Chapter 217: Into The Abyss
Chapter 217: Into The Abyss
In the center of the infinite diamond plain stood a simple white gazebo. Inside the gazebo sat two figures at a small crystal table.
One was the Avatar of Ascalon, looking exactly as he had in the lower realm. His silver hair floated perfectly, and his white tunic remained spotless.
The other figure was a tall, incredibly gaunt man wearing a tattered black cloak. His face was entirely hidden in the shadows of his hood, but his pale, skeletal hands rested casually on the table. He was casually sipping a cup of dark tea.
It was the Primus of Death. The ancient entity who had originally given Adonis the mission to fix lower firmaments.
"You took your absolute time, Adonis," the Primus of Death chuckled.
"We have been waiting for over an hour."
Adonis stopped walking. His violet eyes locked onto the skeletal figure.
"Primus, You are sitting at the same table as the thief," Adonis stated coldly.
His voice held no surprise, only a deep, terrifying promise of violence.
"You set me up, Primus."
"Set you up is such a harsh phrase, my boy," Primus replied, setting his teacup down gently. "I prefer to call it a necessary business transaction."
"How can you do this? You told me the system was broken. You gave me the authority to tear down Ascalon’s influence."
"And you did a wonderful job," the Sword God Ascalon interjected.
He offered a polite, incredibly annoyed smile.
"You cleared out all the old, malfunctioning machinery in the lower firmaments. You saved me centuries of manual demolition work."
"You see, Adonis," Primus of Death explained, standing up from his chair. "Ascalon needed the firmaments cleared to build his new Golden Heavens. But if he destroyed the old system himself, the cosmic balance would have rejected him. He needed an outside variable. He needed a mortal anomaly."
"Yes. I needed a wrecking ball," Ascalon agreed, smiling. "And you, with your massive ego and your chaotic powers, were the perfect tool. Primus sent you, wound you up, and pointed you at my basement."
Sirius hissed, stepping in front of Adonis. "You used us! You manipulated my Emperor just to renovate your divine domain!"
"Do not act so offended, little succubus. Adonis got exactly what he wanted. He got to conquer. He got his army. He got to feel like a god."
"But a tool must be put away when the work is finished," Ascalon said.
He stood up and drew his silver rapier. The infinite white sky above them began to hum with absolute, terrifying divine energy.
"Your contract is complete, Adonis Kingsbane. I will take your soul now. It will make an excellent centerpiece for my new heaven."
Adonis looked at Primus. Then he looked at Ascalon. The violet flames on his chaos sword began to burn hotter, turning into a blinding, pure white fire of absolute rage.
"But you both made a critical error in your calculations," Adonis said coldly.
"Oh?" Primus tilted his hooded head. "And what is that, my boy?"
"You assumed I was building an empire inside your system," Adonis smiled a smile that promised the end of all things.
"I am not a wrecking ball, Primus. I am an apocalypse. And I am going to slaughter you both."
"Your apocalypse is an impossibility," Ascalon sneered.
"That is a concern for scholars. I am an Emperor!" Adonis roared.
"No, You are just a delusional vessel," Primus chuckled.
"You cannot weigh the might of my soul!"
He swung his great sword. The white fire of his chaotic power and the devotion of his maidens collided with Ascalon’s rapier. The impact did not make a sound. Instead, the entire 1st Firmament violently shook. The infinite diamond floor shattered into millions of sparkling fragments, floating up into the white sky like reverse rain.
"It is just raw, unrefined power," Ascalon scoffed. He blocked the massive, blazing blade with a single, elegant twist of his wrist.
"You lack the divine refinement to even scratch me, Adonis.."
"Then I will not scratch you. I will break you in half!" Adonis pushed harder.
The violet flames erupted, melting the space around them.
"Such youthful energy," Primus of Death whispered.
The skeletal entity bypassed the spatial distortion entirely and appeared directly behind Adonis.
"But all energy must eventually expire," Primus added smoothly.
Primus placed a pale, skeletal hand directly on Adonis’s back. The touch immediately began to wither Adonis’s flesh, a rotting curse fighting against the protective warmth of his maidens’ devotion.
"Get away from him, you walking corpse!" Sirius screamed and lunged forward.
Her whip sword uncoiled like a striking viper, aiming directly for the hooded entity’s skull.
"Sit down, little pet," Primus sighed without turning around.
Bang!
A wave of dark, crushing gravity slammed Sirius into the ruined diamond floor. It pinned her instantly, cracking the crystalline ground beneath her.
"I told you to keep your hands off my woman!" Adonis bellowed.
He spun around with blinding speed, unleashing a massive horizontal arc of chaotic white fire toward the Primus of Death.
"Your woman?" Ascalon laughed in disdain.
The Sword God stepped directly into the arc of fire. He ignored the burning heat and pierced Adonis’s left shoulder with the silver rapier.
