Chapter 412: Legacy
A barrage of frost javelins flew straight and true to the pillar where Stryg dangled from. He kicked off the rock and landed on another pillar, narrowly avoiding the attacks. Orange mana flowed into his hand and quickly fired two flame bolts at the growing crowd of guards, before jumping to another pillar.
The sounds of another volley of frost javelins crashing into stone resounded behind him. A guard scrambled up the pillar he was on and reached out to grab him. Instead of fleeing, Stryg jumped straight down at him and slashed the relic sword through the troll’s body. Before the corpses had hit the ground, Stryg had landed and dashed low through the crowd. He slashed through their legs and waists, as many as he could, before jumping back onto a pillar with the power of his agility spell.
“Enough!” King Alok roared. The parallel magestones on his pauldrons flared and a wave of blue light exploded outwards from his armor.
Stryg swung his body behind the pillar. The blast echoed through the throne room, destroying the pedestals and damaging several of the encased relics. The blast brushed past Stryg, but the radiating cold still seeped into his muscles. His body seized up and he tumbled down. His body hit the ground with an icy crack and he groaned in pain.
King Alok stared lamentingly at the destruction he had wrought. The broken bodies of his guards were strewn about the throne room. “No…no…!”
Stryg staggered to his feet and glared at him, “Does it hurt? To have killed your own warriors? I thought betrayal came naturally to you.”
“I don’t care about them, they were going to die to you anyway.” Alok picked up a broken chalice from the rubble. “But my relics… Decades of rare collections… ruined.”
“Don’t worry, there are still plenty of relics around here, you can always smash them to bits too,” Stryg taunted as he tried to channel mana into his veins. The intense cold was making it difficult to stabilize his flow of mana.
Alok stared at his silver-blue gauntlet and clenched his hand tight. “I was only trying to aim my attack in your direction. I am still unaccustomed to Frostveil’s power.”