Book 3. Chapter 31.
“The Awakening of Darkness.” Part 3
Standing over the dragon corpse of the huge Bck dragon she had seen a couple of times since coming to Elinor, Kalysto watched in awe as the gigantic eyes above the altar began to slowly open.
As the young hatchling of the te bck dragon struggled to escape, a pair of red and green lights, matching those of the mental walls that had been protecting the seal within her mental world, glowed in the dark eyes of the young dragon who struggled to fly away from it, even as Aegir's magical pressure no longer pressed him to the ground.
But something else seemed to be preventing him from fleeing the pce.
But Kalysto ignored it, too focused on the giant eye to pay attention to the young dragon's struggle.
I can't let him wake up! She thought desperately, looking for a way to dey his awakening. Watching as Morrigan never left the vicinity of the altar, not even when she had engaged in a hand-to-hand confrontation with Aegir. Who had to retreat thanks to Eris' continuous attacks, approaching the pce where the rest of his army was fighting.
“Fireball!” said Kalysto, throwing it against Eris' face, obstructing her vision. And turning into a cluster of shadows to travel much faster to where they were. Positioning herself right next to the demon king.
What's the matter? he asked, his voice echoing in her mind.
Aegir! Order your army to retreat! The blood of all who fall is feeding a magic circle hidden in the ground which is feeding the eye above the altar! She thought, knowing that although she didn't have the skill to project her thoughts he could read them.
Shit! So that's what they were making time for!
“Retreat! Retreat at once to the rendezvous point!” He muttered, at the same time as he threw a sickle of dark energy at Eris' front shield and another at Morrigan, keeping them busy.
I thought you could read everyone's mind? Kalysto asked curiously as she transformed her two daggers into two spears.
Do you see the gems in the neckces each of them has? They are enchanted and I can't get into their minds, and the rest of the ones I killed didn't have much information. And I can't read the dragons' minds, so....
Kalysto hadn't noticed the neckces before, but now that he had warned her about them she could notice the strange green glow in the gems on both women's neckces.
But now that her attention was on them she couldn't help but notice the white glow on their bodies. Eris's, though, was much fainter than Morrigan's.
A slight smile tugged at Kalysto's lips at the sight of them, coveting to steal from them the ether that caused that glow and increased their defenses.
“Do you really think we'll let you escape so easily?” Eris scoffed, at the same time Morrigan raised her hand again, beginning to draw a second sickle of dark energy. While a magical seal was drawn in front of Eris and hundreds of bck crystal spears were directed against the two of them, and some others against the rest of the demonic army who had not yet finished escaping and continued fighting against the monsters of the enemy army.
Sphere of light! Creation of light! She thought, casting both spells, the first against Eris' eyes, and the second against Morrigan's. Although she knew that both of them could erect wall-like barriers that could prevent her attack despite being of divine css, she was able to blind them for a few seconds.
Enough time to continue with her attack.
Bck fire creation! Bck fire manipution! Fire creation! Fire manipution! Fire manipution! She mentally added more attacks. The first two she directed towards Eris' feet and Morrigan's feet covering the entire altar, so that it also covered the gigantic eye.
[You have gained 700 HP points!]
[You have gained 900 HP points!]
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However, the second pair of spells sent them exclusively towards Seth-Mainyu's eye, transforming the divine fire into a gigantic snake that opened its mouth to devour him, just then she cast the two bck crystal spears she had conjured earlier.
Fire arrows! She added, wounding the eye.
Only a third of the demonic army had managed to escape just before Morrigan's attack was unched. Wiping out half of the remaining army, the demon king's shield was able to withstand Morrigan's attack, but it did not withstand Eris' third that followed right after.
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Shattering into small pieces as if it were split gss, forcing Kalysto and Aegir to move away.
“Ahhh!” a thunderous scream resounded behind their backs when one of Eris' spears pierced the body of Xhavier Donovhar, Aegir's younger brother, and Kalysto couldn't notice how ironic it was that he died at Eris' hands, when according to the book she had given to the demon king, Eris and Thomas were the cause of his death.
What she didn't expect was to find the body of Whanda, the demon king's other younger sister, split in two, thanks to Morrigan's attack.
“Nooo!” shouted Aegir, his magical power surging out of him in violent waves at the pain of the double loss. Forcing Kalysto to cover her body with the same white glow as Eris and Morrigan in order to resist the attack. At the same time several bursts of dark energy with red edges were unched against the altar and others against Morrigan. Who was careful to protect her eye from the attack, stopping trying to extinguish the bck fire that Kalysto had summoned, which was still burning and stealing HP from her enemies.
“So the sneaky little rat can do it too, huh?” commented Eris, increasing the white glow that protected her from the demon king's magical pressure, just behind her wall-shaped shield.
Just before she materialized a bck crystal spear and unched herself at high speed against Kalysto, who managed to dodge the first two thrusts. And although she seemed to surpass Eris in agility by just a couple of points, the strength of the dark priestess' attacks were a completely different story.
