2710 Everything Burns (Part 2)


    Outside of the Fringe, there was no Soul Projection taking off the blunt of the effects of the forced merging of Lith''s Abomination and Dragon life forces. The raw power they generated now flooded his body without any filter.


    Leegaain had only brought Lith to the alley, leaving Solus in the tower and Lith''s rage to run unchecked.


    His ck skin cracked into countless small scales from which blue mes burst out. The mes spread to his body and set it aze along with his violet aura.


    "I hate you." This time his voice was low, sounding like a growling abyss.


    Ragnar??k appeared in his hand in a blue ze while the mes reached Lith''s head and formed a burning crown.


    ''His breathing is split like his life forces. This wasn''t noticeable in Sark''s records Leegaain studied everything through his Eyes and arrays, recording every detail of the transformation.


    Even the Overlord''s breathing technique couldn''t see Soul Projections from a distance but this time there was no need to. Leegaain could experience everything first-hand from a front seat.


    ''Yet what really worries me are those blue mes.''He thought while watching them spread along the ck de that wailed in fury. They are burning at my sensing arrays, requiring me to constantly fix the magical formations.


    The blue mes are also affecting the ground and without me, they would have already set aze the whole neighborhood.''


    ck horns sprouted from Lith''s forehead and behind his neck. Five white pools formed on his face, slowly turning into as many eyes, each with a vertical pupil of the corresponding elemental color.


    All the while Leegaain took page after page of notes.


    ''I''m the inheritor of the ancient mes from which Mogar was born so even though I can''t produce them, I have understood the nature of Lith''s Cursed mes and even of his Dread mes.


    ''They are no different from my Origin mes. They are simply sparked out of an unbnce in the world energy that can affect a single element for simple Cursed mes or all of them for the Dread mes.


    ''The blue mes, however, are different. They aren''t the effect of an unbnce. They are a whole new bnce and a wrong one at that. A dangerous new bnce that might not be allowed to exist.''


    Winion and Narant too felt the threat of the blue mes, finding themselves covered in a cold sweat. The Tiamat Fear was weaker than Leegaain''s but they could feel it messing it up with the spells they kept at the ready.


    To make matters even worse, Lith''s aura had just jumped from a violet core to a bright violet and the screaming de in his hand was clearly a masterpiece.


    The Davross turned into a ck te and the elemental crystals on the fuller activated all at once as Ragnar??k prepared its own spells and channeled the blue mes into its own abilities.


    ''Since when does Verhen have Davross and how can he be a bright violet without any of the side effects of a breakthrough?'' Winion asked via the mind link in amazement.


    ''Less talk, more fight. Look at the Guardian!'' The woman nodded at the albino man who was trying for a while to get their attention.


    "Off you go." A snap of his fingers released the assassins'' bodies from the paralysis and they immediately tried to retreat.


    s, Leegaain''s experiment was a controlled one so they mmed their backs against an invisible and unbreakable barrier with such speed that it broke their breathing rhythm.


    ''Fuck! We can''t escape but maybe if we defeat Verhen, the Guardian will let us go.''Winion said.


    "And what if he kills us anyway?'' Narant replied.


    ''I''d rather die fighting than begging for my life!" The male assassin bolted forward, unleashing a Raging Sun right under Lith''s feet.


    The tier five War Mage spell was strong enough to wound even a Divine Beast and under the cover of the fire and magma, Winion was certain to be able to Blink behind Verhen and finish him quickly.


    Lith extended his free hand, lighting his red and orange eyes. Domination kept Raging Sun from detonating and redirected it at Narant who was forced to conjure a Spirit Barrier to survive the congration.


    Winion cursed at the Father of All Dragons and his offspring and Blinked anyway.


    ''Whatever that bloodline ability is, it must take a considerable focus and I need but one second to kill my target.'' He thought, reassured by the absence of an aura typical of spells like Full Guard.


    What he didn''t know, was that the Voidwalker armor had Full Guard among its enchantments. The reason the assassins couldn''t see it was the same for which Lith''s bright violet aura was missing.


    The blue mes were currently burning at his body, his blood, his mana, and even his aura. Spells were no different. They were still there, they were just burning.


    So, when Winion appeared, he found out that Lith had already turned around. The ming de moved like a snake, intercepting the first kris with so much strength that the assassin was forced to back it up with the second to not be cut asunder.


    The blue mes spread to the enchanted Adamant, setting mana and metal aze.


    Lith''s other hand struck Winion''s chest with an open palm and sent him crashing against the barrier.


    If not for the armor''s Spirit Protection and the assassin jumping back at thest second to lessen the blow, Winion would have died on the spot.


    Fuck! Even with full fusion magic and even gravity fusion, the hit hurt like a bitch!''Winion looked down, noticing the ming imprint of the palm on his chest.


    He conjured water magic to smother the mes but it burned. He conjured light magic to heal himself from the injuries, but it burned as well. Everything burned.


    "What''s happening?'' Despite decades of training and discipline, he was seconds away from falling into panic.


    The mes on his chest were spreading and so were those on his weapons, forcing him to drop the kris des before the fire reached his hands.


    ''Interesting.''Leegaain kept scribbling in his notebook. ''Water gets split into oxygen and hydrogen, making it mmable. The flesh on the assassin''s body is being split into carbon and hydrogen.


    ''Pressure and heat turn the carbon into coal and the hydrogen, well, it naturally burns. Everything burns.'' Leegaain had no idea if the process was due to Lith''s mastery over magic, Void Magic, or just a property of the blue mes.


    What he was certain of was that the mes could split organic and inorganic matter into its originalponents to fuel themselves.


    "I hate you!" Lith lunged Ragnar??k and the assassin tried to Blink but the space burned as well, copsing the dimensional door.


    The angry de screamed in ecstasy as it fed on Winion''s blood and life, unleashing the mes that covered it on his internal organs.


    Lith left Ragnar??k lodged in the man''s chest, turning around toward the woman.


    "I hate you." He said like it exined everything.


    "Ignoring a still-alive Awakened is idiotic at best.''Narant thought, a smirk appearing on her mouth. ''Winion needs just one breath to recover his strength and without his weapon, Verhen is a fish in the barrel!''