With death I step forward my thin silk house shoes sink into the ash. I smooth out greatful moon. I have to win now, or even if i survive this, the last sovereign will no doubt kill me or worse. Lava pools past my feet like water, no its too thick to be water. More like honey, with sand mixed in. I dont know much about that man, other then him using mind attacks and knowing his name is dangerous. Is it a mordret kind of situation, or is it worse? Who knows. Well quite a few people know but i don't. I look up at the massive figure of the ash prince. He would be the ash king now wouldn't he be. I step up out of the lava and I active the cloak of fire. Firefly wings open up, flames burn at the edges of the the wings. I jump into the air with a loud boom, breaking the sound barrier. I fly to the side dodging the massive sword of the ash prince. Its fast and far too exact for his size.
I strike at the opening of the armor, but it shifts and moves to close. Like Gunlaugs armor it would seem. I jump away just in time to dodge a grab. He's fast and that sword leaves insanely massive cuts on the world itself. I can tell he was once a sovereign, and one much stronger and far more skilled then the queen of worms and the king of swords. Likely through age and experience. My theory is that he fought in the doom war under sun god, knowing the original ash king was made by sun god. I dodge another swipe of his sword. One hit and im down for the count, not just is the size of him that's the problem but, his sword is incredibly sharp as well. Gaps in the armor won't do, so I'll freeze him out, although that will take some time. I doubt using blunt force will work.
I fly around dodging his attacks with a lot of effort. When I land on him, even for a second, his armor reacts almost spearing me each time. As I thought living armor. The only thing that confuses me is the beautiful blue gems on the helmet, that looks like it was based on a dragon. I wonder what his face looks like as a real adult, something I robbed that version of him of. A living set of armor, or maybe he controls it himself. I have to test that out. While I summon the mirror I make a massive spike of ice to spear him through from the back. As I thought his head turns to look, then the armor changes. I saw it through the mirror, the delay shows that he's the one making the changes.
I fly around as fast as I can barely dodging his swipes. He's oddly enough not as fast as he was the first time i confronted him with singer and noctis. Is he holding himself back? If i go off of the behavior and words of unrelenting storm, it would in theory be possible, but why i dont know. I doubt I'll ever know much about him as a person. I wish it was different. I come to a sudden stop in the air and I blot back almost being hit. I use that to rocket into him making myself a lot bigger to throw him off balance. He's thrown off balance falling onto the volcano breaking a good portion of it. I hear a odd sound. Something like a creeky laugh, like that of someone who hadn't spoken in some time. I throw down one of my daggers. Its side isnt enough to get through the armor, but it turns into a swarm of beetles and starts eating into the armor. I fly around his hand as he swipes at me. He's only able to use one hand to swipe at me as he's using the other to stand up. This is all going strikingly well so far. I keep with my simple harassment strikes. I have to wear down his armor and mind to win this. I use wind to keep him from standing up fully.
He seems to get annoyed and the armored mask opens up i barely jump out of the way in time for a massive burst of flames to come out of the mask. The heat is immense, enough to start burning greatful moon and damage the cloak of fire. I jump farther back. I look up just in time to see his sword flying down on my head. It slams into me like a mountain. I'm thrown from the air onto the ground, the obsidian under me cracks and I fall into the lava. I try to grab the obsidian but my arm gives out with a crack falling off. No no no no. This can't be happening! I hear more and more cracking, each with blinding pain. I hear a final loud crack. A crown made of ice floats to the surface of the lava, not melting
[Death has fallen]
With sun I grab my face as it cracks.
"What, what's happening"
I stumble almost falling, I grab onto the railings. My breathing is unstable. I try to step back, I hear a crack and I'm falling back. Two hands catch me before I fall. It hurts, it hurts so much. Everything is blinding pain. Seer of the infinite holds me.
"My, my, my legs!"
I see as my legs crumble away, I reach towards them and with more cracking my arms fall off at the joints. Bloodwave is running over, he looks so worried, and even scared. I want to scream. Its hurts too much.
"I don't want to die, I don't want to go!"
A hand covers my eyes
"you may rest now"
and in the next second after she says that with a crack my head falls off.
[Sun has fallen]
With storm neph grabs me as I start to fall. I keep my hands over my mouth trying not to scream in pain.
"■■■■, what's happening?"
I feel the cracks start to mend, but more and more take their place. She looks so scared, i dont normally see her express her emotions so openly on her face
"Cassie! Who's attacking?!"
