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Chapter 99 - Final Push

After Red Demon took the allotted time to rest he was ready to have the final four elements. The remaining four were powerful elements; Bedlam, Bolt, Sprout, and Magus. Sprout would give him power over flora environments and even create his own environment to fit his needs. Bolt would give him the power over lightning and he was eager to get his hands on that one in particular, 'My speed would increase ten fold if I combine it with Light' he thought laying flat on the table. Magus would give power over magic. Magic was different from chi being that it was the power to bend matter and reality. Allowing one to also bend all powerful energies. It would give him a leg up over his adversaries. Spell weaving would be easier and more powerful towards his Mythical Forging and even had boons to his Chi Forge ability making each weapon an elevated soul weapon. He could forge weapons like Black Brand if he mastered it. Hastor approached the side of the table looking down at him with his helmeted face. "Ready?" he asked, holding a needle in hand. "Yes" he then crushed up the orb of the Bolt and mixed it into the ink. Poured his own energy into it and then dipped the needle in his meridian of Lightning that was placed on both sides of his thighs. Each working in tandem with each other and opening one opens the other.

He then dug the needle in and from the needle the markings spread out and created a magic circle like the others with the symbol of Bolt in the center. He could feel the markings burning into his skin upon his opposite leg. He felt electricity flowing up and down his body making his spasm. Then his Mind Palace was hit with an electrical storm that erupted inside it. He remained calm and his ethereal self looked up at the blue storm over his ruins. The other elements gave the new visitor a wide berth in the sky as the overhead circled his island. He then flew up to meet it. The Bolt element is something that is met with respect and sometimes force. Raijin used to talk about all elements as if they were sentient and now he finally understood what he meant. 

The lightning subsided and became a flowing ball of electrical waves. "So you wish to use me? I can tell the others have joined you, but what makes you think I'll be easy to convince?" The voice coming from the element was static and robotic. "The very nature you possess is destruction and renewal. You are the pure physical embodiment of pure energy. I need that to help me go forward. Each of the elements will give me boons for the coming war. I must ask you to stand with me. I'm not telling any of you by force" the ball started to laugh. "They may be pushovers, but I'll need force!" it then shot a bolt of lightning coming from its center. He dodged quickly and manifested two ethereal swords. The two then zipped around the Mind Palace in flashes locked in battle. He dodged and parried every bolt of lightning that came at him. He was doing well, but this wouldn't last. He was relying on his Mind element to trigger his reaction time and speeding up his thinking. Bolt was just naturally fast and moved faster than him. He was then hit in the chest by a bolt falling to the red waters below. He hit the surface like it was solid, bounced back up and then slashed at the coming ball of energy. 

Cutting through it causes its body to split into two pieces to then attack from both pieces. He slashed one bolt and was hit by the other. He slid across the water and held his ground taking the bolt. He then screamed "ENOUGH!" Then they slashed both balls and sent a wave of mental energy trapping the energy in place. "You're not half bad," Bolt stated as he circled around him. "I'll stick around for now. But you know that little demonstration was nothing more than exercise. Best respect Lightning boy" it then floated to the sky. 

Another element appeared only this was more eerie. The Red Demon started to notice something small and light fall slowly from the sky. It wasn't fast or in a hurry just slowly floated down revealing to be a leaf as it gently tapped the water. Then another came down this time in star patterns. More and more leaves slowly started to rain down around him. Till they started to circle one another towards a glowing green ball of energy with a white light center. 

The leaves seem to protect it as they swirled all around till some stuck to the outside and created a shell and layered atop it. Till finally it is a leaf shell around the ball. The leaf shell looked at Red Demon with a silent stare. "I take it you are Sprout?" Red Demon asked. 

The ball of leaves said nothing. Red Demon felt awkward. "Okay. What would you like?" Red Demon began to back away from it. He felt a strong aura coming off the ball and the leaves began to move really fast layering themselves together as they rolled up and made them into tentacles. 

He sidestepped and dodged a crack from them as they made a loud pop. Red Demon then went for the ball and hit it across the  water. It still said nothing as it kept attacking, creating more tentacles. He then used his chi forging to create chains. More chains came from the sky as they wrapped the leaf ball immobilizing it. It slammed into the water with a loud boom. This caused Red Demon's ethereal form to flicker and cause a massive headache in his brain. 

The chains disappeared and the element Sprout was back to normal. Then they exploded into leaves and floated up into the sky. He sat upon a pillar in the water. 'Who is next?' He thought. 

Then the water itself seemed to stir. From the water came balls of it floating from it in drops defying gravity. He stared around him as water drops surrounded him. Then connected and shot at him with long spikes. He was stabbed by the spikes causing his ethereal body to take damage. He moved quickly and dodged more attacks. "Well, well, let's see. I like a bearer to be flexible like me. So let's see what you can do?" It then started to turn into different forms causing him to dodge, twist, and dip to miss every one. The water then turned to ice slamming into him. The shards turned back into water and then formed a fist hitting Red Demon.

 He flew back and was caused by a wave that then wrapped around him submerging him. He didn't panic, this was his mind so drowning wasn't real. He then used his mental energy to stop the flow and pulled the water towards him and then he blew it apart into thousands of drops. He was free and the water seemed to still. A big ball then floated out of it. "That was so much fun!" Aqua stated. It's voice sounds like a teenagers. 

He floated to the island and slumped down. He then stared up at the black sun above and had a moment of respite. A few minutes later he saw a red magic circle form in the sky and the water of his Mind Palace started to glow red as another magic circle formed under it. 

Electricity danced upon the circle as a black sphere came from the center with a blood red aura. It was shiny and bright as it illuminated the entire Mind Palace. The runes from his Mind element also lit up and then turned blood red. His ethereal body started to also glow and evolve. He started to scream along with his ethereal self. "I am the power of magic, the very power to refine all energies of the cosmos. Do you think you're worthy?" Through screams the ethereal Red Demon groaned "yes…I am worthy!" He screamed as he jumped up and flew towards the magic circle and grabbed the sphere and absorbed it into his ethereal self. A core then formed around his heart filling with chi and life force. His body was on fire and he groaned in pain as he fought against the straps keeping him in place. 

With this new organ now attached to his body and around his heart solidified and was filled with chi. Red Demon's opened his eyes and saw his body had steam coming off him. Black tar-like substance was covering his body. It smelled terrible and was disgusting looking. "What…is this…" he asked Hastor. "It's all impurities. With this many elements your body is becoming made of chi now. You're shedding your mortality. The next will take all your strength. Sister stepped forward looking down at him. "Are you ready to get this process over with?" He said nothing and nodded. "Do it.." she nodded and placed a hand upon his chest. She then turned her hand and a bright light came from her hand. His body then spasmed and he then started to have a seizure. Inside his Mind Palace then rumbled as the water boiled and began to rise.