It felt like the end of the world. Skies were bathed in bright orange; meteors summoned by the Fall Maiden struck the Eater of Worlds with the vengeance of a smiting god. Amber didn't know how long she had been fighting but if her surroundings told her anything, it is that she had been fighting for a while now that the damages are starting to affect Vale, despite fighting further ways away from the city. She didn't really notice the effects of bringing down meteors from outer space; for each impact, a massive shockwave swept the land and the ensuing earthquake for each impact followed.
The location of where she was fighting the Eater of Worlds looked like a scorched planet. The ground glowed a bright orange because of the intense heat from each impact, craters littered the ground looking like their destroyed moon, no life was found in their battlefield and she was certain that nothing could ever be living in the area that she and the Eater of Worlds were fighting.
Amber had started to develop a strategy the longer she fought the Eater of Worlds, since its body is like that of a King Taijitu, she knew that all it could do to her was charge and hope for the best. Knowing how its body operated, all she had to do was to dodge at the last second. She had a few close calls but for the most part, her strategy seems to be working quite well.
For a while
However, the Eater of Worlds isn't just a brainless monster. It noticed Amber's strategy and quickly created a method to counter it. Its counter came in the form of its segments splitting up. While its length had decreased, its speed and numbers increased. As of right now, Amber is showing clear signs of struggle, barely able to attack because she was too occupied dodging each segment that kept leaping for her.
Amber clicked her tongue in frustration, this was getting nowhere. The more she dodged, the more tired she got. She has to start fighting back or else she'll run out of energy to even fight back. Eight segments of the Corruption deity leaped at her all at once. Amber's eyes locked onto each segment, marking each one and with a sweeping gesture from her arm, the flamed magical swords that were at her beck and call answered, shooting towards each segment, spinning around like a bullet.
Each sword found their mark, digging themselves deeper into each segment. She followed it up straightening her fingers and feeling the connection of each magical sword. She made a pulling gesture with her right arm. The swords followed her commander and pulled themselves out from each segment. Amber then imagined she was holding a sword and did three slashes. The flaming magic swords copied her movement, slashing the segments three times. Amber pulled her arm back, thrusted and twisted her arm, the swords followed her actions and stuck themselves inside of each segment.
Amber flared her Fall Maiden powers with a scream. Each segment started to glow a bright red, each large eyeball from each segment started to melt from the scalding heat inside before violent flames erupted from withing, incinerating each segment from the inside.
Clearly, the Eater of Worlds didn't like what Amber did – evident by the pained roar that came out from its mouth. Other detached segments reconvened and reattached themselves back forming the lower half of the Corruption deity. Now glaring at two shortened Eater of Worlds, she was prepared to take both of them on when the second Eater of Worlds had a notorious idea that Amber didn't like.
The second Eater of Worlds dove at her rather obviously. She had initially thought that it was a half-hearted attack but as she followed the burrowing marks made by the second Eater of Worlds, her heart dropped.
It was heading for Vale.
Before Amber could even act, the first Eater of Worlds was already upon her, diving at her and relentlessly attacking her. Without the weight of the second Eater of Worlds, the first Eater of Worlds was faster than before. She banked to the right just in time to avoid another diving attack from the first Eater of Worlds.
"I have to stall it!" She thought.
She took a quick glance over to Vale to see the second Eater of Worlds was closing in and that it would be a matter of time before it could reach the walls. Quickly racking up a plan, she gathered her magic power once more and called upon more meteors. These meteors in particular didn't drain her magic as fast compared to her first time casting it. The space rocks themselves were smaller in comparison to the first barrage, just enough to keep the first Eater of Worlds occupied.
She brought her right arm up and with a shout and a dunking gesture, razed the ground once more. The countless of meteorites peppered the first Eater of Worlds like a barrage of red dust infused bullets. The first Eater of Worlds flinched at the barrage before it caved in and decided to curl itself up to protect itself. Seeing the opportunity, Amber booked it to Vale.
