On the surface of the northwestern island, Elwin's aura is expanding until it was gigantic; the winds begin to blow and the waters to move. The sun was shining brightly at noon. Suddenly, Filanwin magically teleports himself close to everyone. The companions begin to prepare to fight the elven king who begins to speak calmly.

“I didn't come here to face you, humans!” the king then turns to his son. “Elwin! Let's do this ritual together! We will lose our immortality and half our powers, but we will be able to fight alongside these humans!” the king approaches Elwin and their auras fused as they continued the ritual, to everyone's surprise.

The land started to shake and little by little the black tower started to emerge from the sea followed by the black island of black rocks and black iron sand. At the bottom of the tower were large black monoliths with unknown scriptures.

The island was before everyone and Elwin and Filanwin were exhausted. Filanwin hands Elwin a blue potion and take another. This potion recovered the elves' magical energies. Everyone approached the black tower with caution and could witness Arkhatov leaving the tower, accompanied by his servants emanating the dreadful aura of Chaos.

Everyone was preparing for combat and Marjorie's aura was already taking over the body of her companions, except Elwin and Filanwin, who exuded a powerful celestial aura, although not as powerful as that of the princess or before.

Arkhatov removed his helmet and the vision was of a black skull with a purple glow that came out of the eyes sockets. The sun caused Arkhatov's skull to burn like an ember. Arkhatov stared at the sun and began to speak with his sinister voice.

“I haven't felt this feeling in a long time! I love the light of Pyro burning my soul.” says the black Paladin, sticking his huge sword into the black and rocky soil. Then put on his black helmet and proceeds to speak again. “Prince Hilbert! I said you would come to me, but I did not expect you to be so careless!” Arkhatov started to laugh in a macabre muffled manner.

“I couldn't help accepting your invitation, Arkhatov! You will pay dearly for your crimes against this world.” says Hilbert, drawing his sword.

“You can blame it on the gods first! You are very similar to Marhg Naroth, or rather I say, King Magnus White! I could see through the eyes of my fallen brothers that with each battle your potential increased. I didn't think you wanted to die so soon, unfortunately, I need your body and I won't be able to enjoy our battle until the end. At least, I will be able to have my revenge against the bloodline of these damned elves and I will still be free to bring this world to its knees again!” says Arkhatov. Hilbert was beginning to analyze the situation of the imminent battle.

“This world will not bow to you, you twisted fiend!” says Filanwin angrily and manifesting his celestial aura.

“What will the week elf do? Will you appeal to the coward spell your ancestor used against me?” asks Arkhatov and then he laughs.

Filanwin was deeply irritated by the comment and Elwin put his arm in front of his father to prevent him from moving forward and the king stopped himself. Hilbert smiled and replied.

“The sacrifice of the elven king and of all who fought for the peace in this world shall not be in vain! The only coward here is you and those traitors! Attempting against the lives of innocents and plotting the end of the world. Get ready for retribution!” says the determined prince.

“Traitors!?” Napoleon laughs. “Hansen aided and sheltered these wretched sand refugees while condemning all the people from Mordred Kingdom for the purge of these strange people. My family and Eugene’s were shamed for years because our relatives took part in the cleanse.”

“It is sad to hear that, but it never stopped you from being successful Commanders, did it? I did not know genocide had a new name for you, Napoleon. You cannot justify your actions that endangered hundreds of thousands with this pity party. You are responsible for your betrayal and not for the hateful deeds of your relatives.” says Hilbert looking at the twisted faces of Napoleon and Eugene, while both were covered by the Chaos aura.

Arkhatov starts to laugh again and the air pressure starts to increase as his powers were unleashing.

“Enough talk! I have been waiting for this moment for millennia. I could never be more prepared, Hilbert! Many will perish now and I could care less for words.” Arkhatov removes his black sword from the ground and emanates a huge chaotic black aura.

The battle begins. Marjorie stood behind everyone, and she was emanating her golden powerful celestial aura as she buffed her companions with enough energy. Elwin sends a telepathic message to the princess.

“Marjorie, the more you share this power the weaker it will get. Don’t use it on me or my father, for we have plenty of power to avoid being defeated with just one blow!”

“As you wish, Elwin!” replies Marjorie.

Charlotte and Timo fired with the celestial bow and although Arkhatov could not dodge the various shots fired at light speed, the Paladin could predict the trajectories of the attacks and blocked them with his huge sword. The celestial arrows left marks on the giant sword covered by the black aura, but they were weakened by it although the impacts made Arkhatov step back.

