Chapter 45: sacrifices

Memories of his past replayed themselves in his mind reminder of all the hardships he had to endure all his life , the memories kept on coming like a tidal wave up untill the time he met Eric the only person who wasn't scared of him , Bal was used to people fearing him but the bald laid back Eric wasn't scared he always approached him to talk about nonsensical stuff and sometimes he would even drag him to go drink rum , slowly they developed a strong bond that has lasted for almost two decades.

A tear fell down his eye and he started trying to fight his way out of the void but he was already lost in it , the only thing he managed to do was regain a little bit of consciousness and in that brief moment of consciousness he saw all of his men dead except for one who was in the swarm of creatures fighting crazily ."Eric" tears fell down Bal's eyes as he saw his friend in that desperate situation 

The sand guardian was also attacking him non stop and Bal could feel his consciousness slipping away slowly , deciding to save his friend Bal decided to use a self destruction spell but first he had to send a message to his friend . He made a hand seal and his soul left his body , time moved slowly and he could see the Knight's slow movements and he also saw Eric and the swarm of creatures surrounding . He flew to Eric tapping on his temple twice Eric's soul left his body looking at Bal Infront him 

"I guess I can't save you know can I?". Eric asked his voice calm 

Bal shook his head with a smile" not this time around my friend , thank you for saving me from myself " Eric hugged him 

"I want you to continue living, have a happy life , retire from the war and take your family away...oh and tell my niece Laura Im sorry I won't make it to her birthday ..im going to use that spell im pretty sure it can destroy the giant and with the giant gone these sand creatures will perish.....goodbye my friend" with that he returned to his body and time moved normally.

Eric looked towards Bal shedding silent tears for his friend who was now preparing to end the battle , the knight sensed the amount of breath Bal was drawing from the the world and it raised it's sword with the tip pointed at the ground .

Bal flew in the air as the breath swirled all around him generating strong and powerful winds , his body started cracking as the amount of breath he had absorbed was to much for him to hold and his body disintegrating into nothing , the knight's sword seemed to be drawing in the darkness all around them and the light in it's yellow eyes was fading .

"Wind-borne , raging tornado" his body disintegrated completely and violent tornado that reached the sky pulling everything towards it even the sand knight and it's creatures , the creatures that were pulled into the tornado were ripped to shreds instantly , the giant Knight had also finished preparing it's attack and it plunged it's sword down Into the desert floor and released all the darkness it had gathered in it's sword deep into the ground towards the tornado

. The ground quaked as the two attacks met , releasing a huge shockwave that destroyed most of the sand knight's body before the attacks cancelled out . At the point where the two attacks met a huge pit was left as a sign of the battle that happened . 

Eric who was now standing 300 yards away with a broken arm fell to his knees and cried , unbeknownst to him they were two people standing far behind him observing the place where the battle had ensured . One of them shook his head and spoke " Bal is dead , what a waste of the kingdom's resources " in a calm manly voice but the one standing next to him didn't comment 

Then he turned around and looked behind him , A regiment with about ten thousand soldiers was standing behind him with expressionless faces as if it what they had just seen was nothing to them . Smiling he spoke" let's go!! " ....

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A few hours ago 

Timothy approached helis who was now panicking not being able to understand what was happening and for the first time in a long time his eyes had a look of fear watching the the Mesa boy with his sword raised approaching him slowly , he recalled what happened the last they fought and how narrowly he had escaped with his life , he commanded his undead to attack Timothy while he himself tried to escape . The undead ran to Timothy with the intention to rip him apart, arriving Infront of him with their claws raised they attacked him from all angles others even came from above with the intention to destroy him but Timothy kept his eyes focused on Helis 

"You can't escape me " he spoke as the creatures drowned him in 

Helis dashed for the entrance taking the slight chance he had to escape , komoni looked at him with pity as he saw his desperate attempt to leave . Helis left the cavern so fast but his intuition kept telling him that something is wrong , just when he was about to escape the cave he saw Timothy sitting on the cave's entrance with a smile on his face"Where are you going Helis we need to talk" Helis stopped advancing his eyes wide with fear as he took a few steps back before bumping into something he turned back and he saw Timothy with his gray eyes looking at him with a smile " watch where you are going pal" Helis's expression was of pure terror 

"What this isn't possible your just a soul seed Konqueror I have defeated much powerful opponents , this is an illusion !!!!!!!!!" He screamed his last words attacking Timothy with a punch to the face but his arm fell of his body before he could even connect the blow 

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my arm , my fucking arm" he screamed in pain clutching at the bleeding stump where his arm once was 

"Please keep the noise down " Timothy kicked his mouth shut making him fall down and dragged him by his foot back to the cavern throwing him near his undead that were busy ripping each other to shreds , helis commanded the creatures to stop attacking and they turned to look at him circling him as if he was their prey helis caught a glimpse of Timothy's smile as he kept on trying to command the undead but nothing happened 

Timothy had a small smile plastered on his face" I have some questions I need to ask you . For every wrong answer you are going to lose a body part are we clear?" Timothy's soft calm voice entered his ear as if he was standing next to him , helis turnedand saw Timothy right beside him looking at him with a small smile making helis's feel like he was facing sudden death . He nodded knowing that he had no choice but to agree 

"Good ,my first question is are you part of the blood brothers?" Timothy asked without breaking eye contact with helis and he saw the shock on his face when he asked him the question before he nodded 

"Yes " helis spoke 

"Good good , now second question tell me everything you know about your little cult"Timothy spoke with a grin tone