The Engine of Destruction (part 2)

The fight was intense and the weird Scaleborn with vibrant skin didn't stop at all, while Riddick was trampling all over his healer, he was killing the elders that were powerless against him.

"FOR THE ABYSS!"

"FOR THE ABYSS!"

"FOR THE ABYSS!"

After the third elder died at the hands of the Scaleborn, the remaining elders saw that their usefulness had reached its expiration and that the quest to subdue the dragon was over, instead of becoming of a pile of acid on the floor they decided to become Riddick's strength.

SELF IMMOLATION

All the elders became energy that Riddick was quick to absorb into his core fire increasing his level one more time to 56. The war was ongoing and there was no time to be soft, it was regretful but it was the elder's decision and he was going to use their energy to defeat their opponent. The moment Riddick was absorbing the energy from the elders, Jazz appeared beside the mangled healer that was somehow alive before tossing it to Riddick for a quick snack.

The Scaleborn just smiled like nothing of what was happening had anything to do with him but before Jazz could noticed, he was right beside him ready to strike. Barash also took the opportunity to make his move and pop out from the ground for a two pronged attack.

WOOSH

Riddick watch the scene while chewing on the healer and from his point of view a second felt like an eternity. He lifted the double headed polearm that he obtained in the Fifth Gate and tossed it like a javelin infused with Chaos Energy to save Jazz but there was no way his attack could make it in time.

Splat!

Barash's body started falling apart while the Scaleborn flew backwards with a polearm stuck to his stomach and fell to the floor.

IMPOSSIBLE!

Barash looked at Jazz unable to understand what had happened, his timing was perfect. Jazz just stood there while his pauldrons returned to normal and he touch his body to see if anything was missing.

"HA HA… Bastards"

It was the set bonus of the Entertainer Set that had saved his life. It returned 100% of the damage to the attackers and since the damage of the Scaleborn was extremely high, Barash couldn't handle it.

Riddick started rushing towards the Scaleborn to trample him and not give him a chance to recuperate but as he was dashing towards him, a light started appearing all around the Scaleborn's body and his body started increasing in size.

RAWR

The Vibrant Green Scaleborn became a dragon that was relatively small for the species but the roar was very mighty. The change definitely came as a surprise to Riddick that did not stop his charge and while having his body encased in chaos fire crashed into his opponent.

Jazz grabbed the Tool of the Maestro to start playing but he quickly notice that his stone skin was activating as well. Stone Skin was the race ability of the dwarf race and since it was an innate skill, it didn't require a conscious activation, it was usually used by the brain when there was danger to the body. When Rahz first met Jazz in the Abyss, it was the stone skin that had allowed Jazz to survive the brutal beating from those adventurers and gave him a chance to live.

Hmm…

Jazz couldn't help looking around his body, he thought the set bonus of his Avatar Set had protect him but just as his full body was becoming stone like, he saw it. There was a small scratch in his abdomen and to his surprise, it stopped the transformation at that particular spot.

"FUCK ME"

It wasn't difficult to put two and two together after looking at the dragon engaged in close combat with Riddick who had an aura of poison around his body that was a match for the Chaos Fire of a level 56 Val'gun.

They had been tricked! The Vibrant Scaleborn they had been fighting until now was the owner of the Sanctum and also the dragon they had come to slay, he was Venekious.

It was no surprise that the skill that reflected 100% of the damage wasn't completely foolproof taking into consideration the level of the dragon in front. Jazz frown but he couldn't stop the fight to take care of the wound. Riddick's Chaos fire needed his songs to be a match to Venekious' poison and the dragon was relentless, he tried to bite Riddick every chance he got while the other used his four arms to try and rip the dragon's scales.

Tha dum dum…

The songs started twisting forming a melody increasing Riddick's strength who smiled and took the upper hand. It was imperative that they didn't allow the dragon to take to the sky as neither of them could fly.

SCREECH

Green Blood spurt out from the dragon and sizzled in the chaos fire while the dragon tried to retaliate but it was impossible to get the Val'gun off him, long enough to use some of his skills. Venekious felt regret at his bad habit of playing with his prey, he hadn't had any exercise in so many years that he neglected rule number 1, never underestimate your opponent. Venekious thought about playing with the invaders by disguising himself as a Scaleborn and killing them during the group fight when they weren't expecting it.

The plan backfired and he was now in a precarious situation, from the decisiveness of the Demon elders to self immolate to the Magical Music that increased his enemies resistance and forced him to use his strongest poison, all of it was outside his expectation. But the biggest miscalculation happened to be the attack on the dwarf that was reflected onto himself and hurt him internally.

Venekious was a skimmer and not too great at combat and in the middle of his desperation, anger started to sprout and as he threw caution to the wind and started a slug fight, he shouted at Riddick.

"SO YOU ARE THE SON OF THAT BITCH MAELYN AND THAT VAL'GUN...HA HA HA … COME... I KILLED YOUR MOTHER, FATHER AND UNCLE ONE MORE WON'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE"

What?

Riddick was taking a back by the words of the dragon who saw a chance at turning the situation around as he continued, "YES THAT'S RIGHT...I KILLED THEM ALL STARTING WITH YOUR MOTHER. SHE BETRAYED OUR RACE AND MATED WITH THAT DEMON IN AN ATTEMPT TO BRING THE REALM TOGETHER, WHAT A JOKE."

LIES!

"YOU CAME FROM AN EGG RIGHT… YOU CAN ALSO SURPASSED THE LEVEL CAP OF THE REALM. DEMONS ARE BORN AS A BABY LIKE THOSE HUMANS AND EVEN YOUR FATHER WAS STUCK AT LEVEL 50.. I WOULD OF TOLD YOU TO ASK YOUR UNCLE ABOUT IT BUT OOPS HE IS ALREADY DEATH. BARASH WAS WORKING FOR ME THE GREAT VENEKIOUS. HAHAHA"

"YOU ARE AN ABOMINATION… NOW DIE"

The moment of hesitation cost Riddick his advantage and as his legs buckled, Venekious finally had the space to prepare an attacked… ENDLESS POISONOUS BREATH.

Riddick's mistake was a big one and without having enough time to use a breath of his own, he instinctively covered his own body with his wings that took the brunt of the breath.

Jazz was looking at the situation and immediately took action, the disadvantage of the Endless Poisonous Breath was that it had to be channeled which meant that no other actions could be taken while it was being employed.

"Riddick, I can give you a window so make sure you kill the bastard!! LET'S GO"

PERFORMANCE RESONANCE

SPIRIT OF THE MUSE

DEATH REQUIEM

"Show your divinity Balthazar" It was as if Jazz words carried the will of the gods and while the song played, Venekious felt deep pain within his soul. He felt extreme remorse for all the victims he had killed with his plots and his sorrow was so unbearable that he couldn't take it any more. In his mind, Venekious determine that the culprit of his sorrow was his poison and that the only way to make amends was to get rid of it. Venekious used one of his claws and without thinking it twice penetrated his own abdomen and took out a black organ and tossed it towards Jazz. It had a putrid smell and the moment it touched the floor started to melt it, it was the gland responsible for the production of the deadly poison.

The physical pain that Venekious experienced was enough to wake him up from the effects of the requiem but it was too late. The moment he woke up, was the moment he realized that he was no longer able to sustain his Endless Poisonous Breath.