Chapter 103 – Bolster

Third Person’s POV (12 yrs. and 8 months old)

Magical beasts with features of Bear, Lion, Tiger, Mermaid/Merman, Turtle, Wolf, Octopus, Ant, and Bee, all came out from the light circles in their human forms. Klein looked below and saw Felsin, who spoke earlier gaining their attention.

“Light Magic: Domain of the North.” A magic circle appeared abruptly above everyone’s head, including those magical beasts that appeared through the yellow circles, they were smirking as they are familiar of this spell and are wondering whom are the unfortunate people to concur the wrath of its conjurer.

Without delay, the magic circle glowed brightly once in a split second, before revealing everything to be illuminated, as if angels had descended on the battlefield and are gracing them with their holiness.

Instead of marveling, the demons felt that a portion of their power had been sapped and as they stare in front of them, the surroundings seemed to appear even brighter than before, in a split second, light rays ascended from a focal point, and that focal point was Felsin.

The light rays bended high up the sky and bombarded the location where the demons where at, and just like that, the surroundings, returned to normal, The ten magical beasts landed on the ground near Felsin, and engaged in a warm talk with one another.

Klein and the others approached the beasts talking to each other, carrying along with them the question of how those people can talk in such a manner if they’re in a serious situation, as for Raze and company, they’re just confused, but went along with Klein anyway.

“Felsin, you’re back, along with…” Klein paused, to take in the faces of these familiar people, the ones he thought he wouldn’t get to see once again. “Ros, Kilean, Nazir, Rena, Abel, Oldin, Harth, Kara, Mira, Dawn…”

He felt his voice stuck in his throat as he could not believe that his friends are here and well, after what happened 12 years ago. Wait, huh? Aren’t they supposed to be sealed within the houses? What happened to the barrier? Klein thought.

Lana, Ulysses, Alfred, Erick, and Vin had same thoughts as they also knew what happened 12 years ago. A plethora of emotions washed over them as familiarity and a sense of longing welled within their chests, and the wonder at the possibility of this moment coming true.

It is true, as true as the day they found out that someone was capable of turning everything upside down with magic.

“Wait, what happened to the barrier?” asked Lana, but before any of them could answer her question, or at the very least try to, ominous energy spread around them abruptly, not allowing them the time of day to settle themselves as what seems to be dark mist assaulted their nostrils.

Immediately all of them jumped away from one another, for the feeling of energy fluctuation bombarded their previous location, most of them floated in mid-air while Raze and his two warriors evaded to the side.

True to their instincts, the place they were seconds ago, exploded in dark mist, covering a dome shape of about ten meter circumference, the mist dissipated revealing dead grass and cracked ground.

All of them looked at the source of the power and saw a demon malevolently looking at them, furiously huffing and puffing, the once flawless structure, and noble posture of the demon lord was washed away, replaced with a creature twisted by the dark red energies of the Demon World.

But the scenery only occurred for a brief moment, as the power that once plunged the surroundings into darkness ceased, leaving behind a bloody atmosphere, carrying with it the promise of death.

The demon lord Rize, composed himself for a brief moment before he loses all sense of control and start lunging at any given opportunity to make the lives of these pitiful creatures before him miserable, but he cannot go and be cocky, or he’ll lose more than what he bargained for.

Currently he has about 39 demon vanguards, one had foolishly died to the light beams, and about 50 demon slaves, ten of which were used as meat shields by his vanguards to protect him per his orders.

“So, we meet that scoundrel again.” said Ros, the one with the bear features, wearing brown clothing, his upper garments looked to be torn apart as it revealed his arms and chest covered in hair, but not the type were you’d be grossed out by his features as his physique resembles that of a buffed man in his early twenties.

Even his face could still be called handsome despite what looks to be a scar lining his right eye. Brown bear ears were the only ones that were prominent of his beastly features, but if one looked closer, his build resembles that of a grizzly bear.

His companions, nodded at his comment of the matter subtly as they too remembered what that guy did to them just for protecting their territory.

“Shall we return the favor?” said the magical beast with two turtle shells… floating above his sides, his eyes glowed green. He looks to be wearing green leather that gradually darkens on his lower body, but he isn’t wearing any shoes or sandals for that matter, while wearing a large straw hat, something you could resemble farmers use.

“With pleasure.” said the magical beast with a mane of a lion as a cloak, yellow features on his almost looking trench coat clothing as he grabbed something behind his back, and that, was a bow, the color of brown embroidered by yellow lightning streaks.

He did not even care that his face was exposed, looking downright excited for the battle to come. The turtle magical beast, named Oldin, caressed one turtle shell with his right hand softly, the lion magical beast, named Kilean, struck his string once to get a feel on it.

“Distract them for us please.” said the magical beast with ant features, clad in silver-red battle armor, her antennae twitching once, surprisingly she doesn’t have big doe eyes, instead hers seem to resemble asian ones, close to the features of Chinese people.

The three magical beasts nodded and landed on the ground. Kilean quickly drawing his bow, a light arrow forming on the receiving ends.

“Lightning Magic: Arrow of Desolation.” The words were softly spoken, but once the arrow was released, explosive power erupted catching the demon off guard, forcing him and his remaining army to back off.

But their reaction was late as the arrow arrived in front of them in mach speed, and had seemingly grown in size, sending all of the demons flying backwards. Their voices stuck in their throat as they seamlessly floated in mid-air, before crashing back down leaving the demon gate behind.

Rize, who immediately recovered from the assault, pulled their demon gate away from the trio slowly approaching it, and threw it far back with his powers. This gate must be extra powerful since they could just move it freely, thought Klein.

“Darkness Magic: Ritual Offering!” casted Rize, this time, catching Klein’s group off guard, a dark red magic circle appeared below the demon gate, and below all the demon slaves, in an instant their bodies exploded in a multitude of blood, leaving behind a floating dark red energy.

Just like that, the lives of the 50 demon slaves were turned into energy to further fuel the powers of the demon vanguards and the demon gate as it further grew in size, twice as it was before, its center red energy, slowly swirling about.

Klein’s group for the second time, felt that another ominous phenomenon draped on their shoulder, as they felt that their strength is slowly being sucked away.

“HAHAHA, you think you’re the only ones who can be intimidating, have a taste of this! Darkness Magic: Oblivion Orb.” dozens of dark red orbs appeared in mid-air around Rize, and started firing off dark beams, bombarding Klein’s group.

They in turn resorted to dodging, by using any means, be it flight, or running, while evading in the process. Contrary to Rize’s belief, the group of magical beasts did not back off from his attack but approached forward while skillfully maneuvering themselves from the assault of dark beams.

The dozen numbers of the people looked like swirling tornadoes as they shifted from flying to running, and to flying again letting the beams bypass them either by sidestepping or taking sharp turns in mid-air.

“Lightning Magic: Tempest Blades.” casted Abel the magical beast Merman as a magic circle appeared below him summoning dark clouds below his figure and above the sky turning the blood-borne battlefield even more deathly.

The clouds in quick succession summoned bolts of lightning as he returned the favor of having rained down multiple spells from earlier, the demons evaded in a hurry at the spell’s advance, coupled with the conjurer and companions approaching paused them for a moment having not thought of the situation,

Leading them to almost getting wiped out or squashed on the ground if they were a second late as the lightning created craters on the ground it had struck. Abel and Rena’s feature only revealed their scaly part of a merman or mermaid,

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