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Story Of Mov: Contenders

Short story of a great mage, who just like many other wishes for a better world, however, near the end, he would realise something.

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Undead apparition

Emerging from the flash of deep purple, appeareda rather simple figure, an undead clad in plate armor wearing a helmet vertical slits and wearing a dark coat, the figure was slightly transparent and emmited purple light.

Primal fear erupted within Luc and he found himself unable to do anything, no decision could be made and his mind seemingly shut down, the terrifying presence this thing emmited was enough to nearly make his heart stop beating.

"Cower in fear! This is an apparition of the most powerful undead, he transcends the very fabric of worlds!" spoke the Lady Of The Risen, Luc remained still and so did the apparition.

"..." the apparition turned around and looked at its summoner, Qhoui-e was ecstatic, of course she would be, she had just summoned an apparition of the greatest of undeads! Even if it was but an apparition of it, a reflection of the undead blade, a shadow of the world ender, she had done it! Now, the champion wouldn't be able to do anything.

However, her happiness was short lived, as the apparition punched her so hard that nothing remained of her head and her body simply stood there, still acting as if she was alive for a few moments before dropping down.

The sound of shattered bones and flesh being thrown against a wall awoke Luc from his stupor and he immediately started running away in pure fear, never had he felt his life threatened like that even when he had almost like that, this things presence was litteraly trying to kill him.

He heard the sound of something landing behind him and when he reflexively turned around, he barely managed to block a punch, his stone club immediately broke and the ganted gist brushed close to his chin, however he still felt as if he had been killed and nearly fell down before realising that it wasn't real.

Hurriedly he positioned both of his arms defensively as another punch was already coming, both of them were utterly crushed and it was so strong that his arms were pushed against his chest and he felt his ribs crack from the pressure and his lungs forcefully emptying, he was launched away, felt himself crashing into things and ended up all the way outside severely injured from a single punch he had defended from.

He was pretty sure his leg bones were also cracked on top of the pieces of stone stuck all over his body but he still ran at this point he felt no pain, only the most basic of feelings was driving him.

After a bit of time without anything jumping at him, his mind sobered up a bit and he remembered about the healing items he had brought, most of them had been broken due to the punch but some liquid remained in one of the broken vials and he dranks it, already feeling his bones getting back together even if only a bit, the shards of stone were pushed out of his flesh and he noticed how much faster he was going, he hadn't even noticed that he was limping this entire time.

'Where did it go?' he thought, feeling his body trembling as he thought about the apparition.

It certainly wasn't after him right now and listening closely he could hear that it was because it had found other targets, he continued to run, running toward where he should be allowed to leave, after all, Qhoui-e had died, the five were dead, he was done with all of this.

This information was among the few he had received when getting here, he hurried to a certain place that looked just like any other, hidden behind a mountain and tall trees stood another temple, this one golden and shiny, emanating holiness.

Luc sprinted inside and collapsed on his knees, breathing erratically after running so long without stop and then he heard it.

"Well, here you are, in the great temple of the final face-off" spoke Ignosi, standing there with his staff, his arms in a 'I don't know anything' sort of position, quite the weird sight from him.

"Final, huf, face-off?" asked Luc, still trying to catch his breath.

"Yes, only one champion can become consort after all" he casually said, Luc could feel something ominous behind The Ever-Seeking's mask.

"Yes, the world will hopes for the greatest of us champions to be chosen and what better way than to have us fight to he death?" he casually monologued.

"It is quite the simple way of doing things but it sometimes is the best way, although I always prefer some difficulty, makes the whole process much more satisfying to accomplish" he continued to monologue without a care in the world.

"Then, we are supposed to kill each other?" asked Luc as he stood up.

"Yes but don't get ahead of yourself, it starts when the will says it does" spoke Ignosi.

"It shall not" spoke an unseen person, that sounded like everything at once, old, young, masculine, feminine, everything.

"Is it because of the apparition? It's just an apparition and on top of that it's an invader from another world, you should be able to banish it right now" commented Ignosi with slight sass.

"As you know, my powers are heavily weakened" spoke the indescribable with no particular emotion.

"Yes, yes, I get it, you are so weakened" responded Ignosi.

"Well, anyways, it's coming" he then added afterwards, making Luc absolutely crap his pants.

"What do you mean? Why would it come here first?" he asked in a panic.

"Because of the ball of life magic I casted above the temple obviously, it is but an apparition summoned by a mediocre necromancer, even if it's the world ender, the apparition lacks deep intelligence, it acts based on pure instinct" asnwered The Ever-Seeking calmly.

"It will be here in..." started saying Ignosi without even a shred of worry to be felt anywhere within him.

"Three"

"Two"

"One" as he said one the transparent figure appeared out of nowhere and lunged at him.

He raised his staff and without saying a word, the figure turned back into a ball of deep color and disappeared just like that.

"Summoning him is idiotic anyways, even at full strength and perfect intelligence, he would inevitably kill any living in the vicinity, including his summoner" he comment as he turned to the wide eyed Luc.

"Now, we should be able to end this, your little protection won't hold from here on out" Ignosi spoke a few enigmatic words as he slammed the end of his staff onto the ground.

"Very well, you may start" spoke the world will and a spell was immediately casted.