The battle of the bloody rock valley part 5

A past out Cixilo was brought up by the soldiers of the black company. These hardened fighters had turned into pure monsters, based on their actions.

Water was shoved to his face to wake him up.

"What now....." Cixilo said as he woke up.

Markus pointed to the guy where the emperor was flying, creating an immense fireball. He said," See that. Guess where we are?"

Cixilo looked around and saw the massive battle down in the valley. He peered at the emperor with large eyes.

"Now, why don't you just possess this body and help your emperor," Markus said.

Cixilo looked at the body of Dalai. He wanted it so much, as collecting bodies of strong beings was his pure joy. But he instead spat on Markus's feet.

"I don't trust you. I never should have. My own greed blinded me. Even if you offer me the body of a god, I will not take it," Cixilo vented.

Markus just smiled.

"You may not accept this, but you and I are more alike than you might think. You abandoned your emperor and the imperial army, out of pure greed. Not because you wanted to help the emperor to the best of your abilities with a strong corpse to possess. But because, like me, you latch on to others cause you want to use them for your own benefit. You do not love anyone else other than yourself."

"I am nothing like you. I would die for the emperor. The only reason I left my liege was so I could serve him better."

Markus continued the debate by explaining ", The only thing stopping you from doing what I am offering is that you feel like the emperor's perception of you is too important. You do not care for the emperor. You just care about how he views you.

"Same as August, the most selfish and greedy thing can be to preserve someone's view of yourself just because you are terrified of what they might think of you if you fail. That is why August allows me to treat him the way I do. So he doesn't have to know the feeling of disappointing me."

"SHUT YOUR MOUTH!"

Markus grew tired.

"Maybe you just need a little push to see your true self," Markus said, placing his hand on Cixilo's forehead.

His eyes rolled back as the winds of pandora infested Cixilo. The few bits of pure divine aura and power inside Cixilo were forcefully evicted. Prior restraints left as he had wholly joined in and become a child of Pandora like the rest of them.

Cixilo immediately grabbed hold of Dalai's body and was sucked in. The black body of Cixilo vanished inside, but Dalai's body lay still. It looked like nothing had happened.

"What. He can't possess this body?" Skal complained.

"Give him some time. Slowly, we will start feeling something that no being has felt in this world for centuries," Markus explained.

The earth then started to tremble, and the valley shook and fighting briefly stopped on some parts of the battlefield. Soldiers on both sides felt like an earthquake was occurring, but those with divinity felt something much more terrifying.

The corpse of Dalai started to float up as the divine aura that was coming from the god created storms. The wind picked up, and stones began to be lifted in the sky. Cracks formed on random rocks and some mortal soldiers passed out as an uncontrollable divine aura came from the body of Dalai.

The black body of Cixilo started to appear wrapped around the god's body like it was when he possessed Leia Cassia's corpse during the battle on Etna's soil.

"Cixilo?" emperor Ala said, recognizing the black cloth-like body that was possessing an unbelievably strong corpse.

"Hahahahaha. Look, emperor. Look what I've become. Look! LOOK!" Cixilo yelled while possessing Dalai's body.

Emperor Ala was too stunned to talk.

Cixilo went mad with power. Like a wild animal on drugs, Cixilo felt an unquenching feeling that made him feel invincible.

"This. THIS IS IT! THIS IS THE ULTIMATE BODY TO POSSESS. AND ITS MINE. MINE. MINE."

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"Shut up and get off my body..."

The corpse of Dalai ripped the cloth-like body of Cixilo off him and killed him instantly. The divine aura calmed down.