2710 Everything Burns (Part 2)
Outside of the Fringe, there was no Soul Projection taking off the blunt of the effects of the forced merging of Lith's Abomination and Dragon life forces. The raw power they generated now flooded his body without any filter.
Leegaain had only brought Lith to the alley, leaving Solus in the tower and Lith's rage to run unchecked.
His black skin cracked into countless small scales from which blue flames burst out. The flames spread to his body and set it ablaze along with his violet aura.
"I hate you." This time his voice was low, sounding like a growling abyss.
Ragnar??k appeared in his hand in a blue blaze while the flames reached Lith's head and formed a burning crown.
'His breathing is split like his life forces. This wasn't noticeable in Salaark's records Leegaain studied everything through his Eyes and arrays, recording every detail of the transformation.
Even the Overlord's breathing technique couldn't see Soul Projections from a distance but this time there was no need to. Leegaain could experience everything first-hand from a front seat.
'Yet what really worries me are those blue flames.'He thought while watching them spread along the black blade that wailed in fury. They are burning at my sensing arrays, requiring me to constantly fix the magical formations.
The blue flames are also affecting the ground and without me, they would have already set ablaze the whole neighborhood.'
Black horns sprouted from Lith's forehead and behind his neck. Five white pools formed on his face, slowly turning into as many eyes, each with a vertical pupil of the corresponding elemental color.
All the while Leegaain took page after page of notes.
'I'm the inheritor of the ancient flames from which Mogar was born so even though I can't produce them, I have understood the nature of Lith's Cursed Flames and even of his Dread Flames.
'They are no different from my Origin Flames. They are simply sparked out of an unbalance in the world energy that can affect a single element for simple Cursed Flames or all of them for the Dread Flames.
'The blue flames, however, are different. They aren't the effect of an unbalance. They are a whole new balance and a wrong one at that. A dangerous new balance that might not be allowed to exist.'
Winion and Narant too felt the threat of the blue flames, finding themselves covered in a cold sweat. The Tiamat Fear was weaker than Leegaain's but they could feel it messing it up with the spells they kept at the ready.
To make matters even worse, Lith's aura had just jumped from a violet core to a bright violet and the screaming blade in his hand was clearly a masterpiece.
The Davross turned into a black slate and the elemental crystals on the fuller activated all at once as Ragnar??k prepared its own spells and channeled the blue flames into its own abilities.
'Since when does Verhen have Davross and how can he become a bright violet without any of the side effects of a breakthrough?' Winion asked via the mind link in amazement.
'Less talk, more fight. Look at the Guardian!' The woman nodded at the albino man who was trying for a while to get their attention.
"Off you go." A snap of his fingers released the assassins' bodies from the paralysis and they immediately tried to retreat.
Alas, Leegaain's experiment was a controlled one so they slammed their backs against an invisible and unbreakable barrier with such speed that it broke their breathing rhythm.
'Fuck! We can't escape but maybe if we defeat Verhen, the Guardian will let us go.'Winion said.
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