the others. And Nikita, I would like to have a piece of cake with you."
She looked once more across the great hall and looked at the huge portraits on the walls, which kept thrilling her. Then Sy slipped to a seat at the long table. Then Mocchan hurriedly entered with the words "What do the ladies want?" the room. "Mocchan will you bring me dinner, please? The job was very tiring."

Lug_san appeared in the doorway. He seemed to be dragging his body more than moving about. Again and again he took a lunge so as not to collapse on the floor.His tattered bag waved just as expansively as he did. With a grin, he lifted his head and waved his hand in greeting:
"Hi guys, is there already food?"

Saira ignored the meaning of the words until she finished studying the request board. Then she turned around and commented on Syjana's words: "You should take an example. Besides, I missed my bounty hunt, so I want to catch up on that now." She saw Lug_san, who had entered the room. It was a terrible sight. With a sigh she made a gesture and shot through the magic circle, the black flames emerged again, which without further visible effort formed into a giant tiger. This tiger was so big it reached Saira's shoulders. While she stroked the 'fur' of the black flame tiger as she gloomily: "Grab it and bring it to me at the bar, I'll sober it up."
The tiger started moving, in a few leaps he had reached Lug_san, grabbed him carefully with his teeth on the back of his shirt and took him leisurely towards the bar. Saira was already waiting for her behind the counter, where she had a carafe and a glass had provided with water. After a quick search in her pockets, she found a small jar, which she opened and contained small white pills. With a practiced movement, she took three pieces four times, dropped the first three into the glass and put the rest into the carafe. Then she stirred the water in both vessels until the pills dissolved and the water took on the color and consistency of blood.
Saira was familiar with herbs and their use, and it was easy for her to design these special nutritional tablets. She liked it to shock others, especially since the water not only took on color and consistency, no, it even tasted like blood.
The tiger reached the bar and Saira put one of her palms on the bar next to the prepared drinks and jumped practically to the other side of the bar. Bezarius, the tiger had put Lug_san down in front of the bar, but Saira immediately grabbed him by the collar and was pressed against the counter. She handed him the carafe with the words: "Drink and everything. So that you at least half sober again. My goodness, you are S-rank mage of our guild, even when we are in the guild building, don't let the hell out of you. Actually, you should You have a role model function, but when I see you like that, I hope that no one takes an example, otherwise we can bury the guild right away. ", Lug_san pointed out sharply and rightly.
The tiger had curled up on the ground in the meantime and never let Saira out of his sight for a second.

Nikita was only disgusted by the sight that Lug_san presented. She secretly hates drunkards.She knew exactly what people in this state were capable of - she had seen it often enough. If they also had supernatural abilities ...
With a sigh, Nikita moved out of the room. Shortly before she went through the door she called Syjana with a smile: "Well, no one else wants cake. I'll be in the kitchen. You can start without me."
"I lost my appetite myself," she mumbled quietly to herself before heading to the kitchen.

Syjana looks condescendingly at Lug_san: "I guess if you drink, then please only drink enough that you at least look as if you are in your senses."
Then she turned to Saira: "Why should I stick to you, Saira? I have enough money, I don't have to deal with menial work, you only instruct me to take important assignments." She stood up elegantly with a sweeping step and literally slipped to the bar and grabbed one of the pre-made cocktails Mocchan had prepared.

Saira let Lug_san, to whom she had almost forcibly poured the liquid, slide to the floor and made sure that he stayed upright by leaning him against the counter in a sitting position.
After she had straightened up again, she turned to Syjana: "I think I'll give up my food tablets and drink enough of your blood, although I doubt it tastes good. But hey who suffers from anemia, at least shut up because he no longer has the strength to open his loose, selfish and arrogant mouth. "
Bezarius was already in a lukewarm position when he noticed Saira's anger. "Let's go, let's turn this oh-so-fine lady from a house that despises people into minced meat." She only had to make a leap and reached Syjana. She hit her fist right in the face, so hard that it thundered against the wall at the end of the room, so that this light sand from the stone joints let rain down on her opponent.
Her tiger had known what Saira would do. Therefore he had already gone to the said wall and held the young lady with his paws on the floor. Her head between his fiery teeth.

