God's Shattering
Yggdrasil walked down the same corridor he came from, picking his tome on the way, and entered the elevator which was the fastest access to this point in the tower. He had perfect knowledge of all that happened inside his base of operations and, no matter where Meihou's final destination was, he would get there, if not first, at least about the same time.
Even without the Relic powering his might, Yggdrasil would still prove to be a formidable —but not unbeatable— foe. Maybe, if Titania happened to meet with her companion, it was possible for them to take him down? One could only hope so.
"Uh!? What's th-" Eleonor was taken by surprise when the very waters that carried the filth and rot of the Imperium's crown jewel attacked her. Without time to react, she was dragged away and encased in the blob of jelly-like sludge. If that wasn't bad enough, the being's acidic fluids began to slowly corrode Eleonor's vestments, while unwittingly helping to stanch the bleeding by burning her wounds. A blessing born of a curse, perhaps? Well, no matter what Eleonor was powerless to detain her fate, given that her attackers, lack both blood to be manipulated and substance to be cut. The only thing she could hope for is that the others could save her, before the worse came into being.
"Ghh... what did- Sis! Sis!" Linea was the first of the Twins to regain consciousness and, just after doing so, she noticed Siena, uncoscious beside her. Ignoring, or if need be, fighting, the grip of Tori's cloak, the Youngest of the Aquarian twins, approached her sister frantically, ignoring everything else around her. Linea hesitated in touching Siena for a moment, fearing that she could trigger, or worsen, any unseen wounds. It wasn't until her sister coughed hard and groaned in pain as well that Linea pounced on her, hugging Siena while crying profusely, of relief.
"Li-Linea? What happened?""I-I don't know, Sis! One moment we were escaping with Alex and Tori and then... the cathedral... fire... and everything turned black. I... I...""There... there, Linea. Everything is fine now we are... argh!" Neither of the Twins had noticed until Siena felt a sharp sting of pain run through her, and her whole body surge with a strange power but The eldest Aquarian had
changed a lot thanks to Nebula's intervention. A power that Siena never had before coursed through her body.
Even so, Linea and Siena were largely unaware of their surroundings. At least until the hubbub with the slime dragging Asgard away, which made them turn to the tunnel behind them.
"Hey, Tori!? You are there? What happened and who are these people? I swear I heard the voice of Lady Asgard a moment ago... By the way, where is Alex? I just remembered him running away in another direction on the last minute. Did he betray us and left us for dead, after all we did to help him? That... that rat, all he wanted was t steal the Relic, wasn't it?" Siena tightened her previously destroyed hand in a fist, while baring her teeth.
That coward. How could Alex just abandon them like that after they not only gave him a job but also saved his life and helped him to the best of their skills? Just the thought of it made Siena's feel like throwing up with disgust. But, that was a concern for later. Now, they had to get out of this place, finding the Blue Relic again could be left for later.
Back on Rivenwood, the good news brought by Fei's sudden recovery —assisted by Si's magic— were soon going to be rendered less important in face of the most recent developments that ensued in the fight between the native fey and Tegonay's warband.
Thud!
With a dry and sharp sound, like the strings of a grand piano snapping, came the proclamation of the end of the fight, as the black knight finally claimed the life of his foe, with a decapitation swing, after long minutes tiring out the fey prince in a war of attrition. With the death of their leader, and the surge of inspiration brought by the Yellow Relic's golden shine, the remainder of the fey forces began to retreat to the depths of the woods, while under heavy fire from Tegonay's men.
It was not a battle anymore, but merely, a one-sided slaughter. Genocide.
If Jessi, Fey and Chen planned to intervene directly, somehow, there was no time better than now. The Black Knight was left standing alone and unguarded, moving to retrieve the Relic. Once he did, God knows how powerful he would become?
Lastly, but not least, came the intense confrontation between one Jester of the Court and a humble —but not really so humble— cat fairy, very much likely, the last of her kind in the present world. Both of them knowing full well the true secret of Si's real identity as the one and only Librarian, it was of no use to the cat girl to try and fake it. Not before him.
"This world... is not your science project, guh! If you want to... put us through hardship... you can... expect that we will fight back, guh!" Came Si's reply, it had a particularly inflamed tone that, while noticeable by few, laid bare Si's true motivation for her millennia long struggle.
"Just because... you have ultimate power... doesn't mean that... you can... use people in your devices... like pieces in a chess game, guh!"
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