Then he gained the glue that bound them together, his Elven bloodline and the strange world tree-shaped monolith within his body.


    This monolith did nothing special apart from purifying,bining and synchronising all his bloodlines together using its form to take them in, forming a beautiful tree with multitudes of different shaded leaves, all rting to Asura''s powers and bloodlines.


    Everything became concentrated in one ce.


    ***


    In the skies, a giant bird appeared with the most beautiful, silky feathers of three colours: the beautiful raven ck like Asura''s hair, pure white plumes as beautiful as an angel with his sharp ws and beak a dull grey empowered with the force of devouring.


    His wingspan grew over ten metres. A huge phoenix with hybrid bloodlines looked down at the massive white snake that leered up towards him with a look of anger, obsession and insanity.


    This form feels so good like I''m finally free to do as I wish.


    Asura''s thoughts became clear as his beak opened with a powerful shockwave from his cry.


    The ck and white mes burst out from his body, and a spiral of zing grey feathers formed around him as the mes fused with them, creating a vortex of burning plumes in the air.


    With the violent p of his wings, these sharp plumesunched towards the white snake, their edges shining in a vicious light.


    The snake looked at the ming feathers approaching her. The grey energies they were emitting were so familiar and seemed to want to devour everything, but more importantly, she could see how that power was so much stronger than her defence.


    The beast hissed as it wiggled its long body in the air and dodged some feathers, letting them hit the city beneath her, a single plume causing a house to explode and shatter into dust.


    "Weak. Weak. So weak."


    Bang!


    The snake sneered at the feathers that kepting towards her and also dodged more, unable to dodge all of them as three grey plumes made their way towards her, cutting into her scales, blood pouring out in streams and hitting the ground with the sounds of rain. The explosive force of Asura''s grey plumes caused Abaddon''s body to crush half the city.


    "You little-" The snake red at Asura. "I''ll make you pay. I''ll devour you. I''ll shred your soul and mind!"


    "Shut up. You talk too much."


    He didn''t want to waste too much time; swooping down, he twirled away from the serpent that snapped at him with a deadly bite, his ded talons tearing through her armoured scales beforetching onto her neck, lifting her into the sky, as his wings fluttered with all his strength. The heavy serpent thrashed and iled, being lifted into the skies.


    Abaddon let out a terrifying screech that resounded across the entire city. The screams of countless creatures resounded in Asura''s ears as he soared towards the skies.


    "Let me go, you damned bird!"


    "What? I thought you wanted me to be inside you. My ws are so deep in your flesh. Isn''t it good?"


    "Don''t pretend like you don''t know what I meant." The snake hissed, struggling with all her might, her tail twisting, mming and coiling around Asura, squeezing his wings and body, but to no avail, and the strength that her constriction released could not harm Asura.


    "It''s toote anyway. Enjoy the ride!"


    Asura''s body suddenly began to rotate horizontally in the sky rapidly, swinging the snake round and round and round. The snake''s head soon became dizzy, and its vision blurred, and it didn''t help that Asura was higher and higher in the skies.


    "Stop...stop....st....sto....!"


    Each rotation was faster than the previous; a loud howl sounded as the pair rotated in the air until Asura mmed the serpent down into a rough mountain beside the city with a jagged and sharp rock face.n/?/vel/b//in dot c//om


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    The snake crashed into the mountain, and rocks and debris sted apart and were flung into the air, slowly raining down, crushing anything unfortunate to be underneath as a huge crater formed on the mountain. The snake''s bodyy there as blood seeped from its scales, dripping off the rock and pooling at the base.


    "Haa... you need to lose weight....Ha....." Asura''s voice resounded over the mountain, his muscles aching from tossing the snake that must have weighed at least a dozen tonnes.


    However, Abaddon''s counterattack came instantly. Her mouth opened, and a beam of purple miasma shot at the winded Asura.


    Bang!


    The serpent expected the beam to hit Asura, but it crashed into the side of a mountain; a massive explosion tore open a cliff face and a thousand-metre-deep canyon formed in the process.


    "Shit. It was just a distraction," Asura muttered, spreading his wings and pping them, sending his body into the air and dodging the snake''s attack.


    Asura knew that his draconic, demon, and Elven bloodlines would protect him from the serpent''s poison, but he still had to avoid her breath.


    Abaddon rose into the air, staring at Asura as her forked tongue flickered in and out of her mouth. "You can''t keep up with me anymore. Soon, I''ll devour you. You can''t escape."


    She followed him, and their speed was fast, nearing the clouds when a ck light shed beneath her.


    "Huh?"


    Boom!


    Asura''s beak crashed into the white snake''s head as if he had teleported beneath her, and the impact made Abaddon''s skull vibrate.


    Her eyes shook as she tried to open her mouth and hit Asura with a miasma st, but his second blow, his talons, sliced her across the cheek, dazing her.


    A third attack followed; he aimed to grasp the snake once more and m her into the ground. However...


    "Cough!"


