Chapter 41
Rupturing ground
The skies were dark brown, and filled with ash. At this moment, Lvret was not able to move around as much, since the Golem transformation does not protect her from the molten rock, that was flowing constantly and burning everything in its path. She thought to herself, that the magma flowing from the top of the broken mountain down to the bottom of the base, was breathtaking, letting her smell the crispy air of sizzling rocks and dirt. She began hearing the mountain sputter and eventually exploded, spewing out more lava from it's cap. Plants around were quickly dying, as the air was already suffocating every speck of life from the affected land. Nothing about this place seemed really too important, but was in her way. What she would do was search along the way. Although, due to the obvious danger waiting for just the right moment to go in for the kill, she gone and floated a bit above the ground, while at the same time traversing multiple gaps.
The sounds that were filling the air, were the sounds of scorching heat, burning objects, and rarely roars. Her stone fingers were already being hot enough to melt some people's skin, depending on what kind of spells they had at birth. Soon, something was felt around her chest, feeling like the magma from here was rippling through her body. With the pattern vibrating through, corresponding with her stony limbs, she noticed: Someone powerful is nearby. This was originally Vibrations in her head, then left arm, then her right leg. She knew how to respond to various warnings thanks to many years being in this piece of nostalgic origin, and matching situations. Soon, the roar came back again and when she looked to the left side of her, she saw a ridge that had a crescent wall. Lighting began lighting up in the skies, not even trying to go down to the surface itself. All it shown was the light that it emitted when it came from the clouds. The dry air was still choking the air around everything, and while her energy was slowly escalating with each second as her suspicion did as well. She walked into the gap inside the crescent trench, and soon, she saw a red sign of an unknown identity. She did not know this, but there had to be someone who did. It began chaining lightning from the sky and from inside the crystal to the walls and ground of the trench. Her body was shaking like she was planted inside the ground while a earthquake was occurring. Soon Agni crystals and some Anophysts broke from the walls, and circled around the gem.
It was a very terrifying experience, as its lightning began hitting her, making explosions and the surface around her break the ground beneath. She faltered, being staggered from the blast, but she was unharmed, but shaken terribly. She was surprised that that explosion was not powerful enough to break her transformation and kill her. When she focused on the gem, it began filling her mind with some shared thoughts. Some of fear and anger, some quite strange, but then a vision came. It depicted the end of the current galaxy, all with his claws slashing through each planet and draining all of the energy left. The vision broke into thousands, and soon Lvret came back to her senses, and what she saw was amazing. A shadow of darkness, holding his axes on each hand, and the heart was visible with orange light and eyes being red. The light was tracing like a speeding laser, and attempted to strike her while she was stunned. Within the crystal, was one of the Thadrae members. What she knew however, was the Agni crystals were only attracted to desolation, thinking that the crystal had some kind of Desolation with it. What was inside was the question. She quickly dashed towards the crystal, and then she impacted one of the Agni crystals, which then made a huge nuclear explosion. Lvret and whatever was in that crystal passed out.
Lvret, after a hour saw herself in the same place, being both on the ground, seeing a black dragon being very exhausted. The Agni crystals and Anophysts were gone, but instead of being completely gone, some began coming back to his sharp tails and horns, spiraling around the parts. Lvret rushed down to him, as he was about to wake up, but being completely depleted. She could feel his emotions rushing throughout him. Suddenly, he opened sight of Lvret as she was giving some of her ever raising energy to him. What he was trying to do was to get enough power to activate the effects of both Anophysts and the Agni.
"You might be slightly awake, but its better if you are awake while we are standing on a volcanic land." Lvret suggested. "Magma is everywhere. I will try to get you back up on your feet once again. Just give me a second."
The black dragon did a low growl, as he was rapidly regaining his power due to the Lunar she was transferring the power she had, it felt like his mother's hand, warm and loving, sometimes cold. It was almost like yesterday, if only that was true. First it was darkness and arcane, then part equilibrium, and now he felt a pulse run through his body, and he slightly raised his head and looked back at the orbs which were spinning violently. He tried to somehow shake it off by swaying his tail quickly from side to side, but it did not work. Then a pentacle appeared outside of his tail and horns, making him look like a disc professional. Within seconds, he let out a small pulse of energy, and Lvret stopped and stood back. The Agni orbs formed several pentacles, each going to a specific part of his body. One pentacle spun around his tip of his tail, the others were either on his three horns and the pentacles began making the parts disappear, but suddenly the Anophyst shards came out and made another set of pentacles, revealing his parts once again. Now he was standing like himself, except with a gap between each horn, and wings, then all of them combined together, and made him anew.
"Tell me... IS ANYBODY SEARCHING FOR ME!?" The black dragon asked in a godly voice.
