(Rui's celestial crest, Eigi's aether mark, Rio's full power and Kakashi's nova eyes.)
We made our way to the heart of the hole, jumping over things now became our favourite thing to do. Rio and I got separated during a fall, which came by a wall. Rui and Eigi also fell into a deep pit. Where no light no be seen.
"Well. A dive in a giant hole couldn't hurt. Could it." I muttered under my breath. "No, actually it could." Said Shira as he kicked me deeper in the hole.
Using my arms, I bent my body backwards multiple times.
"A backflip huh." Shira said.
"Hey. I have a question for you?" Im anger I asked him. "Ask on brat!"
"What is the differences between you and the giant thingy? I... I mean he divided himself into six pieces. That was when we got the 'Shira clones', then we defeated them but right after we finished with that you just came along in drag us down here!" I said.
"To answer that take a long period of time! So no I won't say." The clone seemed different somehow. He is almost like the one Kakashi fought. The smartest of the Shira clones and the maybe the strongest of them.
So he letting me figure it out myself. Ahh okay. I will play his game.
Knowing that I had no chance against it one on one, meaning I had to use my dragon mark.
After activating it I sensed a very strange sensation of power between Shira and me. "So. Time has come for his reappearance. 'The king of all dragons.' Looks like Rial will awaken a new eye." Garmish said in his head.
Rui's perspective:
"Awaken you mark huh." I muttered under my breath.
The one thing I said I didn't need to use is maybe now the thing I must use. 'the celestial crest.'
The celestial crest is an ancient mark belonging to the first king. Long ago I creature with impeccable beauty lived. He was an alien like-creature, not man and not animal. He was a creature of its own, almost like a god.
Like the first king, it was insanely strong. It was able to destroy a whole in seconds. Human armies were merely toys in front of it.
And like any other, they let their power blinded them, it started evading National cities, it killed many without a single thought. And that was when the first king decided to seal it.
The only way to seal which a powerful being was a mark seal, of which some would have to bear. The first king himself chose that faith. But they all also knew that he would die some when he is older.
Unfortunately for them his brother, the first king's biological brother was powerful enough to hold it in. And around the same time when he was about to die I was born.
Since the 'Lune eyes' are seem like a god given gift, I was immediately chosen to hold the beast.
But even that went wrong! Since I was baby I didn't know how to hold it. The mark spread across my body. But the elders there were strong enough to hold it.
During the attack the beast managed to kill 7 people at the same time, and it also threw 3 mana bombs at the nearest cities. The impact it cost brought about many deaths on that night. For some time, the heads of the kingdom tried to take me away from my parents. As you might guess; they indeed wanted to train me to serve them only. All they cared about was themselves, protecting themselves were the at most priorities.
Since then, my parents have been training me to suppress my mana and to suppress the control the alien had in my body.
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Part 2: Eigi's aether mark : Eigi's perspertive:
"The aether mark use it!" A voice quietly said in depth of my mind. "Who are you?" I asked the voice.
"I am who I am. I have no identity but in all I am everyone, including you yourself." The voice said. "Sure but can you speak up more I need to help my friend as soon as possible." I said.
The voice was like a delicate soft cloud quietly tickling my ears. It brought a sense of calmness that I have never seen before. "Who are you!" With the question hanging over my head, I decided to ask and get it off my chest.
"As I said. I have no identity." The voice quietly said. "Then. Do you know a way for us to defeat that monster."
"TO be able to win something. You must have the courage to take that step and second never give up." He said.
"You know. You are quite comfortable to be around." I said with a chuckle on my face.
"Don't you have friends you have to reunite with." He asked.
When I started sprinting in the hole towards the heart of the hole. "Isn't the aether mark given to people with sage magic." I slowly realised what he was saying. The person who just spoke to me had transferred their 'Aether mark' to me.
"What that god!" I asked myself. "No it could be could it.
Aether mark. It is a mark that grants the user insane virtual perception, things like magic absorption becomes second nature to them. It was the first thing to counter the celestial crest of Rui.
I wonder, can I see myself holding such power at my disposal.
"Tell Rio to mix his charkra with Rial's own charkra." This was the departing words of the man's voice. "Huh!"
Rial's perspective:
I laid there drained of mana, I used the rest of my mana while fighting the main body of the Hell Giant. I used many attacks to get behind him but he quickly analysed my tactic and broke them before I could escape. Even when I used the dragon mark with the wind style unwavering spear. It didn't do so much as a scratch to him. It was then that I knew I couldn't do this alone, I needed allies. And with that resolve I used my astral art to create a bolt of lightning which disturb him long enough. It was short but it gave me enough time to escape using my black holes. Fortunately I landed on groups spot of hiding.
