Crimson Apocalypse (4)

As the broken, ill, and lonely prince walked he felt his body growing hot, and soon hunger came over him. After that was the unbearable stabbing pain he felt in his head, and soon his legs went numb as fell to his knees.

He panted like a dog as his kingdom slowly fell to ruin from the rebellion and war which followed by a famine causing what remained of his citizens to die like ants. And he was the only living being there alone and afraid what's to come he weakly walked towards the broken throne and sat on it.

Slowly crimson roots came out of the ground and latched themselves on to him, and with one final breath he transformed into a a crimson serpent that burned always. Soon he was consumed by root, flesh, and fire which slowly spread throughout the ruined kingdom. 

His last words were etched on to the heart of the roots, and the Scorched Wyrm. I want to have my kingdom back, and slowly the ruined kingdom in its own corrupted way would bring back the Kingdom of this lost prince. 

And now centuries later, it slowly awakens from its long slumber awaiting an intruder of its own realm. Two intruders to be specific as it sent the signal to kill through its creations that being the Crimson Abnormalities, flesh roots, and Crimson serpents.

Walking through the many the levels of its realm, the man in a blue suit would not lay a hand on anything because he would let his three headed crimson lion kill everything. He whistled tunelessly before being stopped by a 20 meter humanoid Crimson Abnormality, both of its arms being shaped like blades while its head was split open like a jaw with thousands of razor sharp teeth. Its thousands of eyes were all around its body from chest to arms.

It roared at the man in blue suit, yet he simply remarked, "Nice breath for a literal hellspawn." Soon his shadow beneath summoned a black humanoid creature with arms shaped like wings, and a head shaped like a wyvern's.

It shrieked at the Crimson Abnormality as it rushed the being with its sharp talons, and behind it was the three headed crimson lion striking down on its legs.

 The man chuckled as he tried walking past but was met with its left arm blade before the Crimson Abnormality could hit him, the shadowy humanoid creature struck its left arm slicing it in half.

The Crimson Abnormality lent out a deafening roar of pain as the three headed crimson lion bit down on its neck trying to rip it off, but before it could create a large enough wound. The Crimson Abnormality sliced it in half with its remaining arm, and when it fell to the ground.

The man pat its three head before it slowly vanished into blue sin energy and going back inside him. Soon, he created a warhammer made of the same crimson three headed lion as tossing his cigarette aside spoke, "You've just killed one of my friends, so now I can't let go freely."

He then coated the warhammer in his own sin energy as the shadowy humanoid transformed back into his shadow and became his wings.

"I'll show you what a real Echo user is!" he shouted with manic eyes.

He jumped into air slamming the warhammer into its mouth head, and came out of the other hand splitting the Crimson Abnormality in half. Its blood rained over him as it slowly drenched him in it.

Yet to him it was annoying as it was so easy to kill the Crimson Abnormality. After all a psychopath like him wants the need of having a good fight before killing others... No he wants to slowly beat them to death before finally killing them.

Finally he enters the mid level of the realm of the Scorched Wyrm, and to him he hopes to see more stronger Abnormalities. Just as he stepped into the new level a Crimson Abnormality that stood at 12 meters the shape of a deformed dog rushed at him, but before it could touched him he swung the warhammer towards the side of its head exploding it.

"Great, more pushovers." he muttered before continuing his walk towards the ruined castle.

He could feel the horrific presence of Edward meaning he was getting closer, but that only made his excitement bubble up.

Right now he was a walking volcano ready to erupt of pure sadism, and excitement of getting the chance to fight Edward and the Scorched Wyrm. With each Abnormality he killed only fueling his excitement, and just before him he could see the silhouette of the back of Edward who was 20,000 meters away from him.

The reason he could see that far was because of his shadow wyvern, and that when that creature is his shadow he gains its eyes of which sees everything in a 450,000 meter radius and he can also pinpoint an accurate location of any being.

He ran towards him, using the shadow wyvern as boots which increased his speed matching that to the speed of lightning. As he dashes forward, the overgrown flesh trees would fall and break as the Crimson Abnormalities died from his speed.

Feeling his presence getting closer, Edward turned back and raised his fist punching him the moment he arrived. The man rolled towards an overgrown tree that tried to absorb, but as soon as it touched him it immediately writhed in pain.

He slowly stood up summoning both the shadow wyvern and crimson three headed lion as well as summoning a sword made of black stone and ruby crystals.

"Finally, I've been wanting to meet you. Lord of Thorns, Edward Benedict Martin." he said.

Edward summoned a long black rope and engulfed in the crimson fiery aura adding thorns on each side.

"Hendrik Korlind, Greatest Torturer, and Hero of the Volantis City Military... Such a powerful presence you have." Edward spoke while spinning the rope rapidly.

Both of them stared at each other while circling each other like predators. Before Hendrik could rush forward, the ground beneath them shook and quaked.

Soon after to their left a massive arm got out of the ground, and another to their right as the ground beneath them rose up. Realization hit them, the hill they stood was a massive Crimson Abnormality that was overgrown with crimson root, flesh, and moss. Its skin was hard as obsidian titanium but it looked like normal rocks, and it had only one massive glowing orange eye on its chest but it was covered by its hardened skin.

The Crimson Abnormality tried crushing both of them, but they both jumped off its head right before it could slam both its hands.

"So this is the guard of this region, thought you'd be bigger?" Hendrik mocking asked.

"We can't continue our fight if we have him around, and I can't head to the Ruined Kingdom."

Hearing those words made Hendrik more excited then he was originally. The fact he was getting the chance to battle Edward and working with him was practically a dream come true.

The Crimson Abnormality let out a massive guttural roar that shook the realm of the Scorched Wyrm. The Scorched Wyrm sent a signal to all its creatures not to intervene, and wanted to see the strength of both Edward and Hendrik.

It slowly raised its foot to crush them and on the bottom of its rocky foot was a massive jagged red crystal that reacted to the fiery aura of the black rope that Edward held.

"Hendrik, you distract, and I'll kill it." he tossed the rope into the crystal and pulled on it causing the Crimson Abnormality to stumble.

The shadow wyvern rushed in and struck the crystal with its claws only for it to be launched back.

"Distraction? I don't do distraction!" he transformed the shadow wyvern into a pair of black boots with wings.