    Abaddon spat out a mouthful of blood, and the serpent''s head swayed as she spat her blood in the eyes of Asura, causing him to cry out before his huge tail snapped like a whip and smashed his body into the same mountain, like a meteornding.


    Bang!


    Massive clumps of dust were kicked up, and the earth trembled with an earthquake-like power. A five-hundred-metre crater was dug into the side of the mountain. Asura''s feathers and talons were buried in the rock. His beak cracked as he heaved, breathing in deep breaths, and his consciousness was blurry.


    "You need more experience when fighting in your true form, Asura." The serpent mmed down once again with her tail while her mouth sucked in the surrounding energy to create a huge beam of dark light. "Now die!"


    A bright white me floated around Asura as his beak opened and released a shockwave.


    "Hisssss." The serpent''s attack was halted as Asura''s gaze stared into her eyes with the re of a predator. His ws grasped the rock and shattered it in his grip as he rose, his wings and plumes ame.


    The moment he saw her actions, Asura''s beak began to absorb the surrounding Animus from the world at an rming rate; flowers and trees around him died almost instantly while the ck beam in the serpent''s mouth almost reachedpletion. The more energy Asura drew in, the more beautifully his wings shone with a ck and white me alternating.


    "I...can''t die. Not like this," Asura hissed.


    The air seemed to tremble with his words, and Asura''s plumes released a blinding ck light. Abaddon''s snake body also seemed to transform as she prepared to release her attack, the soldiers underneath barely able to tell what was happening.


    Abaddon released her attack, and Asura released his in response.


    The air seemed to be tranquil for a moment before their beams shot towards each other.


    Both beams collided, their shockwave destroying half the mountainside, city and ground below. Abaddon''s beam melting, corroding and destroying life, while Asura burned, erased and annihted everything it touched.


    "You want to devour me. Impossible!" Asura''s attack raged towards Abaddon''s.


    Abaddon was so surprised at this result that she did not respond at first until a strange smile came across her face as her attack started to push through Asura''s.


    "Pitiful!" Abaddon''s lips seemed to be moving, but Asura didn''t hear a sound.


    The world around them seemed to have slowed, and Abaddon''s speed of absorbing energy to shoot the beam increased at an rming rate. Asura''s wings were fading as the ck and white mes became duller.


    "Devour!" The snake hissed.


    "NO!"


    Asura''s eyes became bloodshot; the mes around his wings began to burn brighter again, the shockwave that surrounded his body from the air bing more violent as it resisted the advance of Abaddon''s corrosive beam. He didn''t want to kill her...


    but now he couldn''t hold back as the ck me of Asura changed colour; both white and grey began to swirl, forming a spiralling beam that seemed to devour her attack when the grey light collided with it.


    Abaddon''s pupils constricted at this scene; it was the first time she had seen grey mes, so she was utterly terrified as she felt her attack being devoured and the strange force from it entering her body, eating her life force and magic...


    The ck and white fire reversed the energy in her attack, destroying the strange miasma and using it to make their me stronger as the me attacked her beam and rapidly began to reverse the flow towards her.


    "Not possible! You aren''t supposed to be thisplete! They lied to me!"


    Her scream entered Asura''s ears and made him feel relieved. His dragon bloodline was awakened now, and it was his victory.


    Asura''s me destroyed her attack, but the mes shot through her beam, leaving only a tiny portion left before crashing into her mouth and corroding her insides.


    "Ahhh! Stop! Stop! Please! I''ll do anything. I''ll be your ve.


    I''ll worship you."


    The serpent''s cries echoed throughout the city and over the mountain as Asura''s grey mes devoured her body, melting her flesh and bones and causing her to thrash around in agony and misery.


    "Never again will you bother us. This is the end." Asura''s voice was cold, his mind finally free as he let out a screech, his voice sounding like thousands of voices as his grey mespletely devoured Abaddon.


    "NO! I WON''T LET YOU WIN!" Abaddon''s eyes shed, insanity and desperation as she suddenly began to swell, a huge energy aura growing from her abdomen. Before she exploded, a bright light blinded the entire area, with only the loud explosion following.


    BANG!


    A crater remained in the centre of the city, and only dust, rock, debris and a scorchednd where Abaddon had been remained.


    "That could have gone better."


    Asura''s body was exhausted, but he could feel it inside his chest as if something had broken free from its cage. He looked at the ashes and crater that remained of the woman who imed to be his fate, the saintess of the fallen sun... He killed her rather than epting her.


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    "Was this the right choice..." His voice was lonely as the darkness took him in.


    Exhausted after rushing here, after helping kill the monsters near Ar''soleil, and now after epting the bottom seat of the Abyss, he let down his guard, unaware of herst attack.


    A hundred lightning bolts from her explosion struck his body from the ground likeser beams, ast salvo from Abaddon, turning his feathers and armour to ash, before he returned to his human form, dropping to the ground like aet across the horizon, void of all power after giving everything to end the battle quickly.