Four nimble legs supporting a bulky fra of obsidian and protruding spikes of unknown, liquid-like tal, a deadly serrated tail twice the length of their massive bodies, and a soft, squishy face to which two deadly pincers were attached.
They were like rhinos, but they had no eyes; it was a mystery as to how they perceived the world. Kulak stared at the new arrivals with apprehension. He had seen these creatures before; they had road the surface of Alan's soul sea.
However, now, they were here, right in the center of it all, such a thing was normally impossible unless...
"Know what these little guys are? I always wondered..."
Jas approached the biggest of the strange creatures and placed his hand on its leg, as if patting it.
"Took these guys a while, right?"
He stared at Kulak with a slight smile on his face. Hundreds of these strange creatures surrounded the Supre being, looking at him with malicious intent.
In response, the Warden rely harrumphed, and a tide of shadows arose from his feet and pushed all of them back, but one. The one that remained by Jas's side struggled against the tide of shadows, and only because Kulak was letting it.
Had he wanted, that thing would be gone as well, but he was curious as to how it avoided his detection, even if he was in the world of souls; sothing like that shouldn't be possible, especially by sothing like that.
'Hmmm.'
Kulak watched as the creature began to gather purple currents around its pincers, curious to see what it would do.
"Oh co on, Wasn't that response a bit too cruel?"
Jas chid in, removing his hands from the beast with a forlorn look on his face.
'Gravity magic, as well as space.'
To any other invader, those jaws would have ripped their very souls apart, but in front of Kulak, all he needed to do was wave his hand, and a tide of shadows swallowed the beast as well.
"Eh, I thought they would do sothing, at the very least."
Kulak remained silent, thinking of his next move. He knew Jas hadn't expected any of those beasts to accomplish sothing, but why bring them here? And why were they listening to him, a foreign entity?
The Soul Sea shouldn't recognize Jas as part of it, even if he was the creator of it all. Kulak wondered why the 'defense' system left him all alone. Those creatures were a part of Alan's defenses in his soul, which raised the question.
'Why did they listen to him?'
rely not recognizing the Serpent as a threat was feasible, but why would the creatures listen to him? What was causing that? The soul, even an artificial one, didn't work like this.
"May the venerable Supre state his purpose in coming here?"
Jas asked, offering a slight bow, and Kulak scoffed in response.
"To kill you."
"You know you can't, so why bother?"
For a mont, Kulak gazed at the black star above. Jas laughed as he saw it.
"He's asleep, so don't be such a wuss."
"So he isn't here to protect you."
The man in the suit leaned back and stated.
"Kulak. You can't kill , Hell, right now, I doubt even Aranus can kill ."
The supre raised his brows, paying close attention to the serpent's words, whether he liked it or not.
"Circumstances just made it so."
Jas shrugged his shoulders and turned his back to Kulak, focusing on the Blue Star with a Core of Gold. Kulak put away his sword and asked.
"What are you planning?"
The response ca fairly quickly.
"I don't know yet, honestly. Could be perfect, could be shit, and I'd be forced to retry, I don't want that."
Kulak watched Jas begin his 'work' once more, and instead of losing himself like before, he paid close attention to the man, contemplating everything.
He was stuck in thought, as Jas silently worked, paying the Supre behind him no mind. Kulak was stunned. Normally, even that man wouldn't do sothing like that, so what was assuring him that Kulak couldn't take his life here?
Kulak, as a son of Ariel, could deliver true death easily, even more so if the target was in the form of a re soul, and Jas knew that, so what was it?
What was giving him so much confidence? The black star above which housed a sleeping Aranus, or sothing else? What exactly was it?
No matter how much Kulak thought about it, he couldn't figure it out. He was busy going through his mories of every iteration that man had appeared in, and the ones before, but he couldn't figure it out.
The man was insane, pure crazy. The calm and composed attitude was but a front; all that existed inside was pure crazy.
There was a known saying among them that every Supre was insane; every one of them admitted it. You didn't reach Supremacy by being normal, every one of the supre beings had a screw loose sowhere... but Jas took that to another level, despite only having been able to reach Divine, even with Aranus's body...
He was batshit crazy. That man had won a wager against the abyss, and it was pathetically humiliating to the Abyssal Conscience; there was nothing he wasn't willing to do, and the ways he went about it were sotis normal... and sotis not. There was no telling what he wanted to do and what he would do.
But when Kulak really paid attention to what was in front of him, rather than the mories of the previous iterations, he realized what it was.
The answer was right in front of him, and there wasn't even the slightest attempt made to hide it.
He should have realized it sooner; the bright and deep blue was unrelenting. Kulak burst into laughter; he couldn't contain himself once he realized it.
Yes, he could escape from it by cutting a part of himself away... but that option wasn't available for Jas.
"It got you, didn't it?"
The Serpent turned his head, shrugged his shoulders, and exclaid.
"Bingo!"
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