"Lucius… please calm down."
Rena continued to try and sooth her lover's rage, but nothing was getting through to him. Mana continued to swell around him and throughout the air. She began to feel heavy. The brilliant flames of the enemy's barriers had almost dwindled to nothing and they scrambled to close the gates to the academy.
Rena watched as shadows and dark tendrils danced around Lucius's wrist and arms as he stretched his sword arm outward with the tip pointing directly at the gate. She noticed that the source of the darkness was the ring on his hand that seemed to vanish occasionally.
Accompanying the ring's appearance was a dull glow coming from Lucius's Mark of the Abyss. The look on his face was a dark and twisted smile that struck fear into her heart for a moment.
"I want you to know the name of the spell that killed you." Lucius shouted at the gate. "[Tempestas: Roaring Thunder]!"
