Mira was in Levi's room, with a small potion in hand. He begins to pour the potion liquid on Levi's wounds.
Yellow layers begin to form on Levi's wounds caused by the potion.
Mira leaves the room after fully using the potion. On her way out, she finds Miller and old Kame, who seemed to be discussing something, she approaches to find out what they were discussing.
Kam says. - Everything is ready -.
Miller says nervously. - You better, remember that our lives are at stake -.
Kam says. - Trust me. Have I ever failed you? -.
Miller says with some fury. - You just failed me yesterday and I still remember when you left me in a shark pond -.
Kame says while shrugging her shoulders and with a calm voice. - They were small sharks, it should not have been difficult to deal with them -.
Miller angrily says. - Perhaps you forgot that the pond was not for normal sharks, it was for armed sharks. I almost died that time.
Kame tells him with a smile. - But the laughter was not lacking -.
Miller was going to speak, but then Mira arrives, interrupting her talk and says. - How much do they talk about? -.
The two look at each other, waiting for the other to answer the question.
Kame thinks quickly about his words. - It's Miller's idea, he'll tell you -. He takes two steps back, leaving Miller in front.
Miller, surprised by his friend's action, falls silent, but his silence doesn't last long, he tells Mira about his intentions. - You see, I was planning to send Levi to the academy -. Miller at the end of speaking was waiting for her reaction.
Mira replies with a sympathetic tone. - I agree. He still has a lot to learn and experience in life. Making him fight in this war was a mistake -.
Miller tells him. - It was not a mistake. Yesterday we could see that he maintains control of his existence and not his blood. Something that had us worried.
Look he says. - You're right. He is not dominated by the instincts of his kind. By the way, there is something important I have to tell you. - Use one of your grade 10 potions to heal his wounds. She watches her husband's reaction.
Miller upon hearing about the potion, falls to his knees, he remembers the suffering he went through to get all the materials for the potions, at that time he had successfully created 4 out of 10 and currently he had 2 left, but now only he has 1 left. Tears almost came out of his eyes.
Mira observes the lamentable state in which her husband has just fallen, reflecting on why she married him, an enigma that is beginning to torment her, she sighs and says. - Do not Cry. If he didn't he would die and you know who would come if he died under our protection. Rather, under your protection -.
Miller instantly regains his composure, hearing his wife's words, remembering that woman's madness, then he speaks. - I was just practicing my act, I fully support the use of the potion -. He pauses. - We should be glad that now the responsibility will fall into the hands of another -.
Mira smiles thinking about the free moments.
Kame in his mind "I knew that these were planning to take the responsibility off themselves and pass it on to me, however, I was smarter, I instantly rejected their proposal and gave the responsibility to someone else, however, I should feel bad for my friend who will suffer ; I think not, he married the love of my life, it's my turn to make him suffer a little ".
Miller and Mira were with a smile on their faces, Kame interrupts the moment of happiness of both coughing. - cough cough. Should I immediately take him to the next victim's location, sorry caretaker, or wait for him to wake up? -.
Mira responds immediately. - Take him immediately to the next victim. The war will increase its intensity today. They don't have their strongest troops and they couldn't locate the traps, so it's very likely they'll make attacks every one to two hours and you shouldn't forget the battleships that arrived over the course of days as well -.
Kam says. - I understand -. He walks towards the door of the room, he was about to grab the door handle, when the tower starts to shake.
--------- Outside the tower ---------
The sky could be seen covered in a large number of black clouds, as if a big storm was coming. Some barely visible red lines could be seen in the clouds.
The extension of the clouds covered half of the territory in Miller's domain, more precisely a radius of approximately 50 kilometers.
Miller's group leaves the tower, seeing the clouds in the sky, Miller and Kame begin to tremble and slowly back into the tower, while Mira begins to prepare a table and a couple of rocking chairs, as if waiting for your friend's visit.
Mira he says. - Do not be afraid cowards, it's just Levi's mom -.
Serene's head begins to descend from the clouds, she was in her leviathan form.
She had 2 pairs of red eyes, about 20 meters in size. It begins to show his head completely between the clouds. You can see a large row of large sharp teeth, with two protruding fangs in its mouth, with an approximate length of 80 meters; a huge head as big as a small mountain could be seen. His nose resembles that of a dragon; with pointed ears like a dragon's. His face looked like a combination of a piranha and a shark. Seeing her could only feel fear. But this was not all, the clouds covered her great body, always leaving everyone who had ever seen her in this form in doubt, without revealing what her shape and approximate size of her entire body were.
Serene begins to lower her head, almost touching the tower, without exposing the rest of her body, then black clouds begin to cover her head. Being completely covered by clouds, a tornado begins to form with them.
