Saving Alchemy

Author says:

Really lots of heavy rain these few days, but that won't stop me from carrying on with the next chapter, partly coz I write the chapters indoors rather than outdoors, beyond that, only clothes, or the lack of it, to worry about. Sure isn't easy writing stories, having to come up with ideas for content. I have decided to write a new one when this is done, hopefully around January.

Chapter IV: Separate Missions

The party split up as soon as they reached the foot of the Mercury Lighthouse, Isaac and Felix headed for Kalay to spread the news, following which Lord Hammet ordered a boat to ferry them to Tolbi. Hammet went along with them so that the news could be spread to those in Tolbi, the land there was not being destroyed very rapidly yet, but the message still had to be sent quickly, Isaac and Felix headed for the Venus Lighthouse soon after with the boat as there was no land around the Venus Lighthouse anymore, other than the land beneath the lighthouse.

Garet, Jenna, Ivan and Sheba returned to Vale to get to their Lemurian ship, the villagers went along. They first headed for Prox, where the Mars Lighthouse was, Garet and Jenna would arrive at Prox to see that only a handful of its villagers still alive, the dead ones were reduced to frozen flesh, the fact that the flesh had absolutely zero signs of decomposition was proof of there being no fire energy at all in Prox, even those who were alive had to be evacuated very quickly. They were brought to the ship, and Garet and Jenna headed for the Mars Lighthouse next.

While the villagers on board tended to the survivors or Prox, Ivan and Sheba headed for Contigo and the Jupiter Lighthouse. The villagers borrowed Ivan's Hover Jade and went to all other unaffected towns, Ivan and Sheba went to Contigo to see what remained of the town. When they entered, they saw that everyone was dead, eyes and mouths wide open, apparently gasping for air in their final moments. Sheba had tears in her eyes, Ivan had a glint in his. They ran off towards Jupiter Lighthouse.

At the Venus Lighthouse, Isaac and Felix had problems trying to enter, the front entrance was blocked by an electric wall, the tunnel at the foundations of the Babi Lighthouse north of Lalivero that stretched to the back entrance of the Venus Lighthouse no longer existed.

"One way or another, I will get past this wall! RAAAGH!!"

Isaac used his psynergy, which had improved by a lot in two years, pulled two walls on which the mechanism creating the electric wall was mounted together and crushed the mechanism as the walls slammed into each other. Isaac and Felix continued their journey to the top. After 2 hours of stair climbing, they came into the final room, it had a crevice in the middle, they slid down the crevice and landed on a platform which brought them to the lighthouse's beacon.

"Here it is! Let's go!"

"Not so fast! I won't let you go any further!" A voice boomed from somewhere.

"Who are you? Are you the one doing this?!" Felix shouted.

"Who I am does not concern you, but I can just say my name is Kane, I am one of those who are doing this. I knew you would be here, when your friends arrived on our island, we had them captured, they put up a valiant effort, wiping out our soldiers quite quickly, but I had them beaten soon after, now it will be your turn. If you think your other friends at the other lighthouses have it easy, think again, with my pendant, I can clone myself. They must be at least half done by now, so, which one of you dies first?!" Kane charged forward, lance in hand, Isaac and Felix dodged the strike.

::Judging by his size, he has very good offense and defense, but definitely lacks speed, which is why we can dodge his attacks easily, Mia and Piers are not the fastest of fighters, I wouldn't expect them to be able to dodge these attacks easily, hope Isaac can tell as well::

Isaac and Felix dodged Kane's every attack, hoping to figure out his attacking patterns.

"Trying to figure me out eh? Take that!" Kane suddenly blitzed towards Felix, who immediately raised his Cosmos Shield to defend himself.

::How did he become so quick?!::

As Kane focused on Felix, Isaac slashed him from behind, starting from his right shoulder down to the left of his waist.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH" Came the cry from the 7-footer.

"How did my slash hurt him that badly? I thought he had very good defenses?" asked a surprised Isaac.

"I think I know why, it's his pendant, look, it's glowing purple, wind elemental, lowered defense with improved speed, similar to Ivan and Sheba, plus, your Tisiphone Edge is earth elemental, most effective against wind."

"I could get another shot at him, but we have to stop his movement."

"Leave it to me"

Felix immediately unleashed Vine and Mud, Kane's speed was cut to a quarter, but his speed still matched that of Isaac, who himself was faster than Felix. Felix then followed up with Petra, and Kane's movement was completely stopped.

Isaac got ready to attack," Come forth, Vengeance!" Isaac's Tisiphone Edge started to howl and glow, then a horned goddess appeared and fired six arrows of pure earthen energy into Kane, if Kane could move, which he couldn't, he would be screaming in agony.

Isaac followed up by casting Odyssey, the first two swords pierced Kane's chest, the third sword pierced the pendant, his chest, and came out from his back, Isaac came in with the final blow at the same time as when the third sword pierced Kane and sliced him in two, unlike the cut that ran from the right shoulder to the left side of the waist, this one ran from the left shoulder to the right side of the waist.

As Felix examined the corpse, he saw some of Kane's exposed bones, his backbones measured at 4 inches in diameter, they were cleanly sliced, it definitely showed how powerful Isaac had become. He then picked up the shattered pendant and they both walked into the yellow light emitted from the Venus star, and off they were, for the island Kane spoke of.

By the time Isaac and Felix had finished off Kane, Garet and Jenna were about to meet one of his clones, and Ivan and Sheba had only just reached the Jupiter Lighthouse, as for the villagers, they had only five more places to go to, Lemuria and the islands surrounding it……..

Sure is tiring, but chapter 4 is now complete. Thank you.