It can't be.... but it is. That's unmistakably their fighting styles.... and aspects. It's Kelly, Adam, and Luke but made of ice. Not that I'm able to pay much attention for long as the pain of my very soul being torn to pieces quickly overtakes everything else.
It hurts so badly I'm not even able to scream or move or really do anything. The already unbearable cold only gets worse, it's so cold. Everything hurts so much, why, how, what's happening to me? Am I dying? Is my soul being ripped apart? Am I being ripped apart? Why, why why?
I come back to my senses a little after while later as rain falls on my face with water up to my chest. It's too dark for me to see it all but I can hear movement. I can hear the sounds of fighting. It still hurts far too much for me to stand or do really anything.
Suddenly the water starts being... pulled back? The same with the rain. I get a very bad feeling about something.... we win right? That's when I realized what's happening. A soul attack and a damn strong one.
The ringing of a bell is clear and incredibly beautiful. Sunny it's sunny's bell, he's calling us over. I feel someone grab me by the back of my still somehow intact armor.
"Ack!"
"Stop you'll attract attention"
It's Caster! He picks up and he starts running towards the sound of the bell. He was pretty quickly able to get to the spire and run inside. Sunny and.... Kai?
They are already inside, and soon more and more people join us inside the spire. Soon everyone still alive finds themselves within the spire
There are about 128 people. Divine Flame is here as well with about 5 sleepers on top, I hadn't noticed them. Many are hurt or knocked out and those who can are holding on to those who can't move. Many many are dead, about 368 people are dead.
I can't see the leader of the hunters or many of the hunters. I can see a healer who's still alive. There outersettlement people and those who lived in the castle. It took long enough for this to happen.
I slowly reach into my satchel and I patch Casters' shoulder up. He looks over at me with a surprised expression to which I do a weak thumbs up. God damn it everything hurts
"Everyone back!"
Suddenly Caster activates his aspect, I'm already in a shit ton of pain, and I'm disoriented, now I'm moving too fast, too damn fast. I hold on for dear life not quite understanding what's happening or why. Then I see the beam of pure sunlight, the terror of the crimson spire is attacking. Kelly, or the ice version is blocking it from hitting someone.
She's very quickly being destroyed but she's able to save the sleeper. Then Changing Star flies up and sunny with a tone i normally don't hear from him yells
"Follow me!"
Sunny takes the lead, good for him. Weird crimson golems attack but they're not too fast or strong. We, it's actually Caster holding me, start moving
"Th- thanks Legacy"
I weakly pat the guy on the back.
"That's not my name...."
he doesn't sound annoyed anymore like he did when I first met him and started calling him that. He sounds worried, if anything. I laugh but I doubt it sounds too good because he physically finches
"I know."
With Sunny leading the way and taking out any of those golems the dreamer army travels up and up. The back seems to be holding back those golems at the back. I'm pretty damn close to the front so I see what the ice versions of my long-dead cohort are doing.
Kelly is bashing the heads of the golems in, Adam is at the back attacking and Luke is lighting the way for the dreamer army.
It's surreal, why and how..... wait... the Crown of Snow, its description, it's what's summoned them. It's able to summon dead allies and even let them use their aspect. That's a completely insane ability to have. I could be a literal walking army.
How..... cool. We climb higher and higher up and I'm still not really able to move or run because of the pain. Soon we get to the gate and the whole group starts running towards it.
As we get there Caster gets a weird look and is about to give me to another person. The problem with that little plan is I have thoughts of my own. I grab him by the collar
"Stop being an idiot Caster, your clan needs you too much."
He stops and stares at me with a really weird expression
"Wait you actually know my name?"
I get my feet on the ground and I pull him with me into the gate. The runes shine as we finally leave the dream realm.
I find myself back at the place within the nightmare spell. The pain is still there but it's lessening. I start laughing, and I stop bending over in a coughing fit.
"I win! I god damn win! You might have tried to kill me but god damn it I survived!"
I fall backwards, laying down. I laugh and laugh and laugh. I've gotten out, I live.
[Awakening dormant powers....]
I feel something spread out from in my chest, it's a feeling just like when I completed my first nightmare. It spreads out from my heart, not my soul core.
It spreads throughout my body, somehow both warming and cooling it at once. It's deeper, this time it's not just a vague sense of my soul core it's a deeper sense. That of my soul essence.
[Awakening aspect ability....]
[....Aspect ability acquired....]
[Aspect ability name: Snow Storm]
I lift my arms into the air with a grin.
"Ahah- I fucking win these!"
I scream out into the uncaring void. I didn't fully expect to live, to survive that hell. I am a divine being and these fools are all cowards. I am so going to get struck down. Wait the gods are dead, I'm not going to get struck down, no god is there to do it
"hahaha fuck you!"
I laugh until my gut hurts and I'm just wheezing. I slowly sit up after that I look up into the spells inner world.
"Why are you here?"
[Wake up ■■■■]