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Desolate Mage: A Legend Reborn!
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Sam felt as if the whole world around her were shattering like a cracked mirror.
The unbearable impact of collision on the back of her head evoked a metallic tang to rise up within her mouth - a fresh mouthful of rich, dark red blood spurted forth as she collapsed to the ground.
'Must... Get... Up... For...' After the taste of blood came the taste of stomach acids and bile, caustic and violent; a sign of an empty stomach. Some drops of her digestive fluids dripped onto the dirt beneath her mouth. Where the liquids fell, a sizzling dark hole appeared; one so deep the bottom could not be seen.
The always-hungry girl could smell the earth beneath her nose. At a time like this, even the ground beneath her smelled like it would taste good!
Sam struggled up onto one knee as swiftly as she could, but it was taking too long. Dizzy and blurry eyed, the light-headed girl tried to peer forward and clear her vision of the myriad fracturing and cracks clouding her vision. Creaks and screeches that should be coming from a human body were heard, and then spiraling pain assaulted every joint in her body, like she had just been chewed on, ingested and had gone through the natural systems of an Ancient Dragon!
The defiant girl braced her swaying body for the next attack that should be coming, anytime now. Her head spun, and the cracking of her vision only got worse and worse, so she knocked it repeatedly in an attempt to alleviate these symptoms.
But the cracks expanded, extending now not just through the skies, but causing the ground itself to begin to fissure. Sam began to whack her ears now; the 600kg girl could even hear the intense cracking and breaking sounds in her ears! Was she going crazy? Beaten until she began seeing and hearing strange things?
Then Sam felt a sense of weightlessness as she began to fall.
The fissures were real.
Her clone had disappeared.
The entire world around her was crumbling into pieces.
The spinning, tumbling warrior fell, then eventually stabilised herself with face pointed downwards so the eagle-eyed youth could peer into the cold, silent darkness she was hurtling through.
Sam continued to soar through the void, feeling gusts of air whipping against her face from the great velocity at which she fell.
Finally, after falling for what seemed like ages, she saw something.
Like an illusion at the end of a tunnel, it was the scene before the altar, where they had seen the holographic projection along with hearing the "Beep." girl's voice.
She could see Albert standing below her, eyes closed but head raised, lost in though. Snowie - the lazy fat cat - was yawning, sprawled out across his shoulders.
Then she realised her trajectory. She was still afar off... But headed straight for Albert's face - lips first.
'NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!'
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In her desperation at an approaching crisis beyond any disaster previously faced, Sam cried out for help, not knowing to whom she was crying out. There was still time, but there was also a sinking feeling of certainty that went beyond knowledge and crossed into the realms of prescience - if she didn't do anything about it now, the 10 year old innocent girl would be subjected to a terror worse than having all the bones in her body broken and her heart ruptured from the inside out.
She would lose her first kiss.
And then in her frenzied calls out into the gloom around her... Sam heard an answer - not heard, no. Neither was it felt. The frantic girl *knew* there was an answer.
'Mmm...?' Something was sensed that resonated with the deepest perception; *KNOWN*.
Just like earlier whenever each trial had been completed and when Sam was transferred, the space around her rippled and moved, triggering and plucking at the strings of reality. It was just like when the gorilla-like ogre in the shape of a girl had been forced to take the Demon's Slaying Fist head-on; the space in the surroundings were resonating, responding to some deep concepts of laws.
'Just like earlier... But... Different...?'
After awhile, she began to close her eyes and sense the esoteric feelings around her. The erstwhile intellectually challenged child focused, frowning and concentrating on the stimulation filling her senses, her mind spinning as fast as she could make it go.
She could sense, see, hear, touch, taste, feel... *KNOW* the presence of vastness beyond any vastness hidden in the gaps of the fabrics of reality. And she called out to them, her friends, shy and playful, but mightier than a thousand raging seas or a million towering mountains.
'Hmm... So it was like that after all...'[1] A look of enlightenment gradually untwisted her brows, turning a scrunched up face into one of beaming joy, filled with the euphoria of rapturous epiphany!
Moving so fast that the darkness around her seemed to freeze in place, pausing her descent, the enlightened one's palms danced in a mystical form, drawing patterns of the endless chakras and mudras of Space as they flitted through her mind's eye.
Then the injured girl struck out with a single fist, slowly and gently, without using any of her mighty strength.
And the void moved with her, acknowledging their new mistress' call, responding and obeying.
Her fall was suspended; it was not a sense or feeling but an actuality as space froze around her.
Before it exploded.
*CRRRRRAAACCCCCKKKK!!!!*
Freezing the space. Constricting the space. Twisting reality. Then smashing it.
The empty air before her fist shattered like broken glass, an image of what had occurred just moments ago, sending endless lines of broken space lancing off into the far off darkness.
'I... Understand now.' Her emotions calmed, settling into a deific and transcendent state as glorious manifestations arose from the darkness and thin air around her - Asura Dragons, Twin-headed Solar Phoenixes, a pantheon of Astral Beasts including the Mana Devourer and Soul Conqueror, and a dark silhouette that could barely be made out, a plump, short and oval shaped black-and-white figure exuding an all-encompassing might that made one doubt the validity of one's own existence!
The evidences heralding the birth of one more exceedingly rare individual who had embarked on the road of seeking sovereign rule over the Laws of Space. It was not just rare, but an impossible occurrence, happening for the first time ever in a life-form below a thousand years of age - the first and only out of the billions and trillions of organisms in the universe!
The child who radiated and basked in the divine-like display of majesty had relied on her multiple experiences of being on the receiving end of Master-level Law application, interpreting and understanding it in her own way.
'She went BOOM and SHHUUUP and PANG! And then the air went ZUP ZUP ZUP, MOW WOWOW and it hurt like mad! That's it!!!'
If not for the blood-curdling ordeal of being pummeled and beaten being recognition under the hands of her reflection, it was unknown if even a hundred or a thousand more years of comprehension and meditation could bring her this far! It was all thanks to these trials that she could advance beyond the limits of comprehension for those not in the legendary realm!
...Along with the ravening, primeval instincts that extended beyond what her senses could ever know, but assured the childlike God Emperor that she *KNEW* without *KNOWING* how!
All this would be a story for later days, as the peerless champion herself knew not the preposterous events that had just taken place, she was completely oblivious to it, thinking that the clone's level of power was just par for the course!
For now; the crisis was averted.
She called out to her now close friends and buddies hiding in the gaps between the particles, the reticent concepts of the Laws of Space themselves.
And shifted her position so her face would not collide with Albert's.
As she finally arrived in the corporeal world, she smiled, happy to be reunited with her friends.
"Oooffmph--"
A sound of a man knocked unconscious, nose broken, and a cat flung off him like a spinning boomerang that would not return.
It was just an elbow to his face.
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[1] Author IEatTomatoes favourite line when his character's comprehend laws...?