Leon and Napoleon confronted each other. Trident and spear met with fury and the two moved with powerful attacks and great speed as cosmic energy clashed. Leon was exploring Napoleon's flawed stances and hit him several times. Napoleon was enraged by the powerful blows of Leon.

“You going to pay for this!” says Napoleon advancing with a thrust.

Leon steps aside and kicks Napoleon to the ground. Napoleon gets up and jumps towards Leon who was staring in his combat stance. Napoleon falls with his trident, but Leon steps back as his foe hits the ground making a crater. Black smoke raised and Leon closes his eyes to avoid the dust. Leon concentrates his other senses and predicted Napoleon throwing his trident at him. Leon attacks the weapon that flies away spinning.

Napoleon runs towards Leon enraged and coughing blood, Leon concentrates the celestial power and aim for Napoleon, but suddenly stops his attack and punched the Commander to the ground.

“Go get your weapon! I don’t want to end your life in a disrespectful manner. You already lost all respect a warrior from Whitecastle could have!” says Leon. Napoleon laughs and turns to get his trident.

When Napoleon reached for his weapon and turned, Leon was close and with a great amount of cosmic energy in his spear. Napoleon was surprised and his reaction was slow. Leon had pierced his body with his spear. Napoleon fell lifeless as Leon said his last words to his opponent. “No mercy for the likes of you!”

Matilda faced Eugene that withdrew with great speed from the blows of the brave warrior. Florian used the dodges to attack quickly with his mace, but Matilda blocked those attacks with the axe of Atmos.

Eugene was very fast, but Matilda was getting used to his speed. Matilda felt the axe trying to communicate with her. As Eugene got close, the axe was emanating a greenish aura. Eugene proceeds to give a sequence of fast attacks and the axe moved to block as if it was magnetized by the mace.

“I’m faster and yet I cannot reach you! How is that possible?” asks Florian in anger.

“You think you faster than me?” defies Matilda.

Matilda grabs her black long axe with one hand feeling it lighter than a feather, and reaches out for a sequence of fast swings.

Matilda swiped the axe very fast in diagonal, horizontal, and vertical blows as she moved forward. Florian was hit by many attacks and started to bleed. Florian gives several steps back as he watched Matilda jumping very high. He laughs and runs with great speed trying to intercept Matilda that suddenly falls faster due to the gravitational effect of her weapon.

As she lands, she delivers a blow that unleashes a thin blade-like curved energy that hits Florian and cuts him in half. Eugene Florian falls dead to the ground gushing blood from his halves.

While Leon and Matilda were facing their respective opponents, Flick was enveloped in Marjorie's aura and by awakening the celestial aura he could further increase the control of that energy and fire energetic blasts at Arkhatov who counted them with his sword while predicting the trajectory of many celestial arrows.

Flick concentrates the great amount of cosmic energy at his disposal and creates four eagles of celestial energy. The eagles depart to attack Arkhatov. One by one the eagles hit the Black Paladin and the powerful impact cracked his entire armor. As the energetic eagles faded, Flick gets exhausted, closes his eyes and tries to gather the celestial power once more.

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Hilbert jumps towards Arkhatov while Gödel followed to attack closer to the ground with great speed. The black Paladin defends Gödel's swift blows and dodges Hilbert's air attack. Filanwin was advancing towards Arkhatov, and manifesting his sword of energy.

The king's quick attacks were deflected by Arkhatov, when the king jumps aside a large energetic sphere, which Elwin had fired, comes towards the black Paladin who holds it with one hand and sends it flying away. Elwin focuses on forming a sword of energy and sets out towards the black Paladin who was attacked from all directions.

The fast and intense attacks were blocked or dodged by Arkhatov, but many of them started hitting him and started damaging even more his powerful black armor.

Leon and Matilda prepare to confront the Black Paladin. Now, Arkhatov was completely surrounded and the attacks were very coordinated which meant that the Chaos champion started to be hit more often and more intensely.

The attacks made his armor shatter even more. Even in the heat of intense combat, Arkhatov was beginning to speak calmly:

“It's time to fight back!” says Arkhatov as he raises his black aura.

