Water tower is almost impregnable. For most people, that is. Shadow assassins are not most people. ...…Xena sat meditating in the middle of the room, dressed in the watery gray rough cloak. She had always been petite. compared to before, she had one ornament extra. A light gray sceptor decorated with blue winter roses and silver filigree held her tunic together, like an oversized brooch. Sitting in the grand room, she looks like a little doll placed on the altar to pay respect to the gods. The sunlight glints off her chestnut brown wavy hair, sparkling shades of red and amber. Her mother had been most fond of these red sparkles in her hair, for that is the only part of her Xena resembles, Iris used to say. However, now, they have become the mark by which she dies. A finger width dagger flew straight at her head, right at the speed where it would even pierce the head of a tiger. A little girl's head ? no matter how hard, it could pass through front and back. However, unlike
It is Caspian. At least, the body and the face are definitely Caspian. Yet, she knew, it’s not her lover. Xena emptied her mind. In a normal situation, she knows how to fight blind. If you could not use your eyes, you use your ears for the sound. If you can not use your eyes and ears, you use touch to detect vibrations of the ground. If you do not have all of them, then probably by smell. If you can’t even smell, then, hopefully, by taste. If you do not have all these senses ? then how is it different from being dead ? She had this experience when she went through the trial of time. She was more sensitive than most people. Her ears could identify a ring of beel from a kilometer away, and she could differentiate two crows by their caws. That’s how ardently Xena had trained. Caspian had been the love of her life. She is aware of his smell, touch, appearance, sound of his voice, even the beating frequency of his heart. When the dark mage chose this illusion, all he wanted w
The moment Xena comprehended the meaning of seal of light, a tenuous link on the grand seal broke. A shock wave spread in the entire universe, beginning from the time worm.All the little black voids in the jet black void shattered. The resulting space dust swirled around the entire sky, it’s path only visible by the vanishing starlight. Neil felt the shock, and the most sensitive Mona screamed herself awake. Merlin jumped up ready to fight, a giant great blade shimmering with blue mana in his hands, with an overhead grip. His eyes were devoid of any feeling, his limbs looked ready to jump and shred to pieces even planets if need be. Mona was shivering uncontrollably at his feet. Adele was sweating loads, horror etched on her face, her desperation increasing with each second. A panic attack ! Neil determined in that hundredth of a second. “ Adele ! “ Neil shrieked, as he held her in hands. Merlin’s mana sense rang out, no less powerful than any ‘S’ grade beast, scanning a h
while the entire world is reeling from the shocks given out by seal of light, Xena her self felt no different. She had no idea she held with in her hands a means to restore the original Starbeast Khazhan. She had no idea the amount of disasters that began because of this seal. She only felt that a threat from house of shadows is eliminated. in a few moments, Caspian entered the room again. he could not tell what happened in the room at all. he picked up the staff he was remaking for Nadia, exained the blue water crystal once more. " This .. we will need a magical fire to forge this staff. " He opined. “ If we want to go to the flame temple, this is the perfect time. “ Xena told Caspian. For only the flame temple protects with in it's recesses all the eternal magic fires. it even hosts the eternal flame primetheus in it's inner temple. She was not lying about this at all. Caspian nodded to her. Together, slowly, they sneaked out of the water tower. The flame temple is but
In the morning, Neil woke up earlier than Adele. That feeling of uneasiness only increased from the morning. It’s literally like a thousand glowing red eyes watching you from utter darkness. The feeling of a monster under the bed ! The feeling of looming Monday morning ! The feeling that highlighted his loneliness all too much. Neil told himself it’s alright to be lonely. He preferred it that way. Then, he drilled his butt in the chair, started drawing soul locking talismans on the purple leather hexagons, made by Mona. At first, it was one talisman per one minute. After about sixty, his speed increased to one talisman per ten seconds. In one more hour, it was reduced to one per five seconds. However, if it’s calculated by absolute figures, the worst case was that only the evil soul was removed from the amalgamation of souls that sage is. That means, they will have to separate out nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine souls. That, assuming the fact - sage could take hos
The trade off of light and shadow felt like it’s taking forever, but it was finished in a short moment. Neil knew, since Adele is acting as conduit, all the pain and stress will fall on her body. There’s only one way to avoid such a thing. He needs to walk into the trap that is Sage’s mind. It felt like he was doing a thousand brainteasers at the same moment when he walked into Sage's brain. A rough steel pillar with a flat top was floating in the middle of nowhere. All around him, there are gears, long poles balanced precariously on fulcrums, and a very little area marked as ‘ Safe zone ‘. Even an amateur could tell that reaching that safe zone is the goal. If only that were easy ! The gears are tightly packed, and the rotating long poles come by at fixed intervals. Any place where you could fall off to, a trap existed, such as a mud pool, a lava pool, a grassland where a tiger was waiting, and so on and so forth. The entire setting looked like an extremely well crafted and
Neil held Adele up, supporting a drooping Merlin with another hand. “ A tear ! there’s a tear in the time worm’s membrane. Sage .. hic .. Sage d..hic Sage did not get destroyed completely. A shadow remnant ran to the tear.. We need to chase.. You mu… must n..t miss. It’s dang..rews .. Neil. you must kill.. Her. She knows mo..re. She cou..huh..ld revive st..ahar beasht inside.. Must not ! save… the.. World for.. Now.. ! please ! “ Adele managed through flickering consciousness. She had overdrawn her body. Despite the cautiousness of Neil, this was a fight where she would have been exhausted. She only survived because of Merlin’s never ending mana. Neil supported Merlin. After about fifteen minutes of mana transfer, Adele became stable. During this time, Neil got another message. [ Curse of Kraken broken. ] [ You have no traces of kraken curse upon you. ] He retrieved his stats once again. It’s been more than nine months since he last checked his stats. Neil opened his stats.
The spacemancers of Drow kingdom did nothing but fix the space portals these days. They built a straight line of portals over a space of thousands of miles. A portal was built for every five hundred miles in a inhabited area, and one per thousand kilometers in an uninhabited area. After Adele gave out her warning, they set off within fifteen minutes. And within an hour, they were standing at the border line of where space anomalies had been happening. The sky is already pitch black, yet, occasionally, a light edge in a color goes off outlining one space anomaly layered on top of another. Just minutes after they arrived at the location, the pitch black horizon broke, opening a tear within itself, shimmering in bright blue color. Like a divine eye of blue with a dark and stormy horizon filled with black lightning, with a gray stone temple as its center. Without a doubt, that’s the place where they have to be. Neil named it immediately. ‘ No 1 event dungeon ! ‘ he thought. Beca