50 Dol Fight Part 2
Gold and black particles fired off around my sword. So much energy flowed through my sword that I felt my body begin to break down. I could hear tiny pops with my every step. They were fractures appearing along the bones of my arms and legs. Shooting pain shot up from my knees. In a single charge I'd used up all the cartilage in my knees and never again would I be able to move without pain. Only a level or rank up could restore me.
The distance was crossed, my sword aimed for the kill. I devoted everything to this single attack. But at the last second a barrier appeared.
Right before I would have skewered Dol and cut his rein as a Duke short, my momentum was stolen. Three orbs bleeding red particles like open wounds in the world appeared around Dol. Those particles erected a barrier.
Sparks flew off my blade as I drove it through the barrier. Even while my momentum was stolen, I couldn't stop.
Pain shot through me and I stepped forward. I carried not only my weight but all the force of my aura. Through my bond with Diabla I felt a desire to win. She was thrilled beyond belief that I finally unleashed my full power. That gave me just the will I needed to push forward.
One by one the three orbs cracked and shattered. I shot forward only for a cage of bone to appear around Dol. The cage radiated black aura thicker than any spell I'd ever encountered. Still, I wouldn't be stopped.
Dol let slip a tiny bone doll attached to a chain held between his fingers. An artefact, I didn't think he'd use one. Was this what he considered a free shot?
"You should have known Jacob. Nothing is free." Dol's words hit me even while I plunged my sword into the skeletal cage.
I stabbed forward and felt my shoulders jarred. All of my strength began to leave me, and the pain only grew worse. My skeletal system while robust could only handle so much. Diabla wouldn't break and the power of my aura was willing, I was the problem. My body was a glass cannon.
Still, I refused to give up. My foot slammed down, and the ground erupted forming a crater. The golden and black particles that suffused Diabla spread through the skeletal cage. Cracks appeared over the structure. A terrible force shot up from those cracks and the doll in Dol's hand shattered.
A groan escaped my lips and for the third time, I charged. From the chain around Dol's fingers a cross fell. I used more aura and pushed myself further. Muscles tore apart and I moved even faster.
Thorned vines soaked in blood erupted in my path and at their heart was a cross. Upon that cross was a large wooden beating heart. The vines shot forth and wrapped around my legs as I charged. Those particles that surrounded me rotted away the golden vines.
I charged even as my flesh was torn apart. Whips of thorns tore holes in my wings while I aimed for the heart upon the cross.
Through the thorns and I charge and punctured the heart before stumbling after Dol. He waited with his back turned to me while the power from the artefacts faded. The cross crumbled to dust and I stumbled through it all. My body had become a ragged thing and I could feel blood oozing out of every wound.
The power of heaven and hell raged through my body and threatened to tear me apart. I wanted destructive power and they delivered. Dawn combined with Diabla's natural demonic power was a powerful combination. It was one my body wasn't ready for. Aura Rush full power only made matters worse.
I stumbled forward ready to deliver my final blow. I raised my sword high in the air and swung down. The blade bounced off Dol's armor and I stumbled backwards. Dol turned around all smiles.
"Oh, were you not ready, why don't you try again? Have as many as you need." Dol said.
I stumbled and fell backwards. "I will beat you." Dol raised an eyebrow.
Ping!
Random Encounter…
He shook his head. "I don't know what you had planned but it failed. I'm a Duke that means besides a legate, a few nobles, and the overminds, I am the strongest thing down here. You aren't even a knight. All you have going for you is some basic mental resistances." He drew his sword and blocked Doppel's psyblades.
"You have something that doesn't belong to you." In the center of Dol's armor an eye in a box glowed.
"Rule of conquest sweetheart, its mine now." I felt a cold aura. Dol's eyes widened and for the first time in a long time he showed concern. He grabbed me by the collar and lifted me to eye level. "What did you do?" The tower began to shake. And the side of the wall caved in.
Of all the things I expected to see, I giant blue thumb wasn't one of them. It easily crushed into the next couple of floors. Then we were thrown to the side of the tower while the giant lifted its new prize.
I tossed my head back and laughed as we were carried out of the junkyard itself and taken high overhead. "It looks like I fucked up your plans."
