Chapter 3: The Beginning of the End

Since the dark faction lost all of their powers, they settled to the next best thing that they could use to activate the ritual that will effectively convert the light energy to the dark energy.

Life force.

They planned to sacrificed thousands or if it's lacking, maybe even millions of the dark faction. You could see their desperation. They clearly weren't in their right minds now.

They were willing to sacrifice everything. They initially did this to stop their destruction but before they knew it, they were already in the verge of extinction. Now, the few that were alive in the dark faction and that was doing this wasn't just here for their goddess, although there were fanatics, some also just wanted the benefits their goddess promised and some even were planning to ask for wishes and revenge as a reward.

In this chaotic times, it's inevitable that people could lose their morals, or at least what they their standards of morality, and changed for the worse.

"LET US START THE SACRED RITUAL!"

The people of the dark faction started chanting some indescribable words. The people who were in charge of chanting surrounded the baby in a circle while the hundreds of people near them started collapsing as soon as the chanting started.

They were falling at a fast rate and the person in charge noticed this. He ordered someone to bring more people, not telling them what they're gonna do. They even went and kidnapped people from the streets openly. The ritual only needed the people to be near the circle of people chanting to absorb their life force so before they can even ask why they were summoned to the sacred ground and surrounded by dead people, they already collapsed and immediately died.

This continued on for more than 20 days. They already converted 2/5 of the light energy in the Vessel to dark energy. When the 25th day started, 4 people chanting lost their lives to the ritual but as if expecting this, they just filled the empty position again after moving away the bodies.

On the 30th day, they didn't seem like making any progress as if it was the sign of the prophecy holding to it's promise until when the afternoon came. The sacred ground showed flashes of dark energy. The people that were handling the chants, though tired and sore from 30 days of chanting and watching people die all around them, only smiled wickedly. They can feel their goddess presence or at least what was left of her.

But before they could fully immersed on their excitement a white light also flashed.

Now, in the sacred ground, you could see two balls of energy inching closer to The Vessel. As if they were caught in an illusion, they could actually see two female figures surrounding each of the ball respectively as they show an ethereal-like transparent image of two goddesses desparately trying to get closer as they were reaching for their "vessel" with great effort but when the two could almost touched the The Vessel, they both screamed in agony. They wailed in pain and one's who heard it was frightened to the core of their voices. They tried to think and imagine what kind of pain the voices they were hearing were feeling right now. They trembled when they thought of that. Some even fell down, kneeling.

If we could rewind and see things in the both goddesses perspective. You could see that before they could touch the the Vessel, a figure that only the two goddesses could see appeared between them and with wave of his hand, the two goddesses felt unexplainable, intolerable and explicit pain from all over. No part of them was spared. Even so, they tried to reach the baby as they could see that this figure was only an essence left behind by that superior being after destroying them once.

For better or for worse, they actually reached the baby at the same time. They quickly entered and forcefully worked together to adjust to the baby's body but how could they forgot that only one could inhabit the baby's body. They were also struck with fear because the moment of pain release they experienced when they entered the baby just returned as if torturing their souls. The figure was still outside, looking almighty like he weren't destroying the goddesses in front of him.

After a few minutes, the last essence of the goddesses could no longer be felt and the almighty figure also disappeared in a flash as if already done of what he was supposed to do. He didn't even look at the baby who was emitting flashes of dark and light energy endlessly.

At this moment, everyone only stared in silence. Quiet and void of sound, the sacred ground was only filled with flashes of dark and light. Soon the dark and light became faster and faster until you could no longer see the baby.

Then, *BOOM!!!!!!!! * A large explosion happened.

This explosion signified the beginning of the end but also the beginning of a new era where people, no matter in the dark or white faction, will be forced to live in deep underground caves because of the magical storm that would destroy everything on the surface of this world and how people who were affected by the explosion turned into beasts of pure chaos.