That boy had approached them as if nothing was happening in front of them, leaving one more responsibility on the representatives, in which they had to choose one option or the other and could affect one or more people. The attacks on Norilex did not stop at any time, however, it did not retreat with any attack inflicted in his direction.
The time dragged on in hours where the enemy grew stronger and stronger. Marinep making a decision, if removing the seal of power on his scythe would be the best option to be able to move Norilex away from the surroundings of the main compound leaving space for Erick and Kevin to attack.
His hands tremble at the thought that if he fails not being able to complete his mission it would be detrimental to everyone, because once the seal is released it will have only a couple of hours in increase of its power before collapsing for several days.
Marinep sees the two leaders fighting against the leader of Esia and knows that this is not the time to doubt, the people who trust her are giving their all.
—It's time— she says, waking up, shaking her head. —Bird seal, fly!
A white glow embraces the entire building behind it, ivory-colored birds fly leaving behind a purple frost that after touching everything in its path is covered by hundreds of shields capable of withstanding any type of attack. Kevin, seeing the birds fluttering at the top of the enclosure, draws Marinep's attention.
—Princess! Because you did?— He asks alarmed. —You know what will happen if we can't stop her in time.
—I know we will succeed, and it is also the only way to fight without reservation, not to mention that the leader of Antirda is sure that we can wait until help arrives, that is why we must prevail.
—Princess ... what have you decided?— Kevin asks, letting a slight concern in his voice.
—I will not say that I will save her at any cost, that would be very hypocritical of me, in her place I will point out that we will do our best. If we must finally put an end to it in the process to defend others, we should not doubt it.
Kevin's concern was growing at Marinep's words, however there was no reason not to understand his logic as correct. They cannot afford to doubt what should be done, he looks to Erick for a decisive confirmation, he nods, so to deal with the problem the two fix their scythes in the grass releasing their respective seals being surrounded by color their corresponding power, yellow for Erick and brown for Kevin.
Norilex swings her scythe in preparation to resume her assault against Erick's flares stopping her long-range attacks from her and avoiding Kevin's onslaught as he tries to knock her out or tire her. In this way, half an hour easily passes and she is seeing herself at a disadvantage, she utters a scream full of frustration, feeling the anger rise inside her, she wields her scythe hard, nailing it to the ground, releasing with this action the seal like an expansive pink wave, causing the Generation of flowers, thorny vines and others become more aggressive and some encompassing an enormous size.
Erick, seeing the scene that unfolds, runs to openly encompass all the sprouts and scorch them. One of the new vines throws itself against him but he jumps to avoid it, when he falls he feels a sharp pain in his abdomen, his vision is clouded at the same time that it turns dark, each breath of air is like stabs in his lungs feeling that he is faint from one moment to the next.
When trying to incorporate a viscous and hot liquid, he stains his white shirt with a dark red, when checking the area with his hand, he discovers that his wound has reopened and to complicate the situation, small poisonous spores dance around him. . Kevin realizes what is happening, he tries to help him by creating sand and stone animals in order to distract Norilex; Without any effect, since the creation of vegetation far exceeds his own, preventing it from getting close to his friend.
Marinep looks for something to counterattack, when she sees the stones she takes them wrapping them with her power and then throws them towards the maddened girl like grenades, she defends herself but the explosion they cause causes her to retreat due to the force of repulsion momentarily stopping her attacks and the advance towards the injured person, directing his gaze in the direction from which the stones came.
The leader of Amira Sur prepares to face her but despite the attacks inflicted on her, she does not come towards her as she had planned, but instead sends her plants to meet her to go towards the wounded Erick who lies unprotected.
— Erick!— Marinep screams but to Erick's ears she only hears a distant whistle. —Erick! Erick move! Heavens this is pointless, I can't leave this place… Kevin!— She says while she looks for a backup in him.
—I know, I'm trying to cut a path through these hideous plants that are getting more and more annoying.
Norilex approaches the leader of Ocania attacking him with a kick, he stops her with his arms, his body trembles at the blow but it is not enough to knock him down, she withdraws her leg to take the momentum for another kick that, as before, stops her again .
—Too bad girl, I'll be injured but still with your physical strength you won't be able to beat me— she takes her leg and throws it to the ground.
She complains but not because of the pain, as the abundant grass served to cushion the blow. Norilex takes a strand from the grass and hardens it to the point of being as strong as a small dagger, with it all the strands around it do the same. Erick seeing that they approach him like a sharp wave from the ground, moves his body quickly to get out of the green area and onto the pavement.
