- Leon's mind raced, a furious storm of knowledge and desperation.
- He held the cursed tome in his hands, its pages glowing with a faint, corrupted aura.
- The symbols for the counter-spell were there, but they were twisted, the incantation reversed.
- The dark magic wasn't the same as in the game; the Principality had altered the formula. The game's solution was useless.
- "Why?" he muttered to himself, his voice a low, ragged whisper. "Why would they change it? Was it a test? Do they know? Do they know I have a way out?"
- The paranoia was a cold hand gripping his heart. The Principality wasn't just a group of villains; they were a dynamic force, with a complete calculated plans.
- They were a step ahead, constantly changing the rules of the game to suit their sinister agenda.
- The weight of their unique knowledge felt crushing, a burden that had now turned into a weapon.
- He had to think on his feet, using everything he knew about magic.
- His thoughts turned to his old sensei, Logan, who had trained him three years ago.
- Logan had taught him that magic wasn't just about formulas and incantations.
- It was a language, a living, breathing thing that could be bent and reshaped.
- Logan had always said, "A true mage doesn't just read the spell; they understand its soul."
- He took a deep breath, pushing aside the fear and the guilt. He wouldn't give up. Not when his friends, his fiancée, were mere stone statues.
- He shifted his attention to the challenge unfolding in front of him.
- He laid the tome on the dusty floor and began to work. The corrupted formula wasn't a dead end; it was a puzzle.
- The Principality had deliberately changed the variables, twisting the spell's core components to make it unbreakable by conventional means.
- He needed to reforge the formula from the ground up, to find the key that would undo the Principality's alteration.
- Hours of agonizing effort passed. He worked in a frenzy, his hands tracing glyphs in the air, his mind a labyrinth of magical theory.
- He cross-referenced the corrupted symbols with his innate knowledge, searching for the logical and magical inconsistencies.
- His unique perspective, and the little knowledge from the spell from the books in my previous life, was his only advantage.
- Finally, after a long exhausting hours he found it—a single, minute alteration in the incantation's core, a subtle change that reversed the flow of energy.
- With a final, decisive move, he corrected the formula, chanting the new incantation with every ounce of his being. - A brilliant light erupted from his hands, a pure, healing energy that spread throughout the academy.
- The petrification began to recede, a wave of normalcy returning to the panicked halls.
- As the stone melted away, his friends and teachers were returned to their former selves, exhausted but alive.
- After walking for a while He found Rose, her stony expression of confusion replaced by one of profound relief and confusion.
- The aftermath of the incident was a confusing and terrifying mess.
- The students and teachers, now flesh and blood once more, had no memory of being petrified.
- They only recalled a brief moment of terror, a flash of light, and then waking up on the floor.
- The academy was in a state of chaos. Rumors of a new demonic curse were rampant, but no one could explain its cause or how it had been undone.
- Leon kept his mouth shut, a silent witness to the event. The hero and his entourage, who had returned to find the academy in ruins, were left to clean up the mess and try to make sense of the inexplicable.
- They were praised for their valiant efforts, but Leon knew the truth behind all of this.
- They had been fighting the symptoms while he had been fighting the cause. The war had just begun, and Leon was finally ready to face it head-on.
- After the commission subdued and everyone calmed down, Leon was sitting on a chair under the dazzling moonlight.
- Rose appeared behind him with her usual beautiful smile on her face and sat next to me.
- " Leon, I want you to tell me, why you look like you are lost in your thoughts. If something is troubling you please tell me." Rose said with worried in her voice.
- He hesitated for a moment, then he said. " It's nothing much, just alot of things in my mind." He lied but it was for the greater good of her safety.
- " Are you lying to me? She said with sad but angry eyes.
- " Don't worry about it, I will tell you in the future." I said with a smile on my face.
- After I said that I felt a soft feeling on my lips, she kissed me, I was kind of taken a back by the sudden kiss.
- Then she pulled back with a blush but a smile on her face. " you have to tell me in the future, its a promise okay." She said.
- " Okay" I said and there we chatted under the moonlight for a long time until we got back to our room.