The tornado does not last long, it disappears and reveals the figure of Serene, who was wearing black armor and carrying a long, thin sword at her waist, which seemed to be longer than one and a half meters.
The black clouds began to disappear.
Serene descends into the tower.
Standing in the tower, the three of them can notice that on Serene's armor there are some purple runes; on his back is a drawing of a red hand holding a white skull. The drawing is the symbol of the leviathan family to which Serene belongs, it could be said that it is the family symbol.
His gaze looked somber. Even in humanoid form, she had two pairs of eyes, something that was inconsistent with the past, which surprised Mira, since the two of them met four years ago.
Serene draws her sword, Mira and the others are surprised, then Serene says. - Why are they surprised to see a corpse follow the orders of their master? -.
The three are stunned, they did not expect someone to finish Serene. The three begin to prepare for combat, then Serene's corpse says. - Give me the brat who can use the energy of chaos and maybe I'll let them live -.
Look immediately says. - Rather dead than deliver it -.
Serene's corpse says. - That's what she said before she died -.
Look, he says furiously. - How did you manage to kill her, as far as I know, there is no necromancer who can fight her and survive, much less who can use her corpse as a puppet? Respond quickly and maybe it won't make you suffer much -.
------ In a wooden house, in a place that seemed to be hell, surrounded by rivers of souls in pain, where their cries were constantly heard --------
Outside the house was a figure laughing.
He starts to speak. - It was all thanks to Leon -. A little pause. - The very coward preferred to betray his wife in exchange for staying alive. They should have seen her expression when she saw how her lover betrayed her and joined us to kill her -.
------------ In the tower -----------
Serene's corpse begins to transmit the controller's laughter
Mira is stunned, likewise Miller and Kame, they did not expect Leon's betrayal.
Miller says. - Who are you, say your name if you are not afraid of death? -.
The corpse says. - I don't remember exactly my name or rather I've already had several lives, so many that I don't know what name to use anymore, but if you want to know how to identify me, you can tell me Yami -.
Miller says. - So you're just an old man -.
Mira begins to speak. - Now I understand. You've told the truth, Leon is a damn traitor, I can't resist the urge to look for him and kill him, but I'll leave that to Levi, instead I'll have to face you myself. You will have the honor of facing one of the few beings that have managed to enter the realm of the great master of magic, with a magnitude of 9.8. That's me. I hope that our fight is not a disappointment -. He begins to transform, this time his horns when he comes out begin to attract the mana around him, absorbing it. His tail begins to glow darkly. His teeth become sharp. Its size begins to increase.
Miller and Kame step back to stay out of the way, all the while being surprised by Mira's revelation, something they didn't expect, was that she managed to enter that realm.
Serene's corpse also begins to transform back into her leviathan form.
Mira grew to a height of 10 meters.
You could see the huge difference in height between the two species, yet Mira felt no fear. And she says. - A corpse will not be able to against me. Wind Spirit Magic: Aeolian Arrows-. Above Mira is a row of four large arrows; these arrows had a creamy white color. She stretches out her hand, causing the arrows to move forward and instantly hit Serene in the face, she doesn't make any sound of pain, due to being a corpse, even so, you could see how the arrows caused serious damage.
Yami wouldn't let Mira control the fight to her heart's content, so she makes Serene spit black fire, Mira jumps off the tower and starts moving around the ground, constantly dodging the fire, however, Miller and Kame took damage from the first shot from Serene.
Mira pulls a bow from her ring, then uses her mana to materialize an arrow and shoot it at Serene's face while she's on the move.
Serene, due to her large size, could not dodge Mira's attacks, but Yami would not let her receive any more attacks, so she returns a humanoid form, managing to avoid the arrow, but Mira moves her hand from a distance to control the arrow at will, making her chase Serene, she draws her sword and slashes towards the arrow, destroying it, however, Mira starts shooting arrows constantly. Yami had no choice but to order the corpse to charge towards Mira, while destroying the arrows that were pursuing her.
Mira's arrows managed to scratch the corpse before it reached her position.
------- In the tower ------
Miller was coughing up blood.
Kame who was in the same situation tells him. - Almost dead. cough cough cough Who do you think is going to win? -.
Miller says something unsure. - Look -.
Kam says. - I hope so. If he loses, it's our end. Now it only remains to see the fight.
Miller says helplessly. - If only I could do something to help her -.
Kame says with a smile on her face. - You can put some music to set the fight -.
Miller responds. - It's not the moment -.
Kam says. - How boring you are -. The one on his ring, a rectangular horn, blue, half a meter high. He then uses his communicator to connect to the speaker.
