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Meanwhile the mages, archers, and some
other hunters on the other hand use their spells and ranged attacks on
Chimera’s body to divert its attention but with care not to hit their
short-range comrades.
Alexis’ chest is grazed by the blade of Kraal’shazar and he is thrown downwards
by the impact of the dark force. Paliades’ Meteor
Napalm Rain successfully repels Robert and Sheena’s attacks at last and
hurt them moderately, but after that Paliades falters a bit. A swordsman sees
this and hits Paliades with an unknown, not very powerful combo yet it hurts
Paliades considerably. Paliades screams painfully and swings the great sword
Deathblade horizontally and splits the swordsman’s head in half. Paliades
smiles behind his frown of pain, and this turnaround momentum turns against
him. The heir’s eyes open wide, and he instantly becomes aware of his
condition.
‘Gotcha, you bloody heir.’
Paliades turns his head to his right and
sees Kyflynn behind him. Kyflynn the Windwalker just smiles slyly and pulls his
dagger Maraj’vriad out from Paliades’
back. It seems the night elf assassin has appeared out of nowhere and
backstabbed Paliades.
‘One thing you should know about this dome
is,’ says Kyflynn threateningly as he moves very fast to a safe distance. ‘That
we are all much lighter here than outside and other chambers in Enia’s Sanctum.
About one sixth or seventh of our actual weight, I guess. So there’s no wonder
if we floated before we landed. And I feel much quicker here so you were not
able to detect my movement just now. Take this as my gift. It’ll ease your mind
during your journey to hell with Vordac.’
The semi-devil Paliades twitches his lips
and says, ‘But I don’t intend to go to hell just yet. You see, you forgot one
little thing… you know, it’s Chimera, my partner in crime!’ He kneels and puts
his hand on Chimera’s body. ‘Chimera! Now I merge with you! Embrace… your
master!’
Chimera’s back liquefies, and Paliades sinks
into the liquid metal along with Deathblade.
After Paliades sinks completely, Chimera’s body transforms. It gets up and
becomes erect, standing on its two feet like humans do. Chimera’s abdomen opens
like a kangaroo’s pocket, and Paliades comes out from the pocket, and rests
there with his chest and upper body bare and free, and his two hands hold and
swing the Deathblade threateningly.
The merging process is now complete.
Paliades’
body also experienced mutation while he was in Chimera’s body. Now he’s
semi-devil, semi-human, and semi-machine, with runes tattooed, embossed all
over the normal-skinned part of his body. It seems Paliades must hold the Deathblade long enough in order to
complete the merging process between Vordac and himself.
Robert thinks hard to find a new way to
destroy the heir.
Argh!
Now the Deathblade, the heir
and Chimera are merged, and they are more powerful than us altogether…
Robert is thunderstruck. He just realized
something. Then he walks and stands right in front of Paliades-Chimera, points
his father’s kiliji on the monster and shouts.
‘Ever since I accepted this quest, I knew
this would happen. Destroying the heir would be an impossible task. You may be
more powerful than us altogether, but you forget one thing. You are alone, and
we are many. Enia has taught us much in this journey: sincerity,
resourcefulness, team work, honesty, sacrifice and now, bravery. So, by Vadis, with
all we’ve learned here and our combined strength we CAN destroy you! We will
send you, Vordac, Chimera, Deathblade,
and the lot to oblivion!’
The rest of the champions and hunters’
morale is roused by Robert’s speech, and almost all of them yell ‘Destroy him!’
or something like that in response.
‘Hahaha, nice speech, Robert the Orcbane,
but you’re too overconfident! You try to digest what you can’t chew! Let’s see
if you can digest this! Doomsday
Dessert!’
Chimera’s Final Form, with Paliades’ body
and mind merged with it immediately attacks simultaneously, with all three
heads and tail. Its feet stomp the ground, creating an earthquake to harm and
prevent anybody else to avoid or counter its attacks. Robert will surely die if
he gets hit by the series of attacks targeted to him, but he is saved by
Kyflynn. The night elf assassin really makes the most of his advantage in this
room. He snatched Robert and took him away before the attacks arrive, with
godly speed.
The mages see this opportunity to attack,
as Chimera is busy with Robert, Kyflynn and the rest. Iris and Agustina are
both ready with their summoned avatars, Jokulion and Eshmyria. Carolyn, on the
other hand, now tries something she hasn’t done before in her life, summoning
Aegis the Thunderbird, the guardian spirit of lightning, and Vadis’ faithful
pet and ride. She swings her Esthagar magical
trident six ways, making a hexagonal portal in front of her.
‘An
Aegis Aschi!’
As it is Carolyn’s first attempt, Aegis
comes out from the limbo portal with difficulty, but it makes its way through
anyway.
There’s no time to waste. Together, Iris
casts Typhoon, Agustina casts Avalanche, and Carolyn casts Wrath of the Skies on Chimera.
