TBATE - THE PRODIGY

Unleashed

I saw them both flying back deep into the forest of vines, I quickly turned around towards the tunnel we came from to this massacre, tempted to leave immediately I saw others getting distracted by Arthur's condition and not fighting the Elder-wood guardian anymore, I saw the young earth mage approaching him, I couldn't have them put Elder-wood Guardian's focus on me.

"You stay back!!!" I said as I let go another spell at the earth mage and he went flying in the other direction, afraid more people may get distracted, I continued to send an army of spells to anything that moved in my sight, but I stopped as I witnessed Brald going toe to toe with the beast, his flame was magnificent, so strong, so fierce, how can some commoners fire be stronger than mine, I thought, stopping my attack as I went into thought of how we could still win and how I underestimated them, his fire beautifully danced around him, jumping from him to the guardian like an uncontrollable fountain, such power. The damage to the Elder-wood guardian stopped to heal and guilt took over me as I froze in place and I saw the ruckus I had caused...

Soon later I let out a breath of relief as I saw wherever he had burned the guardian, that place had regenerated like nothing had happened. The guardian only kept getting stronger, still toying with us, pushing away my thoughts I fired up spells like a mad man, I felt something change, inside me, it wasn't complete but it was in motion, I thought of it as something which is making me stronger, I could be different, i knew it was the right path, I gave into the feeling and pushed almost all my mana out my core into my wand and a wall of fire covered my vision as i let go of the the spell, making the wand lighter as all the fire mana escaped, soon all of them would be easy targets for the guardian as they would be unable to escape, having done my part I planned to get out now, I turned back and rushed towards the tunnel, once I was inside I remembered how unstable it was, an idea came to my mind, and with that whatever change was in motion had been completed, I was a changed man, no weakness was left in me.

Elijah Knight's P.O.V.

I came to as i realized i had crashed back into a giant rock, I had molded the rock in a way to soften my landing but it still hurt, not to mention the impact of the spell left a lot of damage, I thought looking at my chest.

Just what was going on in Lucas's mind, he was attacking his own teammates, I got up and as my vision focused back in I saw Brald's face, he was scared, terrified, his expression made me feel more fear than I already was,  he was a seasoned AA class adventurer, I saw up to look at the Elder-wood Guardian to see it only standing tall and surprisingly unscratched, the fear only seemed to grow in me, I looked to the other side to see Arthur in the distance, he was trying his best to get back up, he was kneeling on his one knee, almost as if debating on something, I tried to focus on what he was actually doing but was interrupted by a sudden mana fluctuation beside me, it was Lucas, Again!

I huge wave of fire conjured from his wand, growing only bigger, fierce and came rushing towards me, so big that it would also envelop Brald who was at a distance far from me, the intensity of the fire only seemed to increase as it approached, If Lucas had this much power in him why wasn't he helping us, i thought irritated, I sat down and accepting my fate, my destiny, I couldn't escape it, I closed my eyes and braced for impact, my mana core was quite empty but I did a futile attempt to conjure a defensive spell of a steel dome, knowing very well it wasn't strong enough. The seconds inside waiting for my doom seemed like hours, any moment now I would be nothing but ashes, my head started aching as I seemed to lose control of my body as soon as I had lost hope, was this it? Was the Fire enveloping me, my body and consciousness faded away, what seemed like a moment after which I came back, and opened my eyes to find my dome had been perfectly fine, no it was much stronger than how i had conjured it, not giving it much thought, i started thinking of whats going on, did the spell collapse on itself? I thought as I mustered the courage to undo the dome spell, I slowly started first with a fissure in the dome, thinking I was opening my own gateway to my death, as the fissure slowly widened, there was a bright light, too bright and white to be the fire, I quickly opened the dome to see a figure standing in the bright light, it was as if the light bended around him, making way for him to be seen, the silhouette of the man had Bright grey hair, and golden runes ran across his body, my eyes fixated on the runes almost as if compelled to not move away, the runes so small yet so bright that the bright light from behind seemed dull in comparison, it wasn't a blinding bright glow, it was more of a magical and luring glow, I couldn't explain this, the man approached me, I had all forgotten about the S-class mana beast and was only focused on this man, the mana swirled around him at ready, to obey his command bend to his will, he had so much mana around him unconsciously, just what was this man, no god, capable of.