The Elf Queen ignored whatever Allannia was trying to do and started to rapidly fly back to the Secret Garden area.
"Trying to escape from me now? Why are you always running away?"
The deformed arms of that strange creature that Allannia was becoming, were already full of crimson energy. She watched as the Elf Queen descended towards the ground with a sinister smile. Suddenly, her body accelerated, chasing after her prey, ready to strike once more. Her speed was at least two times than the speed she was able to display before, creating a red line that marked the sky where she had passed.
Arwen was in a very bad condition right now and was not able to increase her speed any further. However, she kept looking straight down below, not letting her eyes get away from her objective. Even if she died, she would at least destroy the Corrupted World Tree Replica and spoil Allannia's plans.
But even though she wanted to do it, it didn't mean she would be actually able to do it.
Allannia very quickly caught up with her, striking simultaneously with her both arms.
Bang!
The Elf Queen felt a huge impact on her back and her body fell towards the ground. Hitting hard against the floor and creating a huge crater on the point of impact. Before hitting the ground, she unconsciously protected herself with her Mana Sovereign energy, avoiding instant death.
Although she hasn't died from that strike, she was in a really bad shape, having many of her bones broken and bleeding from many places.
Cough! Cough!
Inside that crater, she turned her head to look at the Corrupted World Tree, and extended her hand hoping she would be able to reach it. But Allannia's feet stepped on top of her arm, crushing her last hope. Her body covered the ancestor tree, not letting Arwen see it anymore.
"AHAHAHAHAHAH! How do you feel it? You have lost! I'm the winner."
Arwen couldn't see the tree anymore and the last ray of hope inside her eyes faded. She was already prepared to die and as a worthless mother, she wasn't able to protect her daughter. She wasn't even able to protect her people, turning her into a useless queen as well.
When she was about to close her eyes and resign her life to fate, a bright red pillar of light ascended from where the World Tree was, rising more than ten thousand meters into the air.
Allannia was forced to look back, just to see a figure that was touching the World Tree, exuding a crimson aura that was weaker than hers in potency, but a million times stronger than hers in quality.
Seth was watching Arwen's fight against Allannia and through his Soul Sense, he identified the interference from the World Tree Replica on their battle. He noticed the corruption had taken control over it, trying to favor and support Allannia.
At first, he thought everything was still alright, after witnessing how Arwen was able to dominate her, but later on, a sense of dread was born inside his "heart".
'No... The Elf Queen is going to lose...' While thinking about that possibility, his brain chanced upon another. Something he had thought previously, but wasn't able to put to test since he was fearful... He was fearful of touching the powers granted by the Seed of Tyranny.
However, while watching Arwen take a beating. He started to feel restless. His heart strings were in pain, screaming for him to do something. Only he would be able to help her out in this situation, no one else would.
Seth had the same idea as Arwen after noticing the impact the corrupted tree had in their fight. He ran towards it while they were still fighting up there in the air and tried to get nearby.
A barrier made of Corruption Essence stopped him from moving forwards. If it was a barrier made of pure Mana, Seth would never be able to break it, but the energy hovering in front of him in the form of a wall, was an energy he had inside his own body.
Although he had it inside of him, he was not familiar with it at all. So, when he tried to pass through that wall, or break it, he wasn't able to do anything.
Boom!
Suddenly, he heard the sound of something hitting the ground some meters away from where he was. When he looked towards that place, Seth saw Arwen lying on a huge crater while Allannia had just stepped on her arm. He saw that victorious smile on that deformed elf's lips and the expression on Arwen's face.
The Elf Queen he knew, was a very strong-willed person that withstood many years of solitude and despair, someone that would never waver in front of a hurdle, but right now, she had resignation showing on her body language. She closed her eyes as if giving up her life to fate.
'No! I can't allow it.'
Seth didn't even think twice, before activating his Seed of Tyranny completely for the first time. The red wall in front of him dispelled with no omen, as if was just obeying an order from the Corrupted Tree, letting Seth approach the source of Arwen's problems. At the same time, corrupted thoughts emerged inside his head, but he suppressed them since his soul was stronger now.
He put his hands of the Corrupted World Tree Replica's trunk, and a fierce aura left his body, entering inside it.
Boom!
A huge pillar of crimson light emerged from that spot, illuminating the whole city. Everyone felt like their unholy ancestor had suddenly awakened and were forced to their knees in reverence.
Seth erased the connection between the tree and the corrupted blood, connecting his Seed of Tyranny in its place. He felt like the seed was thirsty, drinking from a fountain of power that it has ever desired.
Allannia felt her heart beat stopping as the Essence of Corruption running inside her veins lost their connection with the corrupted tree. Her powers were fading away quickly, like a balloon that had been pierced through.
The power injected inside of her, that made her advance to the Mana Sovereign Realm, left her energy veins, passing through the pores of her skin and returning towards the World Tree.
She looked at Seth's figure, touching the source of her power and tried to release every single bit of energy she could in order to stop him from doing what he was doing. However, her body seemed to not respond to her anymore. The red shards of corruption protruding out of her increased in size and she started to transform in a strange monster.
"AAAHHH!"
While many reactions were happening inside her body, Seth felt the Seed of Tyranny pull the source of the World Tree towards it, just like what the tree had done with the nutrients inside the plants and flowers it had absorbed.
Seth felt like something was changing inside the seed and he heard Lexi's voice inside his mind.
"The third seal! It is going to be released at this rate. The seed is using the corruption to unseal itself..."
Just as Lexi's voice resounded inside his head, Seth heard a "click" inside his chest area and the World Treen before him thoroughly vanished. The Seed of Tyranny inside his body, started to bloom, many roots spreading around itself. A pure crimson dot appeared in the middle, shinning like no other light before. When Seth felt it, he thought that one look towards that light was enough to pierce space and time.
The roots enveloped that light, sealing it inside a new space.
While trying to feel what was happening inside his body, Seth felt like he was transported to another dimension, where only he and that crimson red dot existed. He observed it sparkling and felt that it seemed to be eternal, an existence above others.
Thump!
He felt a sharp pain and all the blood inside his body was forcefully erased by it. Almost as if instantly, a crimson red blood started to run through his veins, bringing the Essence of Corruption to every single cell inside his body. His cells started to change and his body would become tyrannically stronger after it completely ended, however, it would take some time to finish that transformation.
After releasing the third seal, the Seed of tyranny had created and independent space right inside his body and changed his body constitution. Seth opened up his eyes and felt like he was able to control all the corruption energy nearby now.
At this time Allannia had thoroughly transformed into an ugly monster made of crystal red shards, and was uttering some strange sounds that came from the depths of her throat.
"GRRRR!"
"Grownrrr!!!"
Seth looked at her and inside his eyes a crimson light passed through very quickly. The corruption inside her body as if like obeying his command, dissipated, breaking those crystal shards into ten million fragments.
She shattered like a glass bottle, not even knowing why and how she had died.
Arwen, still lying on the floor, turned her head to look at Seth, but there wasn't much strength left inside her body and her eyes were threatening to close.. Before closing her eyes though, she was able to see how Seth had changed and had to admit that he had become dangerously attractive.
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