The Cursed Ancestry: Book Three To the Heir Series: Teamcrafted (Discontinued)

| Chapter Seven | The Temptation

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
- Milton Berie

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*Ten Minutes Ago*
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Sky smiled hearing hooves in the distance. He mounted his horse, looking at the others. "They're here," he said.

Ty's draconic presence suddenly appearing; his wings, tail, claws, and eyes shifting to purple showing. He flies up into the air, hiding, leaving Wag and Phil at the entrance of the bridge.

Sky looks at the two wizard brothers. "Go easy on them, let them win but make it a challenge," he said.

Phil smirked, cracking his knuckles. "It would be our pleasure," he said. 

Sky smiled, he looked to his right, seeing Tyler, Noah, and Nick coming. They slow down their horses to a walk.

"I knew this wasn't going to be easy," Noah said.

Nick looked at Sky. "What is this?"

"What do you mean?" Sky asked faking his confusion. "Your task is to get to Raven Outpost...so get going." The candidates hesitated but Tyler went ahead, Noah and Nick staying. Even though they were just standing there, Phil and Wag were quite intimidating to the three recruits.

"Where's General Probst?" Nick asked Sky.

Sky shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know, I'm not his babysitter," he responded.

Nick narrowed his eyes. "You're not very helpful, Commander Skylen," he said making Sky put his hand on his chest, looking offended.

"You know, Nick, if I cared enough to help, that would hurt," he said. Nick and Noah were snapped back to the task in front of them when they heard Tyler scream. Noah's eyes widen seeing Tyler's horse riderless and a pillar of earth sinking back into the ground from near the animal.

"W-Where did he--"

Ty flew up from the chasm holding Tyler upside by his ankle. The recruit stops screaming when he realizes he wasn't falling anymore. Ty flipped Tyler up, grabbing his arm before lowering towards the ground and dropping the recruit on his feet but Tyler fell to the ground when he landed. Ty chuckled, stalling for a moment before landing beside Phil. "Try not to do that so much, I can only save one at a time from the chasm," he said to the wizard.

Phil smiled. "I know, I just wanted to scare him and it worked," he said.  Ty rolled his eyes, but he smiled as well. He looked at the three candidates.

Noah sighed. "I knew this wasn't going to as easy as it seemed," he muttered before his eyes looked at the two wizards and dragonmere king in front of him. He gritted his teeth. 'Master Phil is an elemental earth wizard, best there is, getting past him is a challenge in itself given he doesn't even have to be facing you to hit you. Master Waglington is mostly an archive mage, a magic that isn't helpful for combat in the least bit but he is also an athar wizard. So I can't underestimate him, he's a threat for sure. Then there is Ex-General Ty Ellis...I mean King Tobias, the Dragonmere King, and the wild card since we haven't seen King Tobias in actual combat yet so I have no idea what he is capable of. But given how strong he was back when we all thought he was just a normal human...getting magically enhanced is only going to make him stronger. He's going to be very hard to beat,' Noah thought to himself. Noah knew that the three men in front of him were strong, stronger than he was. Noah's eyes looked around. "Where's the other two?"