97 Shade lich

Alastair opened the door to the inner sanctum and immediately saw a huge black mass of death energy hovering above a ritual circle and frowned. alastairs devil fruit powers told him that whatever malkoran had done was in defiance to its authority filling him with rage. it didn't help that the pride engrained in dragovian genetics resonated with this rage and practically drove him into a frenzy. with a boom alastair shot forward towards the mass of death energy but before he arrived it contracted violently. as a result alastair over shot and flew passed the compressing blackness.

Striking the wall with enough force to shake the temple brought alastair some mental clarity which he used to contain his raging emotions. looking at the now humanoid figure floating with ink black skin and red glowing eyes robed in what looked liked screaming faces alastairs expression grew solemn. corrupted black death energy clung to this creature in the form of thin mist giving it an eerie look. "hahaha you are too late , i have ascended!" a rough scratchy voice comes out of the creature. "then i just need to drag you down again." alastair said before shifting into a new form.

Alastair grew ten feet tall as purple , gold and black scales grow over his skin and his face elongates into a dragonoid shape. the final change is the long scaled tail that extends behind him and crown like horns on his head. "what manner of creature are you?" the transformed malkoran asked with a tinge of fear. "i call this my demi-dragon form , unfortunately this is the first time I've felt the need to use it." alastairs said with a far deeper voice than before. before malkoran could respond alastair vanished with a loud crack.

In an instant alastairs claws slammed malkoran into the far wall making a sickening crunch from the chest bones snapping. retracting his right hand alastair watched as the black energy surges into the damaged area before healing it in an instant. 'this is going to be a pain in the ass isn't it?' alastair thought before striking malkoran with a lightning cover claw in the chest again this time eliciting a scream from him. the new wound healed just like before only this time at a far slower rate 'progress' he noted mentally. "ENOUGH!" malkoran yelled as a burst of black flame explodes from him pushing alastair away while burning a few scales.

Alastair felt the vitality of the burned area drop massively from the corrupted death energy in the flames. without hesitation alastair rips out the affected flesh with his claws and closes the wounds with healing magic. the chunks of flesh wither into ash proving this action correct and he sees malkoran preparing another attack. "oh no you don't!" alastair yells sending a thick bolt of erdrean lightning at malkoran since it had purifying properties. the bolt struck malkoran making his fail at his casting from the agony of it.

Alastair noticed some of the corrupted death energy in malkoran had been purified out and siphoned it over with his own death powers. this gave alastair an idea which he put into action immediately by hurling bolt after bolt of erdrean lightning at malkoran. as more and more death energy was purified and stolen by alastair he began to see malkorans form flicker in an unstable manner. seeing this alastair was thrilled since it meant that malkorans form needed a certain balance in energy to maintain itself and he was disrupting it. due to the extreme pain of the purifying lightning malkoran was having trouble focusing enough to counter attack leaving him helpless.

After burning through nearly half of his total mana sending forth bolts of lightning alastair finally tipped the balance within malkorans body. black skeletal arms clawed their way out of malkoran as he screamed in agony from being ripped apart on a spiritual level piece by piece. each of the released corrupted shades that tore free of malkoran was purified and the death energy absorbed by alastair as he watched the end of the first and hopefully last shade lich. once malkoran was fully destroyed and the shades purified alastair left with a smoking black blade.

This was the corrupted dawnbreaker that malkoran had made the center of his twisted ritual. the enchantments on the blade had been corrupted into such a state that they simply no longer worked making the weapon a hollow ebony shell. 'meridias gonna be pissed that she can't punish malkorans soul herself' he thought before shrugging and heading to the exit of the temple. alastair was only half correct in that yes meridia was pissed at malkoran but surprisingly malkorans soul still existed trapped in pieces in the shell of dawnbreaker.

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