(A/N: Flashback.)
After Darwel and Skullius shared intimate passion...
"Can we not... Can we not talk about the souls right now?" Skullius sighed heavily before turning to Sila. "So there. The children have been born. Sure, they aren’t nearly as many as promised, but they should serve for this alliance, right?"
The forr Tower General felt uncomfortable with all this, but he didn’t dare show it in order to spare his pride. A humming noise erupted from his entire body. It wasn’t his own. The voice that ca from his flesh was also not his own.
Luserus said.
"Things change," said Skullius with a sigh.
Sila’s body was an amalgamation of a lot of things, so of which were absorbed through the Blessing Skullius had received from Luserus himself: Grace Monolith of the Eminent.
In Opungale, while possessed by Fulgardt’s WILLS, Skullius had interacted with Luserus through an old shrine that the Luminants who lived among the Sif had made in order to commune with their creator – Luserus. This sa shrine had been absorbed into the Preeminent Attegoth, which later beca the Stolen Angel – Sila’s body. Indeed, the shrine’s properties were not dead.
Suzate (inhabiting the body of a Fruit Bearer) was among the two (or rather, three), and she had helped Sila use the shrine’s properties as a channel to draw forth Luserus for this eting.
said Luserus.
Suzate turned to Skullius. She wasn’t sure she expected him to answer the question.
Skullius frowned. "Why don’t we get to business? We don’t have a lot of ti."
said Luserus with a chuckle.
"Don’t worry," said Skullius reassuringly. "All I need from you is one thing. If I can manage to pull that off in battle against Fulgardt, I’ll feel better about my chances. They’ll be a lot of variables moving around, but I can’t leave it all up to chance."
"I have a power – a Territory, if you’re familiar with the term – that allows to hijack an entire world and use it all for my benefit, but because of restrictions I’ve placed on myself, I can’t access it for a certain amount of ti. For all intents and purposes, it will be sealed." Skullius explained. "I’m not entirely sure if this will have repercussions or not, but it’s worth trying. Using the Andori I have to activate in order to use this Territory leaves wide open as a trade-off for the power I gain. Against Fulgardt, that’s a death sentence. So, I need you, Luserus, to forcibly expel this Territory out of , so I can survive that window of weakness."
The her in question, Suzate, had sothing to say regarding all this.
She turned to Skullius.
"I’ve already thought about that. I just need to superimpose my Imperial Territory on Kenno’s Territory. He made a bunch of Creeds earlier in order to ld my powers with his Territory during that battle against the Doom Knight. He’ll show up with that damned future self of mine. Whenever that will be."
Suzate was quite impressed. She saw the feasibility in Skullius’ plan, if he executed it flawlessly. Perhaps luring the Territory out of him like a fish and then trapping it in a net with an affinity for his powers (Kenno’s Territory) could work. It was a risk – a gamble. Beyond that, though, for Suzate it was rather funny discussing the warped power system of Aigas with soone who wasn’t her peers.
Luserus, on the other hand, was struggling to keep up.
he said.
Skullius nodded while Sila shifted uncomfortably.
"It is. After you help expel the Territory, that’s when Suzate will give you the invitation to ld into Aigas," he said. "And yes, my Territory has its limitations. To draw out its maximum potential, I need to have so kind of cordial dealing with one Deity on the world I expel it on. In this case, I have the two of you. It will be smooth sailing. After this, you can leave Aigas and its well-being to ." He turned to Suzate. "Got it?"
She gave a mysterious pause before speaking.
"Yeah. It does." Skullius clenched his fist so hard blood leaked from it.
***
Present ti.
...!!!
Boron, Suzate and Quintess were shaken.
Nearly 40% of their total Amras reserves were stolen almost imdiately as the Imperial Territory established itself.
No Imaginary GeoScape was established, but the colours of the world changed. Suddenly, it felt as though moving wantonly was tantamount to suicide.
The night on Aigas was suddenly a collage of brooding greys and hopeful whites. It was as though so queer artist had dipped his enormous brush in white and grey paint and splashed both colours at random over Aigas. The abstract strokes were very slowly revolving around the world, touching anything with a stake in existence – material or immaterial. Notably, though, 60% of the colour was the broody grey hue, and there was sothing sinister about it.
Boron narrowed his eyes at the source of all this.
he thought.
Fulgardt too was staring at the source of the Imperial Territory, his lip raised in annoyance.
The origin of the bright and dark colours scrolling across everything in the world, was not Skullius, but a peculiar structure behind him.
It was akin to a masterpiece in sculpting and colossal in size.
Its outermost layer was a set of eight golden white wings made of so glossy steel, spinning in a clockwise motion around the entire sculpture. The middlemost layer contained similarly large and glossy wings, only they were black, and revolving in an anti-clockwise fashion. The innermost layer housed what looked like a small island that issued a subdued light. It was peppered with sparkling sands, beautiful palm trees, and among them, a vibrant humanoid form could be seen.
It was Kenno. The Unlimited Star, frozen in agony was the centre of the sculpture. The centre of the Territory’s activation.
Skullius wasn’t sure how long he would last like this, but he would be grateful if the Unlimited Star lasted even for a minute.
’Let’s not waste his agony, then,’ he thought and made another complex gesture with all four of his free hands.
The Deific Usurper required a prompt to begin its assault, just like any other Territory, but in its case, the prompt awakened each and every single one of the benefits it had to offer its user, even...
[You are using a special type of Territory, ’Deific Usurper’!]
[Your physical attributes increase in proportion to the amount of Amras you have siphoned]
[You received 30% of the total Amras reserves stolen from Deities of Aigas]
Just as unfathomable power began writhing inside Skullius’ body, he gave Deific Usurper the go-ahead to make use of its automatic Primary assault function.
The dreary greys and hopeful whites slowly scrolling harmlessly over everything were not an aesthetic choice.
Quintess was the first one to get a taste.
A grey blotch was scrolling over his arm in that instant when suddenly...
BZZZZT!
Dark Ju`wtte – Benighted Ju`wtte – suddenly exploded from his colossal arm, lighting it up like a lantern and making it detonate with all the aggression of a collapsing star!
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