And yet, they didn't reach as the Lord of the Fiery Abyss jumped upward and floated. While floating on his back, he turned his head to Lucius with his arm extended out.
At the tip of his fingers, "Hēisè de Gehenna!" Before Lucius could realize it, this pure blackness formed as it shot out like a beam, directly hitting his form.
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BEYOND THE VEIL:
THE GREAT SHIFT
CHAPTER 29:
THE GREAT SHIFT PART 15
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'The World' stood in front of Lucius, and yet, it was for not. They rolled and rolled and rolled and rolled through the charred, grassy, rocky, and even moist landscape. Lucius's blood seemed to leave like free candy.
Eventually, the pace began to slow down. Unfortunately, fate had other plans.
*POW!*
Lucius felt immense pain as his eyes began to blur as blood left his mouth. With his remaining strength, he saw the Lord of the Fiery Abyss with his arm extended as he'd punched him.
"Damn…" Lucius closed his eyes as felt sudden pain descend through every part of his chest and spine. He hit rock and tree alike and fell unconscious, which subsequently caused the 'World' and the 'Sun' to fade, along with all other summons he'd summoned.
Eventually, he'd lost momentum and hit a large rock. His body shape outlines the entire rock as he feels forward. However, before he'd managed to hit the ground - four hands caught him.
Without needing to look up, Lucius smiled softly and muttered: "Nylva Einhorn… Lysander Storm… I, as your captain…and friend, command you to aid them in killing that thing…!" Captain Lucius fell limply on the ground, completely unconscious.
Nylva Einhorn felt a small card being placed in her hands as she looked down. It depicted a man dressed in magician's clothes while having a touch of modern styles of the vest and suits. With shoulder-length hair and a pair of mesmerizing blue eyes, the man depicted smirked childishly while pulling his eyelid down in jest.
Beneath the depiction, lay the words in large font, two words that seemed to terrify 'him':
"THE MAGICIAN!"
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The Lord of the Fiery Abyss stood as he had just launched Leonard's descent, simultaneously, he felt both of his astral projections being dealt with.
Groaning, a feeling of disappointment washed over him. "It seems we're all entering the final act." Looking around, the world exploded once again with flannel flowers and small moon crescents.
Elena Crescent crouched down on all fours on top of one of the moon crescents, for a moment on an outside view, it had seemed like Elena was the hunter, and he was nothing more than prey.
Smirking, he muttered softly: "Burn."
Suddenly, the white flannel flowers burned to ashes as Elena narrowed her eyes through the black cloak. Raising his hand, Elena quickly moved as she felt her right shoulder twist and shorten — a massive slash appeared on said shoulder.
Grunting, she snapped her fingers as the moon crescents gained this blue glow around them, giving out this chilly and solid aura. They shot out from their floating position towards 'him'. 'He' simply moves through the crescents like a dancer to a magical score.
Quickly moving forward, the Lord of the Fiery Abyss knelt and grabbed drops of her blood. Elena, knowing the outcome, quickly changed directions and charged for her blood.
But it was too late.
Her blood had already gone on his tongue, as he tasted it. Bracing herself for the pain, she halted as if nothing happened.
This shocked her as she looked at him. With the blood still dripping, his eyes widened significantly as he muttered something. "You're…"
*BANG*
Everyone was stunned as burning starlight hit 'him.' It was one of 'The Sun's' spherical energies containing the sun. This stunned him but did not charr or burn him.
Suddenly, two powerful punches connected perfectly to his back. Then to his waist, neck, and chest, and of which he felt nearly simultaneously.
This happened because of Einhorn's barrier abilities and Ashborne's punches imbued with fire. Suddenly, Ashborne fully came out of one of these barriers and launched a punch.
He blocked the punch, but this didn't make Ashbourne any more ineffective as he kicked. About to raise his leg to block, the kick launched by Ashborne was swallowed by this bluish barrier and appeared behind him.
The Lord of the Fiery Abyss only smirked as a thin arm grew from his back and grabbed the kick. And even yet, he felt damage being felt to his back.
Looking backward, he saw Einhorn and Nocturne with their fists connecting. Suddenly, Ashborne grabbed onto his entire arm and gripped it while pulling tightly.
At the same time, both Nocture and Einhorn repeatedly punched his back. Grunting, he backhanded his wrist to Ashborne's face as he ground his teeth together while fighting the urge to fall unconscious.
With blood leaking from his mouth, Ashborne spit it out onto 'his' eye. However, the Lord of the Fiedy Abyss wasn't stunned as the blood quickly left his eye socket and expanded dramatically. Completely covering him, both Nocture and Einhorn backed off with Ashborne being the same.
Suddenly, the blood lit on fire and exploded, catching all of them in the fiery explosion.
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Silence consumed the whole area as the purple barrier surrounding them for 10km on both ends ended.
The Lord of the Fiery Abyss stood in the charred ground with his scarlet red eyes closed, and yet, a wide and gentle smile was on his face.
Things… are finally ending. Surrounding him was everyone. To his left, right, up, down - it didn't matter, they were everywhere. The only ones that were not there were Captain Lucius and Yves Cassian.
Otherwise, everyone stood ready.
Everyone had signs of damage on them, including the Lord of the Fiery Abyss - his clothes, mostly as the clothes Auden had were charred to ashes.
This also included all of the Night Riders with their cloaks charred. Looking around, the Lord of the Fiery Abyss put all their appearances to memory.
From left to right: Vance Caelum, had short pure blonde hair with green eyes. Nylva Einhorn, short and skinny with the roots of her hair being black as the tips were blonde and with light red eyes.
Lysander Storm, a tall man with short black hair, had his right eye missing but had covered it up with an intricate tattoo. Lucifer Nocturne, a man with short blonde hair and eyes like snakes, had the body of Lysander but was slimmer.
Elena Crescent is a short woman with long grayish-white hair with deep blue eyes. Felix Ashbourne is a loud and bold man with shoulder-length red hair with oddly calm blue eyes.
Atlas Zephyr, a large and muscular man with a large broadsword, had chin-length curly brown hair and deep brown eyes. Níels, the madman, with blonde hair and icy blue eyes he'd handled this large double-ended ax.
And finally, Daemon Eggers who floated above the sky and right over the Lord of the Fiery Abyss. Signing at the lineup of opponents, he looked at Nylva Einhorn, he'd noticed that her pocket contained a card.
With a twisted smirk, he muttered chillingly: "Let the final act begin…"