Chapter 39
Knight shrouded in holy light
"Aghhhh.. Where am I? What happened?" Eidolon asked while standing upon a large lunar crater.
He stood up and held his sword in a defensive stance, just in case a surprise attack could break through his armor. Eidolon walked forward to get out of the gigantic crater, which was smoldering and covered with patches of fire and ash. The sun was shining from afar, being so direct that even the ground seemed hot. The heat was surprisingly intense as the deserts on the second moon, but still has more potential than just a subtle warmth. Over at the ridge though, which he still could not see over right now was a sight that was going to be quite disturbing. Eidolon kept on walking despite the heat. Suddenly his leg became weak and he began limping terribly, struggling to keep upright on the lunar surface. He then started to use his sword to propel him through the atmosphere, stabbing the sword in and pushing himself towards his intended direction. When he was actually moving fast, he fell slowly and soon landed near the ridge. He was crouched behind the wall, preparing for anything he might see, but first he looked toward the inside of the crater. Nothing but ash and fire has been seen by his eyes, and he transferred his energy to his arm. His arm was glowing intensely, but with a surprise, he jumped up on the edge of the crater and saw a light blue Templar, unconscious on the ground. He ran towards him, hoping he would make it there in time. Within a minute or so he reached him and saw him looking like he was dead. He then remembered Talya's magic, and then tried to perform it himself. He conjured a orb between his hands, and then controlled it with both of his arms. Then he placed both of them near the blue Templar on the ground and put the hands together to push the orb inside him.
Soon he was breathing and awoke from a deep sleep. He instantly got up with his axe and asked where was the black dragon. Eidolon answered back by saying that he did not know who he was talking about, so Nesc decided to try and find the vermilion core himself. Luckily, shadows came from the sky, and another black dragon came down, landing with grace as he was landing. He called out, asking what was going on, but Nesc immediately sensed the power of the Vermilion core radiating through him. That would mean that this dragon was a sentient, and there was a chance he had absorbed the vermilion core already.
"Give me the core now! We do not have much time!" Nesc yelled.
"What!? Do you have any idea what happens to people who use it!?" Tyler asked Nesc. "They will Die from overflow of instantaneous power!
"I can handle it.."
"Fine then, prove it to me, show me what you are made of." Tyler demanded. "Right now."
Nesc then grabbed his weapon and controlled his body, causing it to be shaped in various forms to send excruciating pain through Tyler's body. Although he could not feel it anymore, as the vermilion core within him caused him to not feel any pain. He then sent a huge blast through the area, knocking Eidolon and Nesc out of the area. As they got up, they saw the blast gone for a bunch of miles. Fire spread out for that distance, and the heat was intense. Then Tyler came up to Nesc to breathe a deadly humongous stream of scorching fire. Although Nesc remembered the techniques of the cold nova, and instantly caused a widespread blizzard the same radius. The fire that was spread from the blast was instantly doused with the coldest ice that ever set on the lunar surface, then out of the ice Nesc showed up and swung his axe straight for his leg, and caused it to be cut off. He thought that he would now give him it, but the core made him regenerate his arm back, causing his arm to grow like the plants on earth.
Soon Tyler got angry and sent out a force wave and a nuclear blast to suck Nesc into a vortex of nuclear energy. Soon, both Eidolon and Nesc were becoming exhausted of trying to run from the vortex, so instead they focused on their defenses and put up a force-field around them. Within seconds, they were at the heart of the explosion and was buffeted by the intense and melting heat and their defense options were starting to weaken around them. Then with a forceful blast, the nuclear blast inside the vortex was nullified by the destruction of the energy used to defend the two. Tyler groaned as the energy that nullified the effects were also affecting him. He began to have eyesight problems, and a terrible headache that even the core could not ease. Although with the overwhelming pain, somehow Tyler ignored it and sent a huge laser full of the vermilion's energy through the battlefield. Nesc dodged it and looked behind him as the laser hit the center of another planet that was looking like a speck of dust. It then exploded with a huge ring as the blast was heard from there to the lunar surface.
