"I do not accept this. I will not." After wailing on the ground for a short moment, Lucias Vyn reached inside her robe with her trembling right arm and took out a small box.
"Lucias, don't." Assistant Professor Vyn walked up and laid his hand on Lucias Vyn's shoulder: "Let's head back. We will find another way. Let's bury Winters here as well before we leave."
"NO!" Lucias Vyn yelled: "You don't understand - I don't have time to go back. I don't - I simply don't."
"What do you mean?"
"If I walk out of here. I will die." Lucias Vyn took out a small metal box, with black and blue threads wrapped around it and had a very intricate and complex array carved on its lid and a different but similarly complex array carved on its back: "I saw it."
"Then I will go out and wipe them all out, just give me a few minutes to rest." Assistant Professor Vyn said.
"No, I will die either way. You have studied this gift of mine for a very long time, you know how it works." Lucias Vyn sighed: "My end - is just walking out of that door. It bears no relevance whether there's any enemy or friends outside."
"There must be another way." Assistant Professor Vyn knelt beside Lucias Vyn and said: "Please, Lucias."
"Matthew. Thank you." Lucias Vyn smiled while clenching the metal box, her blood slowly flowed out of her fingers and palm and onto the metal box, along with small streams of her power: "You're right. The other way is right here, in my hand."
"Poof." The metal box glowed in a pale white light, then completely became dust and ash.
"What did you do?" Assistant Professor Vyn stood up and looked around.
"I asked - no, I demanded that our deals with that entity be concluded." Lucias Vyn looked at the ash and dust and in her hand, confused: "But - "
"Something changed." Assistant Professor Vyn looked up at the ceiling and took some time to sense and feel the energy signature around them: "But I can't tell what…"
The ground started shaking, and the walls around them started flickering - yes, flickering, as if they were in a movie and the movie footage player was glitching and the colors and pixels were jumping around. And then after a flash of light, the chamber they were in disappeared, and both of them were pushed to different areas in the underground armory.
The chamber did not disappear, but it was because the entire underground bunker shifted in position, same as Lucias Vyn and Assistant Professor Vyn - they were somehow transported to the edge of the underground armory. Lucias Vyn was transported to the position just behind the teams of Carol Summers and Soren Lupei, while Assistant Professor Vyn was transported to the position near the center of the battle, while Lady Marza O'Gul was battling a team of three witches from Carol Summers' team.
"Did you get it?" Lady Marza O'Gul seemed to be struggling a bit, but not under too much pressure: "Did you get the sword?"
"The sword?" Assistant Professor Vyn asked.
"Did you get the sword or not!? Can we leave now?" Lady Marza O'Gul asked again, with frustration: "Answer me, God dammit!"
"We …" Just when Assistant Professor Vyn was about to answer, everything around him flickered and shifted again, this time he found himself in a different position, and he was standing beside none other than Carol Summers, who was fighting - Soren Lupei and his lycan and vampire gang.
"What the fuck are you waiting for, Vyn?!" Carol Summers turned to him and shouted: "Get into that fucking bunker!"
"Huh?" Assistant Professor Vyn was just about to attack, but was confused again.
"It's the end of the filthy line of Hellingers!" Lady Marza O'Gul appeared in the air with a giant ball of lightning above her: "Die with your wretched castle!"
Assistant Professor Vyn immediately got into a defense stance and readied his counter and defense spells, but was still very confused as to why and how Marza O'Gul was attacking him while Carol Summers was rambling about a "sword".
But the next moment, a crack in space appeared right in front of him, and within a very short span of time the crack expanded to everywhere around him. Then all the sight of everything crumbled around him, as if he was in a maze surrounded by screens playing videos made of glass. When everything around him crumbled, all he saw was Lucias Vyn lying on something in front of him, and with nothing but darkness around her.
Assistant Professor Vyn tried to rush forward to the side of his sister, but he was unable to move even a finger. Then, he saw that some parts of Lucias Vyn's body started turning into dust and small pieces of cracked crystals. And at the same time, he felt that he was losing the feeling of his legs and fingers as well.
There was nothing he could do to stop the feeling, or a lack of feeling from spreading across his body. And when it creeped over the position of his heart, he felt that some connection he had with a powerful entity whose name he dared not mention lightly was broken.
"What did you do?" An angry voice reached Assistant Professor Vyn, just the mere sound seemed to have shocked his soul and mind to the core. But he could not answer anything, for the lack of feeling had reached his face and brain, and in less than one second, his thoughts ended.