—Got you— Norilex says as he points forward creating oversized tulip-like flowers that secrete a yellowish gas into the air. Erick holds his breath and by rapidly raising the temperature around him, he burns the dispersed gas, observing that its flames do not react violently, for which he concludes that it is not flammable or toxic to his body, even so it had effects on him causing him to feel sleepy.
His attacker prepares to attack him with the thousands of daggers that he has created from the grass, Erick tries to stay awake searching in his mind for a plan that can get him out of the situation in which he finds himself. Esia's girl makes the attack on him and the leader of Ocania ready to defend himself notices that in front of if there is like a semi-transparent wall that stops the attacks towards him, the other leaders look at this and wonder what happens?
A hooded person stands next to Erick and directs his words to the leader of Esia.
—Norilex, the fight between us could not be concluded. Do you want to complete it?
—Are you the help ... that Antirda sent? Jo… se… lin— when mentioning his name Erick falls asleep with his hand on his abdomen covered in blood.
The students who are part of the followers of each territory leader shout almost in unison. —She is the leader of Irop!— Seeing her scythe green hers.
—Damn, so this is what Menrip meant when he said to be careful— He looks at Erick lying on the ground. —He already knew, there is nothing he can do now, I will not hide anymore— she takes off his hood revealing his hair red like roses and his green eyes like fresh leaves that are fixed on the body of the ground.
Marinep notices the figure in the distance confirming what they had told her about her before, she shakes her head and refocuses on stopping the plants that dare to attack the enclosure.
—Sister in law! I know you must be surprised. I will explain the situation to you later, for now, I will create a safe way where you can send help to pick up the president of the student council, he is asleep because of the gases of some plants.
—Agree!— Marinep adds.
Joselin touches some of Erick's blood and when doing so instantly turns them into drops between orange and black suspended around him, giving off a voracious heat. The blood has turned into drops of fiery lava.
These are thrown at the feet of Norilex making her go back, the rest of the drops are directed to the plants that still attack Marinep and those that remain alive on Kevin's side. When the plants melt near the main campus, Mainep guides some teachers with some of his followers to look for Erick, when they go to meet him they can pick him up without any problem returning to the main building to take him to the infirmary and be treated immediately.
Marinep concentrates her help on Kevin again throwing the rocks wrapped in his power, exploding some vines along the way; She is she begins to feel her body heavy of her for keeping her active power at the highest level for a long time, in her mind there is only one thing << We must achieve it, we must achieve it >> repeating it several times to avoid letting herself fall to the ground.
Joselin corners Norilex with Kevin who has arrived after previously being helped by Marinep, both attack her avoiding thorns, vines and poisonous flowers. The leader of Irop seizes an opportunity that her opponent pays more attention to the leader of Afriz than to her and locks her in a glass box.
—Ready— Joselin announces. —We have managed to retain her, now we just have to move her to the greenhouse, of course if they want them to stay alive, otherwise they should tell me to conclude once and for all— she suggests to Kevin that she is next to her.
Kevin looks at him and then lets out a big sigh and responds.
—The princess said to keep him alive, so we'll do it that way.
—Typical of her— Joselin answers after a little giggle. —Well, let's move… us— when looking down from her to her abdomen, she finds that a sharp vide has pierced her, quickly cuts her with his scythe and makes sure that she is not poisoned, luckily for her it is not is.
A shuddering scream is heard in the direction of the glass box beginning to crack, peeking out of these green vines.
—What happen?! Didn't you have her locked up properly?— Kevin says noticing that Norilex comes out of the box that has been smashed.
— Of course!— Joselin answers while he applies pressure on the wound. —I made the box from her own sweat, so if she tried to break the box she would inflict damage by attacking something of her own— Joselin explains. —Whoever broke it regardless of the consequences, he only tells us that he has completely lost his sanity.
—This is wrong, just wrong, it's too wrong— Kevin says as his legs lose stability, letting him fall to the ground. —I don't have the strength anymore, I can hardly speak.
—We can't ask the others for help, Marinep must be tired too. Even if I release the seal on my scythe, I won't have enough power to stop her passing in that state.
— So what? While waiting for our death I will be making some graves to bury us.
—That's not funny— Joselin thinks.
—Tell me then, what's funny about the situation? Weren't you and the leader of Antirda the cause of this?
Norilex was about to attack them while they argued but she is held back by chains that throw her in the opposite direction.
—Hey Afriz boy. Is it normal that after coming out of madness you have a headache? Also with all this noise I could not rest, much less on the hard ground.
—Esteban!— Kevin yells when he sees him and then starts coughing because his throat had dried up. —I never thought I'd be happy to see you and no, I shouldn't but I have to assume you should still be resting.
