"Luna, hurry up and support!"
"Shut up kid" The woman called Luna said, holding her staff and looking into a multicolored sky.
"Ooh, he's here." She said shouting in excitement.
I'm fighting a f***king death knight. I mean If I was weak, I'd be dead.
"Luna!"
"Ugh" She swiped up on her phone, creating a gag on his face, the distraction caused the knight to kick him in the stomach and as the Knight's sword was about to swing
CRACK! A pile of rocks that once was a floating island came crashing down and, on the ledge where Luna was standing there was another 20 year old with a plain expression.
"Ash" he said in greeting
"Jake" Ash said, ripping of the gag "My hair is bloody now"
"Sleep it of, there are no 15 year olds in the observable World to impress," he said, pointing up.
A massive rock was coming at him
Fuck you Jake.
When he woke up, he was crushed, taking a deep breath, he said
Ivory dawn.
Instantly the rocks broke appart staying suspended in air thanks to the magic of the Beginning, the terrain had become mountainous and he looked around to find his team.
Jake and Luna were kissing.
Should I tell them.
Nah they'll find out. Walking back to base. Yay. And walked away.
Meanwhile With the two lovebirds, a shadow cast across them and Luna looked and gave a scream, broke appart from Jake and pointed her phone at the creature. Then it was gone from her hand as the greenfive headed hydra crushed it with it's tail, Jake quickly used his chains to subdue the hydra but one of it's heads sprayed poizon on the chains setting it free.
As Ash was walking down the valley smiling, he began to think.
A hydra has three heads at its birth, if it has more or less than that, it means trouble, more than three means it has fought something almost impossibly strong, making it make and learn new battle strategies on the spot, less than three is also bad, it has faced strong enchants, making it more cautious and calculating. I hear rumors that animals on other words are not smart and the most dangerous ones don't even exist. He chuckles. Lucky bastards. But still, with that in mind, He says, staring at the floating screen, It still talks.
YOU NEED TO FIGHT, YOU NEED TO GET STRONGER. GO BACK AND FIGHT.
As he read those last words, he felt a massive urge to fight, still in his Ivory Dawn from jumped so high that he went over the mountain and as he was over the area where the hydra was, making his hand a fist, an almost cartoonish, white, almost 2d pridm was formed over his arm, it was half the length of his body, seeming to be made by undoing and redoing white threads, with some black in there as well, the prism's base and insides were empty and separated into at least 25 layers, for top to bottom. That contraption was what slammed into the hydra and burst through it immediately then, the threads engulfed the hydra and crushed it. The screen said:
YOUR HAVE RECEIVED AN ELEMENTIAL CORE FOR DEFEATING YOUR FIRST HYDRA.
AS PART OF YOUR REWARD, YOU RECEIVED A REJUVENATION POTION.
YOUR FRIENDS HAVE BEEN HEALED.
YOU RECEIVED A HOME TELEPORTATION DEVICE (TWO USES)
Hmm, pretty good, I should leave them to heal, but I need to go to the urban center, before the terrain changes and they go missing.
TELEPORTATION DEVICE ACTIVATED...
"Look who's back, the one hit killer himse-" Anita, the eyes and ears of the group starts
"You disgust me". He said, dropping the limp bodies of his friends.
"What are y-"
"Luna and Jake are having fun time alone during missions and you knew, but you kept it to yourself to watch what they do."
"No-"
"I call next time"
"Oh, okay" she sat back, relived. Then immediately got up, "EVERYONE, MOVE TO THE URBAN AREA."
'Where'mnjns the fire' Neil and Mark came down from the farms alarmed.
Tapping her keyboard, they were all teleported to the main road In the Urban area.
The urban area is the only place that doesn't shift, it is a post apocalyptic looking place, but the fact it doesn't move makes it very popular for impromptu trade centers and shops. Most people prefer to live away from anyone so it's just a shopping district.
All other people were there but instead of the usual chapter there was silence, the only sounds that could be heard was pouring of a liquid. The group push their way to the front and see a small round table with a beautiful tablecloth and on it there were pastries that were half eaten and a teacup was there, sitting beside it was The supreme, Aegis and his rival, Malakar the god of chaos actively sipping tea and talking.
After Moments of that they shook hands and Malakar stood up to talk
"My deepest apologies for the wait, I was very hungry" taking a break, he said "I made an oath to Aegis to not ham you and I plan to stick to it. Now you all have reasons to live right, the memories of your past lives" with everyone nodding along, he continued "I believe you are being fed lies but I don't want you to believe me, I want you to believe yourself," when he said that a large beam of light came straight from the sky to the ground, with the impact causing a huge gust of wind, pointing at it he said "the beginning is a place outside of time and space and so, all of time and space is easy to reach, once you step in it reads your time line and planet then sends you there. Anyone want to try."
"Hell yeah"said Joseph After a brief moment of silence "I'll finally be famous again" as he ran to the singularity.
Joseph, 24 claims he was a famous actor and was kidnapped and killed, then Aegis revived him and is repaying the favor by being here. Stupid, that's Malakar, there's always a catch.
