"Now look at what you made me do..." Haneru let out nothing but laughter as the chains sink their way into him connected to the sky and the victims being drained of their magic.
"Only one of us will make it out of here." he said looking at Astra .
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The impact of the battle could've been seen from afar.
Ari and Lord Anarue were facing each other waiting on the other to make the first move.
"Well? aren't you coming? or are you scared of me?"
Ari grit her teeth and charged at him.
Anarue dodged the attack with little to no effort taunting Ari.
Consumed by rage and anger she kept swinging at lord Anarue who dodged almost every attack only getting slightly cut on the face.
Ari took that to make his blood start to gush out the side of his face like wildfire but he was once again unfazed by that attack.
Touching his face to see the amount of blood he lost he turned to Ari with a confused look on his face as his wounds healed.
"Is that all you can do? challenging me with this strength is this a joke? you haven't changed from when i fought you the last time."
Ari said nothing to his comments and made a second blade ready to attack again.
She charged at Anarue with both of her blades.
Swinging at him he dodged but that took effort and she was getting faster.
Mid swing one of her blades turned into liquid blood again falling to the floor.
When the attack was over Anarue got back up he seemed a bit surprised.
Ari kept going after him, not giving him a chance to breathe or even think of a smart comment.
"Ok Enough!" Anarue grabbed her sword to stop the attack.
"you're really persistent ill give you that but i have places to be."
A pole made out of blood shot up from the ground going straight through Anarue.
Ari stepped back thinking that she did it but she was far from the truth.
When she looked at what she just killed she just saw a bolder...
"I was fighting a bolder?" She looked around for Lord Anarue but he wasn't anywhere nearby.
"Where the hell was he!"
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Haneru sent his chains after Astra but they were cut in half using Astra's water magic.
Astra spins her staff sending lightning his way but he was more than equipped enough for that, digging his chains into the ground and taking the hit; he wasn't damaged by her spell.
Taking the chains out of the ground Haneru started to charge at her heroine who was caught off guard when his chain grabbed her by the legs and threw her.
Haneru sent himself flying with his chains to hit her a second time mid flight using his chains.
He landed breathing heavily but clearly enjoying himself.
"Not so tough now are ya?"
When the dust cleared he didn't see Astra. She was gone.
"Where did she go- how could she recover that fast??"
And as if it was at the speed of light Astra appeared next to Haneru making a blade of water and stabbing him with it in the gut.
Haneru was caught off guard and tried to step back away from Astra but no matter how far he went or how fast he went Astra beat that time in a fraction of a second.
Soon enough Astra caught up to him, grabbing the blade that was stuck in his gut and twisting it, sending a surge of lightning through his body.
He fell to the ground.
His chains slowly changed from white to black as they fell from the sky and let go of his victims.
his eyes slowly closed...
Astra puts her hand over the body of Haneru with a glow from the book's small chains surrounding her for a while before infusing with her body.
She fell unconscious.
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Kai kept walking looking for his friend who he tried to protect.
When he saw her unconscious next to the dead body of another enemy he ran to her.
"Astra!...Astra you alright??" He crouched near his friend.
Lumi was right by her side resting her head on Astras stomach hoping for her to be ok.
"Astra... Astra..wake up please..."
Astra slowly opened her eyes to see her best friends over her worries.
She let out a weak smile "did we win?" she asked, hurt and tired from all of the magic she's used. The books took her way past her limits without them she would've died but if she doesn't rest she will be dead soon anyways.
Kai nodded, both smiling and crying. After all that happened he too was sore and in immense pain but he was glad to see that his friend was ok.
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Dear diary…
We survived an invasion of the books!
Though a lot of people died when we got well enough to stand me and Kai looked for any survivors.
Let's just say that we were the only ones.
The collector was dead and his partner/ best friend died right next to him impaled by something.
We felt bad for what happened like it was our faults but whether that's true or not I'm supposed to save the world according to the book of prophecy and Lumi chose me so if I fail I'm not letting this world down but also my best companion and I'm not going to let that happen!
During this whole fight thing i've been talking to king alexander who apparently wrote all the books but disappeared after saving the village mysteriously most people say that he was reduced to nothing but ash due to unknown magic but others just say its baseless superstition.
Anyway my new goal…before i even think about going back home is to save this world because dooming this one will also doom mine and i'm not going to let that happen don't worry mom ill save you.