With Death with a loud boom another seige engine fires killing a corrupted beast. I dance and weave around more corrupted my dagger cutting them as I go, a swarm of fire beetles going from one to another tearing them to pieces. I look up as chains keep the prince of ash from attacking properly as a swarm of little points of light rips into it. I duck down lifting the snow dagger and in a burst of white flame another ash soldier is turned to its name sake. From the walls of the snow castle bolts from countless siege engines rain down on the battlefield. My head turns up at the words of the spell
[Heart has fallen]
With Sun I rain down slashes on the back of the tyrant, when it reaches at me heart slashes the arm it uses. I almost dig into the massive thing as it screeches thrashing around. It finally throws me off. I land on all fours sliding back. It runs towards me, now heavily slowed. Each step it makes creates a boom. A spike comes up spearing it slightly. As it breaks it a shield smacks into it from heart. I rush forward ducking under its hand, cutting it open as I do. I keep running dodging and weaving around its attack I grab onto its chest and I start ripping into it once again. It takes a bit to throw me off yet again. This time I'm far closer as I get up its tail comes towards me. Heart appears putting a shield up to block it.
With beast as I'm blocking attacks and slashing creatures apart I glance at cassie.
"What did you say to the queen of worms about me?"
She strikes a nightmare creature with her rapier.
"I... I told her about your echos plans"
I let out a soft hum as a whip sword comes out of nowhere and like a dancer seer of the infinite seems to almost fly around the battlefield laughing like a maniac.
"Her plans of the 3rd if i'm right?"
She nods turning her head away. Frozen singer, or her true name the Chained god of entropy, she's always had many plans she's kept to herself. Small portals open up strings come out cutting into nightmare creatures. Caster blocks a attack slashing a great monster apart. We look at each other for a second his face has quite a few cuts.
"Well then we've got a job don't we?"
I lift my shield and we attack together. I throw my shield forward as Caster turns into a blur. My feel myself speed up and the nightmare creatures slow down. I rope of ice connects to the shield that Caster grabs. The shield turns into a saw that rapidly speeds up. I move forward turning to ice, rapidly shifting forms to attack. As Caster swings his sword he pulls on the rope throwing around the saw letting it cut into countless nightmare creatures. I dodge and weave around it knowing its exact position before it ever gets there. I grab the spinning saw turning it back into a shield i slide one foot back. I put the shield in front of me and Caster lands on it and I use full force to find him foward and he uses that speed to cut the head off of a great demon. He slides after and I move over.
"Nice one"
He looks away slashing another creature.
"I suppose it was."
He stays silent for a bit
"Thank you.... for not letting me go after changing star that day. I dont know if I would have, but if I did I would have died."
I turn away lifting my shield. As I go to speak again my head snaps up, as dread passes over me
[Heart has fallen]
"what?"
With Storm
"Let's go people let's go!"
With a halberd i slash a fallen beast in two. A group of song and valor warriors fight all around me, all or well most, are glowing faintly. It would appear neph has actually become a sovereign, how am i not shocked. As I use my halberd to hold off or kill countless creatures. I run forward blocking a attack on the saint of sorrow. He's injured, missing a few limps even, that hit would have killed him. I grab him and I throw him to a valor master and a few song awakened
"Get him to a healer!"
Someone i recognize well rushes forward, healer. I nod to her then I turn back to the terror. I jump into the air barely dodging a wide swipe of its claw. Its form seems to shift and change. I create and throw a spear getting one of its hand, paw, things, it pins the limb to the bone. I land running around it almost being hit over and over leaving deep cuts each time it attacks. Suddenly its pinned to the ground as a massive spider jumps onto it. I use that to rush forward cutting its arm off. Spider queen lifts its head and bites down, biting its head off.
[Your ice shard is evolving]
I keep a light hearted grin as spider queen turns into a shard of ice that floats over, I'm really stressed keeping everyone around me alive but if I keep up this smile then it will inspire them. Keep morale up and all that. A horse with a dark armored rider finally appears, and of course along with a massive army of shadow creatures.
"Well I'll be da-"
[Heart has fallen]
"Pel?"
With Sun I hold onto heart on the ground keeping them up.
"No, no, no i can fix this!"
I desperately try to put them back together. Their eye goes there, no stop falling out. I can find the shards that are all around. I can find the shards and put them back together. I can I swear I can. I dont have time to dodge the next attack, but its thrown back as war lands on top of the tyrant and with one arm holding back the tyrant they cut its head off. They stand up as the body falls. They glance back at me
"Their gone. Stop trying"
Then they leap off.
As the lord of shadows falls, not dead im sure of that. Because of both Cassia's and nephis's expressions of, to me at least, fake heart break. I hold pelio as I walk across the battlefield and I kneel.
"Changing star of the Immortal flame. I can not say I'll swear loyalty but if you call for me I will answer as long as you do better then the sovereigns before you. Do not let anyone sacrifice themselves in vain"
With death I sit down next to the throne. I held the prince of ash off. I have a massive wound on my side but its not enough to kill me, even more so with commanders authority. My army is back holding it off, singer lost a arm and most of a leg but she's healing. Noctis was broken stopping singer from being completely destroyed. Its fine, im fine. Maybe changing star can help me with the prince of ash... then again its likely too cold. Maybe it is too far out, even still she will need to know just incase he breaks through. I survive and that's all that matters. Even if they didn't, it feels wrong, the idea of making a new one.