Mission conclusion
Julian POV :
Getting your vision and hearing blocked is not a pleasant experience . Although I trained blocking my vision but in a time where lives are at stake is dangerous . Seeing the situation Magna was most probably under that woman's magic too.
Vanessa and Magna enveloped me in a hug . " You came at the right time … we were in a pinch ." said Magna .
" Big sister would rewards you after we are gone with this ." said Vanessa
"Sure -sure but lets deal with them first . " I said .
We regrouped and restrained them with restraining magic .
" There are two mages missing . The total mages I counted was 20 but there are only 18 here ." I said
" There must have been a spatial mage among them " said Magna .
" I hope they don't call for reinforcements " said Vanessa
We approached the villagers while casted Phoenix robe on both of them .Though the machines stopped absorbing mana, the villagers were still half dazed state. We checked the condition of the ones who were lying around. Most of them were unconscious but some of them died. Both of my teammates didn't react much as they had seen death before .Fate was really cruel to them. I don't if those machines only absorbed mana or not but I hope they can regenerate the mana absorbed. They already have less mana and loosing that too would be too devastating .
We escorted them outside the cave ,after that we started taking out the machines we found .
We were half way through when the woman regained consciousness. " No no no no this can't be happening , lord trusted me with this mission . YOU MADE ME FAIL !! . I WILL KILL YOU ALL !!! " she shouted while her covered eye got brighter and brighter with mana gathering in that place.
I had a bad feeling about this . "Get near me as soon as possible " I shouted while moving back . All villagers were escorted outside so the cave was empty , I deployed the complete form of 'blazing shield' creating a dome around us . Her eye shined with a light illuminating the cave and her body exploded releasing shockwave sliding us few meters back .
The explosion killed all the men along with the woman splattering body parts all around . My shield blocked all the shockwave making us unharmed .Seeing the body parts splattered all over made me a little nauseous .
No matter where I go ,life is fragile ,one moment its there the other moment its gone .
" Thank God we have you Julian , we could have been fatally injured by this " said Vanessa .
" Phew ! that was dangerous ! " exclaimed Magna . The power behind the explosion was enough to turn us not so different from the dead people laying there. The explosion destroyed all of the machines in the cave releasing a lot of mana into the surrounding .I was relieved that this place is away from mana beasts or else hundreds of them would have rushed here to feed on the mana .
The woman who committed suicide most probably was thoroughly brainwashed , that eye was a bomb used to prevent information from leaking I thought . We ran out of the cave before it collapsed as the walls were destroyed by the explosion . As soon as we came out the cave collapsed
The loud noise of explosion managed to unfazed many villagers who began panicking .
We controlled the panicked and the villagers were all escorted to their homes .
Still the village was under an illusion from outside so we search the entire village and found an artifact which was producing the illusion . We took it for further investigation .
We stayed the night helping the villagers and began our return journey next morning after some magic knights came to take the machines and investigate the collapsed cave more . We slept in the forest during the night with taking turns while guarding . Vanessa's magic created a comfortable place to sleep .
" I wonder what information they knew for them to give away their life rather than fall in enemy hands " said Vanessa while flying
" Either they were brainwashed or their devotion for the so called ' lord ' was so high that they would give away their life . " I said
"A weird cult emerged out of nowhere. I hope the higher ups take this matter seriously " she said with Magna agreeing with her.
We returned to the base in the morning of third day and wrote our report together after cleaning ourselves . Like this my first major mission came to an end .
Yami took out his communicated and contacted with someone .
" Yo mushroom head its your favorite captain . I have a report that needs to be discussed with Julius " .
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:: Some where in an abandoned temple ::
A golden haired man was standing near a stone monument . On the monument a pattern was carved with small holes at various places.
A portal opened near the man and two people dropped out of it .
" Seems like you failed " the man said
" Forgive me lord the Black Bulls interfered ." said one of them with shaking voice while describing the people who entered their site of operation .While the other one didn't dare look into the man's eyes .
" We would take any punishment you give "
The man in question smiled and said " I forgive you , its nature of humans to make mistake after all. Humans cannot be perfect ….
Ensure that this never happens again "
"Yes my lord " both of them said jointly before teleporting away .
The man moved closure to the stone and muttered " So the four leaf boy is already interfering in our mission. To be able to attack when senses are blocked ..seems like Yami has trained him well ."
He took out a stone from his pocket and placed on a hole in the monument . As soon as he did that he could feel that the mana inside him became more denser .
" The time is approaching …..we will have our revenge soon " .