My Mage System

What Mykael was worried about, however, was what state Kelan would be in, he just hoped it wasn't too late to save him.

Axel followed the trail left by Kelan's fragrance and his father suddenly tackled him to the ground preventing him from continuing to advance, the trail went straight on but his father said to him : "Sorry son but there is an invisible barrier just a few meters away from us."

His men were about to join them so Mykael raised his fist to let them know not to continue, and they all stopped dead in their tracks when they saw his signal.

His right hand man and best friend walked over to him and held out his hand to help him up and he saw him pick up a stone from the ground and throw it in front of them.

This stone disintegrated immediately when it came into contact with the barrier and Lucas then said to him : "Damn, that explains why we lost his trail."

Mykael said to him : "You are right, and whatever is behind that barrier must be something very important to her."

He said to everyone : "Get ready, if there are guards on the other side of that barrier I have a feeling I won't be able to suppress them with my aura alone this time."

He immediately saw his men draw their weapons and the smirk on their faces told him that they were all ready for battle and were looking forward to it.

Then Mykael made appear his sword in his hand, and he explained to his son : "This invisible barrier is called the impenetrable barrier, you too would have ended up like this stone if I hadn't stopped you in time."

Axel swallowed, he had just realized that he would have died without his father, but he frowned because he didn't understand why he hadn't felt it, yet he was using his two bloodlines right now.

When Mykael saw him frown he continued to explain to him : "These impenetrable barriers can only be created by a god, and they are completely undetectable, only another god can sense them but not all can destroy them."

Mykael twirled his golden sword in his hand like the expert he was and then he thrust it into the barrier until half of his blade disappeared through it.

He still said more to his son than to his men because it wasn't the first time they had seen him break an impenetrable barrier : "This sword is the divine artifact that belongs to the Gods of Destruction since the dawn of time, I am his 6th master, and it was crafted by the Creator himself. It is one of the few weapons that can overcome these damned barriers."

Axel then saw him turn his sword a quarter in this barrier, and it started to crack slowly.

Only, he growled in frustration because it wasn't going fast enough for his liking and that he wouldn't be able to maintain his father's bloodline for much longer.

Mykael chuckled at his son's impatience and said to reassure him : "Don't worry son, when I will have destroyed this barrier you will be able to smell this fragrance without using my bloodline, just stay close to me, I don't know what we're going to face on the other side yet."

Axel tilted his head to make his father understand that he would follow his lead and when Mykael saw him doing this he couldn't help but smile as he found his son cute and to please him he decided to finish quickly with this barrier.

His eyes turned crimson red again and his red aura mingled with the one emanating by his sword, which was golden like all divine artifacts, and then he thrust his sword to the hilt and the cracks spread all over the barrier which finally scattered.

Just before it scattered Mykael shouted for everyone : "Get down !"

And then Lucas who had stayed close to Axel said to him : "Protect your eyes kid, or you'll be blinded."

Axel did as he was told and quickly put his paw in front of his eyes because he didn't want to close them and then he saw a flash of light which was followed immediately after by a deafening noise.

And just when he thought it was over a shock wave of incredible power hit them head on, and fortunately he still had the shield of his father around him and with his two bloodlines activated he didn't feel much of it but he was still stunned by the power of this impenetrable barrier.

Once it had passed he immediately got up and when he saw that his father didn't even have a trace of dust on his white t-shirt he realized that he had been worried for nothing and that his father was really on a different level than him.

He saw him frowning and then he said to everyone : "There is no one here anymore, and I can't perceive any signs of life inside this building."

Axel finally looked at what was on the other side of the barrier and there was a black rectangular building that had no doors or windows, it was not very big but the aura that was emanating from this building was sinister and he felt a chill running down his spine.

Mykael then asked him : "Son, you still have my aura around you, can you still track your friend."

Axel concentrated on the fragrance that would lead him to Kelan and he saw again that silver smoke that was showing him the way, so he nodded and his father then said to him : "Show us the way."

He turned again to Lucas and asked him as they were all following Axel : "Lucas, you are my best tracker, how long have they been gone ?"

Lucas frowned and concentrated on the energy prints that humans or creatures of all kinds left behind them and when he saw that they were all still quite bright, he said to Mykael : "1 hour no more, and this place was well guarded, I can distinguish with certainty more than twenty different energy prints."

Mykael nodded, he didn't know what they would find inside this building but the fact that Cassandra had guarded it so well didn't bode well.

1 hour could seem little but if they had left in a hurry there was a risk that they had killed all those who were inside this prison to erase their traces.

Or if they were lucky, they would have left in a hurry, thinking that no one would find this place anyway, which was protected by an impenetrable barrier, and then there was still a chance that the prisoners were still alive.