3106 Flung Open (Part 2)
'What do you think I've been doing all this time?' The Void snarled. 'Where the fuck have you been until now?'
'I was protecting our life force. That's my role. Just like yours is to keep this thing closed.' The Voidfeather snarled back. 'I came here once I realized that if we don't stop the souls from getting in, there is no point fighting.'
The invaders caught in the Dragon's feathers were absorbed and their essence purified. Their strength became the Voidfeather's and the souls were thrown back into the Void from which they had come with no hope to ever return.
Yet there was only one Voidfeather Dragon and he only had four wings whereas the souls came in droves of thousands.
The four Demons of the Darkness fought with everything they had and everything they were, following the teachings of the mysterious man who had guided them in the previous battle of souls.
'How come there are so many?' Trion asked, his form that of his child self.
A version of Trion who had found the courage to turn his back to Orpal and protect his siblings from the abuse instead of turning a blind eye.
'Compared to this, the last time was a walk in the park!'
'Because the last time, no fucking old fool opened the door!' The Void replied. 'What you faced back then were the few souls that managed to slip through the cracks while I was fighting Jormun.
'This time they are not slipping, they are charging inside the house. Where is Lith?'
'Fighting alone, as always.' Valia pointed at the core of Lith Verhen's very being where he was giving his all to keep the angry souls away from his life force.
They drowned him in pain and he returned the favor in kind.
All the trauma, the abuse, and the loss he had suffered during his three lives had become his shield. They burned the weak-minded souls upon contact while the fury and hatred tuned into his sword and cleaved the strong-minded ones.
The invaders were many, but that was his body. His mind. His soul.
And as Lith often liked to remind his enemies, he was never alone.
Elysia cried, feeling that not even the resonance with her father was enough to help him. She cried harder as she felt his pain, yet no one answered. Desperation and instinct drove her to what she considered her only option.
Blue flames burst out of her body as well and her Tiamat form slowly gave way to a small Void Demon Dragon. The baby girl wasn't conjuring the blue flames. She had never done it.
Elysia acted as an exhaust port, using her bond with Lith to get rid of them safely for him. Part of her body was comprised of pure, stable Chaos which gave her greater resistance to the blue flames than Lith.
Her intervention weakened the souls controlling the Void Demon Dragon as the Voidfeather and the Demons did the same, yet Valtak could only pray that it would be enough to tip the scales of the battle in his favor. ƒrēewebnovel.com
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