Aki rebounded hard against the ground, shards of flesh and spurts of blood coming from his lips. The light of shock was still the largest in his eyes, his heart practically rotating in his chest as though it was doing flips.
It was rare that he was well and truly taken off guard like this. But he hardly had time to think about it as Sylas appeared high above him.
Blade Aura rotated all around him, slicing blades of Glassvolt Aether, forming in a continuous stream in the skies. It was as though he was emptying his body of all the Aether it had in a single breath, relentless in his pursuit of Aki’s life.
In that moment, Aki realized that there was no time for shock. Time slowed, his perception also reaching a deeper state. He exhaled a breath, a malevolent look in his eyes.
He had sacrificed too much, planned for too many years, to fail at this last and final step like this.
He refused.
A dark aura rippled out of him as he slammed a palm into the ground. A corrupt Aether fused with something that Sylas had simply never sensed before manifested. The horns on Aki’s forehead seemed to lengthen just the slightest bit, a black fog forming wings to his back.
As his back rebounded against the ground, without his feet even firmly planted, Aki punched upward.
BANG!
Their two fists met as one. frёewebnoѵēl.com
Sylas felt a great force nearly rip him apart, but the intent in his eyes grew stronger, his Will blooming and peeling away at the dark Aether with a vicious sort of purpose.
When he touched the Aether, he sensed that it carried hints of Will suppression, its Runes very similar to Blade Aura, but different. While Blade Aura cut Will, this sank into it, weeding its way in and seeping inside much like a poison.
Then, it controlled.
Sylas knew immediately then what the purpose of Aki’s Aether was.
And as though to respond, as Aki flew back to the ground and was sent soaring into the air, their fists forcing them apart, the deep fog dug into the ground.
One creature after another began to manifest, each stronger than the last.
Wolves and foxes, dinosaurs and extinct creatures of the past. Birds soared into the air and worms the size of eastern dragons pierced into the ground.
An army of darkness manifested into the world in the blink of an eye.
In one moment, Sylas had been in a one-on-one battle, and in the next he was outnumbered by a factor of dozens to just one.
A Rotten Hawk swept at him from the skies, its claws gleaming with the same menacing poison. It slashed at him without regard for its life, one of its eyeballs hanging out of its head.
Sylas grabbed its claw, meeting it head on without the slightest hesitation.
He didn’t fear attacks against his Will.
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He feared poison even less.
And more importantly than all of that… Aki wasn’t the only one with an army.
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