Chapter 23: Chapter 23 - Hunting The Three-eyed Raven 06.
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Third Person POV.
Somewhere on North.
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As the carcasses from the battle burned throughout the area, his incantations doing their work, silence had finally taken hold of the battleground, his cloak still enveloped with ethereal energies coursing through his body.
He stood there at that moment, at peace as his summons disappeared until not a single one remained... Looking over the area for a while and then turning to Ygritte, who was approaching.
"So... shall we move on? What will happen after we enter there?" She asked cautiously.
"I don't know, but I want you to stay alert. We don't know what we're going to find, and you won't be safe staying here," he warned as he turned his attention to the tree in the distance.
She just nodded, a bit fearful, but still, she was already here, having seen things that have shaken her entire world view. She wasn't going to be weak now.
"Let's continue..." Jon said as he walked towards the site with Ygritte following closely behind.
Jon, for several hundred meters more, saw no animals and continued until he came upon the large tree in front of them. There, a large space revealed itself to be a frozen lake.
He used his magic, and his eyes glowed; among the roots below the tree, Jon saw, at least half a dozen beings inside the tree and then used the form to detect the dead to see that the frozen lake was infested with the undead there.
He assessed the situation and looked at Ygritte, since there were enemies all around. "Stay close to me and use this," he requested, handing her a rune-etched sword to use, as it would now be a close combat, and it wouldn't be safe to keep her at a distance.
He started walking, stepping on the edge of the side and walked with Ygritte by his side, his hand on the ice spear, waiting for the first dead to emerge, as they continued crossing the lake on alert and being in the middle of it, the ground broke and the dead surged running towards them. Jon braced himself, as more explosions from the ground occurred and he was getting ready to face all five of the undead running towards them at that moment.
"Those two on the right, take care of them, and I'll fight the 3 on the left." He advised her as he prepared his spear while Ygritte raised the sword waiting for her opponents to approach.
Jon quickly moved his spear and began to pierce the first skeleton that appeared, making it fall inert to the ground upon contact. As soon as he slashed, spinning once more, he cut down the second and pierced the third coming right behind.
Meanwhile, Ygritte parried the sword of the first and passed her blade with a cut on the arm as it heated up and started to burn while screaming in pain. She stepped back a bit and almost got hit by the second, which caused her to lose balance and fall to the ground, as the Wight advanced towards her.
However, before it could reach, the blade of ice pierced its rib in the air. Where Jon pulled the blade out of the dead body, went over to her, and helped her up. "Be careful," He said.
"Thank you..." She murmured, getting up.
Jon didn't even get to respond because on the other side of the lake, there was another explosion, where at least ten more undead emerged, shattering the ice with skeletons without flesh, screaming at them.
Seeing that with that number of enemies, Ygritte could get hurt, he summoned 2 flaming Atronachs, which appeared beside them in portals and began to cast fire directly at the creatures.
Jon stood in front waiting for those not hit by the fire to end up on his spear, as the fire advanced against the creatures being hit, some managed to get close.
He quickly began to cut all of them while using his abilities with the spear as he spun, slicing, and piercing the wights. After eliminating these first attacks, twenty explosions occurred around the lake.
Wights were coming from all sides, he also summoned spectral wolves, to distract the enemies while the atronachs did their work, they began to attack with all they might as some fell due to the number of undead overwhelming them.
This gave them an opportunity to eliminate many at once, as they were all grouped together, the atronachs managed to hit more than 2 with their flame shots.
The fight continued in the middle of the frozen lake, while the place had fire all over as the bodies were easily carbonized, Ygritte eliminated 3 wights that were left and advancing against her.
It didn't take long for another explosion to occur, with 30 undead emerging, forming the largest horde yet, forcing Jon to expend more magic, despite needing to conserve it, but with no choice as more summons appeared.
The fight continued with the same intensity as before, and as he fought, Jon finished off the last enemy after some time. As soon as everything seemed calm, Ygritte breathed a sigh of relief, though she was somewhat tired. She had fought well, despite not being good with a sword, she managed to survive, to get by.
"The dead are gone, but we still have enemies," Jon said, looking towards one of the roots where there was an entrance to the tree. There was a strange creature in this place, small and green, it stared at them while surrounded by creatures burning on the ground, and suddenly, it picked up a stone below it and aimed at them, before throwing.
Jon saw the object flying towards them and knew there was magic in it, he took a sword from his arsenal, one that was practically useless to him, and with one hand, threw it directly at the stone in the air. As soon as the stone was touched by the sword with Jon's good aim, an explosion of flames occurred, making him raise an eyebrow.
"What is this?!" Ygritte hadn't noticed the creature, only saw Jon grabbing a sword and throwing it at the flying stone towards them, seeing the explosion with wide eyes.
"A kind of bomb stone, then? Interesting," he commented, surprised by it.
Three more creatures appeared at the entrance, joining their companion. Ygritte saw this and got scared. "Are these the children of the forest?!" She exclaimed, seeing their features.