Syjana looked deep into the eyes of the tiger and took as much air as she could get through the huge paw and said: "Nice that you want to play Bezarius but I would like to sort it out verbally with your mother and thank you for the blow. Since I don't speak with my fists straight away, as is the case with her. "

"I don't feel like listening to your inhuman drivel. I'll put an end to that once and for all by sending you to the eternal hunting grounds.", Saira looked at her with cold eyes. The color seemed deeper than usual and the aura around her had changed. The thirst for blood was obvious and you could really feel it.The deep desire to completely destroy the enemy had spread in her. Syjana didn't care, but it wasn't her talk, it drove her to white heat and she couldn't and didn't want to accept this attitude towards others.

"My God folks, what kind of heat is there in here," suddenly came the sound from the corridor. "You are left alone for a few minutes and you will destroy everything. Who should clean it all up?", Nikita sounded slightly annoyed. She pointed to the wall behind Bezarius, where just at that moment a huge piece said goodbye and hit the floor with a loud plauz. "If someone has too much excess energy, this person can also help me with the baking. Oh yes, before I forget it: Does anyone still have some milk? I can't find it anywhere."

"Please? Misanthropic? I? I ask you, I only come from a good family, not like you!", Syjana laughed sardonically, "but if you want it that way, please." She took a key out of her hip pocket. "Come on! Usagi stand by my side!"
Shortly after she had said this, Nikita appeared in the door but then it was already too late. A bright white cone of light appeared and a 1.60 m tall white rabbit emerged from it, which seemed to have a slightly milky aura. The hare drew back and struck at the tiger, but the tiger snapped back as it had already been warned by the cone of light.

"BEZARIUS", the name echoed through the whole hall. The tiger reacted immediately, dissolved and enveloped Saira's body, which now seemed to be on fire.
With a practiced grip in her leg pocket, Saira pulled out a small dagger made of titanium with a double-sided serrated edge and an ornate wooden handle. She drew a pentagram of incantation on the floor with her right foot. Two magical circles flashed as she entered the circle. However, these magic circles ran in opposite directions, which was quite unusual.
She stretched out her left arm in front of her, the right hand ran the dagger over the entire left forearm. A neat, thin cut from which fresh blood oozed now adorned her arm. The blood ran down her arm and dripped onto the magic circles. Saira put the dagger back while the flames stopped the bleeding and closed the self-inflicted wound. She stood there with her arms crossed in front of her chest, her eyes straight ahead, one might think. But one look into her eyes would be enough to tell that she didn't, all you could see was a terrifying emptiness.
Without haste she raised her voice and melodious sounding words flowed from her lips.
"Sealed with blood,
The heart in the light of darkness
The soul glistening black
The spirit soaked in fiery red
The body bathing in the river of flames.
So the pact awakens -I call Phlegethon's power. "

Nikita's staring, vacant gaze began to crumble as Saira began her incantation magic. She looked desperate - a bit like a kindergarten teacher who had told her children for the hundredth time that they weren't allowed to eat chocolate before going to bed and that they still did. So desperate that she saw that no matter what she did, it wouldn't do any good. Once spoken, Saira's spell was almost impossible to hold and it was simply too late. Nikita looked at the other end of the room, where her armor was still on the chair. The room now looked much bigger compared to before and that was not because of the destroyed walls. Nikita gritted her teeth and had to admit that she simply wouldn't be able to jump across the room and put on her armor before Saira's spell was over. The whole thing with the low probability that the armor could withstand it without additional magic. Another loud sigh escaped her. 'If only I had stayed in my bed today,' thought Nikita, closed her eyes and then began to mumble something to herself in a strange language.
[i]fea i cef, im yal na.
teli nef!
feir-i edain-lye lume paur
a helwa-i ho telcontar a nwalme.
A brown circle of light began to glow under Nikita's feet. A gentle gust of wind from below blew past Nikita and began to vibrate her long hair when suddenly thousands of small stones detached themselves from the ground to enclose Nikita in themselves. For a second she looked like a stone image of herself, until the stone layer suddenly