Leo gasped, nearly avoiding a powerful blast of cosmic energy as the entirety of his right shoulder exploded with blood.
Neveah, who was kneeling in pain on the ground behind him cried out.
Then...
Before Leo could even react... A giant crimson blade was slowly inching closer and closer to his throat as time seemed to slow down.
With no catalyst... He had no chance of winning this...
But... Sadly, as Rakshaa's unmoving figure was limp and cratered into the wall, Leo doubted that he could have even put up a real fight with his Catalyst...
"Enough Sentient..." A second mysterious voice... Capable shattering Leo's catalyst mind just from hearing it...
He screamed, his body hitting the ground as he cried out in agony... Doing anything in his power to move his right hand to his ear... But it was no use...
Leo was forced to lie and convulse on the ground from the voice of what could only be assumed as a god...
However, it was his unbreakable will that kept a part of his consciousness focused... Listening...
Because he knew... That whatever this Sentient's problem was... It had to do with Chase... Which means that even if it was the last thing he did... Leo had to warn him...
It was a monster...
The thing that had attacked the three of them the very second they had opened Rakshaa's cage... Laced in full scarlet armor... Masked completely by a dreadful helm of crimson...
He was lean... Almost human looking... But that was no human... It was a monster... A monster barely beyond the control of its own master as it threatened taking the former's life that very moment...
"Must I chain you to the bottom of the ocean again?" The terrible voice cut Leo's calm moments instantly, returning the mental attack once again.
It was pitiful... Leo tried to scream words, but only the sound of pathetic whimpering and groaning left his lips, unable to even form coherent noises...
It was like the development of his brain was actively reversing back to its original state...
Sentient made a scoffing noise behind his mask, something about it seeming artificial and muffled... Almost as if he was using a voice that wasn't his...
But one of the attacks that Sentient had used upon Rakshaa had seemed eerily familiar... At the beginning of the battle, Rakshaa had instantly known the ambush was happening and threw Leo and Neveah aside as a terrible rain of deep red fireballs descended upon the crimson troll like meteors...
Everything turned to fire... Burning and melting the entire floor within Olympia... It was so bad that Leo even disoriented had felt the floor begin to crack and break apart... But when he came to, suddenly on the floor below where they had fought the Vase monster months before... He realized that Rakshaa had been so badly wounded by that one attack that the next one immediately threatened his life...
Sparks in the air... So bright... Humming and glowing like fireflies...
They erupted...
Rakshaa had somehow survived the second attack, but at this point... All Sentient had to do to take down the mighty Crimson Troll... Was a lazy swing with the dull side of his blade...
That blade...
With such weak force... Had caused a second chain reaction attack of crimson energy that had launched Rakshaa so fast that even Neveah couldn't see with a catalyst enhanced body...
That blade...
A deep crimson greatsword with barely any other color placed upon it... As if it were made from the flesh of the underworld itself...
A large carving of solid flames was laced across the flat of the blade and read in a language that Leo had not paid attention to when his class had once done a lecture on it...
So, he could only read the first word engraved on the horrifying sword...
"Ghatel..." Which meant Killer...
Leo had tried to run... Only for Neveah to have to block an attack of energy so powerful that it had shattered all four of her attempted barriers... Breaking her arm in the process...
Leo continued to suffer alongside Neveah on the ground, screaming in agony as both were subject to hear the voice of this being...
"Why do we have to leave them alive, ########..." The second the name had been said by Sentient... Leo's skin erupted into bleeding pores... His ears had also been spilling with blood... Leaving him in a pool of crimson...
'How fitting...' The last intact, yet fragmented part of his consciousness thought.
"I have a place for them that will not go against the Primordial Laws... So, for the love of the lesser gods... Do not kill them..." The godly voice almost laughed...
Suddenly... Everything changed... As a vast sky of stars overlapped everything...
Olympia vanished... And was replaced by an infinite polished stone floor... With a blanket of stars to cover it...
Neveah, Rakshaa, and Leo were there... Each one stained in blood... But their injuries had ceased... Leaving them only with the mental engravement of the second being who's sight they had beheld...
Unexplainable colors and skin made of stars...