Sins of Love - Chapter 47.

“You have no idea how much in trouble you are.” 

Ella curiously turned to look at him and furrowed her brows. 

“Why am I in trouble?” 

Shazan did not reply to her and turned to look back.

A Blood Knight, with the face covered under the hood, approached them. 

Without saying a word, the person stood right in front of him, looking at him from under the hood. She was Ann BloodFallen.

Shazan knew why she was here, and he smiled, gesturing her to take a look at the battle happening near the Dimensional Wall. 

Sure enough, the moment she saw those shiny Silver-Grey spears in the hands of Caius and Vikaros, her body shivered in excitement. 

“Shouldn’t you be taking rest?” Shazan chuckled. 

He knew that she must have seen Ilsa’s Halberd when Maira and Ilsa went out to get some rest. And that was why she was here. 

“Lord Silverstein,” She called out to him in a child-like manner. “I want one too!” She raised her voice a little, surprising Ella, who had never heard her so excited before. 

“It was her!” Shazan mercilessly pointed at Ella and turned his attention back at the battle. 

“Lady Ella!” 

Ella was taken by surprise when Ann suddenly called her name. She had never talked to this BloodFallen before. Ann only conversed with Keira or Arianna.

“Yes, Princess?” 

“Would you give me one Spear too?” She hopefully asked as she looked at the Spear Ella was holding in her hand. 

All the three Spears she had designed were similar, except for the wings. The one she had made for Caius had bird-like wings, and the one she made for Vikaros had feathers of a peacock as its wings.

As for the Spear she was currently holding in her hand was for Gerald. It was simple yet elegant, having two flame-shaped arrowheads as its wings. 

The Leader of the Bloodfallen went down to the training ground to check on Amraaz and left the Spear here in case Shazan might have to use it.

“This belongs to your husband.” Ella apologetically told her. But she realized that she shouldn’t have told Ann that. 

Ann grabbed the Spear as soon as she heard that it belonged to Gerald.

“Thank you!” She conveyed her happiness to Ella and started brandishing the spear to get used to its weight and size. 

“Princess…” Ella tried to talk to her, but Ann waved her hand. 

“Gerald wouldn’t mind. Don’t worry.” She assured her. 

“That’s not it!” Ella sighed. “It is perfect for him and made at his request. The measurements may not be suited to you. Can’t you please wait? I will make one for you as soon as I get some more materials?”

“You would make one for me?” 

The words of Ella caught Ann’s attention. 

“Yes!” Ella smiled at her. “I will make it in any form that you like.” 

“Really?” Ann was skeptical, and she turned to look at him for confirmation. 

“She’s right.” Shazan nodded to her. “Now return this.” He drew his hand forward and looked at her with seriousness. 

Ann was reluctant to part with the Spear, but she nodded and handed it over. 

“What materials do you need?” She asked as she stepped closer to Ella.  

“I can make one spear of this quality if I have two of these…” She pointed at the remaining three Javelins from the only One-Star Spider that they had encountered. Before Ann could mention that there were three, Ella informed her. “I will use two to make one for Amraaz first. So, we need one more of these before I can make one for you.”  

Surprisingly, Ann obediently nodded to her and did not say anything. She kept standing by the side of Ella and turned her attention to the battle. 

Keira, Ezio, Vikaros, Caius, and Isha were fighting together, and the Scorpion was soon going to meet its end. Its entire body was bleeding. The damage the Spears did was greater than the damage done by the Javelins. 

What they lacked were suitable Javelins to form such Spears and the time. Each Spear nearly took Ella forty-five minutes to make. And once the process of refining started, she couldn’t be disturbed, and the process could not be stopped.

She made the two Spears for Caius and Vikaros one after the other and only made one for Gerald a couple of hours back when Izna was also present here.

Shazan wondered when they would face the next true One-Star Beast. It had already been eleven hours since that Spider died. It was a good thing that they got to rest for nearly two hours after that. 

His hand tightly held the Spear, as his heart sought blood and battle. 

“You want one for yourself?” Ella smiled and asked. 

“But you have to make mine first!” Ann reminded Ella before he could even answer.

