“What is going on?!”
“Elane, evacuate the Children in the Castle to the Panic Room! Prime, warn the inhabitants of the castle and tell them to keep away from the front!”
Shouting orders I start to use my Portal as a plug to keep the powerful eruption under control. Whatever it is, it finally noticed me. Too late buddy, I noticed you way earlier and now my preparations will come to fruition!
“Null, what are you doing?”
“Snow evacuate with all the others, this is a Fight between me and that thing!”
“But Null I can…”
“Do it!”
“...Okay. Please be careful.”
With that I am finally alone. The Castle in my Realm is already starting to change. A nice trick I thought about for this bastard down there, I just hoped to have more time before using that.
Breaking the different Wings apart I first isolate the ones with living beings or spirit vessels. Now I have way more room for taking this darn thing in.
Its size is around a hundred diameter and has already sprout some pillars everywhere. While I already learned to increase the size of my portal, that thing is still a bit too big, but only barely. The Pillars growing out of it are a nuisance.
EEEEEAAAAAAAHHHH
Sorry buddy, you can cry as much as you want, you woke up and now I put you down for good! If not for the Miasmic sorting System I would have way more damage. Should thank those guys for it, but they most likely gave it to me exactly this time, because it was somehow needed for their Fate Machine or whatever is running down that hole.
Nothing can survive that much Miasma in this World, but luckily I have some things not from this World. Prototype One is bringing its oily Body near the first pillar embedded in the ground like a stake. Only touching it I feel how something wants to invade my mind, but right now I have more problems than something entering where it shouldn’t. Using different Materials I finally found a way to injure this Crystal and ironically it is Miasma. Sound and Vibration seems to make small fractures, and if I concentrate it…
EEEEEAAAAAAHHHH
That was not a war cry I bet, but crying out that it hurt. The pillar is slowly breaking, but it is hard to hold the place smooth. Something tries to keep it from breaking horizontally and deflects it back out to force only a small chunk being broken, but I am not perturbed. With enough time I will break that thing, and right now I have time.
Cracking one piece after the other the Crystal slowly breaks where I want it to break and I was surprised, when some kind of Liquid came out of it. The Pillars are Hollow?
SCCCREEEEEEAAAACHHH
That does not like it at all. Better pump that liquid out of it. Holding up the broken place I use the Liquid body of Prototype One to function as a pump sucking as much liquid out as I can, but this thing quickly stopped the flow.
In my Realm I study the pieces and Liquid to find a lead for better attacks. Luckily the Realm is big and can hold much Miasma, but now I notice I have also a limited Timeframe until everything spreads through the whole Crater and outside of it.
It should be day, but suddenly it got dark. Sensing the sky I notice how thick the Bubble is right now. Ah, that thing wants to create a shell to fill it with so much Miasma everything dies before returning to a needed Level. Better hurry before it works. Luckily the most Miasma is coming from below, but the Miasma from the Sky is getting thicker and thicker.
While I am at it, the Villagers evacuated the fields and right now the Crystal ball is going into overdrive by my command to keep the shield strong. The Castle has a few emergency Crystals too, but they do not work good enough and everything hides in different spaces to be not vaporized by the thick miasmic Cloud.
Let’s see… The Liquid might be its blood… Liquid crystals? Something like that. It can not only inject Miasma, but can even use it how it likes. I got an Idea!
Working right away at the Miasmic Filter I use the Liquid to redraw the Runes and… Success! Effectiveness goes up by an extreme margin. Now I just need to…
EEEEEAAAAAAAAUUUUUUGHHHH
Silent you Crystaline Urchin, I am working on something. The filtered Miasma is still being taken over by me, but right now I need more of the Vibration Miasma. I bet those are soundwave, shockwave and bardic incantations… Whatever they are, I need them right now.
The hole does not spew any more liquid, but that does not mean I can not use it.
Squeeeeeeeeeeee
How do you like Vibration Miasma right into that pipe into your Crust you oversized bowling ball!
…
“Is it over?”
“As if. That thing just shut itself into its shell and now tries to concentrate all its power. It might even self destruct or something crazy, I am building as many wards as I possibly can right now while it is held in the Miasma containment.”
Stolen novel; please report.
Seven days… Well it was a real kicker that thing started to go haywire, but I won… somehow. The first three days I needed to find a way to keep it from rampaging. It has more power than me, but is not that good in using the Sledgehammer method like I am.
Prototype One is… Well it is still ‘alive’ but needs maybe a Month or two to regenerate to full usability. When it noticed the full attack did not work on me it was going back to the scalpel and started to take Prototype one apart. I did not even think that was possible, that thing is close to invulnerable, I needed Months to take it over slowly, and that thing just cut right… not that I am envious or something… okay I am. That thing can really dish out the hurt.
At the sixth day it encased itself. An impenetrable shell out of whatever that thing is made of. Even the open part just closed up and hid those ugly crystals inside. Well they are not ugly, but I am a bit miffed, so for now they are ugly.
