Darkness, all Roth could see was pitch black darkness. He couldn't move a single inch, as if his body was frozen stiff. Then he felt cold, as a chill went down his spine. He could hear...wind? A gentle gust of wind blowing all around him. He could barely open his eyes but what he could see was a massive hill...no... a mountain, none like he seen in the area. Now he's in a dark cavern, hearing the echos of drips and rocks falling ever so slightly. It's as if he's in a dream flying through these various areas. The cavern seems to be getting darker and darker. No more noise, no sounds of dripping cave water, no sounds of wind or any type of draft. Just...silence, unnatural silence. He felt uneasy looking into the dark with no response. The darkness felt evil, felt demonic. Suddenly, two giant glowing demonic eyes filled the entire void blinding him.

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"Wh-what? What are you?" As Roth's voice echoed in the void.

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"What do you want from me! I'm guessing you're the one who sent those wyverns here. You with the Fidelity! They work in the occults too!"

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"Hold on wait! I said wait!"

The eyes slowly began to vanish and was left in total darkness. He screamed at the voice to come back as his own loudly echoed the void. Roth then woke up gasping for air as he was choking on his own saliva. He was inside the castle's main area. Looking to his left he sees rows of people in cots, some sleeping some groaning in pain. He looks to his right and sees more rows, some were empty, and some were trying to sleep but couldn't from the amount of pain they were in. He slumps back down and exhales gruesomely. When opening his eyes he sees a maid covered in blood staring down at him in shock and runs the other way,

"Lady Mina! Your brother has woken up!"

He heard a loud gasp with the pitter patter of footsteps heading towards him. He sees Mina as she jumps towards Roths arms.

"Oh big brother! You scared me there for a moment! Why do you always be so reckless!"

"I- I'm sorry Mina.."

"Geez, you're a handful sometimes you know that." As she squeezes him in her arms.

" How long was I out for?"

"It wasn't even that long, It's almost mid-day already."

"What happened outside after I passed out?"

"Well... I mean...", She said with a nervous chuckle. He looked at her with great confusion and got up from his cot. He walked out the huge double doors only to be greeted by a giant blinding light from the sun. Once his eyes were stable enough, he can see half the sky filled with black smoke. The fires have been finally put out just recently as the plumes of black smoke are still rising high. He looks all around as the mages from the night are leaning against crates and the walls of the castle still exhausted from the ordeal. He walks forward into the castles front yard and stops in his tracks. His voice was lost seeing the surreal scene in front of his eyes.

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Wyverns lying belly up, face planted, huge drag marks from crashing from the sky. Some of them had huge bolts from the ballista's work but the rest was his handiwork. He slowly walked down the make shift path of the area that was used as the resting area for the civilians. Tents and small make shift houses destroyed or burned down. Some were looking in the rumble scavenging anything they could find. Others were just exhausted and were sleeping, even on top of ruble. He works his way onto the main street and sees other adventurers out and about helping the cleanup of the city.

Mina follows behind not saying a word allowing Roth to see everything for himself. On an intersection of the thoroughfare, he sees a large group of people surrounding the area. He goes to inspect It to see what all the commotion was. Once he did however, he was mortified. Rows upon rows of people lied dead on the floor in a grotesque manner. There were people badly bruised and bloody. Others were missing limbs, and one even had his head sliced open. Another look as if a giant bite mark tore half through her body. And the others Roth was not ready for, the others were all burned corpses. Still in their poses of their withering pain, arms held up from blocking the flames, others as if they were crawling away. The one that did make Roth cry and brough him to his knees was the corpse of a young, burned woman who was in a fetal position. She was holding something in her arms as if she was trying to protect something. Deep in her grasp was the corpse of an infant nearly unrecognizable from how charred and blackened the corpses were. Their clothes infused onto their bodies; some adventurers armor also mended together as it melted onto their skin.

Roth nearly gagged but didn't puke. The people around were all praying for them, even the nuns were there blessing the bodies one by one.

"May you rest and let the divine light guide you through your rapture. Let it be known through great peril and sorrows, that the goddess may take your hand in your eternal rest. Let it be known that through strife, we remained unbroken. For you are not gone, only at rest from the harsh world we all endure that is called life. Through her will and devotion we shall remain unbroken. For this is not the end, and the memories of the lost shall continue through us until we returned to dust as well. And our legacy shall be passed down with theirs, until the end of time."

The crowd all said amen in unison. But they still gathered around the same area as more people keep bring in more dead bodies. Mina places a hand onto Roth's shoulders comforting him. He collects himself again and walks down the thoroughfare until he hears a familiar voice.

"Hey kid! Boy am I glad to see you are okay son, how are you holding up?" It was Zacharey and his rookie team of adventurers behind him.

"I'm doing fine... thanks but what about..."

"Kid don't worry, what you did last night was a miracle. If I didn't know better, I would've been praying to you thinking you were an archangel haha."

"Erm... well I'm not an angel, far from being one actually."

Zacharey sighs and places his hand on his shoulder, " Kid, don't beat yourself up. You did more than enough, you saved this city without barely trying. I don't know how or why you have such amazing talents but it's fate that you're here. Though we may have lost lives in this dark tragedy, you still saved this city and all its people. For that you have my eternal gratitude." The other newbie adventurers are in total shock seeing their war harden guild master bow to the young teen. Since he's always been hard on them.

"Please don't bow, I've kind of been burned with these praises all the time. By the way where is Aufnier?"

"Haha I understand, he's busy at the moment talking with the lord of Ezhine, but there is someone here to see you."

Roth looks behind and sees two cheery face people happy to see him. It was Sillo and Shiana, Sillo waves and yells hello from afar while Shiana waves while helping and injured person from a nearby destroyed building.

"Here I thought you couldn't surprise me anymore than you could. Then you had to display that act of God performance in the sky." Said Sillo making a joke while chuckling.

"I agree with my brother. We were out helping the citizens go to the evacuation point and putting out the fires until we saw that giant lighting tower tear the whole sky apart." She passes the injured man to the nuns where they guided him to treat his wounds.

"Wyverns were dropping left and right. I don't know how you did it but you basically encapsule the whole city area killing off all the wyverns." Sillo was getting a bit overexcited.

"Hey is that the lightning kid!"

"Yeah it is! He's that famous adventurer everyone's talking about!"

The group that Sillo and Shiana were with for the rescue teams finally caught up and recognized him since they were at the center of that lightning show. They gathered around him asking him so many questions and wanting to know how he was able to do such a feat.

" Hey everyone let's capture this moment with the wyvern slayer! "

"Yeah let's do it!"

"Count me in!"

Roth was confused what they meant by that. The whole group went around the block and there lying on the corner was a dead wyvern perfectly spread out. One man pulled a weird metalic wooden box that had a giant dark blue gemstone sticking out. He infused the gem with mana until the gem turned pure white. He pulled it down and a ticking sound began as he rushed towards the group as everyone posed in position. One was being silly and hang from its back. While Zachery stood on top of its head proudly. Mina was getting excited for she didn't even know what it was. But Roth guess it was their version of an old-time retro flash camera. Before the flash, he notices something odd about the creature. With the enemies he has slain so far, the golden mist always appears if he's near the body he's slain. And yet, there is no such mist to be found. Infact, none of the wyvern's bodies glowed when he walked past them. Something was off, and he knows who the culprit may be for this, those demonic eyes, the eldritch voice of the void.

"Here it goes!"

For now, Roth awkwardly smiles and tries to hide his frustration.