We start making battlements on the statue's shoulders and neck after everyone gets up and Sunny goes to sleep.
Effie starts making food when we're done and Legacy goes back to teaching me combat. I barely block an attack with the shaft of the halberd. I duck down avoiding a wide swipe. It keeps on like that even after Sunny wakes up.
I keep training with Legacy, right now it's mainly with an ice halberd so as not to damage my memory. I've gotten better but I still get absolutely destroyed each time. Even without his aspect he beats me with ease. It's annoying but its what I payed for.
After a while, Cassie looks up with an uneasy expression
"There's a storm coming."
Everyone tries to get her to explain. I see Singer summon his bow and shoot a nightmare creature down that looks like a massive bug, i make countless throwing knives at the sight. Bugs always come in swarms, well bugs like those do at least. Singer confirms it and we all take out our weapons.
A large swarm of winged biggy beasts attacks and Cassie summons the wind with her staff making their flights harder.
I throw the ice knives going for the eyes, I get a few kills but nothing too big. That is until Nephis yells to go for the wings, smart move. I throw for the wings quickly killing countless of them pretty quickly. I dodge a dive from one taking a hit on my side and I stab it in the eye.
Flame of the divine, who can't use fire anymore funnily enough, rips any it gets its claws on in two. Sunny yells about there being a problem, another tribe of nightmare creatures, and sunny and Neph go to deal with it.
I throw a knife stopping one from getting Singer. I keep throwing and throwing my arms getting tired. Everything isn't going too well but it's manageable until a massive version of those bugs lands and... attacks Cassie.
I watch as she falls, it's like the world's slowed, the singer jumps off flying and grabbing her.
They don't get attacked as those freaks go to leave, no to run, I won't let those bigs leave, no, no I won't not after they attacked us and nearly killed Cassie. I reach my hand out an ice spear is formed from a large grouping of ice from the divine flame.
I slowly reach back all else falling away, like nothing else matters, and I throw. The spear whistles in the air going right through the fiend.
[You ha-
It doesn't matter what the spell says, I'm not listening, all that matters is it's dead. I watch as it falls to the ground, the world is so cold so very cold, too cold, like being in a snow storm in summer clothes.
I collapse to my knees, I'm so tired so damn tired... I put everything I have into that throw. It was enough this time but will it be enough the next? Or the time after that? It's so cold, go I hate the cold, I've always hated the cold so much.
I look up seeing a black wall, no not a wall a storm. A storm that will come with the sea and nightmare creatures to boot. I won't be able to save any of them from it, from either of them.
Divine flame puts its claws into the stone with one claw and holds me with the other. It's not warm anymore, maybe I shouldn't have turned it to ice.
We finally go into the storm everyone having already gotten prepared. The wave of wind of rain hits us. The statue keeps moving not having a care in the world about all of this.
I look over at Sunny who was clinging onto his echo, the stone saint, looking like a wet cat, and Singer who was doing the same looking only half as wet and sad. For once he looks anything other then majestic.
I notice Effie and Cassie, Effie is holding Cassie while gripping a crack in the stone while Cassie is desperately clinging to her.
Nephis had put her sword into the stone and was desperately holding onto it looking even more pale than normal. Legacy had done the same with his fancy blade although he looked less cool while doing it.
I'd laugh but I'd bet I look a lot more goofy than him. For a bit we deal with it until sunny suddenly looks up and Nephis yells something i cant hear, but i can understand. Something wraps the neck of the statue, its alive but has no heat, no warmth, no true life.
I can only watch as the statue grabs the black tentacle and ripps it off. More and more of the tainted sea creature wraps itself around the statue, but the statue just keeps ripping it apart.
Until it cant walk foward any longer. The statue ducks down, plunging underwater and with that us. It grabs the horrid sea dweller and lifts it up. To the sky to the hollow heaven.
Lightning hits its arm and I can see it, i can see the depth dweller. It uses the skull of a being so ancient so powerful i can't even truly look on it, but it isnt the real being of the black sea, no it just uses its skull to hide like its nothing but a weakling.
I can see creature that tried to stop the statue, to stop us. The hammer, the hammer that created everything I've seem of this place, the hammer that made the walls that keep the black sea out of the city.
The lightning makes the arm of this truly massive statue, a statue of a human and made by human hands. It lifts its hammer and it hits the creature it takes a second but a sonic boom hits us, but none of us fall off.
Waves of darkness flows towards us, I know theres yelling, yet I dont care, all I hear all I see is the hammer ging back down to its side.
It starts walking yet again. Light pure light floods all around us. A light made by a human beats back the darkness of the monsters blood.
Each step that's taken is another fighting back the black waves and beating them. I cant help but remember the hand that had broken the roof of the chamber of the king of the dead.
The wind no matter how strong can not move this statue, nor can it move us. These waves, this rain no matter how strong can not move this statue nor can it move us. I hear someone say something but my ears are ringing. I can not hear, but I dont mind.
I think my eyes burn but im not paying it any mind. I keep sketching and sketching.i need to put the image in my mind onto paper, to let it be seen by others. I keep going and going without stop.
"Hey ■■■■ we're here"
I look up seeing Legacy staring down at me. Something else seems to change, seems to different about him, not him everyone.
"■■■■ are you listening?"
I nod and I get up slowly. I shake and almost fall but I dont as Legacy, no Han Li Caster, grabs my arm. He jolts and let's go, then he walks away trying to warm up his hand.
I watch as he leaves. I look over at a wall of mountains that reach to the heavens at the empty seats of the gods. The stone saint is already at the ground so I take a running start summoning my new memory the stained glass cloak.
The wings opens as I fall letting me slow my fall and land on my feet. If humanity can reach to the heaven even back then, then how long will it take us to take those empty seats. I pull up my runes to see what happens now.
True Name: heat seeker
Rank: Dreamer.
Soul Core: Dormant.
Ice Fragments: [327/1000]
Memories: [Armor of Ash] [Snow and Ash Daggers] [priest's notebook] [silk thread] [silver cutlass] [feather boots] [blood drinker] [stone shield] [rusty halberd] [stained glass cloak][bottomless satchel]
Echoes: -
Ice shards: [flame of the divine]
Attributes: [Crown of Snow], [Mark of Divinity], [True Cold] [Being of Cold]
Aspect: [Child of Cold].
Aspect Rank: [divine.]
Aspect ability: [frozen over]
Aspect Ability Description: [All you touch is turned to ice it is capable of great destruction and great creation]
Aspect Description: [You are the child of a law of this world, of the cold left behind by the death of a god. You long for heat for warmth yet never will you find it. You take the heat from the world yet stay as cold as the grave.]
Aspect legacy: [Cold wind of Boreas. 1/7]
Aspect Legacy Description: [You have seen a death that has changed you. That changed it all and you have promised to take the empty seats of the gods and fill them with humans.]