"Huh!" Lee screamed at the sight of me.
"What happened to him?" Eiichiro wondered. "So. You had your showdown with the hell giant, right. But... he managed to beat you." Said Max.
"S-sure. I-I guess y-you could say that!" In pain I said.
"Can someone please help him." Rui said as he started thinking of a way to defeat the Hell Giant without using the celestial crest.
Rio unexpectedly stood up, he raised up his hand and started pouring out pure charkra into my body. The nature of his charkra was surprisingly dark. It wasn't dark in the sense that he held darkness within him. It was the sense that he had a natural affinity of dark magic. Slowly but surely my mana reserves began to act up. And a moment later my eyes caught on fire. "Garrrr. Ahhaaa!" I screamed in pain.
At sight, any sane person would think I was a mad man. But in truth the sensation I was feeling right now was worse than getting burnt alive. The pain included head pain, eyes burn, stomach pain, burnt legs, body pain etc.
"What is happening?" Panic screamed at everyone there. Max began to look for body medicine. Eiichiro started using herbal herbs to heal the pain, but in truth, it worsened the pain.
About 10 minutes into the chaos Eigi walked in the cave with his hands covered by what looked like dragon-bird tattoos. It covered his whole left arm from fingers to shoulders.
"What happened to him?" Eigi asked. "Basically he went to play hero and got his body broken down by a tree." Said Eiichiro.
"Is that so. Well at least he didn't hide and actually fought!" Eigi said as he walked to me. "What got into him?" Eiichiro asked, because he hasn't seen Eigi this mad before. "Well I think he was right. We have been chicken out here. Trying to come up with a plan to beat the thing. But in truth, we all know there isn't a single tactic he can't figure out. We have been living in the delusion that we might come up with some genius plan that might him. And as a result Rial almost lost his life, just because we were just children to fight on our behalf." This shout actually came from Lee, who like I said; was the laid back dude I have ever seen.
"There is no need to worry. I am getting better now." I said.
At the moment Max looked surprised,he stared at me as if he had seen something change within me.
"Rial. Your eyes, it has changed from your normal pure eyes." Max finally said as he still gazed into my eyes.
It felt weird in a way. Because at that moment I saw the whole world as one. I saw every single person alive in this world. The planet became like a map, of which I could see any time I wanted. But this change didn't happen to just me.
People like Eigi, Lee and Rio also awakened a similar eye to mine. The very difference between them were their colours. Mine was a blue ringed eye on my right, Eigi's had a red ringed eye on his left side of his eye. Like Eigi, Lee also awakened a red ringed eye on his right eye socket. But unlike us who shared the same eyes pieces, Rio was a completely different story. Unlike us Rio neither had my pure eyes or one of my family, Rio was in short a regular person in the terms of the academy. That was the reason why he was in class E. But somehow he managed to awaken the same eyes as us, the difference is that his is dark red compared to mine and the others.
About that time Rui had made up his mind. "I am going to use that power. But Rial, Kakashi, Max, Eigi. I need you to promise me: if I lose control of myself, I will need you to kill me!" His words carried a sense of grief to it, but even with that I did not know how to cancel the darkness with the alien.
"I don't worry! I already know how to handle this. Kakashi follow me." Kakashi without a single complaint followed me. First I needed Rui to go into a half awaken state (a state where he is either dead nor alive) then Kakashi and Rui would fight the alien for a time. After that I would use my gravity hold ability to hold him still until Rui removed all his charkra into the white part of the seal. Knowing that I wouldn't do much to help, so I called out Alfred and Lee, their abilities to push and cancel would be a great factor here.
So that is the plan. I explained everyone's job here, I made sure to tell every person there their position. From the sealing team to the fighting team. Eigi caster on a strong illusion on Rui, causing him to immediately take us to the center of his mind. The mindscape: the mindscape is a place in your mind where every thought is derived from. And at the bottom left side corner laid a deep cell, of which the alien stood.
"It has been so long since anyone came here, I am right Rui!" He said in amazement. "Oh! And you brought an old friend here. Hey Garmished how are you doing?" He asked.
"For a master of destruction, he seemed relatively cool to me." Alfred said as he stared at the alien. "Yeah, no kidding." Lee blissfully said out loud.
"So. How do we approach this?" Asked Rui. "Don't we follow the same plan." Alfred said.
Although I wanted to get this over with, there I was still somethings I wanted to ask him. Who were the transcendents from 10,000 years ago. Were one of the things I wanted to ask.
"If you came here to kill me then. I have a better deal for you, a term that won't cost any bloodshed only co-operations." He said as he looked at Rui, who though gentle heartened knew he couldn't trust him.
"Go for it boy." Said Garmish.
