The entire Archon realm was engulfed in a sea of flames, Screams of children getting helplessly falling prey to the Wraiths, stench of burning Sulphur, of our Archonian blood, their lifeless body, those bloody cowards, " They think they can get away with all this!", I growled through gritted teeth as we reached the citadel of what used to be sacred memorial of Archonian history and the last fort guarding the palace, now all in ruin.
Suddenly we see a silhouette of a figure midst of all this smoke running towards us. We both drew our blades in caution.
"Young master Suwan and Lady Elsiya, Good Lord I finally find you", we both lowered our swords as it appeared he is one of my mother's soldiers, his sword completely drenched in blood, and his armours had been pierced, blood dripping.
"Where is my mother?", I calmly asked him.
"She is fending off the attacker from the north side of Citadel my lord", he replied while clutching his bleeding abdomen.
"So everyone is being evacuated to the citadel?", I inquired while still watching for any possible enemies.
"yes, young master, but...many of our people have already fallen", he said in a trembling voice. Was it blood or cause of tears but his eyes were red, maybe both?.
"you should treat your wound brave soldier", I suggested to him while giving a light tap on his shoulder. Elsiya nodded to me with a worried look on her face.
"we must go quickly", I declared, urgency in my voice .
Suddenly We both froze on our track, an intense bloodlust, which is so sickening came from our behind. From the fog, the head of the brave soldier we just met came rolling towards us. Blood gushed out from his lifeless body, the ground wet with a poodle of blood.
"Oh my! aren't you two the cute son and daughter-in-law of that Bitch Seraphine!?", a shrill voice pierced through the fog, sending shivers down my spine.
With dread we turned to face the source of the voice, the only thing we could hear were the footsteps, with every step the killing intent became heavier. Appearing before us is the figure of a woman, with long black hair tipped with scarlet, horn spiralling upward. Her dress looked like it was dyed in a sea of blood, at her bare belly the symbol of dragon was there adorned with large horns, unlike those of normal wraith soldiers. she is Nyxara, commander of the Wraith squad which works directly under Krynnor.
Elsiya with her sword raised stood tall, her eyes unwavering and positioning herself defensively in front of me. I am not that weak I told myself, but it felt more like convincing.
"oh look at this bitch trying to protect her cute husband", a chill ran down my spine as a cold voice whispered to my ears. Without wasting any second Elsiya sword slashed her.
Elsiya's POV:
Those cowardly Asuras, Suwan was right they aren't to be trusted, and now I am more certain that there are traitors amongst us . Mother-in-law must be dominating her enemies together with her loyal vessel. But we still do not know the extent our enemy invading forces. Hmm we should regroup with mother-in-law and massacre the invading forces .
I would love to do all that but first defeating Nyxara is our first priority. Suwan is good at magical combat and while me with augmented weaponry combat, in short its the infusing of elemental or magical attributes to a weapon for a specific period of time. It's strange, my chest feel heavy today.
I positioned myself before Suwan, with counter defensive style taught by Thaddeus himself. Although we don't have much info on Nyxara but being the commander of wraith squad itself answers most of our question. Her walking demeanour makes me want to rip her apart.
As I was thinking all this, she disappeared from my field of vision, but my senses tells she will appear behind Suwan. Infusing my sword with wind element, quickly rotating my back I slashed her. But again she vanished out of thin air.
There was a tickle of blood in my sword tip. Hmm should have gone for her neck instead, " how stupid me", mumbling to myself.
"Esliya!!", Suwan shouted while appearing near me, his eyes were almost moist. "you okay?", he asked with a hint of concern.
"yep", I reassured him with a quick smile. "This fight will be quite hard dear", shifting my eyes towards our foe who was in a daze.
Nyxara was standing some fifty yards away from us, her face bleeding from a deep cut. Her eyes went wide as she touched her wound with one of her finger.
"Youu! weAK liTTle ARCHONIAN!", she screeched in anger.
What an intense killing intent enough to make the hair on my neck stand, "Dear next time turn her into ashes" I suggested to Suwan, to which he gave a firm nod. Hmm, am I getting jealous of that monster!?, hahaha well she will die anyway.