"Just call in daddy's friends to help when things might be looking tough, eh?" Corraidhin said provoking the young mistress on her pegasus.

Those very words caused Meira's blood to boil. The fact he would even bring up her father caused her eyes to be lit in hatred. He had just pissed her off by talking about the man who abandoned her and her mother when she was only a child. The fire seared from her eyes as she gave him a cold stare of she was about to kill him where he stood. "YOU DARE MENTION MY FATHER!? YOU DON'T KNOW A DAMN THING!!! YOU DARE TALK ABOUT THE MAN WHO ABANDONED ME AND MY MOTHER!? YOU MUST HAVE A DEATH WISH!!!" Meira yelled in fury as she was thinking about going right after the man. No one talked about her father and no one had the right to talk to her in that manner when it came to her father. Meira generated luminance into her sword where her pegasus troops were trying to get her to calm down. Now wasn't the time to go rage blazing at someone. The most important thing she needed to realize was she needed to escape.

Corraidhin threw his cigar to the ground and took his spell book out of his pocket. "Melloah!" He recited a spell and stepped on the lit cigar. Suddenly, flames began to circle around him like bees around a hive. "Come on then cutie-pie!"

"You dare call me a cutie-pie? You're really asking for pain!" Meira yelled offended by the obscene use of language the man was using. She wasn't some object or trophy for someone to admire. "Ugh..." Were another set of words that escaped her mouth at the thought of what he just said. "Someone as vulgar as you could never capture my heart. Even if you captured me, you'll never capture my heart. Just you go on rambling nonsense since quite personally, it's people like you that I despise the most!" She yelled at the end since there was nothing she hated more than a man who treated a female like a sexual object or toy. Any man who dare value a woman for her flesh deserved to be burned alive in hot oil.

Siia formed an empty glyph on her palm. She then closed her eyes and started to recite ancient language where symbols took formation onto her glyph when she recited them in her mind. Once the glyph was completely formed she then generated dark sparkles into her hand that resonated where she then recited in her mind when she gathered enough power into her palm, She could only sigh where she let her words be heard toward him, "You're magic is far too primitive. Here's a taste of the higher arts!" Ranathia yelled at Siia and told her not to do it since she could hurt the townspeople. Siia gave her a cold look and reminded her what was more important? That they escape from the capital or they worry about the innocent? "Now's not the time to worry about the innocent. We must make our way out of this capital!"
 
A large glyph formed in the sky where a large maelstrom of dark energy hissed violently around a sword of dark purple energy materialized around the larger glyph.

 "Crush light into the foundation of the abyss to bring
 forth solitude and veil all with the sword of darkness."
 
"GRAVIRU HIATUS!!!"

Just as Siia was about to let loose with her powerful spell a voice was heard from the south, "You will not lay one finger on my granddaughter!" A man with black hair and wearing dark armor shouted in Corraidhin's direction sensing Meira was in danger where he emerged from the south with his army of Dragon knights and also one that he rode as well. Where looked over in his direction and smiled at him, "GRANDFATHER!" She said happy to see him again. Maybe after they were done with dealing with the problem here that she would get time to engage into a talk with him.

"Gah!" A Guardian Soldier screamed as he was cut down by a strange looking scythe with insignias on it on the hands of a silver haired man who was on a giant red steed. Behind him a group of mages on horses lead by Drausius also showed up from the same direction. He was repaying his debt he owed toward Siia for sparing his life during the Demon Siege. "It seems you predicted the actions of Aira quite nicely, Siia. I never expected that woman to be so twisted and now Razhard has fallen to her clutches. As requested I am here to support your escape even if I was about to return toward the Order capital. The Oracle Knights of the Order are at your service, Lady Siianthalaie of the North." His wife had a group of her own Mage Knights at her disposal as well that came from the same direction.

"One question, why were you trying to retrieve Daeslurph?" Ranathia questioned toward Drausius when she saw him emerging into sight from the south. The spear did rightfully belong to the Idris descendant Razhard, but it sounded like the Order knew something about that spear that no one else knew about it. She did note when in the throne room that Razhard's entire personality had changed It was like he had become an entire different person right after he came into contact with that weapon and also she sensed a very evil dark aura from it that she didn't think about earlier.

