Heat seeker, death, point of view
I put my hand over my mouth trying not to vomit. I can't turn my head to look at the tomb. God i feel horrible, its clear a very high ranked gate is close. Maybe a 6th nightmare? Maybe maybe. I smack down a deathless trying to run away. The plague of steel is still silent. He's been having a hard time talking as of late. Thanks to the armor I gave him, he's kept his mind, but he's losing it fast. I don't know what to do to help with it. Maybe she could help with it, but then again why shouldn't I let him fall into mindless madness, forever trapping him? It's a smart idea, he wouldn't be a threat then. Still he needs to keep his mind until we kill that bird. Then i desummon the armor and throw him away. Frankly I don't care that he's "helped" me, it was for his own ego either way, and for whatever connection he had to the snow king. He's a threat, thats all he is. He intends to take over the dream realm after all, and from the stories he tells, the plague of steel is a horrible person. Acting all fun and stupid has made him talk, so I'll keep it up until he isn't useful.
"Plague of steel, don't turn around! I suspect there's a seed of nightmare strong enough to corrupt us if we see it!"
I back away to get behind him. He doesn't turn around but he does tilt his head. His voice comes out, seemingly with a lot of effort
"i understand."
I take out some cloth, from a corrupted terror, the sybil, i remember that thing. Its what caused me to really realize what she was. I hand it to him
"tie it around your eyes, just incase."
He nods putting it around the eye sockets, I wonder how he sees. After sending a mental message to the king of ashes to cover his eyes, I slide over to sunny not turning around. Before I get to him I bump into neph. She puts her hands over my eyes
"don't.... do not turn around."
Her voice is harsh in a fake way, its still shaking, clearly she's terrified.
"How strong is the gate? Level 6?"
Theres a long and oddly quiet pause. Not quite, I do hear something i can't quite make out in the distance.
"Doom. It's doom"
"okay."
I hand her some more of the cloth for her to put over my eyes. I only kept it out of some horrible sense of nostalgia. It's fine if it's destroyed. When it's around my eyes I focus on my other senses. It takes me a while but my head turns up.
"Whats in the sky? Is it the bird? Feels like a lot of corruption. Still its so small compared to the seed of nightmare."
She goes silent
"do you remember the 3rd nightmare?"
I nod slowly
"yes?"
"Remember the inside of the walls?"
The inside of what walls? That doesn't make any- OH FUCK
"Their still in the pyramid!?"
I feel her heat signature to tell how she's moving, she shaking her head
"no. Their all leaving. Right now"
oh god oh god oh god.
"Are we really going to?"
"Fly right through it? Yes."
We are so fucked. Even 3 supreme titans can't kill that many great monsters. I remember that horrible sick feeling. There had to be 100 of 1000s in it.
"I have to... make sure that was worth it"
i leave her going to the plague of steel
"you. There's at least a few 1000 great monsters coming right at us. We're all of the flame here, so mind helping with that?"
He stays silent
"i... I do not mind."
I fly the plague of steel up onto the chain breaker. He taps his foot as if testing it. I toss him a bow.
"Get ready"
the chain breaker starts it's cursed assent. Right into so many great abominations. God when did i start getting involved with things like this. Was it because of the battle of the black skull? Or... or was it right when I got my divine aspect? Or maybe was it when i was sent to the forgotten shores? Doesn't matter. I feel rumbling and the ship sways. Even as I'm lost in my thoughts I hear something off.
"Two dragons?"
Checking my heat sense, theres two. One of that new shadow of sunnys, the other is the king of ashes. His.... his transformation ability turns him into a dragon? When did i stop paying attention to my echos? I should have known that. Fuck it, that doesn't matter. I create a spear of ice throwing it into the mass of corruption, when it hit it explodes into snow killing quite a few. I also make sure to set up ice crystals around the ship, to kill any that get too close. It seems nothing too much worse is going to happen.
[Beast has fallen]
What?
[You have received a memory]
What. I check my runes, looking over countless memories I find the new one
Memory: [The last snowfall]
Description: [the last of its kind has let out a monster that it now must face. Life or death may arise in that battle. If it does win, the snow will fall once again]
Oh my god. War, no unrelenting storm has killed them. Hoori, they might have once truly been me, but i was scared, i was a coward to run away. I have to do something about unrelenting storm. I have to kill them. The nightspell is right about that fact. I can't let that memory be used by their killer. I summon the last snowfall. I don't know what it does, but I have a very good idea. A cracked halberd made of ice appears in my hand. I hand it to the plague of steel, putting a small shard of ice with essence trapped within to active it once its far enough away
"if you don't mind can you throw it, as hard as you possibly can would be nice."
He slides one foot back and with a boom he throws the halberd without questioning it. When it hits a great monster, it goes right through killing it instantly. It goes through a few before it finally gets stuck in one. I lift my hand, using the ice to active its enchantment
[Your memory has been destroyed]
[Your core has been destroyed]
I fall to the deck of the ship, foaming at the mouth. I'm numb, yet my soul is burning. My body isn't cracking yet it feels just like it is. My senses feel like their both turned up and turned off. I can't, I need to, I have to, I cant do it, I cant survive this pain.
[Your soul core is full, a new soul core is being born]
It hurts so much. Neph.... nephis goes through this every time she uses her aspect. I've had mine for longer, so I have to try to be as good as she is at this. I lift my hand, my throat feels dry, it seems I'm screaming aren't I. I cant hear myself. I start controlling the mass of ice cutting down as many of them as I can. Time seems to blur together, one second feels like a day, and a minute feels like nothing all at the same time. Everything is shaking. I feel hands grab me and a masculine voice speaks
"we're in, calm down"
I swing my arm at whatever has me. And with a boom both me and the person are sent flying away. Still foaming at the mouth, screaming, i fall into water.