Men Vs Apocalypse - Chapter 33

“Ha Ha Ha, BLESSED BY MY GOD? I WAS GOD!” Ken raised his right arm even though it was impaled by spikes. He grabbed the lightning cross and squeezed it until the cross broke. His eyes were no longer human as his iris diluted into a single black. A blast of fire came from his body, destroying the spears that were puncturing him. Ken recasted ‘Ashes of Flame’ multiple times which destroyed half of his magic circuits. He managed to get all his wounds closed as he stares at Sen’s party.

From his magical storage bag, he took out a crystal similar to what Mailee possessed. Except instead of a cool dedicate feeling of ice emitting from the crystal, it was pulsating with a raging fire that was black in colour.

“No way, Why would Ken have the Fate Crystal of Voidfire?!” Mailee eyes widen and she shivered as Ken break the crystal. The crystal immediately enveloped Ken with black flame as if it starts to devour him whole. Tentacles creeped out of the crystal, wrapping Ken’s hand and subsequently his whole body.

Sen’s party was not idle and they cast their magic again. The ‘Shroud Spears’, ‘Ice Javelin’ and ‘Lightning Cross’ were burnt from Ken’s aura even before it can even touch Ken. Even with the strengthen ability from Feng did not make a dent through Ken’s aura. Meanwhile, Ken was recovering his lost magic circuits from the ‘Ashes of Flame’.

“User, this is a fire imbued by the power of Apocalypse also known as Void Magic. Standard spells are useless. Your Saviour weapons are effective against it. Saviour System issued Fate crystals can now be used to empower your skills and magic instead of just purchasing items. One fate crystal is issued for free.”

Sen took the crystal and threw it to Raizan. “Use this instead! I am going in!” Sen jump into the crater, took out his Saviour Zinger Rifle from his inventory and started to shoot via the bolt action mode. The bullet was charged by the bolt action movement with Darkness magic. The Void Fire Aura vibrates a little with each shot entering it. The aura was unable to stop the bullet’s advance and it pierced into the Ken’s recovering body. Ken howled in pain.

“What?! Only Shiva managed to touch me! Not even her chosen champions can go through this!” Ken’s bloodshot eyes stared at Sen but a bullet went through the middle of it as Sen slides down from the top of the crater, he was not affected by the aura a single bit.

“How can Sen managed to attack Ken? The Voidfire incinerates our chosen champions the moment they enter the vicinity of voidfire aura. Only Shiva in her ultimate armament managed to enter the aura and defeat Ken when he corrupted Agni’s Divine fire into Voidfire.” Mailee exclaimed.

“No time to talk! Support Sen!” Raizan put out the fate crystal in front of them and the fate crystal was shining extremely bright with pure All Element energy. This emission of energy from the crystal allowed the party to be soaked in the All Element energy and their own pool of magic was refreshed.

“The purity from this fate crystal is of a good quality as well. This Sen is hiding too much things!” Raizan noted and he recasted his ‘Lightning Cross’ spell. The purplish Lightning cross had a tinge of rainbow aura with a mix of white energy in it. The All Element energy that they absorbed made their spells charged with radiant energy. The Lightning Cross easily broke the aura and it plunged into Ken’s body making him unable to move.

Sen at this movement took the Saviour Machete out and gave a direct swing towards Ken. Ken smirked and his eyes suddenly emitted a magic circle out from his iris. An explosive airburst immediately appeared in front of Sen “Fuck! Same attack!” Sen got blown back and his protective body vest was destroyed. Sen coughed out blood from the knockback impact.

“Such a big opening from your attack, seems like this foreigner only knows how to play long range.” Ken laughed hysterically while being stuck by the Lightning Cross and stared at Sen again. Sen managed to dodge this time but the impact from the airburst was strong.

Ken did not let Sen rest a single bit and continued to cast his airburst attacks. Suddenly a hammer flew by and struck his head and the hammer retracted back to his owner. Ken got irritated as he felt his powers were waning from the attack. Feng did a ‘Weaken’ as a magical debuff and he noticed Ken looked up at the culprit with anger but at this moment two long thin needles punctured into Ken’s eyes. Ken roared in the pain and from his mouth, he blew out fire and the supposed direction where Sen could be.

“Wrong side buddy.” Sen came from the back and slammed his machete down his neck. As if Ken was waiting for this, blood did not spew from the beheadment. Instead, massive tentacles grew out from his neck and swiped across the crater. Sen was once again smashed into the wall of the crater. This time, he felt his skin burning with pain from the acid that the tentacle emits and ribs broken.

“What the fuck is that thing!?” Feng shouted

“Something to be killed.” Raizan called down more ‘Lightning Crosses’ to immobilise the tentacles again. Mailee summoned various ice spiked chains to further restrained the movement of the tentacles. Feng threw his hammer again, this time the hammer bounces around the ‘Lightning Crosses’ and ‘Ice Chains’, strengthening them each time it hits one of them. The tentacle movement was visibly slower.

Sen got up panting, he felt he did not have any strength to attack this abomination but if he hesitate now, it will kill everyone. He took out his Saviour Bowie knife and along with Saviour Machete, he sped towards the abomination and slashed at everything he could see and anything his blades can touch. Parts of the tentacles were dropping until he reached Ken’s body.

The last hit was through Ken’s heart and the remaining parts of the tentacle decimated into grey ash.

Raizan and Mailee dropped to their knees for maintaining the magic spells while Feng went down to help Sen up and out of the crater.

“Wait, let’s check if he has any belongings worth looting. They might provide some clue as well” Sen recommended to Feng and he went ahead to check.

The magical bag of holding was still hoisted on Ken’s waist so Feng took it and check any valuables in it. There were coins that were not important to him, a few rations, several rolls of bandages,some documents, some weapons, armour and a scroll . A portal magic scroll.

Sen immediately took the scroll and examined it while Feng gave the money to Mailee. “Woah! Are you sure you do not want the coins? You can buy a decent house with such a fortune!”” Mailee’s eyes were sparkling when she saw that much money.

“That is if you survived getting your brother first!” Raizan laughed heartily. Mailee pouted in front of Raizan and ignored what he said.

“System, identify this portal spell. Will this portal bring us to the coordinates of Kari and Kura is?”

Sen questioned.

“Yes, User. The portal coordinates put you in Agni Mandir, the main capital of Clan Agni and approximately 330 metres away from the current position of Kari and Kura.” The system replied.

“So that means once we use this portal, it is most likely we will be drag into battle immediately.”

Sen relayed the message to the others and Mailee said that the portal coordinates would probably place them right into the capital’s palace since portals are mainly controlled by the higher class leaders.

“If Ken did not rush back via the portal means that we might have a bit more time before the resurrection ritual. Since we do not know what to expect, Major Raizan do you mind creating a few more items before we continue on?” Sen asked

“Hmph, I think I somewhat know what you want.” Both Raizan and Sen smiled at the same time, making Mailee feel a little creepy.

“Are they always like this?” Mailee asked Feng.

Feng shrugged his shoulders.