Late Evening - Early Winter : Northeastern Bahamut

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- Myles Kalfas ~ (Back Several Minutes)

*vwoop-vwoom-pop* Hastily activating the several artifacts on my fingers, I felt a huge suction pulling mana from my reserve to my hands and tapped Vasilias's paw. "Vasilias, drop me."

*fwip-Fwooosh* Immediately getting tossed behind him by his aura, I relaxed my body and changed to my dragon form. *FLASH-FWOOOOSH* As my body grew too large to hide behind Vasilias, I was met with immense pressure from the wind, but I didn't have much time to think about it.

*fwip-WHAM-CRACKK* The moment Vasilias pulled away, a wall of air stronger than iron slammed into my body with a deafening crack.

An immediate, indescribable sensation wrapped around my body as if I were flying through a block of metal, but as I locked eyes on the two ancients in the distance, my mind blocked out my surroundings.

But that was when he appeared.

*puff* Just behind Megalos was the cloudy figure of a human, a figure I knew all too well. "THAT BASTARD IS BEHIND THIS?!"

As I yelled out, I saw him reach toward Leander. -SH*T!-

*VWOOOOM-CRACKLE* Everything within a kilometer of the figure instantaneously slammed into the ground, with only Megalos being the only exception.

Before I knew it, a fire had appeared in my eyes, and as I quickly closed in, I watched the cloudy figure look in my direction and disappear, leaving Megalos alone, holding his paw in the air over Leander.

"OH, NO YOU DON'T!"

"..the end for you." *CRAAAACK-WHAAAM* Megalos was instantly slammed into the ground and sent bouncing across the ground, quickly exiting the circle of destruction and plowing through countless buildings. *CRRUUUUUNCHHHHH* The ground shook violently from the impact, quickly spreading even more destruction to the Elder's District.

But now I had slowed down enough to control myself. "THAT. IS. ENOUGH!" *WHHHHHHAAAMMMM* Slamming straight down onto Megalos, I pinned him against the ground and prepared some magic.

"M..Myles Kal-" *CRUNCH* The moment he tried to speak, I sent a spell-backed stomp down onto his leg, completely shattering everything in it before ripping it off, leaving only loose strings of divinity sticking out. "ARGGGGHH!"

He immediately let out a scream, but I didn't care in the slightest.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! YOU CAN'T-" *CRACK*

Effortlessly biting into his neck, I ripped him out of the ground and hurled him back in Leander's direction. *FWOOOOSH*

*WHAM* *Crunch-CRACKLE* As he slowly stopped bouncing across the ground, he tried to recover and stand up, but immediately fell over as if yet to realize he was missing a leg. "W-what are you doing here?!" *shik-FWOOOSH*

Throwing him again, I watched him slam into the ground with a cold and heartless expression.

This time, however, he noticed. "You c-can't kill me!" He dizzily tried standing up again before falling onto his face. *Thump*

"Oh, and why is that?"

"H-h-he will kill you!"

I clicked my tongue as I walked up to him. -Right... Knowing he is here.. I need to act like I have that with me...- "Is the 'he' you speak of a human deity?"

He immediately paled slightly.

"You know, I met a similar cloudy figure about 20 years ago. He came up to me with the offer to show me how to escape mortality if I gave my assistance to the humans." I lowered my head to look into his eyes with dilated pupils. "I didn't expect anyone to fall for such a blatant lie." *shik-FWOOOOSH*

*WHAM-THUMP-Crackle* "H-how do you know it's a trick?! If anyone knew how to reach godhood, it would be a god!"

"Would a being who truly knew, resort to force the moment I turned them down?"

"Th-th-that's not possible! You would be dead if he wanted it!"

My pupils thinned as I wanted to do nothing more than stomp his skull into the ground. "You think I'm so weak I would lose to a human without a body?" I paused as I continued up to him. "There are only a few things in this world that could kill me, but not a single one of them is human..." *shik-FWOOOSH*

Tossing him one last time, I watched him bounce and slide across the ground before coming to a stop next to Leander's unconscious body.

