Book 3. Chapter 32.
“The Awakening of Darkness 2.” Part 3
Are you implying that I am also a descendant of the gods? she questioned in her mind, unable to believe what she was hearing at the same time she remembered that she had seen the white glow of the ether long before she obtained a system, in the memory of the younger version of her when Persephone died and she began to absorb her.
A small smile laden with fondness came across the demon king's face as he watched her create a sharp black crystal stake.
Kalysto, why do you think my aunt chose you as her Avatar despite having within you the avatar of her enemy? He replied.
...I thought I was no longer her avatar. She thought, wanting to change the subject, uncomfortable with the direction of the conversation and its implications about her ancestry. At the same time, annoyed that such a title never appeared in any of her systems.
A god can only choose one avatar every hundred years, and after that they must wait a certain number of years after their death before they can choose others.... It is not easy to choose a new avatar since there are certain requirements that must be met, that is why the gods tend to revive them. He clarified, though it struck him as odd how little Kalysto knew about herself.
“Master, watch out!” Tsuki shouted suddenly, stepping out of his mistress' shadow of his own volition at the same time one of Mhiralla's spears of light was hurled towards her.
The barrier Aegir had created shattered into a thousand pieces half a second before Kalysto managed to grab her pet, turn into shadows and move away from danger.
Aegir also managed to escape in time, but dozens of lightning bolts shot out from the spear, burning one of his legs.
“Creation of light!” the fairy champion conjured, casting the spell right into the eyes of the goddess, completely crapping her out for a few seconds, taking the advantage to throw the stake she just created and giving her time to push the demon king away and heal his wounds. “Jhil! Jhil!”
Three notification windows appeared before her, two black and one blue.
[Jhil's skill has been leveled up to level 99!]
“You know, for someone of level 550, you look out of shape today,” Kalysto muttered as she finished healing him.
“Kalysto, I've been fighting almost non-stop for a whole month, since the day you disappeared. Plus I haven't slept for two weeks. Give a man a break,” he said, pulling out a mana potion, but Kalysto handed him the last of the revitalizing potion she had left. “Better keep it for yourself.”
“Perfect aim! Fire arrows!” she conjured, attacking the goddess again and giving Morrigan a small advantage so she could hurt her. “How long ago did you run out of revitalizing potions?”
“...A week ago,” he answered with some embarrassment, as he received the potion and drank it, watching as she and her pet joined the dark saintess in their fight.
A few seconds later, he joined them in battle.
If it was difficult to break through the ether surrounding Morrigan and cause her physical harm before, in Mhiralla's case it seemed to be impossible.
Even with Kalysto and Morrigan giving their best effort, along with Aeguir, who was doing his best to protect the former saintess despite the disadvantage he was at by having an attribute opposite to that of the goddess, they could not cause her enough damage for the next ten minutes.
A wave of light was expelled from Mhiralla's body, pushing her three attackers, along with Tsuki, away from her.
The smell of scorched flesh filled the air as Kalysto realized that the previous attack had burned Aegir's body, charring it.
But before Kalysto could reach him and heal him, another wave of light, followed by another wave of fire and another wave of light, burst from the goddess' body.
Immediately afterwards a shower of lightning accompanied with thousands of spears of light and fire fell upon them.
Fearing for the life of Tsuki, the weakest of them all, Kalysto diverted her course, but before she could approach Tsuki, Aegir was pierced by several spears after materializing in front of her, using his body as a shield to protect her as soon as his magic shield was destroyed.
“Go to him! Quickly!” he urged her, knowing full well how attached she was to the puppy.
But his sacrifice was in vain.
A spear of light cut through one of Kalysto's feet before she could reach her pet and almost immediately three spears of fire buried themselves in her right thigh, preventing her from saving Tsuki. Making her watch in horror as four spears pierced deep into the white fur.
“Noooooo! Tsuki!” She screamed and a wave of darkness burst from her body without her being aware of it, completely forgetting the demon king and her own pain, turning into shadows and materializing right in front of her pet. “Jhil Ezhil! Jhil Ezhil!” she conjured dozens of times as she pulled the spears out of his body, burning the palms of her hands in the process.
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[The passive skill Pain Resistance has been activated.]
Kalysto ignored the notification windows and continued healing herself and her pet.
“Regeneration! Jhil! Jhil Ezhil!” It was almost a minute later when Tsuki's wounds finished closing that she noticed he wasn't breathing. “Tsuki?” Her eyes filled with tears at the pain of loss a second before she regained her composure. “Mana detection!” Her chest sank as the spell confirmed what she feared. Tsuki's heart was no longer functioning. “Resurrection! Resurrection!” She growled, injecting nearly all her remaining mana into bringing him back.
I can't lose you too! Not after losing my father again by that piece of shit! She thought, at the same time as thick tears ran down her cheeks.
But instead of getting what she was looking for, a pair of windows appeared before her.
[Warning! User has less than 10 MP left. Please wait a few minutes before attempting to use any skills again or your health will be severely affected.]
