Chapter 34

An old Friend

3rd PoV

Berthe charged the crew on all fours. They scattered and he turned back and fired a black beam of energy at Elesis. Elesis jumped up to evade and was met with Berthe ready for a strike.

Before he could bring his claw down, Elsword came and tacked him out. He was going to stab Berthe down but was overpowered bby Berthe's arm. "Terra breaker!" the ground underneath Berthe began to collaspe.

Elesis car down and thrust her blade down. The blade could not pierce Berthe's fur due to his new powers. Berthe grabbed Elesis and jumped up.

He was going to throw her down but a wind blast by Rena knocked her out of his grasp. "Ice sphere!" Aisha created multiple ice spheres around her and made them home in Berthe.

Berthe shoved his arms underground and lifts a large rock to block the attack. Elsword came behind Berthe and stabbed Berthe's back. It could fully stab but still did minor damage.

"That sword must be special, If it can harm me!" Berthe went to grab Elsword but he jumped back. Elsword fire multiple fire balls from his mouth. Berthe swiped the fire balls away. Rena took the chance to fire nature arrows at him by they bounced off.

Berthe jumped up and fired an fire vortex that entrapped Elsword's arms in a black flames. "I'll deal with you soon." He says and came down on Elesis. "Damn it!" Elsword struggled to get the fire out.

Elesis swung her sword at Berthe but he caught it swung her in the air. "Incinerate!" a magic circle appeared on Berthe's chest before combusting into a large fire blast.

Rena fired a wind vortex to encase him in a wind and fire storm. Elesis the slashed the center of the vortex but her blade was stopped. It was on Berthe's shoulder and he appeared to not have taken damage from their attacks.

"That won't work." He punched Elesis in the stomach and pushed her to the side. He then quickly charged Aisha. "Your but a thorn in my side." He swung his arm down creating a large dust cloud.

Aisha jumped out of the dust but Berthe predicted this and shot an fire blast from his mouth. "Water stream." Aisha aimed her staff and disapated the blast with a gout of water.

Elsword finally broke out the vortex and went to go catch Aisha. He caught her and jumped before Berthe could attack her. Elesis slowly got up and went over to the rest of the group.

"Hmph, lets kick things up shall we?" Berthe held out his arms and held up his head. The tattoos began to glow around his body.

With Eve and Ara

Even and Ara were looking at the runes. "They seem to have some kind of connection with this tower. If i remember correctly, there were more towers." Eve touches the a rune and it then glowed blue.

With Berthe

Berthe's body grew vein all over and the tattoos changed from red to blue. The tower that had a blue glow in the distance shot a blue beam at Berthe and he was encased in light blue light.

When the lights died down, Berthe was now had dark blue fur. His eyes were now red with his horns now curving upward. He then opened his hand and an ice javelin formed.

"Take it." He the threw it with high speeds. They all jumped but Elsword who stood unamused and caught the spear with his bare hand and melted it. "Really, ice?" He said and Berthe went wide eyed. "He saw Elsword was now in front of him.

He prepared for Elsword's slash but was caught of guard when e was kickedaway. "What is this strength?!" He thought.

He recovered and landed on top of the Alter. His body glowed green and white light encased him. His body became light green with his tattoos in a darker shade of green. He then thrust HD head forward and fired a green liquid.

"Storm front." Aisha held out her hand and the wind scattered the green acid. Berthe came down and pounded the ground creating a groundquake. Elesis jumped in top of his back and charged e blade with all her energy.

"Victory Sword!" The sword was manifested and she thrust her blade down into his back. It created a large explosion and Elesis jumped off. She had contained her energy wave within her blade giving it maximum power.

Berthe had a gash mark in his chest and he was kneeling down. "Grrrrraaaaa!!!!!" He was going to switch elements but was slashed by Elsword. It had enough force to launch him into the air.

"Rising current!". "Lighting stream!" Rena and Aisha fired their attacks at Berthe while he soared in the air. The attacks combined and created a magnetic twister.

"Tch, this form was a bad idea." Berthe thought and created an ice shield to protect himeself. The shield broke however and he took the damage head on. The twister created a magnetic sound like two magnets scraping together.

"Burning ash!" Elsword shot the ash into the the twister and It did something they did not expect.The twister became a violent black and white storm that grew into a large size before exploded into a black and white sphere with white cracks.

When it died down, Berthe emerged severely damaged. Half his body was gone and he had lactations and white blood everywhere. He was also in shock as he made gurgle sounds.

