It didn't take long for backup to arrive. Dozens of Attila's elite nephilim emerged from some sort of portal and began to organize. I wanted to go back to camp, but the girl wouldn't let me leave her for a moment. Not even when he went in to have a meeting about what they were going to do to capture the bad guy who wanted to steal the spellbook. I wondered how he would be punished... surely it must be a light penalty. 50 or 60 years of imprisonment, maximum. If it were one of us, I doubt we could survive it. Nephilim laws are like that, after all.
- Listen… - I started shortly after they had their meeting. – I don't know why I'm here anymore.
- I enjoy your company.
- Ahhh... I don't know how to answer that.
- Do not answer.
- But...
"Look…" she interrupted me and looked deep into my eyes. – I do not fully believe in your theory. But if it's true, wouldn't it be more feasible for us to prevent the death of your so-called friends? And why not stay here?
- What if you can't? – I inquired too loudly and called the attention of a group of soldiers close to us. I lowered the voice tem. – What if everyone there died? I need to go back and let everyone know. You're not worried about one of us dying, but I am. The person who wants to sanitize us will not hesitate to do this and you are worried about a goddamn book!
- The book has a very useful living creature for the maintenance of this world...
- And we're useless, I get it. - I said interrupting her. – But if this is true it shouldn't interfere in our lives. Let me go and let you know. let me...
- No!
I shut up after the denial and lowered my head. Useless. It is true. That's just what I was. A useless one. They were stronger and more capable and they were giving a shit who wasn't. They didn't care about any of the marked children there and I was the only one who knew of the impending danger.
Damn it! I wouldn't sit still!
I walked away from her. First a step, then a little more. I needed to find a way to escape and for that I started counting how many nephilim there were.
43.
In the camp there were 47 nephilim. The soldiers were spread out, but not too far. The makeshift HQ wasn't very wide so I could try something. Even if it was a small thing.
And that's how I found myself further away from everyone and opened a space around them. I needed to give commands quickly and that kind of cost me more than usual.
1st That the space around them function as a dome;
2nd That the dome is indestructible;
3rd That everyone inside the dome is several times weaker.
Three commands were enough, right? Well, they couldn't leave, could they? Wait...but there were spells that went through walls, and even though my dome is indestructible, it works like a wall. I needed another command... Or maybe a rule!
Rule!
So that's how my magic worked...
4th Let no magic work inside the dome!
I ordered and felt the change within space. My space! I controlled space. Interesting. But there were some mistakes there. As soon as I ordered that all the fallen angels from the grimoires disappeared. I saw all the nephilim face each other trying to understand what had happened, and even if I wanted to, I couldn't take their attention away from me. Shit! Now I was a fugitive.
- What are you doing? – The heiress asked, this time her voice had nothing sweet. It was just an angry person.
- I have no idea. – I replied. I was a little scared about the change in behavior, but I wasn't too worried. She wouldn't get out of there. Never!
Oops, that was true. My spaces didn't disappear if I didn't make them disappear, which meant I could starve them in there. It was better to fix it.
5th The dome has a validity period of 2 hours!
And I felt the space changing. Interesting. So this was how it worked? I could create barriers with just the dome and it wouldn't even need to be recharged. Incredible! But you couldn't make a space that big. At least not for now.
- Get us out of here!
- Excuse. - I answer. – But that won't happen. I'll evacuate the camp first and...
- He'll know something's wrong!
- I won't let you use my friends as bait. – I see. She knew it hadn't been one of us who had taken the spellbook. She knew this and yet she pretended to be in doubt about using them. She was going to risk their lives to get what she wanted. I wouldn't admit it!
- You don't understand... If you don't let us go... we'll hunt you and your friends for the rest of your life.
- Well, I don't care. If you save them now, we'll have a chance to run away from you later. But if they die... all this won't do any good. Goodbye, miss.
- How did you do that? How did you trap us here? And why are our angels gone?
- Do not worry. - I spoke. - If demons try to enter they will disappear like your angels.Then they will be safe for a while.
I said and turned away from one of Attila's elite heirs.