Akiara and her friends travelled on foot and ship to reach Vasilindro empire. They reached in front of the border gates of the Vasilindro empire after few weeks of travelling. It was freezing cold and the gates were in rumbles. There was no guard guarding the empire. It was dead silence. No sound or sign of humans.

"Can't believe we came back where we started our life." Mizuki said with a small smile.

"Yeah." Akiara glanced at Mizuki smiling back.

"But the dead silence seems like they are waiting for our arrival." Suki-san spoke while looking at the surroundings.

"We shouldn't waste our time. Let's get going." Akiara replied.

They started walking while seeing around the surroundings. Dead human corpses laid everywhere.

"I was waiting for your arrival, Hero and Aide." A voice spoke startling them.

They looked towards the source of the sound. Rayce was standing on top of the rooftop of a house, smiling heartily. He jumped down and walked towards them. He kept a distance. He continued to speak, "Sometimes I never understand how God even find good combination of Hero's and Aide's characteristics."

Everyone held their weapons ready to attack. Rayce smirked, "Let me see how strong the Hero and Aide are." he dashed towards them with his sword. He thrusts his sword towards Akiara and Mizuki. Akiara unsheathed her sword and blocked his attack. She deflected it and aimed at his chest. He quickly reacted blocking her sword's attack. She swept her leg causing him to fall. She again thrusted her sword but he rolled dodging her attack.

"You are quite desperate to kill me." He suddenly appeared behind her. He swung his sword upwards to kill her. At that moment Arrow stopped Rayce's sword the moment it reached her. He clenched his fist breaking his sword. Rayce's eyes grew wide seeing his sword broke.

Arrow finally spoke. He looked quite angry, "How dare you raise your sword at Big sis?" his fist was engulfed in silver aura and punched him on his stomach. He flew hitting couple of houses.

"Everyone go on without me. I will hold this guy for you." grey aura engulfed him as his eyes shifted to dragon's eyes, "Big sis and Mizuki.... people's hopes are relying on you. Make sure to come back alive." He ran in inhumane speed towards Rayce.

Akiara and Mizuki nodded. They looked at others, "Let's go." They ran further into city.

Arrow appeared in front of Rayce. He landed another blow to him. He kept punching Rayce. As he was about to kick him on his head, he blocked it.

"Enough? Now my turn." Rayce blocked his another attack and punched him on his chest breaking his ribs.

Blood dripped down from his mouth from the impact. He stood up in fight stance to fight against him. Rayce smirked seeing his fighting spirit. He dashed towards him and started hitting him. He couldn't block any of his attacks.

"Where's that spirit of yours? Why aren't you fighting back? I must say.... whoever taught you martial arts, didn't teach you how to evade any of my attacks." Rayce punched him. But this time he blocked his blow.

Arrow's eyes gleamed as he glared at him, "Didn't your teacher teach you not to use martial arts to harm others?"

He flinched hearing his comment. He let his guard down. At that moment Arrow punched him. He fell back. Rayce looked quite pissed off. He picked up a metal rod. He dashed towards him thrusting the rod towards his heart, Arrow grabbed it stopping him to stab his heart.

"Martial arts is learnt to protect the weak." He broke the stick and punched him which threw him in the air. He hacked up blood from the impact. Arrow also jumped in the air punching and kicking him till he falls. Arrow dashed towards him. Rayce kicked his jaw on instinct. He touched his forehead in agony.

Rayce's life wasn't like all average kids who will grow up to become a respective profession in fields. His life was working in three different jobs to feed his seven siblings and sick mother.

One day, their village was attacked by monsters. He got entrapped in a collapsed pharmacy shop. Tears kept falling as he mumbled, "I need to take medicine..... to save...... my mother."

He used all his strength to remove the roof over his body. He ran towards his house to save his siblings as the monsters was charging towards his house. When he reached, his house was collapsed. His face darkened and lost his mind in anger. He jumped towards the monster. He kept on punching it disfiguring its body and breaking its bones. He broke its core with bare hands. A man in his thirties arrived at the scene.

"Looks like he is in berserk mode. He is perfect for becoming my successor." The man thought.

"Hey kid. That's enough. The monster's dead." The man spoke.