Cutting off the last pillars I could stretch my Portal to the limit to get it inside, but right now I have a Guest I really do not like. Oh, and the Bubble is getting unstable! How could I forget that… Dang it!
If the Bubble breaks, I will be pushed back inside my own Realm with my Domain. Better working on keeping it stable.
The only way I am right now trying to make that is using those Pillars around the Crater like some kind of beacons. I use the Liquid and those spikes to create an amplifying field to keep it running. What is good on this is, I now can control it myself. That black shell was a nice trick I now have seen, somehow I think it is some kind of boost or maybe it has the key to travel the Void without being hurt, as that thing seems to be from another Dimension anyway.
So much to do, and the social problems are not even scratched. The Children were scared, Villagers thought about the End of the World and Loopy still does not come out of the Broom Closet.
Those are the internal problems, but the external are even worse! Ambassadors of the Root came. That cry of this thing was heard through the whole Forest. Not only that, it spread with it a malice, they never felt before.
Queen of the first Child seem to have went on a full panic attack, as she remembered the Starfall, however she is able to do that. Maybe through their kingly Tree that had survived the Meteorite?
Right now I am really incensed and do not mess around. Twenty guards and four Elders? Yeah, okay, let them wait, I am right now busy keeping the World from falling apart. Ville was rather rudely treated by the Visitors, so later I give them a piece of my Mind!
…
“Finally you deign to show yourself, Null! Do you know how long we had to wait for… Woodwalker!”
Yes, for dramatic purposes I take Leafy with me. The whole thing is already annoying, as I am right now still busy sealing that thing in a hundred and one Wards and Seals made out of its own Crystals and Blood. The time to explain is annoying and would have been easier to have been done, if they had accepted the explanation Ville gave them, but noooo…
“What is it? I am rather busy keeping that thing, what made you fertilize your precious trees accidentally in a sealed environment.”
“How dare you! Do you know who we are?”
“You are four of the Elders who got lectured to be more nice to me, after the first official visit I made to your Queen, and also four of the people who not only never helped Leaf here stay in their Family, but hid it from her Lover to be exiled forever, am I right? I am right now not in the mood to talk Politics, so better be courteous to me or be sealed with that sphere that fell from the Sky two thousand years ago.”
“You! What… She is Leaf? The Calamity of Star… Do not mock us! What did cry out so malicious?!”
“As I said, the Star Geode!”
“Star… Geode?”
“The thing that fell from the Sky, did you not hear? That thing is a crystalline Entity and noticed the invaders of this Crater, so it tried to purge us. Right now I am sealing it before it has the chance to destroy us and force the next Rift to its home Dimension.”
Now they look dumbfounded. What is with those idiots?
“Did your Queen not inform you?”
“She did, but it was thought to be a bad Nightmare, so we came…”
“...to verify your Queen is still sane? Are you still sane to question your Queen? I have right now way worse problems keeping that thing sealed, and you are disturbing me.”
“...we can not believe you, if we did not see your work. Let us see proof.”
I WANNA MAKE THEM INTO A SALAD!!!
…
“What?! We shall go into that Dark Sphere? Are you mad!”
“This is the Portal into my Realm. The Place where I originate and also the place where the second Palace seals the Entity. If you do not want, just go home, I have work to do!”
“You…!”
“Golden Sap, it is enough! Do you not think it is already a cordial move of them to show us something before our history?”
“If it were tru….”
“Sap! Silence!”
That one has at least a bit of survival instinct, I am really not myself right now. Maybe it is because of the Fight? Maybe because of the extreme Miasma I am right now having in my Realm, but I am not in the mood for their silly little games.
…
“By Yggdrasil!”
Yeah, the Sphere is ominous. In front of us are also some Materials from it like pieces of its pillars and what I could siphon of its Blood.
“This thing! That is not something of our World.”
“No kidding, Salad brai… Elder.”
“What did you say?!”
“This thing is still dangerous, and I am right now in the middle of…”
EEEEEEEAAAAAUUGH
Bad timing. They bleed all greenish red out of their orifices. I need to take them out as quickly as possible!
…
“...Where…”
“You are back in the Crater. Right now we try our best to heal your Wounds. Is your curiosity sated?”
Misha is tending to their still not fully healed forms. I would love to just bury them, but right now I can not think straight. Something is making me… angry…
“That sound… a… a cry? Anger, Desperation, Indignation… I think… No…”
Well they are still dazed, maybe something broke in them, but right now Leafy can take care of those Fools, I have to seal that thing.
The Wards are all in place and working fine. The sound it emits is dampened, but not fully mute. Right now I am experimenting with the hardness of its carapace. Somehow there must be a weak point, but it just is a perfect grey sphere all around. I can not even see a scar where the opening was earlier.
Maybe I should seal it away? No, it might have the way to get me back to that cursed World, I will not just put it somewhere.