Chapter 107 - The Great Escape

– Aaris - PoV –

'No! It can't be! You're lying! Melvi what's going on?' I couldn't believe my eyes, I was struggling in that crystal bind, the weight was crushing me down, but the pain was nothing compared to what lay in front of my eyes!

'Melvi tell me! What's going on!' I screamed my lungs out, and the captain was looking at Melvin in disdain, 

While Zia and Styrmir both had expressions similar to mine, eyes widened in disbelief, 

'Melvi!!'

"Shut up!" Melvi shouted with her every breath, "just shut up and die! I have no connection to you whatsoever, I had enough of playing friends since the beginning! All of you were foolish to believe in me!" Melvi looked at me, she had a wide grin on her face but she was clutching her hands with the other.

"Wow! I like your spirit, little girl! Who knew that little chick who flew from the cage will come back becoming a hawk, but alas, you still know the fear!" Diesswrin glared at Melvi and she flinched, 

"Now! Let's end this-" Diesswrin paused and then looked at me, 

"I have another good idea!" He raised his cane and pushed me down from the ceiling, stuck in that crystal ore and crashing to the ground, it almost felt like being crushed my meteorite, 

My body went numb because of excessive pain, I don't know how much of my bones are broken,  my vision was going off, 

"Rise!" All of them screamed at me, how can they worry about me in this situation, 

"Damn it! Melvi! end this now! Or else-" Captain was evading that woman explosion attacks, 

"Or else what captain? You brought this in yourself, you chose the wrong person for the wrong mission!" Melvi turned to her and screamed, 

"Hahaha! What a spirit! Now…"

[ CRYSTALLIS PARASITE ]

Diesswrin giggled and a crystal slave collar froze on Melvi's neck, 

"Now, Melvi, either you kill him or you die, and if you win noy after you kill her you will die by my hands if you lose you will die, I didn't constrain you,  don't worry I don't know if you could survive my mana dissipation on you anymore, now fight!" Diesswrin shouted and Melvi pulled out her wand, with a blank face…

"Thanks for everything, Rise…" 

[ MAGIA TALISMAN SCRIPTURE ]

Her wand tip started glowing and she wrote something in the mid-air, a magia circle appeared around that script and it turned into a talisman, 

[ FREEZE ]

She fired that talisman to me and it froze creating a huge ice block around me, then she pulled out her dagger and slowly trudged at me, 

"Don't struggle Rise, I will end this as painlessly I can so don't bother, you won't get out of here alive, I am sorry for deceiving you, but it is not completely my fault, you all were just stupid enough not to notice."

'Melvi, stop!' My body! Every inch of my body has gone numb, damn it, my body is going to slip into a reserve state, I can't keep my eyes open!

***

In a deep fix, the team had fallen in the ocean of fire with no road around to go back, Diesswrin was enjoying the scene with a glimmering smile, while his guards, beating them around like a toy.

"How did it come to this, I never expected to be in such a situation, I was lenient damn it!" Historia's body is in tatters, red and blue spots covering her whole body, she took a massive explosion to herself to protect Styrmir.

"This bitch! She is certainly a mage on par with me and all this damage gave her a huge upper hand, nothing can be done in such a situation, even if defeat them all there is Diesswrin, he would finish us off with zero effort if wants to, fuck this!

Fuck this all!" Historia clapped, 

"If it's come to this, let's play even now!" Historia clapped, 

[ MIRROR LIBRARIA ] 

[ GRIMOIRE - HOLLOW VOID MAGIA ]

[ ENHANCE WRAP! ]

A magia circle appeared in front of her, it looked like a bookstand, with a book came out of it and pages fluttering on their own, 

"Well now, let's get out of here!" Historia pointed both of her arms differently at Styrmir and Zia, 

"You guys go ahead!" And a spatial void appeared below them and they fell and disappeared.

"Interesting, how did you do that?" Clove That tall woman that was with Melvi spoke, 

"I remember putting mana blocking on the land, but you broke it, you might die you know." As soon as Clove finished, Historia threw up blood and fell on her knees.

