Chapter 240: Sol.
Chapter 240: Sol.
The Passage:
Dead space between one collective and another, no being other than the Godslayers and Vatui should be able to traverse such a plain and even then, passing through passages came at great risks, sometimes physical, sometimes mental, other times psychological, in order to hunt them the Emporium developed technology around their bodies and minds, scavenging them down to the last cell and manipulating their powers to its benefit, thus, the vessels were created and utilizing a Godslayer's cosmic powers in tandem with the natural incline of the Vatui they now passed freely from one collective to another, "conquering" in the name of their greedy Emporium.
"Sir, are you sure you want to leave the Godslayer unchecked, Vice Captain Jedrek's vitals show he is under a tremendous amount of pressure-"
"If we manage to capture that woman, we won't even need to check if he's alive afterwards, Ikaris is more important, if the Emporium gets hold of her mind, if she can be harvested- we win." The baldy grinned, staring off to the side at the lights flashing from Sol and Jedrek's fight. "Forget the Godslayer, he is a mere dog compared to the power and influence of that woman."
"Sir," One of his other three Vice Captains spoke up. "Is her information classified even after her discovery?" She asked, and he looked around at her with a complicated frown.
"Not now, no." He answered. "Ikaris is..."
"I am pushing you little shit, I have been pushing for almost an hour my back feels like a demon kicked me!!" Ikaris glared daggers at Sara with her eyes glowing brightly and torrents of mana surging out of her body, Alpha had stopped observing the collective and stopped paying attention to Sol, opting to focus on expanding her dimension as fast as possible and healing the rifts Ikaris was causing to seal her presence, but it wasn't working not even in the slightest.
"Do you want me to tear myself open and throw the baby at you!?" Ikaris snapped, squeezing down on Dina's hand so hard her fingers broke but the mage didn't even make a sound as she quickly healed her hand and leaned forward.
"Milady, you are almost there!" Sara looked up at Ikaris again, sweating and bleeding from her nose while Arla constantly healed her and held Ikaris's leg from kicking her away.
"I am? Am I fucking-almost there? Where's Sol, I'm gonna kill him for not being here, I'll chop off his manhood -how dare he make me pregnant!?
I am a goddess why does this hurt so badly...!?" She screamed and flashed Dina like a doll forcing Dr'ul to catch and hold on to her to prevent their link from severing as that would immediately cause another explosion which would likely kill them all this time.
"By the lights," Dr'ul cradled Dina and hugged her from behind keeping their link strong and steady while Dina worked overtime to circulate enough mana to cause her to overload and implode like a submarine several thousand times over.
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"Once more Lady Ikaris!" Sara winced and reached forward and Ikaris's eyes flashed a brighter hue of crimson while her hair flickered a pure and glowing white, screaming to the roof Ikaris closed her eyes and ground her teeth before Dina raised her head and stared with her mouth slightly ajar and Dr'ul opened her eyes when a bright glow filled the room."
[No!] Alpha snapped appearing in the flesh and casting a veil over them. [Stay still, do not move a muscle!] She spoke in their heads casting sound nullifying magic over everyone and summoning Usami's family in the room with them along with Dr'ul's siblings.
The veil was transparent and so they all witnessed as a bald red-eyed man wearing a variant white battlesuit with a red cape over his shoulders intruded violently, with his mouth frozen in a grin and his eyes scanning the area.
"What's happening?" Dina winced, staring at Ikaris who was barely conscious and Sara who was cradling a little moving blanket on the floor.
"He is an artificial Vatui who has consumed enough of the white condensed essences to permanently keep his power active, he is like the one Master Vestic is currently fighting, but far more powerful, in comparison he gives me the same feeling as Lumi did," Alpha whispered.
"How did he get in here?"
"He broke through like Master usually does, his power defies reason itself, the real question is why didn't he go after Master and instead came here directly...?" Alpha looked around at the others and then focused on Ikaris who barely raised her hand.
"No, do not issue any kind of command over your power; nobody in here is his opponent, he might kill you all on sight, by my guess he may be in pursuit of-"
"I can feel her presence." The Captain closed his eyes and took a deep breath as his three Vice-Captains entered through the hole he had made, he stood upright and continued grinning. "I can feel her presence!" He balled his fists.
"Please, please, please..." Arla whispered with her hands clasped and her head hung. "Master, we need you!"
"I sense a praying woman," the captain slowly turned his head and looked directly where Arla was, and the room exploded in mana as Dr'ul realised that they had been discovered, along with her Dina spun and charged her mana taking a deep breath and opening her mouth towards him, it all happened in an instant, Dina fired off [Cosmic Scream], Arla shot [Pulsar] and Dr'ul swung her sword while Usami grabbed her brother and daughter and closed her eyes, shielding them with her body.
"Mil-"
Everyone vanished when Ikaris snapped her fingers and Alpha's dimension was ripped asunder as cosmic abilities she could not withstand tore through it.
They appeared someplace random within the empty universe; a small terrestrial planet with a breathable atmosphere and Sara quickly stood with the child in her grasp while Ikaris's hand fell limply to her side and she started heaving.
"Ikaris!!" A voice boomed above them.
"How did he-" S'mael was about to ready himself for an attack when a vice-captain landed in his head and smashed it into the ground, tearing two of his arms from his side and stabbing him with them, pinning him on his stomach, the resulting wave of debris and wing blew everyone off their feet and sent Sara flying but Ikaris caught her and the baby and took the fall for them, sliding to a stop across a small meadow and then heaving again as she tried utilizing more of her powers.
"It truly is her, she may look different, but my scanners have shown a 100% match," The Captain smiled as he descended and stood next to Dina who was in the middle of getting up.
"Why do you know her name, why are you doing this?" She raised her hand toward him and conjured a mana spear in her grasp. "Why won't you leave us alone!?"
"I could care less about some random human girl, the real prize here is that woman." The man pointed at Ikaris and then began cackling again. "Is that a baby wrapped up there, is that her baby?" He asked excitedly. "This is perfect, the very solution to our greatest problem has fallen into my grasp!"
"Why hasn't Sol shown up yet?" Adonai looked at Renia and then stood between the general and Ikaris while she held on to Sara and the child. "Did something happen?" He asked.
Deep in the emptiness of the passage Sol faced Jedrek both covered in golden blood with their wounds hissing and their eyes glazed over with golden light, but while Sol recovered, Jedrek's wounds only closed, leaving large scars. "I will not lose, I will not lose I will not..."
"You've already lost, Jedrek of the 100th fleet." Sol heaved and hunched. "All that remains is for you to remain dead when I fucking kill y-"
"MASTER!!" Sol froze like a deer in headlights when he felt Arla's soul cry out to him and as a result, he suffered a punch that disoriented him and left him open to bloody barrages as Jedrek's muscles and bones tore and broke against his body and reformed, slicing I to his skin and breaking his flesh.
"WE NEED YOU!!" Sol felt Arla again and turned his head catching the man's hand as he made a link with her and started seeing through her eyes, Adonai was kneeling before the general headless, Renia was being beaten blindly by another vice-captain and Dr'ul was being double-teamed and beaten to a pulp by two other vice-captains while S'mael's head was smashed and buried in the ground.
Dina was barely heaving, and shallowly breathing with a metallic spear sticking out of her chest, her arms broken and another hole in her abdomen, Usami and her two were hidden, and Ikaris was weakly hugging Sara with her back turned to everyone and a small baby hidden in a blanket between them, whispering his name repeatedly.
"sol..."
"Sol..."
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"SOL..."