Miller seems to give in and says. - What kind of music will you play? -.
Kame answers seriously. - Music your wife likes. Rock -.
Miller is surprised and says. - She doesn't like Rock -.
Kame tells him. - Of course. When she attended the academy, she listened to many Rock songs, she even went to concerts of some bands -. Kame starts playing the music. Using the maximum speaker volume.
-------- In the fight ---------
Mira begins to hear the sound of music, her excitement is noticeable. He charges towards the corpse, using his bow as a sword, the two weapons collide creating a shock wave that blasts the surrounding trees a great distance.
Serene used a fast sword style, while Mira used the bow at close range to face Serene's sword, calculating the possible attacks and then blocking them.
Serene makes a horizontal cut, Mira blocks it with her bow, then jumps back taking advantage of the moment and launches arrows again, the corpse reacts and uses the sword to cut all the arrows, then jumps forward, covering her sword with darkness making a slash, arriving almost instantly at Mira's position, however, she uses one of her species' abilities, "Slow Time", an ability that consumes a lot of energy from the user who uses it. With the use of the ability, she manages to dodge the cut, but Serene, makes more cuts, Mira is not far behind and changes the shape of her bow to the shape of a sword and infuses it with mana. She makes a movement similar to Serene's with the sword, however, hers was different, her cut distorted the space where she passed, it is a technique used by her kind and can only be used by those who dedicate themselves completely to the path of the magic.
Serene begins to be disadvantaged by space warp slashes, so she is ordered to move closer.
Mira changes shape again. It decreases in size to 2 meters, its horns become smaller, its teeth also become smaller; its tail separates into a pair of legs covered in black lines. Mira's aura becomes ethereal, her gaze showed great calm, small tornadoes of air began to form from her pores.
She took on the form that earned her the nickname "Spiritual Swordswoman".
The two swords collide again, but this time Serene backs away from the collision, Mira uses a mind attack to momentarily sever Yami's connection to the corpse. Seizing the opportunity and making a cut to the corpse's armor. Yami regains control, makes the corpse back up. Mira stomps on the ground and instantly closes the distance, making another cut to the corpse's armor again, it does not stay behind and also makes a cut, but Mira dodges it by moving her body to the left and uses her right leg to kick the corpse in the head.
The kick connects, the corpse is thrown a great distance.
Yami begins to break the corpse's chains, though the corpse's body is destroyed in the process.
The corpse stands up.
The two stare at each other.
They clash their swords again.
The corpse once again infuses his sword with darkness. His speed, strength, and reaction greatly increased when Yami unrestrained the corpse.
The swords collided constantly, causing the earth to tremble.
Look he says. - Air Magic: Gale Blades -. Several blades of wind form around Mira, causing them to move towards the opponent.
Yami/Corpse says. - Dark Magic: Dark Hole -. The corpse launches a black ball that begins to absorb the incoming blades.
Look he says. - Air Magic: Expansive Ball -. Throw a ball of compressed air.
The corpse says. - Dark Magic: Negative Ball -. Throw a completely black ball.
The two balls collide. Causing a large shock wave.
On the negative ball side, you can see how the surrounding trees are drawn into the darkness and disappear without a trace, while on the expanding ball side they end up being destroyed upon touch.
At the end of the shock wave, the two collide again.
Mira slashes horizontally with her sword, the corpse blocks it, then crouches and slashes diagonally to her left from bottom to top. Mira jumps back to avoid it. The corpse moves forward and slashes vertically from top to bottom, Mira slashes horizontally to block, then kicks the corpse in the abdomen. Making it go back.
Mira begins to attack furiously. Making several cuts with the sword. Vertical, horizontal, diagonal, vertical, diagonal, horizontal. Constantly harassing the corpse, giving it no chance to respond.
The two spectators in the distance were beginning to smile.
Serene's sword breaks after taking so many hits. Drop the broken sword.
Mira's relentless attack continues, but Yami orders the corpse to charge without needing to dodge.
Mira goes through the body of the corpse, but due to its armor, she barely manages to cut a small part, however, her sword gets stuck in the body. Yami takes advantage and makes the corpse hit Mira on the head with a right hand.
Mira drops her sword and steps back to avoid the blow. She carefully watches her opponent. His sword managed to cut from the left shoulder, until it was close to the lung.
The corpse takes out the sword and the red one in the distance. He says. - Dark Magic: Dark Hand -. He sends a big black hand towards Mira.
Look, answer. - Air Magic: Wind Wall -. A wall of air forms, which manages to block the corpse's magical attack. Mira steps forward and throws a punch at the corpse's face, he catches the punch and tries to hold Mira's arm with both hands, however, she throws a hook with her free arm, avoiding the opponent's double grab.