A hand grabs the one over my mouth. I hadn't even noticed cassie running over, its so obvious now
"I dont know!"
Her grip hurts. I try to squeeze her hand back
[Storm has fallen.]
With beast healer grabs me dragging me away. I grit my teeth, its like my soul is being torn apart.
"Keep.... keep killing"
she looks up from my face
"aim to kill as many as possible! It slows down the rate of the cracks!"
The sounds of battle almost instantly speeds up. The cracks slow down. Not enough for healer to stop it but it slows down.
"Damn you, hold on"
I try to smile, it seems that death dying means we all go.
With war I appear in god grave and I start cutting anything and everything down. I mend the cracks as they appear but its getting faster. I summon spider queen
"my monarch!"
Her voice is shrill I dont look up as i tear the throat of a fallen demon
"kill. As much as you can."
She turns into her spider form, countless lesser spiders flood out killing as many ad possible. This is not sustainable, I will need a solution.
With death, I appear made of ice in my soul sea. I fall to the ground, my arms and legs flaking off small chunks each second.
"You've gotten yourself in such trouble"
I look up at singer who's floating over me. My soul sea is falling apart rapidly. The great blue suns are shaking, cracks appearing in them
"you'll die at this rate."
I try to get up but I keep falling.
"Wh..."
she clicks her tongue, holding out her hand
"do you wish to remember?"
I try to get up
"this isnt the time"
"oh but it is."
I feel people helping me stand up. I turn my head back seeing them helping me stand. Adam is holding my arm, Luke has my other and Kelly holds both of my shoulders. They push me forward. I turn back to singer as I feel countless more hands push me forward. I frown heavily
"Fine then"
as i grab her hand, i feel warm and theres a feeling of regaining something I've lost.
The crown of snow suddenly flys up. Becoming far far bigger. Snow is kicked up. The king of ash gets into a battle stance. Ice forms from the ground up creating a body rapidly, its as big as the king of ash. He swings his sword just as the head is about to be made. The body steps to the side and the sword is grabbed and I slam my elbow into his masked head with a boom. He let's go of the sword stumbling back. My head is done and the crown of snow lands on it. I open my eyes, like when I pull up my soul sea I see something overlapping reality. Its a small mirror shard. After a few seconds it doubles, a few seconds later it doubles again. I lift my fists, I start making small hops like a boxer and I prepare to brawl.
I duck down under a fast jab. I punch out, he moves his arm to block it using will to reinforce it, i grab his arm and I knee him in the gut with full intent to hurt him. He throws his head back then he suddenly headbutts me. I take a step back. His gauntlets turn into claws and he tries to slash at me. I grab his arm as I make a extra set of arms. One arm turns into a set of claws that stab into his gut, I will his armor to part and his skin to be cut. His will is like a raging inferno, but all fires go out leaving nothing but the cold. My other hand grabs his head, trying to crush it. The helmet opens and it spews out flames. I let go stepping back. He jumps into the air his armor turning into a set of dragon like wings. I jump after him almost silently as wind moves to my will. I grab his leg pulling him down, sparks fly by my hand and I slam the dagger into his head.
[You have slain great titan, redeemed king of ashes.]
[You have received....]
Later
"Ah, finally! A civil discussion. Goodness gracious, how refreshing... sure, Changing Star. Let us negotiate, indeed."
The three have a staring contest, or more like two have a staring contest with the last one who seems unconcerned by their gaze.
"What exactly is it that you want?"
The king of nothing smiles at the other sovereigns
"What do I want from the two of you? Well, in one word... nothing. Absolutely nothing."
As he's goes to laugh his smile drops slightly confused as a figure darts out of the sovereign of longing dream gate. Velvet, the scout from the second nightmare, made completely of ice.
"Hm?"
The woman runs to a point between the three, and a little ways away. Finally a truly massive dream gate opens almost throwing them off their feet by just the wind alone. The dream gate, pale blue, seems to be far far colder then anything that should reasonably exist. Figures made of ice flood out taking on a military like stance at the edges of the gate. Each regiment has clear champions, the forgotten shore army has the original cohort. The Antarctica army has the captains of the Irregulars. The godgrave army has noctis the beast of twilight.
"Damnation"
a massive hand grabs the edge of the dream gate and I pull myself through, ducking down to do so. I take a few steps forward and I stare down at my fellow sovereigns. My ice shards jump down from my shoulders. My last ice shard steps through the dream gate, he ducks down like I did, ash fills the air as he does. The king of ashes steps into the realm of war.