A blinding beam of light is about to crash unto Sir. Elleanor's platoon. The knight looks immediately the moment Ria shouted. His eyes widen. Gem also looks at the carriage's window only to see something bright that's eventually going to crash to them.
"Holy-!" Gem last response upon seeing the disaster.
Sir. Elleanor quickly snaps himself back at a split second and sheathe out his sword. The bright yellow light dives into the platoon march creating a big explosion. It specifically targeted the special carriage that Gem, Ria, and Sir. Elleanor is in. The huge explosion caused big destruction to the point that Sir. Elleanor's men was almost wiped out. The only things left are a handful of soldiers and Sir. Elleanor with Gem and Ria.
"Sir... Elleanor-" One of the guards that was hit spoke its final words after being scorched to death by the explosion.
The whole platoon march was covered in dust and smoke with a huge crater at the center of the platoon. Sir. Elleanor's carriage didn't get excused as it was also destroyed. But the three of them manage to come out unscathe as they were being held inside an obisidian sphere.
"Elleanor!" Ria shouts to the knight as she gets her bearings. Gem on the other hand, is coughing heavily after the incident.
"Ria?! Are you alright?" Sir. Elleanor says to Ria.
"Barely, what happened?!" Ria replied.
"It's so dark, I can't see!" Ria states afterward. The obsidian was completely sealed in from the outside, no light is passing through it.
"Don't worry, I'm here. I casted this, to tank the impact." Sir. Elleanor states as he wave his sword making it luminous, getting the inside of the obisidian sphere lit.
"Gem, are you okay?"
"Y~yeah... I feel a bit dizzy, but I'm good." Gem replied to Sir. Elleanor.
"You... created this? How?" Gem questioned the knight.
"Well, I can't really explain it to you now, we have some problems we need to fix." Sir. Elleanor says.
"But for a short wording, I'm a 'Magma Eskrimador'"
"This sphere here is just a cooled down magma, turning it into obsidian."
"Anyways, we need to check what we're dealing with outside. Two of you, be alert."
Sir. Elleanor melts a chunk of the obsidian with his hand creating a pathway outside. Gem, Ria, and the knight went out of the sphere, and only to be shocked by the destruction that happened.
"Wh~What happened here?!" Gem was in awe as he saw most of Sir. Elleanor's guards were killed.
"Assassination, Elleanor?" Ria questioned.
"I don't know. But all I know is that most of my troops is gone." Sir. Elleanor replied and starts clenching his fist. Gem starts scanning the area to observe the amount of casualties.
"Oh?! My! My! You all are alive! Wonderful!" A strange viscious cheery voice is being heard among the dust and smoke.
Everybody on Sir. Elleanor's side starts to get alerted and is on guard on the possible attacker.
"I thought I've gone for a hole-in-one blast, how unfortunate of me." The voice is being heard again but nowhere to be seen.
After some time with the last heard voice, something appears out of the smoke. Sir. Elleanor looks shocked at what he was seeing. Both Gem and Ria looked at the upcoming foe, both looking very tensed.
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The Masque: Part 1: Unwanted Struggle
Gizem / GerilimA man named Gem will be sent to a world full of mysteries. A world with a game of trust.
