33 Risen#re

Mallark quickly began to explain the problem within Lirian's body to Edith and tears began to spill from Edith's eyes as she heard about Lirian's condition.

Edith shook her head in disbelief, "I was watching him the entire time I never saw him channel the energy through his body," Edith argued not wanting to believe what Mallark had told her.

"When he turned the silver dome into lightning, to convert it quickly he used his body as a conduit for the energy that already had the law imbued inside it, if he didn't he wouldn't have been able to kill them before they got to you," Mallark explained, he had witnessed everything clearly.

"Truth be told, him not dying immediately after what he did is a miracle, but it was far too much for his body to handle and I can't heal him with this degree of damage."

"Can't you heal him, you're a seventh grader aren't you why can't you heal him?" she sobbed with guilt, the only reason Lirian had to use such a desperate move was to save her, she looked expectantly at Mallark.

"It doesn't work like that child," Mallark said with a wry smile, "If it were normal injuries brought about by normal energy attacks it would be fine, but this is internal damage caused by laws, unless we can get a specialist…" he trailed off not finishing his words.

His meaning clear to Edith, a large box appeared out of thin air in front of Mallark and he quickly stated scrummaging through it until he pulled out a vile of liquid and handed it to Edith.

"Make him drink a mouthful of this every fifteen minutes, it won't heal him, but it will alleviate his pain, if his condition worsens call me and I'll try to place him under a time freeze spell, but I'm not to good with those spells so I'd rather not use one, unless there is no other choice," Mallark explained.

"D-Don't w-w-worry about me," they heard Lirian suddenly mumble but from his tone it sounded like he was delirious, "I've s-s-survived far worse t-than this," Lirian muttered.

But they didn't pay any heed to his words they were certain that he was just delirious from the pain he was experiencing.

Mallark took out another object from the box before it disappeared into nothing as if it wasn't there to begin with, "You'll be able observe what's happening around me with this," Mallark said handing Edith a crystal orb.

"You can also use it to communicate with me if Lirian's condition gets worse," Edith immediately picked up the crystal orb and activated it, she could see herself and Lirian as well as Mallark from a bird's eye view.

Everything seemed to revolve around him in the orb, Mallark took a quick step forward and a mirror like gate appeared in the air and then he appeared in a place that was a mixture of purple and black shadows.

"Shit," she heard Mallark shout, "We've been had," as he spoke several blasts of wind that could level a mountain range shot at him from the shadows.

Mallark was an elite from the Eden family, and he also had tons of combat experience, so while the attacks did take him by surprise, they were no where close to enough to deal with him.

With quick reflexes that were unbefitting of a fatty like Mallark he moved his hand and mirrors appeared in the air as the blasts stuck the mirrors they crumpled and shattered like glass, but the attacks completely vanished not even leaving a draft.

A spear that was a foot taller than the fatty appeared in his hands as he attempted to peer through the shadows and darkness.

"Your excellency where are we?" Edith asked in a panic with the crystal orb in hand she could hardly make out anything at all, even Mallark's image was blurry.

"I believe that I was caught inside a shadow domain," Mallark answered while forming spells with his hands.

"Detection Barrier,"

"Spatial Armour,"

Mallark formed two spells quickly one was as the name suggested a barrier of detection, it wasn't very useful when under a domain but it would help him to react to attacks at the last second, as for Spatial Armour, it was a powerful defensive barrier that surrounded his body without getting in the way of his movements.

When Edith heard the term domain her eyes sunk in with fear, domains were one of the most difficult to master and powerful methods to dominate one's opponents.

It didn't give the creator of the domain absolute power, but it did make them omnipotent in their domains, they could observe everything happening within their domain as well as move about freely, the owner of a domain could appear on one side of their domain in one second and appear on the complete opposite side in the next.

As Mallark moved he stepped with caution and deflected thousands of attacks constantly with his spear that was wrapped up in in his energy, but if one looked closer they would have noticed spatial laws permeating every inch of his energy, that was one of the powers of a warlock, they would infuse their energy with laws so they didn't have to go through the trouble of controlling external laws.

Every spin and swipe of the spear created staggering cracks in the fabric of the world and it even began to eat away at the domain, but no matter how amazing Mallark's attacks were they were unable to reach the controller of the domain who kept themselves hidden the entire time.

"Are we going to make it out of this alive?" Edith asked in a sombre tone these past two days were a complete roller coaster for her heart.

First there was the mammoth attack, then there was Hinata's attempt to kill them, and just when everything seemed fine the zealots appeared throwing her into despair, but then her mother appeared to save the day.

Edith thought that everything was fine after her mother appeared and that they were saved, yet now she found that Lirian was on the verge of dying and to make matters worse, the person protecting them was caught in a shadow domain.

"You could try to have a little more faith in me," Mallark grumbled as he moved about, "It's not like my movements in here have been random," he told Edith and continued to move about.

Edith's eyes widened and she continued to stare through the crystal orb into the darkness, but she found it impossible to make anything out, the darkness looked the same everywhere but from Mallark's words she could tell that their was more to the world than she could understand with her limited knowledge.

But for a veteran combatant like Mallark dealing with domains was in his job description.

"Oh, hey why don't you use your domain to cancel out this domain?" Edith asked curiously, she didn't doubt that Mallark as an elite of the Eden family would be able use a domain.

Mallark sighed and shook his head, "I only have one domain a spatial domain and it takes a lot of time to prepare it, also I can't have any other spells consuming my energy before I start it up!" he explained.

"So basically all my defensive measures will have to vanish, and the world that you are in will have to vanish before I can use my domain, and if I do something like that I have no doubt that I'll die,"

"Ha," Mallark laughed loudly, "Found it," as he spoke he began to pool energy into his spear and spun it around.

With every revolution the spear released a wave of ripples that began to rip into the domain devouring the shadows.

Then he held onto his spear tightly and thrust it forward releasing dangerous levels of spatial energy onto the weakest point of the domain.

A tug of war seemed to occur between the spatial energy and the shadow as the two seemed hell bent on devouring each-other, several minutes passed with the two powers colliding and it looked like Mallark was going to lose.

But a smile crept up onto his face and suddenly the entire domain began to tremble and shake, the domain began to lose its shape as the shadow energy was being dispersed by violent waves of spatial energy.

"How did you do that?" Edith asked in wonder through the crystal orb.

"I let the shadows devour my spatial energy, but I maintained control of my energy as it was distributed throughout the domain which allowed me to completely destroy it," Mallark said in a smug tone as the domain began to fall apart around him, allowing him to see some sun light.

"Don't let your guard down," Lirian said suddenly taking both Edith and Mallark by surprise, "I didn't hear you receiving any attacks while you attacked the weak point of the domain, this is a trap they wanted you to break it," Lirian said hurriedly while breathing heavily.

Mallark's eyes widened in realisation but it was too late, he just managed to reinforce his spatial armour when two figures appeared one coming from each side.

With just a glance he noticed that the two figures were saints, as the weapons in their hands held powerful laws, "Shit," Mallark cursed as the weapons struck his spatial armour, from the power behind those attacks he could tell that they were prepared for a long time.