Chapter 35: Ajal; Shauran 45th, 344SR; 18:30

"Spirit Bloom... Wrath of the Reaper!" Ajal roared.

Ajal spirit overflowed across his spine, energy burst out of him as his spirit pulsed out of his body like a light beneath his skin. The barrier of light casted by Arid Lightbringer had been corrupted and now provided Ajal a barrier to use, no one could stop him. A white beam of light, taller than the celestial shot out of the ground from where he stood.

"Leanne! Laris! Assist me!" Arid called to two others.

The noble of house Lightbringers expression was still calm, his lazy eyes flashed blue and two blue rings appeared behind him. His cape flapped in the strong winds caused by the force of a divine being's spirit bloom. He wore black dress pants and a white shirt with the golden insignia of a sword on his chest, the guard of the sword embedded with a single eye.

Two blonde angels wearing tight clothing with white cowls covering their left and right sides walked out of the crowd of armed shock troopers. The woman Leanne had a pony tail on the right side of her head, but her cowl draped over her shoulder. She was six feet tall, holding a spiral of light in her hand. The boy Laris was short, he didn't look very old. He had his hair tied to the left side of his head, and his cowl draped over the opposite side.

"So... This is a divine being..." Leanne whistled at the sight.

"The fool really seeks to free the non-unified..." said Laris.

The army of hybrid resistance members looked up in shock at the massive pillar of light. The descendants of Argol armed with razor sharp katanas, curved swords and jagged knives. The angels gripped their arm cannons and batons powered with logorite, they didn't seem phased one bit by the sight. All of their weapons pointed to the ground as they looked up at the white light spreading the clouds in the sky apart. Even the hybrid civilians trying to join the battle doubted themselves at the sight of power. The barrier shattered as the intense force tripled in strength. Banhu's massive unconscious body was pushed by the strong force, he dragged slowly against the ground, rolling over multiple times.

"Banhu-" Iris tried to shout, the resistance commander was lifted off her feet after she lost focus.

"Alexander didn't say anything about this... Zeus! Follow my lead..." Angela held her ground

The light within the corrupted barrier disappeared, Ajal stood in the center holding a double ended scythe. His third eye was wide open, emanating a bright purple steam. The scythes silver handle forged from a dense lead. One side of the scythe was a lavender colored crescent. A black dot being fixed to the center of the glowing blade seemed to distort space around it. The other side was decorated with a three eyed skull, a black scythe with jagged curved edges.

"Spirit Bloom...?" Arid repeated as he stared at the black dot in the center of the crescent. "Another technique from Aka..."

"It's the strongest form of spirit arts one can use..." Ajal uttered.

Arid lifted his palm to his mouth and spoke into it, a light from his palm reflected off of his face. Ajal squinted as he saw that, 'What the hell... Something is glowing off of his hand?'

"You made that big light show yet you're barely any different! Don't mess with me!" Zeus shouted confidently as he charged forward.

Ajal could feel the spirit of every combatant and civilian no matter how miniscule. Zeus approached from behind, jumping into the air. The cape on his back was a separate spirit, it wrapped around his arm and turned into a large blade. Ajal spun his staff, the shadow blade changed shape.

"No- Idiot! Block!" Angela shouted.

Ajal gripped the silver staff as the blade changed shape, turning the weapon into a sword spear with a black ten foot blade. Zeus panicked as the blade approached, he raised his guard to block. They clashed in mid air, however the force of Ajal's strike sent him soaring over the crowd of hybrids.

"What the-" Zeus shouted.

"Zeus!" Angela cried as she held her blade low and ran forward.

"Thanatos's Light..." Ajal uttered.

Ajal's entire body disappeared, leaving a white flash of light behind. Another white flash appeared at the same time at the spot Zeus was about to land. His foot was raised into the air.

"Huh-"

Ajal swung his foot down and hit Zeus directly in the back of the neck, he slammed the angel into the ground.

"Agh!" Zeus grunted.

"Zeus!" Angela shouted as she charged forward.

Angela dashed forward with her claymore, her head still clad with the white mask with three slashes on it's left side. Ajal simply stared at her and walked towards Arid. Angela slashed down at Ajal, but her blade clashed with something in mid air. She was shocked to notice that there was nothing but air clashing with her blade, like an invisible wall between her and Ajal.

"What!? What the hell is this!" Angela grit her teeth as she tried to push her blade forward. "Dammit! Why!"

Angela pulled her blade back and then swung wildly, however each of her strikes we're stopped as she felt something grasp her hand. She looked at her wrist in shock as the creases of her clothes tightened more and more.

"Haha! What a weakling! Is that really the best house Rover can do?" Leanne chuckled.

"Why are you laughing..." Ajal asked but he cracked a smile. "What the hell are you two wearing?" Ajal laughed between words.

"Excuse me?" Laris stepped forward, Leanne tilted her head.

"You look ridiculous... Do you seriously fight in that- Oh wait you're both Lightbringers? Even better..." Ajal laughed.

Several soldiers from Argol lifted their blades to the red patches of fur on their shoulders. Igniting their blades with crimson flames. 'Anubis's Abyss!' The black and white wave passed over the entire battlefield in an instant, almost like a switch was flipped. Each of their blades lost the crimson flames, the blue circles behind Arid disappeared. Ajal's spirit sense was in a state of overdrive. He could feel the spirits of everyone across Andurill, even some of the neighboring countries. Even beneath the ground we're hundreds of souls. 'I don't feel a single soul from that group of angels in the white suits... An illusion?'

"All forces! Standby! The Lightbringers shall slay this fiend!"

"Hey, hold your ground... We can't use our gifts whilst this field exists..." Arid advised.

"Is this some kind of joke?" Ajal asked. "You filming in a movie or something? That army behind you isn't real..."

All three Lightbringers raised their eyebrows. The hybrids looked amongst themselves in confusion.

"Huh?" Angela looked between Arid and Ajal.

"Wh-what... You think we'd show up without-"

"Don't even bother lying," Ajal pointed at his third eye with a wide grin. "I can sense spirit very well, and I don't sense a single one from that army..."

"Reapers Assault..." Ajal's third eye flashed.

A being shrouded in a black cloak emerged from the shadows around Angela, rising into the air and floating. The being spread out its six arms, two attached to the main torso, the other four we're silver, forged from the same lead as his weapon. The being had one eye on it's face and that was it, eyes on each shoulder and eyes on the palms connected to it's body. The total number of eyes reached six with the final massive one in the chest. The being floated high into the air, spreading out it's cloak and releasing a rain of spinning black scythes at the Lightbringers.

