Aspiration to the Heavens: Becoming the Supreme Mage Vol 2- Descent of Darkness

Episode 88: Amending for Sins

*Mayu*

"Today we get payback for what you did to us last year and for what you did this year" Renshu yelled as he lashed out on me.

I jabbbed Renshu on the side with the red hilt of my sword.

Renshu glared at me. In his eyes was the same deep hatred from several months ago.

"Sorry, I know I messed up," I said as I avoided their attacks. "But I will make up for it, I promise!"

"How?" Renshu snapped. "It's your fault that multiple people died! You actions lead to the reappearance of those shadowy creatures in this world!"

I lowered her sword. He was right... it was my fault... My actions lead to the destruction of those ruins... and that unleashed those creatures. The same ones that took Lucette away and killed thousands more throughout the region.

"You know what those creature are? They're abyssmals! Beings from the Realm of Darkness which according to ancient prophecy will one day destroy this dimension and the others! You could very well have doomed us all!"

"Renshu, Ona, Orichalcum, calm down," a girl with long black hair said, putting a hand on his shoulder.

Renshu and the others stopped attacking me and began charging up their next attacks.

"Let them take out his anger, Xi Changying," a tall young man wearing long blue-robes said. "It's rather interesting to see this side of him. Plus, he's right. This woman's action nearly lead to our ruin. No, it's too soon to say if we have averted the worse."

"Huh?" I asked, raising my head.

"Several of them are said to have escaped. If even a single one is allowed to roam in the wild then it could turn into a tragedy. Those creatures have three methods of reproduction, one of which is asexual. Together with their ability to fuse, even the weakest can turn deadly given enough time."

I gulped. "No..."

"That's why I'll find all of those remaining ones," Boukyaku shouted as a fire dragon came our way. "I'll fix the mistake Mayu, my cousin, and the others made."

The Xianian smiled and put his hand forward, stopping the flames with his left hand. "You think you can do that?" he asked as his right hand glowed. "Then, show me by defeat me here and now, Prince!"

Boukyaku moved aside as his fire dragon was sent back at him.

"Don't think I'll go easy on the man whose mother ordered the capture of our young priestess," the guy said, summoning a long,transluscent sword.

"What?" both of us said.

I gagged. Blood dripped down my abdomen.

"You dare mock us yet again by ignoring us," Renshu said, looking down at me. He kicked me in the face, sending me rolling into the dried up lake bed.

"Mayu!" Boukyaku yelled. He walked over to the edge of the lake bed and grabbed a hold of my arm. "You okay."

I let out a gurgling sound over the blood in my mouth. The robed Xianian guy was standing right behind him. "Bou..."

Boukyaku turned around only to be kicked in the back by the guy. The two of us rolled down the loamy clay crater, our head bumping into rocks. Most of them small, but the further we went down, the larger they became.

I hugged my ex-boyfriend tightly and covered the two of us in a cocoon of vines and attempted to slow down our descent.

The translucent sword flew over and slashed the vines.