"The truth is, Daeslurph was once called the Spear of Salvation and that is when Idris wielded it. It had been a powerful holy weapon for many years, but when Talanos came into contact with it he used it to revive Xhosa where it became the Spear of Atrophy, The spear didn't become evil until Xhosa and Emerlink fell in love with one another when the spear was in his hands and that is when the Spear of Salvation became a light of destruction. When Xhosa was killed by the Elian Crusaders when he was reborn into Talanos body, Emerlink hated the Elian Crusaders where she cursed the spear. The wielder of that spear will act as a catalyst for the revival of Xhosa and now that Razhard's fallen to its spell there's nothing we can do now. I was hoping to get the spear from him and destroy it. If Aira or her cult finds out the dark power of that spear they'll use it to their advantage. Xhosa now controls Razhard and Emerlink now is possessing Ezmeralda. I'll tell you what happened to Emerlink at another time." Drausius informed them as he continued to approach the group with his Mage Knights along with his wife. Azmaldus soared in the sky with his Dragon Knights approaching the group as well.

While her grandfather and Drausius Order Knights came back to assist them, Meira's eyes became emerged in flames from the mere mention of her father. That really pissed her off that he would dare bring up the man who abandoned her and her mother. He had no right speaking of her father. She was tempted to strike him down, but Ranathia calmed her down before she got reckless with her actions.

Ranathia nodded at Drausius since she had no reason to doubt what he said. She also sensed the eerie dark power from that spear when Razhard took it into his hands. The fact the spear was cursed pretty much summed up what she wanted to know and now she knew exactly how Razhard's personality suddenly changed.

Just when Ranathia was going to tell the group to ride toward Drausius she saw an arrow fly by her missing her and pin itself onto a building. She turned in the direction of where it came and she saw a light black haired man on his horse with a fancy looking bow and a group of knights on mounts armed with bows. She knew that it was Armand and his Arch Knights and that Meira better not take to the sky. She saw that Azmaldus when he immediately noticed Armand's Arch Knight's that he flew up higher to avoid the range of their arrows. He warned Meira not to fly or she would be a clay pigeon for those archers. 

"Hmph, I don't like assisting people I don't know." Armand scoffed when he was helping Corraidhin and didn't like it. He didn't know this guy, but he had his duty toward the nation and he would make quick work of the fliers if he had to. They were no match for his elite Arch Knights.

The soldiers approached the mounts, but were cut down by the maidens blades. One tried to run at Siia and interrupt her spell casting, but he was cut down by Chloris claymore. Luther flipped open his book while on a mount ready to provide cover fire for their escape. He didn't like the fact they were still standing there with Armand's Arch Knights bearing right down on them and worst enough Armand had Ichivail the Windwaker Bow holy weapon in his hand which was a nightmare for the flier corps. He also looked off to the north and saw a group of armored horsemen armed with swords and spears and knew those were the Luminais and Regalus Houses. He didn't have time to convince his friend Sharn Regalus to join their side so if he had to engage into battle with him so be it.

"We need to make our move now if we want to meet up with Drausius unit. Once we meet up with him the rest will back off, because they don't want to deal with his elite Mage Knights." Chloris reminded the group, but Meira was hesitant to go. Siia was still in the middle of a spell and if they left she would be surrounded by the Guardian forces, because those armored knights were moving fast toward their direction in the north. Lenna also agreed since her Dragon Knights would have a hell of a time dealing with Armand and his Arch Knights and Meira's Blue Empyrean Pegasus unit weren't that much better trying to engage those elite archers. She also knew that Armand was reckless and would do anything to win and knew he was preparing a fire attack to crush the morale of their troops. She knew that since she saw them over there lighting their arrows with a torch.

