The Salva Kingdom royal capital. One of the largest kingdoms of the human race on the continent.

A place that was usually bubbling with life. With the typical noble men and commoners. A safe haven for mages regardless of their element.

A place that could be called home for a lot of people.

Well it was currently in flames. The well designed and beautiful houses were in ruins.

The market place destroyed, the residential areas, hell even the slums were destroyed.

But the one most common thing among them.

Blood. That was all anyone could see for miles.

Blood, corpses and scattered limbs. In the middle of the scene of carnage were two individuals.

One clad in white armor and the other in pitch black. They were fighting.

"YOU BASTARD"the warrior in black screamed and slashed his sword at the warrior in white who dispelled it with relative ease.

"It's over Morbak"said the warrior in white and as he said so gigantic arrows of light appeared above him.

[Light Magic: Arrowheads]

And with a wave of his hand, the arrows rushed towards the figure in black - Morbak - who jumped and nimbly dodged the barrage of light arrows raining down on him.

BOOM

The arrows Morbak dodged destroyed large chunks of the battlefield they were on, leaving large craters in their wake.

'Shit. This bastard, Theodore is even stronger than before '. Morbak thought while hiding behind the smoke formed from the explosions.

'I have to recover a bit of my mana and find a way to escape out of here cause I can't see myself winning against this guy. Not against the strongest mage in the continent'.

While thinking that, he closed his eyes and started gathering mana towards him. But the white knight - Theodore - was far more sensitive to the movement of mana than Morbak realised.

He felt the mana moving towards a single point as soon as Morbak began drawing on it and immediately sprung into action.

He immediately drew his sword and used 'body enhancement' magic to increase his physical abilities and leapt towards Morbak.

Whilst in the air he conjured a few more arrows and fired them at Morbak.

'Shit. He already found me?'. Morbak knew he couldn't waste time trying to gather his mana anymore and quickly started reciting in an inaudible voice while dodging the light arrows.

BOOM BOOM BOOM

More explosions were sounded as the battle got more heated. Although the explosions weren't as loud as before, as Theodore only meant them as a distraction rather than an actual attack.

He too was running low on mana after all. Morbak already knew but it didn't matter as he was already done casting his spell.

[Dark magic: Chaos chains]

As soon as Theodore came out of the smoke, giant pitch black chains appeared out of thin air and binded him or at least tried to.

As soon as the chains were about to touch him, Theodore used one of the techniques he had developed with the Light element.

[Flash Step]

Swoosh

In the blink of an eye he was behind Morbak. 'Shit I forgot about flash ste-'. Before he could complete his thoughts, he felt the cold metal of Theodore's sword on his neck, slashing through it and his vision turned upside down.

'Ah I see. So I lost huh. Forgive me Chloe, I couldn't stop this madness. Emperor Goethe, Cardinal, and Goddess Arthenia you bastards caused this. You deserve death and more for what you've done to the dark mages. But don't worry my daughter, my allies, my fellow dark mages will avenge me. They will burn down that despicable empire you've built for yourselves so wash your neck and prepare yourselves'.

'Prepare'. And with those final thoughts his vision turned dark as he fell into eternal darkness.

*****

"The King of the black mages is dead. And with this, the end of the Salva Kingdom is all but assured". Theodore spoke to the hologram in front of him while kneeling.

"Well done my brave lance". The hologram said. "Now, those gnarly dark mages are nothing without their King. Good". The hologram said nodding it's head in satisfaction.

"Bring his head with you back to the empire. Tonight we celebrate the end of the king of devils at the hands of the strongest mage in the empire".

Saying so the hologram cut off. "Haah", Theodore heaved a sigh and looked down at the headless body of Morbak.

Small tears dripped down his face as he looked at the state his former friend was in.

"I'm sorry old friend. I'm really sorry". As he spoke the tears that came in drops originally started coming down hard.

After crying for about ten minutes, Theodore stood and cleaned his eyes. Then he went towards the decapitated head of his friend and picked it up before wrapping in a white cloth.

He then took one last look at the state of the capital city of the Salva Kingdom. Blood was everywhere, corpses littered the street. Both civilians and soldiers. Burning buildings. Destroyed infrastructure.

Even the royal palace was destroyed.The soldiers lying dead on the ground had uniforms of both the empire and Salva Kingdom.

While channeling his mana, he said in an inaudible voice "I'm sorry" and then flew up and headed towards the empire.