"Did we get him?" Aisha said. Berthe's body then began to glow. "Y...yo...you...will...pay...!!" He said and the glowing grew large.

The towers shot high concentrate beams at him along the blast even larger.

With Raven and Chung

Chung was fighting Mayrik when he suddenly stopped and disapated into black particles.

Durahan stopped as well and his armor fell to the ground and a red ball came from his body. His armor also disolved into dust. "Did they do it?" Chung asked Raven.

Raven looked up and narrowed his eyes. "No, I don't think so. Cmon lets go." He said and ran through the hall with Chung following wordlessly behind him.

With Ara and Eve

Ara looked down and felt a mass of energy coming upward. "What?" She said and Eve looked to her before her scanners picked up the same feeling. "Where is all this-" The runes behind them began to glow brightly before shattering.

"Uhh, what happened?" Ara asked panicked.

With Berthe

The blast burned everyone a bit. Their clothes were slightly teared and burnt but they were all in all ok. They also felt a portion of their energy be drained away.

Berthe's body finally died down and small energy balls went into the light. "Ugh, what now..." Aisha said. The light finally died down and revealed a new form. A more slimmer but very still buff and huge Berthe.

He had obsidian colored fur with bull horns with a red taint at the tips. His body looked like a fused plated armor with diamond shape on his chest. His fur had become more tamed and turned red and even had two tentacles coming from it.

The Alter then stopped glowing and went dead. It was slightly darker now but was still viable.

"Hmph." He opened his eyes and looked over to the group. "Now then, you said you will teach me, now let me teach you." He squatted for a moment before vanishing from sight.

Elsword widened his eyes as he recognized this technique. He swung his sword behind him in time to block the blow from Berthe.

"Heh, so you know this technique heh?" He swung his other arm knocking Elsword away. Berthe then set sights on Aisha but Elesis came to block him. "Oh mo you don't." She said pushing him off.

He jumped up and leaned his head forward. between his horns, a small red and purple energy ball formed getting bigger and bigger. The orb then shot a large and loud beam of energy at them.

Aisha slammed her staff down and created a barrier around everyone. The blast created a large explosion and shockwave.

Berthe stayed in the air and looked around for any movement. He narrowed his eyes when he saw nothing but dust. "What?! did that fi-!" He leaned his body back to evade a sword thrown at him.

It was Elesis's sword attached to a chain. Berthe looked back into the smoke and saw saw several ice spears aiming for him. "Child's play!" He deflected the spears but then felt the sword stab into his back.

He quickly took the sword out and pulled it in. Elsword was yanked out from the smoke with the chain attached to his arm. Berthe prepared another blast beam. Before he could fire it, Elsword shot fire into his face.

Berthe wiped the flames away and Elsword pounded his back making him fall back to the ground. Elesis took her sword and cleared the smoke. Berthe's made his tentacles created a razor sharp tip and chased down.

"Wind press!" Rena created a wind storm in an attempt to change the direction but failed. Elesis came to block the razors but it cut right through the blade and into her stomach. "!" Elsword quickly came and cut the tentacles.

Berthe created more and aimed them at the crew. "Aisha, heal sis. Rena back me up." Elsword said and charged in cutting the tendrils.

The tendrils retracted back and Berthe prepared the blast beam. Elsword swing his sword down the moment the beam was fired. The beam scattered like glass falling on a floor. It pushed both the back but Elsword recovered quicker.

He swung his blade but saw Berthe was gone. He heard a scream and saw Berthe clutching Rena. "Ha! this is your backup?!" He said taunting him. "Let her go." He said and Berthe laughed. "Oh you like this one dont you" He said squeezing her tighter.

Rena squirmed and then stopped and used her nature energy. The nature energy created a white and black explosion due to its reaction with Berthe's energy.

She came down and kicked Berthe in his stomach. She then used the wind to whip lash his face, creating a cut in his eye. he closed his eye and grabbed her with both hands.

"That's it!" Elsword began to charge his blade with a dense orange energy. The blade began to glow and then shake violently. Berthe widened his eyes as the amount of power was growing to concern.

His body also glowed and he then slammed his blade down and scraped it against the floor. The energy came out as ground shockwave. Berthe jumped away and left Rena in the path, but it fazed right through her.

"Storm front!" Aisha casted her barrier on Berthe. He looked around it but then saw it was plunging back down. "Rena!" Elsword ran over to her and pick her up bridal style.

