Alsvid lay on the ground, chared black and dying slowly. He had been like this for five solid minutes as in the distance the old man could be seen returning and he wasn't alone. Behind him were two skeleton guards wearing medieval samurai armor.
"Wow, you're still alive, this is getting pretty annoying, I know I said I'll have you die slowly but am working with time, something dangerous is coming so you're going to have to die faster. Draw your swords."
The skeletons drew their samurai swords and started walking towards a dying Alsvid. They were halfway to his body when a giant white snake moving at the speed of sound came out of nowhere and devoured the skeletons as Adam jumped off its head and landed next to Alsvid's body as a golden light erupted from him while Orochi coiled protectively around them.
"Summoning: Holy saint."
Essence, the most complicated yet basic source of energy in the new world. Every apparition is represented by a specific type of essence unique to that apparition only. Two types of essence could have the same colour but different effects. In Adam's case, his golden essence represented life as it granted him the ability to bring beings into existence, but now, he was going to give life to someone who was about to die.
A grand priest appeared in the sky above Adam wearing a bishop's robe and holding a cross and a scepter in his right and left hands respectively. Lifting its right hand, a golden light flew from the cross and into Alsvid's body in droves and waving its scepter, a golden barrier formed around all of them.
"Take care of him, I'll end this one quickly."
Adam walked out of the barrier as Orochi lowered its head until it was touching the ground, even then, its head was still bigger than Adam. Adam lifted his hand way above his head and rubbed Orochi's head, then, as soon as he dropped his hand, Orochi burst forth at full speed towards the old man.
"So this is the snake Kage warned me of, it doesn't look that powerful, oh well, I guess I should take it seriously."
A floating skeleton wearing a black cloak and holding a skull staff appeared behind the old man as a gigantic green barrier wall appeared in front of him just in time for Orochi to slam into it at full speed causing some cracks to appear but the barrier remained strong. Adam kept walking forward slowly while Orochi pulled back a little, opened its mouth and started absorbing the essence that held up the barrier as it slowly started fading.
"Am assuming that these guys belong to you, have a happy reunion."
Four crystalline monkeys appeared behind the old man out of nowhere and dashed towards Adam. There was no visual change to them but Adam could tell that these weren't the low grade spires he left with Alsvid. The monkeys crossed the rapidly fading barrier as Orochi who had its mouth full swiped its tail which covered way too much area at them. The tail slammed the monkeys back into the barrier they just left as it crashed into the barrier.
"You don't think I'd send creatures that can't stand their ground against that thing at you do you."
The old man said to an unhindered Adam who just kept walking at his own pace as at this moment he had crossed halfway through the battlefield. The monkeys ran back out, all of them climbing the tail of Orochi as two of them had their tails brighten with essence. As soon as they landed, two monkeys dashed forward while the other two that had bright tails fired off a beam each at Adam. At this juncture, Adam erupted with essence as from his rage, Noir appeared in front of him momentarily to fire off a single large beam that overpowered all four monkeys and sent the first two flying backwards as the barrier completely faded away.
"Oh my, that was quick."
Orochi burst forward, the first two monkeys falling backwards in front of it as it used those two for a snack while aiming for the main course. The floating skeleton pointed its staff at Orochi as a very familiar scene played out, essence poured into the staff as a gigantic beam of green essence roughly the same size as Orochi went to meet it. Unlike what was expected which was a clash between the two forces, Orochi just opened its mouth as all the essence flew into it showcasing the terrifying power that was the snake's ability to devour anything. As the energy flew into the snake's mouth it didn't even slow down as it was still aiming for the old man.
"I would love to play with you a little longer but I can't leave Kage waiting too long. Don't worry though, we'll meet again soon. See you later Ragon."
The old man turned around and started walking away as his floating skeleton disappeared, Orochi was seconds away from him when suddenly the old man's shadow lifted from the ground and covered him as he himself disappeared.
"Dammit, how did they find me Soo quickly."
A dashing bright light appeared in the distance and disappeared as quickly as it appeared. From that bright light, a muscular 17 year old boy with jet black hair and looked like a jock wearing a red football jerseys and long black trousers appeared. The boy looked around with amazement in his eyes, as he exclaimed.
"Wow, it's real, it's real, it really is real, he wasn't lying, I can't believe it's real."
After taking a moment to calm down, the boy decided to look around the area and to his shock, he could see large scorch marks, a giant snake, a floating priest, a bewildered man staring back at him and a person burnt black and looking dead as the priest looked like it was reviving the person. He could see the person getting healed by very slowly. He walked over to the man as he spoke.
"Master Ragon."
"Huh, who are you and how do you know my name."
"My name is Nathaniel Hawthorne and according to the information I have, I should be the emperor apparition user."
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(Helpful information)
Special apparition: Emperor
This is an apparition that allows its user to control the essence of supremacy allowing them absolute authority over anything the essence comes in contact with as well as granting more essence than all others around the user.