A figure dressed in black with a mask over his face had climbed over the gates to Lord Tydor's mansion and knocked out the guards before they could so much as raise a cry.
With a swift flick of his hand his knife cut through their necks letting them slump lifelessly to the ground.
Covered in fripju lily,they could not smell him,
Even darkness of the night shielded him away from the moonlight's ray,his feet and movement lighter than the sound of the evening.
There was no teleporting inside an anti teleportation barrier of a caster stronger than he was so he had no choice but make his way there step by step, climbing pillars and running atop roofs,his knife slitting flesh as he did.
He reached the rooftop of the main building and crouched low,his eyes darkened as a black sea of mana engulfed him.
With an extended arm,palm spread out and the other balled into a fit on top the first,he muttered the forbidden words of a spell he had never casted on a large scale before,summoning three large magic circles at once,one directly above the other which
stretched across the sky above the mansion
"Heed me all who hear me!"Zero yelled out "Decompo!"
An outburst of mana erupted from the magic circle, engulfing the entire compound in a suffocating sea of dark magic as all who heard him dropped to the ground,shivering up till they became nothing but dust and their remains swept away by the evening breeze.
The spell faded and Zero dropped to his knees coughing up blood that stained the rooftop under him,while punching a balled up fist on it as he cursed himself under his breath.
His magic energy had been used up so suddenly.
He hated admitting it but he was weak,the thought gnawed at him,he despised himself for that.
With the amount of knights stationed outside he had used the spell to ensure no interference when dealing with the lord with the other person he perceived closeby being his only shred of hope—Kaphaias.
He sat on the roof top awaiting the chief knight,his eyes fixated on the moon above him.
"Come to me kaphaias,come quickly...avenge what I took from you"Zero said almost in a whisper as he smiled weakly into the dark sky."Please do...just this once"
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"A rat just broke in"Lord Tydor told the knight before him "A foolish one at that".
The lord sat in his underground chamber sipping tea with Kaphaias,an ally of his as they released their hands from their ears.
The Knight's eyes darted around,unsettled by the lingering traces of the sickening black magic that had hung earlier around them. He had never felt anything like it, and for reasons he could not fully grasp,it frightened him,weakened his knees, sending invisible ripples of shivering down his frame.
"That...that black magic—"
"Interesting...the Emperor's knight is a sorcerer!"The Lord cut in as he filled his cup,delight flashing across his features.
"To think dulling one's senses and not hearing him would work".
The Lord's words stirred up a memory within The knight,dragging him back to the night they had fought. Something had taken hold of him back then,something beyond his control had pulled in into a sea of nothingness—Death was it?
It was the same spell as back then and Lord Tydor had ordered him just in time to shut his ears,to avoid hearing the sorcerer's command.
His cultivation wasnt high enough to sense a sorcerer but now the Lord said it,it all made sense.
No ordinary Semonio could summon such tremendous amount of black magic at once.
"But he's injured"Lord Tydor added studying the knight.
"Is he really middle tier?"Kaphaias asked,his brows narrowed slightly."This spell has to do with the senses".
"He is a sorcerer middle tier who is stronger than your usual mid-tier....if anything he should be on par with you...and you were not saved just by covering your ears alone,you were also protected by your level of cultivation".
The knight swallowed the lump in his throat,the weight of those words generating a strange uneasiness within him.
"But he's nothing but an injured beast right now, waiting to be slaughtered and freed from its misery"
Kaphaias grinned widely,he was out of magic energy so there was no way he would not win.
He gobbed down the remnant of the content of his cup before getting to his feet.
"Damn that knight won't even let me enjoy tea with an old friend".
"Quickly bring me his head".The Lord grasped his cup,raising it for a sip but stopped when it was just close to his mouth.
"Naturally you would have that position to yourself but I am offering you something better,a minister's position".
Kaphaias bowed proudly,his heart soaring.
"I will not let you down"He said as he stormed off.
The gates to the Underground chamber swung shut as Kaphaias made his way upwards, following the scent of the Knight's blood.
A heavy sickening aura of death hung in the air with no trace of life in sight.
The numerous guards stationed in the building were gone,so were his servants.
Kaphaias swung the door to the main building open to stare into the emptiness before him,the whistling sound of wind drowning the eerie silence around him.
Everything,every life in the compound had disappeared by just one command.
"Who really are you?"He muttered to himself before summoning a magic circle.
The currents of air gathered around him,lifting him upward,to the rooftop where Zero sat with a flexed knee,his straight dark hair fluttering in the wind.
The Emperor's Knight turned towards him with a dark smirk tugging at his lip.
"Who am I?"he scoffed,"Have you not come to find out?".