"What the?!" Angela looked up in shock.

Arid raised his staff, the two blue circles behind him over lapped and moved in front of him, forming a shield. The being which emerged from the darkness dived back into the shadow. Arid's staff glowed a bright blue, his eyes glowed the same color. The scythes cleaved right through his shield. Leanne and Laris jumped to the sides.

"Mirror Magic! Distortion!" Arid chanted quickly.

Arid teleported a short distance away as the scythe slightly grazed him. He reached for his face with a surprised look.

"Thanatos's Light..." said Ajal.

His body disappeared, leaving wisps of black and white flames behind where he stood. The moment Laris landed Ajal teleported behind him. The short Lightbringer looked up in shock, the difference between them only now becoming apparent. Ajal jerked his elbow back and struck Laris in the head, the single hit was all it took to knock him out.

"Huh? How did he get there-" Leanne stopped as Ajal ran straight at her.

"Leanne get back!" Arid shouted.

The only thing she saw was Ajal's fist club her stomach before she lost consciousness as well. 'Huh... I expected more from Lightbringers...' Leanne and Laris both fell to the ground quickly. Arid kissed his teeth and spun his staff around.

"Mirror Magic! Illusion of the Mist!" Arid chanted.

The fake army of angels appeared in front of Laris and Leanne. 'He's giving them cover...'

"Zeus! Get Laris and Leanne out of the way!" Angela ordered.

Arid reached into his pocket and pulled out a piece of paper with a strange symbol of a cloud on it. 'Runes? He did just use Mirror Magic... This guy is a high level magic user.' A flame lit at the end of Arid's staff. The cloud symbol glowed a bright white before it vanished from the sheet of paper. As it disappeared, the flame on the end of the staff started to spin, like a tornado. The flame was continually compressed as a ball of light surrounded it and continued to compress it further. 'I was never that good at magic... That's rather impressive...'

"Particle Magic!" Arid braced his stance as bolts of electricity from his staff crackled in the air.

"Particle?" Ajal tilted his head. 'A fourth level spell... probably...' Ajal glanced at the ground in a moment of confusion. 'Or was it thir-'

"Particle Projectile Cannon!" Arid roared as he fired an orb of blue energy through the air at Ajal.

It burned the ground in it's path, growing in size as it flew through the air. A vibrant blue hue glowed from within the blast, a spiraling bright orange core within the blast. Ajal remained still as the ball of light approached.

"Yama's Ray..." said Ajal.

His third eye glowed a blinding purple in an instant, a highly condensed beam blasted straight through the ball of blue energy. The two blue circles behind Arid moved to his front to defend from the blast. The blast collided with the shield and launched Arid off his feet. He was about to fall.

"Mirror Magic! Distortion!" Arid quickly repeated as he teleported backwards multiple times.

"Thanatos's Light!" Ajal vanished and appeared in front of Arid.

"Light Magic! Solid Light Blade!" Arid grasped his staff with both hands.

A blue light, similar to substance which formed the two circles behind Arid, shaped into a blade at the end of Arid's scepter. Ajal spun his silver scythe in hand, flipping it to the purple crescent and spun it in hand. As Arid swung down, Ajal swung the glowing purple blade by Arid's, he didn't block Arid's blade, but the blade of light was absorbed into the center of the crescent.

"What?!" Arid stuttered in surprise.

"Magic doesn't work... It's meaningless for you to keep trying against me," Ajal reminded him.

Ajal swung the blade up and slashed Arid's shoulder, the arm holding the staff. He tightened his grip on the staff, as he stumbled backwards. His blood dropped onto the ground.

"Guh!" Arid grunted as his white shirt was stained with a damp red. "Meaningless...?" Arid seethed.

Arid's eyes flashed blue and he suddenly teleported backwards. 'That wasn't the same as his other spells... That thing behind him is his gift, but what is it actually doing... He sounded angry...' Arid crouched down as he held the wound.

"The angels are distracted! Assist the commanders!" one of the hybrids from Argol roared.

'Shit... I need to stop them from fighting...' The thunderous footsteps of the charging army couldn't get rid of the sound of steps approaching from behind him. 'Three souls?' Angela and Zeus charged forward, Zeus's cape had formed into a single jagged longsword. Angela conjured her mask. The light blinded Ajal for a moment, all the shadows around him disappeared. 'Ugh...' He still held the silver colored scythe, but the shadow bladed end disappeared. Angela and Zeus both jumped with their longswords held high.

"Meaningless?!" Arid scoffed as he raised his staff at Ajal.

A blue light lit up behind Ajal, he quickly raised the lavender colored scythe. A blast of blue crackling energy collided with the end of Ajal's scythe, he was being pushed back from the force. 'Muer's Heart isn't working against it... This blast is caused by his gift?' Ajal stepped to the right and just barely evaded the two swords soaring for his head, releasing the blast towards Angela and Zeus. Angela quickly shielded Zeus. Arid's blast engulfed them both and struck civilians of hybrids as well as hybrids from Argol.

"Wha-" Ajal glanced towards where the blast traveled before he noticed the beam moving towards him.

"Die!" Arid roared with grit teeth as Ajal hopped and skipped backwards away from the beam.

Ajal looked down and noticed the shadows had returned, the shadow of the reaper separated from him and traveled towards Arid at an unreal speed. The blue beam of light traveled towards multiple civilians as well as the hybrid commanders. Ajal came to a stop as the beam continued to approach 'That fucker-'. Instead of sending the shadow behind Arid it zipped in front of the beams path. 'Thanatos's Light!' Ajal teleported in front of the hybrids in the beams path. The reaper rose from the shadows, each eye on its body glowed a bright purple.

"Yama's Ray!" Ajal roared.

Ajal fired a blast from his third eye which collided with the main blast and blocked it from hitting the hybrids. The reaper behind him fired a blast from all six eyes directly at Arid. Arid's beam disappeared, the blue circles behind him separated, and at the same time Arid's body seemed to duplicate in the the process. 'What the... an illusion? Or is that a real clone?' Angela coughed as she stood up weakly.

"You okay kid..." Angela croaked as she weakly looked at

"Hey... Captain..." Zeus stuttered.

"You dare call my purpose meaningless!" Both of the Arid's shouted to Ajal's shock.

"You crazy bastard... You don't even care about hitting your own allies!" Ajal cursed with rage in his tone.

Angela turned to Arid with an incredibly upset expression, she almost fell but Zeus caught her under the shoulder.

