monster and magic (end, for now)

ลำดับตอนที่ #33 : The last fight

      “It’s over now, Ludwik!” I said, “We have already stop your ritual!”

   “It seem that you did.” He said, with the weirdly calm tone coming from the guy whose big plan was just ruined 10 seconds ago.

   “I thought you will be more furious.” Ava said. 

   That was when he laughed.

   It wasn’t a manical laugh, not even sound villainy, but more resemble a fatherly laugh.

   “What?” I let out.

   “You don’t get it, do you, kiddo?” He said, “This ritual isn’t meant to reawaken the unnamed beast, it meant to bring you here, at this very spot.”

   “You mean…” I said, “All of this time…we been dancing on your palm all along!?”

   “You could say that.” He said.

   “But why would you do that?” I asked.

   “To make an offer.” He said, “Join my cause.”

   “And why would we ever do that!?”

   “He slowly walked toward us, “Can’t you see, the magical world is corrupted? The real world is rapidly falling as we speak with the problem like selfish leader, poverty, lethal illness, hunger…And we have all the methods to stop it! Yet we didn’t, just for the sake of being kept secret.”

   “That is why I quit from the fort and started this new group of magicians. With their power, I will reawaken the unnamed beast and used its power to destroy this old magical world, and construct the new one, which magic will be known throughout the world!”

    I didn’t fully understand what he was saying but the word ‘destroys’ still ringing in my head.

   “So make your choice now, kiddo.” He said “Choose me, and your father will receive medical care and he will live. Refuse me, and all of you will die today.”

    Before I could think up of an answer, Ava pulled out her rusty sword and screamed “This is my answer!”

   [I got to admit, that was the coolest thing Ava ever did.]

   He made a sound that resemble a disappointment sign “Very well.”

   He pulled a dagger from his robe and lowered his staff, that when I noticed that the staff wasn’t carved in a horrifying image, but a name, hundreds of them, all over it. He used his dagger to carve the word ‘GILBERD’ on it.

    That made me fell into rage, he carved the name of people he killed into his staff! I pulled out my sword, and charged into him, summoning my combat avatar as I ran.

   Ludwik used his staff to point at me and chanted a spell, a bolt of lightning exploded out from the tip and struck me I in the chest. I was knocked back, my combat avatar dissolved in one hit.

   Ava lit her sword on fire and swung it, a great gush of wind burst out around her, it carried the fire into it and launched the fire at Ludwik in a massive fire storm.

   But he didn’t even blink, he threw his staff and chanted a spell, his staff turned into a lightning shield, blocking the fire.

   But the wind managed to pass the shield, and blew open his hood, revealing his face.

   His face was very hard to describe, he was bald, and had no facial hair whatsoever. His face had a lot of wrinkle, yet he still looked young. And his eyes…his eyes had no pupils, just a blood red blankness.

   He seem to be a little annoyed, but managed to hide it, he summoned back his staff into his hand and chanted another spell, suddenly his staff extended us-ward, and smacked both of us to the ground.

   “Last chance.” He said “Join me, or perish this instance.”

   ‘Jordan!’ Mars screamed in my head ‘Let me tag in! Now!’

   I about to say ‘no’ as usual, but then I noticed my dad. Even though his body was bloody and in the process of dying, yet he was trying to tell us something.

   “Do…not…re…sist…”

    ‘Resist what?’ I thought. What did he mean? Was he talking about Ludwik? That couldn’t be it.

   Then I realized, he was talking about Mars.

   So he told me to let him took control? But I knew my dad would never told me to do that. So I must find an alternative.

   ‘Mars’ I thought to him ‘Is there hypothetically a way for us to fight together?’

   ‘There is a way…’ Mars said, ‘But the chance of success is so low that the number of people who actually accomplished it can be count with your hands.’

   I swallowed my own saliva ‘Yeah, let’s do that.’

   ‘Okay, brace yourself.’

   I could feel the power poured into me, I felt like I was choking from power, my skin burned painfully. I could feel myself dying from pain.

   ‘I must endure.’ I thought, and weirdly enough, Mars was thinking the same thing too.

   And as soon as I completely regret this decision, I could feel the power exploded into my body, my skin was still burning, yet it didn’t hurt anymore. I could feel it burn away my skin and cloth and replaced it with godly one.

   Ludwik backed away “What is happening?!”

   I raised up from the floor, I was now an embodiment of magic, clad in bronze armor, a red cape and a spartan helmet.

   It was like Beta said, hosting a god was like tossing a coin, head or tail, you either control them, or they will control you…but there was another option, landing on its side, with both the host and the god are equal, we merged together, and let the true power of god descend into the mortal world. I, or rather, we, are god incarnate.

   “Wow” Ava said.

   I stepped forward, and I could feel the godly magic power flew through me multiplying.

   “Attention.” I said, with the voice that synchronize with Mars, “Get ready to be get  fully kick in the ass.”

   “Second…wow.” Ava said.

   “It seems that you merge with your god.” Ludwik said “But no matter, because Afterall, my nickname is devourer of gods!”

   He made a defensive stance, so I raised my sword and channeled my magic through it, reshaped it into a war hammer, with a 4 feet long metal handle and a gigantic head made from gold. With the speed and force I never thought I could ever do, smashed Ludwik in his chest, making him blinked into oblivion. Making another big hole in the throne room.

   But I wasn’t done, I jumped out of that hole, and to my surprise, I flown after him. When I reached Ludwik still flying-through-the-sky-body, I reshaped my hammer into a knuckle-duster, meaning to hit him again. But then, a lightning blasted out from his back and formed into a pair of wings. He stopped himself mid-air and shoot a thunderbolt out from his metal staff. It struck me right in the chest, but the pain that should have killed me felt like only a bee stunk, which to said, still hurt as hell but not enough for real damage.