As Joseph's body made contact with the singularity, he imploded as if squeezed.
"Oh, silly me, you can only go if you're strong or weak enough, here I'll help" he clapped his hands and then there was an aura around all of them.
"This is a rainbow scale, you can go in no matter the length of your aura if you are, orange, red, or white for the stronger side, for the weak, indigo and violet can go-" Immediately after he finished, almost one thirds left without any problem
Shit Luna is blue, that's not good.
"If your aura flame is blue and over 1.5 metres over your head, you can go"
Ash was so focused on Luna that he didn't realize that Anita's aura was green and 0.6 metres long so, when he did, he was shocked and immediately thought of ways to deal with it.
By that point, everyone who could leave had left, their meaningless lives in this place was too much.
There are still 2 million people here, we could survive.
"Why are you all still here,", Malakar was suddenly in front of them, smiling politely.
"We've decided to stay" Ash said, holding Anita's hand. Looking up at him, she smiled
"Come on guys, I've got crops to feed" Neil and the test of the squad was ahead of them already, walking to the base.
"Thank you for staying." She said with tears in her eyes.
"Who ever said we would leave" he said, hugging her and stealthily slipped something in her pocket.
"Hmm, such a shame, a waste of potential".
"Are you done here" Aegis said, annoyed.
With a grin Malakar said"as you know, I'm as much people from your army as possible."
"Yes, but I still have more than enough people to win".
"Bingo! So when we were planning, I was like Oh, why don't we take all the people from the army.".
"But you can't kill me or any of these people"
"I know but have you ever thought of
Why the singularity is still open"
"Your army can't kill us either, have you forgotten the details of the oath"
Ignoring him, Malakar continued "There are 2 reasons, One, to take your monsters, After All, you can make new ones".
"I guess?"
As soon as he finished all the monsters that crarled or flew raced by into the singularity, amidst all the alarm and went in.
"That's impressive" said Aegis, "but isn't it supposed to block the weakest.".
"And that brings me to number two" he said gleefully as a black dome fell, sounding the urban ary "to allow invaders in to kill the Average people." Soon both Aegis and Malakar heard sounds of battle from other buildings in the air and looking happy, Malakar said, "you might want to check on th-" Instantly a sword was at his throat.
"You betrayed our oath" Aegis said.
"I'm willing to pay the price" He said, shrugging.
"Oh you will, but by my hand!" As Aegis kicked Malakar into a wall.
Instantly, there was a loud bang and there was a rip in the fabric of time. A woman with grey hair and eyes walked out and looked at Aegis.
YOU HAVE BETRAYED YOUR OATH. A voice said in Their minds. EVEN FOR YOU, THE SELF ACCLAIMED SUPREME, YOU MUST BE PUNISHED. BUT IN DUE TIME, FOR NOW YOU ARE TEMPORARILY GIVEN PERMISSION TO FIGHT EACH OTHER FOR 20 SECONDS. Then the woman left.
"What!" Aegis shouted. "But He-".
"Pfft, Hahaha"
"What's so funny.".
"That you're So stupid, do you really think I would be so reckless as to face her ."
"Oh really" Aegis said, resting his sword on his shoulder, "I Just-" He paused to dodge the Scythe at his throat.
"Yeah Yeah I know, you just killed all of the mercenaries, focus on me please."
As their weapons clashed, Aegis felt increasingly more agitated.
His attacks are brutish yet he's not giving me-
"Suprise" Malakar said from behind him and, as Aegis turned to block he felt an incredible pain in his side.
-any chances to attack!
He flew in to a wall and out the building, as he was falling, he thought.
How am I so weak. No I won't lose.
Clutching his sword tighter, a white energy engulfed him. As he looked up, he saw Malakar jumping down as well.
"Oh, already burning yourself out I see, you're too old".
As Malakar swung his Scythe midair and Aegis Swung his sword, they were stopped.
TWENTY SECONDS IS UP.
Malakar, unfazed swung his hand and, the singularity branched off, swerved buildings to get to them.
"Aegis, your aura is green."
Looking at himself Aegis, realizing the situation looked at himself then started
"Oh f-" as the singularity crushed him.
He'll be back. But look, the"supreme's" blood is red. interesting. That aura masking technique is really useful.
"Now" he said, walking to the center "for the rest of them.".
Back to Ash and his crew, as they started to leave, they ran into a barrier preventing them from leaving, instantly realizing what was happening, Thorne pulled his dual swords out, preparing for an ambush. Looking around, he saw a man in a trench coat walk towards them.
"Hey, turn back. There's a barrier here." Neil shouted.
The man stopped for a moment then said "Oh, I suppose there is, but nowhere is safe"
"Why's that" Mark asked, walking forward.
"Well, Malakar has hired mercenaries to kill everyo-"he stopped as mark pointed his riffle at him.
"How would you know the they're mercenaries?"
The man smiled and, before anyone could react, he had run a knife through him and kicked him away.
"I'm sorry but I hate smartasses" he said with an apologetic smile.
"Who's next"