Parallel Vol.2 [Legacy Edition]

Chapter 35: Fate (Finale)

Fladnag stared, eyes wide at the shard in his hand. His brow furrowed as he looked up to Razznik. "More than any of us you awaited this day. Yet, this is your decision?"

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Jatakem (Also known as Imperial City)

"Lady Cait!" an old priest yelled reported. "There are reports of goblins and demons attacking the villages!"

"Dispatch all the Paladins," the shaman ordered, eyes on the shard she grasped. "Hunt down every last one."

"All, Your Holiness? What about the capital?"

"Do not worry about the capital. As long as I am here, no demon shall set foot in this city," she promised. The priest bowed, then hurried out of the shrine to carry out her orders as she examined the shard once more. "Seven become one, one becomes Seven. Godless souls bound by blood, by your rage shall the world be saved." She wiped a tear that escaped her veiled eyes and took a deep breath to calm herself. "If this is your decision, elder, then I suppose we must abide by it."

***

Rider chanted something under his breath, and a glow emanated from the shard he held. The glow encompassed the shard, then grew in length. The glow died down, and Rider held a blade with irregular curved edges.

"My apologies," he said to no one in particular. "We must extend our sentence a little longer. The world is not yet ready to receive Chaos." The blade rose off his hand till it suspended vertically above him.

"What is that?" Kashi asked, unable to curb his growing curiosity.

"A key," Rider answered, eyes downcast as he got to his feet. He looked up at Razznik. "We shall meet again," he promised and raised his right arm.

Kashi was forced to retreat as a column of light burst from the earth and shot to the heavens, clearing the clouds that had gathered above. The irregular blade shot up through the column of light, growing as it did. It reached the light's apex where it completed its transfiguration to a divine blade, white as an angel's wings.

Six similar beams appeared in the horizon around them, each reaching, and then piercing through the clouds.

Rider nodded solemnly as he closed his palms...

***

The garden lay silent, its trespassers gone. The lake's surface trembled, for though they had gone, they were still very close. Another explosion shook the garden and a piece of the great mountain fell off, then tumbled carelessly down the mountain's side. Its descent was halted as a fox-man crashed onto the mountain side, destroying it.

Cathek slammed both fists against the mountain, and two ice demons larger than a caravan burst out of the fissure created. The winged monsters rushed the Lord of dragons, claws poised to rip him apart.

They clashed against two lesser drakes who had been summoned by portals beside the king.

Cathek could not help but be impressed by the impossible beast. Somehow, he was keeping Razznik from entering by destabilizing the portal, summoning dragons around the world to combat the demons, and reducing the number of portals the soul's stone was creating using him as a power source.

All of this done while fighting off corruption from the soul stone, even though each action decreased his defense.

Cathek glared through the throng of battling beasts. "Well, Great One, I must apologize for this rudeness of mine. But you will succumb to that stone eventually. Why do you still struggle so?"

"Your apology is accepted mortal." Skyrm stood in the air, on the other side of the beasts. "I suppose there's order even in chaos. Your conduct has continually spared your life today."