Chapter 7: Ancient Night
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Rays of starlight dance brightly across the deep shadows looming over the massive cosmic serpent skeleton corpse, as Elwin bursts between various rib cages while being chased by the shadow calamity who dubs herself Nyx.
Elwin, still in flight, strings his blade through the air in a thin line, creating thousands of starlight crystals of hollow energy he manifests and manipulates with elite control.
Nyx, on the other side, twists her head slightly, a deep grin stretching across her pale face.
"Oh, little weaver, you have no idea the power I truly hold. I can sense very clearly you are a young hybrid of one in two worlds, and yet you have so much to learn, for I am older than any existence could compare to, and what you have been furiously fighting against is only but an avatar of me, as my true false state body is locked somewhere in another realm of reality
…But do not worry, for I will do my toles for the race of gods you originate from, for we are the same when it comes to our dual existence of balance and chaos being the same."
Instantly, Nyx blasts forward, swinging her scythe with immense force, so powerful that the air snaps behind the sharp blades, cleaving through everything in front of her.
Elwin snaps his fingers, teleporting to one of his nearby starlight orbs he's been rapidly spreading across the battlefield at large through the use of his ability "conjunction." Within the same motion of his teleport, he immediately swings his blade in a downward arc, sending a blast of light created from his trigger ability, dubbed 'supreme light.' The name rang true in his mind as he continued fighting as best he could with the cards he was dealing in this battle of cosmic divinity.
Quickly after, Nyx slashes a second time across the space itself in front of her, sending Multiple warping space slices moving at high speeds; Elwin hastily activates his third eye, only moments away from being slashed apart by the shadow calamity's deadly close blows.
In the next moment, Elwin follows up with another attack with his two swords, Harmony and Hope, continuously infusing his hollow energy while boosting his overall output; with use of his weaver flow of balance, he actively slashes with both blades simultaneously, creating a gigantic X-cross slash blasting through the air as it warps the space around at an absurd rate, traveling to Nyx.
"Leviathan's maw"
The x-cross slash warps with ripples of entropy cutting directly into one of the instantly cutting into one of the horns and a single wing of Nyx.
Cosmic stardust spews out from both wounds as the avatar jumps back almost immediately in pain and in surprise at what that feeling reminded her of once before. "So that sword technique you just used was some form of manifestation of your inner will, with the innate ability to naturally create as a weaver hybrid and summon the entropy of the cosmic serpent and wound me with it." Nyx looks down at her wounds, seeing her missing left wing and left horn, while her scythe is still intact, though she notices a noticeable chip in it.
Yet despite that, Nyx's power remains calm. Almost… too calm, and what puzzled Elwin most wasn't that he couldn't damage the avatar, but that she still seemed bottomless in her hollow energy reserves and showed no signs of waning at all in this clash.
Nyx smiled warmly at the young weaver and stared at Elwin with a blank expression. Shortly after, her scythe rose, and the sharp end instantly expanded to a much larger size, veiled in deep shadows drawn from Nyx's inner soul sanctuary and her innate ability to understand & control the concept of darkness, as well as the shadows themselves, with an unfathomable degree of understanding.
The slash blitzed across the space between herself and Elwin so fast that one would describe it as instantaneous; as the young weaver felt only a portion of it before he utilized "lambda: teleport," burning a portion of his right ring finger and sending him across the other side of the galaxy instantly before the strike could fully land, he fell backward, landing into the ground hard, creating a massive crater beneath him.
Nyx looks down at the weaver hollow energy remains with a calm expression, blood splattered across the ground, her scythe dripping a mixture of blood and stardust. In contrast, she looks off into the distance, twisting her head ever so slightly as she smiles once again warmly and whispers into the distance:
"Go, little weaver, and run; for the night always catches up to the little lights in the night sky."
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An Unknown planet, dead zone sector.
Elwin's wounds continue to mend themselves, his restoration healing steadily funneling his hollow energy output to maintain defense and offense states out in dead zones.
Walking along the edge of a massive mountain with gray clouds raining down diamond shards. Elwin looks up at the sky as it rains, the pain still lingering deep in his heart and mind; the one thing running through his mind right now is one thing.
"I lost." He had been utterly defeated and hadn't realized it until the last moment, when he was met close to death, and the reaper was calling.
However, by fate, Elwin survived that slash, with enough will & instinctive reaction to use lambda in time to teleport away; his body still in pain, he flew across the sky, heading off the planet and back into the far reaches of outer space.
After a few hundred thousand miles of flying across long gaps of space, Elwin finally stopped upon titanic stellar rings made of hundreds of thousands of different planets, made up of floating cities interconnected with each other. "This should be good enough to hold out for some time. And to get back on track to my main target, Mangelin, there are more than enough places to search for traces back to that cult I was chasing after. Although it seems that the cult I was following is also bound to that shadow calamity, Nyx, and her harrowing… abilities of the darkness & night."
Elwin shaped his wing into a cloak, still wary of the cult leaders tied to the shadow, & mangelina would search for him, knowing what Elwin possesses as a threat to the two calamities spreading their influence more than ever. As a weaver, Elwin will maintain the balance and fight for what is right.
Elwin flew into one of the planet's ring-world gargantuan cities, called "Hopes Avenue," a city of over 1 billion people living alongside another.
Quickly, he lands on one of the buildings in the far distance of Hope's City's center, sheathing his two swords and manifesting a few orbs of starlight & dropping them into his back pocket.
His third eye twitches sporadically until it stops and focuses on deep, hollow energy signatures that lead far into the north side of the city, where he guesses the cults will converge, as he smells lingering traces of chaotic hollow energy throughout the air.
"Conjunction." Elwin pulls back his arm and throws a starlight orb far into the vast distance of the city, then, in one swift motion, raises two fingers and teleports instantly to the north side.
He blinks and makes it into the city limits, and from there begins his arduous pursuit of the cultists.