One of the soldiers looked back at Armand and asked if they should pursue. Armand just shook his head and put his bow back on his back. He felt something dark when he took a glance back at the castle and noticed dark clouds were forming around it. He decided to let Corraidhin and the rest of the guard deal with the situation and made his way back toward the castle. The other house members that were approaching immediately head back to the castle once they noticed the same thing that Armand did. They didn't even take the time to evaluate the situation. They had to hurry back, because their King might be in trouble. One of Armand's soldiers asked if they should pursue where he coldly answered with a fierce look on face after feeling that nasty aura in the air, "No. Let that man deal with them. I have no interest of getting mixed up with the Order's Mage Knights so we'll just pull back to the castle and see what is going on there." He said as the soldier acknowledged him and made his way back to the castle along with Armand's other Arch Knights.

The pegasus and dragon knights that divided from the group were still engaged into battle with the soldiers still providing time for the others to escape while they lay down their lives. Soldiers and mounted troops fell one by one as they showered the ground in blood as the common people tried to find shelter from the massacre outside.

Azmaldus redirected his mount back in the direction of the redezvous once he saw the boy that was riding with Meira stopped her. He saw flopping around and kicking while riding on his shoulders, but he was relieved to see she was safe now. He ordered his troops to fall back toward the Orders Mage Knights where they would make their way out of the capital. He also noticed that the other houses backed off and went straight for the castle. He thought something happened there, but he didn't have time to go see what was going on. He had to lead these people to safety as soon as possible.

Directing her attention toward the man she sighed at him, "You really shouldn't just concern yourself with just one enemy. I don't know if you're too stupid or just reckless not to realize I had prepared a spell before hand. Take a look toward the sky behind you and see what your careless has done to you. I could kill you, but I'd gain nothing from doing so and I'm not about to kill an animal that can't defend itself so instead I'll do this." She said as she pointed in the sky toward her giant sword of darkness flickering with dark lightning bolts around the glyph it is situated around. When Siia saw the man had hitched a ride on Meira's pegasus where she halted at trying to use her spell at that time, she realized this was a golden opportunity. She thought a moment about the situation and if she should use it anyway knowing full well that Meira's pegasus would probably be killed. She then shook her head and decided she'd instead use it to slow that man down and possibly try to get him off that pegasus by startling it with her spell. She turned the sword of darkness that was showered by dark purple lightning bolts then closed her hand activating the spell once she aimed just enough of a safe distance so Meira's pegasus wouldn't take a hit. Right when she noticed Nathan used a gust of wind to slow the pegasus down she closed her palm and the giant sword of darkness shot forward like a lightning bolt in an inclined position. It wasn't long before it hammered the ground just a few feet away from the pegasus where it erupted in a dark fiery explosion which startled the pegasus and caused it to go up on its two feet. She wasn't trying to kill anyone, just stall them long enough for Nathan to make his way toward the group. The man hadn't been paying any attention toward her which was a fatal mistake he made and now he had to deal with a startled pegasus that stopped abruptly scared. Stalagmite shards flew everyone from the dark explosion which enveloped the area in front of the man. Luckily she fired her spell just far enough in front he could just feel the intensity of the blast. The explosion swallowed up several structures reducing them to ruin quickly where wood chunks and cement fragments laid in ruin as the structures were completely destroyed in the blast. "Hmph, second rate magic user. You're lucky to still be alive and that I was kind enough to spare you. Next time, you won't be so fortunate if you aren't aware of your surroundings. Let that be a warning and lesson to you." She said in a not impressed look as she kept her head focused toward the rear as her passenger steered her mount. It was obvious she wasn't impressed by the man's skill with magic and she was even more dissuaded with his reckless martyr nature which bored her to say the least. A mage should always be aware of their surroundings and not rush in half-cocked. It was something she taught all her students that she used to teach magic. Even if this man wasn't her student, he still needed training to be able to match her wits.

"PUT ME DOWN!" Meira exclaimed as she struggled kicking and screaming in Nathan's grasp. She wanted to be put down and she was red hot at the moment after Nathan just swept her off her feet and forced her over his shoulder like a kidnapper. Meira could only lay on his shoulder since there was no way she could get free without having to resort to hurting Nathan. She kept her sword gripped tight though the fiery anger in her eyes indicated that she was really mad now. "YOU HAVE SOME NERVE GRABBING ME LIKE THAT AND TREATING ME LIKE A SACK!!! I SAID LET ME GO THIS INSTANT! IF YOU DON'T..." Meira wasn't able to finish that statement since she had just noticed that the man hijacked her pegasus which made her even boil in more anger. Her eyes seared with irritation since she didn't want him on her pegasus. She also saw Siia use a powerful dark magic to stall the person.

