ALL NOVEL Chapter 60: Chapter 60 : Getting The Job Done
Using his sword as a support staff, Elias staggered to his feet, he walked over to Carius' motionless body and poked it with his feet to see if he was truly passed out, Carius remained unmoving, so that made Elias heave a sigh of relief.
Elias looked toward the heavens, he stood in the open field of the arena, his eyes turned skyward, a deep weariness etched into his face. Dark circles framed his tired half opened eyes, and his shoulders dropped.
The sky had turned a turbulent canvas of gray and black, it seemed to mirror his fatigue. On3 by one, raindrops began to fall, one landing on his cheek and mingling with the sweat and dirt of a long battle.
He closed his eyes for a moment, letting the cool drops wash away some of his exhaustion, if only for a fleeting second. With a sigh, he opened his eyes again, the tired expression on his face unchanging.
"Elias! Chosen one!" Priest Mathias called out to him, he had been spectating the aerial battle from the arena's field
Elias turned to him, "Priest Mathias?" He said, slightly surprised to see him
"Come here, you must be tired after your long battle, take this," He said, pulling off his Priest's robe and handing it over to Elias.
Elias waved it away, politely rejecting the gesture, "You should get some soldiers to come take him, tell them to be careful. He is very dangerous…" He said, limping towards the arena's exit.
As he was about to leave, when King Alaric, along with queen Seraphina, the High-luminary, Margo and the acolytes met him in the hallway leading to the arena's battlefield.
Queen Seraphina wasted no time in running to hug Elias, "Elias! I thought you were going to die!" She exclaimed, her voice overflowing with joy.
She had already hugged him tightly before realizing what she had just done. She immediately pushed away from him, her face red as the evening sun.
As out of place as her action was, nobody paid much attention to it, except Lord Thane of course who had a clearly jealous expression on his face.Instead they all focused on the Chosen child of light that stood before them, the pseudo dragon slayer.
Nigel and Dickson immediately fell to their knees, "The chosen child of light is safe and fine," They said, their voice trembling and teetering on the brink of tears
"Nigel? Dickson? You're all back," He said, dragging his words tiredly
"Yes, we are. We missed you so much, you ask Anias," Nigel said Original content from M-VL-em|p,yr
Anias flinched, and averted his gaze as Elias' eyes found its way to him, "I see," Elias said
"So that's him?" Margo said, raising a brow, "He's quite good looking,"
Elias eyes finally rested on the two most important figures around; King Alaric and the High-luminary and the first thought that came to his mind was:
'Fuck, I need to sleep,'
Suddenly Elias' ear picked up a sound, maybe it was due to constant usage of [Perception] but he could hear a sound that sounded like someone trying to speak while holding water in their mouth.
He turned around and he saw Priest Mathias coming toward him, 'From him? No' he thought
He peeked past Priest Mathias' shoulder and saw the horrific sight of Carius dragging himself across the ground, his mouth overflowing with Saliva and foam as he crawled.
At this point, everyone could hear him audibly now, they all looked upon him with different expressions. Some felt pity, some felt sadness, some felt anger, some felt fear while some felt nothing at all.
Priest Mathias stretched his hands at him, his fingertips glowing with red hot energy as he prepared to finish him off.
"Wait!" Elias commanded, "He can't do anything, he's clear in the latter stages of mana exhaustion, any little forceful spell he uses would be the end of him. Besides, I think he's trying to say something," He said and he walked over to Carius and squatted down
He placed his ear near Carius' frothing mouth to better hear his words, after moments of listening, Elias could make out some words,
"K…Kill…them…lungs…kill them all!" Carius struggled to speak
Elias' eyes grew wide as he realized what Carius was about to do. He planned to use the crystals in the system of the people that were in the King's canopy to kill them.
Elias had a split second decision to make, he could either find a way to instantly move Carius out of range, that would be possible with a teleportation ring.
But the time it would take him to purchase the teleportation ring would be enough for Carius to cause enough damage, so teleportation was out of the question, that left him with a second option;
Stop Carius from using his spell, and there was only one way to do that…. by killing him!
Easy? Maybe for a seasoned warrior, but Elias had never killed someone before, even the attempt on his own life failed. He had declared that he would kill Carius earlier, but that was in a fit of rage. How could he end another's life?!
But there was a third option; he could just let Carius kill them all, after all, he had tried his best to stop Carius and was truly tired.
Time was running out, and Elias had to make a choice. Elias' gaze suddenly hardened, he had made his choice.
Sooner or later in his journey, there would inevitably come a time where he would have to take someone's life.
Why not start now? It wasn't as if Carius didn't deserve to die.
With a lightning fast move, Elias put his hand over Carius' mouth, Carius felt Elias hand heat up and the next he felt was the familiar feeling of his flesh burning away.
"Fireball," Elias whispered
In an instant, Carius' head was blown away, bits and pieces of it flew around in every direction, and soon enough, his entire body became as still as a leaf resting on a calm pond.
Everyone watched in shock as Elias did what he did. He stood up, with a limp on his stride, he walked toward the exit, everyone in his way parted as he approached, and no one could say a word.
After walking a few feet away from them, Elias stopped in his tracks, keeled over and retched, before he completely blacked out.
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