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Era Of War (book 1)
Ch. 16: Tactical Retreat

Ch. 16: Tactical Retreat

"what are you doing here?" The Grandmaster speaks loudly while glaring at her missing arm. "it looks as if you were outmatched."

She scofs at his comments and continues eating the stew in the plate before her.

Imani steps forward and begins glaring at her cold, hazel eyes.

"if you are too weak to defeat Ezra then i will need to give you a personal gift of mine." He raises his hand to chin level and utters the words "principales." While closing his fist and the principles apear in the room lined up around the table.

"What seems to be the issue, my lord?" A principle asks but gets interupted in the middle of her question.

"I have called you here to dicuss an issue sorrounding Ezra." The principles begin looking around frantically.

"Aisha has been defeated in battle, so i summoned you to ask for a colective vote on her predicament." Aisha looks on in shock as this happens, unable to speak a single word.

"I say we kill her! We did it to Levitus so why not Aisha?" A principle proclaims.

Suddenly, unimaginable fury apears on Imani's face.

He apears behind the principle and blows up his stomach, launching his guts all over the floor and table.

"Although it isn't enough to kill you, it will teach you a lesson about whats acceptable and what isn't," he looks up at the rest of the principles, "any more ideas?" but none of them dare to speak, fearing death.

"Good, its decided then, " he looks back at Aisha who is frozen in fear. "Aisha Kars, i, in the name of the people of this nation and of your fellow principles, anoint you as the principle of fury. Decem Principium Aisha.

He snaps his fingers and a black and golden box apears on the table and as it opens, it reveals two red glowing sircular earings in the shape of magmic rock.

***

"I can't keep this up..." Tahir crumbles to the ground, Ezra tumbling forward in front of him.

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"I have no more food, water and i'm so tired. I feel as if i could sleep even now. But why has Ezra been unconcious for a full day at this point?" He asks himself while his hands and knees are on the muddy ground.

He barely drags himself and Ezra on the ground trying his best to not pass out of exhaustion and after a few minutes of dragging himself on the floor he comes across a steap hill, by looking over it he sees a village with smoke coming out of it indicating it was burned.

Tahir, now very excited, tries to stand up but ends up rolling down the hill and hitting many rocks on the way. He hits the ground bellow, badly bruised with his left arm broken, he quickly bandadges himself and limps over to the nearest house.

Upon opening the door, instantly seeing a bloody body on the floor along with some dusty bread he instaly begins eating the bread ignoring the dust on it. He stays in the house for a little bit and after regaining energy he starts running outside and up the hill and forcefeeds Ezra half of the bread and starts trying to search for another village or city to find shelter.

***

Tahir has been walking for miles, dragging Ezra on the earth behind him but suddenly finds a bandit camp.

"Shit! How will i get away now?! I'm guarenteed to die if they see me!" Tahir thinks to himself, all the while shaking in fear.

He leaves Ezra behind the tree and tries to sneak past the camp but a bandit sees him and alerts the others.

They all get up and unsheathe their weapons.

"Who are you?!" A bandit asks, pointing his dagger at Tahir.

"A traveler! I'm traveler! Please don't hurt me i meant you no harm!" Tahir gets backed up to a tree by the bandits and while they are thinking what to do with him they hear a sound of munching in their camp.

They turn around quickly and witness Ezra eating bread while sitting on the ground.

"Hello, wanna share?" Ezra laughs at them upon seeing their gaze.

They all yell and rush at Ezra but he leaves the bread on a table and starts walking closer to them.

"Vulnus!" His hand glows and he sends a slash of manna that cuts most of them in half but also burns Ezra's hand.

"That felt nice!" Ezra proclaims while shaking his hand.

The remaining bandits quickly grow terrified of the child, they take Tahir by the colar and bring their daggers to his throat.

"D-d-don't come close or we will slice his head off!" The bandits yell in fear as Ezra's body starts glowing, he dashes forward and through the bandits body, snatching Tahir from their grasp.

"Stay there!" Ezra warns Tahir, getting prepared for battle.

"I don't know how you survived the Vulnus spell, but this is the end for you!" A bandit attacks Ezra first but Ezra's hand phases through him and he rips out the bandit's still-beating heart.

The two other bandits begin running away but get torn apart by chains.

'chains? Ezra the Catena spell?' Tahir thinks to himself. 'he must've placed a chain trap there while he was walking to the camp! That little genius!'

***

the principle of destruction

"I wonder what this power allows me to do..."