Success and failure

Jacob kept laughing crazily and everyone was amazed by this insane attitude. Quickly, sindar stepped in front of jacob and said:

"As much as I would like to see you fight in this form, unfortunately the fight is already over. Raphael has important matters to take care of now."

Jacob ignored all of sindar's words and started walking toward Raphael, but just as he was about to take his second step, sindar got in front of him again and said:

"No! You can have your revenge later, but now we have important decisions to make."

Jacob looked coldly at sindar and then looked at the glowing sword in raphael's hand and broke out in fits of laughter again.

The entire hall was silent as they listened to jacob's mad laughter.

After a while, jacob slowly subsided his laughter, looked coldly at Raphael and the others who might try to stop him and said to freki:

"Take care of the others until I finish what I came to do in this kingdom!" Suddenly, a huge black wolf began to emerge from Jacob's shadow. Everyone looked surprised at freki and her size, but she looked fiercely at everyone and roared.

If before people were already shocked, now they were even more shocked. Soon a commotion began and several elves began to flee in fear of death.

Seeing that a possible battle could start, Lagertha stood up ready to fight at any moment and said coldly to Jacob:

"We welcome you into our kingdom as an honored guest and friend. Are you really willing to throw everything away because of a defeat?"

Suddenly Jacob felt a strange feeling in his heart, it was a feeling as if he was betraying an important friend. He gritted his teeth to forget that feeling and looked at the sword in Raphael's hand and said:

"Give me the sword."

"No, the sword belongs to the chosen one and we will do everything to keep it from falling into the wrong hands, and before you try anything, know that between the two of you, the hero is the most important!" After lagertha said that, ten armed soldiers entered in front of Jacob, to prevent a possible attack.

Sindar increased his guard to stop Jacob in case he decided to attack, and Rodric just stood there not knowing which side to choose. At the same time the heroes materialized their weapons and Astrid, Emma and rose entered in front of Raphael to defend him.

"Again..." Jacob whispered those words in a sad tone, words that some people could hear.

Already decided which side would fight: Ysabel, zed and the rest of the elves, went to Raphael and entered in front of him to defend him. Now they were all against Jacob and Rodric said worried about Jacob:

"You are fatally wounded, if you don't take care of it, you may end up dying soon."

"Ah, you're on which side? Friend..."

"Hm, Varda had told me about this prophecy thousands of years ago, but I thought it was a lie... Do you remember our first meeting? You had told me that I would find a disciple, and thanks to you I managed to find him, so as master, I cannot allow it to continue."

Jacob just nodded, he understood why Rodric was on the other side, but it still left a bad taste in his mouth. Jacob felt like someone who was wronged, but he was never one to complain even with all the problems in his life, he just held his head up and kept moving forward.

Before, Jacob was on a lot of adrenaline, ready to kill and die at any moment, but now... He felt a strange feeling, but it was a feeling he knew very well, it was the feeling of failure.

'When I came to this world, My plan was to kill Anna with the anti-magic dagger and take her curse, The curse of immortality. In this time I wanted to make some friends and companions and maybe find a nice girl, But again I failed... At first, I longed for the power of immortality to survive the dangers of this world, but as time passed, I lost the desire for life.... I lost the strength.

Grace listened to all those words thanks to her ability and widened her eyes in shock, she tried to say something, but could not formulate any words.

Jacob's body was beginning to revert to normal form and he turned and began to walk out of the hall. Freki was angry inside, why she wanted to kill and devour them all, but since her master had backed down, she would back down too.

"You are still welcome here and I hope you know that we are not your enemies, Jacob voss!" Sindar shouted for Jacob to listen, but he did not respond and kept walking.

Jacob was not angry with them, he was just upset with himself after failing. Even though he knew he was already a curse from the beginning, he still had hopes that things would work out and maybe he would get his happy ending. But now with his death being near and all these changes in his behavior, it made him realize that men like him, cannot be happy.

Suddenly Grace started to run after Jacob and everyone watched her surprised, after all, why on earth would a heroine run after the person who was thinking of killing everyone?

Astrid looked at Grace running and shouted:

"What are you doing?! Get back now!"

Not even caring about the orders, Grace kept running to Jacob, because just like everyone else, she had already chosen her side...

Raphael watched in surprise at everything that was happening, he never imagined that everyone would be willing to protect him. It was an unusual feeling to him, because Raphael had always depended on himself for everything, but now seeing that he had people he could trust and share the burdens with, made him feel welcomed and important.

But he looked worried and guilty at Jacob, after all, he knew he should have lost if not for that valuable teaching from him. Then Raphael looked at the sword gleaming in his hand and wondered:

'Why did he want this sword? Anyway, I'll try to talk to him later...'

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Author's note:

Some wanted Jacob to kill Anna, Raphael and other Characters, but think I need to write a story and discarding enemies at the beginning, may end up leaving an empty space in the future about rivalries or arch-enemies. After all, rivalries start at the beginning... Ever wonder what would happen if they killed off the Joker at the beginning? Batman would simply miss out on a fantastic development.

To the elves, the chosen one of prophecy or the hero of prophecy, has the same weight that Jesus has for us, so it is easy to measure the value that Raphael has for the elves.

As much as he did not fear death, Jacob decided not to attack. Even if he won by some miracle and managed to get the sword and then immortality, he saw that it would make no difference at all to him. Jacob finally understood that even if he had all the power in the world and became a god, he would still remain empty and think only of death.

Jacob's greatest wish was exactly the same as an ordinary person's: to have friends he could trust, companions he could give his life for, a woman he loved, and vice versa. His wish in this world was simply to be happy, but because of the actions of others and the misunderstandings in the human realm or now in the elven realm, he realized that the one who deserves to be happy is not him but Raphael, because he was the protagonist of the story. But Jacob was someone who was ambitious, so even if he knew he would fail, he would keep going after power and if he is lucky, he would find his happiness.

"Ambition is the last resort of the loser."

"Success makes people modest, friendly, and tolerant; it is failure that makes them intelligent and ambitious."

Detail: Jacob is not going to be a hero or anything like that, he will continue to be someone ambitious and mainly he will become someone without limits, a person who bets high on risky bets.