-"i'll fucking kill you, EZRA!"

-"and...who are you?" Ezra ask the misterious person, but she doesn't answer. Only an echo of a roar can be heard as she dashes at him with her golden blade, trying to pierce his heart.

Ezra dodges to his left and sees three blue darts shooting straight at his face, he rolls forward and the darts hit the wall destroying parts of the stone with the writing on the wall, dissapearing with the broken rock.

-"who are you?! What did i ever do to you!?" Ezra asks with a panicked expression trying hard to not explode in fear, but the misterious person answers not as she only wishes to see her enemies cold, bloodied body.

She turns around and jumps at Ezra completely ignoring Tahir who is standing in the corner by the torch, scared for his life as he slides down on the floor in a sitting position looking wide eyed and petrified as a statue.

The person wants Ezra dead, knowing that, Ezra had no other option but to fight her and he does so by pulling his left and right hand together and creating a black handle, golden chains apear on his right wrist enveloping it. He then pulls his hand away quickly and he creates a whip and swings it around destroying the stone walls further and cutting the girl's left hand.

-"Aisha." she says

-"what?"

-"my name is Aisha, i feel it would be good for you to know the name of your killer."

-"hah, as if!" Ezra says mockingly and swings the whip further. In an inclosed space, such a big whip as his would be quite useful for creating pressure.

Aisha sees the glowing golden chains in contrast with the darkness and in fear and quick thinking she picks Tahir up by the collar and pulls him closer to her putting his neck into a chokehold.

-"one move and he is dead!" aisha yells

-"please stay still! I don't wanna die!"

-"i come on! Why do you put me in a dilema! This feels more and more like a fairytale to me!" Ezra, exausted, sits on the wet floor and leaves his whip beside him, it dissapears into a flashes of light.

-"alright, we'll do this the hard way." he touches the wet floor and sparks come out of the palm of his hand.

The water begins flowing upwards behind Ezra, almost like they are being controled.

-"magnetism..." the water attacks Aisha in the form of a jet stream, hitting and throwing her up the stairs and through the door.

-"Tahir! Run! Stop standing there!"

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Tahir wakes up from his petrified state and begins running at top speed getting ahead by at least a few meters.

But as Tahir stands up so does Aisha who starts running trying to catch them.

'damn! My manna is running low, i need to end this quickly...!' Ezra speaks begins strategizing in his head but can't find a good answer to defeating Aisha, who has the upper hand by a mile.

He runs forward attempting to hide in the endless walls of the Labyrinth but as he runs deeper and deeper into it the air starts getting dense and its hard to breathe but he ignores the sudden change in air pressure and pushes forward but Aisha who is running behind them seems to be uneffected but he is not quite sure why.

As a test he runs slower but the slower he runs the more tired he becomes and he realises the whole place reaps the manna from people due to an uknown reason, he uses manna sight and sees the walls coated with a protection spell, he comes to a conclusion... That the more someone destroys the walls the more their manna will be reaped to repair the walls!

But how do i use that knowledge to defeat Aisha? Is there a way to make her hit the walls instead of me?

The thoughts and strategies going through Ezra's mind are enough to make an average person go insane, Ezra is willing enough to take risks in defeating her.

But, what if he is too tired to fight her?

what if the walls don't operate like he hoped?

what if she knows what the walls are capable of doing?

His knowledge and inteligence is high and he knows it, but he doesn't want to underestimate her or it will be his downfall, its impossible to know what another person is thinking let alone knowing a complete stranger's thoughts.

This single fact makes Ezra deeply afraid.

He has been running for so long it feels as if his legs are about to turn to dust, he looks forward and before him he sees a tight hallway leading to a room on his right.

Both Tahir and Ezra go into the room and stand there with a crazed expression of terror.

-"A dead end...?" Ezra mutters

-"We're gonna die! Both of us are gonna–" Ezra quickly puts his hand over Tahir's mouth trying to shut him up.

-"Not. One. Word." Tahir quickly nods in compliance.

-"we can't leave now, its likely she is right close by, we will have to confront her directly." he grabs a torch from the wall and takes off his blue-black standard veil most people wear, he puts it down by the door and Lights it on fire blocking the entrance.

-"by the time she gets here she will be met with an ever-burning flame. Buying us just enough time to leave! Come on Tahir, lets go!" he says, as excited as a child that just got a new toy.

-"exit where? Its a dead end dumbass!" Tahir says with tears in his eyes, -"i never thought i'd meet my end with a kid, lost in an endless labyrinth... I should have let the corpse kill me then!"

-"no need to be agressive! Anyway, i'll blast a hole through the roof, we shouldn't be too deep underground. But Tahir, i'm low on manna, carry me if i pass out, okay?"

Tahir nods and Ezra breathes, slowly preparing himself for whats about to come.

-"Vulnus!" he yells violently, by now Aisha is right by the flame wall which slowly begins dissapearing as Ezra's veil is turned to ash. The wall gets to neck level and reveals her eyes sharp as a sword.

She swings her sword and disperses the blazing fire, the flame of resolve reflected in her eyes.

However, Ezra is in no shape to fight and is barely standing on his feet.

She goes in for a strike trying to pierce his neck but Tahir jumps at her and pushes her on the ground and she slashes across his eye in retaliation.

A faint "flatus...!" can be heard near the middle of the room and as they both look in the direction of the sound they can see a flash of light coming closer and an arm flying across the room leaving a trail of blood in its path.

Aisha quickly moves back in a panic as she holds the stump of her missing arm.

-"you fuckers...!"

Her whole body begins to glow and she moves back through the wall behind her.