Chapter 152

“The beginning of chaos.”

Kalysto watched intently as the court magicians finished casting their spell on Emanuel.

“Sit down!” ordered one of the wizards and the young man obeyed the order immediately, sitting down on the cold stone floor. “Stand up!” The hooded wizard commanded again, and Emanuel obeyed the order without hesitation. “Touch your nose! Jump on one leg! Raise your right arm!” Emanuel’s eyes looked like two lifeless wells as he followed the orders he was given, one after the other, without question or making a sound.

A shiver ran down Kalysto’s back as she took a step back and the guards who had left the other dungeon opened the door to her cell and entered. The metallic clang of the anti-mana handcuffs that had been placed on her wrists echoed through the filthy prison as they approached.

Kalysto looked out of the corner of her eye at the open window of her map.

Thankful that she had forgotten to close it after talking to Hanna and postponing the conversation with the demon king to inquire about Alice’s health.

Inventory! She thought, but just as she suspected, the window didn’t change tabs. So she had to raise her hand while pretending to rearrange a tousled lock of hair and slyly pressed the inventory sign, revealing the tab she was looking for.

The Minotaur’s mace or the axe? She thought as the guards waited for the arrival of the two mages as they blocked the exit of her cell with their muscular bodies protected by shining gray armor with the duke’s crest emblazoned on their cloaks.

If only my inspection skill were higher, perhaps I could tell if their strength is greater than mine, or if only their levels are. She reproached herself, promising herself that she would raise the skill to a higher level after finding a way to escape from there, rescue Katia and get the kids out.

But when they had arrived and traveled through several corridors full of cells occupied by servants, she had seen no trace of Katia. And if what her enlarged map indicated was correct, the sweet girl was at a different end of the palace.

Which made her concern for her grow.

As soon as the wizards finished checking that the mind control spell on Emanuel was okay, they snapped their fingers and immediately Emanuel backed up to the edge of the bed, scared of what they might do to him.

“I’ve already told you everything I know! Please don’t hurt me!” He cried out, curling up in the corner of the bed after throwing himself on it as he watched them leave the cell, tears running freely down his cheeks as his eyes filled with terror.

After leaving the cell, the two wizards pulled a lock from one of their robes. The click of the lock closing was clear to the ears of Kalysto, who, although her vision was obstructed by the warriors guarding the entrance to her cell, tried to discover which of the two mages had a copy of the keys.

The other she had already seen was held by the first guard on her left.

The four knights armed with swords that had previously entered the cubicle in which she was enclosed stepped aside, giving way to the two mages.

And just the second they did so and their gaze turned away from her, Kalysto pulled the Minotaur’s mace from her inventory and struck hard at the head of the first guard to her left, crushing the metal helmet that protected him as his body was thrown against the bars, twisting them.

The two mages immediately conjured protective spells to protect themselves, while the three remaining guards drew their swords from their sheaths and lunged at her.

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“That she wasn’t a mage?” asked one of the mages.

“Where did she get that mace?” questioned the other.

But Kalysto didn’t have time to pay any more attention to what they were shouting as she dodged the attacks of the other three warriors, surprised at how easily she had killed one of them and how the grille of her cell had bent outward.

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And as she dodged the blow of one of the guards’ swords, she pulled a dagger from her inventory and threw it at the middle knight, who dodged it with ease and lunged at her, not realizing that as he dodged the dagger it went straight towards the shield that one of the mages had erected. This frightened the other one, who was planning to cancel the spell on his shield and join the attack of the warriors.

Kalysto dodged two other attacks and kicked one of them, throwing him against one of the stone walls of her cell, gaining a couple of seconds to assess her situation while the other two knights were trying to cut her in two with their swords, but she was countering the blows with the strong handle of her mace at the same time they were trying to press her and force her back using their combined heights and weight to subdue her at the point of sheer brute force.

Lightning! Ice creation! Ice arrows! Ice spear! Tundra! She tried to conjure but none of her attacks materialized as she cursed how short the chain linking the anti-mana handcuffs they had placed on her was.

