"Rafael, how are you still alive? You're not even aged since the last time I saw you fifty years ago," Shelly asked calmly as she casually neutralized the earth magic that Rafael tried to crush her with stone walls.
"Our demon lord Kazguul gave us immortality in exchange for our souls. You may be the strongest mage in the world, but unfortunately, magic is useless against me!" Rafael answered as he struck a lightning bolt at Shelly.
"That applies to me as well," Shelly replied and transferred the lightning bolt from her body all the way to her left hand then shot it back at Rafael. "But don't you forget about who I am. As long as you live in this world, I'm the law of nature and you shall be punished!" Shelly said as she used the wind to cut every part of Rafael's body.
Rafael healed all the wounds instantly thanks to the power that Kazguul gave him. The cursed water inside his body made him invincible, but Shelly already knew about it because Mykel told her. She opened a pit right below where Rafael stood, he fell down and closed the hole before he could fly away.
"Don't bite the hands that feed you," Shelly said as she looked down at the ground.
Rafael's body was crushed, twisted, and ripped apart by the earth, roots, and rocks as if he was being chewed. No matter how strong he was, he couldn't overpower nature and he finally died with nothing left.
Shelly sighed and then looked at the other side where Rozan dealt with two men on his own. A man with brown long hair and brown eyes wore a robe and a gauntlet on his right hand, his name was Ophal. The other one with blonde hair and yellow eyes wore the same robe and a gauntlet on his left hand, his name was Ephel. They both were the infamous twins and loyal followers of Carvil.
Rozan had a bit of difficulty dealing with both of them because they weren't just a mage but they were a fighter as well. They could use magic and were amazing in close combat as well, making Rozan have to be careful and make some distance which was a bit hard to do because he was chased like he was being hunted.
"I really don't want to use this," Rozan said as dodged all the fireballs, lightning bolts, and ice bolts that the twins threw at him while they chased him down.
Rozan activated [Harmony] as soon as possible but the twins were already right in front of him. The twins were about to kick and punch him but suddenly Ephel's right wrist, and Ophal's left leg got chopped off before they could hit him.
The twins were shocked for a moment and when they wanted to move away, their bodies couldn't move. Rozan smirked as he stared at them, their heads suddenly tilted and fell down to the ground.
"Let's see if you can come back to life without your head," Rozan said as he sat down and groaned after taking dozens of hits.
The twins collapsed and then Rozan impaled both of the heads on top of the earth spike. He was quite surprised that the heads could still move their eyes and mouth, but since the brains were damaged because of the spike pierced through their skulls they couldn't say anything but groaned and made random noises.
The bodies of the twins got swallowed into the ground, and it wasn't Rozan who did it. He turned around and saw Shelly walking toward him with a smile of approval.
"I'm amazed," Shelly said as she stared at the impaled twins' heads.
"This is nothing, I can't even do much against them because of how smart they are. This is the first time I feel threatened by something because of how useless my magic is if I didn't use my skill," Rozan replied as he looked at the heads.
"You should know that these two are the ones who fought hundreds of best mages that we had back in the day. They both massacred them all on their own, so you should be proud of yourself that you could kill both of them so easily," Shelly looked at Rozan with her hands on the back of her waist.
"I mean compared to you or Mykel, I'm not even on the chart," Rozan replied as he sighed and eyebrows raised.
"Are you seriously comparing yourself to a God and a mother of nature who has been living for hundreds of years? I'm not trying to demoralize you, but you're not like us and you should be proud that you can be this strong in a very short span of time," Shelly said as she grabbed the heads and crushed them into a small ball by depressurizing the air around them.
Rozan looked at how creative Shelly was when she used magic, and realized there were so many things he could do if he learned about magic from her.
"Queen Shelly, I want to learn magic from you," Rozan said as he stood up and stared at her with a serious expression.
"Of course, that's my plan after all," Shelly said as she looked at the tower. "There's nobody else that can I teach about magic anymore, you might be my last apprentice," Shelly continued as she stared at Rozan with a smile on her face.
"We still have a bigger problem to deal with, these two are nothing compared to Carvil and his two brothers," Shelly said as she looked at the rings on her fingers. "We have to be very careful because he possesses something powerful,"
The tower suddenly trembled and started to collapse, they both immediately flew away from the area and looked at the tower. The tower smashed the ground and made a heavy earthquake on the island, but someone was flying above the sky, it was Mykel and he was holding a tiara.
Mykel descended and floated in front of Shelly. "I believe this is yours," Mykel said as he offered the tiara made of jade with so many small energy stones socketed around the ring.
Shelly grabbed the tiara and stared at it for quite a while because she had been looking, it was the crown that Gaia herself gifted to her. Shelly lost it before she evacuated everyone and she had been searching for it from the moment she came back to the city until Gaia told her about the tiara's whereabouts.
Shelly wore the tiara and immediately could sense everything on the island, she looked to her right and raised her right hand. A bunch of roots wrapped a man and was brought up into the air, his limbs were pulled off like a twig then struck him with a lightning bold into crisp.
One by one the exiled people got killed with the same method while Rozan and Mykel watched her do her work. Not long after she killed them, a clearance notification appeared and the portal was formed on the north side of the island.
"Demon Lord Kazguul, I'm coming for you," Shelly said and then flew toward the portal on her own.
"Wait! Queen Shelly!" Rozan shouted. "What should we do?! She's in danger!" Rozan asked as he looked at Mykel.
"Go and catch up on her, make sure she's not dead when we arrived," Mykel answered and nodded up at the portal.
