He used all his might to push the sword down slashing Claire right in the gut.

  Claire stopped screaming entirely. In fact, she was completely silent.

  Her eyes stayed open but seemingly lifeless while her insides by this point were visible.

  Before Perry could make his next move, his wrist was amputated and flew off holding his sword.

  He raised the part of his arm where his wrist used to be right in front of his eyes. Screaming and yelling in pain, he then dropped to his knees,

  "WHAT. THE.. FFFUUCKK!"

  As blood sprayed from his wrist, he could hardly make out a sentence with the pain and shock.

  Just then, Perry froze in fear. A powerful aura from an even more dangerous presence was felt behind him,

  "What's wrong, scared?"

  A cold voice made Perry's eyes widen, his body shook uncontrollably with fear,

  "Who are hell are you?!"

  Despite looking dead, Claire could still only just hear the cold voice from the stranger while her ears also rung, she made out the voice to be, the Mage's.

  Perry dropped onto his ass. Using his legs he tried to drag himself away reaching his other hand for his sword.

  Before he could do anything he was decapitated.

  By this point, the Momals had also felt the Mage's powerful presence and had put their attention towards him.

  Jacob slowly rushed towards the Mage, as he did the Mage began floating in the air.

  His hoodie still covered his face but his aura showed him as a force not to be reckoned with, he faced the behemoths as they all started to run toward him.

  He raised his hand, pointed his index finger in the sky then twisted his wrist so he pointed at the Momals,

  "Bang."

  The Mage sounded cold and calculated with his attack, a short sound of glass being scratched surrounds the remaining living soldiers and a bright glow appeared in the sky.

  A large single line of light from the Mage's finger shot through all five behemoths heads killing them all instantly.

  He then took a deep breath in and yelled as he descended onto the surface,

  "Soldiers, Attack!"

  Landing right next to Jacob he lightly pats his back,

  "That means you too Jacob."

  Claire, while most of her senses weren't working, could still feel a presence wrapping its arm around her back and lifting the top half of her up.

  With its other hand a strange mysterious sound was heard and all her senses began coming back to her as she could feel her wounds healing, looking at her saviour she saw the Mage.

  "I thought you were too busy to help us."

  Claire's voice was faint and sounded like she was about to cry.

  The Mage went from looking at what was left of the battlefield to looking at Claire,

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  "It's just a coincidence me and Jacob were coming through here",

  the Mage began sounding human or maybe that was just Claire's imagination, but a feeling in her made her feel safe in the Mage's arms.

  The Mage put her back on the ground and rushed straight into the battlefield to kill off the stragglers while Claire got up and walked towards her horse.

  Gerald heard a noise from the centre of the city.

  He discovered half of the soldiers from the army had returned and were celebrating their victory.

  The other half were seen just outside the city's gate burying the bodies of the deceased.

  He had a grin on his face. However he heard the maids on the other end of the door telling someone not to interrupt him.

  Before he knew it, the Mage, Jacob and Claire barged in.

  The Mage came stomping towards Gerald, coming face to face with him,

  "There, I did your dirty work for you. I won your war and I saved your precious Hero of Swords. You did nothing to help I learned thanks to your soldiers, now where's my reward?"

  The Lord, face to face with the Mage spoke distantly and coldly.

  "Name. Your. Price",

  with that, the Mage walked out of the building with Claire, Jacob and the Lord following closely behind him.

  While leaving, the Lord gestured a hand full of guards to follow him.

  As he walked, Jacob began noticing he was heading towards the same building the kids were playing ball in front of.

  While Claire waited outside, the Mage kicked the door down.

  Walking in he revealing the man of the house who grabbed Sarah by the throat while the kids were trying to force him off her.

  The Mage walked towards him while he grabbed Jacob's wrist and came face to face with the man,

  "What is the meaning of this!"

  The man tried pretending he was innocent but the Mage saw right through it,

  "Jacob, punch him",

  "With pleasure",

  with that Jacob punched him square in the gut causing him to choke up some saliva.

  "So tell me 'Lord', why does this man have so many children?"

  The man had a mean look on his face,

  "You guys?"

  Sarah found out the Mage and Jacob were there,

  "wha.. you.. what's the meaning of this Bruce? Get your hands off her!"

  Gerald tried acting surprised but his stuttering caused the Mage to believe he was working with this 'Bruce',

  "If I'm reading this right, Bruce here is a human trafficker who abuses anyone living in his house, and Gerald here seems to be working with him",

  Jacob looked at Gerald with the side eye after hearing the Mage.

  "How dare you accuse me of working with this man, but is this true ma'am, has he been abusing both you and these children?"

  Sarah looked down at her feet,

  "Yes sir."

  Bruce looks at Sarah with a stricken expression,

  "Hah, you stupid slut, you were cheating on me with a lame excuse for a legend, do it my Lord, lock me up, better than living with a bitch for a wife",

  with that, Gerald ordered guards to chain him and lead him to his mansion's dungeon.

  With Bruce leaving, the Mage, Jacob and the Lord also left, however just as the Mage and Gerald step out, the Mage grabbed his shoulder forcing him back.

  "So you have two choices, admit you were working with Bruce and I'll only keep this secret between you, me and my partner, or try to deny it and I'll spread rumours that you were involved with human trafficking children to neighbouring cities, so, your choice?"

  The Lord's expression became irritated,

  "Yes, I was involved with Bruce and his little business, happy now fool?"

  "Sure as hell am",

  with that, the Mage let Gerald walk back to his mansion.

  Sarah rushed into the Mage's arms crying,

  "Thank you, thank you so very much, for everything!"

  The Mage then faced her,

  "You should probably send those kids to the orphanage, they need to be in better care",

  "The city's orphanage has been bankrupt for years",

  "Let me worry about the money, you worry about getting them kids to a safer shelter."

  With that, the Mage walked outside joining Jacob when he saw a large crowd of the city's people surrounding the home.

  Upon the Mage leaving the house they all began clapping and cheering.

  The Mage and Jacob stood at the door confused while Claire approached them,

  "What's going on?"

  "These people have been here after witnessing Bruce being chained up and taken away, he was the city's most feared man and had the biggest human trafficking business in the city, now that his gone, none of these people can walk around in fear, and for what it's worth, thank you. For saving me and this city."

  The Mage looked around the crowd of people cheering for him as he then proceeds to walk with Jacob and Claire outside the buildings gate.

  "Those stupid freaking interlopers, why'd you let them have their way?"

  The guard sits on the other side of the cell,

  "I don't know, I'm just the Lord's guard, now would you shut up!"

  Bruce rested his head on the cell's bed closing his eyes for a nice little nap, as he did, he began screaming his vocal cords out.

  The guard put his head to the cell to see what was going on but when he did, the yelling stopped, then his uniform was grabbed.

  Bruce disturbingly breathed in and out while licking his teeth and opening his eyes revealing them to be red,

  "Oh yes, how I've missed being in a human's body. Listen here you! Tell the Mage to watch out, for the Warlock of Nightmares is coming for him."

  The guard opened his mouth in shock before 'Bruce' let his uniform go and collapsed, the guard quickly raced to the Lord to inform him of this new threat.