Video clip of the chapter, sorry no music today.
(https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QwR0qwPZeig)
Written by Sobek
Edited by Etez
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Chapter 8 final part
‘Chirp’
A small bird hops off of a fallen tree branch onto the wet ground.
‘Chirp chirp’
“AHHHHHHH!”
The bird hops forward, snatches a worm from the ground before taking flight.
“AHHHHHHHH!!!”
Asiz smashes into the peaceful forest. Running as fast as his legs can carry him.
“I know they say not to play with fire but isn't this a little much!!!”
Behind Asiz a large cracking sound rang out.
‘FWOOOSSHH’
The tree was instantly engulfed in fire.
‘RAWWRRR!’
“DAMMIT ICHOR WHY DID YOU GIVE ME THIS SPELL FOR MY FIRST TIME USING MAGIC!!!!”
Out of the undergrowth a giant phoenix flew. It was made entirely of fire. Everything around it instantly caught fire due to the intense heat.
“Shit shit shit!!”
Asiz ran as fast as he could from the flaming Phoenix which seemed to be following him.
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Five minutes earlier
“... Time to burn some stuff.”
Reaching into the churning sea of his inner mind. Asiz found himself standing on a small island. His consciousness searched around until he saw a portion of the sea which felt warm and inviting but also savage.
He reached out and grabbed the warmth.
Spell learned: Fireball
The spell that all scrub fire mages learn after their mana connections are first formed. It is exactly as it sounds, a ball made of fire. If manipulated and trained the fireball can mutate into new spells, magics, and more powerful versions of itself.
Mastery: Beginner lvl 1
Due to Race: Blood Angel, an additional spell has been learned.
Living fire of the Phoenix
The fire of the Phoenix consumes all, it burns and destroys but it also gives life and heals. Use it wise or it will consume you too.
Hey there champion. I kinda broke the system a bit and gave you this spell. Anyway go try it out it's harmless to you I swear.
Your God, Ichor
“Well if Ichor recommended it it can't be too bad can it.”
Closing his eyes Asiz grabbed his mana and willed his knowledge to reveal itself. Though he didn't have to use incantations, he still had to get familiar with the spell so he knows its strengths and weaknesses.
Asiz saw 2 incantations hidden within his sea of mana. One was weak but with almost unlimited potential. And the other was overwhelming powerful.
Asiz grabbed the powerful incantation and shouted it out into the trees of the forest.
“I am the wing that burns in the night. I am the fire that rages on in the sky. Araise Phoenix, Bring death to my enemies and life to my allies.”
Asiz felt his sea of mana drain. It drained and drained until there was only a single drop of mana left.
Asiz's hand started to vibrate.
‘It hurts it hurts it hurts!!!!’
The vibration shook his hand to the point where it felt as though his wrist may shatter.
*BOOM*
All of the kinetic energy that had charged in Asiz's hand was released. A large shockwave devastated much of the surrounding area.
….
There was silence and Asiz stood panting in the middle of a crater.
FWOOSH
A tree burst Into flame. One by one all of the fallen trees were flaming.
‘What the fuck?’
M
A dark shadow passed overhead. It emitted an ear piercing screech.
Warning
You are unable to control the Phoenix Fire and it will rampage until the supplied mana is extinguished.
‘Well shit.’
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Back to present
Asiz crashed through the undergrowth as the giant flaming bird chased him. Several trees crashed and burned on the forest floor.
“This goddamned spell! Why would that bastard even give it to me!!”
Asiz tripped on a branch and stumbled, his silky grey hair smashing into the muddy forest floor.
SCREEEEE!!
A hot orange light quickly brightened the trees around him as the Phoenix gained on his position.
‘Shit I can't run anymore the only way I'll even have a chance of surviving is to fight. But think about it Ichor wouldn't deliberately try and kill me. Unless…. The reward outlays the risk! That means that I'll gain something valuable for defeating the Phoenix.
Feeling danger Asiz whipped his head around just in time to see white hot flames Bursting towards him.
The golden-white Flames flew everywhere. Trees and boulders turned to Molten liquid just from being near the heat of the flames.
The Phoenix expecting to its quarry to already been turned to ash, began to turn its first met back on the scene. But then it saw it, a wall of opaque red liquid that signifies its prey's survival.
The Phoenix screeched in anger.
At the same time, behind the wall. Asiz stood shakily holding his arm up. A small bleeding cut barely visible on the inside of his arm.
‘Holy shit! How am I still alive.’
Asiz remembered a large hot ball of fire flying at him, and then his arm seemingly moved on its own to meet it. An incantation came to his lips and before he could even think, he had already spoke the words.
“Naru’guhl Procteria!”
‘My instincts must have flared up before I even realized and took precautions to save me.’
The enraged Phoenix screeched and sent 4 more fireballs at Asiz
Asiz panicked and once again words from an unknown language slipped out of his mouth.
“Naru’falla dulak’or!!!”
The blood wall split into 8 large pointed stakes that were facing the enemy attack.
Asiz pointed his hand towards the oncoming fireballs.Asiz’s brain screamed the word ATTACK but what came out his mouth was something different.
“Folarii!!!”
At his command the stakes shot forward to meet the fireballs. 2 stakes speared through each of the four fire balls causing them to be destroyed and dissipate.
The Phoenix seeing that it's attack had failed, waved its wings forward seemingly clapping them together. This sent forth a large gust of wind which propelled many small molten burning shards from the Phoenix’s wings towards Asiz.
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Asiz's ancient ingrained survival instincts would not however would not let him be killed.
He ran to the side and hopped over a large overturned tree. Several shards thwunked into the bark.
