Chapter 432 Sacrifice

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"Unnggh..! No…! Nooooooo…!"

The scream of Kyle resonated across the skies, as Blake and Eleanora converged their entire power into the combined spear, piercing through the Rank 3 Spirit Orb of Kyle, and shattering it into pieces in a single hit.

CRAAAAASSSSHH!

TRUUUMM…!

The old necromancer's soul began to scream in agony as the last core of its power was destroyed. Losing all of its magic power and even the control it held over the souls it had devoured and merged with!

"OOOOOHHHH!"

The wailing scream of thousands of souls echoed across the skies, as they all flew away in fear, separating themselves from Kyle's soul, and leaving a small and weak soul.

Oftentimes, a soul takes the shape of the person it belongs to. However, in extreme cases where a person's personality and mind get stuck in a certain trauma, their soul might take upon such a trauma appearance.

Instead of the old man Blake expected, what remained of Kyle's soul was a small and defenseless child.

"A… child?"

Blake muttered those words, as his mind quickly blacked out.

Within his spirit orb, Eleanora emerged, hugging him tightly and quickly bringing him down, looking at Ellergest who flew towards the soul of Kyle.

"Kyle…"

"Sniff…"

The child was crying.

Ellergest slowly approached his friend's soul, as he found a child at his eleven years of age curled up in fetal position and crying endlessly.

"Don't get closer…"

Ellergest was suddenly stopped by the voice of his friend.

"You're scared of me, right?"

"Ah…"

"I am a monster…"

"No… Kyle…"

"I've done so many horrifying things… I didn't knew where to go… and who to ask for help… I had nobody… I did what I had to do to survive… But at the end, I began to fall more and more, until I couldn't go back…"

"It's… No… It is my fault."

"No, I was always a monster… the villagers were right, mom and dad… Everyone was right."

The white-haired boy with red eyes looked back at Ellergest, as his ruby eyes began to cry tears of sorrow and loneliness.

"I don't deserve you as my friend…"

Ellergest gritted his teeth, rushing towards Kyle's soul and hugging him, bathing his soul with his purifying holy light.

The young Kyle's eyes opened wide, as he felt the warmth of his old friend.

"No… I've always been your friend. It is not a matter if you deserve someone, it was my own choice." Ellergest sighed, his soul suddenly emerging out of his body…

"You're not a monster…" He hugged Kyle. "You're the most kindhearted and adorable child I've ever met in my life… I am sorry for leaving you, and for… not understanding you."

"No… I am sorry too, for everything I did…" Cried Kyle. "I know… I cannot do much now… I was scared… I…"

"It's fine, Kyle." Sighed Ellergest. "It's fine."

Ellergest had already understood what had happened to Kyle that day after he investigated for years. The village wanted to capture the young child to burn him into a cross as a sacrifice to the Holy Spirits.

The three thugs they paid to capture him were actually former bandits, and they had tortured him before they died. His parents were also insane after having become addict to alcohol and drugs, and they had completely lost any love they had left for their son, condemning him for their own sins and leaving him to die.

What Kyle had done that day was his desperate struggle to keep himself alive, and perhaps, he couldn't resist any longer, falling into his own insanity, which he tried so hard to resist.

He was never someone right on his mind, and Ellergest knew it. He was someone that deserved special treatment, but these people broke him…

He wanted to amend for having left him behind and go with him.

"Oi… old man!"

The Holy Dragon cried, trying to stop Ellergest from what he was doing.

"Friend, I am leaving the rest up to you. I'll lend you to Elizabeth. Take good care of her." Ellergest smiled back at his spirit, as the figure of his twelve-year-old self emerged, a young boy filled with energy and life.

"No… But what about Elizabeth?!" Cried the Holy Dragon.

"She already has many with her…" Ellergest smiled. "I am sure she wont miss this old man as much."

"You damn old man…" The Holy Dragon began to cry, covering his eyes with his arm.

Ellergest's younger self emerged before Kyle's soul, holding his hand.

"Let's go, Kyle."

"Ellergest…"

"Let's go on an adventure like you wanted."

Kyle's eyes shone brightly, as he smiled.

"Really? Will you go with me?"

"Of course! I've always dreamed about our adventure. Let's go."

The two boys walked across the skies, as the sun suddenly emerged across the dark clouds, shining brightly, and leaving a path of sunlight where the two younglings walked across, leading them to the afterworld, a world of souls.

Everyone saw the scene in that moment. Two young children walking across the clouds, slowly reaching further and further above the heavens, running and playful laughing together…

"Who are those two?" Wondered Jack.

"What… am I seeing? Holy Spirits?" Asked Seth.

"Papa…" Elizabeth cried, as tears began to flow across her face. Through the powers of her spirit, she quickly understood what was happening. "So this is… what you wanted, right?"

She didn't felt sad because he was leaving, as she smiled, feeling that this was… what Ellergest truly desired.

"You must have loved your friend a lot, papa…" Elizabeth said, as she continued crying, seeing the two children playfully walk across the stairs made of sunlight… and then disappearing.

That day, the battle against the Necromancer, Kyle, was over. Although it was a great victory for many, it was also a great lost. Ellergest's lifeless body was brought to the village with utmost respect and great efforts to maintain him clean.

Many of the villagers that knew him began to cry, almost the entire village lamented his lost. He was known as a hero that sacrificed his life to defeat the evil necromancer, but only a few knew the real story behind his sacrifice…

He simply didn't wanted to leave behind his friend anymore.

…

Across an endless horizon, there was a beautiful and colorful garden of flowers.

Two young boys walked across the garden of flowers, holding hands.

There was a smaller one, with white hair and shiny red eyes, and a taller boy with brown hair and golden eyes.

"Look! This flower… It is named Ellergest, like you." The white-haired boy said.

"My name… was after this flower?" Wondered the taller boy.

"Yeah, it means friendship!"

"I see…"

Ellergest took a red flower, a rose, and put it over the white hair of Kyle.

"And this red flower fits your beautiful eyes the most."

"My eyes? You find them… beautiful?"

"Of course. They're… one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen."

Kyle opened his eyes wide in surprise, as he sighed and smiled.

"Geez, you really like to make me embarrassed…"

"Alright, let's go on, there's a whole adventure awaiting for us, right?"

"Yeah! I can't wait!"

"Let's have the adventure we never had together, Kyle…"

"Let's have lots of fun, meet lots of people, and see many places, Ellergest!"

"Alright, alright, calm down a bit… You always get so energetic when you get excited… Hahah…"

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