"Hey! You piece of shit! You didn't even stop firing after you hit her!" Zeus screamed, his voice brimming with rage.

"Silence! The elimination of the divine being is more important!" Both of the Arid's spoke down to Zeus.

The cowl around Zeus formed into the head of a dog. Zeus and the dog grit their fangs at the noble he was supposed to be allied with. 'What the hell...' The clones both turned and pointed at Ajal, the two of them mirroring each others actions. His voice had a slight echo behind it.

"You! Are the only thing here, that is meaningless!" The clones scorned Ajal.

Ajal raised an eyebrow. 'He really didn't like that comment...' The blue circles behind both clones shook erratically.

"All of the divine beings are just meaningless monsters! Weapons born to destroy! The angels have been cursed with your existence from the very beginning!" Arid and his clone roared. "Especially you!"

The voice sounded strange. It changed in pitch. The reverberating tone of his voice sounded like some kind of creature rather than a person.

"The very beginning...?" Ajal tilted his head.

"It's a surprise to see you losing your cool this much..." Angela said while she weakly stood.

"You filth... Invading our world and meddling with our progress... The angels are cursed to meet you damn divine beings and have our progress stopped, each, and every, fucking- time!" said Arid. "Angela! Stand up! This fight isn't over yet!"

"Fuck you!" Zeus stood up and spat some blood on the ground in front of Arid. "We don't need this piece of shit! We can take him captain!" Zeus cowl cloaked his arms and grew blades.

"Unfortunately... We do... We can't even land a hit on the guy on our own, not anymore..." said Angela.

The reaper and Ajal stood between the two factions of hybrids, intimidating both sides to withdraw from attempting a fight. Several hybrids far away from the cloaked being tried to attack the nearing civilians. 'Yama's Ray...' The reaper fire two beams across the ground between the two groups of people, burning the ground and creating a ditch full of molten stone. The resistance commander leading the hybrids knelt down and touched the molten stone. It singed his hand and he pulled away quickly.

"Hybrids! I ask of you to please cease this bloodshed... I can't guarantee how many more lives will be lost if you fight..." Ajal asked. "Please! I beg of you to forsake my selfishness!" Ajal turned to the two groups divided by the burned path in the ground.

"And who the fuck are you?" a blonde haired man with narrow facial features shouted. "No, who the fuck do you even think you are! That queens head is being severed today whether you like bloodshed or not!"

"Blaize! Don't test this guy! He ruined Banhu without breaking a sweat! And that was before his big transformation!"

"Ruined Banhu?" Blaize tilted his head.

The hybrid commanders all grit their teeth, the growls from all of the hybrids sounded like a low rumbling. The civilians who admonished the rebels approaching the clan leaders they we're loyal too. It surprised Ajal to see the peaceful people of Andurill sneering and cursing the other side. The descendants of Argol all howled and barked, savage warriors ready to battle. 'I can't let them get near the civilians... I need to deal with this guy...' Ajal glanced at Arid.

Blaize wore similar pants to Banhu and Iris, but half of a cloak decorated the left side of his body, the other half seemed to be tucked into his waist, most of it burned off. 'Another one of those resistance commanders...' Ajal shook his head, then started forward towards the angels. Angela and Zeus both took a stance.

"What makes you think you have- any right?" Blaize tilted his head as he asked Ajal.

"You're going to keep fighting alongside the guy who just blasted you?" Ajal turned around and asked Angela. "I won't let the hybrids fight while i'm still breathing, but you angels I have a bit of a grudge against."

"This fucking prick is ignoring me..." Blaize raised his hands up in the air.

"Yeah, you have a noble and even morale cause, I agree. Whether or not my allegiance to my nation is inherently wrong... I don't care... I have my own reasons for fighting..." Angela grinned as she held her claymore in front of her. "Ice Magic... Ice Armor" Angela's body was clad with blocks of rigid ice. A layer of frost caused the metal on her blade to condense.

Zeus glanced at her with confused green eyes, her yellow eyes we're filled with confidence. 'Hm...' Ajal smiled as he closed his eyes and sighed. 'Spirit Manipulation...' Ajal's heart started to beat faster. He spun the scythe around in mid air as he took a stance. He crouched down low, holding the double sided scythe with both hands.

"That thing is moving through the shadows... and somehow attacking what's in the physical world..." Arid and his clone mentioned.

"The shadows?" Angela repeated. "So thats how he blocks without moving a finger... But I can see that thing back there... It isn't in the shadows right now..."

"So long as he's trying to stop those brutes infighting... He'll be at a disadvantage..." Arid grinned.

"You blast me again and you'll be at a really big disadvantage..."

"My apologies, I lost my temper for a moment."

The noble of house Lightbringer and his clone both pulled out another sheet of paper, the one on the left held a tear shape on it and seemed to be dripping water. The other one pulled out a page with the cloud shape on it.

"Let's show him how House Rover hunts, shall we!" Angela grinned.

"Yeah!" Zeus roared.

Zeus dashed and threw his fist forward, the blade on his arm extended towards Ajal, Angela ran forward without her mask on. Ajal dodged the blade as he ran towards Angela. 'Her ice magic isn't that special... But that armor will boost her defenses!'

"Mirror Magic! Distortion!", "Particle Magic!" the clones initialized different techniques.

The clone on the left vanished, the other stood in place charging the particle cannon. Angela and Ajal swung their blades, as they clashed Zeus dashed to Ajal's left and swung at his head. Ajal ducked just before the blade could cut him. Angela swung her blade upwards, Ajal saw the attack coming, but he was in a bad position to counter, and Zeus was already winding up his next swing. Ajal shrouded his body in a black and white flame as he blocked the swing. Angela knocked the scythe out of his hands. 'Thanatos's Light!' Ajal teleported into the air and caught the scythe.

"Yama's Ray!" Ajal fired a blast from his third eye at the ground between them.

"Die!" Arid roared.

Zeus and Angela both jumped backwards as Arid fired the orb of energy at Ajal. 'Anubis's Abyss!' A black and white wave extended over Ajal. Zeus's gift disappeared, the moment it did Ajal pressed his foot into the ethereals gut.

"Ack!" Zeus coughed before he crashed into the ground.

Ajal raised the back end of his scythe at the approaching blast of particle magic. The space around the crescent distorted, he redirected the blast around him and then back towards Arid. However the moment it separated from Ajal, he noticed a flaming ball strike the magic blast. It exploded in front of Ajal in an array of blue hues, the elegant and lustrous plasma burned at Ajal.

