War 01

"We have to go back, Marcos, Anak and Henry stayed there"

Cain spoke as he was carried by Youm and Miles, both looked sad.

"Your Majesty, the magical trinity of the kingdom exists to serve and protect"

"That's right and at this moment your life is worth more than the three of us put together"

The prince was moved, he had heard of the magical trinity, made up of three magical prodigies serving his father, together they were able to protect the east from demons, the north from beast men and the south from the neighboring kingdoms and were second only to the Archmage.

At that very moment the surrounding air became dry and the heat increased exponentially, Youm and Miles trained in the way of magic knew what this meant, someone was creating a magic zone, but soon they felt their arm heat up.

Looking at their protégé, they see the prince on fire, his hair is floating in an unnatural way and his pupils had vanished and only the purest red had remained in his eyes.

"Kwaaaack"

They heard the song of a bird, followed by a shadow, as they look up into the sky they see the protector of the south, the grand Vermilion flying above their heads.

"Look, something amazing is about to happen"

"Yes, let's follow it"

...

In the middle of the forest, some recruits meet, and with them appear the four barons who were neglected at the beginning.

"We have accomplished the mission given by the tower mage"

"Yes, it is time for us to withdraw"

The barons look at each other and just then one of them speaks arrogantly.

"Tell me, what was your mission"

The young man has short purple hair, his pupils are also purple, his clothes are currently dirty and the gun at his waist seems to have broken.

One of the recruits introduced himself and completely expressionless answered him.

"Highly classified, only the lord duke or the prince himself is allowed to question"

The boy was immediately flushed, despite being a noble, a baron is the lowest caste in the hierarchy, seeing this a slightly older recruit eventually notices the embarrassment.

"Stop it Jhon, our mission has already been accomplished, there's no need to keep it a secret any longer.

He steps closer and puts an arm around his companion's neck, with his free arm he points to the mist not far away.

"That, the noble mage in the tower and some others created a poison that kills magical and non-human creatures, and through that event they made us spread them all over the nearest part of the forest, thus creating a barrier against the Anima army"

"So there was never an event?"

"I wouldn't say that, it was more like a special mission in the midst of the event, see, from the moment we soldiers entered the forest there would be a reprisal, we are the disposable ones, we didn't even get one of those nice items really"

He pointed to his own chest, where the artifact is located, the baron looks in the direction and realizes that the golden bird is missing in the center.

"That..."

"It's our mission, fortunately we all survived, but we don't know what's going on there should be animal soldiers or at least the beasts, but there was nothing and that scares us, that's why we are retreating"

At the moment he said this the whole ground shook, the loud beating sound of wings could be heard from far away, a huge shadow covered that whole portion of the forest, it seemed as if the whole sun had been swallowed up.

Realizing this, immediately Jhon shouted to his companions.

"Close your eyes and don't look up".

Some listened to him, however, a few unfortunate ones looked up into the sky and what they saw made them stagger backwards and fall sitting down, in the sky was a winged demon, its black feathers contrasted with some red spots, three legs swung in the air and four wings kept it in the sky.

"Groaaaa"

An eye opened in the bird's stomach and it looked back at those few curious people and immediately its eyes began to bleed, its mouth seemed to be burning and its throat became dry, soon foam appeared from somewhere and these people died.

They kept their eyes closed for a long time before they were sure of safety.

"The famous bird that was never seen, Obscure, something serious is happening, let's go"

John turned and started walking quickly, his companions looked back, but there was no time for grief and soon they were gone too. The purple-haired nobleman was kneeling, his body covered in sweat, his eyes bleeding, but still alive.

His fellow nobles were lying on the ground, only he survived of the four barons, in his head there was only one sentence.

"Darkness, the age of darkness is coming"

...

Seeing Cain being hit again and again, something changed inside the young recruit, for a moment her whole mind went blank, the whole world seemed to have stopped and a woman appeared in front of her.

[You have awakened the sleeping Goddess of War]

[You received the title 'Lady of War']

[You received the trait 'General of the battlefield']

The woman had no face, her figure was tall and robust, the heavy armor she wore gave a sense of oppression and inspiration, in her heart she dreamed of the day she would become like this.

[You received the title 'Daughter of War']

[You received the trait 'The fate of a warrior']

Soon all the world returned to normal, except that now there was a very dark, gray mist, over her body, and with his hand covering her mouth was Marcos, his eyes were watchful around her.

There was something she saw that Marcos didn't seem to see, a ghostly translucent red line that seemed to guide her into some corner, and without blinking she pushed Mark away and began to crawl behind the line.

Marcos tried to stop her, but it didn't matter his efforts, she seemed to be hypnotized, thirsty for something and for some reason she was sure she would find it at the end of the line.

"Swiiiift"

A distinct sound sounded and soon after that the mist was cut in two, it was so fast that Marcos didn't even see it, however, soon the mist began to break apart.

"Anak!"

"Damn, damn, damn why did that thing appear here"

After all the mist disappeared, Anak appeared, however, one of his arms had disappeared, specifically from the shoulder down.

"How did that happen?"

Marcos hurried on, they might not have known each other for long, but they were both the future of the kingdom, when he got close enough he noticed that it was a clean cut, and that there were traces of the wound being frozen.

"That was..."

"Harpya, that bastard bird came out of nowhere, if I had one more step to the left I would be in that situation"

Pointing with his chin he shows the masked general, cut in half, the wound showed remnants of ice similar to Anak's.

"That looks bad, no, it looks very bad, one of the guardian birds moving only means one thing"

They both looked at each other and spoke at the same time.

"War!"