"Julian stop" Jeremy found himself shouting to his brother, "just leave already".

"Stay out of it boy" came the mocking reply, "I need to concentrate", his voice straining from the pain of the needle shot.

"Don't make it any worse Julian" trying again to end the fight.

"This isn't your business Jeremy", coughing while saying the last word.

"But it is my business", Jeremy heard Kyatha's angry voice, he never heard her not angry but now she was something else, "why did you attack our camp?"

"Scram bitch" Julian choked, "this isn't your duel".

"Oh it's a duel?" came Allen's jovial voice from behind the treeline, "can I do it too?"

"This isn't a fucking circus", the words came out painfully from Julian's throat, "heal me" he commanded the guardian of nature which sent a green beam at Julian's head that washed him in an aura of natural life boosting his powers over nature.

"I have one of these", Jeremy averted his eyes at the last second when he heard "guardian of light" even without looking he was momentarily blinded by the flash and heard Julian cry in pain though he was still regenerating under his own guardian's spell.

White feathered wings, radiant armor covering a chiseled body with exposed arms as thick as RedFox21's torso, wielding a mighty morning star in one hand and a bell in the other.

"What the hell" Jeremy heard Kyatha shouting in surprise, "when did you master that spell?"

"I thought it could power up my 'device' but it failed" Allen said, "then I tried to ask it questions but the minor guardians wouldn't speak back though I know they understood me".

"Guardians aren't Players Allen", she exclaimed in frustration, "you can't talk to them"

"Sure you can", the dragon replied "say hello Neraminha", the angel turned to the group.

"Hi Allen", it said in a dinging voice, "hello Kyatha" to which the woman's jaw dropped and she fell silent as the celestial beckoned them.

"Why does it know my name?" sounding like Jeremy's mother when he did something naughty.

"I told her all about you", Allen was totally oblivious to the storm he was brewing and Jeremy was not the man to save this particular dragon.

"Enough with the chit chat" Julian sounded even more powerful than before, "it is less than a week old", screeching at the guardian of nature, "destroy it"

Flailing club like branches the forest behemoth charged forward, lunging after a single step with the brambles elongating to create spears that would have pierced the radiant if it didnt flap its wings and flew up.

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Smashing down with its morning star the angel dropped from its flight and broke through the spear like fingers of the guardian of nature severing its arm where an elbow would be in a mortal creature, the fallen branches dried up and shriveled, becoming no larger than simple wood shavings.

Roaring in pain the wood golem raised both its hands over its head and after growing back the cut limb to match the other one threw both of them down in a pendulous motion that caught the radiant being even though it tried to evade the attack, scratching its exposed shoulder and drawing out purple blood.

Crying in pain Neraminha tried again to attack the monster's hand but it already retracted the limbs back to its center of mass.

Suddenly from below where he hid Jeremy heard "DRAIN", and a cry of pain.

Kyatha screamed "null magic", but Jeremy knew it was already too late, Julian cast his legacy spell and its effect was instantaneous, the two guardians vanished in a cloud of leaves and a blast of light when all magic was cancelled in the area, even feeling himself become heavier as his buffs were nullified.

Dropping to see what happened below the canopy of branches he could see Julian looting the shriveled body of the woman he just killed, seeing a hand move made Jeremy gag thinking about the horror of the spell his brother was using, and how much she must have payed to survive even for the short amount of time it took the nullifying magic to take effect.

"Give it up already" Julian screamed as he hit her with the staff of life, "I killed you" his screeching voice rising "give me my loot".

Hearing branches crack Jeremy turned his head in time to see Kyatha raise a trembling finger and pointing it at Julian, "NO!" screaming and putting himself between the woman and their legacy avatar.

"Move RedFox21", came the absolute command, "he won't get away from this"

"Please dont destroy him" begging never got him out of anything before but he had to try, "our family will be ruined if we lose Afriat"

"I won't ask again" tears streamed down her cheeks and Julian saw her gag when her eyes brushed the other woman's sight.

Seeing her eyes widen he knew it was his end when he was pushed and fell on Kyatha, "NO!" she screamed and Jeremy turned in time to see Julian vanish in the forest, throwing him to the ground she ran to where the other woman lay silent and motionless.

"No Orella", hugging the drained woman, "take it", she cried and listened to something the other woman said, "don't die on me now", before drawing her last breath the woman dropped her entire inventory on the ground and then she vanished in smoke indicating it was a death despawning of a non legacy character meaning it was probably gone forever.

"You know who he was" Kyatha turned a baleful gaze to him, "your legacy means he is your father or brother", grabbing his shirt and drawing him close, "who is he?"

"My brother", there was no point hiding the truth now after shouting it all along the fight, "please don't destroy our legacy" he tried to beg again.

"Do you know what he did?" screaming in his ears, "this was Orella's third inheritance cycle"

Gasping in horror at the thought of being so close to becoming a legacy only to have it destroyed by a highway robber, his brother.

"Your guild is finished", she whispered in his ear, "your legacy is doomed", her voice bringing shivers down his spine, "I will find and annihilate every last one of you a thousand times over if that is what it takes to teach you upstarts some manners", who was she to issue such a threat without blinking.

Seeing how he wasn't whimpering for his life she stood up and screamed "I AM KYATHA", her words echoing in the silent aftermath, "HEADMISTRESS OF THE ASHMOURN GUILD", then Jeremy knew it was their end, "AND I PROMISE".

A heavy claw fell on her shoulder and dropped her to the ground, "we said no more promises", Allen spoke in a hollow voice, "just between us", his words hammered on Jeremy's heart, "we will find him", storing all the items scattered around them in the blink of an eye, "and make him pay", dropping his voice, "but no more promises to others"

Kyatha keeled over and cried for the loss her family suffered from Julian's hands and Jeremy was never sorrier to be his brother.