"Agh!" Ajal grunted as the flames burned him.

However he was caught off guard as Angela slashed him from behind. 'Damn!' Ajal turned and swung his foot at Angela, only to be blocked by the gauntlet of ice. Angela grinned as she stepped forward and slammed her other bulky gauntlet into Ajal's head. Ajal winced in pain as the ice crashed against his forehead. She clubbed him back and forth with the blocks of heavy ice, but as she swung for a fourth hit Ajal grabbed her arm.

"How many times do I have to say it... Muer's Heart..." Ajal chanted as his third eye flashed.

His arm clad itself in a black aura and Angela's expression lit up. She tried to pull away but Ajal's grip dug into the cold ice. It the rough edges scraped the tips of his fingers, but the ice around Angela turned black.

"What the!" Angela struggled to break free, the ice on her body condensed and locked her in place.

"Stay there-"

While Angela struggled to break the black ice, Ajal sensed something approach quickly. Only to turn and see the white coated dog which transformed into a cowl jump at him and bite his shoulder.

"Ow ow ow!" Ajal cried as he fell backwards against the ice.

The dog tackled him into the black ice and knocked it over. Angela was released as the ice hit the ground and cracked, giving her the leverage to break the rest. Ajal grasped the upper jaw of the dog with one hand as he pried its teeth from his collar. 'Aaah! I don't want to hit a dog! Get off!' Ajal threw the dog off of him, but it turned into a liquid and traveled towards someone. Ajal quickly got to his feet only to see Zeus right in front of him. The ethereal swung his blade at Ajal, forcing him to dodge but Zeus immediately swung his arm back while pressing forward. Ajal and Zeus exchanged a flurry of slashes, sparks flew around them as the two slashed at each other. Angela got to her feet and charged back in.

"Raah!" Zeus roared as started dashing past Ajal, then jumping back and slashing again.

'He's getting faster!' Ajal's body cloaked itself in a black and white flame. However a flash of blinding light from Angela erased his abilities. 'Shit-' Ajal felt Zeus's blade pierce his right thigh, it embedded into the ground and pinned Ajal in place. Zeus jumped back as Angela charged at him for the finishing blow. Zeus's blade was still attached to his arm. Ajal grit his teeth as he grasped the tendril between the blade and Zeus.

"Guh!" Ajal grit his teeth as he took the pain. "Ha- Ahh!"

"Huh!" Zeus stuttered as he was yanked forward.

Ajal pivoted on his pinned foot, he slammed his other foot into the ground as he pulled Zeus over his head through the air.

"Ah!" Zeus cried in mid air.

"Wha-!" Angela hesitated as she saw her lieutenant flying right at her.

Angela lowered her blade and took the hit head on, catching her lieutenant but immediately falling to the ground with him on top of her. Ajal winced as Zeus's gift changed it's density, slipping out of his leg and traveling back to the ethereals side. Blood splattered on the ground. 'Agh! That was a bad one... It'll take some time to heal from a wound like this...' Ajal turned to where Arid's clone was, the one which fired the particle magic was gone. 'That fireball from earlier came from the east,' Ajal turned.

Around the edges of the clearing, several buildings still stood tall. At the very top of one of the buildings was a blue light growing in intensity. 'There you are... Spirit Sense...' Ajal closed his eyes as he focused on the building, there was one spirit, Arid's. 'No one else is in that building... Good...'

"Reaper's Assault! Thanatos's Light!" Ajal activated two abilities at the same time.

The reaper spread it's arms out from under its cowl. Multiple black scythes flew out from beneath the cowl. Each shrouded with black and white flames, they flew through the air towards the buildings.

"Yama's Ray!"

The eyes on the reapers forehead and chest glowed a bright purple before they fired at the cylindrical blue tower. Two blasts pierced through the building, the other four missed, two to either side. The reaper continued to fire the blasts from each eye, then moved the path of the beams and sliced the building into multiple different pieces.

"Hey! You cretin!" Vala cursed as Ajal devastated a building with a single attack.

'Thanatos's Light!' Ajal teleported to one of the scythes embedded into the wall of the building. Ajal grasped the scythe and it dragged down the wall slightly, before coming to a stop. He could feel the spirit of one of Arid's clones above him. His third eye glowed purple as he fired straight upwards, burning through the buildings.

"Mirror Magic! Distortion!" Arid chanted from the top of the building as he teleported to a piece of falling debris.

'You won't get away again!' Ajal kicked off the glass, shattering it. He landed on a chunk of a flat wall and ran up. Jumping to another, then igniting his spirit and long jumping to the next one falling towards him. Ajal hopped across the debris through the air towards Arid. The black blade extended into a large scythe.

"Dammit! Mirror Magic-" Arid tried to cast his teleportation technique again.

"Dark Passage!" Ajal casted his own.

Ajal blinked between chunks of falling debris as he pursued the noble, each of the thirty six scythes he fired at the building all acted as pointed he could warp to. Each of those pieces of debris currently rained down over the battlefield. Arid landed and looked left and right for where Ajal could've blinked to, his blue mantle flapping in the wind. Ajal jumped between chunks of glass and slashed through a chunk of debris. 'I don't need to rely on my sight!' His scythe pierced right through to the other side and slashed Arid who was behind it.

"Ah!" Arid cried.

Arid whipped his whole body around and raised his staff. A blue bolt of energy fired out from the scepter. It struck Ajal head on, burning his skin and launching him into the part of the building still connected to the ground. 'Dark Passage!' Ajal immediately teleported to a piece of debris nearby, crouching down as he focused his spirit to his legs.

"You're all the same! Jalrog! Now Grelt! Do us all a favor and die!" Every last one of you bastards!" Arid screamed, his voice reverberating much more than before.

Arid pulled his staff back as it glowed a bright blue, he thrusted forward and fired a torrent of blasts at Ajal. Ajal teleported to a scythe jabbed into a piece of debris above Arid, and avoided all of them. The ground approached at an increasing speed. The circle behind Arid seemed to move around, as if looking for Ajal. 'Is his gift a spirit? I don't sense two spirits from him...'

"Jalrog? Now Grelt? What are you talking about!" Ajal shouted.

"Our history will mean nothing to your burning husk!" Arid looked up and pointed the scepter straight up at Ajal.

'Dark Passage!' Ajal teleported to a nearby shard of the building which hadn't been falling, flying with the momentum towards the disorientated Lightbringer. Ajal focused his spirit into his foot. 'Spirit Ignition!' Ajal kicked Arid in the back of the head, the smack echoed through the air as the noble was launched, twirling towards the ground at an unreal speed. Ajal's surprise, before Arid could crash into the ground the circle behind him moved, absorbing the impact of the fall.

