The existence of the mostre is nearly futile. However, little did those people who are knowledgeable of mostre that there are more fearsome and mysterious power lurking in the darkness. They called themselves as void. They fill the deepest and the most hidden desires of a human. One of them is Theist, the void of God and the one who was fighting Faia. None is known about him but obviously he's vicious.
"W-W-What happened?" the void who was inside Adlai's body was shocked.
Faia just shot him with a beam of fiery light from her eyes. It hit Adlai's body in the chest. But instead of having Adlai thrown away, it was the opposite. The distance between them had elongated after Faia shoot the beam. She was the one who was thrown away.
The void touched Adlai's chest and didn't feel anything. He thought it was just a mere bluff and just smug.
"M-Must be a fluke!" he whispered. Faia who was down with the ruins haven't made any movement yet. The void who was controlling Adlai's mind and body was about to walk but suddenly, he chest felt hot.
"W-W-What is this? My chest is burning?! But I don't see any fi—." He coughed blood and down to his knees. He is screaming from the top of his lungs because of the excruciating pain.
He was panting, breathing heavily, and sweating. His body is shaking and the burning hot pain slowly surging to his whole body.
'What the hell is this?! I can't believe it! How come does human have such power?!' he thought and mentally cursed.
Suddenly, across the block where Faia was down earlier, she slowly stood up. She eyed him in which he was shocked. Her eyes wasn't eyes anymore. It was completely burning in flames. He was busy comprehending to what he was looking that he didn't noticed she already made a move. She just walked past him as if they were just a feet apart. He was stoned by his shock.
Faia balled her fist and landed a blow on his back that almost break his spine. He screamed in pain but she's not done yet. She appeared in front of him. He haven't recovered yet from that blow but she punched him in the gut. He did not have the time to react. She kept on attacking him, not giving him a chance to counter. Blow after blow in different part of his body.
The void felt humiliation and insult to this. How can a lowly human go against him?! How can a human possess such power! For him this is unjust and absurd. As far as he knows, only a void can go against a void.He gritted his teeth. Faia did not stopped there. It is as if she is not with herself anymore. He's mad and the more Faia hit him, the more rage build up inside him. Suddenly, he gathered all his strength once again and let out his dark spiritual energy. It was so dense that Faia's body couldn't keep up anymore. She fell down to her knees and he grabbed her by her hair.
"Aren't you a bit bold, thinking that you, a human could overpower a void?! A void whose power is par to that of a God?! No, not that I believe in such rubbish. But you do have guts to hurt me! You'll pay for that!" he yelled at Faia's face. Faia is unresponsive.
"Looks like you've lost yourself, huh?" he said.
He suddenly laughed out loud and started to swing the little girl's body and crushed her to the ground. Her body was so helpless but she made no response. He threw her at a tree and she bumped against it.
"I'm done playing with you brat! Now, time to say farewell." He growled as he squatted in front of her. He once again grabbed her hair and pulled it backwards.
"Are you dead already? Tch! I wanted to hear you scream in pain and beg for your life. Well, whatever. Things like this happens sometimes." He said and he noticed that Faia's eyes haven't returned to normal. It is still burning. He was intrigued by this and tried to pull it out. But before he could even do that, a hot steam was released from the helpless body of the little girl.
Feeling alarmed, the void backed away. Suddenly, the steam got stronger and there is an intense heat. Even with such distance, he can feel it. Then the tree she was leaning at right after she was thrown had set itself to flame.
The fire spread around her and it got wider and wider and it spread so fast. Adlai stepped away but even with great distance between them, the intense heat from the steam and the fire can still be felt. He kept his distance but he feels that his body is draining its fluid and his throat have gotten dry. Even if the void inside Adlai only possessed him, it did not escape the intense heat and also felt it as if he and Adlai is one. The fire grew fiercer and fiercer every minute. The void could not think of any way to get closer to her because it could cause him his life.
