"Stop, liodas! Are you out of your mind?!" I shouted, as I drew Clarent from my hips. "You don't have to do this, liodas! You don't have to kill this soldier! And I don't want to hurt you, liodas!"
"Let ask one thing, Arthur. Do you know how these knights operate inside the shadows? Have you seen harassed teenage girls before they sleep? Did you watch those innocent people get killed by their own hands and bla the monsters for it? You've only seen one side of the coin, Arthur. These sa people who vowed to protect the city killed my uncle's son. I wasn't there either until I saw his saddened face," liodas exclaid.
I did not know what liodas was talking about. So rumours spread around Magique about corrupted knights and their unwanted behaviours. But I did not expect that the stories liodas narrated happen in this tiline.
It was as if the people working for justice were just wolves in sheep's clothing.
"Why are you telling this, liodas?" I asked.
"Because I want you to understand. That's how it is," liodas answered, and conjured a magic circle before . "Move, Arthur. I don't want to hurt you either."
(Author's note: That dialogue ca from Spider-Man: Hocoming)
"I can't let you kill innocent people too, liodas... So knights are not as bad as you think they could be. This knight has a family, liodas. If you walk down that road, then you'd beco like them."
"Move."
After our exchange, liodas released a powerful surge of arcane from his harp. As he strumd the strings of his musical instrunt, liodas activated so spell that was new for my eyes.
I called forth my system and requested a brief analysis of the spell before . Within a few seconds, my system reacted and sent windows about the ability's description.
"So, you can deal so damage too."
Much to my surprise, the quiet bard had overpowered spells I had never seen before. Besides his manipulation skills, liodas could even summon this magic of so sort hidden inside of him. It was an ability that produced shockwaves enough to kill an average adventurer. I could even compare it to Rain's strongest spells when we were still training in the field.
(Author's Note: Rain, Afenos or Mordred's sister)
Fortunately, my Clarent's ability kicked in. My sword granted so of my abilities every ti I planned on using them for good. This occurrence was one of those tis, which allowed to use my main account's power. That strength was not even half of my original prowess, but it was enough to protect from this blast.
As luck would have it, that blast did not affect the ones asleep on the ground. It only hit those who were immune from the manipulation spell liodas used. Even Fisher got hit by that blast, forcing him to tumble backwards.
Thanks to his trendous strength and armour, Fisher did not die from that tune. But that soldier received wounds covering his bare skin that the armour couldn't protect. Well, at least he had so protection from that silver uniform.
Fisher could have received sothing worse, but that did not happen.
"liodas, I don't want to fight you. And I thought we talked about this earlier!. Please stop this fight! Spare this man. We can talk about this sowhere else! So innocent children could get hurt!" I shouted, hoping that it could reach his ears.
liodas was a good man with a brave heart. However, his vengeance drove him to this corner. I never had soone close to die at the hands of anyone. So I could not relate to his story.
But despite that gap, I knew one thing. If liodas planned on killing Fisher, his children would co and avenge him.
"Vengeance has consud you, and it will consu those children! It's a never-ending cycle of hate if you kill that man," I exclaid once again.
liodas opened his mouth and tried saying sothing. However, his hands moved faster than the words escaping his mouth. As soon as he strumd those strings, another wave of the blast ca from his harp.
I stood my ground and blocked all those sound waves coming from the musical instrunt. Thanks to my Clarent's ability and my passive skill, I lessen the damage from those blasts.
However, the sa never happened with Fisher. He did not have my Clarent's ability, a system, or even passive abilities that helped him survive those blasts. A pool of blood even ca from his nostrils and ears as Fisher desperately tried to cover his eardrums. But his efforts did not bear fruit, since liodas' spells were too much for him to handle.
"liodas, stop it already! I really don't want to hurt you!" I scread.
Upon saying those words, a beam of light blinded liodas' eyes. It forced him to close his sockets. Since that light might have temporarily ruined his eyesight, liodas needed so ti to recover himself. It also ant liodas ceased radiating those blasts from his harp since he couldn't play his instrunt.
"Where the.?" I asked, and followed the light's origin.
As I glanced at my side, rleen greeted my sight. She had her arms extended forward, with a magic circle covering her palm. That beam of light ca from rleen, since she was the only one who could conjure that spell.
I rushed towards rleen and inspected her body and ears. As I had expected, the blast injured her ears, which were also revealed on my system's screen. The window described rleen as temporarily deaf for a few hours until it returned to normal.
"Are you alright, rleen? Do you feel anything? D-Do you need anything?" I asked.
rleen just stared at my face and flashed a smile. It took a few seconds before realising that rleen heard nothing about what I had said. Since she took a direct hit from the blast, those wound waves disrupted her eardrums. rleen was also a mage, which ant she would receive the entire attack from those sound waves.
I did not know how Science works in this world, but that spell nearly broke her ears. Fortunately, liodas did not turn that blast into a maximum. If he did, it could have killed both rleen and Fisher instantly.
After a few seconds, liodas also regained his eyesight back and glared in my direction. However, liodas t my eyes, leering back at him.
"Arthur, I-," liodas said, as he crept towards .
I caressed rleen's hair and rested her head on the soft soil, together with so rose growing with the grass. As soon as I finished my business, I returned my gaze to liodas and faced him.
"Oh, it's on now!" I shouted, and drew my sword tighter in my hands.
Since my motives changed into sothing sinister like vengeance, Clarent reduced my power. But sothing inside of relished that missing feeling. I did not know what was that, about but it ca from inside of .
Instead of my Clarent's ability, a spell of so sort wrapped around my hands and empowered my entire body. The power had an inkling feeling of darkness covering my head. I couldn't see anything but lashing out my mixed emotions clouding my brain.
I could think straight, but my emotions stole the wheel from . My body moved on its own, wishing to spar against liodas and eventually teaching him a lesson.
My obsidian spell trapped the two of us like a turtle's shell. Since I made the barrier with dark magic, nothing could penetrate it but an obsidian arcane.
"You. have dark magic?" liodas asked, as he readied his harp.
"Yes. But I use them for good. And I learned them by myself!" I answered, while gritting my teeth.
"That shouldn't be possible! Only demons could learn the art of dark sorceries!"
"I am no demon. But I learned it from my knowledge."
I did not lie to liodas, since I learned obsidian magic using my own understanding. And since I was a player in this ga, I knew more than these people experience in this world.
"Then it's just more reasons to fight you, Arthur. I will squeeze that information from you and use it against demons. Maybe you're even a demon disguised as a human!" liodas claid, and strumd the harp's strings.
However, the sound waves did not penetrate my dark magic. As soon as I went towards his front, I used the poml of my sword and struck it against liodas' hands.
I did not break his hands, considering that it was his trademark as a bard. But I made sure those fingers would need so recovery ti before liodas could use them soon.
"You hurt rleen. I hate to do this, but I can't let you do what you want. You hurt soone dear to , liodas. I won't kill you. Don't worry. As soon as you wake up, we will talk inside the chief's lounge."
After saying those words, I finally ended the fight against liodas.
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