The blow causes the corpse to lessen the strength in its grip, letting go of her opponent's fist, Mira instantly uses her "Slow Time" ability. She takes advantage of the time, in her right hand she began to gather an energy of her kind. He says. - You made a mistake when facing someone who masters the spirit attack. Spirit Magic: Spirit Eater -. She knew that the attack would not cause damage to the corpse since it had no spirit, but to the controller, however, she would not stop attacking the corpse, until the controller was finished.
---------- In Yami's soul -----------
It began to form a blue hole that began to devour his soul.
Yami stopped controlling the corpse to save his soul, but then another figure appears in his soul.
This figure is Mira. She says. - It's your end imbecile -. Speeds up the absorption of Yami's soul.
Yami says. - Do not do it. Don't you want to know who ordered your friend to do this? -.
Look, he answers. - Take revenge, that's not up to me. Someone stronger than me will appear for that and that someone is my friend's son -.
Yami says. - Bitch you don't know what you're saying. Leave the job to a brat. I am the weakest of them. I am a green spirit, do you know what that means? The brat is destined to die at the hands of my peers who outnumber me.
Look, he tells her with a smile. - I knew it from the beginning, this fight was too easy, I expected a lot from this match -. Sighs. - Let me tell you something about Levi, he is unique, he is not a cyber-magician, but with his physical capacity he would be on an equal footing with them, besides, he has a spirit typical of magicians, a spirit that I could not materialize at his age, a spirit that you can only materialize when you reach Ethereal Mage. He will finish you off. This is the last thing I will tell you, now your existence will disappear -. His body begins to fade.
You can see how the blue hole is getting bigger and faster.
Yami awaits his end without any resistance, something that very few do after losing a fight to the death.
------- In the territory of the undead, near Miller's tower -------- Mira was in front of the corpse that was once her friend, with whom she shared smiles and tears. Her tears come out uncontrollably, sadness floods her heart with force. He reaches down and grabs the body, starts carrying it towards the tower, shedding tears all over him on the way. -------- Memories of Mira and Serene's friendship -------- In the hallway of what appeared to be a school, were two young girls. One of them had two pigtails and two little horns on her head; White skin; an approximate height of 130 cm; its lower part was the tail of a serpent; two teeth seemed to be missing in his mouth; dark brown eyes. This little girl was Mira. The other had a ponytail; some sharp teeth; White skin; Red eyes; straight black hair; Approximate height of 135 cm. This girl was Serene. In the corridor where they were, some frames could be seen, of what seemed to be some respectable figures of the academy; the floor appears to be smooth wood; the walls seem to be created with some steel alloy, which put in doubt the knowledge of construction, which guided the construction of the school. Serene. - I don't think it's a good idea to put lava in the teachers' lounge? -. Look. - You need to stop being boring. Follow me and record the moment -. A few minutes later. Look. - Run from the director -. Serene. - I will no longer listen to you in the future -. Look. - Now it's not the moment. Runs -.
------ Some time later -------
In a training camp at an academy. There were two young men. Which are Mira and Serene, but a little taller. Still retaining his style of dress.
Look. - Are you okay? Your back seems very damaged -.
Serene. - Don't worry, I can walk normally -. He gets up, a bone sticks out of his back.
Look. - You are crazy. You have to rest, I will bring the teacher.
------ Time later, in a meadow -----
Serene. - Why did you stop living in the sea? -.
Look. - There is a world waiting to discover it -.
Serene. - I hope you let me accompany you -.
Look. - Of course. It wouldn't be fun if you weren't with me.
The two smile at each other.
------ Years later --------
The two are on the run from a wolf pack.
Look. - Why didn't you tell me that the meat we ate was wolf? -.
Serene. - I didn't think you would feed it to the wolves themselves -.
Look. - Are you blaming me for this? -.
Serene. - No no no. That would be impossible.
Look. - Concentrate on running, then we'll talk -.
------ Even longer later --------
Serene. - Thank you for saving me.
Lion. - You don't have to give thanks.
That was the moment when Mira was excluded from Serene's life.
A great friendship, separated by a man who caused the death of her best friend or rather her sister.
---------- Four years before the present ----------
Serene. - Take this book -.
Look. - What good will this book do me? -.
Serene. - It's not for you. It's for my son. I want you to give it to him.
Look. - Why don't you give it to him? I don't even know where he is.
Serene. - Miller's taking care of him. I think you'd be a good mother to him.
Look. - Miller didn't tell me.
Serene. - He must have had his reasons.
