Silva stayed in the cave for a while, sitting and looking at the entrance, thinking of all that he had seen today. The war at Olen lost all purpose to him.
“Drake, have you finished the war?” Silva asked telepathically.
“No, sir. We are taking it slow like you asked, following the plan,” Drake said.
“It has gone on for long enough. Use your strongest-level spells, destroy them all, hold nothing back. I’m done with the whole Olen thing.
I don’t care about who plotted the whole thing. Just wipe them out. I’m going home,” Silva said and got up. He walked out of the cave and started heading home.
A lot had happened to him, starting from the fact that the black man was capable of holding him down without much effort, and there was nothing he could do.
And then there was the future that he was shown. Even when Lily showed him bad futures, he never felt as scared as what he felt today.
“Am I really going to turn into a monster? Something that destroys everything, including those close to me?
Sure, I have little emotions, sure I’m pretty much evil, but to that extent? Can that really be me?” Silva asked himself.
“I just heard Drake’s order. What happened, Silva?” Lily appeared behind him.
“I just got tired of the war,” Silva said, not wanting to answer.
“That’s a lie, Silva, and you know it. I can tell that something is bothering you, so what is it?” she asked.
“It’s nothi—”
“No, there’s definitely something, so tell me,” Lily said.
“Fine, I saw the end. I saw the end of all this, of this life that I’ve found myself in,” Silva said.
Lily paused for a while and then spoke. “I’m guessing whatever you saw was not good, and from the way you seem, it must have been worse than what I showed you,” Lily said.
“Worse is an understatement, Lily. There was no world, there was only darkness in the purest possible form.
And at the top of it all was me, standing on millions of corpses, of people I love and people that stood against me.
I became the demon lord. The world was destroyed by my hands in the end. That was what I saw,” Silva said, hanging his head low as he spoke.
“So what? So what if you saw some bad future, Silva? It all depends on what you want. Do you want to destroy the world?
No matter what showed you that future, it’s still a changeable future. No future is definite, it’s never definite.
You showed me the same energy when I showed you the future, so show the same energy. We all look up to you, and we trust your decisions,” Lily said.
Silva looked back at her and forced a smile.
“You don’t understand. You would if you saw it,” he said and then brought out his wings, shooting into the air and flying off.
Lily watched him go, a sad expression on her face as she looked at Silva.
She decided that she would at least help him finish this war that they had started.
—
Lily flew over the capital of Olen. The castle was the last place left to be destroyed, as the other guardians had taken care of the rest of the city.
She raised her hands into the air, and a very large magical circle formed in the sky. It began spinning and finally fired a massive flame pillar into the castle, completely obliterating it and everyone inside.
—
Inside the underground passage, the king and his people moved through the carriage on their way to destroy the Dark Dragon.
This was the only way by which they would be able to win the war, or at least make some damage. If only they had known that the plan had changed and their hopes were already destroyed.
The king led them bravely, and they finally got to the blockage that had been made long ago. But they immediately noticed that someone was seated there.
The person was playing with some sort of red flames. It was a lady.
“Who are you?” the king asked.
“The name’s Aris. I was asked to watch you before, but things changed, and my master asked me to end everything.
So sadly, I’ll have to end your journey here,” Aris said.
The king didn’t say anything. He immediately attacked Aris, but Aris simply blasted him with a huge stream of chaos.
The blast killed the king and went ahead to kill all the people following him with ease. She sighed after they all died so easily and was about to walk away.
But then she felt a sudden pressure out of nowhere and moved to dodge immediately. The blade passed right before her face but didn’t touch her.
She looked at who attacked and saw that it was the king, covered in blood, with glowing red eyes and bulging veins.
“What did you do to yourself? A human of your strength should not be able to survive a blast from my chaos,” Aris said.
“Raaaaaaaagh!” the king roared and attacked. It was like the king was no longer in control but was now a raging beast.
“This must have something to do with that demon blood master talked about,” Aris said.
She dodged his attack easily and punched him with a chaos-covered punch, completely obliterating his spine from the front to the back.
Blood spilled in all directions as the king fell to the ground, almost lifeless. Aris walked next to him, looked at him, and the only look on her face was disgust.
She raised her leg and stomped it on his head immediately, shattering the skull and killing the king instantly.
She blasted the blockage open and walked away, leaving the heap of bodies on the ground and the king of a kingdom bleeding out there from his skull.
One of many deaths that Silva’s decisions would cause.