Meira's purple haired female friend ordered part of her unit to assist in the escape staying behind to provide them time to escape. She knew that not all her soldiers would go down quickly and they would put up enough of a fight to allow them to meet up with Drausius. Lenna ordered some of her Dragon Knights to follow suit and Azmaldus also lend some of his manpower that flew in their direction to make an opening.

The pegasus knights engaged the soldiers in battle crossing weapons with one another as the strong dragon knights were making quick work of the foot soldiers, but were being downed by an ambush of archers once they revealed themselves. Chloris headed in Drausius direction cutting the pikes off of soldier's weapons while gutting them if they didn't get out of her way leaving a trail of blood in her wake as she tried to avoid getting the citizens involved, but the ones who drew weapons on her she had no choice, but to cut down which made her feel bad. When she turned her head toward the west she saw her father approaching with his banner and her mother was riding alongside him. 

"Meira!" Ranathia yelled seeing that she hadn't move yet when Siia and the rest of the group started moving toward Drausius men. She managed to find shelter from the arrows which relieved Ranathia, but she needed to move quickly. The soldiers laying down their lives to buy time for their escape lives would be in vain if she got captured by the enemy.

"That man needs to be taught manners!" She exclaimed still angry about what he had said earlier. At this rate if someone didn't stop Meira from being reckless, her and Nathan both would end up captives of the Guardia Kingdom. Azmaldus turned around telling the group to continue and that he would go back for his granddaughter. He couldn't believe she was letting that man rile her up with taunts. He did know if he didn't act soon that Meira would be surrounded in a triangular pincer formation. Siia said irritated under her breath, "That girl..." 

"FIRE AWAY!!! TORCH THEM ALL TO RUIN!!!" Armand ordered his men as they let loose with their arrows. Their arrows bear down on the group as they planted themselves into the ground, roofs and anything in reach lighting the southern most part of the city ablaze. The tavern that Fenrir and Whizzle were in was hit by the fire arrows and the roof slowly began to catch on fire as the fire steadily began to engulf the tavern. The fire wasn't bad enough at the point to stop anyone for escaping, but if they waited to long it would spread like wildfire. When the people in the tavern smelled the smoke they started to scurry out of the tavern doors yelling, "FIRE!"

Meira looked at Nathan informing him, "Meet up with the rest of the group while I deal with this rude loudmouth man!" She said as she generated luminance into her sword where she formed a spell circle on her wrist acting as a bracelet. She was about to get her revenge for his rude comments he just made toward her. Nobody called her cutie-pie since that was just like calling her a chick. Secondly, no one talked about her father in front of her.

Meanwhile back in the castle Razhard accepted Aira's gift even though a sadistic grin appeared on his face where a dark symbol appeared on his forehead with the words Xhosa. Cursed energy started to gather into the spear as you could feel the horrible dark aura that Razhard let off. "Hahahah! I've waited many generations for this moment! NOW I AM RESURRECTED! HAHAHAHAH!" The man laughed hysterically which scared the soldiers due to the fact they didn't think that was Razhard, but the dark energy he released scared the hell out of them where they wouldn't dare defy him.

"With the Spear of Darkness I will conquer this entire world and free Emerlink from her enslavement. Anyone who dares get in my way will die! The Dark Goddess will be awakened!"

Turning his attention toward one of his magic advisers he told them to immediately lift the ban of Archant and allow Xian to practice it. He did remind them if Xian showed any resistance toward serving under his protection that he'd conquer them with an iron fist. 

"I AM XHOSA AND NOW I SHALL RENAME THIS GUARDIA KINGDOM THE AVERNIA EMPIRE AND WORK TOWARD THE RESTORATION OF BREAKING THE SEAL ON AVERNUS AND FREEING MY DARK GODDESS FROM HER FLESHY PRISON!!! HAHAHAH!!!"

"I am counting on you, Aira to help me accomplish my world of darkness ruled by the Avernia Empire!" He added as he spoke toward Aira once again setting her gift aside in one of his boxes. He grinned once again as he pointed the spear of dark and it laminated the castle with a dark veil where a dark light shot into the sky. Dark gray clouds started to take formation over the city blocking out the light where the citizens had no idea what was going on.