---------- Back to the present -----------
Serene's corpse was placed by Mira in a rocking chair.
Mira was holding Serene's sword, her tears hadn't stopped falling yet. He directs his gaze towards the direction where the enemy camp is, says nothing and starts flying in that direction, Serene's sword in hand.
Miller doesn't say anything, he understands the pain his wife is going through.
Kame to the side says. - I will be the teacher of the boy.
Miller says with a sad tone. - Why the change of heart? -.
Kame answers him. - Seeing Serené's corpse reminds me of the moments when I was a teacher at the academy and seeing her and Mira fight alongside their classmates. It made me remember all the pranks they did back then. It also leaves a path marked for the boy with his death, a path where he will only find death, which could twist the little boy's soul, that's why I will be his teacher and I will not let him walk that path or at least I will make sure his soul is not lost along the way -.
Suddenly a voice is heard behind the two. - It's my life, my decisions. My soul will be the one to be lost, not yours. The two turn and look at Levi who was slowly approaching them.
You can see that something in Levi's aura changed.
Levi directs his gaze to the corpse on the chair and says. - Who is it? -.
Miller and Kame are silent, they don't know how to respond, or how to tell Levi about their reasons for leaving him with Miller.
Levi doesn't say anything, he stays silent like the other two.
Kame can't stand silence much longer, but when he was about to speak. In the direction of the enemy camp a gigantic tornado arises that began to destroy everything in its path.
The three of them felt great magical pressure from the tornado, causing the barely recovered Levi to fall, the other two resisted the pressure, but they also knew what it meant, Mira's venting.
Miller approaches Levi, gives him a potion to make him recover faster.
The three of them saw a black dot in the distance heading for the tower. As the black dot approached, they saw Mira covered in blood. She lands near the corpse.
She kneels down and starts crying loudly on Serene's lap.
Levi didn't know what had happened, he was confused.
Mira gets up, starts walking with her head down toward Levi. She stops in front of him, grabs his hand, makes him walk towards the corpse, Levi was confused by Mira's attitude, but he didn't say anything.
The two are in front of the corpse, Mira kneels and tells Levi. - She was like a sister to me -. Short pause. - I lived many adventures with her, one day we separated because she fell in love, it took a long time until we met again, it was about four years ago when I saw her again. She told me how she had to leave her son to save him, how she was constantly persecuted, how she couldn't sleep peacefully, even so, she didn't decide to give them what they were looking for -. Mira grabs the sword, grabs one of Levi's hands and makes him hold it. - They were looking for their son, they were looking for you. She died for you, she suffered for you, she fought for you, she was in despair for you. Now I ask you. You hate her? -.
Levi's gaze begins to darken, his pupils change. Tears come out of her eyes. He always believed that he had abandoned him for no reason, he did not know the reasons why they left him.
Levi begins to walk towards his mother's body, grabs the cold hands of the corpse. He just stands there doing nothing else, thinking what to do in the future, but suddenly something transports his consciousness to another place interrupting his thinking.
-------- In an undetermined location --------
Levi suddenly appeared on top of a mountain.
At the top you could see a large expanse of trees, which seems to have no end; I couldn't calculate the height of the mountain, but being in that place I felt an inexplicable tranquility. In that a voice is heard. - This mountain has an abnormality that makes any living being be in absolute tranquility, regardless of their strength or personality; I was here once and maybe you are here once too. The voice disappears, leaving Levi with several doubts about the mountain.
He wanted to stay in this place, but his consciousness starts to be transported again.
-------- Back to the tower --------
Levi says. - Do you know a mountain where anyone feels calm? -.
Look, he tells her. - How did you find out about that place? -.
Levi answers him. - She transported me to that place a few seconds ago -.
Mira understands what he means, so she speaks. - Your mother and I used that mountain as a starting point for our adventure -.
Levi with a voice barely audible and full of sadness. - I see -.
Mira asks him an important question. - Do you plan to take revenge? -.
Levi wields the sword, then begins to run the edge of the sword across her chest, opening her chest, then runs his hand through Serene's chest, pinning her heart. He takes out the heart and starts to put it in the hole he opened in his chest, while he says. - I will take revenge. Put your heart completely into your body.
The heart begins to merge with your body, causing small changes in it.
Mira knew how leviathans made promises to their dead relatives, so she wasn't surprised to see Levi put Serene's heart into her body, however, Miller and Kame were surprised.
Look he says. - It will be dangerous -.
Levi answers. - I know. But if I didn't take revenge, they would come to me sooner or later, right? -.
Look he says. - That's how it is. It's the right decision. She starts to carry the body again and says. - It's time to perform the funeral -.
End of chapter.