Wrath of Sorcery

CHAPTER 2

Pitch black skies—the event already started on the cruise. Lithia is prepared with her black lace dress. Simple make-up completed her look with her keys attached to the lace on her leg. She entered the cruise with a simple smile on her lips. The crowd is looking at her as she walks slowly—pretty fancy, right? 

“This is another headache for me. I’m just here to tame Ophiuchus. I know I will not enjoy this event much!” she loudly whispered in the air. Luca—Ophiuchus kissed her hand. She grinned in grimace before painting an emotionless expression on her face. She wiped off his kiss on her hand and turned her face away in embarrassment.

The other girls are deviously grinning in envy. Being kissed by a handsome man is quite exceptional. That is one of the beliefs of every girl in Flare City—it sounds ridiculous. For Lithia, from the Melbourne clan, it’s just a normal greeting to a hierarchy from a noble man. But this is different from what she experienced before. Ophiuchus disgusts her. 

“Thanks for inviting me to your event,” she said, wearing a fake smile. A plan to tame Ophiuchus inside her head appeared out of nowhere. She can use a key to force close his door. That’s not an easy task to do. You have to defeat the spirit first just like having a boss fight. The 13 golden doors of the constellation were pretty difficult to defeat. It is such a bizarre task, right? It’s not easy for Lithia to hurt a spirit constellation because for her they have feelings. Thus, she had to do this. They were so powerful that’s why it’s better to have a contract with them, become their comrade or master than being their enemy.

MEANWHILE… the place becomes enjoyable for her to withstand. More like event singing-and-dancing-type. Anyone can enjoy this and even want to attend. There’s a lot of buffet waiting for you inside the cruise. Foods were very efficient to every individual—of course it’s for living.

Lithia roamed her eyes on the deck—location of the prepared foods and beverages. She doesn’t want to join those women dancing in the center ballroom of the cruise. She can feel that there’s something suspicious here. She’s very familiar with food odor, also with the chemicals. That’s her skill obtained from being locked inside their mansion. Her father did that to her to prevent her from being exposed to other sorcerers. 

Home schooling made her life boring so she began to investigate what’s inside their mansion. And now that she’s here outside from her former world of boredom, she became more investigative.

The smell of the wine seems bizarre to her—can it be someone put a chemical on it? Or a magic spell? “Someone put a sleeping spell on these wines,” she murmured. Something came up in her mind, something that can trace the real plan of Ophiuchus for this event. 

“Miss, Mister Luca wants to see you inside.” A staff member came out to call Lithia. She immediately followed him and went inside to face Ophiuchus. 

“Have a drink, Miss Lithia,” he commanded. Lithia took the champagne glass from him. Instead of drinking, she splashed the wine on his face. The staff mouthed ‘oh’ as a comment of amusement for her fierceness. 

“Putting a sleeping spell in a wine to get enough women you want is not a good idea.” After saying her speech, Luca’s men appeared out of nowhere holding women on their shoulders like a sack of rice. Lithia groaned, ranging her anger with a horror face. 

“Hahaha! My oh my! The great constellation spirit sorceress is madly angry with a spirit like me. Do you wish to start a duel, milady?” A smirk formed on his lips—trying to mock at Lithia. 

“Master, come out and talk with this cute little b***h!” Lithia started thinking on her mind; He’s not a free spirit constellation. He has his own master? She began asking herself how come he freely roamed around the city of Flare when he had his master to open and close his golden door. 

“What an i***t! You let your spirit open his own door without a command? How could you? That’s violating contract laws between a constellation spirit and a master!” She shouted in anger. 

“Boys, throw this girl on the ocean and let the sharks eat her!” The staff tied her hands in front of her with a rope.

“Let me god you bastards!” She shouted and struggled to escape. But the staff are much stronger than her so she had no choice. She was thrown outside the cruise—in the water, where it’s too deep and dark. Thus, she can still see what’s around her by the moonlight.

Wrath smelled something troublesome so he flew to the cruise with his flying dog Nichus. They were so angry watching those girls lying on the floor being drugged by a sleeping spell. “You morons! I shall punish you with my magic! Wind God tornado spell last!” Wrath shouted with his hands covered with his wind magic. As he pushed the wind in front, it became larger, able to destroy the cruise’ deck. 

On the other hand, Lithia tries to reach her keys inside the pocket attached on her legs. “I’m inside the water, and I can open two constellation doors. That’s my limit and I think I might overdo this fight with Ophiuchus.” She said inside her head. She successfully reached her keys and as so she got the two of them.

“With all 88 heavenly bodies, I’m opening the 14th door of the constellation! Pisces the fishes! Also the 10th door! Aquarius the water bearer!” The two large electric eels appeared from the water together with the male mermaid.

“What do you want me to do mam?” Aquilus—Aquarius asked her.

“I want you to shove the freaking cruise into the coast! Fishes, I want you to punish Ophiuchus’ master with your electricity.” Aquilus helped Lithia to get off the water before doing his job together with the electric eels. A normal person would actually think that Pisces are just mere two fishes. But as a powerful constellation spirit, they acquire power from the Celestial God of Polaris to assist their master or comrade in every battle.