A Man That Really Hates Traitors

I was quickly able to catch up to them because their snowprints were still there, I followed them and reached a convoy of twenty people led by a brawny man. They were pulling their sleds with all of their might, they looked tired, exhausted and all of them were on the brink of frozing, I instantly cast a spell to heat them.

"Sunlight!" Suddenly a small sun appeared on top of them, they all stopped to look at the small sun and one of them realized I was coming.

"There is someone there!" He yelled, they all dropped their ropes and picked up weapons from their sleds and they quickly got in position like a trained unit, the brawny man was at the front with a huge sword, I was still far from them and all they saw was a figure of me, the brawny man yelled like a lion.

"Come with your hands up!" I did what he said and walked to them, some of their guards dropped after seeing me but not the brawny man's, he had a serious look like he was ready to kill me and he probably was ready to kill me.

"I am not an enemy, I am Fire Mage Agust from Mithrus!"

"Mithrus! So you are with that traitor!"

"That traitor?" And then I remembered the fire mage Floria was talking about.

"I am not with that traitor fire mage!"

"Fire mage?! You are with that damned general! She betrayed humanity in order to get promoted!" This man wasn't talking about the fire mage, he was talking about Floria. I didn't know what this angry man was talking about but I wasn't going to stand in his way.

"Grand General Floria is dead! I found her body!" His guard finally dropped after hearing my words, he started to laugh happily.

"That traitor is dead! Amazing!" He hugged me with all of his might, he was a powerful man and his attitude was changed.

"We can go to Mithrus now everyone! Those mad people were right!" All of his people had smiles on their faces, they picked up their ropes and started to pull their sleds to Mithrus and we started to move.

A Cold-Warm Talk

After walking for hours we stopped at a place to rest, even though I was a fire mage they made me pull the sleds and I was quite tired, I sat on the ground and the brawny man approached me.

"I am Major General Harold. Well, I used to be one before those traitors took my uniform, now I wear a bear's pelt."

"Those traitors? I don't think I follow."

"Before all of this shit happened I discovered a huge conspiracy that involved the royal, the grand general and everyone in the government.

"I-It was that big?"

"Yes, it was but they are all probably dead and Floria was the last person on my list. I am a good fighter and a strong man but I can't deal with Floria. I am happy that she is dead but also sad that we lost a genius, mind telling me how she was killed?"

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"Her throat was cut in her office. There was a note that talked about a fire mage that had a huge snowstorm tattoo and she was killed by him. She kept writing her logs with a knife on her throat."

"Snowstorm? Wait, a minute-" We were interrupted by an old man's voice.

"Fire mage? Did you convince them?" This old man was the prophet of the other survivor group, he had a huge smile on his face like always and this seemed to creep out Harold but I knew this man was a good man, the old man turned around and called out for people, they moved our sleds to their camp and we went inside the main tent.

Three interesting figures sitting in a tent, there was an ice between the two of the man and I needed to melt that.

"This is Ex-Major General Harold and this is Prophet…I don't think I asked for your name?" The old man started to laugh, he stood up and brought out a can.

"People tend to forget me because I am just a weak old man with glasses." He poured water and put some tea in the can and started to brew it.

"It has been very long since somebody forgot to ask for my name. I might sound weird or act weird but this is the first I met normal in many years." The tea quickly finished brewing because of my fire magic and so he gave us tea.

" My name is Gregory, a simple name and I am a simple man. This should warm us up a little bit." He said, his face was smiling but his heart was still in pain, at that moment we both felt this man's sadness and Harold dropped his guard against him and started to drink the tea.

Best Friends

In a couple of hours and some tea we became best friends, I was the youngest one in the group but they treated me like an equal and we all had our fun but our fun came to an end when a person saw a snowstorm heading to us.

I got out of the cage and saw the huge snowstorm coming to us, this was the biggest I have ever seen and I started to set out fires through the camp just in case my firewall failed and I reinforced my firewall to the highest and the snowstorm hit, I was able to hold the snowstorm back for hours.

I was casting reinforce over and over again but then an ice shard managed to break through my firewall and was headed to me, it was heading fast and I didn't have the time to dodge or cast a spell.

I was going to die here right now. I started to think about what I wanted to do, who I wanted to marry, where I wanted to go and everything else. I didn't want to die at this age nor at this situation, If I were to die many people were going to freeze to death but again, I didn't have anything to do but then something hit the ice shard so fast that it shattered the ice shard.

This was another ice shard that came from a different direction, for a second I thought that ice shard belonged to an ice mage I knew but I also knew she was dead.

"Dispel!" A woman said and the moment she said that the snowstorm started to disappear. I noticed a figure that wore a wizard hat and a robe but I wasn't able to see this person because this person was too far away but only one person wore a wizard hat in the whole magician community and that was the grand mage.

"Grand Mage!" I yelled out to her but I didn't get an answer instead of a warning.

"Mithrus has fallen, go to the Gevius Cave. There you will meet other people." She said Harold whispered me about this person.

"That's the grand mage right?"

"Yes, she is."

"I have a bad feeling about this be careful." He was right, I also had a bad feeling about this, she wasn't coming near us, she was simply standing there with her staff but I trusted her and turned to the others.

"You heard the grand mage! Pack up your things, we are going to Gevius Cave!"

"Agust…." She said in a very cold and sad tone, it felt like something was about to happen and I instantly turned around and cast a barrier.

"Fire barrier!" At that moment I felt a cold object piercing me through my stomach, I looked down and saw a spike made of dirt coming out of the ground, I realized she was able to use every kind of magic except for fire, she was the grand mage after all.

I fell to the ground and the spike broke, I saw Harold rushing to her with his sword, Gregory and the others rushed to me and they tried to stop my bleeding but I knew from the look on Gregory's face, I was a goner and after that, I started to lose consciousness but I gained it back sometimes.

I saw myself carried on a sled, I saw myself going into a cave, I saw myself getting carried on a ship, I saw myself getting put on a table, I saw myself being treated by a woman that seemed to be a doctor and the last thing I saw was a metal tray filled with bloodied tools and a bloodied silver crown….