Behind him could be heard footsteps, a man appeared, in his right hand stood a dagger, made by a greish crystalline material, there was blood on it.
The figure walked towards the Saor, his face covered by a hood, at ten meter of distance he stopped.
The first one to talk was Saor "Do you ever wonder why the night is so empty, there is nothing, only complete darkness, do you know why?".
Looking at him the man said "I don't know Master, could you please enlighten me" the man, Lyst aswered with a cordial voice.
"It's quite simple in my opinion, the usefulness of this " Saor said.
Lyst appeared a little confused, muttering "What do you mean by 'usefulness'?".
"I mean exactly what I said, if a God made all of us why should he bother to create the stars? They could be beautiful for us, but for him? Maybe they would be only a waste of energy" Saor grinned "My only wish is to be able to see a beautiful night sky, a sky where millions of stars like our red one illuminate the sky, but that is only a dream, ain't it?".
"Sadly yes Master, I'm sorry for what I'm about to do now, I tried convincing the Emperor for piety in order to give you mercy, to no avail" said Lyst with some tears in his eyes "this is the end, for a better tomorrow, for the Less, I challenge you to a duel".
"I througt you would try to sneakily kill me, but I guess you still have some decence, I accept, be ready, my student, this fight is going to end in only one way" answered Saor, with a faint burning hate in his eyes.
"We will see" Lyst replied.
In a flash Saor dashed towards Lyst, his and in a form similart to that of the tip of a spear, his objective being to trepass his sharp hand through his former student, just seconds before the attack worked Lyst used his dagger to divert the attack.
Using the momentary weakness of Saor, he sliced at his blind spots with his dagger, slashes of blood splurted everywhere.
Saor enraged tried to attack Lyst multiple times, sadly many of them resulted in failure, even if stronger in his physique, Saor lacked a weapon and proficiency with it, all things that Lyst had.
Saor's patience began wearing thin making him commit more errors, the biggest one culminating in one of his arms being cut, even then he refuted to stop fighting and continued giving his all.
The fight proceeded for about four days, at the end only one stood tall on the other.
The observatory was in ruin, the once glorious and beautiful walls, lied destroyed, just like the gardens and the chambers were the members of the FarSky lived.
Before fighting Saor, Lyst decided to kill all the members of FarSky in their sleep.
Saor stood immobilised, large chunk of his body were missing, his right arm gone, left ear lost also his left eye got injured leaving an enormous scar that started from his brow and finished to his mouth, but the part of his body that got the worse were his legs, their tendons were cut rendering him incapable of walking.
Blood was flowing anywhere, his eyes with little to no light in them looked over the figure of Lyst, he contrary to Saor stood tall with few light injuries.
Saor looking at him whispered " Lyst, why did you do this, we were happy together, we and the other members of FarSky, just tell me, tell me why!?".
Lyst looked at his now pitiful Master, sighing he answered "Sadly I had to do this, for our freedom, for the freedom of the Less, it was a necessary evil, I hope that one day you will be able to forgive me, Master" after saying this Lyst took one of the torchs that were illuminating the hall and threw it on the red carpet were his Master body lied.
The flames began growing at an allarming rate, without looking back Lyst whispered words that only he and his Master could hear "Survive Master, this is my only request as your discipline ".
Hearing this a smirk appeared on Saor face, it seemed that even if now his enemy Lyst decided to keep him alive as a thanks for all he had done for him.
Even if damaged by Eternium an Eternal can heal the wound he received, not regenerate, this meant that given time his wounds would heal leaving only scars, the same couldn't be said if he was wounded by normal weapons in that case his body would have healed in a minute leaving behind not a single scar.
The fire was probably a way to give him a way to escape in the chaos that was going to start.
Seeing the figure of Lyst disappear in the smoke he gave his last farewell to his once student before crawling away from the growing fire.
