THE HEART OF THE DARK ANGEL
THE HEART OF THE DARK ANGEL
Suddenly, my mind was summoned into an eerie and dark realm.
"Incarnate, you must kill that treacherous traitor", the souls of the Dark Angel said to me.
The Dark Angel has grown inside my soul realm, taking over the realm like it was theirs. The realm has become a dark, malevolent place while the form of the Dark Angel stood tall before me wielding his lightless Sword of Malevolence.
"Damnit, what have you done to my soul realm", I said to them.
"Kill that traitor", the souls of the Dark Angel replied to me.
"You can kill him easily now that your magic has improved. You don't need me to do it", I replied to him.
"Our magic needs time to evolve after we harvested the magic and souls in Maher city. The vile blood in particular is particularly difficult to refine. We cannot use our magic now to deal with the traitor", the Dark Angel told me.
"Neither can I. This Warlock's magic is strong. I would not be able to overcome him easily", I told him.
"Argggghhhhhh", the Dark Angel screamed in fury.
"Alright, I'll deal with him but before that tell me all about him, the traitor?" I asked.
"He came here for my Heart", the Dark Angel replied to me.
"Your Heart? Your Heart is in Delirium?" I asked him.
"Yes, I can feel my Heart beating in this realm, you must acquire it. More than you must kill the traitor", Dark Angel told me.
The Heart of the Dark Angel was the remaining heart of the deceased Dark Angel. It contains immense and endless magic and is vital to the resurrection of the Dark Angel. It was also a treasure more valuable than any divine artifact in this world.
"I'll deal with the traitor and probably also recover your heart, but I'll do it my way", I told the Dark Angel.
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When the Warlock came back into the cave, he was shocked to find the place spotlessly clean and organized.
"Slave, you are a good worker. I will consider keeping you here for another day", the Warlock praised me.
"Yes, master, should I deal with those people outside too? I can bury them for you," I asked him.
"They are not dead. You don't disturb them. They are asleep now, my eagles will send them back to the plains tomorrow", the Warlock replied to me.
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I stayed in the warlock's cave for most of the night.
The Warlock cast a spell over the adventurers that he caught with the cloud formed eagles earlier and stole their magic. He needed rest too to consolidate the magic that he had stolen from the adventurers for his own use.
"Do not disturb me in my sleep", Warlock told me.
"What about those people outside, what if they wake up?" I asked him.
"The eagles will bring them away before they wake in the morning", the Warlock told me as he went to sleep in his chamber.
"What should we do now?" Ratatouille whispered to me.
Ratatouille was the only one who didn't return into my Hell Tank inside my Faberge egg realm. He could disguise himself as anything in this world, so there was no need for him to hide.
"We will be leaving before morning", I replied to him.
"How do we get out of here?" he asked softly.
"I have a way", I replied to him.
"Great, I'll have to keep myself busy until then", he replied to me as he ran away in the form of a rat with greedy intent.
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"Look, look the eagles are bringing the adventurers back", an adventurer told the rest.
The cloud form eagles brought back the adventurers that they took the night before and returned them before morning came.
"Hey, this one is awake", someone said and pointed to one of the returned adventurers.
"Hi," the adventurer replied to them and left, leaving the rest wondering what happened to the guy that made him so jolly.
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"How did you get back here to the cloud plains so quickly?" Chash asked me after he came out of the Hell Tank and discovered we returned to the plains of Delirium.
"Sorry I didn't bring you guys out to tell. The Warlock could hear me if I got you out before this", I replied to him.
"How did you get back here, I want to know too", Cassandra asked me.
My friends were curious about how I escaped from Warlock and managed to fly back to the plains.
"It is really simple. The eagles brought me back", I replied to them.
"The eagles? Why will they bring you back?" Melroy asked me.
"The eagles were supposed to bring the adventurers back here before the morning. That was their plan", I explained to them.
After the Warlock kidnapped the adventurers, the eagles left them to be devoured by the warlock. Before the morning, the eagles would return to the peak and bring the adventurers back to the plains.
"So, you pretended to be asleep with the other adventurers when the eagles brought you back, Master?" Meera asked me.
"The eagles didn't know the warlock took me in as his housekeeper, they probably thought I was like the others, whose magic was stolen by the warlock and their job was to send me back after that", I replied to them.
"What is the purpose of finding the bloody Warlock? It doesn't give us a way to the Castle of Delirium?" Sara complained to me.
Occasionally, there were some things that even Sara couldn't guess.
"I learned something about this realm from the Warlock", I told them.
"What did you learn?" Rinna asked me.
"We can fly at night", I replied to her.
"We can fly at night?" Chash asked us in shock.
"Yes, the first time we tried flying it was in the day and were prevented. We assumed flying was barred in this realm. However, what we didn't know was that the flight prohibition ends at night", I told them.
"How do you know about this?" Melroy asked me.