Chapter 18 War

"Ow man! We let the boss and his men get away." James complained, "And we have nothing to show for it."

"That's not true." Shio commented.

"So we have something to show for it?" James asked.

"Yeah, when I cloned myself in my battle against their boss, one of my clones used a spell on the girl that just appeared, and I have all her memories." He explained.

"Great going, Shio, now then the memories are they all in your head?" Iguro asked.

"Yeah, but it'll take a while before I'm fully able to access them, so we'll have to wait."

James looked up, then looked down, and finally looked at Shio, "How long?" He asked.

"Give me the whole day, and I'll get inside all of her memories." Shio explained.

"Hey, wait, why didn't you use it at the boss of the [ASNO ] you would have gathered every information you need?" James asked.

"You idiot, I was trying yo use that spell on their boss, but his magical power was not allowing me." Iguro explained.

"Yeah, same here. When I was attacking him, I wanted to exploit his defenses and use it, but no luck." Shio added.

After Shio deactivated the spell, they all left the confinement room.

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At the Black Art Division, Annie and Akiyoshi were being trained by their Captain.

Their today's training session was Annie versus Akiyoshi.

Annie used her magical power and attacked Akiyoshi with rocks.

"Huh, that's trick won't work on me." Akiyoshi stayed as he armed his arm with flames and melted all the rocks.

He appeared in front of Annie and was about to hit her, but then she used her telekinesis and stopped everything in 5 metres from moving.

She took out her golden staff and whacked him with it, she sent him flying, then she stopped him mid air with her power.

"Oh shit!" He said knowing that he's cooked.

Annie used her telekinesis and controlled his body, crushing him with the ground over and over until…

"That's enough Annie." Captain Zak said, stopping the battle.

"Annie won, and Akiyoshi lost, that makes the score 2 Annie and 0 Akiyoshi, 2:0." Captain Zak explained.

"Ow man, I lost again. This is so boring." Akiyoshi sorely said.

"Hey, Akiyoshi where did you get your powers from?" Annie asked.

"I was born with them," He responded.

"No, I meant the powers you unleashed at the castle." She specified.

"Oh those powers, I don't really know how I got them as well." He answered.

"But I will learn how to control them." He added.

"How strong compared to me do you think you are when you use them?" Captain Zak asked.

Akiyoshi looked at his Captain, then he measured his powers in his head, and then answered, "With all due respect, I'd say I'm stronger when I'm using them."

"Well then let's test it out." Captain Zak requested.

"Wait what here?" Akiyoshi asked.

"Yeah why not. The black Art division's hideout is durable, it won't be destroyed." Captain Zak assured.

"Sorry Captain but I'll have to deny." Akiyoshi replied.

"Ow come on man, we wanna see that power we've been told about. We wanna see it in action." The other members of the Black Art Division requested as they came out of the hideout.

"I'm sorry it's too dangerous."

"Huh, you really undermine us don't you, we're the Black Art Division, di you know that we were nicknamed the Destruction Division. We were known to be just as strong as the Frozen Dragons." Vice captain Ayumu said.

"Wait what! You guys were on the same level as the Frozen Dragons?" Akiyoshi asked as he was shocked.

"Yeah, but then we started to slack off and we also tainted our reputation and made it ugly on purpose. We were tired of receiving too many missions." Vice captain Ayumu explained.

"You lazy bums."

"Now then show is your power Akiyoshi." They requested it once more.

Akiyoshi looked at them all then decided, "Fine I'll show you my powers."

But then as he was about to activate them, a net was shot at him and he was tangled up.

What the!! The Black Art Division members were shocked, they looked at the direction where the net came from, but there was nobody there.

"Target acquired." Four men said as they stood behind the Black Art Division members and took Akiyoshi.

"What the hell!!!" Vice captain Ayumu shouted as he noticed them.

Everybody focused their attention on them, they were wearing white clothes, the same clothes that were described by Shio, Akiyoshi and everybody else who was present.

Captain Zak quickly activated his magical ability and used his spell, Black Art cage! This spell locked the four man in a black cage.

'I don't know who these guys are but they're good. Every hideout has a motion sensor spell that detects anything from 50m and if something approaches it rings, but they got through it.' Captain Zak thought.

"Ahhh, Captain Zak, the legendary artist, the man who can bring anything he draws into reality, with the limit of magical power." One of the men said.

"You know who we are, you know me, you know my ability and how it works. Which are you guys?" Captain Zak asked murderously.

"Oh that glare, it spooks me." The man sarcastically said.

"Welk you know sarcasm ain't gonna free you from my cage."

"We know how to deal with your magic." They said.

"Try it."

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At Shio's office him, Iguro and James were busy trying to gather information. "I'm done." Shio said.

"Wait didn't you say it would take a whole day?" Iguro asked.

"Well it would've taken a whole day at normal speed but I increased it." Shio explained and Iguro nodded.

"Also I had no choice but to speed it up, because the Black Art Division is under attack." He explained more.

James and Iguro looked at the direction where the Black Art Division is located, it was too far away to see anything.

"How do you know?" They asked.

"I implanted a notifier at Akiyoshi, if anything were to happen it'll notify me."

"What are we doing standing here let's go help." James said, but then Iguro stopped him.

"The last time we helped this time let's leave it to them. If we help them it'll be like we're embarrassing their pride,sure they're lazy but they don't run from a fight, we'll let them deal with it." Iguro explained.

"Now then Shio, tell us where are they? What are their motives?"

"They are at Malistro, and they want to declare war on here." He said.

"What!" They shouted.

"Yeah right that's what I was thinking too. How can they declare war on a city, it's not like the kings of the country will allow that." Shio said.

"Lakhar and Malistro are from seperate countries. Both of them act as the borders and they are both the capitals of their country. Lakhar is the name of the country, and the name of the capital city as well. Same with Malistro." James explained.

"And sadly Malistro is bigger than Lakhar and also has a lot of allies, unlike us. If we go to war with them, we will not come out of it unscathed."

This world has five continents ABCDE Astral, Blanca, Concivia, Drectar and Excalvia.

Malistro and Lakhar are located at Concivia, and at Concivia there are 9 countries Lakhar and Malistro included. In those countries Malistro had 5 allies and Lakhar only had 2 allies.

"This war might spell the end of Lakhar." Iguro stated.

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"This design does not have a refined shade, the bars are all too unconventional." The man at the Black Art cage pointed.

"Didn't you say you were gonna try to escape my cage, I didn't think that you were just gonna try to mock my art to get out." Captain Zak said and laughed at them.

But then, the bars broke, and the enemies were free.

"What the hell!" He shouted as he was shocked, never had someone been able to break through his cage.

"Suprised!?" They asked.

"What did you do?" Captain Zak asked.

"The only way to break through Black Art magic is to point out it's flaws, the art loses its shape, strength and power." He explained.

"Now then shall we leave." One of them said.

"Hey, that's my underling you got there, you ain't going nowhere with him." Vice captain Ayumu stated and the rest of the Black Art Division nodded.

"Well then we'll force our way out." They said.

"Bring it you fools." Vice captain Ayumu declared.

One of the enemies attacked, but then Vice captain Ayumu activated his magical ability and a bright star appeared from the sky.

The enemies stopped attacking and looked up and they saw a giant star, it wasn't a star it was a giant rock big enough to destroy the whole forest and the hideout of the Black Art Division.

Star magic: Falling star, that was the name of the spell.

"What the hell is that!?" Shio's assistant Andrew said after he had just got inside the office said as he looked outside the window and saw Ayumu's star/asteroid.