Chapter Thirty Two, RUINATION.
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His balled fists smashed into the back of Jack's skull, shattering it for just an instant.
"WEAK!" An phantom palm appeared above Julius, another manifesting below him.
"[DEATH CLAP]." The two palms collapsed on Julius, hundreds of essences trying to crush him.
"[Indomitable Human Spirit]!" He cast the skill for the 3rd time, the toll starting to take affect.
His soul could be seen, visibly seeping through cracks in his skin.
"[APOCALYPSE]."
"[INFINITE MADNESS]."
"[LORD OF INSANITY]."
"[MADDENED DESTRUCTION]."
Jack cast multiple powerful skills, a haggard expression appearing on Julius' face as he tried to combat them.
"[LORD OF REALITY]!"
"[INDOMITABLE HUMAN SPIRIT]!"
Julius forcefully called upon the willpower of the human race, requesting their assistance.
Their essence flowed through him, the faith essence they were producing making his realm slowly climb.
In the background, the warring legions stepped backwards.
The gathering of energies made the weaker existences flee, their Aspect's churning as if they were facing impending doom.
For the space the two gods were battling in…
Reality had become unstable!
Tyr was off to the side, gathering his energies. He was preparing for the worst. He knew Revenant and Julius would arrive soon. He would need his ALL, to be able to defeat these two.
The ambient laws around them started to crumble, reality tremoring.
"This is not the ideal outcome." A dark and decrepit voice said from beside Tyr. Alarms blared in his mind, he had never even sensed the presence.
"You…" He stammered, sweat dripping down his face.
"Distasteful. I am the Oldest God of Asterisk, I'm sure you know of me." Revenant said, his aura slowly coming into existence.
"The battle of these two will result in a hole being pierced through reality. This is not what I desire." He said, his hand raising.
"We aim to shatter reality." He spoke. "This is fundamentally different. They are destroying it." He sighed, his palm fully stretching out, his other hand behind his back.
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"[Rule of the Dark God]." In a moment, darkness plagued Jack and Julius, the two of them losing the ability to move.
Their attentions turned towards Revenant, who had the two individuals within his grasp.
With the pull of a finger, the two floated towards him.
Anger filling both of them, one exclaimed...
"REVENANT. LET ME GO." Jack screamed, writhing around in the grasp of the dark shadow.
Revenants eye's squinted, examining Jack and Julius.
"Control yourself." He said to Jack, his gaze fully turning to Julius.
His eye's squinted even further, his head tilting.
Using Fate, he could sense something was off with the existence. As if he had planned something, or had another powerful trick up his sleeve.
"You wont find what you're looking for." Julius mumbled, Revenant perking his ears up.
"Is that so? What might I be looking for?" He asked.
"My leftover advantages? The tricks up my sleeve? You won't find them." Julius clearly stated, a smile appearing on his face.
"Though I can give you a hint to one of them!" He exclaimed, making both Jack, who had slightly calmed down, and Revenant, listen.
"You called me the main character. I agree! I have long divined Fate!" He smiled.
Off in the distance, reality seemed to warp, folding and collapsing in on itself.
Revenant and Jack swung their heads over, feeling the overbearing presence.
"You need me just as much as I will need you." Julius beamed, fear and excitement plastered all over his face.
"Father?" The two Immortals whispered, feeling the boundless, unidentifiable aura.
Tyr took a step forward, a gaze of distraught on his face.
Revenant's eyes flared, space churning next to him. Through a warp, three bodies appeared.
Floating in front of him was Akatosh, Midas, and Agustus. Two of them being completely consumed by death, while one was barely holding himself together.
His hands touched their bodies one by one, a black essence engulfing them.
"[Reverse of Finality]." He spoke.
One by one, the black essence toyed with the bodies, life returning to them.
Midas was the first to wake up to reality, sharply jolting upwards and staring forward.
"We appreciate the revival Revenant…" He said, as if this wasn't anything new. His head snapped to the far distance, gazing towards the materializing entity.
All of the present existences started to panic, Agustus and even Akatosh jolting awake in fear.
The Eldratic Gods could sense the similarities the existence had with the All-Father, but they could also tell it wasn't him.
"An existence reminiscent of the All-Father?" Agustus mumbled, glancing at Revenant who was too staring on in awe.
"That is not my father." Revenant's mouth hung agape.
"That is..." He murmured.
"It is like a concept?..." Jack whispered.
"But... It is a law?"
"It took a lot of my energy, but, in every future I divined, this creature appeared." Julius said.
"It is... The physical manifestation of Ruin." He smiled. "A creature summoned by our battles... Born because of our damage to the reality, and all the death we have caused." He explained.
"Yet, we were created for destruction?... Were we destined for death?" Agustus muttered.
"No. We were created for Apocalypse. " Revenant said. "Apocalypse is nothing but a storm... An event that brings temporary damage for long term superiority." His essences rumbled within his body.
"Jack and Shiva were destroying, reality. Their potent abilities were dismantling existence around them... Damaging not the stability of reality, but it's existence as a whole." He finished.
"And as a result, this creature has come to purge all of us. To rid this reality of it's virus." Julius added.
Revenant's grasp on the two men disappeared, the both of them floating forward.
Julius hovered before Revenant, standing at the front of all the awe struck gods.
"I present to you..."
"RUINATION." He screamed, a large explosion sounding off in the distance as the existence fully materialized before the watching parties.
Reality darkened, a red aura rolling out from the explosions center.
An entity emerged, the essence of ruination rolling off of its back.
It was a muscular man, a body of pure muscle. It was dark and stringy, as if made out of solidified essence. There were red sparks, emanating off of it, a crazed red smile plastered on its face.
It was rather flattering when paired with the red eye sockets..
It turned it's gaze upwards, staring at the posse of powerful gods.
"Hehe..."
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