March 10th, 2027
We spent most of our time trying to get information from Victoria, but it was obvious she wasn't speaking. She was a loyal dog on Lucifer's leash.
"We need a plan, now." Lucas said pacing the ground.
"You don't think we know that? In case you haven't noticed were stuck at the moment." I snapped.
"Well she's not going to be much of any help now is she?" Ethan said pointing at Victoria, who was still tied to a tree.
"We need a new plan."
"What can we do? We have no idea where they went, we can't fallow them." I said again.
"There's no way he went back to his castle. He's too smart for that." Sterling said.
"The king has multiple homes" Trace shook his head, "She literally could be anywhere in the game."
"What now? We can't just give up." Lucas looked at all of us, when suddenly, like he always did, Trace smiled and looked at all of us, then looked at Lucas.
"What?"
"I have an idea." Trace blurted.
Trace went through his players guide and found a list of spells.
"Do you have the ingredients for this spell?" Lucas looked at the list carefully.
"I think so, but would this work?"
"We don't have time to question it." Sterling said.
"He's right. Do it Lucas." I said.
Lucas and Trace were mixing the spell together, while we stood by the tree Victoria was tied to. She had a smile painted across her face as if she was enjoying her situation.
"What you smiling for?" Ethan asked.
"Oh nothing really. It's just amusing watching you all try to beat the king."
"And what, do you mean by that?"
Sterling looked over his shoulder at her and Victoria's smile got wider.
"It's funny watching you attempt to beat an opponent you're bound to lose to."
"What makes you think we're going to?" Ethan said, "Let me tell you something. Your king has done a lot of people wrong and that's gonna catch up to him."
"You fail to see Lucifer's greatness. That is because you blindly follow lost leaders." Victoria smirked.
"Name one thing your king has done right?"
"He gave his people a home, he's give others the chance to have a life here in his domain."
"Did he?" Sterling snapped, "did he give life? Because I have seen your king and he brought death and fire to my people. He killed families and-"
"They were criminals. They disobeyed the law." Victoria interrupted,
"They were children! Someone's daughter or son, they have families in the real world and now because of your king, they're not going home." Sterling snapped back at her.
Victoria's eyes got wide and were full of fear for a moment.
"You punished a whole city for one person?"
"Yes." She said, "anything to make this world safe for us."
"You sacrificed a city and an army for what? That's mass murder, there's no coming back from that." I yelled.
"I'd do anything if it means I get to kill that Crimson bitch." She snapped back at me, she got angry, "She, she is the reason I fight! Because of her I lost everything!"
"It's ready!" Trace shouted.
The spell was called "Truth of Justice " it hopefully would make Victoria tell us everything we needed to know, with honest answers.
"You got this?" I asked him. He looked at the gold powder in his hands that he had made.
"If I don't, well just hope I do have this cuz if not,Sierra's-"
"Don't. You can do it." I said sharply.
Lucas made his way over to Victoria as she smiled at us.
"Here to let me go?" She smirked at us.
"No yet." Lucas threw the dust on her and we all held our breath.
"Ecitsuj fo hturt. em llet"
We all got tense. I watch Ethan's hand move to his holster just in case. The dust settled and nothing happened.
"That's it?" Ethan said.
"Hold on now, it's a spell not a casting." Trace said, "Ask her." Sterling walked up to her and crouched down to her eye level.
"Where is Lucifer?"
Suddenly Victoria's eyes got wide. She began to cry and shake her head.
"No,no,no,no." She mumbled and cried, struggling to resist.
"Victoria, where is he?"
"The....the castle on level....20." She tried to close her mouth, but she couldn't fight the spell.
"Why did he take her?" Ethan asked.
"She's the face of the resistance. If she stays people will question Lucifer even more." She cried then began to laugh, "that bitch is out to ruin everything you all are. You say we need to go back, but did you ever stop to think that life could be better here? That this could be home?"
"Did you know the game is falling apart? That if we stay here we'll die." Trace said. There's was a long moment of silence as we all looked at one another.
"You trust that girl? The girl who couldn't even protect her team let alone an army. If you follow her you'll die for sure, just like the riders!" Victoria snapped. "Those fools didn't even know their leader was a girl?" She began to laugh again, "Ha! No wonder they died! And it's all her fault."
"You don't know that!" I shouted.
"But I do! She abandoned her guild, disbanded it! Leading them to their own demise. After your leader leaves your guild, you become vulnerable, and other guilds can attack you. My friends died because of that bitch! And she's gonna pay!" She shouted with tears in her eyes.
"You are all gonna pay."
