Ronaldo appeared and saw the flashing lights as Fredo and Francis fought. Francis attacked, and Fredo defended against the Chrono Blade by smashing the ground with his chains and bouncing into the air. The impact sent Francis flying and smashing into a wall.
"Hahaha, what incredible power! But yours is ancient; it seems to be getting weaker!" Fredo taunted.
"Francis!" Ronaldo shouted.
"Stay out of here!" Francis yelled back, grasping for air.
"Yeah, ancient or not, I'm going to kill you anyway! Now I'm getting heated up. Let the game begin, you craw-head!"
Francis used Time Walk. With a fierce look on his face, he cut Fredo's chains.
"Tsk, you're not getting anywhere with that," Fredo said.
"Let's see how far you can go," Francis replied coldly.
Fredo was shocked. "Impossible! My chains!"
"What, you can add more chains?" Francis mocked.
"Grrrr! What did you do!" Fredo screamed.
"Time can stop anything, my friend. Keep attacking me, and you will be running out of chains," Francis said.
Fredo's chains had a regenerative ability, so when they were slashed or destroyed, he could create a new set. But as Fredo kept attacking Francis, he eventually ran out of the raw magic needed to fuel his chains.
"Ha-ha-ha…" Fredo chased his breath.
Francis twirled his longest sword mid-air and focused it on Fredo's eyes. "Where is my mother!"
"Sh-sh-she is in the palace's hallway," Fredo stuttered.
Francis kicked Fredo, knocking him down.
"Let's go!" He turned to Ronaldo, and they vanished into the air. They went to the palace, but they couldn't go directly inside the castle because of an anti-magic barrier.
"There's a barrier. We can't go inside," Francis said, and he slammed the barrier with his fist.
Ronaldo touched the barrier. "A magic that is used as an anti-magic?" Ronaldo asked. "Hey, can you copy this?"
[Yes]
"Great, then copy it!" Ronaldo ordered.
[Copying… Copying complete. You can now paste anti-magic barrier.]
"Anti-Magic Barrier Paste!" Ronaldo shouted, and the magical anti-magic barrier broke.
"Uh—my king, the anti-magic barrier has been destroyed!" the mage who cast the barrier told the king.
"Fara!" King Aemond shouted.
Fara placed her scythe on her back and her left hand on her waist. The huge wall of the castle was slammed by Ronaldo's hammer.
"What? Impossible! How can that be? He has the same hammer Amber had," Fara said. She took her stance and attacked them. Fara was in her 30s, with long silver hair and a sexy physique.
"Let's play, kiddos! How dare you intrude on the king's palace without permission! Scythe of Disgrace!"
Her scythe's handle went very long on her shoulder, and she launched an attack. She saw two fans in Ronaldo's hands. While she was attempting to attack, Ronaldo took his stance, placing both hands behind his back. He then lunged his right foot forward and powerfully brought the fans to the front. A strong gust of wind came from the large door of the castle. Soldiers tumbled, a mage smashed into a castle column, and the king's chair flipped, causing him to fall. The glass-colored windows behind him shattered. Fara never backed down; instead, she pointed her scythe at the ground so she wouldn't be blown away. While she was struggling to hold on, the wind stopped, and a hammer on her left rushed toward her. She couldn't move as a square hammer smashed her against the castle wall, knocking her down.
"Mother!" Francis yelled, and he looked around. He saw his father too, who was unconscious. He looked at the mages, thinking they knew something about his mother's condition, but his mother's appearance had changed from a fine woman to a frail old woman.
"What happened to my mother?" he asked, staring at the mage.
"She was under the chain of Lord Kazem Auswell. His chain magic has the ability to absorb someone's raw essence," the mage replied.
Lady Antoinette was chained by Lord Kazem Auswell, and he was absorbing her power, which made him even stronger. Lady Antoinette is a diwana who acquired a human body, and now, Kazem can fight toe to toe with a Drakon.
A diwana from the Sunshine Kingdom appeared, and they knelt. "Lord Francis, it would be best to hurry and defeat Lord Kazem. As he continuously uses your mother's essence, your mother will die."
"AGHHHHHHHH!" Francis's aura flared. He walked to the king's throne and punched the king. "You will repay for this!" Then he punched him again.
Ronaldo said, "Let's go! Hold on to me! You might get lost if you time-travel without me, as you have never been there."
Francis held Ronaldo's hand, and they vanished, flicking out of the kingdom's castle.
At the vicinity of the Cardinal Tree and Drakon Zephyrus, Zephyrus was flying in the sky, roaring as he saw warriors stationed on the barren land. Artilleries made of metal, with six narrowed, sharp, crayon-like projectiles inside, were lined up at the front of the soldiers. It fired, targeting Zephyrus flying in the sky.
"Launched!"
Zephyrus stopped mid-air. He flapped his wings, and the narrow, sharp, spear-like projectiles were repelled, falling from the sky. Zephyrus blew a translucent fire, but there was an anti-magic barrier protecting the soldiers.
"Hmph, that dragon is impenetrable," King Delson of the Kingdom of Amerisia said as the three leaders sat in a tent. In the center was Lord Kazem of the Kingdom of Creyd, to his right was King Delson of Amerisia, and to his left was King Hathrimu of Nadia.
"Sir, there is an enemy incoming!" the general commander of the battle claimed.
"Prepare to attack! Release the Girephants!" Lord Kazem ordered as the representative of the Kingdom of Creyd.
"Release the Girephants!" the general commander commanded. The soldiers cut the leashes of eight long-necked, huge-bodied animals with four long trunks.
On the other side, the four Amazons led their diwano warriors. Although they were fewer in number, 50,000 against 800,000 combined soldiers of Amerisia, Nadia, and Creyd, the diwano had saber-toothed tigers, bears with metallic claws, and big dire wolves, and almost all of them were archers. The Girephants attacked, and their riders were controlling them. The four great loyal ladies of Queen Dorothea attacked, and they effortlessly took down the Girephant riders.
Zephyrus roared above the sky and came down in front of the diwano warriors. All of them bowed. The Girephants were scared as Zephyrus roared, and they ran away inside the forest of Balete.
"You go back to where you have been. I do not need your help," Zephyrus said.
"Our guardian, protector of the cardinal forest, the one of the heralds of balance in our world, it is our great duty and responsibility to you and the forest! Please allow us to accompany you," Elle said.
But the Drakon replied, "Do what you want!" And then they roared at them. Zephyrus attacked the warriors. Zephyrus rushed, flying toward the warriors.
Lord Kazem shouted, "Attack!"
Both sides attacked one another, running toward each other. Zephyrus glowed into a majestic blue. Drakon Zephyrus broke the anti-magic shield and easily burned the warriors, reducing their allies instantly.