The Prince Of Magic

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With no hesitation, Hadrian charged forward and pointed the Silver Trident in his right hand at the creature.

'Code Cast: Bomb...!' He chanted in his mind.

*BOOM*

*SCREEECH*

The spell landed right on the spawn's spider-like face, causing the creature to be blown away from Arash, who was still unconscious and bleeding on the ground.

Hadrian went on the move to grab the servant, but only managed to take a few steps before something hit him in his midsection. He felt the shards of tree crystals dug into skin as he crashed into them before the momentum of the attack stopped and he dropped to the ground into a helpless heap.

His spectacles flew away from his face, exposing his n.a.k.e.d eyes to his surroundings.

Almost immediately after, an excruciating headache came down on his head, nearly knocking him out. The images his mystic eyes kept sending him was too much for his brain to process all at once, forcing him take deep breaths and blinked through the overloaded sensations.

Even though beads of sweat fell down his face and his face was set into a grimace, he did his best to endure and powered through the pain.

"Urgh…" He grunted, slowly and painfully shifted his gaze upwards to see what attacked him.

It was one of the spawns, much to his chagrined. It was black all over, but a bit bigger and taller in form than the one he blew away.

Hadrian had difficulty to see the damn thing since the area was too dark, and the only lighting was the crimson glow that came from deep within the island, reflecting off the crystal trees. His magical sense had also been kind off, no thanks to the Spider's magical energy mixed into the mist.

The thing growled at him, as if displeased that he was still alive before it ran towards him with the intent to kill.

Hadrian tried to get up, but his body worked against him as his nerves seemed to be paralyzed, failing to respond in kind whenever he pushed himself off of the ground.

'Damn this body…' He cursed in his mind.

His soul might have retained the divine essence of the Lucis Caelum bloodline, but his body had yet to adjust. It was why he trained himself beyond the limit, but obviously, it was not enough for him to endure a direct hit from a powerful foe.

Never mind it being a spawn of an Ultimate One. Then again, there might other things in play as to why his physical resistance wasn't working as it should be.

Heedless of his assumptions, it was not the time for him to muse.

The few times he tried to get up, the spawn was already three feet away from him.

But, Hadrian didn't expect to be saved by his familiar though.

His little white fluffy familiar, Fou, ran and stood in front of him. She was on all fours, and he can tell that she was currently aggressive due to the way her fluffy tail was raised up.

"Fou! Fou! Grrr!" Fou barked at the spawn.

The sight would have looked comical, seeing as there was a little squirrel-like creature barking bravely at an alien spawn that could kill the former with just one stab of its leg.

To his astonishment however, the spawn flinched backwards at her sudden appearance, screeching in a way that seemed as if it was scared of her.

The emotions in its screeches was obvious. The way it coward back even as it tried to go move forward, the high pitch in its screeches that was never there before.

The bloodl.u.s.t he felt from it earlier didn't seemed to be as prominent as it was before, which caused him to wonder why it was reacting that way to his familiar.

The spawn raised two of its legs and tried to take a step forward, but Fou had beaten it by barking continuously at it, growling all the while as she forced the former to back off.

Hadrian didn't even noticed that he had sat up, watching with a dubious expression as the cute and tiny familiar made a spawn of an Ultimate One retreat back deep into the crystal forest.

He was curious as to why that was, but something else caught his attention. He can feel it in the air as he shifted his gaze upwards.

'What the hell…?'

He had no clear words to describe the feeling, but there was something in the air that sending signals towards the spawns.

It was almost as if… something was calling them to return to where they had been before the island was intruded.

He can't hear the signals as there was no sound for him to notice, but there was some sort of buzzing in the air that can only be sensed via magic sense.

*THUD* *THUD* *THUD*

*THUD* *THUD* *THUD*

*THUD* *THUD* *THUD*

The continuous sounds of something hitting the ground made him frown, causing him to turn away from his musing to the left where he noticed movement.

Hadrian leaned back in surprise when he saw a small horde of spawns was running in his direction.

He was about to pick up his familiar and run, but he was, once again, treated to another sight.

The small horde of spawns split into two when they had reached his location by five feet, running pass by them like a river around a rock.

It also didn't escaped Hadrian's notice that Fou was in front of him, looking cute yet aggressively protective as she glared at the spawns that didn't even stop to target them.

When he watched the last of the spawns disappear, he looked around before he turned back to Fou, who sat on her hindquarters and was now looking at him with those big purple eyes of her.

"Fou…"

Feeling at a lost, Hadrian let out a sigh and slowly stood up, picking up Fou in his hand as he did so.

"I guess we should go back now." He said, smiling when his familiar cooed at him in agreement.

There were many questions running through his mind, but he would deal with it later as he still had things to take care of.

His unconscious servant several feet away from him for one, who he had nearly forgotten no thanks to the events that occurred earlier.

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