Cain swiftly opened up the Easlum portal and jumped in. Everyone else wordlessly followed their comrades into what they knew would become a spectacular battle Royale.
When I deemed it appropriate to make my entrance into Easlum City, I found myself to be about one-thousand feet above the Temple of the Power Core. "What the — ."
Not to be deterred, I implemented my flying skills and effortlessly flew around the domed temple of the power core and landed on the conveniently flat section of the temple roof. Joseph landed gently and silently next to me.
He looked troubled. "We haven't located them yet, my lord."
I corrected him. "You're not supposed to be looking for them." When he said nothing, I continued, "focus on the cloning facilities below the capitol."
Joseph nodded solemnly, adding, "yes, my lord."
I thought I would play with my first general just a bit. "This should be fun for you." My eyes glinted with mischief, but he apparently missed all of the cues.
His eyes widened. "What will, my lord?" He asked.
I
shoved him off the edge of the temple. Fortunately, he didn't fight the loss of a stable foundation beneath his feet and allowed himself to free fall. I was impressed. A resounding, "yessssss," drifted up towards me.
I was even more impressed to see that just as he was about to hit the ground in a resounding 'splat' when a small circular area opened up and he flew like a well-trained homing pigeon returning to its roost through the opening. It, also, pleased me to see my factories working in full operational mode before the opening closed behind my first general.
My joy was short-lived! I spotted Sermoff. The cad had just nonchalantly walked through the gate and proceeded straight onto the training fields. MY training fields! I called out, "Hey Sermoff!"
Well, I'll give him points for halting in mid stride. He did not hide his displeasure. In fact, he telegraphed unbridled annoyance! Good! I might add at this point that the Nephbion standing next to him appeared equally vexed. Very good!
I lit straight into him. "So, you thought I wouldn't notice you in here with my security vision ability!" An energy sword appeared in his hand in response to my words. Clever, or so he thinks!
He ignored my words and said instead, "did you deal with Attila yet," Sermoff gave a chuckle but I could hear it up here. "Because he is Alexander's now."
I resisted the temptation to roll my eyes. Another Alexander? Really! I should have my human name be Alexander, but not yet.
I looked Sermoff straight into the eyes even though he was far away and said, "I'm guessing this Alexander is the Nephbion."
Even at the far distance I could see them both smile at my observation. I love confirmation of my observations. Satisfied, I continued, "sorry to break it to you but Attila is mine now!" Their smiles faltered. "Good luck fighting my current all of me persona." Both figures started running at full throttle toward the all-important power core.
It was time to show these two just how messed up their plan was. I filled my hands with two huge energy balls, compressed them together and while releasing the quivering, barely restrained energy mass at these two losers, I yelled, "Thor, I summon you now! Kill them both!"
Sermoff and Alexander instantly put up a blindingly white angelic shield. Simultaneously, the energy blast hit the shield and not to be out done, seven lightning bolts, compliments of Thor rained down and blasted both entities backwards, slamming them side-by-side against the wall.
Shaken but by no means out of the fight, they both sensed an other-worldly presence, curiosity overrode caution and in unison, two pairs of eyes turned their gaze upward. "Thor," they uttered in unison, then fell silent.
Standing over them, Thor looked down, smiled, well, his expression looked more like an amused snarl baring white even teeth than a genuine smile of pleasure or amusement, but it was the best he could manage under the circumstances. His words were not comforting.
"I will bathe in your blood."
Alexander, known to speak without thinking at least to Sermoff about how what he had to say would sound stated, "well, that's a little over the top," he chuckled, "even for the likes of you."
At that precise moment Lucifer landed silently on the top of the wall. He was laughing. "Only bathe!" he declared, "I'll do more than just bathe in your blood."
Sermoff's body responded non-verbally to his current situation. Millions of pin pricks of bright white lights were spreading out from his shoulders, as if being designed by remote control, was a pair of majestically formed wings any real angel would be proud to call theirs. In reality the wings were not really there, but the illusion was in place since the wings stay inside of the body.
Lucifer did not mince his words, ever. "Yours are smaller than mine," he observed. "Based on that, you must be an archangel knight." As a result, the bright lights making up the dual wing formations dimmed, flickered and disappeared.
Sermoff just didn't know when to remain silent. He forged on announcing, "Alexander is technically the most powerful one here but for right now, "I AM," he screamed. "Surrender and just let me take your place." At the last moment he noticed that I had moved into his view. "Oh, cow droppings!"
"Do
you remember how I killed you?"
"Yes,
you killed me by, ooohhhh," Sermoff stuttered. The long-buried memory returned
to his conscious self in full force.
My
eyes glowed brighter than any multifaceted blood red ruby. My body followed the
"glow bright red" memo but the red light moved to my shoulders and spread out
to form a mega massive pair of angel wings.
Livid
at being bested again and again he could not hold his tongue and said, "oh,
come on, really!"
Lucifer
added insult to Sermoff's ego by cheering, "that's my boy!"