"Alright. We will accept your deal but with one cost." I said. "What is it?" Asked Harmin, the alien.
"If we accept your deal, Rui would have your power at any time he wants or needs it. And two I need to ask you somethings about the trascendence."
"Right now I can only answer one!" He said. "Who and what was god?" Eigi interrupted me before I could ask.
"Ahh. god you say. He is a being of higher power. Everything in existence was created by him. That includes myself and you. That is god." It was a rather short explanation but it still resolved some mysteries in this world.
"So. If we got god's help, he could defeat the Hell giant for us right." Max asked.
"Yes and no." Harmin said.
"Huh?"
"Oh, god can create and destroy his creatures, but he won't destroy them until the time is due. That is why I am alive, the same goes for the Hell giant and even you Gramish."
"I know." Garmish said quietly within me.
"Okay Lee hold him still."I said. Lee without a word did what I asked of him. In that moment Harmin's pure charkra also fell on Kakashi.
"Aww." Yelled Kakashi.
"What is happening now?" Said Alfred.
"Oh. Don't worry, be glad. Because if he is strong enough he could awaken an upgraded special eye.
Kakashi's eyes like us, began to change shape but his was a completely new eyes.
"Wow. He managed to awaken the Nova eyes." Both Garmish and Harmin said. "What is so special about it." Asked Kakashi.
"This was the first eye god ever used, it was the same thing the first king also used during his time on Isal."
"Oh, then this is very special. I will treasure it." Kakashi said with a small smile on his face.
"None of you will be able to use it for long. You might be able to defeat the Hell giant with this power but after that you won't be able to use it until you all have completely recovered." Harmin's warning was one seriousness we should defeat the Hell giant tonight. Before midnight, right now it is 9 pm meaning we only have 3 hours on our hands.
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Something funny:
"No that I about it. None of us really talk about our normal life!" Eiichiro said. Due to the unfortunately circumstances, the people who are involved in this fight wanted to chart one last time before we go out there. "What do you mean?" Max asked.
"In the view of others. None of us you where you came from! And neither do we about Rial or Rio?" Alfred, who was usually quiet said. "I guess. I also do not know where you guys came from?" Kakashi said.
In all honesty, I also did not know the people surrounding me at this moment. I do know where and when they came from but, I absolutely have no idea who their parents are or where they live. "Yeah. He has a point there."I said.
"So! From now I am going to ask you some questions, this questions will be about your personal life. You can choose to not reply if do want to keep it a secret!" Eiichiro took the lead on the questions that are about to be asked.
First Eigi: "How did you fall for Ai": "Huh! Why me?" Eigi who was blushing asked.
"Well. Ai and I just one day fall in love and then we started dating!" Eigi smirked and made up a completely different story from what happened.
"Really!" Eiicjiro asked. "Yes."
We all said this in our mind: "Not even, kid will believe that!" This was the words Max, kakashi, Alfred, Lee, Rio, Peter, and Shiro all said in our minds.
"Next. What are your types. All of you?" Eiichiro asked.
"Huh?"
"Rio you start" Eiichiro said.
"My type of girl? Huh!" At the question Rio thought for a bit. "I guess girls with good manners and intelligence." Rio replied to his question. So he is basically saying Nanasem since she meets all those requirement.
"Ahh okay. Now Rial your turn."
"My type of girl huh!" Looking on my past experiences with girls, the one thing I could to that it was: Maybe girls with bright smiles and a good body.
"It is a board topic. But for me I would say girls with a good body, can smile brightly and has a bit of mystery to them." I simply gave them a basic example. In that last part I meant to she girls with large breast but maintained to be small.
"Okay. A basic type. Go on Kakashi."
Kakashi thought for a second and said: "I don't really have a type, But if I were to pick I would say girls that are hardworking and shy." Kakashi's answer's was simply straight forward but had to deep emotional tone to it.
"I guess Max is up next."
'Mine huh!" Max who was raised in a secret facility, trained from birth to this day. I wonder if he had any type of preference. Maybe smart girls.
Max closed his eyes and imagined his type. "For me, I would say a girl with a good shaped body, smart in every situation and has a talkative attitude."
"Wow. I didn't expect that." Eiji said.
"Alfred you too."
"For me girl with good manners, good at fighting and has patience with me." From everyone in this room, Alfred had the best taste than any of us.
Lee said:"A girl with good facial expressions, has many good attitude.
From this information, I can now say. I do know some of my friends from the surface level.
But little did I know that, the war ahead of us will change the future of all of us.
(God's perspective: The more I see them, the more I acknowledge the steps I have taken. Many things may fall apart but with these gifts I have given them, they may survive for the night. But not without consequences.
All they have to do is to touch him, all of them. Shira can't die but he can be sealed away for eternity.