CHAPTER 25 (PART 2): KILL THE IRONFIST

Entering the woods, Arth knew something was wrong … but also something familiar. He glanced down on the ground, then he nodded as he suddenly realized what it was.

‘I knew it,’ he thought. ‘This is Alice’s Empyreal Ability, Freezing Field. But she picked the wrong spot. This area is filled with trees where her opponent could easily stay on the branches.’

The trees were tall, but they’re not compressed like in White Forest or even in Dark Woods.

“Quite clever you are for a young mage …”

Arth’s ears caught a loud, dark voice of a man. It was then he spotted Alice far ahead with her white cloak and her blue staff. She was raising her head, staring at the slim, cerulean-cloaked man who had a long blue spear in one hand, standing on the thick branch of a tree.

“That’s him? The …General?” Arth whispered. He had to pause from his run t