A furious expression came over him. "I don't have time for you anymore." His sword stabbed forward. I felt it pierce my interlocking ribcage like a knife through butter. Green aura surrounded his blade before the sword blasted out my back. He drew his blade back and kicked me for good measure.
Dol raised his hand ready to blast me. Before he could a giant blue finger shot through the tower and smashed into him. He slammed down through a hole in the tower's floor.
Aura moved my hands as my life blood left me. I pulled out a handful of medical pills and stuffed them in my mouth. It seems he missed my heart. My system worked overtime using the energy from the pills to bend the laws of reality.
Still it wouldn't be enough to save me. My life continued to bottom out. The pills only recovered my health for a short time. Whatever technique Dol used, it was designed to put me down for good.
"You have to rank up. It's the only way we survive this." Gwen said.
"I don't get it, why didn't he just kill us all." I asked.
Cracks appeared across the tower as we were raised high in the sky. "He can't afford to kill either of us. That would give the Overminds an excuse to kill him. Not that thoughtful empire politics will mean much where we're going.
"Do I have time to rank up?" Doppel ran back into the room.
"Did you get it?" Gwen asked. The tower shook again.
"What's going on?" I asked.
"We need to get to a higher level of the tower before Dol cuts the lower sections off. I can't believe you managed to piss off a giant." Gwen said.
I threw another handful of pills in my mouth. The wound continued to glow a sickening green and yellow puss leaked from it. Doppel grabbed me before opening the lid on the coffin. "What should I rank up into?" I asked.
"That's your choice. We don't have a lot of time and the xp sphere at the top doesn't have much left in it." Doppel sealed the lid and I closed my eyes.
Ping!
Rank Up
Hieratic Black Nier – Nier's are creatures created by dark technology. Imps are injected with nanites in the womb. They are then raised in the Hieratic Black order. While stronger, faster, and more intelligent, they lost much of the ferocity imps are known for. Hieratic Black Nier's are considered some of the most versatile of all Nier.
Rank: Knight
Rarity: UR
Abilities
Super Elite: +40 Increase to HP and AP and +4 to all stats per level
True Magician: Tier 3 and 4 spells of all series can be learned.
Natural Aura: Their control over their aura is so great they no longer need wings to fly.
Brotherhood: Unlike the imps of the past Noah have a natural brotherhood with other Nier.
Sol Cipher Behemoth – A new gene was administered to the Imp genome. This caused rapid mutation and soon the Behemoth broke away from the common Imp. Larger, battle hungry, and much more durable, the behemoth is considered a vast improvement over the Imp. Sol Cipher Behemoths take the advantages of a Behemoth and multiply them with radioactive healing this unique variant of the behemoth was thought lost.
Rank: Knight
Rarity: Mythic
Abilities
Super Elite: +40 Increase to HP and AP and +4 to all stats per level
Star Hungry Cells: Absorb radiation to restore health.
Superior Genes: A 10% increase to all parameters before stats are applied.
Monstrous: Rage is in your blood anger is quick to come and slow to retreat. +50% increase to all stats when angered.
Black Galaxy Noah – A group of Nier broke free from their creators and use their enhanced intelligence and the technology of their creators to craft the Noah. Using the Behemoth gene and an in vivo injection of nanites the Behemoth gene mutated creating a new creature. Despite their promise the Noah were destroyed by a behemoth raid. Within the darkling the right genes can combine to recreate a noah. Black Galaxy is an inverse realm where the impossible becomes inevitable. The last known noah was an emperor of the now destroyed Darkling empire.
Rank: Knight
Rarity: Mythic +
Abilities
Super Elite: +40 Increase to HP and AP and +4 to all stats per level.
Façade: Monstrous characteristics are hidden until needed.
Natural Aura: Their control over their aura is so great they no longer need wings to fly.
True Magician: Tier 3 and 4 spells of all series can be learned.
Superior Genes II: A 20% increase to all parameters before stats are applied.
Alert!
Warning once a knight class is chosen you will be locked into that race from this point on.
I chose Black Galaxy Noah as the lid to my coffin closed. My consciousness faded while my body underwent its transformation.
