As Lith felt Solus’s pain like his own, he remembered about his fight against the Odi and found the answer he needed. Lith conjured as much life force as he could in his mouth, emitting a blast of Origin Flames.
In their normal state, Lith’s life forces balanced each other to the point of overlapping to perfection. Now, however, after restoring the human and beast side, the Abomination counterpart had fed on so much life force that it bloated akin to a boil ready to burst.
Lith couldn’t decide how much each of his life forces would contribute to the Origin Flames, he could only hope that like all natural things, his body would seek to restore its internal balance.
The excess life force came out of his mouth, setting ablaze the world energy that the Puppeteer Abomination had gathered during their fight. Usually, a spark of life force was enough to turn his breath into a deadly weapon, but this time Lith used the equivalent of a forest fire.
With each iota of Origin Flames he emitted, Lith could feel his body hurting from his many wounds and he accepted it with a smile. The more pain he experienced, the more the hunger that had drowned every other feeling faded.
The living shadow that his skin had turned into reverted being pitch black scales.
’How is it going?’ Lith asked while doing his best to keep the flow of life force under control. If he cut it off too soon, he might not have another opportunity whereas if he cut it off too late, his life span might shorten even more.
’Not as well as you think. Thank heavens we took shapeshifting lessons from Faluel. Without them, I wouldn’t know how to alter your life forces so to protect the human ad beast side while making sure that only the Abomination part suffers from the strain of producing so much Origin Flames.’ She replied.
’I don’t care about that. I want to know how you feel.’ Lith said.
’You’ve stopped hurting me.’
Solus used their tier five Healing magic spell, Scalpel, so that Lith’s life forces only focused on recovering and suppressing their Abomination counterpart while the latter become weaker and weaker to fuel an attack akin to a volcanic eruption.
World energy was everywhere, but to produce Origin Flames Lith had to gather and compress it in his lungs before igniting it with his life force. The amount of power he was releasing set the plain ablaze, turning the air into a fire mist reaching several thousand degrees.
Instead that bright blue, the flames coming out of his mouth were deep violet and they turned brighter as Lith’s life force mixed with that of the trolls, the orcs, the goblins, and everything else he had consumed in his frenzy, even the grass.
The battlefield turned into a white wildfire that spread as fast as the wind and consumed every living being on its path. Lith breathed and breathed until he felt too tired to continue.
’It’s okay, you can stop now.’ Solus said while interrupting the treatment and focusing on her own recovery. Lith’s equipment was blackened inside out due to the Chaos energy Westhar had used to attack him and that he had emitted himself.
’Thanks.’ Lith closed his mouth and the stream of flames ended.
His life forces readjusted themselves, making Lith feel as if someone had put him inside a blender. Great was the price that any living being had to pay to use the Chaos and only the oblivion that swallowed him relieved Lith from his agony.
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