The pillar of lightning struck with blinding speed, its brilliance illuminating the battlefield in electric light. Caelith's eyes widened as he saw it launching toward him like a force of nature that can't be stopped. Instinctively, he summoned his mist power, the blue haze condensing in front of him like a dense swirling wall.
The lightning slamd into the mist with a deafening crak and Caelith was forced back several paces, his boots digging furrows into the earth. His teeth clenched as he poured more of his Magic energy into the barrier, cold sweat beading on his brow.
Caelith thinking about how strong is this attack that start to overwhelm him. If he managed to absorb all of the real body's power, he will be able to put up more power to counter this.
The mist shield wavered, rippling under the relentless assault of Erend's powerful lightning. Caelith gritted his teeth harder, his focus unwavering despite the strain. But before he could counter a sudden blur of motion caught his attention.
Erend in his massive Dragon form moved with an impossible speed that belied his imnse size. In an instant, Erend was beside him and Caelith's heart froze in shock.
Before he could finish the thought, Erend's massive clawed hand slamd down at him, striking him from behind. The impact sent Caelith hurtling into the ground with a resounding boom making the earth beneath him fracturing from the sheer power of the blow. A surge of lightning exploded outward upon impact, scattering the mist that had once surrounded him.
Caelith cried out with voice a mixture of pain and rage. He lay sprawled in that crater with his body battered and face sared with blood. His vision blurred montarily, but his anger and resolve burned fiercer than before, he know that he must keep fighting.
With a furious growl, Caelith pushed against Erend's claw, his muscles straining as his Magic surged. The blue mist reerged and imdiately coiling around him like a living entity as he forced himself upright. His bloodied face was a mask of wrath and determination, his piercing eyes locked onto Erend's towering form.
"DRAGOON!" Caelith spat with face twisted into angry snarl. "This fight has only begun!"
The air between them crackling with Magic energy that suddenly beco much stronger. Lightning sparked along Erend's scales, illuminating his body, while the mist around Caelith thickened, its tendrils swirling with an almost sentient aggression.
Erend's glowing eyes narrowed as he stood towering over Caelith. The mist churned below, a stark contrast to the storm raging along his white and blue scales. Yet, for a mont, he found himself lost in thought.
Caelith's bloodied face twisted in fury, his piercing gaze burning with a hatred that seed had co from a long ti ago. Erend couldn't help but notice the expression, that look of anger and hatred that this guy and the other avatars wore when they faced him and Eccar. It wasn't just battle rage, it was sothing deeper that spoke of grudges older than he could comprehend.
"Damn… they all seem to hate us so much."
But despite being a Dragonborn, Erend had no mories of whatever ancient war or rivalry had sown this enmity. The power within him felt alien, like a borrowed strength rather than sothing earned or understood.
Caelith's fury made sense to him. After all, Erend was standing in the way of whatever he sought to achieve. And before him and Eccar, there was Kaelor who usurped their power and buried their gods here.
"I don't even rember any of this but I'm fighting battles I barely understand. But, whatever."
Still, one truth cut through his swirling thoughts and anchoring him in the mont: Kaelor's words. The other Dragonborn had warned him about the six gods. Their actions threatened the world and for that reason Erend had no choice but to stand against them. That alone justified his actions, or so he told himself.
But as he looked at the man in blue, struggling to rise from the crater with mist swirling protectively around him, another question gnawed at him.
"Is killing them really the only thing I need to do?"
A flash of doubt flickered in Erend's mind. He had spent his life fighting, protecting, and surviving, but never had the stakes felt this tangled. Because the cause of this battle is not very clear to him.
"RRAAAAAAAHHH!!!"
Caelith's furious scream shattered Erend's mont of thinking. The man's body beca a navy blur as he launched himself at Erend wtih the mist coiling around him like a serpent and now the mist are shimring with an even brighter blue energy.
Erend noticed sothing disturbing. Caelith's body seed to be breaking down under the strain, fragnts of his skin cracking and releasing the mist as if his own essence was fueling his power.
