> “The world is an illusion. So are dreams. Connect the dots.”
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Awoke, but in a land not of wakefulness. Each of them held to their staves, their robes, in this ephemeral world, glowing with power, their auras of will expanding as they found their footing. And as they entered, the eyes of the Archon of War, Esultare, turned from the distant shores of Diren to them.
“Fools. Idiots. You’ve brought yourselves into my domain, to challenge me in my place of strength? Begone from my sight, lest I smite you.”
“It’s been a while, War Hawk.
“You think I care about your petty magics? I’ve lived millennia, seen empires rise and fall. I--”
“
“No more!” The Archon swept up one hand, a spell springing forth. “
Caelene was thrown back by a storm of dark magic pouring down upon the nine. As their footing was lost, Aeda called out, her voice cutting through the chaos. “
Her staff came down, and a dome of green energy formed around the group, blocking off the apocalyptic storm that beat at its edges. Sweat poured down the elderly woman’s face as her will met that of an Archon. “The
The dome, a level 35 Talent, began to crack against the force of a level 80 spell. As it shattered and the winds and thunderbolts poured in, the torrential rains bent around Selma, raising her and Dolnott into the air on twin geysers. As she blasted the Archon with pressurized jets of water, and her partner wielding bolts of pure lightning, the Archon raised one hand, but not before the Twins, Jiram and Hirame, began wrapping vast tethers of
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Bim sprinted forward, hurling himself up, as the Archon stumbled back, wriggling, casting momentous spells wildly. He saw, to his silent horror, which he shoved down as he leapt, Selma get obliterated entirely by a bolt of pure void, and Jiram and Hirame were incinerated by a ball of fire the size of a whale an instant later.
His hand touched the Archon’s flesh as a geyser of violet electricity forked into Cynthiana’s heart, burning her to a cinder from the inside out. “
The Archon stumbled back, toward the four-hundred-foot-tall rift sucking him in behind him. Bim fell to the ground, resisting the pull of the vortex. Aeda sprinted forward as the Archon struggled, swiping out and crushing Bran of the Rowan Boughs whole Her tiny form hit the Archon’s torso, her leg lashing out. She thwacked her staff into him, and chanted: “
With that, she and the Archon were swallowed up by the vortex, leaving her charred and battered staff falling to the “ground”.
Of the nine that had entered, five were dead, one vanished, and two were injured. Only Bim was untouched by the battle. Dolnott rushed to Selma, weeping, and Caelene fell to her knees, eyes bleak and hollow, unspeaking.
Within her mind, a voice rang out.
Dolnott leveled too, eleven times to be exact. He was level 41 when all was said and done. Bim’s mind was silent for a time, before the bells rang.
Class Advancement unlocked!
New Class created
🠊
Spell advancement unlocked!
“Four left, now.” He said quietly. “Four left now.”