"Captain!" Aaris tried to speak but the wounds and the injuries took a heavy toll on him, this time his wounds weren't healing, slowly his consciousness was fading away.

"What the hell! That woman is strong, I want her now." Diesswrin raised his hand aiming at Historia but then a knight came running at him, 

"My grace! We have a problem!" 

"Just when the fun part started! What happened!" Diesswein sighed, 

"The Dwarf Duke! He is- he is on the border with his troops!" The knight shouted and Diesswrin's expression changed to burning rage.

"I don't have time to waste on those maggots! Prepare carriage-, don't bother, I'll head there by myself!" Diesswrin lowered his hand and went inside the mansion, "You all, catch them before I return!" 

"Guess, luck with us, now what should I do with you?" Historia was staggering with feet and Clove walked up to her, and the guy Jeremy who was fighting Styrmir and the girl fighting with Historia earlier surrounded her, 

"Luck? Do you call this luck? If anything like luck you have it would be just a death here, if only I fought her instead of Rasta we would've ended this a long time before!" Jeremy walked to her cracking her knuckles, 

"Say that again you muscle head!" Bria, that explosive magia user girl, frowned at Jeremy.

"Aren't you getting cocky!" Historia smirked and clapped her hands again, 

"Since he is gone, guess I can pull this off now!"

[ GRIMOIRE - LAW OF ANUKOL ]

[ LAW OF TRENCH ]

"What the-" Jeremy, Bria, and Clove jumped in the air, suddenly the ground split in half and started folding like paper and creating a trench in between.

"She is no novice, the law of trench is a high-order advanced spell, which works a layer below of present dimension creating a drift swallowing mana against will, try not to fall into that or you'll be drained to death, Melvi come here!" Clove shouted and Melvi leaped, stepping down on rumbles falling down.

"Historia grabbed Aaris, she looked at him and bit her lips, she couldn't bear looking at him like this, no matter how tough she acted, she never wanted them to go through such pain.

She hugged Aaris tightly and whispered in his ears, "you did well,l now sleep!" And casted anesthetic spell, and Aaris' consciousness finally started fading.

"Melvi, I will save…" Aaris tried to scream but he passed out due to the spell, his voice reached Melvi and she tried to look on his way, but didn't. 

"She is going down in the trench? Why?" Clove reached her hand out for Melvi and Jeremy chuckled, they were standing on a floating piece of land with Clove magic.

"Why, you ask? Of course for an easy death!" Jeremy laughed out loud, 

"No! She isn't such a fool, Bria throws your strongest explosive spell and makes sure it blasts before hitting the bottom, or else it would dispel!" Clove glared at Historia clenching her teeth.

"If you say so, 

[ HELLFIRE DROPLET ]" 

Bria chanted and a small fireball appeared on her palm, it was the size of a marble, Jeremey looked at it and began laughing more loudly…

"This is the strongest spell! Oh my God!" Jeremy was laughing and Bria sighed and twisted her arm dropping the marble in the trench, 

[ RELEASE YOUR AGONY ]

Bria uttered and that marble shone bright like the sun, Jeremy and others closed their eyes from the flash, and then a huge blast shook even the air, 

"Clove, make sure the explosion is controlled!" Bria said her voice was stuttering with the tremors, 

"On it!"

[ BLACK SHELL! ]

Clove chanted and a huge black sphere appeared around that trench and the whole explosion was induced in it.

Even though the sphere was covering the blast its tremor was shaking the earth.

"Fucking hell! How did this shrimp do that!" Jeremy was stunned and looked at Bria and she had a proud smug on her face.

Clove dissolved that sphere and the trench became visible, Diesswrin both buildings took great damage and that trench and ground around it turned into boiling magma.

"Man! It would be a lot of work! It would be a miracle if they had survived that!" Bria sighed.

Meanwhile on an unknown plain, 

"Aaris no! Don't you dare die on me!"