He jumped up and let Rena go. She fired her nature arrows at him. He tried deflect them but couldn't as the arrows stuck onto his arms. Blood then splashed from his arm. Elsword then began to swing and release energy shockwaves. Berthe dodged them and Elsword decided to go back down.

He then jumped back as Berthe came down from nowhere. "You little worms are so annoying." Berthe shouted now frustrated. He was at his full power and had more advantages than them but was not able to finish any of them off.

They all backed off and huddled a bit.

Aisha created an ice shield around them with ice spikes on them.

Elesis's PoV

We all came together to try and plan as Berthe voiced out his frustrations. "Els, anything?" Aisha asked. "I only have two options. I could either let Regulus handle him or we could try a combine attack but we will need to know how each will respond to an attack." He whispers back.

If it was me and him, we could do it but then we have to have Aisha and Rena follow up. We are swordsman while they are long range, how will this work.

"Ok." Elsword said, He has a plan? "Aisha, you will stay back and use lightning spells. Rena you go to the left and use a some kind of storm spell. Sis, heh on me." He stood straight and picked up my sword and threw it over to me.

Rena went to her position and Aisha as well. Heh. This feels great. Me and Elsword stood by each other straight as Berthe was finished with his rambles. "Sis keep your energy up, i might pass Durendal to you. I'm sure you'll know when." I smiled to him.

"Heh, who do you think your talking to." I say and he smirked back at me. "Lets go!" I say and charged ahead first.

I charged my sword with energy and shot a shockwave. Berthe swiped it away like nothing and then blocked a attack by Elsword. "Rail Stinger!" I heard Rena said. The arrow pushed Berthe off balance and Elsword punched him up. He was very strong kinda no, it was inhuman.

"Meteor shower!" A magic circle appeared above him and countless fire balls rained down on him. He used his tendrils to block them and i jumped up. Elsword threw his sword to me and grabbed it. It weight a ton! no maybe even more than that!

I ran energy through it and felt like a feather in an instant. I swung it down and sliced the tendrils. He crashed down and me and Elsword came down as well.

Berthe sprang back up and vanished. Berthe was like a wild beast so he would always... I parried his attack from behind. They always go for the surprise attacks.

When i parrued his attack, i used the opening to swing Durendal at him and like butter, Berthe had a large gash on his chest. Blood sprayed out like rain around and he was going to ground pound. His arms hit the ground, but only hit wind. He looked to his side and was met with a kick to his face.

Rena used the sharp part of her bow to slice another gash into Berthe's chest and kicked it. Berthe roared in pain and swipe at her but only punched ice. Another ice shard erupted from the ground and sliced him.

"ENOUGH!" He roared knocking us all away. The shockwave was strong and even caused some large rocks to come from the ground. I sliced through easy, this sword was not only strong and durable but also very sharp.

I threw Durendal back to Els, but when i threw it, he threw the chain that was on its wnd to me and gestured to wrap it around my arm. Berthe began charging that blast beam but this one was different. It was a small red ball and had a black circle around it. He had his mouth open and went on all fours.

"Zero Blast!" He fired a dark red beam with a strange sound, like stretching rubber sound. It was extremely fast and all i saw a blur of black and closed my eyes.

I heard the loud, ear piercing explosion. When we opened our eyes we saw Els, holding out Durendal on its flat like a shield.

His clothes were half burned off with some burnt skin. It also showed some scars that were underneath his body armor he wore under his clothes. He was breathing hard and fell onto his sword.

Berthe then smacked him away. He was too exhausted blocking the attack to even see him. "That damn blade. What ever it is...It needs to be destroyed. If even took on my Zero blast." He said and went over to Elsword.

"Earth Spire!" Aisha used her spell but it barely made a small needle. "Seems your out of mana eh?" He said. his voice sound different though, like it had its own echo now. Maybe he was weakening as well.

Wait the chain! I saw the chain was still as tight as ever over my arm. I charged my left over energy and through the chain. Elsword was still holding the sword tight, he wasn't fully down.

When the energy traveled to the sword, i felt drained and fell to one knee. That was some of my last spare since i was using only power attacks and it took its toll on me.

Berthe reached for the blade but Elsword, in one quick motion, got up and sliced Berthe's arm clean off. Berthe widened his eyes and stumbled back shouting. "Stark!!" Aisha shouted and cut her hand and slammed it to the ground.

