Chapter 70: Soul Calibur's protection
The hooded man was going up the hill where he had summoned Hephaestus again.
He was limping and he had wounds all over his body, under his clothes.
When he reached the top, he yelled exhausted:
- Hephaestus!
This time, the god appeared immediately. Once more, he did it with a lightning and it started raining.
- What happened to me? – asked the hooded man, furious.
- I don't know. – answered Hephaestus mockingly. – Tell me.
- As soon as I put my fingers on that sword, it started shining…and I felt the severest pain I've ever felt in my long life. I dropped the sword and, when the light disappeared, I was near here, hundreds of kilometers away from where I found Soul Calibur. The sword and the youngsters were gone. When I stood up, I realized one of my legs was failing. Then I noticed the wounds all over my body.
Hephaestus nodded. It was obvious that he knew exactly what had happened before being told about it.
- Why did this happen? – yelled the hooded man.
- I forgot to tell you that Soul Calibur can protect itself…from evil. Including the Evil Seed you have inside yourself.
- Protect? What kind of protection?
- Just what happened to you. It hurt you and made you disappear.
- What?
- Furthermore, when I transformed it, I added one more feature to its protection. Whenever the sword protects itself, it moves.
- It moved? Where?
- Well, it is not exactly that it moves. The girl who wielded Soul Calibur still has her sword, as if nothing had happened.
- So then?
- However, her sword isn't Soul Calibur any more.
- I…I don't understand.
- That sword, which was Soul Calibur before, now is an ordinary sword. On the other side, a sword which was ordinary before, now is Soul Calibur.
- So…Soul Calibur has a completely different form now.
- That's it. And it can be in any other place in the world.
The hooded man grumbled, noticeably angry.
- You cheated me!
- Yes, I did. Don't try to be smarter than a god.
After saying that, he disappeared with another lightning.
The hooded man stayed alone in the rain and knelt in pain.
He yelled in rage and finally let himself fall on the grass.