Erend barely had a mont to react before Caelith arrived in front of him. The mist struck first, lashing out like a living whip, forcing Erend to crossing his hands to intercept. The two collided with an ear-splitting boom, the battlefield consud in flashes of electric blue and white.
With a Draconic growl, Erend retaliated. He reared back and launched another bolt of lightning directly at Caelith. The air scread with the force of his attack, the sheer heat of the lightning scorching the ground beneath that had been hit by it.
But Caelith didn't falter. The blue mist around him condensed, forming an almost impenetrable barrier that absorbed the lightning's impact directed at his body. He then surged forward through the torrent of lightning attacks, closing the distance between him and Erend with terrifying speed.
Erend snarled and swung one of his massive claws, aiming to swat Caelith aside. But the mist thickened around his enemy, shifting his movents unpredictably. Caelith dodged the strike, the mist amplifying his agility and driving him closer to Erend's exposed flank.
Then ca the counterattack from Caelith. The mist surged forward like a tidal wave and slamming into Erend with a powerful force. The impact sent him skidding backward, his claws digging into the ground to slow his montum. Erend felt himself being pushed by that attack, the oppressive weight of the mist pressing against his scales and driving him back.
Caelith's power was growing stronger suddenly. Erend's eyes narrowed as he realized what was happening.
"He's burning himself out to defeat ," he thought.
The cracks along Caelith's body deepened, more mist spilling from them like blue blood, but the man didn't seem to care.
Erend roared and unleashed a concentrated storm of lightning, the energy bursting outward in jagged arcs that lit up the battlefield once again. The bolts struck Caelith's mist barrier, sending ripples through its surface but failing to break it. The blue energy swirled tighter around Caelith, the force of it shoving Erend back further despite his desperate efforts to hold his ground.
The Dragonborn gritted his teeth. But for every ounce of power Erend poured into the fight Caelith's mist seed to grow denser and more aggressive, as though it fed on the destruction around them.
Erend's frustration mounted. He need to kill this guy quickly so that he can quickly go to the other next!
Erend's fury burned hotter than ever. The rage that he usually felt when consud by the battle's chaos coming back igniting every nerve with desire to destroy.
The lightning coiling around his massive Dragon form grew fiercer. He let out a deafening roar that seed to shake the heavens themselves.
Erend charged forward. His strikes ca fast and brutal at Caelith.
Caelith's mist that once a strong shield, now trembled under the relentless assault. Every strike from Erend sent oppressive power behind that forced Caelith to retreat.
The mist swirled desperately around Caelith, coiling tighter as he channeled every ounce of his Magic and life force into defense. But his crumbling body betrayed him, cracks webbed across his skin and more mist seeped out like a lifeblood spilling from his very essence.
But Erend attacks only grew faster fueled by the storm of emotions raging inside him. The ground beneath them quaked with every impact, and the once-dense mist began to thin under the overwhelming power.
Caelith struggled to maintain his footing, his body trembling. His mind scread at him to fight but his limbs grew heavy, his strength ebbing away.
Finally, with a thunderous roar, Erend delivered the decisive blow. His claw tore through Caelith's mist barrier and struck true.
A deafening explosion of light and sound that sent Caelith hurtling backward. He crashed into the ground, the earth giving way beneath him as a massive crater ford where he landed.
The blue mist that had once surrounded him dissipated, its shimring light fading into nothingness. Caelith lay sprawled on the ground, his body broken and weak. He tried to move but his body refused to obey.
He staring at Erend's towering Dragon form. The creature's scales shimred with electric light, his massive fra radiating an aura of pure dominance.
A bitter smile tugged at Caelith's lips. His thoughts swirled with doubt and despair.
"Was it all for nothing?" he wondered. "All our struggles to reach this point, only to fall before the might of a Dragon?"
He coughed, blood staining his lips as his vision dimd further. The rage and hatred that had once fueled him now gave way to a hollow emptiness. Staring up at Erend, he felt insignificance, as though the sheer magnitude of the Dragonborn's power had rendered all his efforts aningless.
Erend step on him.
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