‘Raduyev
Eshmyriad!’
‘Vare
Jokulhaups Nek’havr!’
‘Xacravenos!’
The spells hit Paliades-Chimera like a
continuous rain. Chimera’s heads roar in pain. Then come cracking sounds from
the various parts on Chimera’s head and body. The lightning-based Xacravenos spell really has a disastrous
effect on metallic compounds; Avalanche amplifies
and spreads the electrical effect of Xacravenos
and Typhoon makes Xacravenos more powerful.
No matter how powerful Chimera is, its
heads and tail can’t withstand the three guardian forces’ combined and
continuous spells. The spells are so focused those four targets, so the damage
multiplies and multiplies. At last Vyr, Eshmyr, Jokul and Voltar, the heads and
tail are broken and shattered in pieces. Paliades roars, still under the
pressure of the spells.
‘NOOOO!!! It…. it can’t be! Chimera… the greatest
combination between magic and technology! No way can it be beaten!’
‘That’s because there’s no way you can beat
the Patrons of Nature, especially when they’re working together,’ says Robert.
‘Unless you can focus your attacks on one single target. But you are one, and
we are many and unified. With team work, no one can stop us. That’s Enia’s
clues and teachings all about. And now the laughs are on you!’
The spells cease, the magicians are drained
of their spiritual powers and withdraw their avatars and themselves. Now
Paliades only have Borg intact on his body, and together they charge
desperately to kill all. Paliades swings the Deathblade fiercely. One by one, the hunters get trampled and
slashed and Paliades keeps on rampaging like a blinded boar. He doesn’t care
whether he killed a hunter or champion, none shall survive once he’s done.
Just then a sword flies towards Vordac’s
heir from quite a distance. It’s none other than Adler’s great sword, Ulcergash. Paliades is aware of it, says
‘Too slow!’ and outstretches his left hand to catch the sword so he can use it
for himself.
But something hits Ulcergash midway. Paliades is shocked. It’s Alexis! He leaps and hits
the hilt of the flying sword with all his might with his twin swords Im’htaloc and Im’colath, so the great sword darts much faster than Paliades
expected. Paliades can’t avoid it because his lower body is merged with the
slow and large Chimera, and Chimera’s hands can’t move fast enough to block the
sword.
There’s no avoiding it. Ulcergash finds its target on Paliades’
chest, and penetrates the heir’s body to the back. Paliades is now pinned on
Chimera, and the Deathblade is thrown
from his hand. In front of Death, however, Paliades puts an insane smile on his
face.
‘Hee hee heee… You killed me, aren’t you? But
I won’t die alone, because in ten minutes, I’ll explode myself with Chimera and
you all will die with me in this sanctum! The party ends here! Thank you, and
see you in hell!’
With his last strength, Paliades breaks Ulcergash in half with his demonic hand
and sinks into Chimera’s abdominal pocket. The countdown begins!
Carolyn shrieks, ‘Oh, no! There’s no way
out from this room! What should we do?’
In the first minute of confusion, Kyflynn
suddenly remembers something and shouts.
‘Quick! All of you gather here! Father
Andreas, please cast Mass Protection on
us and cover us from this explosion!’
‘Are you mad, Flynn?’ says Sheena. ‘This
alone won’t be enough to protect us from huge explosion! We’ll be dead for
sure!’
‘Don’t you get it, woman? The gravity in
this room is one sixth from normal! So if we jump at the same time the
explosion hits us, the force of the explosion will float us back through the
sacrificial pit, into the lava room!’
‘Oh, I get it now. You’re really something,
Mr. Kyflynn. You know what, if you can lead us out of here, you keep the
mythril greaves. I won’t take it from you unless you give it to me.’
As the hunters are all gathered and Andreas
casts Omnigalatr on them all, Kyflynn
answers Sheena, ‘I don’t need to deal with you and I can’t deal with you this
way. We need all of us to escape, so it won’t depend on me alone.’
Meanwhile, as the last minutes tick away,
Hernan sees Adler holding something that makes him alert. ‘Lord Adler!!! Is
that the Deathblade you’re holding?’
‘Yes,’ says Adler. ‘So what? Paliades broke
my Ulcergash, and I claimed his
sword. A sword for a sword, then.’
‘But it’s an evil sword! And Vordac’s
spirit is sealed inside it! I don’t have time to fight you if you want to be
the new heir!’
‘Can’t you see, Hernan? Paliades has
unsealed Vordac’s spirit and is dying with it! See this sword? It’s perfectly
safe now. See me? I don’t change a bit!’
‘Yes, that’s true, Lord Adler. Now shall we
jump first, then?’
A few seconds after Hernan said that,
Chimera-Paliades explodes. The explosion is so powerful; it disintegrates even
Orlevant and the dead hunters’ bodies. The survivors jump together and float
upwards using the impact force of the explosion, and are completely protected from
damage at the same time. That’s Kyflynn’s contribution for the escape.
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