The Bride of the Forgotten Kingdom (Part II)
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The Dimension time dimmed as the last echoes of her golden aura died in the still air around him. He left Kye in her embrace as he vanished into the rising portal light, stepping out of the Ancient Bride's prison.
Here words echoing in his mind.
"Seven days, Jester.""Seven days of silence wrapped around the child.""After that… you owe me a contract."
He frowned lightly as he landed in the depth of Sederis.
The King turned his head, eyes narrowing into the distance of the corridor of the ancient kingdom.
A faint pulse of energy vibrated through Sederis—the unmistakable signature of world-tier detection magic.
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The SSS-class hunter squad moved through the ruins like ghosts carved from rage.
Their silhouettes bent the horizon.Their footsteps cracked ancient tiles.Their eyes burned with hunter's hunger.
Kasha Vayne, the Halo Reaper,
floated slightly above the ground, wings folded, photonic blades humming like suppressed storms.Every step she took erased shadows.
Elyn Graves, Destiny Warper,
walked with bare feet untouched by dust, her presence warping the sand into spirals.Reality twisted in gentle waves around her ankles.
Rakull, The Skinless Immortal,
towered ahead of them all—half-ogre, half-titan, all hatred.
The scars of a past erased burned beneath his iron-wrapped flesh.
Their comms lit up with the first anomaly signal since entering the ruins.
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[WORLD-CLASS RADAR: SIGNAL FOUND]Origin: Sederis Inner Gate ZoneClassification: UNKNOWN — DIVINE]Power signature: SKY-SHATTERRING AURA LEVELSMatch Probability: 97.7% — IMMORTAL KING
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Kasha smirked.
"Finally. I was getting bored."
Elyn's pupils contracted into runes.
"Brace yourselves.""If that's really him we won't have a second chance… the ground will lie to us, the sky will lie to us, even time will lie."
Rakull ignored them both.
His teeth clenched.
Bones cracked in his neck like thunder.
"I fought him once.""He erased my skin with a flick.""This time… I'll tear his soul out."
Kasha tilted her head.
"I won't have your back this time i'l kill him first."
Rakull snarled.
"I'd like to see you try for once." as he mocked her."Focus on the objective. We have to bring back his broken remains."
At that exact second—
—a tear in space shimmered ten meters ahead.
A blue wind spiraled outward.
A ripple of impossible pressure rolled across the ruins, flattening sand into glass.
Time paused.Shadows bent backward.The air grew warm, then cold, then reverent.
Then—
he stepped out.
Barefoot at top speed before slowing in their range.
Ragged.
Dust settling around him as if bowing.
The Immortal King looked at the three legendary hunters…with the calm annoyance of a man who had lived long enough to find war tiresome.
Rakull's face twisted in fury.
"DIE—"
Kasha's eyes brightened with killing intent.
Elyn's breath caught in her throat—
—and the King said, almost politely:
"Begone."
"Shadows."
The desert trembled.
The hunters smiled as their aura entered a second state to none before in this era...
The titan-ogre hybrid was the first to step forward.
Iron flesh steamed.Death-vow bindings glowed like brands from hell.Hate pumping through every broken memory he fueled to his blood magic.
He spoke with a voice that once toppled citadels:
"Do you remember me?"
The King tilted his head slightly.
Not in confusion.
In dismissal.
"No."
Rakull's rage cracked the gigantic walls near him as his aura shattered the pillars in a large seismic wave of blood explosion.
Kasha unfolded her wings... in a hiss of photonic blades she flew upwards in the gigantic choridors.Light-borne metal stretched across the sand stalagmite like a guillotine as she proceeded to shatter and launch them at the Immortal King.
An executioner's smile.
"Don't bother talking, Rakull.""We only need his head."
Her aura snapped into killing form, a vertical halo slicing the dark.
Reality bent around Elyn's feet.
The desert rippled like a disturbed reflection in a pond.Time folded in gentle spirals around her fingers.
Her voice trembled with something deeper than fear:
"Damn it feels just right… his presence hurts."
Elyn lifted one hand.
The sand stopped falling from the shattered dunes and ancient walls.
Gravity froze as she walked with a pair of cursed blades to cut his throat.
Mid-time warp the Immortal King finally spoke.
Not loudly.
Not even with hostility.
"I do not want to kill any of you... but your chaotic pressure here will only bring ruin to my goals."
A silence fell so heavy it felt like a verdict.
Then Rakull snarled in the time rift:
"ELYN I THOUGHT YOU STOPPED TIME HOW IS HE SPEAKING TO US !! RAGH JUST KILL HIM!"
He dug his claws into the glass ground as he shattered the time effect around him and rushed towards the immortal king—the sand cracked—the air ignited—
And the battle began.
A streak of divine light Erupted all the way from their positions to the desert surface as a gigantic explosion shattered a hole so gigantic it opened a bath of sunning rays on them... killing all the cursed shadows near them.
Cutting the sky—
Elyn's had rushed before Rakull's explosion a split second before impact as she slashed the immortal king cutting his throat.. the image vaporized...
The King wasn't there.
He didn't dodge.
He simply wasn't.
He stood behind her in that entire second as he had slowly moved next to her.
Unimpressed.
"Forgive me... For i'l bear the weight of your death on my soul..."
Her heartbeat stuttered.
Rakull charged next.
A mountain of hatred cracking the desert floor—Fists glowing with annihilation—Titanic blood roaring—
He swung.
A strike that once broke a floating citadel of dark elves.
The King raised one finger as he stopped him mid swing upon direct contact with his fingertips.
"One."
BRROOOOM.
Rakull flew 400 meters high piercing the layers of land before crashing on the sand desert of Sederis, carving a trench through five dunes before coming to a halt in a crater of hard granit.
Kasha stumbled back and Elyn gasped.
She forced her voice through trembling breath:
"Timeline RELOAD!"
The air shattered into reflective fragments—Time stitched backward—Kasha reappeared mid-strike, Rakull before impact—Their bodies rewound three seconds—
Elyn screamed as blood poured from her nose.
Her spell had not affected the King.
Not even for a fraction of a heartbeat.
He looked at her with quiet pity.
"Child… do not touch my past.""It is a grave mistake."
Time collapsed around her like broken glass.
THE LARGE-SCALE BATTLE BEGINS
The ground cracked open.Light flared.Three legendary hunters unleashed their ultimate forms.
And the desert roared.
A small wind curled around the king's foot as a large Blue aura sparked.
Ancient.Vast.World-ending.
"If you choosed to take your stand here…""Then I will bury you in this desert tonight."
The stars flickered.
The sand rose like a tidal wave.
The first real blow had not yet landed—
—but the war had begun and the amount of energy it consumed produced so much kinetic aura that the Gorgon HQ detected the signal over 0.1552244 seconds sky rocketting all their Aura Tech runes battery to a gigantic amount.