10 Devil's temptation

Spirit summoning

This thing isn't new in magic world. A magician just need a connection and a abnormal amount of magic power to call upon the mystic spirits.

Battle was progressing in the city, bandits were surprised on their effortless struggle against Snakes as none of their attack was inflicting any damage . Hugo who was cursing the guards, crossed the line beyond sanity, gave out order

"use magical cannons and mortars, I don't care if we have to suffer some damages, just do it".

Hearing the orders, the bandits who was incharge of the mortars and cannons aimed towards snakes. As they charged their cannons with magic power, several waves of light piercing through building hit the snakes. The waves were so devastating that the bandits who were in its way got evaporated just like water.

Seeing the scene, Magnus muttered

"what a cruel monarch",

and laughed on the struggling rats i.e bandits.

As waves hit the target a loud explosive sound accompanied with a huge cloud of smoke spread throughout the area. As the smoke settled, Hugo who was laughing at his victory, fell into despair.

Illusions are the images which can be maintained forever if the illusionist have enough power,as in case of dark mages they were more capable of harnessing mana than elfs by consuming it directly from surrounding with no limit, as the mana capacity of all mages were connected to Magnus's capacity which was unknown.

Snakes were unscathed but the bandits and building weren't as lucky as snakes, they were destroyed and evaporated in seconds. Magnus who was jumping around the city , climbed the highest tower of city and took out a red feather brimming with power from shadow world.

"mages concentrate your mana on this",

As soon as Magnus gave this command to dark mages who were guarding the towers, he threw the feather in air and mages began transmitting the mana into it.

Towers were next to the defensive walls, surrounding the whole city. After some moments of transmission, the feather started emitting the huge waves of fire and arranged the flames across the city with towers as intersecting points. And a huge magic circle emitting fire engulfed the sky above city.

Everyone's Jaws were almost dropped on seeing the scale of magic circle and the flames. Some bandits began thinking it as the punishment by God and on the other hand, the prisoners and elfs who were waiting for signal was surprised on the scene and knelt down as if the god was about to descend,

"receive our respect O great spirit of fire".

The red feather was none other than the relic of the elfs which they were preserving for centuries.

The religion between demihumans were not the same as humans, demihumans are more close to nature and preaches the great forces of nature i.e elemental spirit. Convincing the elfs to gave up on their relic wasn't the easy task, since elfs have great faith in spirits, they can't be provoked so he schemed with priest of the village by tempting him.

Few days Before the raid , Elfs invited Magnus to the holy temple of their gods. The temple was like Ancient ruins, the priest who was given duty with protecting the holy relic showed way towards an dark hallway. In the hallway, an bright orb was filling the dark room with light.

At first, Magnus was so mesmerised by the orb that he just wanted it for himself. Seeing the orb, many questions arised in Magnus mind, since Orion and Magnus were connected by soul. Orion spoke up

"Master, this the essence of fire spirit, Phoenix"

Magnus got shocked on the name,

"what, you really mean it, it's that fire bird from mythology "

"don't be rude master, phoenix is one of the most reputed gods for demihumans don't ever insult them otherwise you will be executed by them"

Magnus replied while sarcasting ,

"really, is this puny thing really a part of the great Phoenix"

"it isn't really a part but a connection of Phoenix between Arcadia and spirit world"

"Connection....?"

"yes, if enough mana is supplied to it, you can summon Phoenix"

Magnus got a really exciting feeling from Orion's statement and got lost in his thoughts about a giant phoenix destroying the city. His Battlefreak nature which he has developed through countless battles urged him to do so.

Magnus with his scheming mind commented,

"Father, how old are you?"

"well, I don't remember it but maybe more than 500 years old"

"wow ,you lived quite a long life "

"even though, its an holy relic why does I feel that its weakening",

Hearing the statment, priest sighed

"yes its weakening because most of its power was used by our ancestors to protect themselves and it won't last long for our future generation to witness"

"why don't you give it to me".

Priest filled with rage and glanced at Magnus,

"don't misunderstand father, let me explain"

"Have you ever witnessed the presence of God? "

Priest in suspicious tune replied,

"no, what are you trying to imply".

"what if I promise you to grace you with the presence of your God"

Hearing this really confused the priest, and he responded,

"what nonsense you are spouting, method for summoning the great spirit is lost? "

Magnus replied,

"father I think you hav forgotten about my abilities, troops who are guarding the village are mthe example of my summonimg skill and I believe in my skills".

Priest felt like he was being tempted by devil but witnessing the glory of great spirit was indeed a deal which can't even saint can refuse even if he has to sold his soul to devil as the goal of any priest in life would be witnessing the blessing of their Almighty.

"villagers won't agree",

Seeing that Priest have been tempted , he replied,

"you don't have to worry about villagers, we have to just make up a story i.e an prophecy ".

Next day, Priest gathered everyone in village and announced about the prophecy of God

"my brethrens last night I was blessed by the presence of our great fire spirit, he told me that he would lend us his power".

Everyone believed in the priest's announcement. Magnus who was seeing the whole drama laughed on the foolishness of villagers who believed the words of priest without any question. In his previous life, he used to witness the same scene of priest manipulating the masses on the name of God and at the back enjoying themselves with riches. With the introduction of red feather, he upgraded his plans and turned it into one of the grand events in the history of Arcadia .

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