Chapter XVII

Phielyx looked at Silas in horror since he knew he was looking for the core of the raven. However, since it was a low level summon and wasn't summoned properly, it wasn't able to receive a core. Silas looked up at every raven that flew around him. There were thousands of ravens in the air, flying around with no command since Phielyx wasn't able to command so many ravens at once. He could maintain about 300 ravens in line but for the rest, he could just summon them and give them a different enchantment for their claws. They would attack randomly and sometimes even attack their own men, but he always tried not summoning that many ravens. However, this was the first time he had summoned so many at once.

Suddenly, Phielyx noticed how Silas's attention was stolen by one of the summons. Phielyx knew which raven he was looking for since it was the first raven he had summoned. Usually, his first summon raven was 50 times more powerful than the rest. One odd thing about this one was that every time the first summon got killed, he would be weaken somehow. The raven was so powerful because it has a core. If the raven were to die, the core would vanish after only 15 minutes, however, the monarch like-man had no idea about that.

The only thing Silas knew was that he had to unsummon the raven, although the only way to do so was to unsummon all of the ravens. Before Silas's hand reached the raven, all the birds were sucked rapidly back into Phielyx's body. As Silas noticed what the dark elf had done, he furiously flies towards him. When the dark elf moves back, two objects appeared; one had the shape of a cube with a green glow to it and the other of a pyramid with a bright blue color. Phielyx laughed, thinking he managed to scare the monarch-like man since Silas stopped instantly when seeing the two objects. Ironically, Silas stopped because he was curious as to what the objects could be.

The female seeing the objects, finished her opponents by sucking the blood out of the soldiers with her blood magic. The blood of the dark elves floated above her in five different orbs. As the five orbs floated, they constantly had a continuous exchange of blood with each other connecting, making an infinity symbol between them. Silas noticed the dead elves and the possibility of them having a core, so he heads to the corpses like a kid drawn to sweets. Phielyx seeing his dead brethren, felt sorrow and anger. He knew the ones before him could not be allowed to live.

Orazen witnessed how the obsidian female had killed the soldiers and felt pity for them. After seeing that, his eyes had changed from a golden yellow to a light gray. Phielyx saw the sudden change of the eyes' color of the young man while looking at the other one too, his other eye looked just like Deselb's eyes. From what Rebas had told him, the prince was supposed to be 12 years old. Yet the one with the heteromorphic eyes seemed to be in his late teens. However, he wasn't going to take any chances.

As Silas finished collecting the cores from the elves, he felt a great surge of magic gathering in the direction of Phielyx. As the obsidian female rushed to stop Phielyx, she was too late. He had finished casting a spell, a colossal wave trashed everything in a 30-meter radius; killing everything in its path with no mercy. The once white sand was nowhere to be seen, it was replaced with a scourging lake of lava. The air was thick with smog and ashes, it was impossible to see anything. Phielyx had set a protection barrier to shield him from the impact, which even so it wouldn't protect him from it all.

Having a hard time to breath and low in magika, he throws a small box-like object to what was left of the ground and as the box contacted the ground, a magic circle appeared in its place. It was a teleportation circle that would take him back to the dark elf territory. Before he was able to enter the teleportation circle, a huge wave of aura shocked everything, clearing the air from all the ash and smog from none other than Silas. There was a huge energy-like substance emerging from Silas. He was enraged because if it wouldn't had been for his quick thinking, his master would've been dead. Phielyx, seeing the power of the man a few meters away, made him panic. The spell he had actually used was a nuclear destruction spell, a spell that was supposed to kill everything and everyone. Even the caster could die from such powerful spell if they didn't take the required precautions.

The spell had almost broken through Orazen's barrier; while for the female, her barrier did contain several great fractures, severely injuring her whole obsidian body. One of her arms was just hanging by a few tendons and raw flesh. Half of her face had no skin, which even her flesh underneath was also black. However, sadly now her features were horrifying. The floating blood orbs seemed to get smaller as it was slowly regenerating her body.

Phielyx, through every spell he knew, used a very powerful spell at Silas, the monarch-like man flick them of like if it were nothing. Now it was Silas's turn to attack, he extended his arm towards Phielyx and used the same spell he had used with the midrybo. Phielyx started getting aggressively pulled towards the orb, making his body ache in pain from the huge force. He started trying to use a sub skill he had which would let him turn into a horde of ravens to escape. However, as he started to change, some of the ravens got automatically sucked in making him change back to normal.

