Chapter 180: Volume 2 Teaser. (NEW TAKE)
Sixteen years ago, the forewarnings were issued, and soon after, the prophesied events began to unfold.
They all sensed it then.
The birth of one of them; the birth of a new race.
However, to a select few, it was something more.
It marked not merely the birth of a new race, but the dawning of something far greater.
These select few sensed something completely different.
They all sensed the onset of changing times that began with the birth of this ’new’ race.
The first fifteen years could be said to be the beginnings.
They were the early years, the years of ignorance about the true reality buried deep beneath the illusion.
From that point on, however, the tides shifted.
Ventures into the greater cosmos were made.
These ventures then became triggers for a chain of reactions.
Revelations emerged as truths were unveiled and hidden facts came to light.
The ’Original Apex Predator’ stirred to action, as the ’Six Ancients’ awakened from their slumber.
The ’First Man’ unearthed remnants of a forgotten past while the ’Judge of the End’ observed from the shadows.
The ’Primordial Deity’ pondered and contemplated the ’Cause’ of the changing times from her golden throne.
The end of the ’Candidate Selection’ that had gone on for billions of years, drew nearer, and the flames of war that had once been forgotten, flickered to life once more.
The one who once delighted, now watched the board with an amused smile.
The one who once raged, now surveyed the board with a calm gaze.
The one who had been slumbering within the board, stirred, restless in their sleep.
Yet, despite the shifting dynamics, one certainty remained: the protagonists of this new era who would be standing at the centre of the stage had already been chosen.
They all knew, that this Era, would not end up like the last.
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Deep within the heart of the ancient planet, far below the surface, lay an irregularly shaped cavern of colossal proportions. The walls stretched high while the ground beneath seemed to pulse with a life of its own.
The air was dense with cosmic energy, a force so heavy it pressed down like a suffocating weight, making it impossible for anything below Transcendence to even breathe.
The floor and walls of the cavern were an eerie blend of stone and flesh, as if the very earth itself had fused with some living entity.
Pulsating veins of molten rock coursed through the stone, glowing with eerie light that cast strange, flickering shadows across the uneven surfaces.
Giant pools of lava dotted the cavern floor, their surfaces bubbling and churning with a fierce intensity.
At the cavern’s centre floated a massive sphere of plasma, a swirling vortex of pure energy that radiated cosmic energy. This sphere was tinged with all colours of the light spectrum and crackled with arcs of energy that shot out in every direction, illuminating the cavern with its brilliance.
In front of this luminous sphere rose a colossal, half-humanoid figure, emerging from a seething pool of lava. Its skinless body was a grotesque mass of exposed flesh and muscle, with four massive, muscular arms extending from its torso.
Multi-layered barriers of cosmic energy wrapped around its towering form, which stood over 500 meters tall, and it was seemingly anchored to the ground with sinewy, flesh-like tendrils.
The creature’s head was eerily featureless, a smooth expanse of flesh devoid of eyes, nose, or mouth, and there was an incision on its skull from which another humanoid figure emerged.
This normal-sized form was the upper body of a bare-chested ’man’, with rage-filled eyes that blazed with iridescent light. Long black hair, tied in a ponytail at the nape of ’his’ neck, cascaded down ’his’ back.
Cosmic energy surged endlessly from ’his’ form, pouring out in waves as ’he’ glared with fierce intensity at the three figures standing before ’him’.
The first was a teenage boy with black hair streaked with white highlights, crowned by dragon horns. He wore an untucked black corporate shirt with the first three buttons undone, atop a pair of uniform trousers that had two gold side lines and black combat boots.
His grey irises held a golden symbol within them that glowed with light as he gripped his laser sword.
Next stood another teenager with silver hair and heterochromatic eyes—one blue, the other red. He wore a black shirt with a loosely knotted tie, black trousers tucked into boots, and a jacket tied around his waist.
A low chuckle escaped his lips as he reached out to the crack in space beside him, grabbing onto the handle of the sword sticking out of it.
The final figure was a man with silver hair and piercing azure-blue, slit-pupiled eyes. He was dressed in a complete navy-blue three-piece suit and black tie, black leather shoes and a chain watch on his wrist.
His eyes lit up with a dull glow and his right hand unsheathed a blade from within the darkness beyond the swirling blue-rimmed portal in space beside him.
The three stood against the giant flesh-bound humanoid before them, energies roused as tendrils of universal law energy coiled around their bodies.
|Vale Blade. |
The grey-eyed youth murmured, his voice barely a whisper, and the glow of his laser sword turned a shifted to gold colour
|Lostvayne: Full Release. |
The Silver-haired boy in the middle commanded, and the intricate silver lines etched on his jet-black blade ignited with brilliance, while tendrils of silver energy extended from its hilt and pierced into his hand.
|Galaxy Sword. |
Lastly, the azure-eyed man commanded, and the sword, a blade that mirrored the patterns of swirling galaxies and nebulae, began emitting a black mist.
|DIE, YOU IRRITATING SINGULARITIES!!!|
The iridescent-eyed ’man’ emerging from the head of the colossal, flesh-covered behemoth roared with unbridled fury in his cosmic energy-infused voice. The ground around them shattered, revealing writhing tendrils of flesh entwined with cosmic energy, elemental energy, and destructive law energy that shot out towards the three.
Without hesitation, the grey-eyed boy raised his left arm, summoning an eight-sided shield to block the beams of destructive light that tore through the air at hypersonic speed.
Following up, he infused his energy into his laser sword and it burned with prismatic flames which he swung, releasing slashes that tore through the writhing flesh like a hot knife through butter.
The silver-haired boy’s energy burst from his body and time slowed to a crawl. The writhing tendrils and energy beams aimed at him halted in mid-air, suspended in a moment of frozen time.
He dashed forward and swung his blade, releasing thin slashes of extinction law energy that split through the onslaught of flesh.
In the next instant, time resumed its normal flow, and the severed tendrils fell to the ground in writhing heaps, their momentum lost.
The azure-eyed man flicked his fingers and the space fabric of space around the three warped. The next barrage of beams of cosmic destruction that should have struck them head-on were suddenly twisted off course, their trajectories bending and spiralling away harmlessly.
Seeing this, the entity they fought roared and reached out with one of its massive arms, firing a concentrated beam of cosmic energy, however, the man conjured a wormhole that swallowed it and then a second that spat it back to the sender with twice the power.
In perfect synchronization, the three of them launched themselves into the air, their swords coated with prismatic flames, crimson destruction and azure spatial power respectively.
Another one of the colossal humanoid’s hands descended upon them and the grey-eyed boy summoned his shield, blocking the strike with it. The force of the impact sent shockwaves through the cavern, and at that same moment, the silver-haired boy halted time once more, allowing the azure-eyed man to warp space and reposition them.
The grey-eyed boy slashed across the arm, sending a burst of prismatic flames rippling through the flesh, the silver-haired boy followed up with a time-splitting strike, carving through the sinew attaching the hand to the creature’s body and finally, the azure-eyed man’s sword cut through the fabric of space itself, severing the massive arm in two from its elbow.
The severed arm crashed to the ground with a thunderous roar, sending tremors through the cavern and the colossal figure reeled back.
Echoing from the lips of the iridescent-eyed ’man’ emerging from its head was a deafening roar that resounded through the cavern.
The three who attacked it floated in the air, energies still crackling around them as they prepared for the next move.
|Alright guys, let’s end this oversized motherfucker. |
With that declaration from the silver-haired boy in the middle, the three figures sprang into action, launching themselves at the entity before them.
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