Adrianna had successfully tricked the neotides. She created an illusion for them while Cy was working breaking the wall. The illusion was so perfect that even Cy was shocked for a moment and thought that he had removed all the spells. It took him a moment to realize that it was nothing but an illusion, but who could even create such a perfect illusion? It can't be…

It was when he faced Adrianna that his doubts were confirmed. She wasn't an illusion. She was standing there for real. Even though he was shocked to the core, he immediately recovered. He could see those bright golden yellow eyes that looked menacing in the darkness of the night. With her hair moving in the soft breeze around her and her wand in her hand, she looked like a Goddess. The soft rays of moonlight only created a halo around her. "So we meet again," said Cy in a threatening voice.

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"Yes! We meet again," she replied. "How would you want to end this?" she asked reading his mind and knowing what he would start with.

But Cy was a powerful wizard. He could sense that she had entered his mind and so he blocked her immediately. Adrianna started laughing. "Do you know I can enter your cell and destroy you completely?"

"No one can do that to me Adrianna. I have genes from the same family as yours!" he replied.

Adrianna was shocked to hear it.

"Lile, Zephyr, me and you, we all belong to the same family. Oh and of course Shay, who failed you so miserably even though I helped him in the competition against you," said Cy and started laughing loudly.

Adrianna was surprised beyond words. "You have cheated everyone and now again you are cheating me!"

"Really?" he couldn't stop laughing. "Then try to enter my cell." He challenged her.

Slowly he started flying in a circle around her. He looked down at the landscape and could see thousands of neotides who were still foolishly running towards the wall and Reese was shouting at them.

Adrianna narrowed her eyes. She waited for him to come in front. She couldn't just throw a spell on him. She had to take him down cautiously. He was also waiting for her to make a move. "But I have to say one thing – the illusion you created was super."

"Thank you Cy," she replied sweetly. After a pause she asked, "You tried to get the crown so hard, but you never even got close to it. Do you think that after today, you would even see the face of the world? All that hard work down the drain. Tsk tsk. So sad!" She wanted to provoke him.

"I deserve that crown because I am not only more experienced than you, I am more powerful than you are! After a few moments, you won't see the world that you had craved for so greedily. An ordinary girl, whose father hated her and whose mother abandoned the kingdom only to give birth to her has the blood of a traitor. Your mother was a traitor. She could never show her face to us after she ditched the Wizard Kingdom because of her lust." He wanted to provoke her and that was the best he could do. He wanted her to make a mistake and he would take advantage.

"Shut up!" shouted Adrianna. "It looks that you really hated my mother!"

Yes! He was successful in provoking her and now he waited for her to make a mistake. She made a mistake.

Without a warning she threw a spell towards him. Thinking that it was going to be a lethal spell, Cy moved his wand to throw a spell to deflect it. He now had a chance to make use of the irritation he had caused in her brain. But suddenly he realized that in reality no spell was thrown and instead he wasted his time in deflecting it. Even a fraction of second counted in front of Adrianna.

Adrianna let him think that he was at the advantage and also knew that he would quickly recover from the confusion but she had to take lead in that small time frame. She flew five feet below him and once again flicked her wand for real. "Garruloa!" she chanted and a small white light emitted through her wand that broke at regular intervals. It hit Cy from beneath.

"I am already in your cell, Cy," she said in a sinister voice.

Cy was shocked. What just happened was something he didn't understand. He was tricked like a child, with something so basic? How could that be? And was Adrianna fooling him that she had entered his cell. He had blocked it. Suddenly he saw image of Adrianna in a ghostly form and not just one Adrianna – there were ten of them in a line, one after the other. One of them took her white silver, shiny and sharp sword and shouted, "Cy, you imp!" and made a deep cut somewhere inside. Blood started oozing out.

He shouted in pain, "Aaaarggghhhhh!" He couldn't balance himself and his broom was trying to balance him and prevent him from falling.

Next instant he saw Adrianna's mother, Shira with a sword in her hand and she leapt in the air, made a 360 turn and made a deep gash. More blood flowed. "No, no! Don't do this to me," he was in tremendous pain.

Blood was oozing out of his ears. He started doubting his magic, his skills and his senses. The spell was cast on him to seed a supernatural fear in his mind casing self-evasiveness.

He heard Adrianna laughing in front of him. He looked up to see her and saw that her want had converted into a sword that was brilliantly shining as the moon rays fell on it. She swished the sword in air and then leapt at him cutting his hand that was holding the wand. Inside his brain he saw her using the same sword stabbing an unknown place and the next moment Cy became blind. He didn't even get a chance to fight like a wizard he was.

"You conned me!" he shouted in pain.

"It is war!" she replied.