Chapter 28

(WARNING: Make a change in the way the dialogues of the elementary lords are read. I hope to improve little by little the way their dialogues and expressions are taken. Please, tell me what you thought at the end of the chapter ^^)

(POV Protagonist)

In my mental world I could attack with all the magic and attacks I could imagine. But the increased power of my blessings enhanced the power in my body, which strengthened my resistance against the magic that sought to corrupt me and this in turn caused my will to overcome the situation more easily.

My mind and body are linked, if one gets a power boost, it indirectly involves the other. It's a spiritual synergy or something like that I understand.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*

I began to use large flares of fire to try to weaken the tentacle of the "Dark God". I hoped that by doing this I could force it to retreat. Struggles between wills are dangerous as I understand from all the novels I have read.

Will is easy to define, but complicated to explain, even more so in the magical realm. To me, it is more than just the ability to decide how to deal with decisions. Maybe I am misunderstanding everything and this is really a battle between souls. Maybe I take the term will and I am misusing it, but I believe that it is because of my will that my "soul", that my mind, resists.

As long as I have strength, as long as I can fight, I will resist with all my being. I am afraid of falling, I don't know what will happen if I lose this battle, for that and much more I must keep on fighting. I have the power to do it and the help to do it. But most importantly, I have hope.

The word hope is much used, misused, misrepresented and often used for evil deeds, but what I want to say is that I am confident that the light will overcome the darkness. In a figurative sense and of course, alluding to good and evil.

I'm not saying that the light will always win, but neither will it always lose. As will I, as will those who support me, even when I seem to be falling to my end. This confidence I have, this hope in every conscious being is very powerful. Losing hope is synonymous with losing the light, losing your way, losing yourself... That is why when I died and found myself in that dark abyss for who knows how long, I kept my hope. As foolish and naive as it seemed, I knew there was more, that I could achieve more, and if to do so I had to change part of myself or fall into madness just to sustain myself, I would. In fact, I did.

I know that for a long time I have not been the same "me" that was human. Partly because logically every change we experience in life makes us different. I believe that the "me" of a second ago is not exactly the same as the "me" of a second later.

I don't really remember when I started to change things in my favor, but I think it has a hell of a lot to do with my craving to be right, to want to win, because of my lust for victory. I'm getting away from it.

What I want to say here is that my will and my hope are something that I do not intend to lose, even if I have to discard or change part of me. The human being is imperfect and many times irrational, but I do not see it as something "proper" of the human being, I think it is something "proper" of all life, of existence itself. If not, then why are there things in scientific discoveries that baffle us, doesn't this mean that existence is really more complex to understand than what we think we see...? I think the saying, "I only know that I know nothing" makes a lot of sense. For me, everything can be possible as long as I exist in the infinite universe, as long as I have life and consciousness for it. As long as I have all that, for me, "Everything is possible".

*GGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRR*

I made a large meteorite that fell and exploded with immense power. I hoped that this would do great damage to the "Old God".

...

I spent a little time to be able to see the damage my attack had caused. I had imagined a great deal of power in that meteor, so I expected one or two tentacles less, being optimistic. But as soon as I saw the damage, I realized how truly formidable these "Dark Gods" are.

It had destroyed the entire nearby army, heavily damaged 3 of the tentacles and slightly less so the other 2, but they were all regenerating at a glance....

"This thing is very persistent."

I said a little frustrated. This thing just doesn't want to die...

Suddenly an energetic and deep voice rang out.

"Ha-ha-ha, we just have to attack with more power!!!, let's make a combined attack, Al'Akir, Minion. I leave the defense to you, Therazane, Neptulon!"

Ragnaros and the rest of the elemental lords had caught up with me. At some point I had left them behind, although I didn't realize it.

"Very good."

"Good plan."

"I agree."

Therazane, Neptulon and Al'Akir readily agreed with Ragnaros' idea... That's how Elemental Lords should be in a balanced world. But Azeroth is too gluttonous, hahaha. I hope when she's born she won't be chubby because she's too sedentary.

Quickly snapping out of my thoughts and in a more cheerful mood, I simply nodded.

"Then let's repeat that attack of yours, minion. This time we'll finish off that 'squid' once and for all, ha-ha-ha! "

Soon Ragnaros and Al'Akir began to release a large amount of elemental energy. Their energies combined and condensed. The synergy of their forces caused a kind of "Genkidama", as it looked like a sun shining brightly. I guess with the amount of energy that accumulated in that attack, plus the way Al'Akir's air fed and reinforced Ragnaros' already powerful fire, caused this. Not wanting to be left behind either, I simply raised both hands and joined his effort. I would take it upon myself to spin his energies in such a way that his attack would simply not be a sum of 1+2=3, but 1+2=10.

