Chapter 84

In all my life I had never heard anything as gut-wrenching as the sigh from Morax that met Azhdaha's scream of agony as he was speared into the ground. The Geo Archon continued resealing his old friend, sealing him into the ground with more spears being launched with each spear honestly looking a bit like a Number 2 pencil with how sharp and flat the edges and shapes of the spears were but made out of Geo crystal and rock.

"No! Morax don't seal me into the darkness again! I don't want to be blind within the ground again!" Azhdaha cried begging not to be sealed. "Just kill me! Do not torment me with my thoughts for eternity in the darkness Morax!" He continued screaming and Morax actually paused for a moment with his hooded almost completely covered from freezing stock still.

But in that moment as Morax was torn on what to do I felt elemental power erupting from beneath my feet and then Azhdaha roared with mad laughter. "Haha damn you Morax! I only wanted to force the humans away from the Chasm so they wouldn't continue to hurt us Geovishaps with their blasted mining that tears apart the leylines! Now you can suffer your greatest heartache again!"

In that final moment of Azhdaha's final words just before another spear made out of pure geo crystals rammed into his toad/dragon-like head I felt my skin rip apart even through my weak aura as I tore off the circlet that bounded Guizhiong's soul along with a couple of hairs of hers.

The ground beneath us flashed white hot and I weakly smiled as although I tried my best with Lumine attempting to shoot up into the air with a blast of Anemo energy but in the end, the ground beneath our feet seemingly melted and twisted with gravity itself working in comprehensible ways.

"Guizhong!" Morax roared as I held onto Lumine in my arms but Guizhong was only barely holding onto my hands as the world seemingly shuddered at the death of Ahzdaha.

"Jake you hurt me correct?" Guizhong spoke with a soft smile and when I nodded as I tried to hold her hand as abyssal energy leaked from Azhdaha's corpse into the world and the surrounding area was becoming something out of the realm of darkness from Kingdom Hearts.

"Morax, I have a plan," Guizhong spoke out softly with her voice coming across like a tinkling bell. "I have already had a good plan since the Fatui accounted for your soul-binding Jake Barriss. You already hurt me and thus touched upon my soul... But a goddess is no ruin guard or hillichurl that barely has a corrupted soul piloting their forms." She explained tiredly before smiling sadly.

"I am happy to have gotten to see the Glaze Lilies again in bloom... But I will not allow Liyue to become a portal to the Abyss." Guizhong said strongly and I grimaced as I saw from her hands how glowing lines crossed her hand.

"Guizhong, you don't have to do this! I can lose my power to seal this!" Morax roared with his great power seemingly crystalizing the surrounding space and even time as the corrupted leaves that were falling from the trees froze in the middle of the air.

But Guizhong actually just rolled her eyes at him before she spoke with a wry smile as we landed back on the crystalizing ground. "Dummy, I am only kinda dying again. Jake can bind my soul and heal it over time with his own, but I know full too well that this host body cannot hold me for more than a couple hours even if I did nothing else and my soul is contaminated by what the Tsaritsa had to do, to get me out of the afterlife and abyss." Guizhong's blue eyes looked back to me.

"Jake's soul-binding fixes that issue perfectly... So don't give him a hard time Morax and go deal with Osial before our still-living friends fall to the mad god while I will deal with this abyss portal." Guizhong said and I could see Morax's hands clench up as he reflexively looked aside to the ocean where his Adepti old friends and the forces of Liyue were fighting the many heads of Osial in pitched battle.

In an instant Morax flew off through the air giving a silent agreement and then Guizhong sighed and I was drawn to the petite goddess who smiled sadly at me. "I understand this is sudden Jake to say nothing of being inconvenient but I need your help to survive these events." She said and then my heart stuttered in my chest as her glowing form with jagged almost eye-gouging bright light got even stronger even glowing past her tight-fitting wuxia-style clothing, and then as her eyes closed, a soft almost thick wind of dust clouded my vision.

I reflexively took a breath of the dust and then collapsed as I felt my Aura both completely drain and shatter around my form but also felt like it went far, beyond its normal capacity as I lastly felt thin arms wrap around my back with it feeling as though Guizhong was seemingly melding into my body and the weight of even a diminished goddess was too much for my exhausted form and vision darkened for the last time after this great battle of pushing through limits repeatedly.

Only faintly could I hear Paimon calling out my name as I felt my head landing in the soft cushions of a woman's arms and I knew it to be Eula as I could recognize her particular pine-like smell and the knowledge that with both Eula and Lumine there, that I was safe with the two of them was enough for my exhausted form to give up and I lost consciousness then and there.