"Last words? Yeah, I have some," said Mori.
"Alright! Let's hear it, I'm in no rush, after all," said Luxian.
Mori was on his back, looking at the sky where the sword resided, its size colossal.
"How many like us are there?" asked Mori.
"Well that's not really last words," said Luxian.
He walked back, grabbing the small wooden chair.
As he did, Mori noticed smoke coming from under him, vanishing as Luxian turned around again.
Once back next to him, he sat on it, crossing his legs while sitting upright.
"I figured since you don't want to go back to that 'boring' front-line, you wouldn't mind telling me some things before I die," said Mori.
Luxian nodded, "You might be trying to save time here, but you can't beat me. Maybe if that sword up there was real, you could."
"It's not real?" asked Jeff.
"Obviously, it's way too big to be real. If someone had that kind of magic they'd also be way stronger than this guy."
"So," cut Mori. "Is there more people like us, like you?"
"Sovereigns? Quite a few. On the front-lines there's two others with us, while the last one stays at the capital."
"Why keep you guys there? If your war relies on three Sovereigns, then the moment I kill you, you'll start losing."
Luxian's eyes squinted at Mori, while his teeth showed through his smile. As Mori seemed serious, he started laughing again.
"Hah- Kill me? Hahaha, fuck me, you're killing me here, oh man!"
Luxian turned around in his chair. "I think I'll keep him alive."
"Why would you?" asked Mori.
"We have ways to make you obedient. You'd receive a slave curse, and I'd have you join me on the front-lines. With enough training, you could maybe be as strong as me. You're a Sovereign too, after all."
"Are the other ones as strong as you?"
Luxian's smile faded.
"Oh, hell no. These useless..." Luxian remembered Jeff was behind him, "...These valued members of our elite force are well-trained, but not on my level. They've barely broken through the 5th and 6th path. I'm all the way up at the tenth."
Mori chuckled.
"That makes you all pretty weak, doesn't it?"
Luxian frowned, "Listen, you can try provoking me all you want, I'm not killing you before you're branded with the curse."
"Luxian, I'm pretty sure...-" started Jeff.
"Just-Shut up, man. You're really annoying me, right now. You're not on our level, stop acting like it. You're just an average man with high level toys. Know your place."
"We just need to take the ring..."
Luxian turned around, looking at Mori, remembering he had cut his limbs clean off. He quickly looked around, trying to find them, but they were gone.
"What?! Where..."
Luxian scanned the area quickly, but no limbs remained.
His smile was gone, fading a little bit more.
"Quick! Quick! It's falling! You need to stop it!" yelled Jeff.
Luxian quickly launched a light spear toward the sword in the sky.
As it reached it, it broke on its surface.
"Fuck, it's real?!"
Luxian ignored Jeff and crouched, light wings coming out of his back as he prepared to launch.
As he started his upward motion, chains came out of the ground, piercing both his wrists, trying to reel him in.
"You should clean some of that blood off you," said Mori.
Luxian looked down, Mori's blood was all over him.
He tried to jump again, using more of his power to launch himself upward, the chains eventually gave up, but new ones popped from the ground as he broke free.
Luxian was able to lift a few meters of the ground, but the chains just multiplied.
They kept coming, one by one, piercing his body and trying to reel him in, as he fought to take off.
The sound of the sword falling became louder.
Its real size was truly impressive, as it got closer, it looked even bigger.
Soon, the sky disappeared, the only thing remaining was the edge of a sword.
There was no escape.
Luxian was a few meters off the ground, still fighting against the chains.
"Looks like this is the end," said Mori, still on his back.
"You're so weak, how?!" said Luxian, struggling.
"My mana is weak because most of it went into the sword. You should've just killed me."
"But a spell of that level! What are you, 11th or 12th path?!"
"19th."
Luxian's face went pale, as he looked up one last time.
Nothing besides the sword could be seen in the sky, as it was about to finally reach them.
All of them looked up. In their final moments, all they could hear was Mori Laughing.