I forced myself up. And tightened the grip on my sword's end.
The woman sneered after seeing me get back up. She slapped her hands together and her chains started glowing electric blue with electric sparks flickering around the metals.
I knew this attack. She had infused lightning magic in the chains.
I tensed my legs.
And she released the chains at me. I teleported out of the way and appeared right behind her, but a chain hit me before I could get close enough to swing my sword.
The chains had a charge on so you can imagine the charge that surged through my body before I was sent flying and hitting my head on a rock before falling.
I let go of my sword when I started noticing the blood trickling from my head. That attack had bested me and I was losing my consciousness.
I could feel the air around me get thicker, as my vision got blurry. But this was no time to give up.
I then rolled over then lifted myself once again. I put my hand forward with the palm facing the red witch then focused every single cell in my body, and drew magical energy from them. I cast a magic circle and a ball of fire started to collect itself from the center of my palm. I concentrated and the thing was able to finally materialize.
The spell was called hell blaze, last time I performed it I almost destroyed a school.
Once it was done, I released it with every ounce of energy I had left. It launched like a cannonball, destroying anything in its way.
She then put up a magic-enforced shield.
But my attack broke through and hit the witch. It exploded, destroying anything that wasn't me or Rebekah because she could manipulate fire. The blast destroyed the road and lucky for us no one was there to witness what we had just done.
I was sure I hadn't defeated her, but that will at least give us time to escape.
Rebekah ran up to me and helped me. She pulled me up. I couldn't stop panting.
"Am sorry for dragging you into this," she apologized,
Atreigon shifted back into a phoenix but he was also injured by the witch's chain and both our wounds were taking longer to heal. I had to carry him, but he suddenly vanished that was his way of teleporting.
And we started our journey back on foot since Rebekah's new car was in ruins.
I couldn't teleport because S ranked spells take a lot more energy than normal spells do. So as of right now, we were on our own.
"Thank you for saving my life again," she said, sounding really beat up. I guess she thought most of this was her fault.
I smiled, even though it made my mouth hurt, "It's always a pleasure to help out a friend," I said.
We were still walking when I received another vision.
I was back in the same cave but now I could see what was outside. It was in a forest, and outside I could see smoke from a distance. That smoke had to be coming from Rebekah's car, it had to be. The gateway was trying to communicate with me.
I returned,
"We have to go back," I said,
She was surprised, "…but your injuries…"
"I will be fine… the cave, the gateway to the dark dimension is somewhere in there," I pointed to exactly where the car had crashed, we could barely even see it.
Rebekah looked unsure of my decision to go back, but she suddenly made up her mind and nodded,
"Fine, let's go."
We turned away from the road and then started heading downhill to the nearby woods with me leading the way. The route was slippery because the grass was extremely wet, so we had to watch our steps.
We reached the forest, and I started to get a strange feeling from it. The wind was calm and cold, there was a bitterness in the air. The trees looked centuries old yet they were all short and only a few were tall. There was magic flowing through this forest, I could feel it.
Rebekah raised her hand and absorbed magical energy. Light collected itself around her palm and she used it to make a ball of light to light the way.
"I thought you can only do fire magic,"
"Yes, but I and my brother are very unique when it comes to magic," she answered,
"How unique?"
She didn't answer my question, I guess had crossed the line by asking that.
"Do you believe the world could have been better without magic?" I asked her,
"Well, what I know is that without magic I wouldn't be alive today. On the day magic to this world, that was the day I lost my mother to a car accident," she said quietly.
I stopped after hearing that come from her mouth. I already started regretting asking that question.
I turned around, "Am sorry, I reminded you about that,"
"It's okay, she saved my life that day using magic, nothing makes me happier to know that my mother was happy to know that am alive," there was a weight in my heart seeing her like this. Was magic something to remind her of her dead mother? Did she absorb her mother's magical energy?
I continued leading the way without saying any more.
We arrived where the BMW had crashed, and I was surprised the thing was still intact even after rolling down a hill. And how did it reach this far?
I cast a magic circle and was able to lift it from the ground and put it in position using levitation. Rebekah then absorbed all the fire that had grown around it.
"My dad's going to kill me, this was his favorite car," she cried staring at the car.
I sighed and tried doing a repair spell, but the car was way beyond repair.
"You're screwed,"
"Dang it!" She stomped her foot on the ground, and all the trees rustled as if she had just annoyed the forest.
She whirled around in suspense and runes started to grow on the tree trunks that were surrounding us. They were glowing as the ground below us started to shake.