She followed the burrowing mounds created by the second Eater of Worlds. Magical swords poised and ready to launch at her command. Much to her horror however, the burrowing mounds started to get lower and lower.
"It's going deeper!"
If the second Eater of Worlds gets too deep, it'll make it harder for her to track it and it's not like she had anything in her arsenal to dig the second Eater of Worlds out. However, even if she couldn't track it, she knew where it was going. She flapped her flaming wings as hard as she could, leaving a trail of blaze behind her. Looking behind her, she noticed that the first Eater of Worlds had enough of her bombardment and decided to also burrow itself.
She can deal with the first one later; the distance gap that she had created between her and the first half was too big to worry about. But with how fast the Eater of Worlds tunnels underground; if she doesn't deal with the second half quick enough, then the situation will start to get dicey. True to her prediction, the burrowing mounds re-emerged much closer to Vale than before. The mounds got bigger and bigger and by the time the mounds have reached the walls, the other half of the Eater of Worlds bursts out and Amber reacted.
In tandem with the Eater of Worlds' other half, Amber mentally marked seven points on the deity's length. The Eater of Worlds' broke through the line of Grimm like nothing and in mere seconds, it would reach the line of humans, Amber willed her magic swords to spin at great speed before screaming and launching them at the speed of a bullet. Each magic sword dug itself deep into the Eater of Worlds', penetrating through the monster and embedding itself on the ground, essentially pinning the deity. Each sword pinned the monster with a loud thud followed by a shrill screech. As the seventh sword pinned itself on the monster, Amber took the last magic sword and poured her Fall Maiden magic into it.
The length of the sword grew, the flames that hugged the blade intensified until it turned into a scalding blue. Amber aimed the tip of the sword downwards and plunged, burying the blade right on the head of the body. The lower half of the Eater of Worlds thrashed around, roaring in pain but with the other seven swords pinning it down and the scorching blue blade that was on its head, it made it next to impossible. To make her point that she wanted the Corruption deity dead, Amber pulled her sword out slightly before driving it back in, pouring out a burst of her magic into the sword along with the other seven.
Everyone nearby the scene could practically see the lower half of the Corruption deity glow from the inside, its eyeballs start to melt, torrents of flame escaped from ever crack in its body. Eventually, the gigantic worm's body could not take the heat anymore and began to char. Amber unleashes her magic with a war cry, creating a pillar of flame big enough to swallow the whole worm.
Amber's face was hidden behind her hair, head lying low, breaths heavy and with purpose. The worm deity that was burnt beyond recognition cracked. Light purple escaped from the cracks before crumbling down to ashes. Amber was still on top of the monster so when it started to disintegrate, she lost her footing and fell down. She had expected to feel the hard surface of the ground hitting her back but what she felt were arms catching her. She slowly opened her eyes, expecting to see dark and looming skies. Instead she was face to face with her godly companion.
"Amber"
"Sir?"
The purple robed man gave her a hand and she gingerly took it. She slowly stood up but stumbled along the way. Her legs felt weak. She took stock of her surroundings, an expanse of nothing but pure white.
"Where are we?"
"What you are seeing right now is the realm of your subconsciousness." Her godly companion waved his hands, a screen popped out revealing her a sight she didn't think she would see:
Amber Autumn
Her eyes did not deceive her. What she was looking at was herself, standing shakily. Behind her were people that she could recognize, Glynda and Qrow staring at her with worry and astonishment. All around her, the land was scorched. She remembered.
"I was fighting the Eater of Worlds!"
The purple robed man nodded. "A valiant effort in defeating its lower half. However, you must remember that the upper half is still alive and as of right now… you don't have enough magic and energy to fight it."
Amber looked crestfallen. She had to give it her all and then some more just to defeat the lower half and true to the god's words, her body was running purely on determination alone. "But I have to continue! Otherwise Vale might be the next kingdom to fall!"
She didn't know why, and she could just assume that because of the amount of time that she spent around him, she could tell he was smiling. "This is the reason why I told you that you are special… very well, tell me, how determined are you in saving Vale?"
