“B….Bard, what the hell how did you get here ?”, yumi said, flustered to see the broad muscular body of her friend standing in front of her,

“Made a pathway straight here from the battlefield, shortly after we received that boost from Amon, thanks for that by the way”, Bard said,

“sure no problem”, amon said,

“that makes sense given it’s you”, yumi said,

“enough talking though, you two have to get going, besides out here will soon turn into a warzone also”, bard said,

Yumi and Amon glanced at each other, each giving the other a slight nod, understanding that they could leave this fight in their comrades capable hands, they darted pass Bard, making a beeline straight towards the palace doors

“now its just you and me, how about we make this quick”, Bard said, slightly amused by his opponent,

“Yes lets make your death a quick and painful one”, kosh said, raising his sword with bards foot on it, he grabbed it with his other hand, forcing Bard’s foot off of the large sword with a powerful upward swing, Bard surprised by this jumped backwards , he now had a large smile on his face with an amused expression,

“ohh this will be interesting after all”, Bard said, Resting one of his swords on his shoulder, while pointing the other one at Kosh,

The two began moving in a circular motion towards each other, Kosh keeping his broad claymore sword pointing to wards Bard and bard doing the same with one of his, they kept doing this as the circle grew smaller and smaller, until both tips of the swords were crossing each other,

Within an instant, they drew back their swords, lunging and swinging for their opponents throat, a loud ringing sound filled the palace courtyard, as the blades collided with each other, Bard looked on at his opponent the large smile still painted on his face, and his opponent had the same, Bard quickly lifted his other sword into the air, swinging down directly at Kosh, The sound of metal clashing against each other filled the air once more, As Kosh swung his sword upward stopping the other sword in its path, while pushing off the first one, Causing it to be flung out of bard’s hand,

The smile on Bard’s face intensified, as he grabbed a hold of his other sword with both hands pushing back against kosh, Bard took a step forward, pushing back Kosh,

“want me to tell you what my natural Blessing is “, Bard asked,

“doing that would be tantamount to giving up on the fight, and I did not take you for a quitter”, Kosh answered,

“I wouldn’t be so sure”, Bard said,

“then enlighten me”, Kosh said,

“You’re looking a them”, Bard said, As Kosh felt the resistance that bard had been putting up quickly disappear, causing him to lean forward shifting all of his weight onto his front leg, Bard raised his hand, swinging down as if he held a sword in his hand, as his sword that was on the ground picked itself up and flew into his hand as he completed the swing,

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Kosh saw the grey edge of his opponents blade coming straight towards his face, as the sword collided, a loud screeching sound of metal being raggedly raked on each other filled the air, Bard’s sword found itself cutting into the white stoned ground beneath his opponent,

“bard looked on even more excited than he previously was, as half of Kosh’s face glistened a shiny black tone, with a small scrape mark running across his darkened cheek,

“ I am called the strongest knight because I am untouchable, let me return the favor, this Adamantine skin was a direct Blessing from The goddess Heva herself, my skin is as strong as the weapons she creates within her forge”, Kosh said, standing back up straight,

“but now that you saw this I am afraid I have to kill”, Kosh said, his face reverting back to normal,

“ohh Challenge accepted”, Bard said, crossing both of his blades into an X shape, charging forward,

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Levant dropped onto the ground, exhausted from his last attack, Aster landed on the ground soon afterwards, rushing over to Levant,

“holy fuck lev, you took out him and everything else around us”, Aster said,

“yup…. now ……that…… should do it”, Levant said, panting excessively, the red hue slowly disappearing from his skin,

Aster’s appearance followed suit by turning back to normal,

“I noticed earlier, but you went all the way when fighting that female pillar earlier”, Levant said,

“Yumi told us even doing that once was enough to cause some serious side effects, and that’s twice now for you, are you fine”, Levant said,

“I feel fine, so quit worrying”, Aster said,

Polaris pushed the rubble off of his body, his eyes confronted with what remained after Levant’s attack, charred stone, Melted and Molten buildings, Pure anarchy and chaos, Pure destruction, Polaris sat there taking it all in, looking down at his own hands,

“maybe he was right after all”, Polaris said to himself softly,

Polaris looked up, a few feet away from him, he saw Barak’s unconscious body, slightly twitching and partially covered by rubble,

“of course”, Polaris said,

He picked himself up, slowly making his way towards Barak’s body, piking him up out of the rubble, and slinging one of Barak's arms over his shoulder, making his way towards Levants and Asters voices,

“well looks like the two of them aren’t dead yet”, Levant said, pointing towards Polaris, basically dragging Barak’s unconscious body,

“hey wake up”, Polaris said, forming a ball of water within his free hand, he threw the cold ball of water onto Barak’s face, as he slowly opened his eyes,

‘what the, what happened ?”, Barak said, looking around to see the city in an even worst state than how he remembered,

“was there so much space before”, Barak asked,

“looks like the flaming retard is useful for something after all”, Polaris said, a slight smile coming across his face,

“and why do you seem in a much better mood than when I found you earlier”, Barak said,

“I just finally accepted something tat I’ve been saying no to for quite a long time”, Polaris said,

“huh, whatever that’s suppose to mean”, Barak said,

“ so where is Aluric, because it looks like we wo……”, Barak said,

A bright golden glow, filled the area, causing Polaris and barak to turn around, what stood before them was Aluric, his skin, was strewn with burns, cuts, bruises, and a manor of other injuries, , his green eyes glowing, as a golden Halo, with spikes pointing in the four cardinal directions formed above his head, the once pristine armor he wore was in tatters, chunks of it missing, some of it melted, seemingly beginning to fuse with his skin from the intense heat, and from that armor one of his hands held the same golden color with the tiger stripes running through it, his hair frazzled, with an even wilder look to it now,

Aluric felt a searing pain coming from the back of his hand, as he looked down he saw a single stroke being burnt into his hand, he felt a surge of power from it,

“ohh you’ve fucked up now”, Aluric said,