Ajal landed on the ground at an incredible speed, the force of his landing filling the area with smoke. He rose in the cloud of dust and started forward towards Arid. Two spirits approached Ajal, 'The ethereal again... he just doesn't know when to quit...'

"Raah!" Zeus jumped through the air with a long sword held above his head.

Ajal raised an eyebrow at the simple attack, he raised his scythe. Blocking the straight forward attack, however both his eyebrows raised as he realized Zeus held Angela's claymore. 'Where is his-' Ajal looked down and saw a blade form around his foot. Zeus jumped and kicked upwards. Ajal's whole body arched backwards to avoid the blade. However it just connected with his upper lip and slashed through it.

"Urk!" Ajal winced with grit teeth as he stumbled backwards.

Zeus's cowl formed around his arms and created two short swords on each hand. He dashed forward and tried to swing upwards with both blades, Ajal dodged to the left and right as blood trickled down his chin. Zeus slashed over and over, grunting and growling like a rabid dog. Ajal's third eye followed every moment, every change in his intent. Zeus kissed his teeth in frustration as Ajal avoided the fifth set of slashes, he lunged forward for a stab. Ajal dodged to the side, he raised his foot and slammed Zeus's arm to the ground.

"Agh!" Zeus cried.

Ajal lifted the boy off the ground and tossed him into the air by the foot.

"Ah!" the boy whelped as he was tossed like a ragdoll.

Ajal breathed in and out as Zeus tried to orient himself in mid air. The cowl moved around to defend him, but Ajal could read it's spirit as well. Zeus swung his arms mid air in order to twist his body around and slash, but Ajal tilted his head just enough out of the way. Wind from the slash blew his hair as the blade cut through the air next to his head. A gasp escaped the boys mouth as Ajal stepped forward and swung his fist into the right side of Zeus's torso. A grunt escaped the ethereals mouth as he grit his teeth.

"Imperial Battle Arts!" Ajal stepped forward and focused his spirit, "Hammer!"

Another spirit ignition sent Zeus tumbling across the clearing, the young angel was rendered unconscious from the single attack. His body dragged against the dirt before it came to a stop. Zeus curled up and grasped his side, he struggled to breath as he coughed. Ajal sensed Angela's spirit approach quickly. He turned and dashed straight at her and swung down, Angela's eyebrows rose as she slid across the ground to her sword. Ajal turned, but Angela held one of those papers up. This one had a red symbol which looked like a flame.

"Fire Magic!" Angela raised the paper as it glowed a bright red. "Fireball!"

A ball of flame shot forth from the paper, Ajal simply spun his scythe and blocked it with the lavender blade. 'Such a simple spell... How many times do I have to tell them magic doesn't-' As the flames faded, Ajal noticed Angela was gone.

"Mirror Magic! Refraction!" Angela shouted from behind, but the woman with icy blonde hair approached from the front.

'Illusions... The real one is definitely behind me...' Ajal trusted his ears and turned. He hesitated as he noticed three clones of Angela. 'Not a single one of them has a spirit! Shit-' Ajal stepped back. Narrowly dodging a stab from his right.

"Tsk!" Angela kissed her teeth.

Ajal grasped the blade with his bare hand held it tightly. He raised his right leg, and quickly delivered three kicks to Angela. One to her foot which made her wince. The next to her stomach robbed the air from her. And the last struck her chin, her eyes faded as she tried to stay conscious. Ajal pulled the blade and her back in.

"Ack!" Angela grunted as Ajal swung her across the ground.

Ajal dashed forward once more closed the distance between him and Angela. She was wide open as Ajal pulled his scythe back. Angela stumbled backwards as Ajal stood still, she fell on her rear and looked up at Ajal with wide eyes. Ajal simply stepped back and looked down at her.

"Kill her! What are you waiting for!" Blaize asked, the hybrids had been observing the intense battle closely.

"W-what... Why won't you finish me off!? You could've done so easily all ready!" Angela stuttered.

"I thought you we're dumb for using magic despite me telling you it was useless, but you're use of it is really something... Stay down please, I don't want anyone to kill each other..." said Ajal.

"Huh?!" Blaize scoffed. "What kind of joke is this?!"

Ajal heard a crackling to his left as he turned and saw Arid charging another attack. Ajal eyebrows raised as he saw Zeus on the ground between him and Arid.

"No..." Angela gasped. "Arid! Wait!"

Ajal sighed as he readied to intercept the blast, however he felt a heavy spike in spirit. 'What the...'

"Thor!" Arid called.

'Thor...?' Ajal squinted. 'It feels like hes casting another sp- Oh shit...' Ajal stepped back as a yellow bolt of lightning crackled through the brightened night sky and landed behind Arid. A bearded giant with glowing blue skin landed on one knee behind Arid. 'Holy shit... That's a high level spell... He has to be using primitive magic... Which means I can't take it with Muer's Heart...' The fifteen foot giant stood tall, it's body was sculpted with perfect muscles. It's waist covered by white robes. It lifted it's arm into the air and a massive golden bolt formed in it's hand. Arid looked at Zeus and then grinned. 'Oh that son of a-' Ajal dashed forward quickly.

"Bite of the storm!" Arid roared.

The giant behind him threw the lightning bolt down at Zeus. Ajal jumped in the way and thrusted the glowing purple end of his scythe forward with both hands. He struck the bolt, lightning crackled in all directions, it burned his sleeves off up to his shoulders. Ajal flew back and crashed into the ground, dropping his scythe as he tumbled onto his stomach.

"Agh!" Ajal pushed himself up with his forearms, they we're burned black by Arid's attack.

"Zeus!" Angela ran past Ajal on the ground.

Ajal struggled to stand, he looked up at Arid whose body seemed to be almost glowing blue. 'Where is his clone... I thought this would be the real one considering he took the vantage point...'

"I really believed you wouldn't be a fool... Together we could've expanded our control beyond this world... The technology which brought you here... It's more advanced than anything we possess... Unfortunately, you are a fool," Arid sneered.

"There's no way we'd get along... You treat the non-unified and the angels lesser than you the same... You're just pieces of trash in general..." Ajal huffed.

The blue circle behind Arid disappeared. He smiled as his body started to fade into a blue dust.

"Maybe I'll see you in hell one day, divine being," Arid smiled as he vanished.

