Chapter 408: Zach and Ra'azel

Chapter 408: Zach and Ra'azel

Analysis

For the first time he truly felt a soul die. Zachs had spent a lot of time sharpening the sense of his soul. He had never imagined what it would feel like, to see it in such a way. Anroshs soul had cried out in a soundless tone as it was torn apart. There was only one way to describe such an act, and that was evil. In a world where immortality and afterlives existed, killing in such a manner could only ever be an act of pure malice.

A Runesmith? The voice from Zachs sword said. A Ra of my people.

The yeti, Raazel Equinar was a monster unlike anything that Zach had faced before. His power strange and unknown. Orbs appeared around him, floating in the air, each giving off a different Essence.

He looked at the yeti, trying to find some purchase with his Of Precision and Sealing but he felt nothing that he could touch. There was no Class, no Cultivation, no Skill. Whatever the yeti was doing, Zach didnt understand enough yet to target.

There was a finality to the yetis words, as if what had happened so far was nothing but a prelude. Zach was frozen, his eyes looking at the place where Anrosh used to be. He did not know Kris mother well, but the few words they had exchanged had been kind. She did not deserve such a death, Zach felt himself reaching toward the plane of Time, then stopped himself. He steeled his heart and leaned on his anger. All was not yet lost.

Before he could do anything, the yetis orbs started firing at him and Naha. His hand raised in Enders direction. The man was powerful, but he was no fighter, he still reacted. Zach felt perks and abilities activating. Plants bursting from the ground all around them.

Zach dashed forward empowered by his perks, he activated everything that he could, and Naha followed. They weaved through the attacks from the orbs, bolts of Fire, Ice, and many others that he didnt have the time to recognize. He leaned his will on his |Perfect Mind Training Analysis| seeing the patterns teaching himself the best way to evade. The orbs were compensating as he closed the distance. He pushed on his skill breaking through the plateau that held it back.

|Perfect Mind Training Analysis: My Mind, Seeing Patterns| showed him more. He saw the flaws in the orbs construction, and he switched his Blade to Windsong. He danced in between attacks that scorched and turned the earth beneath his feet. The wind carrying him and helping him turn faster.

The yeti fired his black lightning at Ender before Zach could reach him. Ender burst into petals, the lightning lashing through. A tree that had sprung from the ground nearby blossomed, petals fell and Ender reformed. Roots and branches, thorns and thin streams of liquid burst from all the plants around the yeti, attacking him and his orbs.Folloow current novÊls on nov/3lb((in).(co/m)

He didnt move, his armor flashed and a shield sprung around him, protecting him from everything. Zach focused his mind and will. With |Perfect Field of Frozen Time| he froze all the orbs in the air, with |Perfect Aim: My Strikes, Always True| he marked his targets. Then he unleashed his Shattering Song, his blade sang, and vibrations blasted out of his blade, tearing the orbs apart.

He stepped and wind pushed him forward, his sword raised high as layered a perk into it, Double Aspect Strike, and struck at the shield around the yeti. His sword blurred and struck the shield twice in quick succession, the weight of a wind behind it. It rebounded as if it was nothing.

Change directions, the voice from his sword said, Ravallim. A Runesmith is prepared for all eventualities, but he must see and then respond, the speed by which he reacts is his only weakness.

Zach nodded, Naha stepped in from behind him and stabbed the shield, cracking it. Zach stepped back then took to the sky. His body ached from a hundred tiny cuts, from the attacks that he didnt understand. He reached for his perks and unleashed a few in a quick succession. Rift Shout shook the space around them, and Greater Rift Tear caused a shockwave of surging wind to explode into the clearing, turning the already devastating wind even more deadly. Zach stepped into the rift and then out immediately, then he used Essence Elemental.

He burst into the Wind, turning into a master of it all, he used [Aspect True Sight] to see and then he howled as he took control of all the Wind around him. As he pulled more out of the rift. Naha stepped back, and out of the range. Ender was somewhere in the distance. Zach called to him the Wind, and then sent it all down against the yetis shield.

Everything was drowned out in the howls of the Wind crashing against the earth, destroying dirt into dust, pulverizing stone. Shockwaves exploded all around the shield as Zach flew in a circle, as his Wind shattered Sound Essence and bent Space.

The shield cracked, and more constructs came into being all around the yeti. His sphere of protection hung in the air, anchored to space as Zach cratered the Earth all around him, leaving him suspended against nothing.

Hands of shadows appeared all around and he saw everything darken, then something bubbled out of the shadowy form.

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Raazel lost his patience. The rune of obliteration flashed in his hand and the shadow was turned to nothing.

NO! He heard a yell behind him and turned.

Plants exploded out of the ground, and his old friend flew toward him, his blade and sword flashing with light. Annoying and troublesome. The battle was too long, he detected more coming his way. No more.

He pulled out a spear, fashioned out of a horn of a dragon of light. He named a target and let it go. It flew off, stabbing through a tree to impale the target behind it, then it burst into an explosion that obliterated the plant user into dust. A second construct followed, a soul catcher that flew behind the spear and collected the soul for later use.

His old friend paused, then continued on. Raazel raised a hand as a flurry of attacks came at him. But now he could see the attacks coming across the short dilation of time. Three shield constructs came into being and blocked all the attacks, surprising his target. He carved the runes in the air as his old friend cut through his shields.

A blade came down on Raazels throat, but he finished his verse. Runes flashed in the air next to his hand, carved by will and soul.

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Zachs attack nearly reached Raazels throat. He killed Naha, and Zach had to force himself not to react, to continue, even when he saw Ender die a moment after. He had to move, to force him to do more, to show him everything.

And then, just as his attack was going to hit, he was wrenched back, his body suspended in the air with his limbs sprayed wide. He felt something press on him and his limbs were crushed into paste then ripped apart. Zachs mind went blank for a moment from the pain. He was kept bound in the air, blood spilling from his body where his hands and legs used to be.

It was a good showing, he heard Raazels voice said. But now it ends.

Zach looked down on the yeti, his armor scared and damaged. He was so powerful, but he wasnt invulnerable.

Zach glared at the monster with rings in his eyes. No, Zach bit through the pain. He opened himself to Time fully, plunging deep into the River of Time, as deep as he had been only once before. He reached for that wave that pushed ever forward, for the foundation of the river. And then he pulled.

The yeti tilted his head, the eyes seen through the visor flashing with something.

Zach smiled. Now it begins.

And So It Was Once Again.