The dimension they were in right at that moment experienced a tremor after he said those words but after a short while it stopped. The terrifying gaze from him disappeared and it was replaced with something else. He saw something in his eyes that he could only describe as anger even though there was a smile on his face.
"I'm getting tired of this conversation and wasting time here instead of watching how my plans are progressing." He took a step back and gestured for his butler to do whatever he was going to do.
Cygnus sighed as he floated away after giving that command. The atmosphere around him turned bleak and added to that the dimension they were in right now was an empty space. Although he doesn't usually notice it by himself, the butler knew that the master's mood wasn't good.
"My dear Elehiya, she ran away to avoid the people who coveted her power but still died in the hands of the same people. The only difference is that she died in a different world. How pitiful." He continued to sigh as he retreated but he stopped when he heard his butler.
"Should I do it cleanly or bloody?" The butler asked out of nowhere which halted the master from his retreat.
The master thought for a while before he decided on what to do. "Cleanly please because I am adding that to my collection."
With that, he stepped inside the gate leaving behind a painful scream from the elder that echoed in that empty space. He returned to the original place where they were watching what was happening in the capital. He sat down and rested his head on his palms as he watched as the chaos was coming to a conclusion.
"What happened?" Astro became apprehensive when he saw that the master came out with a gloomy atmosphere around him. "Did something upset you?"
At the mage's word, Cgynus's eyes narrowed. "Upset?" He couldn't help but laugh at the man's words. It was foreign and yet familiar even his tone was something he had heard a long time ago even though he could not remember who it was from.
He leaned back on his chair and waved his hand on the projection in front of him. Several large scale magic circles appeared on the areas being projected. Astro looked in astonishment as several scaled monsters came out from the magic circles.
They have the body of a giant lizard but they were standing upright with weapons in their claws. At the end of their tails were pointed spikes that could put a hole in anything that it could hit. Those tails were swishing back and forth as they marched towards the general populace that wasn't evacuated yet.
"Master!" Astro couldn't help but exclaim when he saw where the monsters were headed. "You can't do this!"
Cygnus glared at the mage, "I thought you don't care no matter what happens to them? If you have someone to blame, blame those mages from that tower because if not for them I won't be in this kind of mood."
Astro swallowed the objection he was about to say. This was different from the other times he had defied him, the master was truly in a bad mood and he might do something even crueler. He watched as those monsters marched forward without stopping.
The soldiers noticed the emergence of the monsters and did not hesitate to face them to protect the rest of the citizens that were still being escorted. The heroes focused on those monsters since the mages took care of the major ones that started the calamity.
While all of these were happening, the other elders who remained in the tower were in a daze. One of the elders died and the other disappeared. Although the others survived, they still couldn't believe that those failed experiments could stand on par with the elders. It was not easy to accept.
An explosion inside their vicinity woke them up from their daze. The mages inside the tower scattered as dark mana continuously hit the tower and caused destruction. Dark tails were also spotted in the area as they targeted the structure itself.
Several mages came out to face the enemy but before they could even attack, they were already pierced by the wriggling dark tails. Alastor and Meliore also came out to face the enemy. A flash of red lightning appeared and directly hit the dark child; this was stronger than what he had shown in Moonvale but the enemy wasn't injured at all.
Seeing that his attack had no effect, he was not fazed and instead summoned a series of red lightning that pinned the enemy on the spot where he was standing. Meliore did not stay idle as she summoned her vines to stab the enemy. The vines were not destroyed even though they entered the domain of the red lightning and successfully impaled the dark child.
Alastor used this chance to let his red lightning pass through the vines using it as a medium to inflict more injury to their enemy. When they sensed no movement from the enemy, their attacks also ceased. They sighed in relief because they thought that the enemy was weakened after its battle with one of the elders.
In that split second that their guards were down, two dark tails stabbed them both from the back. It was an unexpected attack that caught them off guard. They struggled to free themselves and when they managed to get away, the poison had already spread through their system.
Both of them were forced to kneel on the ground as they started to cough out blood. While they were down, the unmoving dark child broke the shield that he surrounded himself with and stared at the two of them. Several dark tails once again appeared and moved to attack them but before they could reach the two grand mages, a shadow appeared and took the both of them away.
Archmage Ragus came to the rescue and took the two of them away. Archmage Aviel was with him as she started to heal them right away. She expelled the poison from their system and started to heal their wounds. She couldn't help but stare at the black substance that she removed from them.
"That guy is really bad news." She raised her head and looked at the man in front of him. "Based on its earlier fight, the greatest threat he has right now is those tails. They're made up of a poison beyond my knowledge."
"I'll be careful then," Ragus gave the woman a nod. He stepped out to face the rampaging monster.
As he walked towards the man, he summoned two familiars of his. A lion with a white lightning as its fur and an eagle with its flaming feathers. He was not sure if they would be effective against the opponent but he still needed to try. Along with summoning familiars, he could also use their powers.
His first attack was from the white lion. It was lightning followed up by a fire breath from the eagle. He then circled behind and used the same attacks to hit the dark child. The enemy used his tails to protect itself from the barrage of attacks and no matter how the archmage replicated his attacks, the dark child remained unharmed.
The tails retaliated, some of them attacked directly while the others went up as a dark energy started to gather at their tips. The dark child flicked those tails and threw the dark energy orbs towards the archmage and the familiars he summoned. A series of explosions happened as those orbs hit the ground, the tower and the familiars.
Ragus took cover behind a shield he materialized and let the explosion pass before he made his move once again. This time he summoned another familiar which was a water fairy that can use water to attack. The tails passed through the familiar's body and the archmage took this chance to use this familiar to get close to the enemy.