'What the... His spirit disappeared... He's out of my range... Then was the real clone the one that didn't vanish?' Ajal looked around. He hadn't realized the other two Lightbringers also left the range of his spirit sense, meaning they we're long gone by now. Zeus sat up, and shook his head. He looked up and saw Ajal, then quickly stood up and raised his arms to fight.

"Thank you..." said Angela.

"Huh?" Ajal looked to the noble of house Rover.

She was curled up over her lieutenant, her fist clenched over his chest.

"He didn't get hit because of you... You really don't want anyone to die, even your adversaries..." Angela admitted to herself, she was taken aback by Ajal's actions.

Zeus opened his eyes and saw his squad leader staring at Ajal. The ethereal quickly shoved her out of the way and stood in front of her.

"Let's go! Come on captain!" Zeus shouted as his leg wobbled.

"Haha... Ethereals are always interesting..." Ajal laughed as he turned around.

"Captain? Come on- Hey! Where are you going asshole!" Zeus cursed.

"Zeus stand down... We won't win... And he isn't even trying..." Angela ordered. "Thank you, for saving my lieutenant," Angela bowed her head to the ground.

"Oh..." Ajal scratched his head with his burned hand, the black charred skin returned to its regular form. "Yeah, no problem..."

"Huh? Saving the lieutenant?" Zeus stuttered. "I don't see Leo, Ando or Kiril? He saved them?"

"You are so dumb..." Angela sighed as she sat back.

Ajal walked towards the hybrids, the reaper stood between the opposing sides. The soldiers looked at Ajal hesitantly, some of the soldiers started to shout in order to bolster the courage in others. However the giant drew a black scythe from under its cowl. The descendants of Tyra stepped back. Blaize stepped forward and clapped.

"Bravo!" Blaize shouted at Ajal. "You let a murderer and absolute scumbag get away, and you spared two of the mongrels which enforce their rule," Blaize sneered.

"Your name is Blaize right? A resistance commander?" Ajal asked.

"Yeah that's right, what about it?"

"Blaize, call off your forces and leave," Ajal interrupted.

"Huh?!"

Ajal turned towards Vala.

"Queen of the hybrids... Honorable clan leaders, please ensure the safety of your civilians... I will not let blood be shed on this battlefield any longer..." Ajal spoke in a raised voice as he bowed his head.

Vala grit her teeth, "I told you already, you know nothing of this-"

"I may not know this worlds struggles, or the pain you have all experienced..." Ajal bowed his head. "But I won't standby and watch you destroy yourselves or anyone else any longer! You won't free the non-unified, I understand. From here on out, the non-unified people of Grelt are under my protection, and they'll rebuild here!" Ajal projected his voice to the entire army.

"W-what?" Shina stuttered with a surprised laugh.

"The land to the east of Andurill, and the towns already inhabited with the non-unified. The rest of the land I don't care about, but I am taking all of that by force." Ajal declared. "Even if it isn't today! Or tomorrow! I will end the conflicts of this world!"

The hybrid civilians looked at one another with puzzled eyes. Many of them looked to the queen. Ajal gripped the silver handle of his scythe, 'Come on... Just stop this...'

"Honorable?! Yeah you aren't ending shit when you really don't know this worlds struggles..." Blaize drew both his swords. "So what, I got to kill you to get to them? So be it!" Blaize ran forward.

"Banhu?! Banhu! Are you okay!" Iris shouted.

Blaize stopped as he looked to his fellow commander. Banhu was standing, his body was covered in sweat and he was slouched over. 'Did it do anything? I didn't get to see what his vision was...' Banhu waddled back and forth, he touched his head as he looked at all of the hybrids, they looked back at him with an unbearable hatred. Banhu turned to Ajal, and walked towards him.

"Oi! Banhu!" Iris shouted.

"Hm?" Banhu turned and looked at Iris with a straight face.

"Are," Iris paused, "you good?"

"I met Jor... He scolded me for what I did with his power... Told me to stop- Holding grudges to honor those who died... You know what's funny, I even saw this tale, of a great hero who taught two races to stop their endless conflict which only lead to their own destruction," Banhu explained as he looked at Ajal. "Histories repeating..."

"What... what the fuck did you do to him?" Blaize stuttered in shock.

Vala looked at Ajal and Banhu. "What does this even mean... Are we supposed to forgive him! He killed, hundreds! Thousands of my people-"

"Babies..." Banhu interrupted. "Children, that... Didn't even know me... Or have anything to do with my conflict... Everyone I killed..." Banhu dropped to his knees and slammed his bald head into the stone ground. "Had nothing to do with this conflict... Haha... It's ironic..." Banhu's voice cracked.

Ajal looked at Banhu, he pressed his eyes closed. 'Dammit...'

"I had to do it..." Ajal told Banhu in an apologetic tone.

"Huh...Ha-ha, why do you sound sad... I want to thank you!" Banhu bawled as he snorted on his mucus.

"Hey... Get ahold of yourself..."

Vala cringed with confusion plastered across her face.

"Citizens of Andurill! Even now... I can barely look at you, the more I see your faces, I see the faces of the innocent family members I stole from you... I'm sorry! I'll accept any punishment, even death!" Banhu declared. "However, should you execute me, I demand a duel with the son of Jestaul! That is all!"

There was a silence in the air, everyone was speechless. The wild Banhu Uunan was on all fours prostrating himself to those he sought to blindly destroy. Sobbing heavily at the thought of what he did, the remorse in his tone was undeniable.

"Huh?!" Carala scoffed.

"What in Zadia's name..." the queen stepped back as she looked at Ajal with a very different look, a terrified look.

Ajal and Blaize both reared their heads back 'I didn't expect this...' However a sudden blade drawing took Ajal's attention. He turned to see the female resistance commander drawing her blade from the sheath, the strangely shaped short sword was wide and it's entire edge was a bright silver but the plate of the blade a dull grey. Iris's hair blew in the wind as she stared Ajal dead in the eyes with blood red eyes.

"Undo this, stop this humiliating game..." Iris demanded.

"I'm not really the one doing it-"

Iris pounced forward at Ajal, grunting as she swung her blade down. Ajal disappeared for a moment and reappeared by the reaper. However rapid footsteps to his left alerted him quickly. The reaper disappeared into the shadows as Ajal turned to see Blaize charge forward. He stepped forward and swung both swords inward horizontally, both got blocked before they could reach Ajal by the reaper in the shadows.

"What the-!" Blaize grunted, but was cut short as Ajal slammed his fist across his cheek.