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With legs spyed Kalysto could barely parry a new vertical attack from Eris, the enemy's spear was obstructed by the former saintess' two daggers, but the attack was powerful enough for the ground beneath Kalysto's feet to shatter.
Making Eris smile with satisfaction as soon as she saw that despite the fairy champion's effort, the tter could not bear to do anything against her.
It was then that one of the side edges of the sharp spear suddenly transformed into a sickle, the curved tip of which buried itself in Kalysto's back and came out in front of her, piercing her chest on the right side.
“Agg!” Kalysto groaned, causing Eris's malicious grin to spread across her face as the demon king embraced his older brother's dying body while giving him healing potions and pouring a couple more on the wound.
Regeneration! Regeneration! She thought just before transforming into a swirl of shadows and moving away from her attacker. To then take form right in front of the demon king and his severely wounded brother.
[You've gained 1700 HP points!]
[You have gained 1300 HP points!]
“Jhil Ezhil! Jhil Ezhil! Jhil Ezhil!” The golden light shot out from her body extending just enough to cover the three of them as Aegir rushed to pull the enemy spear out of his brother's body so he could be healed while raising a shield around them. “Quick, get them into your inventory! I'll be able to heal them when we're done with this!”
“But Whanda…!” He replied, still shocked by the loss.
I can revive her ter, as long as less than an hour has passed since her death! And inventory is the only thing I know that can freeze someone's time for a long period! she thought.
And the demon king hurried to store them in his inventory, although he feared the wrath of the god of darkness when he learned of that offense, he secretly prayed that the sealed god of darkness would at least allow him to protect his younger siblings, the only blood family he had left.
[You have gained 1500 HP points!]
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Although Morrigan was able to stop the demon king's attack in time by building several shields one after the other, the part of the magic circle drawn on the ground that carried the energy to the altar was completely destroyed, breaking the circuit.
Completely angered by the loss of the sacrifices she needed so much for the awakening of her lord, she shouted full of hatred:
“Dark Jhil Ezhil!” A surge of bck energy shot out of her body and spread across the battlefield at the same instant that the king finished storing the bodies of his two brothers in his inventory.
Hundreds of wounds sprouted from the bodies of monsters and demons alike. Eris and Kalysto were the only ones saved by the white glow surrounding their bodies, but even Aegir fell to the ground, blood gushing from wounds that appeared out of nowhere.
“Jhil Ezhil! Jhil Ezhil! Jhil Ezhil!” Kalysto immediately countered, noticing that some of Aegir's wounds were exactly in the same pce she had healed him a few minutes before.
But Kalysto could not continue healing him as Eris threw herself on them, as did Morrigan, who descended from the altar like a vengeful queen ready to eliminate the enemies of her king.
Aegir easily parried Eris' attack, but Morrigan interposed herself with a bck sickle in her hand instead of the spear that Eris wielded so nimbly. While Kalysto transformed into a cluster of shadows materializing only her hands to pce them on the Demon King's back, for a couple of seconds.
“Jhil! Regeneration!” she managed to conjure a couple of times before Morrigan stepped in, preventing her from continuing.
Her sickle pierced through that Aegir had conjured to protect her, severing the fingers of Kalysto's hand.
Her blood fell to the ground inadvertently touching a pair of glyphs that began to light up, absorbing her power.
“Earth manipution!” she immediately gasped, annoyed at the thought of that foul eye feeding on her, causing the ground beneath their feet to crack, as well as at least half of the ground around them, damaging several parts of the intricate magic circle.
At the same time Aegir unched a sickle of dark energy at Eris and lunged at Morrigan, pulling her away from Kalysto.
Jhil! Regeneration! she conjured several times making his left hand grow back while noticing how none of Aegir's attacks managed to damage either of Seth's priestesses, who was overpowered when both women attacked him at the same time.
Perfect aim! Fire arrows! Perfect aim! Fire creation! Fire manipution! she thought, unching the first attack towards Eris, but creating another gigantic fire snake which she directed towards the eye, putting both priestesses in a bind, as neither of them was protecting the altar.
As Kalysto expected, Eris barely managed to conjure a magical shield to protect herself from her fire arrows. Morrigan on the other hand, watched with despair as the giant fire serpent advanced towards her master, and ran to meet it trying to destroy it, but although she split it in two with her sickle, the fire was not extinguished, but continued to be maniputed by its summoner transforming into two snakes that headed towards its target. The first one broke the seal that Morrigan herself had created earlier, which had been weakened by the previous attacks of the demon king, but could not stop the second snake.
Who hit the target.
“Nooo!” cried Morrigan, the pain reflected in her voice and her beautiful gray eyes bathed in worry. “Jhil! Jhil!” she conjured.
And Kalysto watched in surprise as the familiar golden energy spewed out of the dark priestess' hands as the pretty woman began to heal all the damage she had caused to the giant eye.
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