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Chapter 18 - Fireworks

"Your concealment Spell is impressive by the the way though your killing intent is everywhere." Azizi said as he pulled a chair and sat comfortably.

At this point a change had occurred in Oliphant's mind, Zakia was now speaking to him and wanted to give him instructions on how to handle this man in front of him.

" I need you to do as I say if you don't want to suffer any more than you have thus far, say what I tell you if you want to live, if you try anything and think you can use him as your borrowed hand to kill me, you can forget about dying ever again, he must never find out that I'm at the weakest I've ever been at this moment. " Zakia said at a quick pace.

" I can endure any suffering if it means you perish and suffer, what you did in that village and to me, was over the top, and expecting me to help you now is something I don't see happening. " Oliphant responded sounding like he was speaking while gritting his teeth. " I did what I did I admit that and I am not denying it, but let me tell you what he's going to do to us, first we become his puppets and can only obey all his commands from hence forth, what will you do when one day he sends you to slaughter innocents? , and you can't tell me because you were being controlled there was nothing you could do, no, you will be responsible for the deaths of all those innocent lives. You should be able to differentiate between the lesser of the two evils between me and him." Zakia said using words to sway Oliphant. 

" What is wrong with you people? I can't believe he would actually take away the free will of others? What is the meaning of the life of another person to you? " Zakia simply responded at this question by saying. "We do what we need to, to survive that's all." Oliphant got even angrier. "That's it? That's all you're going to say after what you did? We all know that what you did was not for survival. *sigh* We'll talk later, for now, what do you need me to do? " Oliphant calmed down mid conversation as he agreed to cooperate, even he realized how dangerous the man in front of him was, losing free will and be controlled to do terrible things was on a higher scale of evil than slaughtering a whole village of people in Oliphant's perspective,he didn't realized that he was starting to change too as he scaled doing bad things in a scale of something being less harming than another as to opposed to his earlier thinking logic of evil must be punished regardless of any consequences. 

Oliphant didn't waste time and relayed what Zakia was telling him to say. " A mishap occurred there was nothing I could do about it, but the plan to retrieve the Seed of Life that is kept in the academy is still in motion, there's no need for you to worry." 

"Mhm I see, tell me what's stopping me from turning you into my Voodoo puppet right now? Are you even strong enough to stop me? Something's telling me you're putting up a front." Azizi spoke as he showed a menacing smile on his face. "Well, if you believe you can actually do it you can go right ahead, besides you know what happened the last time you tried to pull that off." Azizi showed a grim expression after hearing Oliphant's sentence. 

"Anyway take care of of my pursers so that everything can go smoothly, me being here aligns with what we're trying to do, just give me time I will be done soon." Oliphant said with a reassuring tone. "Okay, I'll listen to you, but I'll leave one of my dolls here, it may provide assistance for you in some way." Azizi said as he reached for his pocket to take out an item. "There's no need for your doll I can handle this by myself, don't insist on anything." Oliphant interjected and stopped Azizi from giving him a doll. 

"Okay, okay I'll leave, besides this is all the time I have, the general will be here to escort me out." Azizi stood up from his chair and vanished whilst clenching the wooden doll on his neck.

In the battlefield in the swamp where Saka was engaged in a battle with three sirens, a figure materialized from out of thin air near Zane who was healing Ja IL, this figure was Azizi. " Its time to leave he's not here, all traces of him end here let's go back to the academy, I'll shoulder all responsibility for this mission." Ja IL was mostly healed at this point but remained unconscious, Zane threw him on his shoulder as a wooden hover board appeared under his feet preparing to depart. " Saka the mission is over, spare those three we shouldn't go over their bottom line by too much. Saka was in the middle of lopping off the head of one of the three Sirens when he heard this command, his attack stopped midway as he retreated without question. The three sirens tried to stop him but shadowy hands rooted them in place inhibiting their movement. The four of them retreated back into the rain and disappeared from the vision of the three sirens.

Above the sky in general Raziya's territory a person with a wooden doll hung around his neck was hovering in the air. "General you've caught up with me in the end, so what are you going to do?" the person hovering asked. A woman with a fish lower half riding a stallion pulling a cart made entirely out of water could be seen a distance away from the man. "You have invaded the territory of a general you are hereby charged of trespassing and should receive punishment at the Siren headquarters." After hearing this the man snapped the doll around his neck by pulling it forcedly until it's string snapped. "Too bad I can't come with you, but I have a gift, for you, be kind enough to critique it." the man didn't say more as he proceeded to crush the wooden doll in his hand into pieces. "Witness me in all my glory." General Raziya saw through the man's intentions and tried to stop him by shooting out multiple balls of water at the man. His body bloated up and then.

Baam! 

The man self destructed but the damage expected did not happen.

A beautiful firework display filled the entire sky that night as people went out from their houses to look at the view. "He played me, Azizi You Bastard!!" the general screamed in anger.