Faia stood up slowly and walk towards Adlai. The moment she took one step, the fire moved a meter. Adlai stepped back a little bit more. Trees that surrounded the plaza had now been burned and the buildings are set on fire. Adlai's hiding place have come to its limit but his enemy is still charging. He decided to run for it. He's got nothing to do against her fire. Frustrated about his defeat he muttered to himself:
"I never backed down from a fight before! How can such a lowly creature possess this power!"
He ran as fast as he can but Faia did the same. She ran after him and he got scared. When she walked, her fire moved one meter ahead, and now that she's running, it doubles its range as well as the speed. No matter how fast he can ran, he'll still caught up with the flame and the steam. Engulfed with fear, his mind was blocked out and stopped working and instead stopped on his track looking at the charging enemy.
'Is this really the end of me?!' he asked himself. Mentally gritting his teeth and frustratingly clenched his fist. He's looking at the flames and in the center of it there's Faia running towards him. It seems that the time had been slowed down. He felt something he never felt before. Death. At the moment he looked at Faia's eyes, he sensed death. It's not that he is not prepared for it but rather, this is way too unexpected to him. He never knew that it takes only human, a little girl, to finish him.
"Why don't you use your head sometime, halfwit?" suddenly, someone spoke to him in his head.
"Halfwit?!" he said angrily.
"I've already slowed down the time enough for you to get out of the body tch!"
'Oh yeah! This is not my body! Why haven't I thought about that?!' he mentally facepalmed himself.
"I can't hold it any longer! I'm leaving! Tch" said the person who just talked to him.
"Wait, what?" he said but it was too late. Faia's fire became faster and wilder. They are about twenty meters apart but the steam was so intense it burned the clothes of Adlai. The aura is so dense that he can't leave the body. It's as if something's stopping him from doing so.
He had no other choice but to run faster than before but even before he could do so, he caught up in the fallen debris that was weakened by the dense aura of the fire. He fell down and a block of broken wall run over him. He can't move, not alone breath. He was asking help from someone who just talked to him but to no avail. It seems that he was abandoned already.
"It's coming!" he said. He saw Faia's figure across thee fire. She stopped on her track and he didn't expect it. The spread of the fire had also stopped. The small portion of the plaza was burning hell and the fire was spreading still and the citizens are tying to put it out even with the fear they've felt inside.
Faia suddenly raised her right arm forward and she folded her fingers while the index finger pointed towards Adlai's body. The fire around her disappeared suddenly. Adlai's mouth was opened, waiting for something to happen.
He then saw something in the tip of her finger. A whirling air of steam spiralled and in few moments, a fiery ball of light was formed. It was color yellow at first but as it got bigger, it turned to intense yellow, to orange, red orange, red, and deep red.
Adlai was shaking. He doesn't know what to do. He knows it's coming but what else can he do? He's stuck with a something over him. The void was cursing nonstop.
"This body is so useless! It can't even move the wall from his body! I really hate weaklings!" he cursed and was punching the ground. He summoned his scythe hoping that it might be of some use. He then thought of something and he thinks it's brilliant.
The fireball steam in Faia's finger is ready to take off. With just a little effort, she fired it towards Adlai. The void on Adlai's body looked at the fireball steam closely as if he was waiting for it and with the right timing, he focused all his aura on his scythe and and made it spin. He was smirking because it is working. It blocked her attacked but the ball and the steam is still there. He is still suffering from loss of breath and the fluids on his body is like sucked out of him. But he never let go of his weapon. He endured the pain drained his aura to his scythe.
However, much to his fascination, he missed something very important. Faia, made another one of the fireball steam. His eyes widened and his heart beats fast. How could he forget?
"Damn! I forgot to think about it! She can make multiple shots! If se fires again, I'd be done
for! What now?!" he said cussing.
His losing his grip on the aura of his scythe, he was too focused at the second attacked. In his position, all he could do is to clenched his fist, grit his teeth, and pray. Well, the last part was a bluff. He never prays. This is something he couldn't do. He believes that there is nothing to pray for or someone to pray at. Because he's the void of god. He knows no god and doesn't believe in it and if someone claims to be a god, he'll kill him.
