Luckily for my companions after the light went up in the sky and lit the sky red the city was taken by a huge chaos, it looked like the city was being surrounded by an army from a neighboring kingdom. No way a noble family stayed hidden the city was being turned upside down by a ridiculous number of warriors and wizards, no matter if they were warriors and wizards serving a noble family, adventurers or visitors, they were all scouring the city.
Yeah, I was completely lost, when I looked at my teammates, I saw that Torris was very pale and Raziel was more normal, I think my best bet to know what's going on is Torris.
"Torris, what's going on?"
Still in shock he whispers a name that seems to terrify him.
"Demon Shadow."
"Impossible! That monster is dead, Torris."
Now I am confused.
"What is this demonic shadow? It's the name of the madman who was chasing us."
"He's not just a freak, he's a priest of the demon goddess Aélis. He is wanted in several kingdoms for being one of the worshipers of Aélis and for having killed thousands of people in various bloody ways and in rituals of worship for Aélis."
"It's been decades since he disappeared, many people thought he died or sacrificed himself to their demon goddess in a moment of madness, but if it was him today, we're screwed and when I say us, I mean our families, city and kingdom, churches hate worshipers of demon gods and the demonic shadow is at the top of the lists, he may not be a blue or silver core elite, but he managed to cause church breakdowns by killing several priests and priests in Aélis worship rituals. "
I have to admit that Torris is right, if this shadow is a demon goddess worshiper everyone is screwed, but why did I have to run into this kind of problem. A adoring assassin of an extremely wanted demon goddess who was in hibernation period appears the day I put my foot out of the institute disobeying my master, how much bad luck do I have to have for that to happen.
"Although you haven't said this part before Torris I believe that this demonic shadow is able to escape the siege that is being erected and that this isn't the first time it has attacked in this town?"
"Yes, but that's not the worst part. The real problem is that he said that the three of us are his targets and that means he will try to attack us again if he doesn't run away from that part of the kingdom. He probably has two or three days before the church troops will arrive here to track him down so I'm afraid we'll have to hide for the next few days if he flees the city and very unlikely, he'll come back to try to kill us after he flees the city. "
Cool cult lunatic killer still wants to kill us, my night just keeps getting better. At least we are surrounded by several warriors and wizards and we are almost arriving at the institute which must be one of the safest places in the city, I think the only safest place would be to camp inside a dungeon where the only danger is just monsters from the dungeon and not a lunatic assassin.
"Raziel you're fine now, are you afraid of the demonic shadow? If you like, can we run to a dungeon and camp there for the next few days?"
Raziel recovered from his shock and began to behave normally again.
"I think you're too scared, I'm even thinking about the plan to hide in one of the dungeons. But I have to admit your plan is a good one, if we stay the next few days in the dungeon the lunatic won't be able to find us."
He's still scared or would have used the killer's name instead of calling him a lunatic, but I'm glad he agrees with my idea.
As we pass through the gate of the Raziel Institute, Torris heaves a sigh of relief, but I'm nervous. As I pass through the gate, I run into whom I would rather avoid, my mistress is with her arms crossed and armed with a look of disapproval and intense irritation, I'm in a cold sweat right now.
"Glad you three are alive, but you guys have an idea of the shit that just happened. You may have been lucky not to be scarred by the power of the demon goddess Aélis, but that doesn't mean you're safe the demonic shadow has a cult partner who is a red core mage who has the element of curse and death, if she being here, you could be the target of a terrible curse.
"The four of you follow me! I'll take you to the safe room before you're hit by a deadly curse."
I didn't expect this one, now in addition to worrying about the assassin I also became the target of a mage who has a deadly combination of elements and the support of a bloodthirsty goddess. How could I survive any curse from this mage? I hope this safe room is really safe enough to keep us alive."
My master led the way into the building and on my way to the main hall she opened a hidden hallway that led us into a maze of underground tunnels. It looks like a beautiful complex of tunnels underneath the institute and I didn't know it, not a iota of energy in the mechanisms that were used to open the way, they were completely mechanical and by the sound of various gears that appeared when a door was opened. they must have a very complex mechanism that must prevent the door from being forcefully opened without damaging the tunnel's integrity, being buried under so many tunnels must not be pleasant and the intruder must have his chances of reaching his objective badly harmed.
We covered a good distance, but at the end of the journey we only took a little more than ten minutes to reach the safe room, our speed was quite high even though we were not running. Upon entering the room, I am faced with a very cozy and large panic room, but that was not the most shocking point as I walked through the door I was shot by a huge amount of information, this room is isolated to the point that outside I can't even see a color of aura, mana or elemental energy, but upon entering I can see a massive amount of mana and elemental energy running down the walls of the room.
At several layers of runes across the entire room this is the first time I have seen so many magical matrices gathered in such a small space, not to a point with no runes or lines on the floor, ceiling and walls of the room. I feel like I'm in a river of energy, I feel like not only am I seeing mana running down my feet I can feel it on my skin and the first time I feel something like this, it's really comfortable to be in this room, but unfortunately mine. master had different plans.
Upon entering the room, she went straight to a panel full of runes, she activated several of them by pouring her aura into the right switches, the puzzle of rune arrays and arrays that covered the room changed, new paths were made for mana and energy elementary run. It was really beautiful, but the most important part is that we are now safe from the cult mage's attack, I think, I can't be sure because it might involve the power of the demon goddess and I don't understand anything about divine power.
"The three of you will be in this room for the next few days, although I can't feel the divine imprint on the four of you better be careful and keep you in this room safe, it would really be a waste to see one of you die agonizing death after you managed to survive the pursuit of such a deadly assassin."
"You should rest here while I go to text your families explaining the situation, the city will remain pretty chaotic for the next few hours so don't expect to receive an answer or a visit from a family member, they have more important things than wasting their time consoling a bunch of lucky teenagers. In your situation I would sleep, the beds are comfortable and the room lighting will gradually fade, and there's nothing else you can do today, anyone who knows runes can tinker with the basic controls on that wall over there, and the small square panel o bigger on the other side will discharge electricity to the idiot who tries to tamper with it."
I feel myself being grabbed by the shoulder and when I look at the master I am thrown into the corners of the room, a black wall formed isolating this part of the room from the rest of the room and in it just me and the master.
"So, you idiot, don't even try to apologize because I don't have time to waste. Tell me everything that happened and everything you saw; the smallest detail can help us locate the Aélis cultists."