Supreme Magus Chapter 3106 Flung Open (Part 2)

3106 Flung Open (Part 2)

'What do you think I've been doing all this ti?' 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 ca 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 beca the Voidfeather's and the souls were thrown back into the Void from which they had co with no hope to ever return.

Yet there was only one Voidfeather Dragon and he only had four wings whereas the souls ca 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 co 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 ti was a walk in the park!'

'Because the last ti, 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 ti 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 beco 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 flas 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 flas. 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 flas than Lith.

Her intervention weakened the souls controlling the Void Demon Dragon as the Voidfeather and the Demons did the sa, yet Valtak could only pray that it would be enough to tip the scales of the battle in his favor.

'Elysia is just a baby. Her body can't take that much energy. At least not for long. This is all my fault. In my greed and impatience to find a successor, I've put two innocent beings in danger!'

The Fire Dragon focused his energy to the extre, drowning the blue flas in Primordial Flas before they could infect more of the Valley of Life.

He had to win before Lith turned into the Void Demon Dragon completely and before the blue flas consud Elysia.

The Guardians had sworn to protect her from each and every threat, but not from the consequences of her own decisions. It had been Lith's choice to tamper with the blue flas just like Elysia was taking them on herself by her own will.

The Guardians would respect their decision and not intervene and Valtak knew it.

The Void Demon Dragon scread in agony, but not because of the Primordial Flas. Despite their violence, they failed to breach past the thick shroud of blue flas that engulfed the area where Lith stood.

The pain was theirs and Lith's, getting worse as the struggle progressed. More and more souls ca forth, slowly overpowering the three aspects of Lith's life force and his psyche.

The souls diluted his will, mories, and essence with their own. They ford a new being, born from the fusion of thousands of different personalities but with a common goal: conquer the Tiamat's body and return to life.

Yet until they got rid of the Fire Dragon, they would never beat the real owner of the body they now inhabited. If the souls focused too much on Lith, Valtak's flas would smother the blue flas that kept the door open.

If they focused too much on the Father of Fire, instead, the Void would shut the door himself and the Voidfeather Dragon would devour any soul left.

The desperate dead had to fight two battles at the sa ti and the Elder Wyrm was the easier opponent. The body, mind, and soul they inhabited belonged to Lith. He fought on his own turf and every soul that the Voidfeather consud also strengthened the Abomination and the human side.

Valtak, instead, was old and weak.

The souls could sll death on him. They could feel how tenuous the thread linking him to the world of the living was. The souls now in control of the Void Demon Dragon knew they needed one, maybe two solid blows to extinguish his spark.

Valtak knew it as well and wrapped himself in the Primordial Flas, using them like a burning extension of his body to fight and keeping anything the enemy could dish out at a distance.

"Walk away, old fool!" A choir of shrieking voices ca out of the Void Demon's mouth. "No one needs to die today. Go away. Bring your hatchlings with you and leave us alone!"

"No one? What about Lith?" The Father of Fire took a deep breath and a new wall of fire rose from the Valley of Life, joining the first one in its siege. "Or does his life not count?"

"One life in exchange for four. It's a fair bargain!" The Void Demon Dragon took a deep breath as well, releasing another burst of blue flas that swelled his protective cocoon and burned at the Primordial Flas, adding Valtak's strength to their own.

"No, it's a theft!" The Elder Wyrm waved his arm with sinuous grace, moving them up, down, left, and right.

With each of his movents, a wave of white flas condensed into a roaring Dragon that crashed against the blue flas from a different direction. Such was their violence that the Void Demon Dragon couldn't consu them.

The Primordial Flas drowned the blue ones with overwhelming power, smothering them like a wet blanket.

"That body doesn't belong to you parasites. You have no claim over Lith's life. Your ti is over and there's no place for you on Mogar anymore."

"Liar!" The voices roared and spread their mbranous wings to release more blue flas. "There's still more ti! There is a place for all of us and we'll take it by force if necessary."