The king awaited their arrival on his throne, he had heard the commotion as well as well as seen the fire erupting from the forest, as the gods walked up to the throne room, the king signaled all the guards to stand straight and greet the gods walking in, as the gods walked in, the guards saluted one by one each step they took, "I saw the fire, what happened?" the king asked after wondering what it was when he had first saw it, "we went to the ruins like you said, but our enemies were there." Timothy replied, "I see, that is very unfortunate." the king spoke sarcastically, "it looks like the king really doesn't know how to mask his voice very well, that or he doesn't know how to at all." Lein whispered the Timothy.
The king started raising his hand, "is the king going to order his guards to attack us?" Violet thought, "guys I sense loads of guards standing outside the door right now." Timothy alerted everyone with telekinesis, "roger that, I'll get a shock spell ready." Lein said, "I'll make an ice dome around us as soon as you all attack." Inz said, "Violet you get your swords ready." Timothy told Violet, "alright."
The king raised his hand above his head and put it down signaling the guards to attack them, Lein used his shock spell and paralyzed all the guards in the area, then the guards outside bursted into the room, Violet made many swords and sent them flying at the soldiers, killing most of them, the rest of the guards that survived rushed at them, Inz put up the dome protecting everyone, "Inz how long can you last like that?" Timothy asked, "these are just ordinary humans, there's nothing to worry about, take your time."
Timothy teleported behind the king, took out both of the guards behind him, then grabbed the king by his neck just barely choking him, "now you're going to tell us everything you know." the king grabbed both of Timothy's arms, "it's too late, it's already been activated." suddenly Timothy heard a beeping sound and saw a red dot flashing inside the king's uniform, "what is that?" Timothy tried to teleport away right before the beeping stopped, but unfortunately, his arms were hit by the explosion as he teleported into the dome, "that damn Mede, she put a bomb from the modern timeline on the king so that he wouldn't expose any information." Timothy passed out, "hurry Violet use healing magic on the spots where he was burned and heal those first, then sue some ice to cool his body down." Inz instructed Violet on how to treat an injured person.
Lein took out the last remaining guards, after thirty minutes, Timothy's injuries were healed and his body had begun cooling down, but the king was nowhere to be found, he was vaporized in the explosion, "is Timothy ok now?" Lein asked worriedly, "he should be fine, we followed the proper procedure correctly." Inz reassured Lein that Timothy would be fine in a few days of rest.
"thank goodness, if we lose him here, then we would be in trouble." if Timothy were to die, Mede would find all the shards, the shards that timothy had collected would be scattered again and that would mean Violet and the other gods would lose.
"we have to be more careful from now on, we don't want something like this happening again, we must protect Timothy at all costs." Inz said, "I agree, it would be nothing but trouble if he dies." Lein followed with the conversation, as the other gods pondered about what their next move should be after Timothy wakes up, Violet went around the castle searching for any clues about what their plan is, then she came upon the meeting room which Violet saw when she was entering the castle, there were many papers but one stood out, it was a red scroll, "this must mean that it's important, I'll have a look inside." Violet flipped over the paper and saw that it was the plan the king and Mede had gone over before, "no wonder Felex didn't come down here to get us, he must've been weakened after using the phoenix's full power, that or he was instructed not to, Mede sure is trusting of her allies, or am I being fooled into thinking that?" Violet wondered about Mede and her allies, "the king must have been a pawn to weaken us before we went into the castle when those mages attacked us and the phoenix to finish us, but I bet she didn't expect us to figure out it's weakness that quickly." Violet remembered that the mages from before weren't at the fight in the throne room, just then, a rumble came from under her and the castle was dropped into a huge hole.
"what's going on?" the meeting room's roof caved in and Violet was nearly crushed under it, but her leg was caught under some rubble and she was too injured to use any attack magics, for the time being she just made sure the injury wasn't too painful and that her leg wouldn't break, after healing her leg even though it was still stuck, she looked around the top of the castle, the top of the castle was undamaged, but it tilted to the side, Violet then sensed a human presence on the top of the hole, "it's those mages!" Violet looked at them, Lein carried Timothy along with Inz and went out of the castle, Lein looked at Violet, "Violet what's going on? and are you ok?"
"does it look like I'm ok to you? more importantly, what happened to those two?" Violet asked, "they aren't dead but Inz hit her head against the wall when the castle started tilting to the side, and could you tell me what's happening now?" Lein started panicking, "those mages that attacked us before did this." Violet pointed to where they were standing, "oh those guys? they should be out of magic presence after a big spell like that, I'll go get them." Violet was confused, "magic presence?"
"I'll explain it to you later, just get yourself out of there and protect the others, I'll go get them since they're defenseless now." Lein charged his lightning and jumped at the mages at light speed, he appeared in front of them in a second and took them all out in a second, "phew, if these weren't humans, then I wouldn't be able to bring them down so easily." Lein sat down, "then how about fighting something none human? Lein." Felex appeared with his phoenix healed to full, "wha.. the phoenix, how is it healed so fast?" Lein looked at Felex with shock, "see those mages there? I absorbed their magic then healed the phoenix with Mede's help, and now you are done for."
Lein attempted to charge at the phoenix, the phoenix dodged and a spear was thrown into Lein's chest, and one by one, more spears pierced his body, his body was full of holes after the spears disappeared, "heh, I knew that a couple magic spears wouldn't be able to kill you." Mede walked out from behind a tree, "Mede! you did this didn't you, if you didn't do this then those mages would've had no power for Felex to absorb right!"
"mmm, just as clueless as ever, Lein, I simply used up all the magic one of my most powerful mages had, too bad it took their life in exchange for the phoenix to be restored to full health in the process." Lein fell to the ground splattered by blood and electricity, "the magic's flowing out of you now, you only have a matter of time before you die, but before that, let me tell you one thing, each and every one of you will die by my hand." as Lein tried to speak, Mede stabbed a spear into his head and killed him, since there was no replacement god of lightning, Lein would simply have to be reborn.
"Lein? I can't sense his presence, did something happen to him?" Violet saw the phoenix fly down and landed in front of the unconscious gods, "the phoenix is back already!?" Violet started panicking about what to do, Mede and Felex followed down behind the phoenix, "hello Violet."
"what did you do to Lein you sick woman!" Violet yelled at Mede, "oh your friend? I killed him." Violet started getting angry, "and what are you going to do to them?" Violet pointed at Inz and Timothy, "why of course, I'll kill them too."
Violet started thinking about ways to get out of the situation, she was stuck and the two of them were out cold, she tried to think but just couldn't, "what's going to happen to us?"