126 - Clash of Titans
He did cut it.
So fast that the Eldritch entity barely had time to react. So clean that the root just separated with barely any blood splashed.
A smile was on his face as serene as an angel's. Until the root lashed out with a glow of gold and reconnected with the eldritch.
Berus knew one thing at that very moment. There was no saving this world.
Above in the darkness of the yet-to-be-terraformed world, a pit on the floor out of which glowing lights escaped kept dimming. The light almost snuffed before a large tremble occurred and out of the hole shot a form so terrible it would bring madness to any mortal mind.
After it followed a gigantic being whose form did not fit this world, his four eyes blazing with an incandescent fury even as his long sword ignited in a white flame. A flame that slashed behind him cutting the root that shot out with them in its attempt to follow and save its main body.
His left hand rose his fingers outstretched as a Rulerune was drawn into the air and then grabbed like a solid piece of matter.
The root returned just as large almost unaffected and writhing with pain and anger. An arc of white divine flame cut it once more severing it from the rest of it below.
The sliced-off top turned to ash and was erased while his fingers pressed the ground. The rulerune etching flowed through his large fingers like a stream of beautiful drawings and into the ground, there it expanded even as the root tried again stretching and growing out in an attempt to find its original body and grant it power.
Yet the Rulerune was already active. The moment its tip ascended out of the base it caught aflame burning in a smoldering wave of white fire. Retreating the root paused almost like it was thinking then with a shiver, soundless and unfettered it changed course as it tried burrowing through the sides of the pit.
A screech from behind alerted the divine of the returning horror.
"Alert me if it finds a way" he spoke.
Without pause, the god turned to face the Eldritch. Vailex raised pointing upwards its golden blade illuminated in white flames. With a mighty drag, it was slashed down cutting an arc of white fire that shot for the Eldritch.
Yet it dodged. Its body shivering like a leaf exposed to the winter cold weaved about the arc before crashing right in front of the four-eyed god. With no waiting, no pause, and no hesitation it pounced.
Utilizing every one of its limbs it went straight for the throat. And the god responded in kind.
White trails of flames in wake of their slashes. Roots shortened and dispatched from the main body.
The Eldritch felt the burning fervor of the incandescent sword wielded by this lesser creature and it maddened it.
Their clashes carrying them around in speeds undetectable to mortal standards. Another slash then a kick sent the Eldritxh flying far from the god and landing in a pained twist of limbs. Yet it rose like an undead answering it's master's call.
His maw opened and a beam, almost a hundred times more powerful than the first one it used against the other divines shot out piercing through the dark atmosphere and drilling for its Nemesis.
"Ordaus Armor"
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The words trembled the world and light as bright as the torches of stars shone from his body. The light spread and weaved forming a plate of armor from around his neck to his hip, encompassing his arms and forming gauntlets connected to his armor by a thinner strand of ordaus chain links.
The chest of the white armor had an eye symbol in gold and the shoulder bands curved in the design of a wolf head. His head was covered by a Corinthian-styled helmet with only four spaces for his eyes and a sealed lower face.
Raising his sword the white flames of star fire were snuffed out only to be replaced by an even hotter and deadlier glow. His two hands grasping the blade swung down.
"Heaven's Hunter" his whisper restrained by the closed-in helmet. Not like the Eldritch would hear or understand.
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[HEAVEN'S HUNTER
Summoning the will of the multiverse into his blade a Heaven hunter brings tribulation in the form of one fruitful attack. This should be a skill, not a technique.]
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The ray of light much brighter than the armor shot out of his blade in a crescent moon arc. From one side a greenish beam of energy pierced the atmosphere like a spear and from the other a light arc brighter than any. The two energies raced for the other before both clashed so harshly and so grandly the world wailed its distress, the ground ripping between their feet as a shockwave spread like mountains were matching.
BOOM
Yet the energy still succeeded in ripping through the beam appearing right in front of the Eldritch like a judgment. Wait it was a judgment. One that the Eldritch realized it was doomed to be ended by if it didn't move. Its roots pushed it away its wings flapping frantically. Yet it was too slow to completely avoid the harm as the light cleaved its right wing off.
The ground bore the mark of the light's power. A great ridge from the feet of the god all the way out of his sight. Yet he knew how far it went.
He could only frown at the effect realizing that a prolonged battle might affect his new world.
"I guess you're right. This should be a skill . let us end this". The light of his sword dimmed as the Ordaus armor vanished the light returning into him.
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The god made a running stance, several thoughts and memories flashing through his head. Some were of his second son who was always eager to learn and then twist his teachings into something that benefited him.
A smile graced the being's face right as his body shivered and a thought echoed in his head.
'Flaize Glaze'
The god vanished. His hair blew in the wind now free with no helmet to hold it down. His feet shattered the floor as he appeared right beside the Eldritch barely a millisecond passing. The creature sensing him moved sharply to evade while dark blood dripped from the stump of its arm circulating to form a new one.
Yet it felt a nick to its back. Panicked a feeling that the eldritch didn't understand it spun lashing out with a few roots only to hit the godling that scattered into nothing.
Mirage.
Blurring behind it Vailex sliced into its healed wing dismembering the crooked limb from its body. The move continued with him leaving mirages, the Eldritch attacking and hitting either air or mirages and several cuts and wounds appearing on its body.
The Eldritch finally fell its face to the floor as the god soared up to deliver the last strike.
ENERGY FLOW
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[ENERGY FLOW - ACTIVE
Tapping into the streams of power that flow through the body. Not just drawing it out but using it, manipulating it.]
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But he wasn't the only one with a new trick.
With all the divinity it had absorbed from the core the Eldritch might not have been physically capable.
A flash of green energy unleashed from it spreading and smacking him right out of the air canceling his drawn energy and making him nauseous. His back struck the floor cracking the ground.
But the Eldritch was certainly full of sheer energy from its draining.
From the point of impact, the ground caved and stretched on, the floor falling, beneath lava boiled and rose with a great heat as it surged upwards
While he rose eyes locking onto the Eldritch with animosity the floor kept breaking in a circular pattern that created a chasm descending into the bowels of the earth where the lava surged from.
Deciding to end it with one fell swoop and then hopefully repair the damages the god could only halt confused as the Eldritch twitched. It head shivered and it's body spasmed for a moment before it fell to its knees with a jerk. He watched confused as it uttered a screech, a mournful din of pain and defiance as it shook itself.
A cry that brought memories to the god. Memories he couldn't forget. Of a world where he had danced with fear and despair.
Shaking the scene out of his mind he focused fixing his attention on the Eldritch just as it made one last jerk.
Then fell shivering like a sick patient.
"What happened?" The god was left confused.