My Beginning After the End Downfall

Zestier Pt. V

Virion Leywin (Clone 1)

I was holding my ice sword on the back of Tessia's neck, staring at the Retainer as he waited to see what was going to happen. I needed to hear word from the real me before I did anything, even though it really didn't matter.

My blood magic was still holding Tessia to the ground, and her mouth shut, if she was in white core this might have been a troublesome situation, because I would not be able to disrupt her core for this long.

"How do you plan on getting out of this?" Cylrit asked me, examining everything I did.

"What do you mean?" I asked him, he knew I was a clone, so there was no need to get out of this. "I am clone, you think I care if I die to your army?" The Retainer shook his head and pointed at Tessia and me.

"How do you plan on getting out of this? You are currently holding the Princess of Eralith hostage, you already slid your sword into her shoulder once, I have to believe this will make you an enemy of Dicathen." Cylrit was right, what I was doing would make me an enemy.

I shrugged. "Who cares?" I waved my one arm, the one not holding the sword. "Who is here to tell? My people will believe me over you, so if I tell them, you killed her, and I didn't, I'll be fine."

He shook his head, and we just stood there in silence, the other clones were in position, ready to go on my mark, or the real me's mark, not mine. "There is one flaw to your plan, Agrona knows, and if he speaks to your brother, what then? Can you honestly lie to him that long?"

"Does it matter?" I asked him. "Even if I killed her right now, my brother would never kill me, all that would happen is that I would be locked up, and thrown away, but we both know that there is no one in Dicathen who can stop me."

"Good point." Cylrit said, and the two of just spoke calmly to one another while Tessia was on her knees, worried that I was going to kill her. She probably thought I lost my mind, and that could very well be the case.

"Cylrit, I don't want to fight you at all, I know you are on our side in a way, so I am going to give you a chance to survive the opening battle." He looked at me confused. "To your, thirty yards out, is another clone of me, that will fight you, but not to the death, just so that you aren't around here when I start causing chaos, then afterwards you can come back and lead your army into Zestier."

He didn't respond right away, but he did look to his right, seeing if what I told him was true, so I had my fellow clone unleash some of his aura. "How do you know that? I don't understand, Scythe Seris thought your brother and you were the key, I didn't believe her at first, but now, I see it's true."

'I am clear, do what we planned, I already have a clone in your forest coming to get me.' My voice rang in my mind, it was the real me speaking through our mental link. 'I lost a shit ton of blood over the past three weeks, I'm about to lose consciousness, but I made it out without using the phoenix charm, I am basically running on adrenaline right now.'

'Alright, I'll take care of everything.' I told him, and then spoke up to Cylrit. "Retainer Cylrit, is there any way I can give you message to relay back to Agrona? Of course, that means you can't die fighting today."

"Sure." Cylrit said to me. "Are we done here?"

"We are." I told him. "So, first, you agree to go fight the clone over there, right?" The Retainer nodded his head, about to let some of his men die, well, a decent amount die. "Give him this message..."

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Aya Grephin

I stood with my division underground, with me was the Twin Horns, Veer wanted them to be with me during this fight, which should have started already, but I haven't sensed anything so far.