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Era Of War (book 1)
Ch. 22: within the palace walls

Ch. 22: within the palace walls

Ezra slowly wakes up in the walls of the palace, 'twas midnight and the sounds of animals and bugs have gotten louder, feeling as if they were in the room with him.

Before Ezra can realise where he is, a guard aproaches the jail cell where he resides.

"I see you have awoken, you've given us much trouble young child, so we do enjoy having to see you in this state. Rest well, you've got much work tommorow." The guard then begins walking away, the sounds of footsteps echo in Ezra's mind.

"Wait!" Ezra screeches in his terribly damaged voice.

'maybe i can use the same spell Rago used' he thinks to himself.

"What is it child, i've got work to do." In his frustration, the guard gets hit with the spell used on Ezra and falls to the ground, Ezra falls unconscious as well.

The guard then misteriously wakes up but not as the guard, rather, Ezra is in the guards body. He looks at his hand and around the hallway, and at last he looks into the cell where his body is located. In that moment, he realised what had happened.

He picks up the guards spear and starts walking around with it, but before he departs he moves his own body so it looks like he is sleeping.

As he moves down the moon-lit corridor he sees a door that lead to a room, as he slowly opened the door and lit the candle on the table located in the middle of the room, he saw documents and records on the table, countless papers pilled up on the table and sorted very carefully. The work of a very pedant individual.

Ezra's curiosity gets the better of him and he decides to read some of them, taking them from the pile and going over some words he realises its talking about the nation of Seelvia, and a clan which has misteriously gone missing.

The title simply reads "Evangale".

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Before he starts finding out more he is greeted by a voice coming from the bottom left corner of the room.

"Soldier Gealic? What are you doing in my study?" The voice was likely from a powerful figure or a comrade of the guard.

Ezra plays it safe: "I was curious as to what you were studying, sir."

"Curious? You've been here many a time, even read some of my work, you have nothing to be curious about." The figure crosses their arms, repremanding Ezra. "Surely you don't think of me as a fool? Such a pathetic lie will never pass with me! Tell me the truth Gealic!" The figure raises their voice, louder with each word.

"Fine, i was here to get away from work for a little bit." Ezra lies again, chuckling to himself in his mind.

"Don't you know how dangerous that can be? What if a prisoner escapes? We're talking about a breach of the most vicious prisoners in the whole nation! Do better next time, you'll be punished in the morning." the figure leaves and Ezra laughs to himself again for dooming a random soldier.

As he leaves through a different door himself, he sees a hooded man looking out of the window at the rainfall.

"Do you like the rain Gaelic?" The hooded man asks, hunched over a bit.

"No, i don't sir." He replies formaly.

"Gealic loves the rain, Ezra." The man says and Ezra looks at him stunned.

Suddendly, the man stands upright, no long hunched.

"I am Imani, the Grandmaster. I simply wish to talk to you, if you don't mind of course."

"I do not speak with scum" hissed Ezra, "for if i did, i'd be a fool."

"I do understand your hate towards me, but it was never my idea to kill your family, your sister was the only objective." Imani says, keeping a firm, almost uncanny glare through the windows.

"You think that makes it okay!? Do you understand the pain i went through that day!? The fear and hate will not be quenched by anything you could do, at this point... Just let me kill you..." Ezra calms down a bit near the end of his rant, but his eyes keep a fiery glow throughout.

"You know i will kill you, Imani. Nothing will change that. I just want you to die at your own volition." Ezra's maddened glare is still present, but he has calmed down a lot.

"I know your pain, i went through something similar."

"What could you possibly understand? You are worse than the devil!"

"I am the devil."

"What?"

"I am Lucifer, the light bringer" apon this reveal he looks down in shame.

"I am one of the calamities that ravaged your land and people, i was the leader of the demonic horde."

Ezra imediately rushed at Lucifer, but ends up getting punched through the chest. In death he hears:

"I wish to bring peace among demons and humans."