“Nah…” He shook his head. “I can do fine for now even without one. Those that need it more should be armed first.” 

“Mhm.” Ella nodded in approval.

“How do you name these weapons?” He curiously asked. 

Ella had named the Halberd, Zurkill; War Maiden’s Lament, named the Spear of Caius, Rukh; The Spear of Pride, the Spear of Vikaros, Rain; The Sky’s WarCry, and the Spear of Gerald, Mera; Blood Flame.

“The one who creates the weapon names it. And well, I don’t know. The names just come to my mind in the process of the refining, and I go with them.” She locked her arms with his and rested her head against his shoulder. “Master doesn’t like those names?” She asked, even though she knew the answer. 

“I like them.” He planted a kiss on her head and turned to look at the rippling Dimensional Wall. “What is it this time…” 

The group hastened their attack when they realized that another Beast was coming. In a matter of seconds, the Scorpion that was on the verge of its end finally met it.

“Drawback!” Ella urgently called out when she saw a dark black Horn come out of the wall. 

The creature was taking its time, but the sheer size of the horn tightened their hearts.

“What is this?” Keira asked as she came to stand by their size. 

Caius and Vikaros stood two steps forward, in a defensive stance, and Isha went to stand behind Shazan. 

“It is a Beetle,” Ella told them. “And, it is a One-Star Beetle.” 

“True One-Star?” Isha fearfully asked. 

“Yes,” Ella nodded. 

After a minute, the creature was finally out of the Wall. 

It was enormous, with almost four meters in height, and four meters in width, but its length was over ten meters because of its large horn. 

What was amazing was that its two large eyes were quite attractive. It was to the extent that even he felt his heart soften when he looked in those eyes. But a glance at its spiky long legs wore off that illusion. It was a deadly Beast. 

Ella was about to step forward but stopped. 

“They are here…” She smiled at Shazan. 

“Take care of Isha,” She answered and stepped forward.

“Weaknesses?” Ezio asked.

Shazan closed his eyes and opened again as they turned to a shade of wine. He observed the life strands of the Beetle and looked right through its body, but the result was disappointing.

“None.” He shook his head. “It is slow. But since it controls gravity, it wouldn’t matter.” He scanned its body once more. “ We can hurt it by targeting its joints of legs. And those antennas too, but the rest of its body is too tough for us. And those wing-casings are even tougher.”

“Still want to try?” Ella smiled and asked. 

“Of course.” He answered and pulled a Sword in his hand. 

Ezio, Vikaros, and Caius nodded as well. And Keira readied her swords. 

“That’s enormous.” Gerald arrived behind him together with Amraaz. 

Shazan handed over the spear to him and glanced at Amraaz. 

“How are you doing?” 

“Itching to duel that.” He grinned and answered. 

“Good.” 

Shazan disappeared from his spot, bursting out all his Aura. He appeared right under the horn of the Beetle and readied his arm to throw the Javelin right at its mouth. 

Zun…

A strange sound spread in the cave, and he felt as if a mountain had pressed on him. 

His entire body shivered, and his blood vessels bulged in his skin. He summoned all his strength to drawback, but he moved slower than a tortoise, and the pressure on his muscles and bones increased. 

The horn above his head hammered down at an unavoidable speed. But just as he was about to give his all and get out of the way, a rope of fire wrapped around his waist and pulled him away. 

The entire cave shook crazily as the horn hit the ground where he had been standing at. The tremors were even stronger than that of the Ants.

He dropped down on his knee and panted crazily by the side of Ella. 

“The field you just entered was the strongest. Try your best to not end up under its horn.”

“How are we supposed to beat that?” Caius asked in a shivering voice. 

“There’s a gravity field that it generates all around itself?” Shazan asked.

“Mhm…” 

“How strong?” 

“Quite strong,” Ella smiled. “One-Star Beetle can generate a maximum of 50 times the Gravitational Field of the world it is in. It is not enough to squash you, but the tension it has on your body would increase as you try to move around, the faster and stronger you would resist, the heavier it would feel. And your bones might eventually break” 

Shazan stood up on his feet again and walked forward. He was heading right under its horn again, but every step he took got heavier, to the point that he was stagnated in his place even before he could reach close to it. He stopped resisting, as resisting increased the pressure on him.