Releasing my multi-elemental energy, I used the various elements in different ways. Water would be at its core in a gaseous state, compressed with an earth element core that would not allow an explosion, but a constant release of oxygen and hydrogen. The air would help to maintain the constant flow and the fire would do the rest of the work of combustion...

I was creating a sun with the fire of Ragnaros, and although my water was not exactly that of Neptulon, it still possessed a bit of his influence.

It shouldn't be entirely possible in the physical world, but in my mind I could do it. It has a lot to do with my mental power, which is why I have been so confident lately in truly absorbing the blessings of the Elemental Lords.

As we prepared our attack, the "Dark God" would not stand by with its tentacles crossed. In fact, as soon as he finished regenerating one of his less injured tentacles, he began to comply, raising his huge limb with the intention of crushing us.

*BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM*.

But no sooner had he tried than huge mountains had risen to block his passage.

* CLAAAAACK CLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK CLAAAAAAAAAAAAACK BOOOOOOOOOM*.

Even so, the force behind each stroke of its tentacle was not weak. The dark power it possessed was creating monsters and aberrations from the rocks and mountains it destroyed by imbuing its energy into them.

They all looked like a mixture of "Aqir" and "N'raqi", made of stone and earth, from which darkness gushed constantly.

As for Neptulon. It had been raising the water there and creating a huge Tsunami of ice water.

*SSSSSPPSPPPLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSHHHHHHHH SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH SSSSSSSPPLLLLLAAAASH SPLLAAASH*.

And as soon as the other tentacles recovered sufficiently they began to attack.

* BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*.

...

He could hear and feel the sounds and vibrations of the explosions. The amount of strength the "Dark God" must have possessed was not small. Its durability would not be great, but its regeneration was incredibly fast.

Some time later, the "sun" was ready.

"Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, unbelievable, truly unbelievable, that squid, it will be purified in the fire!"

Ragnaros laughed loudly and enjoyed the sight of his handiwork. I guess he saw that it was "good" and now he felt the happiness that a "God" should have for his creation.

Al'Akir on the other hand just watched quietly, but his feelings showed the satisfaction he possessed in him.

"RETIRE, this time we should really banish him.

Ragnaros warned Neptulon and Therazane. Both had managed to seal 3 of the 5 tentacles in ice and earth. Now we had an easier target to hit.

"Feel my fury!"

With Al'Akir's comment, the 3 of us launched the "genkid"... this "sun".

As soon as he saw the attack directed at his tentacles, the "Old God" decided to sacrifice the 2 free tentacles and try to block this massive "sun".

His efforts were in vain, because the moment the "sun" touched his tentacles, they simply evaporated. It began to grow and its force of attraction increased. In a short time the 5 tentacles were devoured and the size of the "sun" only grew, its color gradually began to change to a darker one. As soon as I saw that I understood that this attack was getting out of control by the powers of the "Old God".

With the continued growth of the "sun" we had created, I realized that it was beginning to draw us all towards it... This attack was getting out of hand. Knowing that I could not allow this to escalate, I simply activated the destruction of the protective barrier of earth and air, causing a rapid consumption of its fuel and producing an explosion that drove us all away.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM* (Incredibly powerful and dramatic sound)

...

After such an explosion, I could see the amount of damage the attack had caused... I wasn't expecting this if I'm honest.

The whole place where the "Old God" was located was totally evaporated. A huge crater was in the location. The damage from the shockwave was such that part of my body was cracked, although it was no problem to repair it quickly. But what surprises me is that my own attack damaged me... This ability to corrupt that darkness possesses is incredible.

* CLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK CLAAAAAAAAAAAAACK CLACK CLAAAAAAAAAAAACK * CLAAAAAAAAAAAACK CLAAAAAAAACK CLAAAAAAAAAACK CLAAAAAAAAAACK CLAAAAAAAACK

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*.

But, although I had momentarily removed the presence of the "Old God" from my mind, it did not last. It had managed to destroy even more parts of my mental shield and 3 more tentacles entered.

* BOOOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOOM BOOOOOOOOOM

Then 5 more entered through the holes that had been created earlier.

This is unfair...

*SIGH*

I relied too much on the mental shields of my "mind power". I know that this power is even more powerful than this, but I am afraid of what might happen after trying what I have thought since I got the blessings of the elemental lords.

To explain my plan, I must first recount my findings.

All the time I have had with blessings, I have experimented with them. With my knowledge of my mental powers I took the "blessings" into my mental world. There they took form 4 beings identical to the elemental lords, both in form and in personality and power.

Since they were in my mental world, I used my "home" advantage to bend them to my will and learn many things.

Blessings are a mixture of "power" and "will". The "power" allows me to increase my capabilities and accomplish great things, but without knowledge of how to truly use it, it's like giving a gun to a baby. Lots of power, but not very useful.