Outside the observatory stood another person, she was a woman that had around thirty years, an age similar to that of Lyst, she looked at his figure coming out of the observatory, she said "Hey Lyst all clear there ? Did you kill everyone inside ?".
Lyst watching her answered with easy "I killed all of them, not a single one survived" while saying this he felt aches in his hearth, he had to kill them himself, it was the only way to give his ex-family member a painless death, if another member of the Less Empire had decided to take on the job he would have surely tortured them, at least his Master survived.
"Even if I dislike how you end things so fast every time, you did wonderfully, the Emperor will be pleased by these news" she said happily.
"Where is he right now by the way?" asked Lyst.
"He should be killing the last Eternals in their council this war is near his end" she said.
Meanwhile at the council of the Eternals.
Coatl clashed his punchs with an hammer, wielding the hammer was a tall man, he had white beard and equally white hairs, his body was fit but decaying if one paid attention close enough he could see how the passage of time was taking a toll on his body.
They were fighting while circled by numerous Less each with a different weapon of Eternium, the rest the grand all was littered with bodies of the fallen Eternals, only Coatl survived, Mare was disappeared, Saor presumably dead and the others definitely dead.
He was the last, the only one that survived the attack long enought to see their so called Emperor.
He couldn't believe it, the man that destroyed the Eternals, the one that unified the Less, was him, a feeble old man.
And now he was losing to that same old man, unacceptable, he had to win even it meant giving everything he had.
As the fight dragged on a question born from his curiosity began growing inside of him and so after another clash he asked "Less, tell me, how did you got your hand son the first Eternium weapon, answer me, now!" his tone imposing.
The old man, Sandy looked at the pitiful Eternal that stood in front of him, the last of his species, even if that could be said incorrect since the Eternium still contained the souls of the fallen Eternals, but still he cpuld be considered the last Eternal with a body.
After a few second he answered "Atlas, that was his name, he was an Eternal that wanted to die, and so he called me that at that time was known as a great poisoner for help, we could say that we helped he in some way and that he helped us in others, after being used to kill his brothers his voice pleaded me to stop, but as you can see I didn't listen to his pleas" with a smug on his face he continued " Even now I can hear his feeble voice, useless to say that I won't stop until I kill all of you ".
The face of Coatl assumed a dark shade, and after little he asked the real question so short, but at the same time so important "why?".
"Why? Why you ask, I througt it was obvious, because you are dangerous, because the only way we Less can be finally free is by being the only dominant race of the world, this means that now is the time to kill you old things" said Sandy with a crazed look on his face.
After that many Less rushed towards Coatl slashing and wounding his body, even if he tried to protect himself the enemies were too many.
He fell on his knees, his body weak, he looked up into the eyes of the Emperor, his hate tangible, muttering his final words with unending hate and anger he said "If I go down all of you will come with me!".
Even if numerous Less pierced his hearth with their weapon he already launched the strongest punch of his life on the terrain.
Nothing happened "uhm I througt something terrible was going to happen, but I guess we were lucky" said one of the numerous Less.
Just as he finished speaking a deep crack began expanding from their feet, from there a thick smoke began coming out.
It wasn't happening only there but everywhere in the world.
The punch of Coatl attacked an immense vein of dangerous gasses that at contact with air began exploding, destroying the tectonic plaques, this gave life to terrible natural phenomena such as earthquakes, tsunamis and vulcanic eruptions, this continued for around three hundred years.
After that almost nothing remained alive and the land laid destroyed, even the temperature began too hot to handle.
Without knowing Coatl brought on the greatest extinction of all time.
Looking at all of this from the space I felt a little guilt.
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Hello to you all I'm the Author and I want to say to you all that this is only the end of the first age and that there are many others incoming.
In the next arc the creator will delve into his memories further and will find new informations, other than creating new races and readjust the world, maybe he will also make Saor dream come true.
Stay with me to find out what happened to Mare or what end Lyst encountered.
If you want please write a comment and thank you for reading.
Until next time