Asher and Elina reappeared outside the beast plane and they saw hundreds of mages and witches from the magic enforcement union gathering outside the entrance to the beast plane.
" Leave this place now." A man approached them before saying to them firmly, Asher and Elina quickly walked away from the entrance. A minute later, the military arrived and they prepared to enter the beast plane and stop the heaven tier beast from exiting the beast plane.
Asher gasped when he saw the military force, he had never seen a large amount of powerful mages and witches like the military forces. The aura of the soldiers was suffocating the weaker magicians and normal humans, so many people moved away from the soldiers and they watched the soldiers from afar.
Asher also noticed Sten, the violent fire mage that burnt a lot of houses back at the village that Shawn protected before he was captured by the dark witches. Sten was dressed in an imperial red armour as he ordered some soldiers around but he was clearly not the leader of the troops outside the gate to the beast plane. The leader is a woman with long blue hair and a green armour covered her body, she stood at the front alone as she waited for her men to prepare for battle.
" I didn't know that the military here is this strong." Asher finally expressed his surprise.
" This troop you are seeing is an elite force, they have to fight a Heaven tier creature after all." Elina added as she looked at the leader of the force.
" The leader is a constellation space mage." Elina said and she didn't take her eyes off the woman.
" She is stronger." A man suddenly said beside Elina and they both turned to face the man. Asher noticed that he is a soldier because of the armour he wore.
" But how would you know that? You ran away from home." The man added with a smile before Elina ran towards the man and she hugged him.
" You've grown up, little girl." The man said as he rubbed her head.
" Uncle." Elina whispered as her uncle broke the hug.
" How have you been?" Her uncle asked her.
" I have been good, you?" Elina responded.
" Hm, we have to go fight a creature that it's supposed to be resting now." Elina's uncle responded.
" Why do they have to send mom to fight that scary creature?" Elina asked with a frown on her face, Asher's eyes widened when he heard Elina call the woman leading the soldiers her mother. Elina's mother is a constellation mage!
" It is her job, you know she has to do it." Elina's uncle responded.
" Why her?" Elina repeated.
" You should come see her and say hello, she misses you." Elina's uncle said and he walked towards the soldiers at the gate to the beast plane. Elina followed him and Asher also followed her, he wouldn't miss an opportunity to move closer to a constellation mage.
" Stop! You can't get any closer." A soldier stopped Asher from moving closer to the military forces but he didn't stop Elina and his uncle.
" He is with me." Elina said and the soldier allowed Asher to follow Elina and her uncle. When they got to where Elina's mother was standing, Elina went over to her mother while her uncle and Asher stayed away.
" Mother." Elina muttered as she stood beside her mother.
" My little girl." Her mother, Sansha smiled brightly as she turned to face her daughter.
" Do you have to go?" Elina asked.
" Yes, if I don't go, many innocent people might die." Sansha replied.
" Why didn't you come visit me?" Sansha added.
" I don't… know." Sansha stammered as she responded. Before Sansha could speak, another soldier approached them.
" General, we are ready to leave." The soldier said.
" Okay, let's leave." Sansha said and her bright face turned sharp at once.
" See you later daughter." Sansha said and she turned to walk towards her men.
" I will come with you." Elina said firmly as she chased after her mother.
" No. It's going to be dangerous there."
" Please, I will escape immediately when things get dangerous." Elina responded.
" I will protect her." Elina's uncle butted in.
" Whatever." Elina's mother said and she entered the gate with her men.
Asher, Elina and her uncle followed the military inside the gate to the beast plane.
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A piercing scream sounded as a soldier's hand was sliced off before his head was pierced with a wind blade, killing the soldier.
" F*ck! Stop the beast at all costs until reinforcement arrives." The general of the soldiers fighting the Heaven tier beast shouted as he directed a firestorm at the creature. He led three hundred soldiers to fight the beast, two hundred galaxy mages, despite the strength of the force, more than two hundred soldiers had been killed by the beast.
The beast looked like a large bird with a golden colour and a sharp beak with large blue eyes. The bird had rage in its eyes as it looked at the humans that threw different spells at it but none of the spells managed to hurt the bird because it kept dodging quickly.
" Set an array around the bird quickly." The general ordered one of his men.
" Okay sir." The soldier said and he quickly gathered eleven witches and they surrounded the bird as they set an array but the bird realised what they were doing. The heaven tier bird screeched and the eleven witches that planned on setting the array were blown away from the bird.
The general frowned and he glanced at his soldiers that were blown away, he realised they managed to survive but they couldn't join the fight again, they were injured.
" General I found something! " A man said as he came out of the shadows behind the general.
" Will it help us hold this bird until reinforcement arrives?" The general snapped at the soldier as he conjured a spell.
" No…" The soldier was cut short.
" Then help me destroy this arrogant bird!"
" But I know what caused the bird to attack." The soldier added quickly and the general turned to face the soldier curiously.
" Tell me about it quickly."
" The attack is caused by the dark witches, I saw them performing a ritual close to where the bird was sleeping, they must have done something to anger the bird and cause it to attack us." The soldier said hurriedly and the surprise he felt when he saw the dark witches surfaced on the general's face.
" F*ck those bastards!" The general shouted with his terrifying aura intensifying.
" Go, go away from here and tell the world what you saw. If you stay here, you will die." The general said to the soldier.
" But…"
" No buts, leave now." The general said decisively and he turned away from the soldier to fight the large bird that killed more than half of his comrades, men he had gone through hell with, men that had families, men that had ambitions, men that fought knowing they would die.
The soldier saw the brave general charging towards the beast, although he knew he would die soon enough. He didn't run away, he fought the beast courageously knowing it is his duty to protect the people without the ability to fight the terrifying beast. The soldier sighed deeply and he ran away from the battlefield.