Indeed, Skullius had taken Elita's Realm rank Pri sword for his own after convincing her it was necessary for the plan he had. It had not been easy convincing her to part with it,
especially since they had been embroiled in a conflict before the great Doom Knight ca. But in the end, the forr Paladin Champion had surrendered her weapon.
The Doom Knight was furious, Skullius knew.
Even in the dark, tiless void Araeyn had created, it saw him as its armour fell apart, revealing its true form beneath.
There was no escaping the creature's wrath, Skullius knew. He could only prepare for a dreadful counter.
The first thing he did, was to stow away Broodweiler. He wouldn't get a chance to use it again. Its part to play in his hands was already done.
Because the guidance field would not show any information about the Doom Knight to Skullius, he had had to improvise.
Fighting a Deity-level opponent who was wearing a nigh-invincible armour (at least to Divines like him) and was possibly in possession of a dreadfully powerful Immortal Physique was a sure sign that the battle was unwinnable. Thus, Skullius' plan had been to chip away at the Deity's layers of defences while it was still toying with them.
Broodweiler had been one of the bets Skullius had thought of, but there was a caveat.
Treasure weren't all about which one was higher in rank. Pri Treasures opposed Wicked ones with their Absolute Properties and the opposite was true. In such circumstances, the Treasure which struck first with its Absolute Property, won. But unfortunately, since Skullius didn't know what kind of Treasure the armour the Doom Knight was wearing was, he had to rely on trial and error.
While the Doom Knight was preoccupied with the Penetrators (and before the Mortal Sourcing Destiny Rune was used), Skullius had attacked the creature with his Tainted Lycan's Siphoning Claw, a Realm rank Wicked Treasure that caused large, poisoned claws to sprout violently from inside the target.
When the claw didn't work, Skullius imdiately knew that the Doom Knight's armour was also a Wicked Treasure, but of a higher rank.
And that was why, with Araeyn's help and with the Penetrator's distraction, he had struck the armour with Broodweiler's Absolute Pri Property.
The blade was lethal to Divine phenona, but no different to a Legendary grade weapon when matched against any mortal material, living or otherwise.
Keeping it hidden was essential until its next use, lest it be destroyed by the Doom Knight. But while this was achieved, Skullius felt there was a great chance he would get destroyed.
The Doom Knight... no, the Deity's eyes were two red, flaring suns. Untold fury and streams of what might have been blood slid down from them to its fair face - large, but indeed fair. A modest stubble of golden-brown hairs that glowed made the bottom end while voluminous curly, ssy variants made the top.
The Deity was rather lean. Its torso was bare, advertising the grim scars, scabs and singes to its divine body while its waist was covered by a layer of kilt made of so kind of animal hide.
The contrast with and without armour was staggering for Deity, but even more vexing than that...
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