Meanwhile back at the castle, Xhosa was agonizing in pain after what that woman had done to him. Razhard's body was being destroyed and there was nothing he could do. He was enraged by what that woman had done and when Eurasia tried to cling onto him to save him she was caught in the aftermath of it as well as it began to eat away at her body. "NO!" Alicia screamed in tears as she tried to run at the two only to have a dark figure appear right before her.

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The dark figure pushed the girl into the hands of another man while he approached the decaying King. He motioned his hand and extracted Xhosa's spirit from the body and forced it back into the spear. He then took his other hand grabbed the King and generated his dark aura into his body where he gripped tight with his fist and shattered the cursed energy destroying it stopping the decay process with his hand as remnants of the curse cinched his hand burning it with blood coming out of his hand which only made him grin. "Such pathetic cursed energy. Even a child could conjure such a primitive technique." He said as the darkness on his hands devoured the curse that tried to damage his body. What was left of Razhard and Eurasia's bodies hit the floor. He decided to show Alicia mercy by not devouring them and instead gave her a chance to properly bury them when she calmed down and became more rational. "In the end, you were nothing but a fool Razhard. No matter, that pathetic cult is nothing more than a pebble in the road. I will kick it aside soon enough. For now, I must formulate a new strategy."

"LET ME GO!" Alicia exclaimed trying to get out of the hands of the devilish man who held her tight in his grasp. The man was getting irritated trying to get her to calm down where he decided to strike her in the gut, but the other figure shook his head. He grabbed some rope coiling it around her wrists where he finally looped it between her hands preventing her from trying to squeeze her hands out of it. The girl was terrified at the sight she just saw. Both her brother and sister had been murdered. She attempted to bite her tongue only to have the man pull a limp piece of cloth in between her lips to cleave gag her with as he double-knotted it tight and tied it off behind her neck as it fastened tight in between her lips, "I can't have you dying so don't even think about biting your tongue." The man ordered her as she moaned into the cloth.

"Just settle down, Princess Alicia. We are not your enemy." The man with red eyes that looked very young reminded her as he attempted to try to get her to settle down so they could talk with her. He told the other individual to plant her on the throne seat where he tied her to it to make her comfortable as she probably didn't like being squeezed that hard. He saw Alicia wanted to scream, but her cleave prevented her from doing so where muffled words came out of her mouth.

"What are we going to do now, Lord Ariesu? That woman killed the only person who could wield Daeslurph." He reminded Ariesu as he grabbed one of the chairs off to the side and took a seat in it.

"There isn't only one wielder of that spear, Utrunos." He revealed as he pulled up a seat as well as they waited for the girl to settle down. They knew the horror of watching her two family die was painful and she just needed to sit down and restrain herself for awhile.

"What do you mean?" He questioned as he turned toward Alicia seeing that she was starting to calm down a bit. He then saw Ariesu reach over and grab the spear that lay on the ground. Unlike Razhard, the spear's curse had no effect on Ariesu.

"There were two children from the family that could wield the spear. One was Razhard and the second is Princess Alicia who we managed to save before she killed herself. That foolish woman Aira overlooked an important fact making a fatal mistake. Her weak primitive magic does not phase me in the slightest either. It's mere child's play to me as I can conjure spells that are weaker and make them twice as powerful. That foolish feeble-minded ingrate for a mortal thought she could interfere with my plans? How foolish can that cult be? They are no match for me nor do they pose a threat." He answered as he kept one hand with a spell conjured where he spoke toward the girl again in a usual tone, "If you agree to not bite your tongue or scream I'll remove your gag." She nodded in compliance as he used the other hand and reaching over toward Alicia's mouth pulling the gag out of her mouth which now lay limp around her neck like a necklace.

"Who are you two?" She questioned sniffling still as tears rolled down her face in sadness as she finally settled down and just sat quietly in the throne chair noticing that the man evaporated all the evil from it. She had never saw either figure before and they just appeared out of nowhere. Also, the one who held the cursed spear scared the daylights out of her. She wanted nothing to do with that spear.