The rest of the team grabbed the chance to spread out. Gerald and Amraaz got behind it, their speed slowed down when they got near it, but they managed to land a hit on its hind legs. Following that, they narrowly managed to avoid the spiky legs that targeted them, but just that ordeal left them panting heavily.

The Beetle's attention was diverted from Shazan, and the hold of gravity on him lessened. Soon the Beetle was circled from all sides. The weaker fellows stayed at front where Ella could rescue them quickly, Amraaz and Gerald stayed targeting its hind legs. 

However, just as he was about to charge forward…

Zun…

The sound resounded again, and this time, no matter where they were, behind or at the front, they all stagnated. They knew that they could move if they tried, but they wouldn’t be able to escape its attack. 

Its spiky legs approached Keira first, but it was caught by a rope of fire before it could touch her. 

The Beetle curiously looked at Ella and tried to raise the gravity on her, but Ella was stronger than it, and she kept smiling at it. 

The Beetle suddenly screamed in pain as the rope of fire around its leg started to melt it. In just a second, the leg was separated from its body, and Silver Blood dripped out. 

The gravity holding them on their place lessened, and they all, except for him, drew back by the side of Ella. 

He sneaked behind the Beetle and targeted the damaged hind leg with all his strength. The sword clashed on the joint, sparks flew, and as he pulled it, a gash was left there.  

The Beetle tried to catch him with its spiky leg, but under great tension, he managed to avoid it.

“Can we kill it by bleeding it out?” Keira asked Ella. 

“Yes!” She nodded. “It is big and has one of the best defense, but once cut, it heals very slow, and it profusely bleeds.” She pointed at the cut he had just left on it.

The silver blood was flowing uncontrollably and evaporating.

However, to their dismay, the Beetle unleased its strongest field and covered itself in it. 

Shazan realized that he could not take the risk of getting close to it again. 

“How long can it hold on this domain?” 

“Nearly an hour,” Ella answered. “You have a plan?”

“Don’t have one.” He sighed and looked at the beetle. 

The creature had no plans of standing still. It walked toward them, and the closer it got, the pressure they were all under increased. 

They too started to back off, but they realized the problem if they continued to do so. 

The Beetle wanted to force them out of the cave. It would be able to use its wings and fly around once out of this congested space. But that was the outcome no one wanted.

“Lights!” 

Shazan told Isha, who then ran to the controls. 

The Cave was suddenly illuminated in bright light, and the Beetle stopped in its place. However, it soon started to crazily slam its horn all over the ground, and the walls started shaking. 

Under the influence of gravity and the tremors, cracks appeared on the walls, a few lights dropped down, and as soon as they touched the ground they broke.

“Ella…” He sighed and asked for her help.

“No worries.” She happily nodded and stepped forward. 

The influence of the gravitational field seemed to not affect her. Dozens of ropes of fire formed in the air, and then she tied the giant Beast on the spot. 

Ella jumped up and climbed over its back. She reached for its joints that connected the wing-casings to its body with her bare hands.  

The Beetle screamed in pain as Ella tore the wing-casings from its back before making them disappear. Then she took a ruby-colored Scimitar out of nowhere. 

Ann gasped as she saw the beautiful sword, but no matter how excited she was, she did not dare to take a step forward after witnessing how strong Ella was. 

The beautiful Djinn cut off its wings as if she was running her Scimitar through a cake, and only after she harvested all the materials that she needed, she jumped off it. The sword vanished as soon as she stepped on the ground.

The creature was taking its last breaths, but Ella did not finish it off. 

“Uncle Ezio,” She turned to look at the man and called him over. 

A rope of fire appeared around Ezio’s waist, and he was flung over at the top of the Beetle whose back was covered in evaporating blood.  

“It will die if you plunge that Jevelin in any of those wounds.”

“Lady Ella…” Ezio was embarrassed at her words but then took a deep breath and under all the weight of his body, with minimal movements, he held the Javelin and then pierced it in the wound Ella had left behind. 

By the time half the Javelin pierced in the body, Ezio was on his knees, trembling uncontrollably, the veins on his face and neck seemingly on the verge of bursting. 