Shit! Annoyed by the untimely interruption at such an important time, she pulled out five Mana crystals, realizing she had barely twenty-five left Absorb!
[Does the user wish to absorb these mana crystals?]
[YES/NO]
Yes! she thought, and do it quickly, I don't have all day!
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 36000 MP!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 25000 MP!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 32000 MP!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 37000 MP!]
[Congratulations! the user has acquired 39000 MP!]
[The skill Absorb has been leveled up to level 121!]
“Resurrection! Resurrection!” she continued to conjure until Tsuki started to move, then she returned and absorbed ten more crystals.
“Ma...master?” Tsuki's weak voice echoed in her mind filling her with joy as she took out an empty plate and poured a health potion in it so Tsuki could drink it and replenish from all the blood he lost, then she drank another one. “All my skills are back to level 1!”
“Don't worry about it! Everything is going to be fine! Drink this, I'll be back in a few minutes,” she murmured lovingly as she stroked his soft fur.
After she finished healing herself, with her eyes charged with anger she turned to Mhiralla, who was fighting Morrigan.
“Fire creation! Fire manipulation!” this time she created four fire snakes, which she hurled at her enemy's head. Distracting her and finally breaking the shield that the goddess had created to protect herself. The fire of the last snake burned her face.
“Ahhh! Damn beast, you'll pay for this!” she cried out in pain, but before she could begin to heal, Kalysto threw herself against her as if she were a sea of shadows, enveloping her.
Regaining her form right behind the goddess.
“Shadow creation! Shadow manipulation! Black fire creation! Black fire manipulation! Dark mana creation! Dark mana manipulation!” With the first pair of spells she surrounded the feet of the goddess, creating a dark mist from which a pair of black stakes came out, which did not harm her, but served as a smokescreen for the following spells. The black fire remained hidden behind the previously summoned shadows, stealing the goddess' HP, while several dark mana crystal stakes ripped through Mhiralla's legs, at the same time Kalysto created a pointed stake which she grabbed with both hands and while her body glowed surrounded by ether and drove the stake again and again against her enemy's back.
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 3000 HP!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 5000 HP!]
Meanwhile Morrigan was trying with all her might to make her sickle pierce the ether surrounding the goddess' body, but to no avail.
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 6000 HP!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 8000 HP!]
But despite the poor results that both were getting, neither of them gave up and continued trying to break the protection that the ether was giving to their common enemy.
[Congratulations, the user has acquired 7000 HP!]
[Congratulations! The user has acquired 6000 HP!]
“Die! Die at once, damn it!” Kalysto snarled as she continued to try to bury her stake into her enemy's body over and over again, at the same time her legs were turned into shadows, wrapped around the goddess' waist.
Before Mhiralla could shake her off and could begin to heal herself as she tried to evade the continued attacks of both, two thin lines of ether extended from each hand of the fairy champion towards the dark mana crystal stake she held, encircling its tip and allowing her to finally pierce through the ether surrounding the goddess' body, piercing the back of her back, between her neck and shoulder, burying her weapon deep into Mhiralla's skin.
The goddess' screams echoed throughout, causing a smile laden with dark satisfaction and sadism to creep across Kalysto's face. But before the fairy champion could finish conjuring a new stake, several waves of wind, fire and light erupted from the goddess' body, driving the two avatars away from her and hurling them away.
Meanwhile, Mhiralla inadvertently moved a little closer to the altar in her attempt to get away from them as she began to heal herself.
Kalysto was about to throw himself at her when she noticed that she couldn't stand up and had fallen close to Aegir's motionless body.
Shit, I forgot about him! She thought and immediately felt guilty for abandoning him after all he had done for her.
“Jhil! Jhil! Regeneration!” she conjured several times, restoring the damage done to her legs before transforming into a pile of shadows and reaching Aegir, whose body had been pierced by several spears. “Resurrection! Jhil! Jhil!” she murmured after pulling them out, healing as quickly as she could his biggest wounds and then offering him a health potion. “Please take care of Tsuki and make sure he doesn't try anything stupid,” she asked before she moved away from him.
Before he could answer Morrigan's scream reached their ears.
And as Kalysto turned, she watched with apprehension as Mhiralla held Morrigan by the neck, a smirk plastered on the goddess' face as she absorbed the dark saintess' powers.
Transforming again in shadows, Kalysto approached them in absolute silence, materializing just behind Morrigan, placing one hand over Mhiralla's and the other touching the saintess's body.
Absorb absorb! Absorb ether! She thought and immediately several notification windows appeared before her.
But before she could read them, just as she noticed how the white glow disappeared from the body of both women, giant tentacles of darkness sprouted from the eye above the altar. Piercing through Mhiralla's body as if it were made of mist and cutting through the lower part of Morrigan's and Kalysto's bodies. Then wrapping the body of the goddess in a thick pile of shadows along with the lower part of the bodies of the other two women.
While the upper bodies of the two avatars fell to the cold ground at the same time that the screams of the goddess full of terror echoed loudly throughout the battlefield while her power and her whole body were absorbed by Seth.
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