Jon didn't react, he was surprised to see a creature he heard about when he was a child in Winterfell, after all, he thought they were extinct or never existed. He was waiting for them to throw stones, which they ended up doing as they picked up stones and began to throw them at him, he looked with a look of disdain.
It seemed primitive, despite using magic. He simply raised his hand and the three stones stopped in the air. The children seemed stunned by this, after all, Jon kept the stones in the air and decided to send them back to their attacker, launching them at the creatures.
The children of the forest were a bit shocked by what they saw. They began to run while trying to protect themselves.
BOOOM!
BOOOM!
BOOOM!
3 explosions happened in the roots of the tree, Jon looked at it shaking his head and looked at his two atronachs that were still there, as all his summons returned to Oblivion.
He pointed to the creatures hiding behind stones and roots, as the atronachs advanced against them. Once again, the creatures found themselves in a difficult situation. As much as they had heard from the three-eyed raven about the enemy, they never imagined seeing a fire creature moving and attacking them.
Jon saw the small creatures trying to fight the atronachs, two of them managed to bring one down, as they prepared to run, seeing the enemy was too strong and could throw their stones at them, they felt their body seize up, Jon lifted them even from a distance, as they began to levitate in the air.
"Do you like to throw things at others and run away...?" Jon commented as with a movement of his hand, they were thrown against the wall, knocking the two out. The third saw this and was scared, but was being bombarded by the last atronach throwing fire at her.
He saw a flame hit the creature, making her fall unconscious, Jon commanded the atronach to stop attacking and saw it approaching him, leaving the creature aside.
After the atronach disappeared, he picked up the last creature flying towards him, seeing it up close while it was suspended in the air.
"What are these things? Are they really children of the forest as I've heard?" Ygritte asked, dazed, seeing everything happen so quickly. "Aren't they sacred creatures? Wouldn't attacking them be against our gods?" She asked cautiously.
"Children of the forest, despite everything I've lived, I still thought they were just legends," Jon murmured, and decided to answer his companion. "Maybe for you, but one thing is for sure: they are our enemies, and I know very well how to deal with enemies trying to kill me," Jon spoke in a dark manner and began to walk, taking the creature to the others.
One of the two fallen at a distance, got up and began to run into the place, but Jon didn't stop her, while he picked up the fallen and the one wounded by fire, confining them in an alteration spell with roots that he took from the tree.
'Well, they won't be able to get out of there until I finish what I came to do...' Jon thought with satisfaction.
The second one on the ground started to regain consciousness at this moment while finding herself trapped and looking at the man using magic even more powerful than theirs with a frightened gaze.
"What do we have here?" John spoke with interest, looking at the creature.
"Who are you, demon?" the girl said with some difficulty, while still having fear in her eyes. After all, she had never seen, even in her thousands of years, someone like Jon, not with his abilities.
"You're with that Warg. Where can I find him? He's in there, isn't he?" Jon asked, with a half-smile, as the creature tried to maintain her posture to face this man, even though she was scared inside.
"Why do you want to kill the three-eyed raven?" the girl said.
"I decided to kill him as soon as he marked me, spied on me, and tried to kill me, nothing more fair, is it?" Jon spoke calmly, and the creature quickly responded.
"You can't kill him. He is the only hope of this world, only he can stop the white walkers," the girl practically pleaded this time.
"You mean those creatures that use this spear?" Jon said, pointing to the weapon beside him, which made the child of the forest look dazedly at the spear.
"I don't care if this man can be the hope of this world. Something like that is foolish and stupid, and I've heard it too many times, from many people claiming to be some kind of messiah while saying they would be unique and did all sorts of horrendous acts to achieve their goals..." Jon spoke calmly and continued. "But in the end, even without them in the world, nothing bad happened. Usually, such people think they are the center of the universe, but in the end, they are not in the world's fate." Jon spoke while Ygritte stayed silent by his side, paying attention to everything he said.
"What are you going to do with her?" she asked, concerned, while even the same waited for an answer to her fate, seeing she couldn't convince this man, she and her unconscious sister were caught by his magic.
Jon thought for a bit and didn't see the creature as something evil. It seemed more like someone deluded by someone. Ygritte seemed worried, after all, children of the forest were sacred to those who followed the old ways. He then simply dropped her to the ground, making her now faint with the impact.
"For now, let's move on. She will be out for a good while," Jon said as he placed the creatures on top of each other in a corner.
They were already close to the entrance, Jon used his life detection magic and saw even more creatures there. He placed two spectral wolves in front of them as they entered first, to clear the way of any traps and child of the forest trying to attack him.
As he entered and looked around, he noticed that the children within these roots seemed to maintain a distance and let the path clear. Then, he continued moving forward. He went until finally entering a room where he already saw his wolves looking at a specific place, he and Ygritte entered the room calmly, and Jon saw a man entangled in roots. While the man also looked at him, keeping a neutral face, the wolves moved away from the entrance to let him pass as he kept his gaze directly on the root man.
"So, you're the three-eyed raven?" He said, looking with interest at the man he tried to kill several times in the past days.
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