Luckily, he managed to hold on, and the Beast lost its life. 

The giant body started evaporating, and as it disappeared, Ezio fell before Ella caught him in her aura. 

Shazan went forward and helped him sit by the side of the wall. In a matter of few moments, his condition drastically changed, and all his weariness wore off, but he was still slightly trembling. 

“Thank you!” Ezio got up on his feet and politely bowed to Ella. 

“You’re welcome!” She smiled and came forward as she locked her arm with Shazan’s. “Congratulations on entering the Seventh-Realm.”

“It will be a few days before I can fight again.” Ezio smiled and nodded. 

“We will take care of things here. Rest well.” Shazan patted his shoulder and assured him.

Ezio left after bidding farewell to everyone. 

“We are having another break now?” Isha asked Ella. 

“I hope so!” She happily nodded. “Now then… Time to make a Spear!”

At first, he had thought that she was only doing it all to help them, but now he realized that she was fond of making these things. 

“Do you not need to rest?” He worriedly asked her. 

No matter how strong she was, she was expending strength when she made those weapons. And she had just killed off a Beast on her own. 

“I am fine!” She assured him. 

Ella made Amraaz tell exactly what measurements the Spear needed. And after that, she got right into the refining process.

Everyone else here had already seen her make one before, but Ann’s eyes were glimmering in worship as she witnessed it. The weapon-crazy had found the ultimate treasure in her life.

After a tidy process of forty or so minutes, a Spear with Crescent wings was created. And everyone appreciated Ella’s craft once more. It was truly magnificent. 

“Merka; The Wanderer’s Dream. Master: Amraaz Aryan.”

Under the eyes of everyone, Ella dragged him to a corner and then formed a wall of fire around them, obstructing everyone’s view. 

He smiled as she took of the Royal Cloak he was wearing, and then she planted a wet kiss on his bare chest before ending up thinking about something. 

“What’s up?” He curiously asked as he found her pouting and frowning from time to time. 

“I can’t decide which design would suit you…” She whispered.

“Design of what?” 

Ella did not answer him and kept thinking. It took her several minutes before a bright smile appeared on her face. 

She took out a Javelin from the space in her necklace and started refining it. 

It was a javelin from one of the smaller spiders, and in a matter of a few minutes, it was melted to the state Ella wanted. After that, she took out a silver cloth that had veins all over it. 

Shazan immediately recognized what it was, and he surprisedly looked at Ella. 

“Wings?” 

“Mhm..” She nodded but did not look at him. 

All her attention was on her next project. And for that, she took out her ruby-colored Scimitar. 

Seeing it up close, he was even more impressed by the beauty of it. It had gems similar to rubies on its hilt, and its edge was shining is a silver luster. 

Ella cut a Large piece with the blade and then started shaping it. 

Shazan soon realized what she was doing, and he did not have the heart to ask her to not spend it on such a luxury. She was doing it from her heart, and if he refused it, she would be sad. 

She soon draped the pieced of clothes on him, used her Aura to get the perfect fit, and after that, she melted a piece of the wing to form threads. 

It took Ella less than ten minutes to sew the shirt, but after that, she spent twenty minutes designing it in her fashion.

Ella made buttons out of the melted metal of Javelin, each if a different but pretty design. And after everything was done, she let it bathe in her fire for a while. 

The final result was, to say the least, absolutely stunning. Its design was close to a combat shirt, but it looked formal at the same time. The silver veins on it were now faint, and the shine had been lessened to his taste. At the back of the shirt was the Royal Emblem of House Silverstein that represented the Emperor. It was a wolf with a crown on its head and a curved dagger with a wolf-head floating over it.

She stepped forward and helped him wear it. There thirteen buttons, each in the form of flowers, a few he recognized, and most were alien to him. There was no collar, and Ella left the top button undone. 

Shazan found that the material was quite flexible and comfortable to wear. He could easily stretch, and it was a tight-fitted shirt.

“Do you like it?” She hopefully asked. 

“Love it!” He pulled her in his arms and spun around with her. 

“Good!” She happily sipped on his lips. “Time to do the pants now.”