—Hi Joselin, what a pleasant surprise I have had to see you here.
—... We better concentrate on what comes back. Did you by any chance bring the stone with you?
—Yes, I thought that if it was close to me it was very important so I brought it with me but I have to admit it is too heavy.
—It shouldn't weigh so much, give it to me quickly!— Joselin stretches his hand hurrying Esteban with the intention of her.
Esteban delivers the stone with one of the chains to him while he keeps Norilex out of control in stripes. Joselin observes the stone carefully noting that it was without sufficient release to return to normal to another person.
—It can't be, we're in serious trouble. The stone has very little releasing power.
—Power of liberation?— Esteban asks while he keeps Norilex on the ground so he doesn't attack.
—Liberation is the overflowing power in a catalyst from which the territory has already chosen its owner. This is so that people who are not enemy leaders or representatives cannot abuse their powers, since this overflow of power that is not in its owner can be used in cases like this where leaders have lost the connection between their territorial power and them, the problem is that who would think that there would be two (2) leaders who would lose their sanity?
—Let's get back to the funny conversation, who would know better than you?— Kevin claims.
—I found out what happened in Esia, but I swear I had no idea what happened in Amira Norte— Joselin defends himself.
—In the same way, it would be your fault for being a participant in what is happening— Esteban judges.
—You are right that in part this happened because of what happened in Esia and Amira Norte, but she is not to blame, not entirely— the voice of a man is heard in the distance —It is partially mine for not containing the situation.
Norilex who was being subdued on the ground, upon hearing her voice an impulse of anger overflows him, freeing himself from the grip of Esteban's chains to go to the place where her voice comes from. When being away from the leaders, an ice cage falls on her, the mysterious man possessing the territory of Antirda who was on the cage jumps towards Joselin and takes the stone and then returns to where Norilex is.
The stone being close to its owner activates its power again and then being thrown at the feet of Norilex who was trying to get out of the cage. When the stone makes contact with it, it envelops it in her own pink aura, deafening screams are heard in every corner of the institution, after about five (5) minutes a deathly silence falls with her body on the ground. The mysterious figure of the hooded boy approaches her, combing her hair with her fingers.
—It's all over, live in peace like any girl.
Next act the pink aura that wrapped the body of Norilex swirls around the man turning blue, when the aura disappears, he removes the cage, takes the girl's body with one arm and when he turns around he stops because in front of him is Marinep, he He tries to get past her but she stops her advance with open arms.
—Who are you?— Marinep asks the figure of her in front of her.
—You won't like what you'll see, I can assure you— the man replied.
—I endured knowing that my best friend was the leader of Amira Norte. Who do you think… to tell me…?— She faints and the man in front of her holds her preventing her from falling to the ground.
—You shouldn't play strong when you're in this state.
When he tries to hold her better to take her with Norilex to the infirmary, Esteban quickly approaches, snatching Marinep from her arms.
—Get away from her.
—I thought you would still be dizzy from everything you had to endure but the reality is different, you are very well, I'm happy about it." His eyes through the mask glare at Esteban but he does not flinch.
—Don't worry about me, I'm fine.
—It is true, there is a person among us who, unlike the other leaders, should be treated the same as those corrupt who try to obtain our powers to rule as they please.
Esteban this time did not answer because he knew that if he started to fight he would not be able to protect Marinep, so he only began to walk backwards without understanding what he was talking about, when he approached Kevin who is almost dozing he asks if he could hold out a little more, receiving a confirmation from him helps him to stand up and goes towards the infirmary being helped by the teachers and his territorial followers.
Max the boy who had previously notified the leaders leaves addressing the leader of Antirda, he hands Norilex to take her to be treated. The leader of Antirda charges Joselin who had already applied first aid with his powers stopping the bleeding and they both start walking into the forest.
—Don't do it, I'll stay.
—You know you don't have to, you should rest because soon ...
—I'll talk to Marinep.
—…. What will you tell?
—It's time for her to know the truth, and not just her, the others too.
—Are you thinking of leaving me to be with those you love? Or is it just one more trick?
—... Believe what you want, I'm already tired of this, it's better to live the reality of who we are, right?
—I can't allow it.
—Will you kill me? You can do it, I am no match for you a leader with three territorial powers.
—I will not do it.
The man looks at her with disdain and then leaves her with the boy who will help her get to the infirmary, she does not pay attention to his gaze and leaves with the boy. Then the leader of Antirda continues on his way to the forest paths, leaving behind him the ruins and the whispers of all the witnesses of that battle.