Chapter 104 - The Ark Of Primordial Beasts

"Well, some sacrifices have to be made for the greater good. Here goes nothing!"

She took another deep breath. And this time, before the Umbra could destroy the spell, she stabbed the lance into her arm. She howled with pain but quickly regained her composure. Her eyes were vehement. Even the Umbra was flabbergasted as he witnessed the scene.

"You'd go so far to avenge someone who you've just met?!" asked the Umbra, appalled at the Valkyrie.

"I'd go further to defeat the likes of you!" she yelled, as the lance merged with her arm.

"You're insane!" yelled the Umbra.

"Then you haven't met the rest of us..."

Her grin was like the smile of the devil. Her eyes flashed and shined brilliantly like a star. Her entire expression was one of a madman's.

Due to the merging, her hand was turned into the tip of a lance. Her entire arm was engulfed with flames with an emerald hue surrounding it. She then flipped upside down and thrust her 'lance' towards the traumatized Umbra.

"Impossible! You couldn't!"

The Umbra was beginning to fear for the Valkyrie's sanity. That was her main problem. When it comes to battle, she would do anything to win the fight. She gets blinded by the adrenaline of battle.

"Oh, yes I can!"

The Valkyrie smiled as she leaped through the air, slashing the Umbra with high speed. He was now having trouble to fend off Mavislin's spastic attacks. His Wakizashi was started to break due to the flurry of slashes made by the 'lance'.

The dark sky was filled with sparks as the two battled it out. Whenever her arm moved, a trail of fire would follow suit. The Umbra knew that it was on the losing end if it did not come up with something fast.

The Umbra stopped dead in its tracks as Mavislin launched another attack on it.

"Standing still ain't going to help!" yelled the energetic Valkyrie as she quickly launched herself towards the still Umbra.

The Umbra smiled as it held up the Marquess' Wakizashi. The Umbra then pointed right at the Valkyrie's direction.

"Open! Gate of the Primordial Beasts!"

"No way!"

Mavislin was shocked at the Umbra. How could it have known to open the gates?! The Marquess was never a Mage... And there was only one Mage that she had known that was capable of doing such a spell.

"You damned thing! You took her powers!" shouted the Valkyrie as the thing unleashed a shock wave of Elemental Energy.

"She wasn't strong enough to beat me using such godlike powers. So I took it for myself."

"You're lying! She couldn't have lost against the likes of you."

The Valkyrie was undeniably pissed at the boastful Umbra.

"Well, you thought wrong."

The Wakizashi was soon engulfed by a purple dust cloud. The area around them had also changed, from being in the Valkyrie's favor to siding with the Umbra in the current moment. The Umbra closed its eyes, appearing to summon up a strong spell.

"She's the embodiment of despair... She trails a smog of utmost turmoil and jeers... Lamented souls lay clinging onto her feet, unable to move on. She consumed the world, collecting those poor, unfortunate souls as trophies..."

The Elemental Aura was suffocating as the incantation was chanted. The Umbra then shouted out the rest of the incantation.

"Door of the Sunken Shipwreck: Celeste!"

"Damn it!"

Mavislin summoned up her shield once more, to brave the oncoming tide of chaos.

"Abyssal Fog!"

As soon as the thing yelled the last few words, the area exploded into a mass of darkness. Thick, purple fog engulfed the two, making it hard for them to battle. The Umbra was used to this thickness of fog but the Valkyrie was beginning to waver from the fight.

"Looks like a fog isn't your thing, eh?"

A voice appeared at her left but the attack came from the back, leading to a fatal slash on her wings. She winced in pain as her wings still needed more time to fully recover. Though it had recovered on the surface, it was still not ready to use as a shield.

She quickly turned, ready to return the attack but was instead met with more thick fog. This infuriated the Valkyrie. And the Umbra's laugh did not help at all. She leaped through the fog once more, trying to find the source of that laughter.

"It'll take more than that to defeat me in my planet's environment," grinned the Umbra as it landed another slash.

"Shine! The light of Valkyries!" exclaimed Mavislin as she plunged the lance into the thick fog.

A pillar of light appeared, surrounding the Valkyrie. It then managed to disperse the entire area of its clouds.

"I expected no less from the last child of Valokia," praised the Umbra.