behind to stop the human prisoners. They would be easily overpowered by the seer number of them. the civilians would not be a problem either since most of them ran away as soon as they saw me approaching.
After I made a tower collapse, I flew up. At first, I was struggling due to my extra set of wings. In the end I just pressed those against my body and flew like I usually would. I would figure out how to use those new ones later.
Now that the buildings were no longer obstructing the aim of the guards, I got a few arrows fired my way. But without the holy restrains I was free to use magic again. a wall of wind formed in front of me and none of them hit their mark.
I glanced down at the humans who were now finally climbing out of the gigantic hole I had made in the roof of the dungeons. Alex and Leonor were helping a few to get out while Allenya tackled a guard who had tried to stop them. after this she immediately regrouped with the rest.
Now that he was already laying on the floor, I decided that it would be fun to pick him up and throw him at the other guards who were firing at me. and so, I did. They all screamed when I threw the human their way like a sack of potatoes. Those that were standing there quickly got out of the way, leaving the man to land on the hard stone floor. I could even hear some of his bones breaking. Tough it might as well could have been his spine.
After that I moved in the opposite direction that the human prisoners were going and made sure to throw myself against another few buildings to make them collapse. They followed me until I was certain that I had bought the human prisoners enough time, then I just hid myself behind illusions while I made a fake projection of myself fly towards a different direction.
Of course, if they had adder stones they could easily figure out where I really was. But they would also need to hold them in front of their eyes. So, it would make it harder for them to keep attacking me non the less.
Knowing that the longer I stayed the higher the chance was that tew would send their spears and flying vehicles after me. I left as fast as I could.
When I passed over the walls surrounding the city, I almost felt like the giant statues that stood in front of it were watching me. the cold eyes decorated with blue stones had a certain artificial liveliness to them.
I ignored this eery feeling and flew towards the ruins where I had been hiding before the horde had arrived.
There I landed where I had held my prisoner. Everything was the way I remembered. The husk of stone that I had made to prevent him from moving, the scratch marks on the floor and the blood that had now turned dark brown. I wished that at that moment I had done things differently. If I had let him go back, then my father wouldn't have had a reason to question me.
But there is no undoing what has been done. I had to deal with the consequences of my own vengeance driven actions. There I screamed, roared, ripped one of the pillars supporting the roof apart and scorched the room multiple times. Until eventually I sat down in a corner and motionlessly stared at the sealing. I took a deep breath and tried to calm down at least a little.
I would leave soon. I had entered the mind of Beatrice just deep enough to know whether or not she was facing trouble. I assumed that she would stay with the group under the believe that I had decided to set these humans free, so she had to make sure that they stayed alive in order to net let my effort go to waste. If anything, mayor happened than I would go to them as soon as possible to help out. But if they did not face any trouble, then I would try to leave Atlantis.
The way my father saw me now, the things that the being of smoke and shadows said and the fact that those I considered friends had been locked up because of me was just too much. A part of me tough that it was cowardice to run away from my problem. But what I found even more worse than that was that another part of me only wanted to leave because it was only a waste of time to concern me with the matter of mere mortals. Let alone feel bad because I disappointed one of them.
They would all die way earlier than me anyways. All their actions would amount to nothing. Their hopes, dreams, and thoughts. All that they believed in would not change this. Their achievements and failures could only mean so much in this short time they had. But I, I would live for thousands of years. And I was not just limited by this world. I could go wherever I pleased on my own accord. If my strength kept growing at this phase I could safe or destroy entire realms soon.
I hugged my knees and wrapped my tail around myself. I now knew that thoughts like this came in waves, a few minutes later I would probably no longer think of my friends like bags of meat that were just amusing to be around. The only thing was that I would feel even worse when that time came.
I looked at the entrance when I started to her a soft tip tapping noise. A little while later a rather freaked out Quetzalcoatl stood at the entrance. I softly smiled and stood up.
"Hey, I tough that you were supposed to be helped out of here. well at least I am glad that I am not alone".
Since the floor was still too hot for the little feet of the bird, I gently picked it up. The bird was a little confused as for why I had gained more horns and another set of wings. But it did not mind in the slightest.
I placed the bird on one of my horns since it liked to sit on a high place. and now I just watched over Beatrice until I was certain that they were safe.