She had done it.... She had killed them... I thought it was an empty threat she made because she had Weapon Triangle Advantage over me. I tried to protect them... I couldn't. All I could see was the bloodlust in her eyes, like she could lick the blood off her tome like a sucker. 

"Hahaha! Now look at the high and mighty general!" She shouted, in an attempt to mock me so that I'd fall into her trap. "No wonder they left you! You're a pathetic wreck who can't even stand up to a child! I'm questioning what past me was thinking when I signed you into that contract." We both had tears in our eye but for different reasons. Her's we're laughter, joy, happiness. Something I could no longer feel in my body.

"Shut up Veronica. At least I don't go crying home to my cavalier body guard after I lose to a girl that means well like the little bitch you are."  I growled through my teeth.

"Why don't ya hold still so I can put you out of your misery too!" She wiped some of the tears out of her eyes like my suffering was a joke.

"I don't own anything to you Veronica." I grabbed her by the throat and slammed her into a nearby tree. No one ever expects the mage on a horse to lift weights with the armor knights. She seemed to stop laughing and I saw the horror in her eyes. I like that kind of suffering. I pulled the Dire Thunder I kept in my cloak and said those words that I was feared for.

"MAGIC IS EVERYTHING!"