The "will" remaining in the "blessing", is the one that carries the "information" on how to use the "power" given, but not only that, it is the "will" in the "power" of the "blessing" that allows to recover the "power" given. This means that, if I separate the "will" from the "power", I could absorb the "power" easily and without repercussions. I tried and succeeded, but I had a problem... I lost the knowledge of how to use the "power". I didn't understand why this was so, but even with my perfect memory, this happened.

With this knowledge I set myself the task of learning little by little to "duplicate" the "will" of the "blessing", so as not to lose the information I possessed. But simply "duplicating" the "will" would not be useful, so as soon as I managed to "duplicate" it, I tried to "edit" that "will" so that it would obey me... I did not succeed.

It turns out that there is a fragment of soul or spiritual impression in the "will" and the "power" that prevented him from actually being able to use the "power" without the "original will".

I did a lot of experiments and managed to separate the "spiritual impression", as I ended up calling it, from the "original will" that gave me the "blessing". So I "altered and edited" the "original will", since I did not want to risk it not working by "duplicating" the "will".

The usefulness of the "spiritual impression" was both a link to the one who gave it to me, as well as what allowed the "fire" in this case, to burn with an intensity only less than the one who gave the "blessing". This means that the "spiritual impression" would not allow me to "edit" the "original will" as long as I was present in it.

Well, the point is that I separated all that in my mind. I used my mental power to make all the changes and in the end I succeeded. I changed the "original wills" of the blessings given to me by the elemental lords, and once I saw that they were loyal to me, I simply introduced the "spiritual imprint" back to them. I just happened to be wrong about 1 thing... as soon as they became 1 again, the "original will" that I had "changed" and the "spiritual impression", changed... both changed.

Now the "original will" that had changed looked a little more like the Ragnaros outside, but the "spiritual impression" that apparently housed the "personality or knowledge" of this "will" had also changed, in short I reached a middle ground that favored me ... and as I honestly did not understand what the fuck I did, I left it at that.

"What is right and works, is left that way", I repeated it to myself multiple times and simply tried to study now the "spiritual impression" of the part of the "blessing" that was in the "power" and discovered that this does not have the personality or something like that, it only has something I call "source" or "connection" ... here I understood that I had to stop playing and pretend I knew what I was doing. I just didn't touch it, I attached it to the "original will" that I had altered and left it at that.

Possibly in the future I can experiment more with that, but for now, everything is fine. I did the same with all the blessings of the elemental lords and that's precisely what allowed me to have their help and presence in my mental world...

With this I had understood that my "mind power" was not simple. I was so proud of thinking that wish so deeply when I asked for it, that I patted myself on my back and created myself an incredibly refined and beautiful pen as a gift. Every gentleman should own a pen, hahaha.

Anyway, I am about to try something that I have theorized about but have not dared to try until now. And that depends on me allowing the full entrance of the "Old God" into my mind....

I must face this battle that seems more and more lost every moment. So, to ensure my victory I will take my chances... Wish me luck.

Author's Note: To give an example of how this works, imagine a very advanced weapon. This weapon has a very advanced security system that only allows 1 person to use it.

In this case the "Blessing" is represented as the weapon in its entirety.

Power" is the ability of the weapon to not only fire ammunition, but also grenades, batman style hooks, flashlight, infrared, substance detector... etc.

The "Will" is the weapon's system that allows the chosen "user" to understand the functions that the weapon possesses, select its functions and also recognizes it as its user. This is due to the spiritual imprint there is. It can also deny access to those who try to use it other than the user or in special cases, not allow access to anyone and may end up returning to the one who delivered the weapon in the first place... (this weapon is very broken).

The "Spiritual Impression" of the "Will", is the part of the system in charge of recognizing the user, of making sure the integrity and also of allowing the access to the special energy that allows the optimal functioning of the weapon. (It is a key)

The "Spiritual Impression" of the "Power" is simply the battery from which the energy that powers the weapon comes from. It also generates the energy and only works if the weapon is in optimal state and connects with its other part, like a bolt. But as it is an advanced weapon the type of energy it releases can only be used in the way it knows its key. (It is a lock)

Everything together forms the blessing, but they must take it to a magical and fantasy plane XD.

Now, what did you think of this chapter, can you guess what will happen next... I think you should be able to XD. Anyway.

By the way, how did you spend the 24th and 25th? Here it is customary to celebrate until 12 o'clock with the family and then "mysteriously" presents appear under the tree for the younger children. After that you just keep on celebrating until whatever time you can stand XD. I hope you had a good time ^^

I invite you to comment, because each comment is a motivation to continue writing. You can express yourselves "freely" but always with respect for everyone. You can give me ideas, give me advice and criticize me CONSTRUCTIVELY. We can easily destroy, but creating takes effort, patience and wisdom. If you are going to try to guide, be wise, be constructive, because this world already has many who know how to destroy.

I wish you a great day or a good night ^^