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Chapter 11

More and more crashes sounded as they made their way out of the large tent, then looked up and saw cracks forming over a now visible purple barrier. It seemed that a bunch of watchers were attacking, they were the ones that were attacking Hermitcraft previously, hopefully, that meant the hermits were safe because he could tell by the way the watchers were attacking they didn't win the battle in Hermitcraft. The shield was barely going to last, it was weak magic compared to what most watchers were able to do. It didn't take long before the shield broke, shards were sent flying but they soon disappeared into the air. Astaria sent up another barrier to go over the admins' camp that appeared just as another attack of fireballs was coming in.

Astaria went closer to Lysabel and asked, "Does everyone here have access to an admin weapon?"

"Everyone who won't be taking cover in a safe room does," Lysabel said.

"Not everyone will have them on themselves, we keep most weapons in the armoury when we don't need them," Erin added.

"I will hold up the barrier until everyone has managed to get their swords, Xelqua and I can attack from the sky as well after I take it down," Astaria said.
"Artemis will be able to help you in an air battle as well," Cirrus said, "We'll do our best to help from the ground,"

"When the barrier goes down I expect the watchers, knowing their distance magic won't do much, will come in for close attacks. It is the fighting style that they used during the battles back when the admins were on even footing with them," Lysabel said.

Astaria then added, "Try not to kill anyone, based on the spell and the code any death could be permanent, so make sure everyone knows the aim is to subdue,"

"Got it," Hayden said before moving into his spot in the formation, and the rest of the admin council followed suit.

That made Xelqua wonder what had made the watchers so much more feared than the stories they were told by the right reality versions of the battles that they had to fight. When they were told it sounded like the battle was on even footing, the watchers had magic but admins did have more numbers. He didn't know if that was still the case since he also didn't know if this was the only camp of admins but from everyone he had seen and based on how big he thought the camp was, there were a few more admins than what he sensed were attacking the camp. He assumed there were probably multiple admin camps since there were so many more admins in the right reality than what was in the camp right now.

He went over towards Cirrus to see if he knew anything about what had happened. "What happened to the admin numbers? In the right reality, there were so many more?" Xelqua asked, hoping that the answer was not that watchers had killed them all.

"After one of the bigger battles the admins got divided, some wanted to defeat the watchers, others wanted to protect their land and servers and others wanted to protect the players. Our camp is one of the smaller ones but that's because we all wanted to focus on protecting the players first and foremost," Cirrus explained.

To Xelqua it seemed that although everyone's memories had changed, some of them still possessed some free will. Even this reality version of himself before he gained back his memories had the free will to stay away from the watchers, it also seemed that his connection with the hermits was something the spell didn't or couldn't change. He wasn't quite sure how it worked and it seemed quite complicated but the more of this reality he saw the more he realised that maybe the ones who created the spell didn't have as much control as he originally thought.

He couldn't dwell on what he had learnt for that long since admins were now all standing in the centre with their blades outstretched, when the admins trickling in all came in position and no other ones were joining he heard Via call out, "Everyone is armed now!"

"Try not to kill anyone, subduing is our main goal!" Hayden called out.

Since he was next to Astaria he could see as she heard what Via said and reacted to it, slowly the small light in her hand disappeared. The barrier stayed for a bit longer as the attacks started cracking the dome until it broke where it disappeared similarly to how Artemis' barrier did. The watchers did send some fireballs at first but their admin blades were strong enough to not be affected at all by the attacks.

While the watchers were sending these attacks Astaria, Xelqua and Artemis flew up into the sky. Astaria did the same mix of admin coding and watcher magic that she used all the time, that Xelqua remembered her using when he tried to see how far away she was from their meeting using his watcher vision. It meant for the watchers that were using their watcher vision, which would have been a decent number of them, the three would be invisible. They flew around the back of the attackers as they were still using their fireballs and started stunning the people at the back. Astaria, being more skilled at combining spells, made it so everyone fell down slowly so Artemis and Xelqua didn't need to worry about it. They managed to take down about 13 watchers between them before they started catching on, and then some of the ones in the new back row turned back to face them. That's around the time when the rest of the watchers started moving in when they realised how ineffective their fireballs were.

Since the watchers moved forwards it meant that the admins changed their attack formation to one better suited for close-range attacks, they then pulled out shields from their inventory, they weren't as strong against fireballs as the swords but they were better for defending against the sword. The watchers all had purple blades pointed down as they flew over the admins. Loud sounds of scraps were heard as the swords dragged along the shields, leaving a small scratch on everyone's shields. Up above with the watchers that stayed behind to deal with the air attacks were soon dealt with, the three watchers were able to sync up their movements enough so they got the upper hand in the battle. They didn't bother as much with the cages since they made the magic cuffs appear on their wrists instead, which Astaria also used magic to do. The number of watchers slowly started getting smaller, with the rest of the non-captured watchers all being distracted by the admins; the three watchers were able to start knocking out more of the backlines until there were minimal watchers attacking left.

The final few watchers had turned back to face the watchers who they saw as a more immediate threat, they used a mix of sword combat with magic but it didn't take long for Astaria, Xelqua and Artemis to get the upper hand and stun each of the remaining watchers, Astaria then made it so their fall was slow and had the cuffs stop their magic. They flew down after the slowly descending watcher bodies to where all the admins were waiting. "Thank you for your help," Lysabel said to Astaria and Xelqua.

"We were happy to help," Xelqua replied.

"Is there anything that we can do to help you defeat the ones who made an alternate reality?" Via whispered.

"Do you think you can teleport us as close as you can to watcher territory?" Astaria asked.

"Yes we should be able to, but you have an admin screen, not going to question why right now, but can't you do it?" Lysabel asked.

"Normally but with the code the way it is it made my admin powers next to nothing," Astaria replied.
"Okay then, would you like us to send you off now?" Lysabel asked, pulling up her screen in case the answer was yes.

"Yes please the faster we defeat those who cast this reality the better," Astaria replied. Lysabel started typing, as a torrent of byes were shouted out and in the next moment, they were in an entirely new environment. They looked around and saw five more familiar faces. 

WC~ 1406

A/N: Exam week is finally over! But now there is the worse time of getting the results back. Hope all of you are having a more exciting time.