The dolls were like cockroaches, every time you knocked them down they just kept getting back. They moved with only one purpose, to kill us. Nothing could stop them.
"You know, you could always ask me for advice, I am the goddess of wisdom after all. Who says I don't have any way to permanently keep them down?" Athena was floating above me and I don't want to sound like a pervert but if I would've looked up I definitely would've seen her, ahem, private parts.
"If you've got any, just say it and don't distract me." She wasn't too happy that I kinda ignored her but well, can you blame me, I was in the middle of a literal zombie horde, you wouldn't want to be distracted either.
"I don't, I've never seen anything like this before, I mean he's controlling them without actually controlling them. The only thing I can think of is using void but we both know how dangerous that is."
Void, also aptly known as inter-dimensional energy. It is created in the absence of magical elemental particles. It is strong enough to rip a hole between universes and it consumes anything in its path, the ability I had given myself whilst waiting on the doll to appear had been the ability to generate and kind of control the energy.
I say kind of because trying to control Void energy is like someone with a strong ability to control the weather trying to control a hurricane, they can partly control it but it's still a wild thing.
"How long would I have?" She looked at me with a shocked expression. "You really want to try that? Well ok, uhm, by my estimate, you would have around 47 seconds. Any longer and it will start ripping reality to shreds."
"That's more than what I expected and more than what I think I'll need. Let's hope this works." With that I started summoning void energy.
A golden glow seemed to come out of my body and I started counting.
1 second.
I pulled out as much energy as I could muster, making sure that it stayed close to me. I also summoned my pen. After making sure that everything was in order I started funneling the energy through it.
5 seconds.
I started forming symbols with the energy. Something you should know is that void energy is a much more pure form of energy compared to the elemental particles I normally use, this means that I can use it as a source for the symbols instead of those particles. Now you might think, Why don't you just use void energy for everything for everything?
I have a few reasons: The fact that I could create rips in reality for one, or how I was in unimaginable pain at the time and lastly because void energy is too unpredictable.
Anyways back to my fight with the energy.
30 seconds.
I had finally finished forming the symbols. I had created a formation that would fundamentally change the energy, it would only destroy the puppets now. Pushing the energy through I sent it outwards in waves.
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Something was going on. I looked outside and saw a golden wall move through the streets, it passed through everything so I didn't see what it could do wrong. Then it passed through me and when I saw what was going on.
Whenever the wall passed over dolls they would just disappear, consumed by it.
I noticed that it wasn't a wall but a dome, it moved extremely fast and had encompassed Atlantis in about 3 seconds. Then it started moving in the opposite direction. After it passed through me again I felt … different. I knew something had fundamentally changed about me but what that something was was a mystery.
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After the pulse was sent out only one puppet remained, the one he had used as a body. I had expected this. The void focused on exterminating a hovering that contained one specific puppet. This puppet didn't belong to the hovering anymore since the Dollmaker had left it.
It looked like a corpse, I studied it and could only find a few details that showed that this body was a doll. For one, it did contain a few cogs, it also had a different liquid to replace blood and the brain wasn't human at all.
We moved to Kirby's home. During the time I was writing the symbols the puppets had clawed at me and bitten. I was in a pretty rough state.
When I saw the kid I asked something I should've asked earlier. "What's your name , little girl."
She was a bit angry that I called her little girl but hey, my mental age was 38. "About time you asked me. My name is Nora."
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