Fireballs were summoned from his back, and sequentially homed onto Nesc, causing him to dodge while the fireballs exploded onto the ground beneath them. Then Tyler got to the stage where he was extremely pissed as he could not get a hit on him without sucking him in, so he summoned a pentacle that was pulsating with the energy of vermilion, causing Nesc to be immobilized and weakened while energy was draining from him. Nesc tried to get out, but the immobilization somehow got through his armor and therefore made him very still. The Templar was getting so tired of this, so he activated his aura, countering the immobilization with a killing magic that radiates around radius nullified the effects of the pentacle as he walked through it. Tyler then was surprised as he tried to get out of his stance, but he could. The aura was becoming too strong, and then it did the same effect the pentacle did to Nesc. Then Nesc rose him up and then made magma spring from the ground and slowly kill him with the molten and toxic rock. The vermilion's wielder was becoming weakened with each second, and it was already starting to weaken drastically. Tyler was no longer able to use the artifact's power, and soon Nesc came and made rocks appear from gaps and each impact knocked him from one place to another, and his final destination was near the Templar's foot. Next, he sliced his scales using torrents of gales and winds to weaken him. After that, darkness restrained him and light shot a laser through him, and finally with his ancient art from the long forgotten tribe, he summoned a tempest, consisting of life draining energy and pillars of desolation appeared, causing him to reverse his energy, and within seconds, the orb was separated from Tyler and the orb was transferred to Nesc's hand.
Tyler reached out for the orb, trying to absorb it once again, but it did not work, as the Templar himself was in the process of absorbing it. Soon light came from the orb and began to shine as bright as the sun, and emitted a similar heat. Nesc could already feel the energy pulsing through him, as he thought he was strong enough to chase after the Desolation God, Akaz. For the Thadrae family, he had to be the biggest threat out of all of them. Equinox was already enough for a solar system to handle, but someone who has complete control over Desolation, What Vilresaga practiced and almost took over the Wirnur nebula within a day? That was too much. Now with the power Nesc needed, he had a fighting chance.
"W-hat are you going to do with that anyway!?" Tyler exclaimed.
"Do not worry. This is not in vain or on the wrong hands. I have to seal away someone who knows the Vilresaga ways completely and controls it." Nesc answered. "If we do not do something quick, there is a chance where he will end existence as we all know it! Desolation is a destroyer!"
"I might as well go with you whoever you are." Eidolon blurted out.
"No. It is too dangerous. We are dealing with something being the death and destruction of trillions here! There is a reason why my clan, the Vilresaga has been destroyed by the tempest!" Nesc explained.
"I see you are up." Enuo said. "You know, the Desolation power has a weakness, but it is not a fatal point."
"Tell me now!" Nesc demanded. "We need every piece of information we can get!"
"Settle down." Enuo said. "Alright. This element is widely unknown. Sages from all around say it was because of the voids on moons, but I know a secret that is hidden among the kings of Vilresaga. If somebody got holy energy running through their veins right now, then that can be used to weaken the desolation. although, being one of the legacies and a half sentient, I am not sure if it is going to help. So far, I can only predict only that energy will be something that will even affect him."
"I do." Eidolon and Nesc said in unison.
"Oh yeah, reason why I came down is because a Sevawing and a anthropomorphic raptor came there and told me you were here to see me." Tyler warned.
"I sent them." Nesc explained. "I need that vermilion core. Desolation mages might be a terror to all, but the god of it is way worse. Somebody needs to take it out of him."
"Only problem is, that Desolation cannot be nullified. In its purest form to be specific. To seal him away would take that core and holy light, but still, the energy from the Desolation can break free. Eidolon and Nesc... Your strengths combined will have to take this beast down." Enuo explained. "For the fate of all existence. And if you lose, Life as we know it, will be nothing but nightmares of nothingness."
