Igor froze the moment he heard the marquess saying that his friends would still be under his spell even if he died. Now that just complicates things, the marquess might as well be deceiving him and it might be true. Whichever one, he is not going to make the marquess get away with it.
His friends lunged at him, still in their sleeping state, Igor caught them with the corner of his eyes, he raised his hand up and purple chains from the ground shot up and shackled them up.
"Rest up guys, give me time, I'll deal with the one who put you in this state". Igor said.
Many chimeras and humonculi rushed in their thousands towards him. Igor was unfazed by their numbers, he stood still in his position.
"Storm of annihilation". He casts. Five whirlwinds simultaneously appeared, carried away the 'new life's ', cuts and gashed their bodies into unrecognizable forms.
"Tch, I'm still used to saying spells out loud". He monologued. He looked at the damage he has caused to the new life's, he couldn't help but feel sorry for the people used to make them.
' death is a better reward than staying in that form, you too, mum and dad '. Igor said in his mind.
'Now I have to deal with him... But first, I have to immobilize him and restrict that spell drawn in his hands '.
'oh, I've got it '. He thought.
"That form of yours is pretty powerful, too bad you are going to use it to kill your friends how pitiful". Gizbert said.
*Scoffs*
"Unlike you who would do whatever it takes to get power including sacrificing your child and your citizens, l on the other hand have people that I trust, I know, deep down that they are fighting that spell of yours ". Igor said.
"Really? Why don't we put it that theory to the test ". Gizbert said, his hands inscriptions glimmers.
Igor who had thought to have restrained his friends so he could focus on the marquess saw them already untied, and it wasn't even under the command of the marquess. They had free themselves during Igor's annihilation of the new life's.
He saw them making moves to hurt themselves; Larmore took one of his talisman and faced it to himself, Seraph faced her staff towards herself, Barbara held a sharp stone to stab herself by the neck and Orpheus was summoning a beast.
Igor's eyes widens, what is he going to do, he has to stop all five of them but how... Simple, by severing their connection with Gizbert. He flung his hand sideways and wind with sharp edges moved through the open space and cuts off the marquess's hands
"Arrrrgh!!!". Gizbert wailed loudly seeing his hands drop on the ground and blood gushed out like fountain.
Igor wasn't done, he made purple chains protrude out of the ground and tied the marquess to the floor, he also had his mouth gagged up.
Now that the connection has been severed, his friends should be released from the spell _ or will they. Rather than stop their suicidal act, they continued and they were still in their slumbering state.
This is bad, awfully bad, Gizbert was right, killing him or severing their connections would not solve the problem, but what, Igor brainstormed.
He recalled, that the marquess had already drawn a circle ahead of time to summon his new life's, which means, somewhere nearby, a device that binds them is close, but where.
First, he stopped their suicidal ritual by tying them up in chains, so he can now try to find the device that the marquess used to bind them.
'or better still, since I wasn't really affected maybe l can release them '. He thought.
He went towards them and touched Seraph and Barbara's forehead. He closed his eyes and focused.
"I might not have a spell ready to release someone who has been bound by a spell, but who says I can't make it up at the heat of the moment ". Igor said.
The runes swirling around him shimmered, he closed his eyes to focus on finding a cure, soon, a smug appeared on his face.
"Found it, release". He casts.
A bright blinding light shone in the dark sky, Igor smiled in satisfaction with himself. As the light dimmed, he found out that they weren't out of the spell yet. Igor was puzzled, where did he go wrong.
Right in front of him, he saw Larmore, Barbara and Seraph had their stigmas glow brightly, from the lower abdomen, the thigh and shoulder respectively. Their bodies glowed and just like Igor, runes of inscribed words were swirling around them.
They had tattoos drawn on their faces. As for Seraph, her staff transformed, no longer was it just a wooden staff, now a pink gem was fitted on it, the gem was large and was in the shape of a star.
Barbara also has a staff, it was like Seraph's, but her's, the gem was turquoise and had the shape similar to the addition sign, like those used in hospitals. Larmore on the other hand, had his own staff with brown colored gem fitted. The gem was in the shape of a metal gear.
"Thanks for your help Igor, but we are capable enough to fight our way through". Barbara said.
Igor was mesmerized, stunned and speechless for some seconds, then he smiled and said:
"My trust in you wasn't in vain ".