The sky was gray as always, and the land, once so vivid and alive was now a scarred battlefield after what had been years, decades maybe more... I had lost count after so many days that everything was kind of blurred together, I couldn't even remember what a good night of sleep felt like, since this game started I had been meditating to get my mana back and some semblance of rest, but it wasn't the same.
Sitting on the entrance of a cave that had been my camp for a couple of months...? years? I didn't remember, I was waiting for my mana to be replenished completely, at this point in the fight there were at most no more than 10 people left and everyone was on edge, just last night I got jumped by a pair of assassins, they were not as lucky as they thought.
As I was about to finish my meditation...*BOOM*...*BOOM*... a flash of golden light and a pulse of lighting clashed in the distance, the other "Champions" as they called themselves were clashing right now, fighting to give their god the win in this event, at this point everyone was desperate to end it, and waiting for a moment to strike against an already exhausted opponent was a tactic too common, I turn towards the shadows nearby, my blackish purple robes started to turn themselves into shadows merging with my body and letting me travel through the dark side, a plane mirror to every plane of existence, the plane of shadows as many knew it.
As I got close I could see who was fighting, I didn't know them by name, and at this point, it was a waste to get to know other champions, how they fight I did know, on the sky a woman clad in a golden armor and wings made of light, she wielded a shining sword of white light, the other a bulky man with a bear hide used as a cape, he had tattoos that glowed in blue light and were charged by lightning. They clashed again, sword meeting this Warhammer and making another shockwave, they were at a stale. That was until the twinkle star turned herself into particles of light and scattered around Bearman, and a thousand blades of light slashed at him, most of them weren't deep cuts but in between all the little cuts she suddenly reformed and plunged her sword through his chest, one would think this was the perfect moment to strike, but I knew better. Someone else had to be attracted to this fight, and I was right, from the ground a maw made of a thousand metallic fangs opened beneath them and ate them, as it was happening two other figures dived from the sky aiming at the same battling pair, they had been waiting for the best moment, but they were not patient enough.
At the moment were they all appeared and attacked I made my move, with a move of my wrist I controlled all the shadows around, making them pool at their feet and engulf them into cocoons of darkness, then I pierced each globe of darkness with dozens of shadow spikes, twisting them to make sure of their death and using the shadows to absorb all the mana left in their bodies, just like that 5 contenders were down, it was a high-risk high reward situation, and I end up with the upper hand... or that's what I thought.
Suddenly I felt searing pain from my lower torso, a lance made of ice had been shot right through me.
"Should have waited some more boy" a man said from behind me, he was around 1.8 mts tall with cyan hair and clad in ornate armor, his hands and feet were covered in frost, and as he walked everything around him started to turn into ice... " five of them killed by you... three fell on my way here...that leaves just you and me " the man said.
I didn't know which god he was chosen by, but I knew the guy in passing. If you had a ranking on kills he would probably be top of the ladder, I had been avoiding him all this time, this was the end, whatever happened to those who died I didn't know, but I wasn't about to find out.
"I knew it would be you who I would meet at the end," I told him as I took the spike of ice from my lower half, I started to walk around to position myself and as I did my own shadow started to creep up my body, cladding me into an armor made of shadows and a hood that hid my face, only the purple glow in my eyes was visible in my head. A sword made of pure darkness appeared in my hand, I was ready to finish this. A mass of shadows gathered behind me as I prepared to attack, we both rushed at the same time, and the world turned into a mix of darkness and ice as the end of the long fight drew near.