Chapter-34: The Strike that came from the Ladder of Heaven, and encounter with Kagetane Hiruko [2]

1Chapter-34: The Strike that came from the Ladder of Heaven, and encounter with Kagetane Hiruko [2]

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1st POV | Ren's POV | Gran Tokyo North Tower Rooftop |

As I gazed over to the destruction that Scorpio had caused on the rooftop of a tall building, the old reconstructed Gran Tokyo North Tower near Tokyo Bay, I created a plan to stall it in it's tracks to give the others piloting the Ladder of Heaven a chance and not miss.

[Would you like to summon the <>?]

"Yes" I accepted the prompt as I saw pillars of light seemingly descending from the skies in a circle around Scorpio.

I know the lore about the Old Wall from watching the Final Fantasy movies, the lore is about a series of twelve towering statues built as a defense system strewn throughout Insomnia, the capital city of the Lucis kingdom. The statues wield giant versions of the royal arms from Final Fantasy XV, and once activated, act autonomously to destroy invaders.

Each statue from what I know of, holds the soul of a past king of Lucis, so these statues are sentient and can fight independently.

The pillars of light dissipated and the figures of the giant statues appeared in my vision. 12 towering and detailed statues of the former kings stood tall with their respective Royal Arms.

{We have arrived, Chosen King, we are under your command}

'Hn?'

'Where did that voice come from?' I was confused until I saw one of the statues started walking up to me with the pace and agility of a normal human's like they were not adhering to gravity and the square cube physics.

{It is me, Chosen King, The Mystic}

I soon realized what that voice was in my mind..it was from one of the Old Wall statues.

"Was that you?" I asked the Mystic, one of the Old Wall guardians, the one who wields the Blade of the Mystic, the one who teamed up with Nyx.

{Indeed, Chosen King}

I looked in wonder and confusion as I measured the Old Wall statues' height, they were small compared to Scorpio that towers over them, They were one-fourth the size of Scorpio, the size of normal buildings but still smaller than skyscrapers.

"But why do you call me Chosen King?"

{Because you are}

What do you mean?...I don't have time for this, I need to stop Scorpio!

"Then heed my command and stop that monster from advancing further into the city!" I used a formal and old English to somehow fit in and...to fulfill some of my fantasies I guess..

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3rd POV | Near Tokyo Bay |

The twelve king's statues moved immediately, they moved with humane agility though they were gigantic, some even threw their weapons towards the abyssal behemoth and then with a burst of specks of blue and purple light, they disappeared and reappeared near their weapons like they teleported.

The Mystic, The Oracle, and The Fierce statues all headed to the top of Scorpio, they warped all over Scorpio's body to reach the top.

—Whoosh! Pshaaaak!

The statues were besieged by the tentacles of Scorpio trying to prevent them from reaching the top but the Mystic slashed through them as well as the Oracle who threw his trident and pierced through the tentacles and warped through all of them, and the Fierce just doing the same as the Mystic statue and just battering the tentacles with his mace.

Soon all 3 statues had reached the top of the head of Scorpio, the Mystic moved and then jumped towards a big tentacle intending to use is as a jump board, he grabbed the tentacle by it's flesh and hanged on it as he used his sword to do a spinning strike and slashed through the tentacle, severing it in half, as his sword flew towards the numerous red, large, and bulbous eyes, the Mystic let it spin towards the eyes while he fell slowly.

His body disappeared into specks of violet shards once more and appeared holding the sword, with enough momentum gathered from throwing the sword, he sunk his sword deep within it's flesh and dragging it over to all over 5 of it's eyes. He hanged with the sword stuck inside of Scorpio's big eyesocket.

—Craaaaaugh! Graaaaah! Cruoooooo! Puchi! Puchi!

The Oracle and the Fierce started bashing in the countless eyes that was on the top of Scorpio's head, they stabbed and bashed the eyes of Scorpio, causing it to screech and tremble in an intense magnitude.

Meanwhile, the other Old Wall statues, namely: The Rogue, The Wise, The Brave, The Chivalrous, The Eagle-Eyed, The Beast, The One-Eyed, The Capricious, and The Protector, started grabbing and attacking the legs of Scorpio, rendering Scorpio immobile for a while.

What they're doing is stopping Scorpio in it's tracks and giving the JSDF time to evacuate and leave the area that was around Scorpio.

After a few minutes of stalling, the JSDF informed Ren that there is no one left near or in the vicinity of Scorpio.

"Good! Now I'll stop if from moving a muscle!" Ren said as he started a large-scale space manipulation around Scorpio.

"Well, it seems the irregular is here" Ren suddenly heard a voice behind him, so he turned around and stopped manipulating the space around Scorpio, and what he saw made him frown.

He saw a man wearing a pure white mask with a mischievous smirk and crescent shaped holes where Ren saw emptiness within it. The man also had a top hat, and his upper body was completely covered by a connected jacket with three buttons on either side. The jacket's collars are flipped, giving view to a plant-like design on the inside and several diagonal lines on the higher areas. The jacket's end spots a split cape elongating to his feet. Underneath the jacket, brown pants, leather shoes and two pistols holstered on his thighs.

He was..

"Kagetane Hiruko...!"

While Ren saw what was behind him, the statues noticed that Ren was focused on another enemy so they did the work themselves and when Scorpio was in the perfect spot, the Mystic raised a thumbs up as a signal to fire.

A streak of blue light appeared over the horizon as it hit the mark and pierced through to the other side of Scorpio, breaking sound barriers a it does so.

—Boooooomgh! Ching! Craaaauuugh! Grooooooo!

Scorpio screeched one last time as it exploded, when Ren knew that it was about to explode, he turned around and contained the explosion into a small ball, gathering all of it's flesh that was about to fly off with the explosion.

"Haaah..Damn it.." Ren muttered under his breath as he turned back to Kagetane who was clapping slowly.

"Amazing! As expected of our anomaly!" Kagetane shouted in excitement as he spread his arms.

"Ahhh! But you ruined my plan though~! How disappointing!" Kagetane had a change in tone to disappointment.

"Hihi, since he ruined your plan I can cut him up right?" Ren saw a gray haired girl with red eyes signifying she was a Cursed Child, wearing a dark marine dress, and holding small katanas in her hands.

"No can do Kohina~! We still need him" Kagetane turned to Ren with a dangerous light in his eyes.

'Why did I have to get involved with this psycho? Haaaah..I guess this is inevitable, much better to get rid of a problem now than later' Ren though as he sighed once more.

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