Chapter-4 perfect theft
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Adan eyes gloss over slighty, Feeling as if they were just struck behind in head, a terrible pain runs through they're body violently, a moment later, the feeling of losing part of themselves settled in, and This was the effect of laffitte "perfect theft" he is able to steal a persons thoughts, ideas, various concepts alongside hollow energy & importantly being a persons soul given enough time.
High above past the world tree canopy's. arcing bolts of speeding red lightning rain upon both adan & luthen simultaneously, while still in state of electrified paralysis—laffitte floats even higher giving himself more distance now then before, raising up his other arm and then aiming towards whole world-tree massive canopy, his fingers flick with quiet snap and following a dark tone of voice: " perfect theft: meter-shower." Moment later, a tear in reality splits open vertically behind both Adan & luthen bleeding out what can only be described as corrupted hollowe energy; a tsunami of smoldering heat and rocks of countless burning lights, making contact almost instantly, the titanic branches of tree are punched through, the ancient world-tree bark sets aflame burning up more of the already now damaged tree branches body.
Adan off in the distance, remaining still in a state of paralysis, floating within in-between , feeling the sensation of their soul on fire continuously, the third eye of Calamity begins twitching sporadically.
Luthen watches in awe of the damage. Quickly, he parries back the white flames redirecting them towards him.. Adan instead. Luthen surmises that he should aim to take out the closest target and then focus completely on destroying laffitte.
A Sea of white sparks danced around Adan body they're third eye darted back and forth, moment later, they were riddle with flames of blinding lights. However, due to the calamity activating their third eye beforehand, in the next instance, a red cocoon wraps around calamity body protecting it from the wave oncoming damage.
the heat blast makes contact, Adan red cocoon's layers of reinforced true hollow-energy are burned through one after another, Luthen smoldering weaver flames continue to pressure down onto the calamity without fail, for a split second, everything almost feels.. peaceful.. as if death was etching
closer to Adan, ..then the silence fell.
Seven black wings appeared in front of them, blotting out the white flames heat, the angelic wings flap once more soaring into sky even higher then before above both Adan & Luthen.
Far above the three, laffitte avatar turns to look down at Luthen from distance, His right palm aimed towards the weaver one of his finger burns off with the words spoken "lambda type: flow" blasting forth a destructive force of pure lambda shaped its almost formless shape morphing into that of a giant snake, snapping it jaws, clamping down onto Luthen's body with pulverizing force.
Nearby, main laffitte forms into a ball of light and leaps from distance he was floating above, instantly, he appears in front Luthen face, without warning laffitte mouth splits open showing hundreds of rows of pearly white teeth countlessly chattering together like a never-ending screech.
Chomp!, with heavy bite Luthen feels his body.. no.. something even deeper.. his very soul with bitten into—tearing out a large chunck of the weavers very spirit.
Laffitte smirks ever so silently while thinking "good, Soul bite is a powerful ability we all possess as those of the divine calamity race, capable of biting and then tearing one's soul apart." A split second after the bite and powerful upward swing cuts across the space space in front of laffitte—from the spacial slice Luthen created he extended its target range directly cutting off one of laffitte arms and two of calamity wings.
Taking such a critical hit by the weaver caught the deceitful calamity off guard, immediately jumping back few meters, with the new found distance givin he looks down at his injuries and notices that the wounds aren't healing as fast.
'Damnation'
Laffitte hollow energy spreads across his third eye & damaged calamity wing, leaving only his lost arm to slowly heal, while flying backwards to maintain distance, his third eye twitches slightly, activating ahead of time to view any possible outcomes of Luthen trying to attack him.
Each image that plays in laffitte mind is immediately destroyed by his third eye, changing the fate of his outcomes. Quickly he grabs hold of the mandlebrot around him warping in on itself almost infinitely, then from that point of creation laffitte forms a heavy bow made up from pieces of reality itself.
The heavy bow is covered along its surface with stars, small orbiting planets, and even clusters of galaxies all woven into massive bow grander in size then branch they float above; Laffitte pulls back the thin ethereal string, straining his muscles tightly following him aim directly for Luthen chest. draw, aim, then release!.