<< I could help you...>> Persephone whispered from the back of her mind.

<> She tried to seduce her.

And it was thanks to her words that Kalysto remembered what had happened in that city, what was left of her after giving free rein to ‘that other part of herself’.

And Kalysto smiled.

“No, thank you," she said aloud as she took a step forward and pushed both guards hard, making them lose their balance and move back a couple of steps just as the third guard got up from the ground and joined the attack.

“Creation of dark mana!” She thought and black smoke was expelled from her body, spreading rapidly throughout the cell, from the floor until it reached almost to her knees.

“The black plague!” shouted the wizards along with one of the guards and the five of them backed away from her in fear of catching it. At the same time, Kalysto pulled out his violet inventory pet.

“Tsuki, electrocute them all!” ordered Kalysto and Tsuki did so despite feeling a bit confused since he was supposed to be sleeping on his warm bed, waiting for the dawn to come and then he could go to explore another human kingdom as they had done a few days ago together with his mistress.

However, now he was in a dirty cell surrounded by enemies.

The three warriors were the first to fall while the mages came out of the cell while holding their shields and cursing whoever had thought of creating an anti-apparition shield in the dungeons of the palace.

But that wasn't enough to stop Tsuki who after sending an electric shock against the guard who had been lying against the gate since he arrived, ran through the corridor full of cells behind the mages and electrocuted them, and then did the same against the other two guards who ran to meet him, in an attempt to help the mages whose flat shields were surrounded by the puppy's lightning.

“Good job!” Kalysto congratulated him as she finished opening the anti-mana handcuffs after stealing the keys from the first fallen guard. "As soon as I get out of here I promise I'll take you out for a delicious meal as a reward!”

“Arff!” he replied excitedly. He wagged his tail back and forth as he was carried by his mistress.

“Now back to the inventory!” Then Kalysto returned him to safety and then went to the cell where Koden was and released him. “Get the rest out and be careful with Emanuel, he's brainwashed and I don't know how reliable he is to be around!” She whispered and Koden nodded his head, took the set of keys that Kalysto gave him, and started to free the rest of the group at the same time, Kalysto ran to where the bodies of the wizards were and began to search through his clothes, taking out another set of keys and four enchanted leather bags, two of them filled with potions and the other two with several coins that he immediately put in her inventory. Then she ran to the cell Rita was in and released her.

“Thank you!” said the blonde. “I'll help free the others!” She offered, as Kalysto helped her remove the anti-mana handcuffs.

“How on earth did they catch you guys?”

“Edward insisted on helping some people who thanked us and invited us to have a drink at the bar. By the time Koden, Oscar, and I arrived from delivering another mission to the adventurer's guild, the rest of the guys were already there, as drunk as you can imagine. While Edward was telling everyone that we had been summoned from another world," she commented annoyed. “We got them out of there and moved to another inn but the next morning while we were arguing with the rest of the group who didn't want to leave the town, we were found by the duchy guards. We didn't stand a chance against them, not with those two wizards who could appear and disappear in a matter of seconds.”

“Next time, don't hesitate to abandon them, if they want to stay, let it be at their own risk! Each one of us is old enough to be responsible for our own decisions” Rita bit her lip and lowered her head, looking like a scolded teenager. “I'm not scolding you, it's just that I'm beginning to think that the rest of them take it for granted that I'll come to get them out of trouble every time they get into trouble.”

“... Something similar Emanuel told them when they asked him where you were” admitted the blonde, Kalysto frowned and stopped.

“I'm going to create a way out for everyone to escape on their own," Rita's eyes widened in surprise when she heard that.

“...I...understand," the blonde muttered and Kalysto saw the moment when the other young woman took her words as a rejection.

“They have Katia locked up somewhere. You guys concentrate on getting out of here and I'll go get her.”

“Sure, of course!” Said Rita, knowing beforehand that Kalysto had a special weakness for the young archer. “Don't worry about us!”