"I expected more from you when we first met all those years ago, Megalos... I'm truly disappointed."

He continued to try and push himself up with heavy breaths. "Don't give me that sh*t..." A flame slowly appeared in his eyes as he spoke. "Bahamut is dead... It's time we dragons start worshiping gods that will-" *CRUNCH* The ground shattered under his jaw as I slammed it into the ground.

"We don't worship Bahamut because we expect anything in return. We never have." *CRRRUNCH* Putting more weight onto my foot, his head slowly sank into the ground. "We worship Bahamut because he is the role model for future generations, the being to which all dragons should strive to become." *CRACKLE* "I guess it was too much to expect a pitiful bastard like you to understand that."

"Tch..." He clicked his tongue without hesitation. "You will come to know it in time... We dragons have always worshipped strength and power above all else, but this isn't the golden age, Myles. We don't have the strength to rival them."

An image popped into my head the moment he said it. The image of a dragon. "I wouldn't be too sure about that..."

But the instant I finished, a deafening noise rang out behind us. *BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRMMMMM*

I instantly turned to look toward it, but the moment I did, my eyes went wide.

A beam of abyssal darkness stretched across the night sky as if the space had simply been erased without any trace remaining.

It was a sight that sent a shiver down my spine, but also made me feel oddly excited. "We are on the verge of a new era... An era that will make the golden age look like child's play."

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- Vasilias ~ (Back A Couple Minutes)

"Maybe in your next life, you will have the pleasure of worshiping a god that will respond..."

My pupils dilated the moment I locked eyes with him. "What good would praying do..."

*WHAM-CRUNCH* The ground shattered beneath my feet as he slammed his paw down onto my head, but my head didn't lower at all.

His eyes slowly widened with fear the longer he looked at me.

"What reason does a god have to pray..."

*WHAAAM* His body slammed into the ground instantly, creating a web of cracks that quickly spread throughout the courtyard.

"You know, I was originally going to kill you immediately after finding out whether you really sent those assassins or not, but now you've caught my attention." I gently set my paw on his shoulder as my aura kept him pinned to the ground. "The god that you worship isn't Bahamut, is it?" A slightly crazed look came to my face as I looked into his eyes.

"Y-you dare c-call yourself.. a god?" He spoke with a strained voice. "W-what kind of bullsh-" *WHAAAMMM* The entire courtyard shook violently as it shattered and sank into the ground, causing the entrance of the Elder Hall behind me to collapse. *Crumble-THUD* "AAAGHHH!" Holcyon let out a scream through his teeth as I pulled my bloody paw out of what used to be his shoulder.

"Now, let me ask again..." This time lowering my head next to his, the glow between my scales gained a blue hue. "Who is that god you worship-"

"What is going on here?!"

Hearing an unfamiliar, deep voice, I lifted my gaze off Holcyon and looked toward the destroyed entrance to the Elder Hall.

Running down the hallway was a large golden dragon with a furious expression. -He must be a member of the council.-

As he neared the entrance and saw the destruction and the countless dragons fighting in the fire around the edge of the courtyard, his expression worsened.

But it wasn't until he looked at me that things turned for the worst.

Holcyon gave the dragon a pitiful, pleading expression, and almost immediately, the golden dragon tensed up. "To think a single half-breed could raise suck a ruckus!"

As he lowered his body and got ready to lunge at me, I noticed a sly smile come to Holcyon's face. -He must have gone insane from the pain...-

*FWOOOSH* Instantly closing the distance between us, I watched as the golden dragon tried to drive his claws into my back.

*clink* But they just slid off, leaving only a small scratch, as if they were a dull knife hitting a block of steel.

*Crunch-CRACK-FWOOOSH* Smacking him across the face with my tail, I sent him flying into the surrounding crowd of brawling dragons before turning back to Holcyon with a crazed smile.

"Now, where was I?"