Charles's pov:
It's nighttime , l kissed my mom good night before going to my room. And as expected, Jack insisted on sleeping in my room. I went to bed waiting for him to sleep. He is a deep sleeper but tonight it seems he means business. " Charles" he called me. "Hmm". "Why are you still awake, are you waiting for me to sleep, so you can write, right?". "What, of course not. I'm just not tired" . He chuckled at that, l know l am bad at lying. Of course that's what planning to do, so l pretended to be asleep for a while. I heard him call me again, but l didn't respond. After a while, l looked at him and saw that he asleep . I stood up to leave the bed, as l was about to climb down, " where are you going Charlie" . I froze and lay down, "nowhere" l said . This is a nightmare. "Jack", " hmm" he responded with his eyes wide open, he looks like he is not planning to sleep anytime soon. " please just let me write one chapter, just one chapter" l said with puppy eyes. He just shook his head meaning no. Well isn't this great. " Please Jack , my work has piled up.l have four chapters to update, please just let me update one so as to reduce the work and stress for me." This should work. He looked at me calculatively , before agreeing, "Fine just one chapter". I hugged him and mouthed a thank you. I quickly got to work before he changes his mind. "Did you read my previous chapter " l asked him. "That's what l'm about to read " he said while typing his phone. I see , he is gonna keep himself busy until l'm done. This guy is so annoying. Looks like l'm really gonna update just one chapter. Well let's get started___
___Darius finally got out of the forest. " Finally we are out if that damn place" he shouted while the armour just laughed," That damn place gave you an interesting experience ". " Well l guess that's true, they were really dangerous but fun" they both laughed. "The city up ahead is called fallen star city, the beside it is called cloud river city" the armour informed. Darius nodded his head and started walking towards the city. As he entered the city he saw the people all going towards the same direction. He joined them and asked an old man about what was happening. " Are you new here" the old man asked him, he nodded his head. " I see, today is the red festival , as we locals like to call it. On this day , we pay our homage to Lord Barcus, we pay our homage to him on the night of the blood moon. He will tell us what he wants from us and we must provide, otherwise, the total wipe out the city, this year Lord Barcus wants war between our city and cloud river city, "the old man explained. Darius couldn't believe what he just heard, why would Barcus be so heartless, " is that why everyone is wearing armour's" he asked. " Yes, l can tell your armour is strong, good choice". Darius looked around and saw that little children were also going to the war. "Why are the children joining the war?", he asked himself, " Because that is how Lord Barcus wants it" his armour replied. "why would he do that " , " l'm guessing he is in need of more souls and blood for his ritual " said the armour . "What ritual?" , " The ritual for becoming an immortal" the armour replied. " Is it possible, l mean to become an immortal?" Darius asked the armour while looking around." Of course , it isn't , Barcus is just stupid" . After a while all the people stopped at a large tower, an old in red came out with a horn in his hand. "That is the chief priest" said the armour. The old man blew the horn and the drummers hit the large drum, everyone around kneeled and prostrated . Darius just played along. The old man blew the horn again signaling the beginning of the war , then the people started to match towards cloud river city. As they got to the gate , all the priest on the tower released fireworks telling them to start the war. And with that the war began. The warriors of cloud river started to shoot arrows from above the gates and the fallen star warriors rush toward the gate trying to break it open .