The Cosmic arrow whizzes through the planes of the in-between, as it travels Luthen can see different layers of reality shattering around the arrow movements.
as the arrow was about to make contact with weaver guardsmen, Luthen drops his body into low sumo stance getting himself ready into a defensive position, the weaver blade in hand gleaming ever so brightly and moving forward with divine speed a powerful slash is sent, cutting through space-time itself parrying the mandlebrot infused arrow back———causing a another wave of true hollow energy to wash over everything in the area, however, despite Luthen defending himself he felt as if something was horribly wrong in that fact.. why was Laffitte play at distance so despite both of them sustaining similar levels of damage yet.. something harrowing came to his mind 'why would ne send that occurrence knowing I would sense it.. unless he did that on purpose and.. WAIT.' Quickly Luthen turns towards Adan location sensing a dip in they're hollow energy output.. and what he saw would forever burn into his memory.
Far in the distance, Luthen sees long trail of cosmic-dust splattered across the branches and space around laffitte himself he was.. doing something unspeakable even by views of the calamity and that was the consumption of one's third eye, Luthen watched as the deceitful being chewed, crunched, then swallowed whole the third eye of Adan, the calamity eyes seem gloss over and lose their luster.
from the continuous amounts of damage sustained including the extensive use of restoration and partial forms alongside their third eyes & flow states, Adan had completely exhausted their hollow energy reverses but so did Laffitte as well, so deciding on one last gamble, he use the lingering effects of his perfect theft ability to steal a vison from Luthen third eye to make his false and only focus on the attack ahead of him and nothing else, leaving Laffitte the opportunity to steal what he wanted from the begin.
His ascendancy.
After consuming the third eye, Luthen noticed Laffitte hollow energy output instantly double just from what he was seconds ago in strength, readying his weaver blade he activates the white flames of balance & harmony, while Laffitte at the opposite distance looking at him, he activates his black flames, coating his body completely, while his black angelic wings flap quietly behind him.
"You know weaver, I think I understand why my family shunned my existence, and I think.. it's simply.. haha.. nevermind why I would care anymore, after all I am the calamity of lies and deception, and a truth is something one will never know."
Laffitte black flames swirled around creating a storm of never ending darkness and indistinguishable heat, both flames collided with another the white flames of mercy battled mercilessly against the abyssal fire of chaos, eventually after what felt like hours of countless attempts to destroy and create, Luthen came to realize that after what felt like endless battle finally ended.
The Laffitte he attacked was destroyed and all things were right.. right.. or were things wrong.. so very wrong.. no things were over and he was dead now or so.. I thought?. Luthen minds races before coming to abrupt realization he been fighting for hours even though he himself was already exhausted and was no way able to battle someone who had just did forceful ascend ritual and that's when he felt reality shatter around him and looks down to see gaping wounds all down his body from his chest to abdomen, while all of his Weaver wings were destroyed crippling him even more as well, with cosmic blood dripping into star dust floating off into nothingness.
he sees Laffitte in front of him standing there floating the cracked spiked crown still bleeding endlessly above his head, now possessing what is now 10 calamity wings each a deep color of onyx, his eyes are alluringly beautiful yet quietly evil and the porcelain skin of a sweet doll still remains ever changed even with the damaged he sustained & is now being resorted rapidly as the weaver Luthen can see from his eyes now going blurred.
"Well.. you truly are a deceptive little worm the ability to steal ideas,concepts and even things such as one's soul is quite the powerful trigger ability.. cough! Ahh.. I'm of suprised though despite your way of playing at distance, you're more then capable of dealing with threats up close if needed, but even then, because of what we are as two groups, this battle for our views and ideals may never cease, after all, we are bound to this fate."
After saying that Luthen body drops to one of the nearby world tree branches,
Laffitte lands down next to him his hand gestured in shape of a blade to stab in the head straight where his third eye is.
He looks down at Luthen, his face almost completely devoid of any emotion expect one thing and one thing only, Laffitte has the face of inspiration gleaming in his eyes, without warning he plunged his right hand straight into weaver's head, pulling out the third eye he swallowed it whole and once again forcibly ascended.
"I'm not one for the sentiments, but I do think it's funny that despite our views we share so many similarities that it's almost uncanny to a degree, but aye.. what do I know? I'm simply calamity trying cause a little chaos here and there."
Laffitte traces one of his fingers along the air, splitting open a tear in Reality, he walks along into portal a small but noticeable smile plastered on his face one of excitement and deceitful glee.
The portal closes leaving only the bloody cosmic remains of a terrible battle of divine scale, Followed by the tale of who all within both calamities and weavers would come to know as the blasphemer.
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More chapters to be coming soon…