Witch's Daughter And The Devil's Son

"Dray?" Slayer shouted as well and dispatched the wizard in front of him so he could reach Drayce.

Yorian, equally shocked, said, "Darkness, but not from this realm. Zaria did it again. Where did she get it? We made a mistake by underestimating them."

Yorian cast aside the wizard in front of him and moved to go to Drayce as well but….

There was another signal from the leader of Wizard and another large group of Wizard stood in Yorian and in Slayer's way, stopping them and attacking the knights and servants who were holding on somehow.

"Dray," Seren mumbled his name, tears rolling down her eyes as she watched him in pain. She tried to break through the shield but it held her back. She could only tap her hands against it and warned the wizard, "Stay away from him."

The wizard, as if her words meant nothing, approached Drayce while keeping his staff pierced in his body. "I told you, King Drayce, that you would regret this. Do you understand why now?"

Despite the sudden, unexpected, and unusually powerful attack that left his body weak and paralyzed in a moment, Drayce opened his eyes and glared at him.

"I am taking her with me, and I will leave you to take your last breath here," the wizard declared. "The power I used on you is not from this realm, and no supernatural from this realm can withstand it, not even a powerful warlock like you, who have inherited divine power from a powerful mother."

The leader then turned to look at Seren and signaled two of the wizards, "Get the woman."

"Do... not dare... touch her," Drayce warned, his voice pained and weak. It was as if that weapon had drained every ounce of his energy and left him immovable.

"Do not worry, King Drayce. Those are women who will touch your wife. I will respect her dignity by not letting any man touch her," the wizard leader said, eyeing Seren who was crying and frantically tapping on the barrier, trying to free herself to reach Drayce. "In the end, her divine blood will be a great source of our power and someone important to us."

Seren stopped struggling and looked at her shaking hands. 'How... how am I to use my power?' She knew what she was taught—to flourish the barren earth. It might not be of much help, but she wanted to try whatever she could. She closed her eyes and tried to focus, getting a hold of her shattered mind and trembling body, but to her dismay, nothing worked.

'What? Why is my power not working?' Shocked, she tried again, but nothing happened.

"You can't stop us, King Drayce. Want to see proof?" the wizard taunted.

Just then, the barrier Drayce had built around Seren disappeared the moment the leader used a magic spell laced with that different darkness on it. Seren was free to go to Drayce, but two wizards held her by the arms and stopped her.

"Dray, say something. Look at me. Are you alright?" she cried out while struggling against the wizards to free herself. "I can't use my power. Tell me what to do so I can protect you?"

Drayce's gaze slowly moved to her, and he warned the wizard again in his weakened voice, "I... said... do not... dare touch her..."

"Rest in peace King Drayce. Take a look at your wife for the last time," the wizards said, walking away ignoring Drayce and signaling his men to take her with them. "Kill them all," the wizard announced to all his subordinates.

On the other hand, Yorian and Slayer were desperate to reach Drayce but those wizards kept coming to them.

"Dray," Slayer shouted, "Get hold of yourself. They are taking Seren away. Get back for her sake."

"King Drayce," Yorian shouted as well while fighting the wizards, "You can't be harmed easily. You know it. You have to fight it. That darkness is not from this realm but you have something that is powerful as well. You are not just a warlock."

"Dray. Don't worry about me. You have to stay safe." Seren words fell on his ears as well along with his two friends and knights and servants who were calling for him as they could not see their king hurt and defeated like this.

Suddenly, the bright sky began to turn dark, and a gravely ominous air started to surround everyone.

The leader of Wizards stopped in his tracks, looked up at the sky, and mumbled, "What is happening? I am not using that power at this moment?"

Seren, who was worried for Drayce, sensed something. To everyone, it was an ominous feeling, but to her, it was...

"Dray," she mumbled this time with her eyes closed as relief washed over her. "Erebus."

Swing!

Slash!

Two swords laced with absolute darkness, pierced the leader's stomach and were pulled out mercilessly.

In disbelief, the wounded leader, the strongest wizard, turned around to see the person standing behind him, and more than hurt, he was shocked to see the frightening figure in front of him, towering him like a grim reaper that appeared to take his life.

Pitch-black eyes with not a trace of white in them, a dark web of veins on the skin around those dark orbs, his jet-black long hair moving in the ominous air, his entire body covered in the foggy shadows of darkness—he looked nothing less than a angry devil from hell.

"Who...What are you?" the wizard mumbled in fright, forgetting he was even pierced by the sword.

There were no words, just a response where the head of the wizard was rolling on the ground the next moment. Every wizard there was utterly frightened to see their leader—the strongest and previously undefeated—now dead by the hand of the one who killed him.

Erebus' dark and frightening gaze scanned all of them in a moment like a dangerous predator and settled on the two wizards that were holding Seren's arms. No one knew how fast it happened, but the lifeless bodies of those two wizards were lying on the ground with no killer in sight.

Seren opened her eyes and watched two dead bodies on the ground, then turned around to search for Drayce. Though he was moving faster for ordinary eyes, she could find him, who looked angry and scarier than she had ever witnessed him. He was in a mood for utter bloodshed, killing the scared wizards without any mercy, like a demon who craved for blood.

The essence of his power let her know his intentions, and all she could sense from him was a bloodlust at that moment.

Yorian chuckled, "Finally, he has entirely embraced his darkness," and stopped dealing with the wizards as they were all Drayce's prey after angering the devil inside him.

Slayer, utterly relieved to see this, stopped as well, knowing Drayce wanted to kill them all. He was familiar with both sides of his friend possessed.

The wizards found themselves running for their lives, but Erebus created a barrier of darkness around the area that not a single wizard could cross and leave, like the prey's trapped inside the cage.

Erebus mercilessly hunted each one of them and killed them, his anger growing with each kill, covering his body in blood from the ones he killed, both his swords dripping with blood running along their ages and spilling around as they moved.