Six black staff appeared around Ajal the moment Blaize was launched, one of them soared towards Blaize. He slammed his foot into the ground and jumped back, he lifted his blade and managed to block, but the polearm continued to force him back. 'Spirit Ignition!' Blaize's eyes went wide as a spirit ignition at the end of the pole launched him into his fellow descendants of Tyra. Multiple savage rebels tumbled backwards as Blaize collided into them.

Iris charged forward only to feel a hand grasp her throat, her legs kicked the air as she was jerked back and slammed into the ground with an unreal force.

"Gah!" Iris grunted as she tried to grasp the invisible hand holding her throat, she couldn't grab hold of anything

"Dammit! The hell is this!" Blaize shouted as he charged back in.

Ajal spun his scythe in hand, but it suddenly vanished. 'Oh shit... I used up all of my spirit...' Ajal jumped back as his third eye closed.

"Roku's Array! Sixth form!" Blaize dashed at Ajal.

"Huh..." Ajal uttered.

'He's fast-' Ajal dodged two upward swings. However it was faint.

"Grelt's Rain!" Blaize shouted as he slammed both of his swords down.

Ajal conjured his scythe and blocked both. 'Without my spirit bloom I can't stop them all easily...'

"Roku's Array! Fourth Form!", "Roku's Array! First Form!" Blaize chanted once more, but Ajal heard Iris speak as well.

'Dark Passage!' The blade on the end of Ajal's scythe receded as the whole staff was engulfed in black and white flame. Iris charged forward and lunged forward, Ajal blocked her strike and was forced back. 'Where the hell is this strength coming from...' Iris's horns glowed a bright red. Blaize dragged his blades through the fur on his shoulder, lighting them with a crimson flame.

"Wild Frenzy!" Blaize started swinging, releasing crimson slashes through the air.

'Dark Abyss!' The black and white wave spread out from his third eye, making each slash disappear.

"World Splitter!" said Iris with her blade raised high.

Ajal tried to kick her away, but his foot pressed into her tough abdomen. She didn't budge. 'What the- It's like kicking a wall-' She swung her blade down with a spirit ignition and slashed Ajal down the chest. 'Agh!' Ajal winced as the blade passed through him. Iris was about to swing the blade up but she suddenly dropped her blade and grimaced. Her eyebrows quivered.

"Ah-" Iris grunted as she dropped to her knees and grasped the spot Ajal kicked her. She coughed up a little blood, "What the... That fuckin hurt! I mitigated the damage too, agh!" Iris groaned in pain.

She glared up at Ajal but then her expression changed immediately. Her eyes widened as she looked up. 'Huh?'

"Iris get away from that freak! Roku's Array! Third form!" Blaize shouted.

Blaize thrusted his blades forward. The intensity of heat from the blade could be felt from a short distance. Ajal dodged the multiple thrusts, tossing his black and white staff into the air while doing it. Blaize ran forward and made a diagonal swing. 'Dark Passage!' Ajal teleported above him and grasped his staff, the resistance commander turned, his blades reflected a bright golden light. Blaize squatted down to jump at Ajal, but he stopped as his eyes widened just like Iris's. 'Huh?'

"What are you doing-" Ajal stopped as he squinted at the odd reflection in the rebels blades.

'A yellow light?' Ajal turned back and forth. 'Its the middle of the night... There is no light source that-' Ajal looked up and paused.

Vala noticed the sudden change, she looked up at the sky as well. Ajal held his breath for a moment, 'What... Is that...' A massive circle of light in the sky, high in the sky, behind the clouds. It was large enough to surround Andurill. The circle wasn't complete, the two ends reached for one another slowly.

"What the hell is that?" Ajal asked.

"No way- why!" Angela shouted.

Ajal glanced at Angela, her eyes were wide and her jaw shook as she looked up at the golden light in the dark night sky. 'Does she know what that is?'

"I suppose I should've realized the moment Arid Lightbringer made you that offer," said Vala.

"Realize what?" Ajal asked. "What is that in the sky?"

"Hah- haha..." Blaize laughed quietly. "Everything was meant to go wrong today I suppose..."

"Ah fuck... First I fell out of a building... Now this..." Iris groaned.

Angela fell to her knees as she looked at the circle of light form.

"Once again- someone tell me what the hell that is?" Ajal asked the various people around him.

"Lucifer is going to use the Lightbringer..." Angela asked with tears coming out of her eyes.

"That sword in the stone?" Zeus asked.

"The Lightbringer?" Ajal repeated.

'I'll see you in hell one day, divine being...' Ajal recalled Arid's words. 'Is this what he meant...'

"The gift of Ymir Lightbringer... it's capable of producing light on par with that of a star, and weaponizing it. The angels are going to fire it as... As soon as that circle is complete, it will destroy everything... and turn this place into nothing but a desert... all of us and the people included..." Vala explained.

Ajal's eyes widened as he heard that. He looked back up at the circle in the sky, it was beyond three quarters full.

"Well, we're screwed," Iris groaned as she sat back.

"Yup... As much as I want to stab that damn queen, the three eyed wonder is gonna get in the way again..." Blaize complained.

"Before you could draw your blade I'd have your head!" Oberon shouted.

Ajal walked over to Angela and knelt down in front of her. "Where is the gift being activated?"

"Huh? There's no point... Most likely Helios..." Angela laughed. "Damn... to think I'd die with my new recruit I find so annoying... That's life I guess..." Angela slightly smiled as her eyes started to water.

"I thought I said it already, no one else is dying," Ajal stood up and walked towards Rolo.

The short, black haired man squinted as Ajal approached. He reached for his greatsword.

"I know you're probably pissed, but I need a favor. Make me lighter," Ajal asked.

Rolo tilted his head. "That's... That's above the clouds... Even if you weighed a feather, you'd never make it that high no matter where you jumped from..."

"That's why I'll need a head start... Queen, I need your help," said Ajal.

Vala glared at Ajal. "The king of the angels is going to blast the entire country... we can't evacuate in time, nor can we afford to lose Andurill..." Vala explained. "What is your plan?"

"Haha! Wait, wait- I want to see this. This tool really thinks he can stop the Lightbringer?! Give me a fucking break!" Blaize laughed.

"I don't have time- you," Ajal pointed at Vala. "Bring out that red gorilla!" Ajal demanded impatiently.

"Her name is Regal..." Vala uttered with contempt as the red circles appeared over her eyes and forehead.

"Whatever, you know who i'm talking about, I need Regal to throw me," Ajal said as he started jogging towards the center of the clearing. "Banhu follow me!"

