I'm running through a high mountain pass Fleeing my school. The reason I'm fleeing my school is that it is being attacked by an army led by a former student of mine. Why you might ask is my former student is attacking me that's simple he's trying to steal one object I invented several years ago Called the awakening orb. What this orb does is awake magic in people who otherwise would not be able to use it. As you can imagine this orb could be very valuable to any country or in this case someone trying to build a country and if you're wondering why this orb would be so valuable it is because only one in every one hundred people are able to use magic naturally there are other ways to awaken magic in someone but most of those ways have a very high chance of dying. A well enough of that if I went into explaining how this orb worked would be here all day. Now back to the story.  I'm fleeing down a mountain pass away from my school after taking all of the books I could grab and all the restricted books in my library along with the orb. Oh silly me I have forgotten to introduce myself I am headmaster Maxwell Wolfelt or just professional Wolfelt. I fled my school through a secret passageway that exit on to a narrow mountain pass that leads into the Mistywoods. These woods spend more than a third of the continent and I should be able to hide for a while just as I thought this I heard a 'twang' and felt a deep pain in my side. Thinking to myself 'oh crap I didn't think they would find the passageway so soon'. Looking back I see two figures wearing robes with three armed men in front of them and one of them looks to be about to cast a fireball spell so I quickly try to cast a shield but I'm nearly at Mana and I knew a mediately it would not stop it and as I suspected the fireball was only mildly pleaded by it being deflected enough not to directly hit me but explode beside me throwing me off of the narrow path along with a few boulders as I fell considering whether I had enough power to cast a levitation spell but I already knew it was too late. I hit the floor with a crunch as the boulders fell on top of my legs and lower half crushing them and as I tried to muster the energy to heal I heard noises above me they were trying to get. As I was lying there trying to consider my options as the world began to grow dark. I did not have the mana to heal myself but I could not leave the orb or any of the knowledge in the books I kept in my soul space. Taking the orb out of my soul space I looked at what I could do with it I could not bring myself to destroy it since I believe that it could do much good in the world then I had an idea what if I was to hide it in one of them are there in chanted objects That I currently had. I considered my staff knows that would not do something more unnoticeable what about my cloak yes pulling my cloak off I looked at it. I looked at all the enchantments woven into it. the magic of the cloak bright to my magical sense. Yes, it could work but leaving such a potentially dangerous items in such a guarded item and then I remembered an enchantment I read about in one of my restricted books called soul trap that could in prison a soul into an item making a cursed object.  An object with its own mind and life of its own but I only had one soul to use my own but could I do it bound my own soul to my creation till it's distraction keeping it safe. As I was considering it I heard them getting closer and I decided yes I would make sure that this could never be used for anything then what it was intended for without a second thought I pushed The orb into the center of the code of arms on the back of my cloak a dragon coiled around a book reaching into the Centre of the book in the code of arms placing the orb and tiding the soul trap enchantment in the center of enchantments that made up the orb and then binding all of the enchantments of the orb into the enchantments making up the clock has it set I felt a tugging and then it tearing and then the world went black. 

Pov Joseph

All Joseph wanted to do was learn magic but somehow I got stuck with this crowd of ruffians. Ever since he was very young He knew that he had magic and always try to help people with it but it usually ends up with somethings exploding. One day Markus and his gang attack his village and took every magically inclined person in the village including him. He took them back to his fortress and told them that they were going to learn magic for his army anyone who tried to escape would be killed anyone who tried to betray him would be hunted down and killed. A few people try to get away but they were all killed and a few others try to learn magic and then rebel but they were put down pretty quickly.so He just tried to keep his head down and do what he's told. It's been working so far I'm still trying to find a way to get away from these people but seeing everyone else's attempts fail is kind of making me lose hope that'll find away. But one day right after lunch we are all called together along with the Warriors and told that we are going to be assaulted an enemy fortress and take it over. We were also told that we are going to capture the leader of the place and that it was a high priority to capture him.took us nearly a month to get there. little happened on the way a few wild animals attaches but they were dealt with. A few more people try to escape and they were also dealt with. 'a there goes my plans of escaping' I thought. When we finally got there they told us to start setting up camp 1000 pieces from the Gate. As we are setting up camp I looked over at the fortress we were supposed to be attacking it looked more like a small town surrounding with a beautiful castle in the middle castle that seems to glow with magic. There were also magic lights lining all of the streets and in the houses. As I looked at this beautiful and magical town I was wondering what these people did to anger Markus and why he wanted us to capture the leader so badly but he starts most likely get me in trouble and I will most likely never get an answer and be killed for asking.