He was humiliated by it. How can someone like him who vowed to kill the god, will be killed by a mere human. His face, mind, and heart is full of disappointment and frustration. His scythe is closed to breaking. Some part of it is already chipped and he barely have enough aura and strength.
The second fireball steam was launched. He closed his eyes as he is expecting his death. He waited for it but it didn't came. He slowly opened his eyes and looked up at his spinning scythe. The fireball steam was still there.
"Is this the second attack? But I didn't feel the impact. What happened?" he whispered. He looked forward and saw a tall figure of a man whose cape drawn with a waves of skyblue lines dangling of the right side of his shoulder.
There are people around who tried to figure out what is happening. They gathered around but hid behind the buildings. They whispered and shared the same confusion.
Before he closed his eyes earlier, it was Zoi who arrived. He stopped the fireball steam with his bare hands. He looked sadly at Faia and called out her name but it seems that it didn't reached her. He tried again but failed and this time, she opened her palm towards Zoi. She is once again ready for an attack. However, Zoi made a strings of water and surrounded both him and Faia.
"Come back, Faia." He whispered.
Faia opened her eyes as if she was in a deep sleep. She rubbed her eyes and was shocked. She wasn't wearing any mask.
"Faia!" suddenly someone called her. She looked behind and saw the children who was with her during her stay at Zoi's camp. She motioned them to stop and don't look at her but it seems that they did not understand them. What surprises her even more, they looked at her but none of them suffered the way she expected. She is confused and somewhat reluctant to believe that this is happening. Another group of people gathered around her and were smiling at her. These people are Zoi's friends.
Whatever it is, she feels happy. This is what she dreamed of. A life where no one is afraid to look at her. Where she need not to wear her mask. A life where there's no monster inside her that she fears.
"Faia." She heard someone called out to her. The scene shifted and she woke up again. When she opened her eyes, she saw the strings of water that surrounded her and Zoi in front of her.
"Zoi." She whispered.
She saw Zoi in such a pitiful fate. The right part of his head up to the right eye is covered in bandaged. His chest is exposed but also had bandage on it. Traces of blood and bruises was all over him.
"Thank goodness you're back." He said and let out a genuine smile.
Everytime he does it, she always feel warm inside. His smile is full of kindness that could take away every negative emotions, thoughts and things around
"What happened?" she asked. Zoi was surprised. Rupert's hunches were right.
"We can talk about that later. You should rest for-----now." Before he even finish what he was about to say, Faia fell on his arm, unconscious. He sighed with relief.
On the other hand, the scene was take advantage by the void who was inside Adlai's body. He was about to leave the body when a sword was placed on Adlai's head. He looked up and saw a cross-designed sword, and Rupert who was looking down on him. He tried to leave at once but he can't. He then have a wild guess that maybe it is because of the sword.
"Who are you?" he asked.
"That's not what's important. Tell me, why did you appeared here? Your kind is dwelling in another dimension and never leave. So I'm asking you why. I'm not good enough to let you live if you tested my patience." Rupert said angrily. He's angry because the void is something the church hate but maybe looking at Adlai's face made it worst.
Suddenly, he was struck from behind. He fell down on the ground.
"Now leave! Tch!" somebody then spoke. A body appeared from the body of Adlai but it's different. It looks like an astral projection.
"Damn! That was tough!" said the void who just came out from Adlai's body. The people around gasped. The other astral body punched him in the gut and knocked him unconscious. He carried him on his shoulder. He glanced at Faia and notice that Zoi glared at him angrily.
"It is futile. Both of us is in no shape to fight. Better reserve it next time. But next time will be the last time. Mark that lowly humans! Tch!" he said in a monotone but with emphasis. They then vanished into thin air.
"Next time?" Zoi asked and just shrugged.