A loud explosion and a large ball of fire in the distance interrupts the party in the central plaza. Somehow Urzael figured the night wouldn't be all fun and games.
It takes a moment for Sora and the other lords to pinpoint that the source of the explosion came from the top of the spire. Then more, slowly making it's way down the spire. Sora sent all but the strongest elites to surround a perimeter around the spire's base to protect the people, and he then led the rest to the spire. Urzael and Breeze met Sora at the main bridge leading to the elevated tower.
"You figure out what's happening?" Sora asked, Urzael shook his head. Bang. Another explosion, much closer to the base. Looks like we'll find out. Sora thought, and continued the run up the bridge. At the end of it they all saw them. Surtr, looking hateful as ever. Evan, one of Sora's personal guard. But he looks different, his veins faintly pulse a purple glow, and his hair grew over his left eye. Lastly, a figure Sora never saw before, standing between the other two. A being made of a dark mist similar to Zalgo, but wearing a full suit of armor stained with darkness. Their helmet doubling as a crown.
"It's about time we met properly, Sora. You may refer to me as the Overlord, and I will be the end of this little thing you call an empire." The Overlord tells Sora, to which he replies by summoning his sword of pure light. Urzael raised his brow and stepped forward, with his sword extended.
"Is that what you call yourself now? My, my, what happened to bring you this far from your cosmic duty. Yachrindl would be disappointed." Urzael says with a smirk. His instigation tactic worked, as a dark aura enveloped the Overlord. Surtr and Evan ready themselves for a fight.
"We're much stronger now, Surtr. No hard feelings when you're dead again." Kieba mocks the so called god of death. Which he screams in rage and lunges for Kieba in response. Kieba was ready, though. He grabbed Surtr and dragged him off the spire, so they could duel on the ground. Sora went after Evan, and they were at a standstill, as their power seemed almost evenly matched. Though the Overlord backed into the center plaza of the spire, as if challenging everyone else standing there. Urzael accepted, after signaling for the elites to help the brothers with their battles.
Urzael, Yuri, and Zephrous walk into the central hub of the spire side by side, the rest of the lords following close behind him. The Overlord laughs, and snaps his fingers. In an instant, several explosions rung throughout the room, the walls crunching, the pillars cracking. The Overlord laughs harder, and opens a portal behind him.
"I would crush all of you, but the building will do that for me. If not, then we will meet again, yes?" He mocks the lords, and walks through the portal. It closes shortly after, Urzael shouts for the lords to get out. As they all get out, they see Sora and Kieba, relatively unharmed, the elites crowding behind them. Urzael looks up at the spire, as loud crunches could be heard, and it starts to lean.
The spire, monument and the centerpiece of the empire, is falling.
"We have to evacuate the area the spire is going to fall on!" Sora shouts, breaking the silence of awe. Snapping out of it, Urzael and Kellan rush towards the area, screams could be heard as they got closer, Sora and Kieba are following closely now, the other lords close behind. Once they get to the area, they start making orders to get all the civilians out of the area.
As the spire comes crashing down, Urzael, Sora, and Kieba all combine their efforts to delay the spire's collapse, smaller pieces that fall are being stopped by most of the elites, the people looked panicked, yet they still flee. Breeze teams up with Sakura to find anyone straggling, as Yuri is preoccupied helping keeping a large portion of the spire up.
More screams, the strain is becoming too much for the lords and elites. A piece falls on a building near the two, the shockwave sends a wind carrying debris towards Sakura and Breeze. They quickly run to the impact zone, when they reach it they hear a child yelling for her mother. They find the girl, boxed in by chunks of building and a wall of the spire, more pieces are falling now. Just before the building could collapse breeze ripped the wall apart and threw it back, rushed in to grab the girl, and got out. With a crash, what's left of the building was reduced to a pile of rubble.
Breeze goes with the girl to find her mother, and Sakura goes off to rescue more. After about ten minutes, the pain the lords were feeling was extreme, but Zephrous finally returned to Sora.
"I've checked the entire area the spire could damage, the people have been evacuated." He tells Sora, with a sigh of relief, he lets go, Urzael, Kieba, and Yuri all do the same. As the spire falls, they teleport up onto the foundation the spire formerly was built upon. They look around, and see most of the empire still sleeping, at least in the direction the spire wasn't falling. But the five lords that stand there can do nothing but watch as a symbol of what they've all worked and fought for comes crashing down. As the spire finally lands, it sends a shockwave through the area, so many buildings crushed, all of them homes to innocent people.
Kieba looks enraged, and Sora sends a flare to meet with all the other lords. They all appear on the base of the spire, all the lords seem quite angry with what happened today. Sora steps onto a piece of the spire, and speaks only three powerful words.
"This means war."
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Magic chronicles 2: Rise of the empire
FantasyWhen Surtr was defeated, Sora started a nation, the magic empire. The strongest mages make up a council known as the mage lords, and Sora, at the top, is the mage king. Chino has been exploring a very long time, and she has found many things, but sh...