He seemed only enraged when Lvret gave him some of hers. Lvret had the words ready to come out, but somehow she couldn't, she was willing, but the fear striking from each side was making her silent as the wind. He came towards her, being highly disturbed from the Agni pentacles. The Agni orbs were beginning to disappear as it implants its energy into him, being selective. The Golem however had other tricks up her sleeve, but she decided to keep it shrouded unless she really had to. He came even closer, gradually getting closer each second as the Desolation aura became existent once again. It began rendering effects of Lvret's powers useless, Although she did not notice. Finally He asked Lvret one more time, asking her this time if anybody was following him. She said that she did not know, and He quickly pinned her down as She tried to use some of her arcane magic, but it did not work. She was struggling to get out of his grasp, but her strength was only minor to his superiority.
She was already feeling her power being drained as fast as lighting, as she began to feel lightheaded. He began to lean in and get closer to Lvret, seeing if he could absorb the Arcane energy out of her faster before his Pentacles infuse into him. Once the process was complete, he knew that it would be from pentacles, to a ancient seal which would allow him to possess the powers of Melequis and at the same time, fire, Something that he was naturally born with since his reincarnation.
Soon, he let go of the aura, letting it gather up within him, and within the curiosity of seeing what she could do. Suddenly, Lvret was surging with arcane energy, and soon immobilized him with arcane energy. He tried to break free, but with anything, he could not. Although, just realizing that he could easily nullify the immobilization, he sent out a shock wave within midair, and made the mountains around them collapse. They were buffeted by dust, Lvret trying to sneak away, while He was hunting. Lvret did not see anything and accidentally broke a rock by stepping on it with a tap, being broken by the sheer weight of the Golem. He heard and immediately pounced on her, but then She sent out a force wave that was immediately absorbed by himself. Soon the pentacles disappeared and he was back to his normal self, calm cool and collective.
Once he saw the dust obscuring his sight with no visibility at all, he sent it away with his wings, flapping horizontally to forcefully push the dust by the wind. Soon, all he saw was a bunch of rocks, destroyed things, lifeless land and a Golem. He realized that this must've been all of his doing. It was shocking on how much he could do, and he imagined that he never used any Desolation spells or rituals that did damage, so it was amazing, yet depressing to himself. Within seconds, he became sad and tried to cope with , Lvret did not want to leave him alone after all the misfortune that came to him, and his potential being to powerful for the wrong hands to steal.
"Its alright. Its not your fault." Lvret said in a soft and forgiving voice.
"Can I ask you something?" He said. "Is there anyone following me?"
"No, you are not alone, but nobody is following you." Lvret answered. "I just saw you in a crystal and-"
"So that was what took my life force almost to zero?" Akaz complained.
"I guess." Lvret answered. "I never really got any time to analyze it, and I have a real path I have to follow."
"I feel like I need to say this, but please identify yourself." He said, "I am Akaz."
"Lvret." Lvret responded. "Listen, do you feel like you need to follow me? It seems like you are beginning to feel insecure."
"How did you know that?" Akaz asked in a confused tone.
"Magic." Lvret answered. "Its super complicated. No time to explain."
"So where are you going anyways?" Akaz asked.
"Well, first home, but then I am going to Melequis to warn them about what we are about to do against Acron, and if you see a Blue Templar at any chance, tell him that he is ordered to come back immediately and is supposed to help win the war against Acron." Lvret answered.. "I feel like my honey needs to know how he can secure his life, since he is eternally bound to the king of Cedran."
"I saw him before. He attacked me!" Akaz said.
"That does not sound like my husband..." Lvret whispered."Did you do anything to him!?"
"No I did not! He just looked at me, and told me that I had to be sealed away, but It was a accident I swear!" Akaz pleaded for mercy. "Suddenly I was not knowing I was going to release a blast, and I just had to protect myself!"
"Oh great, Let me guess, The Desolation? That old legend that never existed after hundreds of years ago!?" Lvret complained. "How did you learn something that was eternally lost?"
"Father on my 2nd side of my family, which are all Dragons was held inside a let me guess, I do not know how to say this, but Vyley serga?" Akaz guessed.
"Vilresaga." Lvret corrected him.
"Oh alright." Akaz acknowledged. "He was contained as an egg there. I do not know how that works, but he wielded it, almost killing me TWICE already, and died about a few days ago."
"Oh my. I feel terribly sorry for your loss." Lvret apologized.
"Thanks." Akaz replied. "Apparently now I inherited it, as the bloodline will transfer the energy of Desolation when the wielder dies."
"Well, if you want to come with me, then you can, I will protect you." Lvret promised. "Just to let you know, The Melequis has not seen nor heard from any survivors of the great tempest, so they will probably be stalking you once they sense your energy."
Thank you for waiting this long, and now chapter 41 is complete. Anyways, I would like to thank you again for reading, and I wish all of you a merry Christmas.
