NOVPUBI looked at the forest, the trees were actually bones with dry leaves growing from them, the air was filled with poison, the presence of Nature does not exist here and instead there is only the perpetual presence of death, the ground emanates curse constantly and when I looked up at the sky and saw a Purple Sun very similar to my Divine Weapon.
"Is this Tarzor?" (I)
I tried to look around, but there was nothing else on the horizon, I tried to fly and realized that I was on a floating island, the longer I spent away from the earth, the more gravity seemed to increase returning to normal only when I returned to the ground.
"Hinata, stay inside me." (I)
"Uhh...?" (Hinata)
"Please don’t eat this bone tree and let go of the big rock!" (I)
"Yes... master..." (Hinata)
Hinata didn’t stand near me like she usually does, while I was confirming the environment around me, Hinata looked like a kid in a candy store, she was flying around licking the ground with several tongues coming out of her mouth, she bit a part of a tree and now she tried to eat one completely until I stopped her, even the big rock in her hands was full of symbols painted with blood, this place was too strange to leave her so out of control.
"(This place is as strange and disturbing as I’ve heard.)" (I)
But even though I thought about it back then, this place made me feel weird all the time, but I don’t have time to think about that now.
"Tarzor, I know you’re listening, why are you doing this?" (I)
"Such bold words..." (female voice)
"Tarzor... no, you’re not him, perhaps a Lady of the Grave?" (I)
"I’ve been called many things throughout my existence, I particularly like the children I raised to call me mother, so they can call me Mother of the Grave." (Mother of the Grave)
I was hoping to find Tarzor or more specifically talk to him, I know I need to find my last Essence here, but I don’t know exactly what I should do or where I should go, I can’t just search everywhere.
But it wasn’t Tarzor who came to talk to me, it was this woman who was supposed to be the same race as Zaya, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
I ignore what she says because I can see the provocation in her eyes, she didn’t come to welcome me, she came to cause problems.
"That place full of mirrors wasn’t caused by either of those 2, it was you...no, it was Tarzor, wasn’t it?" (I)
"First those monsters, then a bad kidnapping, a fight happens and to end with a shitty key... I was brought here to listen to you?" (I)
"So rude, but that’s okay, this won’t last long." (Mother of the Grave)
"< Release >" (Mother of the Grave)
Crenk
The large Serpent that makes up its tail raises its head, the others shine and its voice comes out of the jaws of the white Serpent, then the sound of metal breaking was heard as the earth began to shake and an eruption of pure cursed energy spread almost to me. playing backwards.
Hinata, who had half her body inside me, was sucking in part of this cursed energy as a snack, not only her, I felt the Infernal doll on my waist absorb this curse energy as well.
At that moment I felt something strange, like beating movements in the space itself and something was trying to break free, my instincts were screaming to prepare me and for some reason my Dragon blood was boiling to the point that I almost transformed.
"What did you do?" (I)
"I don’t need to explain anything to you, just don’t die so miserably, it would be disappointing... hahahaha..." (Mother of the Grave)
"..." (I)
"(She clearly released something, but what? Why is my Dragon blood reacting like this?)" (I)
I had a lot of questions and no one to answer them, so I could only push those questions aside as I tried to be prepared for anything.
Suddenly the space breaks into 3 cracks that gave way to 3 metal columns, I soon realized that they were actually fingers as they tore the space even more as if it were fabric revealing a giant monstrous arm with broken chains attached to the wrist, the chains they appear to be made of fragmented mirrors.
When the brave appeared, it wasn’t just my Dragon blood that reacted, my Dragon power and even my Authority that shares the characteristic of Dragons took my body and Aura as central aspects.
"But what’s going on!?" (I)
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Pov Hades:
I managed to catch up with Zaya after seeing her finish on her side, hoping she had a more permanent means of dealing with these creatures.
Cinthia tried to kill one without success and Haku was irritated because these creatures were only made of materialized energy instead of blood, we didn’t have a really effective way of dealing with these enemies other than sealing them.
Even if it were possible to defeat them by annihilating their entire body as Zaya warned before, their bodies are too resilient and can regenerate very quickly to the point that it would be a monstrous task to try to deal with them like that.
Just as I went to get Zaya to figure out the next step, one of Nicole’s Golem Familiars came to us with her voice pointing out something I hadn’t seen, probably she was pointing out the same thing to everyone else.
We all looked at the Star System in front of us where the Purple Sun was versed by many planets, but then these planets began to move, some even disappeared, altogether their strange movements drew attention to a new danger.
In my mind I was trying to think of the possibilities of what this could be and how I should react while searching my memory for possibilities without success.
Not counting the disappearing planets, most of them were moving towards us, their massive sizes moving gave a strong sense of danger.
"Nicole, what is this!?" (I)
"[Not yet identified.]" (Nicole)
"[The only two known options that can be related to this are the Poison Worlds which are the insects’ weapons of destruction... and a creature we have only encountered once.]" (Nicole)
"That’s not a Poison World, their sizes are clearly too big and only the Bugs can control them now that we’ve finished off the Apostles of Truth." (I)
"What’s the second possibility?" (I)
I was nervously rooting around, I could feel the very energy of death reacting around us becoming more tense, this means that whatever it is uses the power of death.
"[The second and last known option would be a Legion of Death or in this case it would be several Legions of Death.]" (Nicole)
"..." (I)
This time I was truly scared, because the Legions of Death are extremely strong and intelligent, they are planets that have become an Undead capable of annihilating entire Worlds.
"That doesn’t make sense, there shouldn’t be so many here." (I)
"Nicole is right, they are Legions of Death, most are young people who are still unable to leave their planetary form." (Zaya)
"Those that seem to disappear are the strongest, are hiding in space and can take on statue-like forms." (Zaya)
"Legions of Death..." (I)
Just as I was thinking about what I should do against these enemies, I realized too late that the space around us was locked and changing rapidly, the stars changed, a presence filled with pure death took over everything.
In a few seconds the billions of Ghosts and Specters were moving monotonously all over the place, some were wailing, others were roaring in anger and there were also those crying.
What they all had in common was the fact that they ignored all of us while they were just wandering around aimlessly.
"Die!"
"Die!"
"Die!"
Suddenly 3 choirs of voices appeared almost at the same time and all the stars we could see turned into crystal icicles coming towards us.
"Heralds, with me!" (I)
"< Territory: Sacred >" (all Heralds)
"< Garden of the 6 Star Paths of Eclipse >" (all Heralds)
I was no fool, I knew that change in the stars was impossible and that if it was a Territory we would be able to perceive its formation, so it was some kind of monumental wide area magic or technique.
There was no way to defend everyone and there were many attacks, the only one I could do was use an incomplete technique by force using myself as the center in the absence of the master.
Our combined Territory used me as its center, its Essences mixed with mine while the Sacred Power was what held all the Essences together.
All the other Heralds came to me as the pressure seemed almost enough to crush my body from the inside out, I finally understand what the master was going through with these Essences.
"Hades, will you bear it?" (Haku)
"Yes, but I won’t be able to fight." (I)
"What are we going to do with them?" (Xagar)
The attacks from before disappear as the stars returned to normal, their technique was crushed by a true Territory with Holy power, but this also revealed 8 colossal statues surrounding us not counting the other 13 planets coming towards us.