"They are nothing but dust in the grand design, Adonis. And I am the absolute architect of this reality."
Adonis coughed up a thick mouthful of blood, but his arrogant smirk never faded.
Adonis reached into the deepest depths of his soul, calling upon the unbreakable bond he shared with his maidens. He demanded every ounce of their love, drawing out their absolute devotion until his own spiritual core began to crack under the impossible strain.
Nonetheless.
Buzz!
A towering pillar of blinding pink and dark violet light erupted from Adonis’s body. The sheer, concussive force of the affection energy blew Ascalon back ten feet.
"He is burning his own eternal essence!" Primus gasped. The god of death quickly pulled his hand away as his dark robes caught fire.
"I am burning everything today!" Adonis yelled. "Chaos Ultimate!"
He brought the great sword down with the concentrated force of a collapsing star. The infinite white sky of the 1st Firmament literally screamed. The blinding light above them cracked open like a fragile pane of glass, revealing a terrifying, absolute blackness behind the veil of heaven.
"You brainless fool! You are tearing the boundary of the Void!"
"Heh, I told you, I am an apocalypse."
"Silence him immediately, Primus!" Ascalon ordered.
Ascalon raised his silver rapier toward the heavens, summoning a million glowing golden swords in the fractured sky.
Primus raised both of his skeletal hands, chanting in a forgotten cursed tongue that made the air bleed.
In an instance, Roaring river of grey death erupted from his tattered cloak.
"Golden Execution!" Ascalon yelled.
"Eternal Slumber!" Primus echoed.
The two supreme attacks merged together into a massive, spiraling drill of golden light and grey decay. It crashed down directly onto Adonis with the weight of a dying universe.
The great sword flew from Adonis’s hands, shattering into a dozen useless pieces. The brilliant white fire completely faded. The protective barrier of chaos shattered. Adonis fell heavily to his knees.
Every single bone in his body was broken. The chaotic power in his veins had run completely dry. He was inches away from death.
"Adonis!" Sirius cried out in pure agony.
She struggled desperately against the crushing gravity, her bruised fingers reaching out for him.
"It is finally over, mortal. You fought well for a pawn. But the board belongs to the gods."
"Hehe, your soul goes into the furnace now," Primus added.
The skeletal entity pointed a bony finger at the massive crack in the sky.
"Or perhaps, we will just throw out the trash into the abyss."
"Noooo! I will not let you take him!" Sirius roared, her fangs bared and her ruby eyes glowing with pure hatred.
"You are next, succubus," Ascalon sneered. "Your essence will serve as a nice little spark for my new gates."
Adonis slowly looked up. His vision was blurring heavily. His life force was fading into nothingness.
"No," Adonis whispered, forcing the words through his bloodied teeth. "She is not yours."
"You have no moves left, Kingsbane," Primus chuckled darkly.
Adonis smiled weakly.
"I always have one last move."
He gathered the very willpower, summoning the sword spirit.
"Vexa, send her to Lyra. Send her to the mortal realm. Send her to my sanctuary."
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"Stop him!" Ascalon realized the sudden shift in spatial magic and lunged forward with his rapier.
But too late.
"No! Adonis, no!" Sirius screamed as her tears fell freely onto the ruined diamond floor.
"Do not send me away! I want to die with you!"
"You are going to live," Adonis said weakly. "Tell the others I will find my way back. I always do."
"Adonis!"
The portal swallowed Sirius completely. She vanished a split second before Ascalon’s rapier pierced the empty space where her heart had just been.
"You insolent, arrogant mortal!" Ascalon roared in fury.
BAM!
He kicked Adonis directly in the chest with a divine burst of speed.
Adonis was sent flying backward. He skidded across the shattered floor, stopping right at the very edge of the massive crack he had created in the boundary.
Below him was the Void. It was an endless, empty abyss completely untouched by the light of the heavens or the fires of the underworld.
"Sigh, he wasted his last breath of magic to save a lowly demon," Primus shook his head in absolute disgust. "Truly pathetic to the very end."
"Tch, I will retrieve her later," Ascalon spat, wiping soot from his flawless face. "But you, Adonis Kingsbane, will cease to exist. Enjoy the infinite nothingness."
Adonis hung precariously over the edge of the Void. He looked at the two supreme beings staring down at him.
"The nothingness is just another territory, Ascalon," Adonis laughed as blood spilled freely from his lips, but his violet eyes remained entirely unbroken.
"And I am a conqueror. Keep my throne warm for me, Ascalon."
"Begone," Ascalon commanded.
He flicked his wrist, sending a final, brutal pulse of golden kinetic force. It struck Adonis square in the chest.
Adonis did not scream. He simply smiled as the gravity of the firmaments vanished. He tipped backward, falling off the edge of the 1st Firmament.
The blinding light of the golden heavens quickly faded above him, replaced entirely by the consuming, absolute dark.
He fell into the abyss.
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