The magic circle that Stark had appeared and Stark erupted from the ground in a ethereal blue form with his mouth gaping open. His mouth filled with lightning and he bit off Berthe's other arm.

Berthe fell over to his back roaring in pain. Stark dived back into the ground with a splash of lightning. How was she able to summon him? wasn't she low on- oh whatever.

We all gathered around Berthe, who stopped shouting. He looked livid and was glaring at us as we glared down at him. He tried to fire a blast from his horns but Els cut off his other horn, creating a small energy cloud.

"How...How did this..." He said. His voice no longer had that powerful boom or echo in it. He was now as normal as he was when i fought him back in Velder.

Elsword crouched down and made him look into his eyes. "You fought alone." He said simply. Berthe had nothing to say but ask why.

"We had more backup on our side. I won't give no stupid speech on the power of friendship since that's just fake. We were stronger, we had experience battle, what it was like to feel hopeless. We earned our power." He said and stood back up.

"We had been training and building ourselves for 2 years. While we were improving, you were getting old and weak and used power you don't know how to use. That's my lesson. Your inexperience." He said and let Berthe's body fall back down.

"Excellent...Truly...Excellent!" we turned around and saw Luto walking with a person floating behind him chained up. It was a glitter with a lab coat and goggles. With him was Add, Raven, Eve, Ara, and Chung.

"This was quiet the battle. It was so interesting you destroyed the tower." Huh, buts still standing. "I had to keep it up using my power. It was a simple task." He said as if he read my mind. I hate when he did that.

"So whose that." Aisha asked pointed to the glitter. "Joaquin, He was working with Berthe to take the demon realm." He said and then opened a portal behind him.

Jahari, Edan, Valak, Speka, Noah, and another man i never seen before came out, well fell out as they all ended on up in a pile on the ground.I hate magic..." Everyone, even Luto chuckled at Valaks remark.

"Ah Elesis." Edan said and he got up. "You look like hell." He said and i rubbed the back of my head. "Well that's what fighting does." He smiles a bit and pats my head. He never done that before.

"Ah...Elesis." Princess Noah said shyly. "Im...im sorry...i was using you to vent my frustrations." She said rubbing her arm.

"Eh, I'm over it now. i barely spent like a day in there so its all cool." She smiled at that. Well I'm sure when you have the power to end a war but can't due other problems, I'm sure anyone would be stressed.

"Ahem. Now then...what shall you all do." Luto took all our attention. He said that to everyone, but i felt like it was aimed to us, mostly Elsword.

"I...plan on taking you up on your offer." Luto looked visibly surprised. "I need more training since i still plan on traveling." He said. Heh that's my bro.

I came and put an arm on his shoulder. "Me too. If Els is training, i gotta go with." I say. Rena and Aisha then stepped up. "Same".Raven followed along.

We looked at Eve and Chung. "I shall return to Altera and improve myself." She said. Elsword went over to her. "Ok. Be careful, make sure you don't d-" He was cut off by Eve placing her hand on his mouth. "Don't worry a thing." She said softly.

"I'm going to remain here with Noah. I need to help repair Hamel and deal with the rest if the demons." Ah right he is technically the king of Hamel, even if its sunken.

"Hhmhmhmhmhmh." Luto chuckled. He then turned to the others. "Yes of course, i wanted you all to come to the realm. My realm." He then walked over to Berthe and materialized him into small particles along with Joaquin.

"I shall transport you all to Velder." He said and waved his hand. They all popped away and then we were taken in a bright light.

Henir's Space and Time Realm

3rd PoV

The crew were teleported to into a a cubed platform. Luto was floating in front if them with his arms behind his back. (An: Same appearance in game.)

"So i can finally enter." Add said in raspy voice. He had been here but was not allowed in the trials.

"This is different area you see. This is a realm i created exclusively to meet your needs and powers." On cue, portals opened in front of them. "Now then, hope you all enjoy." He bowed and vanished.

"Uh..." Ara was scared to enter the strange portal. One moment the tower was falling then next she was on top of it watching Elsword and crew fighting Berthe.

"Ok guys...good luck i guess." Aisha said and she walked into her portal. Elsword and Elesis nodded and walked in. Then Rena, then Chung, Raven, Eve, then Add and finally Ara.

With Aisha

Hall of El

Aisha found herself inside the same place where she once meditated. The place seemed different however. Stark flying around and landed on a statue of a hooded figure.