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The next morning as the siege was taking place I was with a group of 1000 warrior and around 30 mages Who are assigned to infiltrate The walls through a secret passageway and split up into two groups one was supposed to head to the gate and open it and the other was supposed to head directly to the castle and get in before they can lock it down and if possible capture The leader who I found out was named Maxwell and as they were describing him as a powerful arch battle mage I was thinking to myself that the name sounded former. Wait they are describing Maxwell the Dragon Mage.  Oh, shit that's all I was thinking the way through the town is oh shit these people are crazy. they want us to Capture of the Dragon Mage how the hell is we supposed to do that. That's all I was thinking the whole way there and went we finally got to the castle My last thought before we entered was going that we are all going to die.

This is a lot easier than I thought it seems all of that competent mages were sent to the wall and only a few of the newer mages where left to guard the castle and the citizens of the town. Not to say we were losing people the moment we entered the castle we got hit with several magical taxes that killed nearly half of the soldiers we took with us which was around 500 the other half went to the gate with around 10 mages which left us with around 20 mages lucky all of us mages were standing behind the soldiers and work hit with the attack. Just with the gore from the attack. getting hit in the face with blood and guts is not very pleasant. After using a cleaning spell to get most of it off we continue forward in countering more mages on the way we lost almost all our soldiers and about half of mages. When we finally got to the main hall we had about a dozen soldiers and five mages. The moment we stepped into the hall he shot of fireball instantly killing two of the soldiers and then he ran down the side hall. As we gave chase he was hurling fireballs at us hitting a few of the soldiers and two of the mages. We chased him down that hall until you reach a big door just as we got there the door slam shut the captain of our little group told what was left of the soldiers to break it down there were only five soldiers left. Before the soldiers could even start to break the door down one of the mages just hit it with a fireball instead of hitting the door it bounced off of it flew right back at him and blew up killing him and two soldiers who just happen to be close to him as well as blowing the rest of us down. As we all got to our feet the captain shouted out to us mages to diss arm the traps on the door it took us about an hour to disarm the traps and break the door down. Behind the door was a library cautiously we went in search for the old man he did not find them in the library but we found another door at the back of the library.  Stepping through we found what looked to be a smaller empty library with a piece of the wall Half-open. Prying it open we continued running down the narrow passageway we can only go two by two. As we finally got out of the passageway onto a ledge we looked around and saw a narrow cliffside passage with a man running down it. As we saw him one of the archers knocked an Arrow and shot it at the man hitting him in his side. As I raise my hand to throw fireball he looked back at me and I hesitated the captain shout at me to fire startling me as I threw the fireball nearly hitting him and hitting the wall beside him knocking them off the path along with some boulders. As we ran down to see where the man was still alive or not I could hear the captain ranting "shit we were supposed to keep him alive if he dies it will be all of our heads or maybe I could just blame it on the mages". As I heard that I thought 'I hope the man is alive' but my hopes were in vain as we got to the place where he fell and looked over the edge we saw a broken man with a boulder crushing him from the waist down and a pool of blood underneath him. As we were looking at the man I could hear the captain saying "shit we were supposed to capture him Alive, the boss is going to be pissed, going to have our heads for this, we should at least retrieve the man's body maybe knowing that he is die will appease him".  As the rest of us turn to him he yells out "what are you looking at me for climb down there and get him". So we begin climbing down as we get down I look over at the old man and think 'to think that such a man would die here in the middle of some Kvass'. As I lean over him I see that he's grassing a cloak in his hand so I reach out and take it. it looks to be a fine cloak with a beautiful pattern in it's middle, of a dragon coiled around an open book with an orb in the middle, as I was looking at it I can hear the captain shouting from the top of the cliff "what are you guys looking at grab him and let's get out of here" startled I let go of the cloak and the wind catches it and it blows away we grab the body and tied it up with some ropes and Haul it up The cliff and head back to camp. As we get back to camp we find that most of the town is burning apparently most of the citizens escape through another secret passageway before going they set off a explosion that set the town A light. Everyone present could see Markus standing near the gate ranting about how that bastard burned all the books and something else about an orb which I didn't hear because I was walking to the edge of the camp still thinking about how to escape these people but just before I went I saw the captain grinning and heading over to Markus.