"Throw?" Avery repeated. "You're not going to live a fall like that..."

"I can take it... It'll hurt, but I've fallen from higher..." Ajal nodded his head as he pieced together his plan. "If someone could catch me though, that'd be great..."

"How in the hell are we supposed to catch you?" Shina asked. "You're going to be falling way to fast from a height like that..."

"Banhu... I need your help, come on!" Ajal asked as he turned and ran away from the hybrids and past Angela.

"Huh?" Banhu replied with a puzzled tone.

"You seriously gonna help this idiot? The hell happened to you..." Blaize scoffed.

"Shut up Blaize you useless nerd," Iris scolded.

"Yeah, seriously shut up," Shina also scolded.

"Ugh, you two? You really think this idiot can do it?" Blaize asked.

"He seems to believe he can..." Iris said while she glared at Ajal.

The hybrids of Argol and the citizens watched Banhu follow after Ajal.

Ajal ran as close to the center as he could. 'I don't have much time... Dark Passage!' Ajal's hands engulfed in a black and white flame, he crouched down and conjured a small black sickle in his hand. The white flames shrouded the sickle as he stuck it into the ground.

"What'd you need me for?" Banhu asked.

"I need a favor... When I give you the signal swing the bell upwards right here," Ajal tapped his shoulder as he ran to the red gorilla.

"If it is any form of redemption, I'll do it..." Banhu nodded.

"I- I don't like using that technique... The dead and the living are not meant to meet... I am really sorry for whatever you saw..."

Banhu put his hand on Ajal's shoulder. "Sometimes the dark truth is what we need to see the light..."

The massive creature squinted at Ajal. The ape leaned forward on it's fist. Vala stood next to Regal, the gorilla opened it's palm for Ajal. He stepped onto the rough skin, it sank slightly.

. "You, uh... Roll!" Ajal called.

"Rolo..."

"At the peak of my height, return my weight to normal, you- uh- with the horns..." Ajal pointed at Oberon. "Oburn?"

"That works..." said Oberon.

"When I'm at the peak of my height, Rolo deactivate your ability. Oburn; use your gift to pull me to the ground."

"Are- are you insane?!" Oberon asked.

The golden circle in the sky completed. The inside of the hollow circle of light started to grow bright as well. Like a sun in the sky, it turned night to day. The atmosphere started to heat up rapidly as the entire area was lit up with a bright light.

"Just trust me Obur-"

"Oberon..." The clan leader from Baltin spoke with a raised tone while glaring at Ajal.

"Banhu get ready to swing that bell when I give the signal! Stay by the scythe I threw!"

Regal pulled her arm back, while Ajal stood on her palm. Banhu got into position and got ready, Angela watched with wide eyes as the person she was ordered to defeat was currently trying to save her and hundreds of people. Ajal took a deep breath. 'I need to get high enough to touch that circle with a dark abyss... How high up even is it...' Ajal gulped.

"Are you ready?" Vala asked.

"Yeah," Ajal lied.

Regal's arm flexed, in a single motion it rose Ajal up, faster and faster until it whipped upwards with all its strength. Ajal flew directly up through the sky, the wind hit his face as he flew. 'I didn't think this part through... how will I know I'm close enough...' The light got brighter and brighter the closer Ajal got, but gauging the distance was difficult. After several seconds of listening to the air flow past him, he felt himself slow down. Ajal turned in mid air as he started to float in the air, he felt his stomach sink as Rolo released his gift. Ajal's weight returned and he dived back towards the ground with increasing speed. He fell faster and faster, as Morne's will pulled him down back to the city. His whole body was cloaked in the black and white aura as he fell.

"Now!" Ajal screamed.

'Dark Passage!' Ajal teleported to the mark he left in the ground. Banhu swung the bell and struck it just under Ajal. The force as well as the momentum he carried from falling launched him like a bullet straight back up through the sky. He had to close his eyes as he flew, struggling to open them as the intense light and wind resistance caused him to squint. The cold touch of the air flowing past him was off set by an intense heat from the Lightbringers attack. Ajal heard a buzzing as he flew up. 'I can hear it!' Ajal's eyes shot open. The circle of light was still a kilometer away as he reached the peak of this jump.

"Dark Abyss!" Ajal roared, loud enough to echo across Andurill to the people's ears.

The black and white wave shot out of Ajal's third eye. It spread out towards the circle of light. However, Ajal didn't see it disappear. 'Keep going!' The wave continued to extend, Ajal released as much energy as he could, even igniting his spirit behind him just for a few more centimeters. The intense buzz from the light became mind numbingly loud.

A beam of light fired from within the circle.

A massive shower of light flew towards Ajal, and Andurill however his dark abyss blocked part of the blast immediately. Ajal screamed at the top of his lungs as he forced the black and white wave as far as he could, underneath the blinding source light, he couldn't infinitely extend it. He heard a low pitched crash behind him as the rays of light Ajal didn't extinguish struck the ground. The black and white wave was almost at the circle in the sky.

"Ah!" Ajal roared as he bled from his third eye, extending the wave as far as he could.

The wave reached the circle of light in the sky, and it vanished in an instant. A black sky was revealed to Ajal as he slowed down. He coughed raggedly in the air, 'I can't breathe!' Ajal twisted his body in mid air and looked back. 'The air up here isn't dense!' He soared back down towards Andurill. From that height he had a good view of all of Hiria. The clearing that Banhu created was bigger than the entirety of the north east district of Andurill.

A circular outline of an orange scar in the city glowed even from that distance. 'Some of the blast connected with the city...' Ajal soared back down to the ground. Far off in the distance, over the horizon was a soft blue light. The mountains to the north and south of Andurill we're huge, but Ajal now saw them from the top. Multiple towns and building all separated by hills, forests and rivers. The sea on either side glowed in the darkness. 'This place is beautiful... I will save this world...' He thought back to Imperion for a moment and squinted. 'I'll definitely do right by you this time... Natalia...'

A green explosion in the center of Anka caught Ajal's attention. It was gigantic, bigger than any explosion he'd ever seen. 'Huh...' Ajal watched a cloud of green and grey smoke stretch into the sky. A ripple of force shifted the clouds as an ear popping soundwave ruptured through the sky.

"What the-"

Ajal stopped as he saw a crack spread out from the center of the city. 'No way...' He watched in disbelief as the city started to fall. The crashing buildings spread the smoke past the walls of the city, green explosions rippled across the city. Ajal could only watch helplessly as the city he tried to save crumbled into the depths of Grelt.