Caelum wondered around the wasteland of abyssia searching for a new place to stay. He was very careful not to attract any of the luminaran or nyxaran as he tread the rocky path carefully away from the main battlefield.
He could hear the sound obviously. Sound of cries, weapons, magic , terrain blasting. Soldiers on frontline is of no concern to Caelum, as they would far too busy with their usual affair to even notice him.
He just have to be careful with groups of scouts and scavengers he could encounter . Soldier is not the only units that roam around abyssia after all. There was scouts that tries to explore and map the area for futhur tactical advantage and the scavenger usually roam around for usual items in caves and ruins.
The worst unit he could run through though is trainees. Trainees is group of academy students that will roam around for multiple reason. From discussing tactics to learning the geography of the terrains. Caelum has no idea of the students schedules as the age of the student would be varied every time he encountered then. Jist thinking about it making caelum grunt in disgust.
'Bringing young folks into battlefield. They are insane'
Facing students is not the problem here as he could subdue them in a minute, but the problem is their professors. If he saw one, the only odd of escaping unscathed is running away.
Caelum scan through the wasteland of abyssia. No soul on sight.
'Good'
This place was still a mystery for everyone. No one know how abyssia turns out to be like this with only 2 major cities still standing on completely opposite side of the planet. The only record there was on both of the cities are a catostrophic event that occurred before this war started 500 years ago. No other details can be found, confirmed by both of his parents and they suspect this record might be from the peoples who built both cities.
There was no ruin or cave to be seen on sight to even take a breather make Caelum groan. The situation is even worst with his burnt skin that slowly closing in.
Caelum cant afford to stop here unless he can fight another few scavenger which he would like to avoid at all cost specially after the battle he just went through.
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There was just silence in the cave from the moment caelum left. Both Lucielle and varithra both sits far from one and another while leaning on the rocky wall of the cave.
None of them speaks as they just waited to heal their wound on its own. They cant die when wounded by one of their own blessing but it could take some time to heal, atleast for a nyxaran as luminara has another blessing - vitaveawing - from the god solmara, which allow wielder to heal wound.
But now though, both of them was in the same situation specially Lucielle with the absence of vitaveawer around her. Lucielle slowly stand up which make varithra flinch and she do the same.
Both of their wound almost healed, they just lose track of the time while sitting around silently as rushing out into battlefield with the wound could be stupid and fatal.
Both slowly walk toward each other without much of a talk and stop few paces between them. They just stared at each other for awhile as they both knew what's coming next.
"The second horn hasn't sounded yet" Lucielle break the silence.
"Yea" varithra replied nonchalantly as she knew what that means.
There was just a moment of silence before Lucielle lunged toward varithra. She outstretched her arm to summon the glowing sword from aetherforging. Varithra wasn't standing still either she conjure black flame in both of her hand and started tossing toward the rushing Lucielle .
Lucielle dodge the first two pretty easily and parried the next two with her sword while slowly advancing toward varithra.
On the other hand varithra didn't stop her relentless assault while slowly backing away to maintain some space between them. Just when this method doesn't seems to be working as lucille successfully pushing forward than varithra's retreat, Varithra swips her hand upward that send a vertical line of flame that follow Lucille.
Lucielle who just parried the last fireball , rolled to her left and start running while the flame still chasing her. Just when she got enough space between her and the flame, Lucille stopped and stab her sword on ground and dragged it across the rocky ground facing the direction the flame is chasing. A blinding light spilled out and the moment the flame hits it, its advancement has stopped and doesn't chase after lucielle while the burning trail still lingers behind as a reminder of how far the flame chased her.
Lucielle dispelled her sword, straighten her back and continue running toward varithra with a smirk and summoned the sword once again ready for the final strike.
Varithra cursed but remind calm, she knew running is not the option now so she fusses both her hand and to merge the flame into a even bigger one on a single hand and clenched her hand in fist and took on a run but toward lucielle this time.
Lucielle bring her sword overhead for an downward cut while varithra brings her hand lower aiming for lucielle abdomen. Both of them has reached to a melle range and swung their sword and fist respectively . Before the hit could connects -
WOOOOOO
Both of their strike stopped. Lucielle's sword was on varithra's shoulder while varithra raging fire was inch away from lucielle's abdomen.
The second horn of the day has sounded indicating the end of the war for the day and no one should have the right to take a life after that or they will face severe consequences for their action.
Lucielle's sword dissolved while varithra's fkame extinguished. Both of them look at each other coldly.
"Lucky" muttered Lucielle.
"You are not any better"
Both of then reached the mouth of the cave leading outside without a single word and when they reach outside, both turn to their back and walk away to their warcamps without a single glance at each other.