I sit on the edge of the runic hall. Storms last hope flies around causing absolute hell for the Immortals. The cannons destroys massive portions of the Immortals, and thanks to cold film being used on the cannons giving it a poisonous effect. Mix that with will being used on it and it's absolutely devastating. I'm still not very used to will at the moment though, from what i can tell sunnys is a slow but devastating poison that breaks down those effected from the inside out. I haven't seen too much of nephs, but hers seems to be far more actively destructive in nature. I can't quite figure out what mine seems to have a trend towards, but so far it seems to be better at doing things like slowing time. Either way I'll have to figure more about that out one way or another. I hear a loud whistle
"Nice ship"
I glance over at nightwalker who's looking up at my ship
"you can't have it. Maybe bloodwave or neave can come along it until the groups under my control come back"
he sighs looking away from storms last hope.
"Wait. Your domain is just... gone?"
I nod looking away in slight embarrassment
"well you see, one of the more important figures in my domain, seer of the infinite, asked me if they could challenge the 3rd nightmare. I, of course, agreed. The thing I wasn't aware of was that they intended to take my whole domain with them. Over 100 people all gone."
He seems more then a little baffled
"I'm sorry, over 100 people went into one 3rd nightmare?"
I nod. It does sound more then a little insane.
Soon after the room gets very cold and jet appears and she sits down heavily looking calm and composed
"Tired?"
She glances over at him, then she gets a smile
"Dead tired"
i glance down at the battle. To say the power of my army has gone up, is a understatement. They haven't gained any new aspect abilities, but the power of their aspects have been elevated to that of a sovereign. They can't seem to use will, but from what I've seen of noctis, they may be able to gain the basics of it.
"Aren't you going to help defend the ship? From what I see, it's an all-hands-on-deck situation."
When jet speaks her voice is calm but slightly tired
"Nobody likes to fight an immortal Nightmare Creature, but in my case, they are simply the absolute worst kind of adversary."
I wave my hand
"even still its better for her to save her energy, she's a good match against the Dutchmen. Or i think so, we don't know too much about the thing"
I feel Nightwalkers eyes on my back. He's smiling, or more so grinning from what i can tell from heat sense
"You're mistaken. I might not know a lot about most things... but I do know a thing or two about the Dutchman. After all, that thing had been hunting me down for decades"
With another boom, and more ashes a bridge falls. Hm. This is starting to become a problem. Theres too many of them, and even with a 3 gem snow crown Aether can not keep this up forever. So, i have to act. I reach out and I summon flame.
"Oh my. That is... do all sovereigns have such.... powerful echos?"
I glance over at nightwalker
"no. Neph doesn't keep echos."
I look out at the massive battle. Theres so many of them.
"Look alive, Shadow, and ice! Starboard!"
I glance over. I snap and countless little lights appear all around the mass of flesh. In the next second, all thats left is fire as the ice crystals flame made explode. I summon spirit of nature, i remember this well, i used it against the plague version of jet. A ghostly vine wrapps around my arm I then put that hand on Aethers shoulder. I had summoned the memory so I could transfer my essence into him. It works well, I don't normally use this memory, as normally I use it to steal essence from nightmare creatures, and that takes me getting far too close. I wonder if I can use this memory to super charge dreads aspect. That would be useful.
"Can you go faster?!"
Nightwalker smiles, it's quite demented
"That might be a little dangerous."
Sunny scoffs gesturing at the walls of flesh
"Does it seem like we're safe now?"
Nightwalker doesn't say anything for a second before a slightly devious grin appears on his face.
"You make a fair point. In that case, I suggest you put your seatbelt on..."
I keep Aether straight up as the ship goes far too fast. I keep the ship from taking too much damage, by coating the whole thing in ice, funnily enough that also helps with the Immortals as if one almost gets on it gets speared. The barrier also seems to have gotten a lot stronger too, with my essence going into his aspect it would appear that it has a pretty good effect on it. Maybe I could also use will.
"I have something to say."
Oh even the dead gods know something like that means nothing good.
"There is good news and bad news. Which do you want to hear first?"
Sunny glares at the man, its a little funny, nightwalker looks so young.
"Start with the... ah, damn it! I don't care!"
"Alright then. The good news is that we are one turn away from reaching the Palace."
So we aren't far then. Whatever he's going to say next won't be good.
"What's the bad news?"
"It's that we're not going to make it!"
I glance over at nightwalker who's simply shrugs
"What the hell do you mean, we're not going to make it?!"
A massive tendril of flesh gets onto the deck and is promptly exploded by multiple shots from storms last hope, not before causing quite a bit of destruction
"I mean that there's no way to make that turn. We'll hit the wall of the island at an angle that will prevent us from bouncing off of it and continuing on our merry way. Instead, we'll lose all momentum and drift like a turtle, which means that we'll get buried under a mountain of abominations. So, I will have to slow the ship down to a crawl... which will also get us buried. Unless, of course, there was a way to make the Night Garden turn sharper..."
it appears me and sunny will have to help
"Don't slow down. We'll handle it."
Nightwalker keeps that slightly demented grin
"Full steam ahead, then!"
Soon the wings of the god of doubt open up, and the king of ashes moves from his spot. With near impossible speed he's to one side of the ship. The crown on his head seems to melt into liquid metal as his size changes to become as big as Goliath, his minor titan form, and he puts his hands on the foundation as Goliath does. The two together push the ship into the right direction. Flesh grabs at the two, and everything gets very very hot.
"God damn tell that echo too cool it off!"
The flesh bursts into flames
"the king of ashes is only making Goliaths ability stronger. If it was his ability, you'd have burst into flames already."
The king of ashes pulls Goliath away saving the shade from disaster and he goes back to his normal size. That isn't normal at all. It's like 12 feet tall.