Why is he asking this all of a sudden? Amber considered her answer. After a moment of thinking, she looked at him with a determined look. "Not just Vale, sir. If it is to protect the world that I live in… I would put my life on the line."
Silence.
Laughter escaped from the god's mouth. Amber was confused, was her answer wrong? Once he regained control he spoke. "Very well. Take my hand Amber, I shall lend you a portion my power, enough to defeat the Eater of Worlds."
Amber was confused for a moment before taking his hand. Brightness consumed her sight…
Everybody's eyes widened when they all watched Amber's wings glow a bright purple. Amber herself didn't understand what was going on but for this moment she felt more powerful than she had been before. She felt something in the back of her mind pop up, similar to how she felt the power of the Meteor and Blade staffs. However, this power was something that she couldn't even comprehend.
She knew it was powerful, she knew it was capable of removing mountains.
Her thoughts were halted when she heard an earth shaking roar. Bursting out from the ground right in front of her was the upper half of the Eater of Worlds, none too happy about its lower half being incinerated moments ago. Amber glared at the wounded Corruption deity and knew that it was time to end it once and for all.
The pulled that new knowledge that she had in the back of her mind. Taking a stand, she straightened her body, brought both arms up to her chest, shaped her hands to look like a triangle tunnel. To her surprise, a clear prism appeared inside the triangular gap inside of her hand. She aimed her hands at the head of the worm.
The worm responded in kind by lunging at her, jaw open and ready to swallow her whole.
Amber closed her eyes and poured all of the magic that she had suddenly gained on the prism. This all happened in mere milliseconds and once that was done, she opened her eyes with a glare, purple flame blazed her eyes as she flared her Fall Maiden powers. With a shout that echoed for miles, she fired the beam that can only come from one of Terraria's endgame items.
The Last Prism.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
A bright beam of light swallowed the Eater of Worlds along with Grimm that were in line with the beam's trajectory. Everybody covered their eyes, but they could see the shadow of the Eater of Worlds slowly being disintegrated. Amber kept this up for another three seconds before finally stopping.
Just as the bright beam of light suddenly appeared, it disappeared just as instantly. Everybody slowly tuned their eyes back only to gawk at the destruction that resulted afterwards. A half-pipe of glassed ground stretched all the was past the breach, through the forest and even destroyed a mountain by the distance. Majority of the Grimm had also shared the same fate since plenty of them gathered near the breach which meant it gave them some breathing room. All heads turned to the one who had caused it.
Amber for her part didn't care about the destruction that she had cause. A small chuckle escaped her mouth before her body finally shut down. Falling backwards, unconscious.
Upon seeing Amber fall back, Qrow rushed to her spot immediately, he cradled her, place his ear on her chest and breathed out a sigh of relief when she noticed that she was just unconscious. Afterwards, Qrow looked to the destruction that she had caused. He looked back at her, a smile adorning her sleeping face.
"What the hell happened to you?"
A/N: WOAH AMBER USING THE LAST PRISM BUT HOW!? DIDN'T SIR BOINKGEMINID ONLY GAVE HER THE METEOR AND BLADE STAFFS? HOW COULD SHE EVEN USE THE LAST PRISM!?
And that's the climax for the Eater of Worlds! Up next, is Sir BoinkGeminid!
In the end, I have decided to Amber's point of view before Sir BoinkGeminid. Now that does break the sequence of alternating between Amber's perspective and Sir BoinkGeminid's perspective, but I do remember doing the same thing when Amber fought the Eye of Cthulhu, so I suppose this kind of sequence is specifically exclusive to boss battles.
And speaking of boss battles, how was this one? Was it too much? Was it too less? Were there somethings that I missed? Do ask! Also, some constructive criticisms are appreciated. That being said, I hope you all enjoyed the Eater of Worlds Arc! Time for the epilogue, aka: Sir BoinkGemind's perspective!
