Entry 24: Final Invasion

Getting to the endgame here. 3 entries left. I regret not writing this battle. I'm considering going back and doing that for a few of the bigger ones detailed here just because that'd be fun. They'd probably just be bonus chapters but still. I'd probably do this one, the final battle, and maybe a few more. Lemme know what you guys want to see actually written if I decide to go ahead with this.

Edit: In writing out the actual chapter I made a few changes to the battles so I've revised this slightly to reflect those changes. (AND I SOMEHOW FORGOT ABOUT A CHARACTER AND DIDN'T INCLUDE IT IN ANY OF THE FIGHTS SO I FIXED THAT!)

The Origin made one last push to exterminate us on our home turf. He threw everything He had at us. Large army of Husks? Check. Generals? Check. Himself? Check. The Origin headed a division that stormed the main entrance of town. Matok and Zvysok took the west; Dozorca the east, and a revived Scath took the north. Agreth and I didn't take any chances and headed off The Origin ourselves, managed to detect him far enough from town to let us loosen up a bit. Kazé, Jack, and Lina took Dozorca. Chris, Ein, and Fia took Scath. Cierra, Nardi, Ledah, and Serene took Matok and Zvysok.

Agreth and I got to The Origin quickly, and when we did He absorbed every soldier He brought with him. The Origin fights with a fairly large black blade that He usually creates on the spot. It is basically an extension of His arm and as such is ridiculously powerful. The Origin is also the most powerful being alive at this point, but leaving His base makes Him a bit weaker. Not enough to make the fight any less dangerous though. The Origin is a master of every single element, and throws them at random and in rapid succession. Also He doesn't have any weaknesses at all. If you pick an element, He'll counter with it's opposite. That's why Gray works so well, it doesn't have an opposite so you can just hit Him with it. He'll usually default to Darkness. The actual fight was tough, really tough, but not as bad as it should have been. Even so Agreth and I took a few hits. We did return the favor though. Agreth went into Angel awakening and managed to leave a decent sized gash on The Origin's chest, along with a few serious burns. I waited a bit longer than Agreth but I Awakened to pull off a surprise attack which completely removed The Origin's right arm. He did almost cut me in half in retaliation when He switched hands but Agreth was right on Him and we soon forced Him to retreat.

I think we were the last fight to wrap up, unsurprisingly. Fia made her way to us pretty soon after He left. I'd already healed most of the severe damage but it was nice having her there to completely patch us up. She told us that Chris tore the division himself, leaving her and Ein to focus on Scath. His body was darkness based so they pretty much took turns removing chunks of him until he fled.

We regrouped at Fia and Ein's. Nardi, Serene, Kazé, Ledah, and Jack were injured, but none too serious. Serene and Kazé were up and walking pretty quickly. On Kazé's end, Dozorca pulled the same card as The Origin when Jack and Lina annihilated most of his army. He overwhelmed Kazé a bit until the 3 of them forced him to fall back. With Cierra, Nardi and Ledah took Matok and Serene Zvysok while Cierra turned the army to dust before helping Serene out. Nardi and Ledah had a tough fight but Matok fell back as soon as Zvysok retreated, making this a fairly decisive victory.

I think this is the first battle that patrol has noticed far enough in advance to seriously benefit us. If we'd have just randomly went to meet whoever was attacking who knows how badly this battle would have gone. Especially if anyone had followed Agreth or I. Alone, the two of us don't have to hold back on top of not having to protect anyone. We took some serious injuries in the best conditions, if anything else had go wrong one of us could have easily died. Now I'm a little worried about taking the fight to Him. We certainly tried to finish Him off here but His retreat was instantaneous. He just fell into His shadow and was gone. This is why we have to take the battle to him or else He'll just always get away before we can land a deathblow. I'm going to have to get over my fear of going all out near people or the others are just going to have to learn to get back when we're fighting.

Regardless, He did managed to delay our assault on His base. Agreth and I need to rest and everyone else needs to heal. That said, His retreat let me track Him back more or less. It narrowed the location enough to let me find Him right when I started looking. We have the portal linked and ready to go after we finish resting up.

I think I'm going to give one final lesson before we go. I'll teach everyone some basic healing. Just in case. Every little bit helps. Probably should make some elixirs to be on the safe side. I guess there are a few other things I need to take care of before we go.

I'll write before we leave. May be my last entry.

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Kinda bummed here. In keeping with the journal format we're gonna miss the final battle for... reasons that you'd know if you read INO. I wouldn't read it to spoil this because all the entries will be up by next week. Kinda glad to be wrapping this up honestly. It's nice to finish projects every once in a while. Hopefully I can get back to working on ISNO after all this. It's been pretty rough for me for a while so I'm often not really in the mood to write but sometimes it's a good time killer. Thankfully I typed these entries up a while ago.