As Phielyx's body started coming together slowly while trying not to get suck by the orb, Silas's face morph to one of amazement since he had seen something new, not completely paying attention to the actions of the dark elf. Suddenly, a colossal boulder appears from thin air, stunting Silas, making him lose focus. As he loses focus, the orb disappears; however, the boulder was still coming towards Silas at great speed. Regaining focus, Silas snaps his fingers, pulverizing the boulder. As the boulder disappeared, Silas saw Phielyx had reached the gate. Silas rushed to the gate, however, as soon as the dark elf disappeared, the gate exploded.

Back in the dark eleven kingdom, there was a meeting being held; every great royal, council members, the Nydraug, the crown prince Kadreul and second princess Aerlyam alongside with the queen and king. They were having a meeting since there were a few matters they had to talk about. The first matter was that the high elves wanted to expand their territory by taking it from the dark elves, which they were about to allow regardless; specifically, since the land to the south contains most of their agriculture. The land was also near the border of the dark elf territory and the high elf territory.

The second matter was the crowning of the prince who was fairly young. However, the king wanted him to be crowned already since he wanted almost full control of the crown. Everyone in the new build council hall, the royals argued with each other about the crowing of the prince. Nevertheless, the prince's official title granted by the status card said he was the second prince which meant he wasn't meant to take the crown unless the first in line to the throne gave up the crown or died.

The elders and royals, including the king, and the supposed crown prince Kadreul, argued with each other since the status had changed. It changed from crown prince to second prince a few years ago. However, with the heir of the throne being absent, the second prince would have to take the crown. Yet, it wasn't his time to become the king of Nygthlorandlyn even if Orazen gave up the throne because he's too young. Nynphela was reaching her limit with all the nonsense and suddenly, a teleportation portal appeared a few feet away from the council table.

The members of Nydraug immediately divided themselves, Deselb rushed to Nynphela's side, making a certain dark female elf jealous. While Nysark, the lancer, and lexyphie, the caster, rushed near the portal, ready to attack. Royra, the archer, and Lacren, the assassin, rushed to the twin princes' side. The king, offended that no one rushed to his side, ran under the table. Deselb and Nynphela were also in position, ready to fight.

A certain member of the Nydraug comes out of the portal gravely wounded. Lexyphie rushed her brother to which she knew he wouldn't die since they shared a skill that made them almost immortals. They managed to become tethered, both of them had to be wounded with a deadly blow at the same precise moment and second, which made it very tricky to kill them. Even so, they still felt pain like everyone else, however, their bodies would regenerate. If they lost a limb completely, it would take them about 3 month to grow back on its own. Nysark stroke the teleportation gate since he sensed great evil on the other side.

Phielyx screamed in pain due to what had happened. Most of his skin was gone, making him look unrecognizable and his left leg's flesh was absent, only showing the bone front the knee down. The ravens that got sucked instantly into the orb were apparently part of his upper body, he was missing his whole shoulder. Many of the royals started vomiting by the gruesome sight. Deselb and Nynphela looked at each other since both of them felt the evil intent on the other side of the gate. Although it felt familiar, now it had changed. It was more powerful, especially because of Phielyx's state. They had fought against death itself once, before almost losing to it.

​Deselb and Nynphela rushed to Phielyx, trying to ask him if he had found young orazen. However, Phielyx was too injured and in shock from what he had gone through. Nynphela called for the best healers in the kingdom. They were a total of 20 healers, helping the dark elf heal faster which wasn't easy since he had injuries all over his body.

Back on the Ether Islands, Silas was having a rage outburst since the dark elf had escape. Orazen assured him it was fine since they were both safe. Silas calmed himself and looked at the winged female in front of him. Orazen was also admiring how beautiful her skin looked and how well she had fought. The female spoke with a beautiful hypnotic voice, which Orazen loved as they started making a new plan since now they had a new addition to their group. Orazen kept trying to name the female creature, but it was too difficult. Orazen named her Lorelay, which means or refers to a beautiful woman who leads a man to death. It may also mean the song that the woman uses to lead a man to his demise, which he wasn't completely wrong about.

Orazen felt guilty since he didn't help them in the fight. He wanted to be useful and become strong just like his parents and Silas. Orazen looked at Silas with puppy dog eyes since he knew Silas wasn't going to be okay with training him since he could rely on his summons. When Silas looked at Orazen staring back at him, he knew what the young master wanted to do. He wanted to refuse but he couldn't say no to his master. As orazen was about to speak Silas interrupted him, telling him he'll help him become a stronger necromancer since he actually knows how his power work in many ways. However, there were some things that Orazen would have to learn on his own since Silas would be able to help him was by change of class and skill type. Though, the necromancer class wasn't completely available for him since he could only use his power to certain extent. Therefore, he could only mimic what his young master had done in a less powerful extent.