Ducking out from behind the branch Asiz pointed his finger towards the Phoenix.
“Mortuua!”
Asizs hand snapped back slightly and a bang was emitted that sounded slightly like a gun. What He had fired was a highly compressed bullet made of blood that was propelled by a highly controlled fire spell. Of course Asiz didn't know how to do any of this himself and didn't even really know what he was doing. All he knew was that an ancient word had come into his mind and his blood angel instincts told him to say it.
The blood bullet flew through the air until it smashed into a tree next to the Phoenix, splintering the wood and decimating quite a few termite colonies.
For few seconds the phoenix looked at the wood in shock, not expecting its prey to attack it. But then it fired back.
Projectiles whizzed through the air. Red and orange. They snapped tree branches and cracked into boulders.
Asiz dodge flaming bullets and sent back projectiles of his own. However before his bullets could impact the Phoenix they were intercepted by a shield of fiery mana.
Asiz and the Phoenix were caught in an intense deadlocked battle in which both parties fought for control over the other.
Bullets whizzed and banged, snapped and cracked.
(I imagine a Harry Potter duel for this scene. Yeah yeah I know. NERRDDD!!)
The Phoenix annoyed that it was being contested by a puny human. Put all of its power into one last attack.
A massive fireball formed in its beak.
‘Ahh it's going in for one final attack, it seems that I have just enough mana to meet it with my own power. Wow you really do get used to using mana pretty easily though. It already feels natural!’
Asiz put his hands above his head. Soon streams of red blood began to flow from across the decimated forest and form a ball above his head. A blood ball!
The blood streams wrapped around each other like a rubber band ball. And quickly a large floating orb of blood was created.
The Phoenix gave off a loud screech and sent its fireball at Asiz. Asiz in turn, with great effort pulled his arms from. Above his head and threw the ball of blood at the Phoenix’s oncoming attack.
“AHHHHHHH!”
Asiz yelled with all his might as the 2 attacks defied all concepts of space and time and moved extremely slowly towards each other. Giving the camera time to do jump cut close ups on the faces of Asiz and the Phoenix. With seemingly infinite breath the adversaries screamed at each other for 2 solid minutes.
As the final jump cut panned onto Asiz's face the two attacks hit, causing Asiz to scream even louder as if his screaming could suddenly strengthen the power of his attack.
On the Phoenix’s side orange light shone and flickered. And on Asiz's side a red light glowed as the balls smashed into each other like 2 rivals destined to meet each other in battle.
Eventually, The Phoenix ran out of breath and Asiz powered through it with his unending scream of power. The orange fireball was destroyed and fizzled out of existence while the blood ball moved forward and slammed into the Phoenix. Who struggled in the face of overwhelming power before being consumed by the ball and disintegration, completely defying the laws of physics and viscosity in the process. As blood in fact doesn't cause disintegration.
However what Asiz didn't notice was that when the Phoenix disappeared so did all of the projectiles it had earlier fired, including the one wedged in a particularly large oak tree which, was almost certainly going to fall if not for the spike stuck in its bark.
*Hah* *Hah*
“I WON!”
“Jesus that took a while! But now it's time for my reward.”
Asiz heard a few snapping sounds, followed by a groan.
“Goddammit… I recognize that sound, and I don't like it.”
He turned just in time to see a massive tree leaning towards him and slowly gaining speed as it fell.
“SHIIITTTTTTTT!”
Asiz jumped out of the way and the tree slammed into the ground.
On the opposite side of the now fallen tree was a small crevice. It was completely untouched and forgotten. An old ancient passage to the deep and dark places of the world, left hidden from the rest of the world by the forest.
It was in this passage that Asiz fell, and it was in This way that Asiz met slither.
Hey guys hope you enjoyed the chapter. It was a fucking pain in the ass to make. Anyway the next chapter is either gonna be from the POV of slither, or I could just have Etez write an Asiz chapter just depends on the amount of time I have. Also enjoy this thing I wrote while I was delirious from drinking an entire pot of tea at 2:30 in the morning.
Comedic Alternate Ending
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Asiz rolled out of the way of the Phoenix fireballs. And stood up.
The Phoenix was instantly defeated at the sight of Asiz's glistening sweaty body and massive bulge. He wasn't even hard!!!
The Phoenix blushed and turned its head to the side.
This action didn't surprise Asiz in the slightest as everyone knows that if a fiction has a harem tag every companion will inexplicably be a female. No matter what it is. If it's a fucking Pokemon or even if it's a watermelon it will always be a female. who goes from being a good strong character, to a really REALYYY thirsty housewife within 2 chapters, you know I was gonna say 3 but I misclicked and clicked 2 instead but that's fine.
Anyway, back to the story. The Phoenix having suffered the curse of the femalemeetingaprotagonistofaharwmfiction changed shape and instantly became a sexy ass woman with G cup Titties flaming hair and the most perfect nose you could possibly imagine. She instantly got on her hands and knees and begged for it. After 3 solid nights of passionate sexual activity. Asiz returned to St Augustine with an exhausted phoenix riding on his back.
Of course when he landed ever female. Married, unmarried. Young, old. Gay, or straight all instantly got down on their knees and confessed their love for him.
And then he had 3000 children and died of viagra overdose the end.
WTF!?! NO! WTF? WTF DID U JUST WRITE?! NOOOO! DUDE WHAAAT THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU……….!?!?!?!?!? PLS!!!!!!!!!! WTF!?!?!??! Noo…. pls… wtf…..sob *sniff* *sniff* why… hic wtf… hic…
Fuck this shit I am out...
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