The attack on the capital

Boom.

With heavy force, the main gate to the capital was opened from the inside.

The two gate wings lay broken open and in complete ruins in the wreckage of the Santalia Bridge.

On the inside of the capital, two figures could be seen hiding their faces with red Oni masks. Blood dripped from their weapons and splattered over their black clothes.

The gestallt to the left wielded a dagger in her right hand crafted from the shadows, and the one to the right held a katana covered in blood in his hands.

"Aiko, Hiroshi I see you have accomplished your mission. I hope my orders were not too impossible."

Aiko and Hiroshi were ordered by Leon, before he was kidnapped, to sneak into the capital and cause chaos.

The two bowed their heads slightly as a sign of respect, and the eleven people standing behind him and watching all this were shocked but at the same time amazed.

Amon, together with Leon, somehow managed to create all this; he connected with the two and gave them his own orders according to the situation.

"No problem, young master. We arranged everything just the way you and Mr. Leon wanted it."

Hiroshi's voice rang out, and now the coats of arms, along with Bruna Garn, no longer understood anything.

"I will explain it to you; the voice shell here is, as I said from the beginning, connected to all those who are not in group A; these two are in group C."

Now it all made sense: the reason why Amon had the voice shell taped to his ear every minute he had it was because he was connected to Group C.

"Well then, let's end this war and commit a sin for which no one will forgive us."

Amon held his hands high in the sky, the clouds over the otherwise sun-bathed capital turning black and creating a massive thunderstorm.

'Path of the Lightning: Thunder Strike.'

Vast bolts of blue lightning struck down on the capital like hail. They shredded houses and killed innocent people and soldiers.

The people in this city sought shelter wherever they could, whimpering and praying for their lives as the strikes suddenly stopped and the next threat loomed.

Soldiers poured out of every alley; Amon's ring turned into a spear, and with it, Amon leapt into the center of the capital. He landed directly on a huge fountain that stood near the main gate, as light as a feather.

Cold, snow, and ice spread like vermin from the fountain through the entire city. Amon was happy to take anything that even tried to harm him. But everything he did not want to harm also suffered. Roxanne and the others remained outside the radius of action.

But the inhabitants of the city in the immediate vicinity froze and shivered.

"That's a check; now it's your turn to get the king checkmate, my friend."

---

"What is happening right now? The king walked with fast steps through the castle toward the dungeon.

"The rest of the Silverwood sodiers and the guild Spellbander fused their attack power and are right now inside the capital. The Santalia Bridge was destroyed by a single blow from a dragon. What are we going to do now, my king?"

The soldier on the king's side was afraid and had to hold back his shivers. He wanted to run away and take everything he loved with him. But in the presence of the king, he was forbidden to show even a glimpse of this fear.

"Don't be afraid; we will bring this asshole Leon out and blackmail them with him. If they don't retreat themselves, he will get killed; this method always works."

The king walked with a grin on his face to the dungeon, where Leon was chained to the pillory. He opened Leon's personal cell and saw him lying on the ground, bathing in his own blood.

"Come on, you useless trash, and make your life worth something!" The king kicked against Leon; he heard bones shatter and break apart, but it was not Leon's bones that broke, and it was also not his screams that echoed through the walls of the dungeon. They were his own. His big toe broke, and the pain filled his entire body but was then numbed by a demonic voice.

"As the king wishes, this one time I will make myself useful to others with my pitiful life."

Bang.

A loud bang came from the corner of the prison cell, killing the guard at the king's side.

The king was frightened when he saw his guard's body fall into the dirt and fell to the ground in terror. With this terror, another bang occurred, but as soon as he heard the bang, he fell to the ground.

His leg felt numb and wouldn't move. At first, he did not even know why he fell to the ground, but then he saw a huge amount of blood gushing out of his leg. On his leg was something that looked like a shiny little stone. The confusion over what hit him made him go crazy. He shouted at the demonic voice that was standing in the corner of the cell.

"With what the fuck did you attack me? I thought your blessing was to create crystals that had a variety of effects. I never heard of anything like this!" The adrenaline in his body numbed the pain and made it possible for the king to shout.

The demonic voice walked out of the shadow and revealed Leon's appearance, and as he stood in the dim light of the candle, Leon's body, which a few moments ago lay lying on the earth, had vanished. Leon was completely unscathed; he had a few scars from the whiplash, but he didn't bleed or look as if he was in pain.

"Before you die, I will tell you from what you died. First of all, the thing with which I killed your guard and injured your leg was an item here. Take a look."

Leon showed some kind of rod that was perfectly fused with a handle that allowed him to hold it while pointing the end of the rod at the king.

"This little item here is an item; it is called a pistol. On the day you kidnapped me, Aiko, and Hiroshi, something went wrong. The two of them managed to get away and met Amon per incident as he was on his way from Nazia."

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On that day, Amon sprinted with all his speed from Nazia back to his guild. He had to walk over the mountains, and there he met Aiko and Hiroshi.

"I think I will arrive 5 minutes later than expected. Amon jumped down from his lookout position and landed under the three, where Hiroshi was giving his daughter first aid. Aiko's stomach bled like a fountain, where she slowly but endlessly got pumped out.

He pressed his hands on the wound and did everything he could. He was still wearing his mask, even in this situation.

Hiroshi, what happened?" Hiroshi explained everything and, with Amon's help, managed to give Aiko the aid she needed to survive. He told Amon everything about Leon, and on the way out of the capital, Aiko got hit by a magic arrow.

Even though she was short before falling into unconsciousness, Aiko gathered all her will together and refused to fall unconscious; in her eyes, she was not worth taking a rest here and now.

And so Amon came up with a plan where both of them had to risk everything again: "Both of you hide somewhere near the guil and wait until Aiko has fully recovered; if you are ready, then you have to infiltrate the Verdan capital. There you both have to do one thing: wait for the moment Leon loses one of the crystals that are stuck all over his body, and then give him this sign."

Amon nocked with a rock first two times on another one, then three times, and then four times, each with a pause of three seconds in between each other.

"If he hears that and is contrite, he knows what to do; wait until he makes the shape of an L using his left, thump, and index fingers. There, you then have to bring him an item; I will bring it to you if you have prepared yourself."

Hiroshi nodded, and Amon proceeded on his way back.

"The two people who fled became your demise, and now we come to my blessing. It's important; otherwise, you won't know how my weapon works."