When Leon approached piercing his opponent's armor and causing great damage to its breastplate last pieces, Arkhatov grabs Leon's spear and draws it close to his chest. As Leon’ spear was piercing through the exposed skeleton, Arkhatov, with a great amount of chaotic energy accumulated in his hand pierces Leon's chest and squeezed the warrior's heart. Leon was disintegrating slowly.

Even though he received all attacks directly, Arkhatov remained in his posture until he turned Leon into dust while his black armor suffered enormous damage. Leon had been killed and his friends were furious at the scene while screaming and crying.

“The stronger in melee fell first! Ironic! I studied your moves through the eyes of Beelzebub; your only flawed movement was your death! I’m coming for you next, princess!” Arkhatov suddenly laughs.

Arkhatov's armor and sword were badly damaged. Arkhatov pierces Gödel's armor with his black sword as Gödel approached to attack, and then the Black paladin kicks him far away. If it wasn’t for Gödel sudden retreat and his armor resistance the black sword would have gutted him.

Filanwin approaches piercing the black armor with his energy sword. Arkhatov turns around making very fast multiple attacks that cut the elven king into pieces with a lot of blue blood gushing out.

“This elf was nothing but a nuisance!” Arkhatov’s eyes start to glow with intensity.

Elwin rages at the scene. Marjorie looked at that scene shocked and with deep sadness, as she concentrated on healing Gödel and Filanwin, only Gödel had been cured, since the elven king was completely torn to the ground and was beginning to disintegrate.

Amadeus, Timo, and Charlotte were still blasting their long-distance attacks and although the damage was huge, the fiend did stop caring about these attacks.

Hilbert took the lead and attacked Arkhatov with fury. The black Paladin was hit by several attacks by Hilbert, when the black Paladin strikes back, Hilbert blocked with his shield, but the attack had cut the shield along with the prince's arm.

Charlotte is enraged by the scene and as she pulls the energetic string she is able to gather much power to form a thick arrow of celestial light. When Charlotte releases the shot it emits a blinding flash. The celestial arrow hits Arkhatov with a huge impact that makes him crash against the black tower. Arkhatov is on his knees emanating his black cosmic aura and laughing as he struggled to stand.

Elwin concentrated a large energetic sphere in his hands and fired at Arkhatov that manages to hold it with difficulty and was being dragged backward. Matilda takes advantage of the breach and attacks with the celestial energy of the axe, cutting Arkhatov's arms off, which makes the sphere to explode the black Paladin's armor entirely.

Smoke washed over the blast site. Marjorie focuses on healing her brother's wounds and regenerating his arm. Filanwin was totally disintegrated by now.

“This rain of celestial attacks is annoying! You are starting to awake the resonance with those damned weapons, but do worry children, for I will restore my armor and my bones soon enough as I take care of the source of your absurd powers!” Arkhatov black bones start to light as an ember.

When the smoke began to fade, a fifteen-feet-tall skeleton was in front of the survivors emanating a purple aura from its eye sockets. Arkhatov regenerates his bones and holds his sword aiming at Marjorie. The sword leaves the fiend grasp with great speed and a purple aura that looked like some viscous liquid. As the sword flies towards the princess, Amadeus intercepts it, stopping in front of Marjorie with his hands wrapped in his own celestial aura. Gradually the aura that covered Amadeus was being repelled and weakened by the black sword, but he still resisted holding the sword with his bare hands.

Charlotte and Timo fired at Arkhatov and the arrows were making holes in the thick black bones, but the Paladin was still focused on his sword as he regenerates its bones. Matilda approaches and breaks Arkhatov's sword in half with the great energy that her celestial weapon unleashed. The sword falls to the ground in shatters.

Hilbert and Gödel were attacking the huge skeleton with very fast attacks and Arkhatov was damaged by the friends' fast combined attacks. The black Paladin makes a sword with the black aura and begins to attack the two that dodged or parried the attacks and started to mend counterattacks that severely damaged the regenerating black bones, but still, his aura was a just little weakened.

Amadeus realizes that his hands were turning purple. A miasma takes over Amadeus’ body and soon he is surrounded by a purple aura that melts his body right in front of Marjorie as she starts crying and scream in desperation unable to stop the terrible fate of her beloved friend. Amadeus Flick had been defeated. Timo was furious and started to scream in anger.

“HOW DARE YOU TO KILL MY FRIENDS!!!”

“Fear not, mortal. You all will soon be together,” says Arkhatov, as he stared into Eckhart`s eyes. “I was a fool to think you all could last longer than this.”

