The Rise Of Calamity

"Oh god," I blurted out with a flushed face. If this went on for any longer, I would not be able to hide it nor keep it in anymore. I would do something that I had promised myself not to do even if I was drunk.

It was the promise of never taking advantage of someone who trusts me with their life when they are emotionally down. A promise that I would make sure not to break, ever.

*Knock Knock*

'Oh thank god!' I loudly sighed before walking towards the front door with e relieved smile.

*click*

Opening the door, I looked at who was knocking and widened my eyes a little

'What's the time, Hela?' I asked with sweat dripping down my forehead.

[It's almost noon]

'Oh, crap' Sweat only began to pour out of me at a higher rate.

"Hey, Rose. How'ya doin'?" I asked with the sweetest smile I could muster.

"You woke up late, right?" She looked at me with a disappointed sigh

"Uhhh..."

"It's okay. I kind of expected this. Just get ready in the next hour" She walked off without giving me a second glance.

"Oh damn..." I couldn't help but mutter, yet I quickly put her to the back of my head and went back to waking up Olivia.

It took us about an hour and a half to get ready to depart, especially since it took almost half an hour to force Olivia out of bed. Even though I had tried to wake her up normally, my methods slowly became more and more extreme until I was finally forced to use my trump card

"EEK" She immediately jumped out of the bed before reaching behind her and pulling out a dull ice cone that had shallowly hit the center of her ass and even went inside, just a little bit though.

She immediately looked at me accusingly, however, she just saw me standing there with my palms joined and my eyes closed as if I was praying to something.

"BASTARD!" She roared before shooting towards me with the same ice cone in her hand, holding it like a serial killer

"Ahh!" I flickered out of sight.

***

We both walked down to the hotel lobby, Olivia sulking a lot more than I had thought she would.

Throughout the entire time she spent attacking me, she couldn't even get close to me, let alone even get a chance to attack me.

"Why do you two look like that?" Rose asked with a raised brow After looking at our expressions.

"Nothing" We both blurted out at the same time, making rose to look at us for suspicions for a few seconds before dismissing the matter with a shrug

"Shall we go?" I asked as I walked forwards

"We still have to wait for June and Yuri," Olivia said from behind me.

"Ugh. Sure then" I sighed and flopped myself into one of the lobby sofa chairs. It only took another 30 minutes for them to show up, allowing us finally to depart with the carriage away from this place.

I watched as the carriage began to leave through the city walls. Slowly, the city began to grow smaller and further away as we moved, finally becoming so small that no one other than me and Rose could see it.

'One day I will come back, and I will steal everyone's riches!' I inwardly thrust my hand up into the air, getting myself pumped up for the unknowns of the future.

The rest of the journey was silent and awkward. To not ruin the silence, me and Olivia just talked through our mind link the whole time while looking outside, alongside Rose, with who I usually spent most of my time in silence.

***

Thousands of kilometers away were two men flying through the skies at jet-like speeds. They both left a trail one being a yellow-white while the other was a browny-red.

These were of course both the Paladin and Kaif Chowdar flying through the skies towards where the witch of agony was kept.

They did not speak a single word throughout the entire journey, yet one could feel the amount of tension and seriousness around them.

A few hours later, on a mountainside in a deserted area of the continent rang out two loud explosions created by the two figures crashing into it. Both figures did not stay in the dust cloud for long as it took barely an instant for them to disappear and appear again at the top of the mountain where an extremely large hole with scorching hot gasses fuming out it lay bare for the skies to see.

"I'm going in" Kaif muttered before jumping down and parting the lava from his way. The Paladin quickly followed, but instead of parting the magma like water, he covered himself in a golden white aura that repelled any and all damages away from him.

As they both entered the magma, it did not take them long to appear at the place they were looking for.

Within the magma was a small human-sized hole that had an array so that it would not allow any kind of liquid or partially melted solid in, the main example being the magma that threatened to enter at all times if not for the array/runic inscription put in place.

"We are here..." Kaif muttered while looking around as a maze of tunnels showed up in front of them. Of course, since they had made this place, naturally they would know what tunnels to take on the way there.

At blurring speeds, they dashed through all the correct tunnels without fail and reached the other time at a record speed of 2 minutes.

"It took me 13 minutes last time" Kaif laughed to lighten the mood, yet all it achieved was the creation of an awkward yet extremely tense atmosphere. Well, that was what Kaif thought anyway.

"Oh no..." The Paladin's face had become pale

"What is it?" Asked Kaif with the same signs of distress as the Paladin.

"I can't feel her" The Paladin barely muttered, his knees becoming extremely close to buckling under the weight of his own body.

"No..." Kaif, the one who was almost 80% sure that the witch had escaped was still holding out for hope. At first, he had panicked and told Kosmos to shatter the blood prison open, but after finally being able to calm down he was finally able to make the sensible decision of checking if the witch was still in her prison.

Hearing what the Paladin has said, panic arose within him again, causing him to recklessly dash forwards before appearing right in front of where the witch was supposed to be held. Yet, in the place of the prison only laid purple shards of obsidian glass that had been used to hold her within her cage.

"We have to contact Kosmos... The continent is in danger...." Kaif muttered, terror evident in his eyes.