    Seeing that, Ludwik chanted another spell, a ball of thunder formed at the tip of his staff and started to expand, within 5 seconds, it was the size of the human-size hamster ball.

   [Sorry, bad example.]

   Then suddenly a beam of light shot out of nowhere into Ludwik.

   The light burned away Ludwik’s lightning ball, so I used that opportunity to punch him in the

face and smacked him to the ground, 2 miles below.

   I turned to the light source, what I saw was Ava, but she was different.

   Instead of her usual attire, her cloth was now a kimono, a Japanese traditional dress, with the color of red, orange, yellow and white, her hair was braid over her head and she wore several golden jewelries. With her enchanted mirror in her hand, a light seemed to shine out from all her body, like I was looking at the sun itself.

   Her shuck seemed to answer everything ‘I somehow merge with my god too.’

   And together, we flown down to the ground.

   We landed at the location Ludwik was smacked down, which was now a big hole about 40 feet wide, we walked toward it, meaning to finish the job. When suddenly a massive thunder was struck at the hole.

    But the thunder didn’t disappear second later, like any thunder would, instead it kept striking and striking, but every strike was slightly weaker than the last, like the thunder itself was being sucked away from the sky.

    At last, the thunder stopped, and 10 seconds passed, nothing happen. I was about to continued walking when a huge column of pure electricity burst out from the hole.

   But it didn’t just flash away like any thunder would, but bended back down and struck in front of us, and another five smaller column burst out of it, we managed to stepped back and narrowly dodged being electrocute to death, but then the 5 columns bended to the ground, that when I realize what it was, it was not a column of electricity, but a hand.

   The electric hand pushed the ground, using it as a base for the rest of it body, at the tip of the arm was Ludwik, surrounded by a ball of electricity. But then, another arm blasted out from the ball, then another two legs, and the ball expanded out into a body.

   Ludwik had just summoned an electric combat avatar, and it was gigantic.

   Seeing that I summoned a combat avatar of my own, a blood red astral form expanded out from my body, it lifted me from the ground, but higher than any I ever summoned, I was now 300 feet tall, standing toll to toll with Ludwik.

   I decided to make the first blow, I reshaped my weapon into a two-hand great sword, an aura of a sword formed into my avatar hands. I swung the sword, but Ludwik parried it with his electric hand and punched into my avatar’s stomach.

   The pain wasn’t great, yet the impact pushed me backward 400 feet, which wasn’t actually that great considered my size. I reshaped my sword into a spear 300 feet long. I charged at him, seeing that, Ludwik used his electric right hand to block the spear from piecing through his real body at the avatar’s chest.

   So, it pieced through his wrist instead.

   But suddenly his entire right arm exploded into thousand of lightning bats, they swarmed my avatar like flies swarming over dead animal. I tried to swipe them away with my spear, but with no effect.

   During that time, Ludwik’s avatar’s right arm grew back up, he raised up his hand, and all of the bats leave me and formed into one giant bat, Ludwik pointed his hand at me, and the bat flown at my direction.

   I made a defensive stance, but when the bat was 50 feet away from my face, a column of light burst out from the sky, dissinagrate it at that spot. Ava had come to rescue again.

   Ava flown through the sky and blasted out another column of light at Ludwik’s avatar, he let out a grunt of pain, but then a lightning shieldwas formed on his right hand and blocking the light, rendered it useless.

   I tried to come up with something, the fight was going nowhere, and Ava’s light wasn’t working.

   But then, for some bizarre reason, Ava turned the light at me.

   I expected to feel the burn like all the demons who were unfortunate enough to be blasted by Ava, but to my surprise, it didn’t hurt at all, but it was actually quite refreshing, I could feel my magic power greatly increased.

   ‘The light weakens the chaos.’ I thought ‘but strengthen the order.’

   I channeled all of the newly gained power into my combat avatar, so it expanded out bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger. My height was now 5 times the size of Ludwik, and sill kept going. When I stopped, I was 3000 feet tall.

   With my gigantic-super-big-titan-size, I stepped on Ludwik.

   All my weight was dumped down on Ludwik, I could feel Ludwik’s avatar being squeeze under my foot.

   I unsummoned my combat avatar, because with that size was really sucking my magic power. I flew down to the ground and meet up with Ava and walked toward Ludwik.

   But then Ludwik, with the speed of, well, lightning, dashed toward us, so I reshaped my spear into a baseball bat and smacked him in his face, and pushed him back 100 feet.

   “Let’s finish this now.” I said with the voice that resonate with Mars.

   “Ok” Ava said, with the voice that resonate with Amaterasu. She threw her rusty sword into my hand.

   That was around when Ludwik got back up and charged toward us again. So I charged too, I reshaped both my weapons into a gladius, and stabbed them through his stomach.

   He spitted out blood from his mouth, I pulled off my swords, then grabbed his head toward me and locked him on his neck and turned him at Ava.

   Ava raised her mirror, the sky opened up, and a beam of light blasted down into the mirror and pointed it at us.

   “Handan no kyūkyoku no hikari!” She screamed.

   ‘Ultimate light of judgement.’ I thought, as the biggest light beam of all time heading in my direction. The light engulfed us both, I felt the light filling me back with power, while Ludwik let out a scream of pain, as his body being burnt by the light.

   After half a minute, the light stopped, and Ludwik’s body fell to the ground.