Rayce looked at him, "Do you wanna die?" He ran towards him to punch him. The man dodged his punch by moving aside. Then he hit him on his nape causing him to fall unconscious.

He picked him up on his shoulder, "What a troublesome kid."

Rayce woke up after a while. The man was staring at him. He spooked out seeing his face.

"How are you feeling?" The man asked.

"Fine." Rayce replied. He looked quite sad.

"Hey. Wanna see your family for one last time?"

He nodded. He buried his family members and prayed. He didn't had money to but tombstones for them. Then he looked at the man and nodded. They started their journey.

"Are we going somewhere?"

"Yes. I'm going to make you my successor. Let's go."

They travelled to empire. He took him in. He trained him martial arts. Over years he even surpassed his master.

"Thank you master for everything you have done for me." Rayce showed his gratitude.

"Just remember, never harm people with combats you have learned." The man replied.

"Yes."

He joined Hero Arnon's group. He fought alongside him. But in the end he was killed by the evil God. He took interest in him. He resurrected him.>

"Kill.... me.... kill me!!" Rayce shouted.

"As you wish." Arrow's eyes glowed in brighter blue and his hands turned into claws. He dashed towards him. He dug his claws in his chest crushing his heart.

He smiled at Arrow, "Thank you for reminding my mistake." he fell on his knees. Pool of blood was formed around Rayce. Tears fell as he slowly left raven feathers behind.

Rayce opened his eyes. His siblings gathered around him.

"Took you long enough to wake up big brother." One of them said.

He sprang up. He saw his siblings are looking at him eagerly. Tears started falling as he tackled them into hug. They were surprised and hugged him back.

"Let's go big brother!" They took his hands running, ".... to other side." he was smiled as they walked away.

Arrow looked at him sadly, "Don't thank me. It was Big sis who taught me about it." He wiped his hand with handkerchief. He started running, "Better catch up with others."

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Meanwhile Akiara and her friends were running, weather worsen making it hard to see the surroundings.

Dennise casted a spell which made the surroundings clear. They could clearly see now. Even Dalziel was standing some feet away.

"Here I was thinking who ruined my spell." Dalziel remarked coldly.

They narrowed their gaze at him. They were ready to fight against him. Dennise narrowed her gaze. She realized who he was. She spoke, "It's Dalziel. He was history's most powerful wizard. He was also known as snow wizard because of his specialty in snow magic."

"Him? The one who made Tower of misery?" Akiara asked.

"Yeah. My master told me he was tricked by royals and sealed him thinking he might help other countries." Dennise replied.

"I don't wanna be rude.... but exactly how old are you?" Estelle asked.

"Just few centuries old." Dennise replied with a smirk.

They exchanged looks in disbelief. Dalziel looked annoyed, "You all talk too much. Die." He raised his hand shooting icicles towards them.

Suki-san stepped forward deflecting all the attacks. Then she ran towards Dalziel. He started casting multiple spells towards them. Cordelia, Estelle, Eli and Dennise got ready to fight against him.

Suki-san shouted, "Akiara, Mizuki! Go on ahead! We got this!"

Akiara and Mizuki nodded. Akiara shouted back while running, "Thanks. We owe you all one!"

Dalziel created four large snow golems. Suki-san and Cordelia were fighting against it. Estelle and Eli were fighting against snow imps while Dennise was fighting against Dalziel.

Estelle was trying to shoot the imps. She missed her shot as it hit the cap of the imp. The imp vanished like a dust. She bumped behind Eli and whispered, "Their weakness is at the cap."

"Got it." Eli whispered back.

Suddenly someone dashed quickly breaking two golems. This distracted Dalziel. He got hit by one of the spell casted by Dennise. It was Arrow. He again ran at inhumane speed breaking the other two golems. He created a fire ball in his hand. He dashed towards Dalziel punching him on his stomach. Dalziel coughed up blood but he couldn't react quickly as Suki-san stab him in his heart.

Arrow coldly spoke, "You are pretty weak for dark emperor."

"How dare you *cough* *cough*...." he collapsed. "Even in the end...... I'm still weak. I apologize master for not being useful to you." His body disappeared.

"Let's go. We need to help Akiara and Mizuki." Suki-san started running. Others followed her as well.