Eckhart fell to his knees as he felt a sinister sensation filling his soul. Elwin again fires a huge blast of energy at Arkhatov that he held in one hand and converts the celestial energy to chaotic energy and shoots it towards Marjorie.

Arkhatov knew that the princess needed to die in order to defeat his enemies. Marjorie focuses on holding back the attack, and for that reason, the celestial auras surrounding her companions faded. Marjorie undoes the black energy using all the power she had left as the celestial aura that she emanated was weakened; the princess was on her knees panting.

She tried to manifest the celestial aura again but was unable to stabilize the aura due to Arkhatov's attack. Marjorie falls to the black ground totally exhausted.

Elwin rages and pounces on Arkhatov with his energetic sword. Arkhatov received several cutting attacks that damaged his bones. Hilbert, Matilda, and Gödel got together to attack the black Paladin, but now lacking the celestial aura, Arkhatov started to easily block the attacks.

“You are slow and weak now. You are starting to bother me. Begone!” says Arkhatov with anger.

And with a vertical attack, he cut Elwin and Matilda in half, which, unlike Hilbert and Gödel, managed to avoid the mortal blow by an inch.

Eckhart rises from the ground and focuses his aim at the fiend, his soul starts to communicate with the bow as if it wanted to tell something. Eckhart pulls the energetic string of the bow and many thick arrows of light manifest. A shower of arrows was fired at Arkhatov, who blocked most with his energy sword while many others hit him shattering most of the black skeleton. Arkhatov quickly begins to repair its skeleton and starts gathering the pieces of his black armor.

Matilda was slowly losing consciousness, but in her last act, she hurls the axe at Arkhatov's head, which explodes his black skull. Only a purple aura in the form of eyes remained floating while the huge black skeleton fell to the floor.

Matilda was almost dead, which helped to intensify the fury of those who had survived the onslaught of darkness. Elwin concentrates his last forces to repair Matilda's body, joining her halves and healing her wounds.

Arkhatov's aura had weakened a big fraction of its immense power. Elwin was beginning to speak while coughing blood from his mouth:

“Hilbert! This is the chance to end the spirit of this being of darkness… Use the element of light before it recomposes the skeleton or the armor that stores its spirit!” says Elwin desperately.

Hilbert's voice echoed loudly as he uttered the magical words of his supreme enchantment holding his sword skyward.

“By the force of Gaia, eternal mother of all life, I summon your supreme light!”

Hilbert's aura was gigantic and had been channeled into his crystal sword held high, which now glowed like a star and stretched for a mile towards the sky.

Hilbert hits Arkhatov's ghostly eyes along with the black tower on the background. The attack is unleashed at the speed of light, which generates a huge explosion. Arkhatov's sinister eyes began to burn with a white light and begin to fade away. The black aura was fading and fading. Arkhatov had been destroyed in spirit and his matter started to disintegrate.

The island was beginning to collapse due to the magnitude of Hilbert's supreme attack. Charlotte carried Marjorie in her arms and started to run off the quaking island. Gödel carried Matilda while Hilbert and Timo left Black Iron Island as well. The monoliths fell and the island collapsed as they watched it return to the bottom of the ocean with the remains of their dead friends and the crumbles of the dark constructions.

Everyone was crying for the losses suffered. Marjorie leaves Charlotte's arms and starts to cry as the redhead hugs the young princess. Gödel put Matilda on the ground and the warrior started to recover from the deadly attack. Matilda felt the aura of the axe. When she held out her hand, the weapon emerged from the sea and went up to the grasp of her hand.

The island was not visible on the water surface anymore. Timo Eckhart kneels, thinking about the halved body of Elwin sinking with the island, his dear friend being consumed by the miasma, and also Leon withering to dust. Elwin concentrated his words to convey a final message to his companions of the final battle.

“Don't worry, Timo! I already accepted my destiny a long time ago. I am happy to have fulfilled the pledge my people made to humanity and… to the gods! Hilbert… Marhg Naroth still exists...I can feel him closer… Don't be careless ...” the message transmission stops.

Grief took over the hearts of Gödel, Hilbert, Marjorie, Charlotte, Matilda, and Timo and they stayed on that island for a while weeping over the loss of their esteemed companions.

Little by little the cries stopped, but not the crushing pain in their hearts. Arkhatov was no more.