"Huh?" She turned around and saw the same hooded figure she saw before. "Wraaaaaath..." It said and leaned into Aisha's face.

It had no face, nothing was emptiness of black. "Wrath is what consumes you...Your Wrath...You must master your...Wraaaaaaath..." It leaned back raised its right arm.

The floating platforms came together and formed a field. The hooded figure then summoned the Leviathan staff in its left.

Around its neck, 6 beads formed around its neck. Its coat slimmed up to make out a more humanoid figure. The bottom of the coat opened up opened up to reveal black pants and black boots. "I shall...Teach you...Wraaath." He said and Aisha prepared herself.

"Yes, please teach me. I want to master my Wrath." She holding out her staff.

With Rena

Fog plains

Rena walking through a foggy grass plain. She was dodging the arrows that came nowhere. "Envy. You envy others. You forget your own powers to obtain theirs." A female voice echoed through the place.

A female's figure then formed. It had a voluptuous body. The body was pure green with light green swirls on it along with a yellow diamond on its forehead. It had long ears with a long ponytail, signifying it was an Elf.

"You have denied your ancestry powers for long enough...I shall bring you back." It says and summons a bow. (An. GrA Bow)

"Please take care of me." She bows and drew her bow and readied her self.

With Elsword

mindscape

Elsword was in his familiar dream scape with Regulus now on all fours. "So your going to train me?" He asked. "Yes, I'm going to train and test your pride. And teach you how to properly utilize sage energy." He says and slams his paw to the ground.

Durendal then came out in front of Elsword and he grabbed it. "I'm going to pound all my knowledge into you." He says as he assumes a lion's striking pose. Elsword laughed as he too got into his position.

"I always wanted to see how you fight. C'mon. Show me what you got." He said with a smirk.

With Elesis

(An She's in the in game dungeon Halted Sun)

Elesis was walking up stairs and found herself up on a platform. It had white flowers with large alter in front of her. A sword materialized in front of her and she took it. She walked further and heard a sound.

She looked back and saw her father in white robes and a white long sword. He had long red with red eyes. "Elesis." He said in a deep voice. "F-Father?" She asked she wanted to run over but he held his hand up to stop her.

"As much as i would like to talk. We must." He swings his sword a bit and placed both hands on his sword. He placed his right foot in front of him. "We must have you go over the basics." He said finally.

Elesis took on a similar form, one she only used for sparing. "Yes Sir!" She said.

With Raven

Forest

Raven was in a forest. He was following the white wolf that had presented itself to him. He followed it to a large clearing with swords thrust into the ground. Around it had trees and small caves.

The white wolf jumped onto the perch rock and stared him down. "What is this." He asked it. He saw a katana sticking out and grabbed it. It turned black when he grabbed it. He then looked and widened his eyes.

The white wold was no longer there. It was replaced with a full white body version of him. It and everything right down to his very clothes. It had a similar sword but was pure white.

"Wha-" He couldn't finish when the white version suddenly vanished. He then looked on his shoulder and saw a black liquid spraying out of the wound. "Your slow...very slow..." He turned around and saw it had its back to him.

He fired a shockwave but it turned around and held out its hand. It grabbed the shockwave before crushing it in his palms. "Weak...so weak..." It said.

"Too many thing...holding you...down...still thinks...about them..." It creates another slash but on Raven's chest. "What are you talking about." Raven said holding the wound. The pain was delayed. It was that fast.

It turned around and stared at him and pointed its blade at him. "Find out."

With Ara

Fahrmann's Peak

Ara was fighting with her sealed spirit, Eun in her awakened form. They were about tied but Eun was slowly but surely over taking Ara. They clashed one more time before pushing each other and landed and rock hills.

Eun lowered her spear and looked around. "Wow, its almost like home don't you think?" She said looking around with her mischievous smile.

"We aren't here to reminisce!" Ara said in flustered. "Ah, well since i can full let myself go here, i can finally personally teach you sweetie." She spins her spear and aims at Ara. "Lets make this chance count shall we. You do want to save your village no?" She said with a smirk.

With Luto

Luo was back in his chair watching each of the fighters. He was smiling under his mask as he observed each of them.

"Now. This is where thing really get interesting. I wonder, what will you do next eh Elsword?"

An

Sorry if i have any spelling errors. I'm using a phone to type all this and sometimes i don't see all the errors so i apologise in advance.

Also i am staying for the summer since it has been raining for weeks where i am at.

Hope you enjoy

Peace.