While
Sermoff and dear old "Dad" were exchanging dubious pleasantries, I was busily
concentrating and channeling my War power. Fortunately, my mind over matter
philosophy was in full force and my skin quickly and easily morphed into my
flexible metal body. Pretty cool, too!
Seeing
that my metal body was in place, Lucifer jumped off the top of the wall and
without a sound or any warning of his next move, kicked Alexander in the face
as if his head was a soccer ball. Alexander's reflexes impressed even me, he
counters the facial assault by grabbing Lucifer's leg and slammed him into the
ground. Lucifer got up, grabbed Alexander by the neck, and lifted off the
ground carrying a flailing Alexander with him. They both slammed into the wall
and flew into the air, again!
Sermoff
was in rare form, still. "Well, are you going to come down here or am I going
to have to come …"
I
teleported behind him. He spun around which I expected him to do. I grabbed his
neck and easily lifted him into the air. And being the dedicated warrior,
knight, cold blooded killer, I tried to smite him. In reaction, his eyes and
mouth shone bright red. I was a nanosecond away from killing him like last time
but well, the scoundrel that he was had the
unmitigated gall to uppercut me with a massive angelic blast. Of course, the
blast sent me, clad in my impressively flexible metal skin, unceremoniously into
the wall. The moment I hit the wall it gave way. I passed through the jagged
opening and smashed into an overcrowded Pub on the Easlum City's side of the
wall. Talk about a security breach! Ugh! I scrambled to my feet, took a quick
glance around and noted that everyone was gathering weapons and assembling.
They had mastered the procedures for breaching the wall drills never dreaming
they'd really ever have a real deal incident.
I
looked up and witnessed Lucifer and Alexander both sending and receiving
massive amounts of angelic blasts aim directly at each other as though they had
bull's eyes painted on their chests! As these blasts connected, a massive
explosion lit up the sky with a mixture of red and white light. First, Lucifer
was blasted towards the flatlands outside of the city and a second later,
Alexander had been blasted in the direction of the Power Core Temple, and I
watched, transfixed as he literally slammed into it. Well, that's that.
I
telepathed a crucial message to both my Norse gods and my Primaral gods. The
message was simple, "surround and kill Sermoff." To my generals the message was
different, "come with me to the Power Core Temple."
I
teleported directly to the entrance of the Temple's massive and wide-open main
doorway. I immediately spotted Alexander standing underneath the power core
next to a newly created small crater. My
instincts told me to glance slightly upward and sure enough, there was indeed a
hole in the ceiling. At this point, I detected small amounts of invisible
energy emanating from both power core and the crater as well as from the hole
in the ceiling. Snared by this unexpected sight, I watched in satisfaction as
these damaged areas slowly self-repaired the current damage into nonexistence.
Bravo!
"So,"
Alexander stated in a self-assured voice, "if I destroy this white ball here,
it would be a lot easier to kill you, plus the insanely massive Army you are
building will cease to exist." He snapped his fingers, "poof, no more." He
threw his head back and emitted what sounded like a cross between a howl and a
laugh. He pointed to the Power Core which is now missing the clear black energy
shield but said nothing. Alexander the Nephbion appeared oblivious to his dire
circumstances.
All
of my Generals appeared, joined together except for Joseph who was ferociously
working on assembling my Vampire Clone Army. Mr. Great (yes! THAT Alexander of
historical significance!), Cain, Achilles and a powerful Attila had circled
around Alexander. Lucifer walked up, positioned himself to the right of me,
crossed his arms and stood still as a statue. Suddenly a massive explosion
shattered the moment. The sound seemed as though it had originated where the
Arch-knight-Sermoff battle was taking place. I looked through the eyes of Death
Dealer. Total destruction met my gaze. The battlefield was completely
destroyed. Granted, most of the carnage had taken place in the training fields
but unfortunately, some of the fighting and destruction had moved into parts of
the city. I could see that the citizens had now gathered and were fully engaged
in brutally attacking Sermoff. Satisfied, I pulled myself back into my body.
Alexander
wasn't to be ignored. He yelled. "You know this won't be enough to kill me!" It
wasn't a question. To prove his point he aimed, then sent a blast of light at
the Power Core. The hit was successful because almost immediately the entire
room went red.
The
Power Core Reaplum appeared and smacked Alexander as though he was a really
naughty child. The force of the blow sent him spiraling across the space,
hitting my statue at full throttle then fell to the floor.
The Power Core itself announced. "Last
integrity is at 90 percent. Commencing healing capabilities now."
Ian
appeared onto the scene with five heavily armored Reaplums.
Lucifer
unfolded his crossed arms. "May I?"
I
shrugged then said, "sure, why not."
Lucifer
stepped forward and dramatically snapped his fingers. Two Hell portals opened,
and ten Demons exited from each portal. Then each portal silently closed. At
this point the other three Power Core Guardian Reaplums appeared. The main Alfa
Power Core Reaplum appeared, bigger than the other four. Finally, Lander made
his appearance on my left. This is the moment Alexander got up.
He
addressed the assembled group. "That's all you've got. Give me a break," he
taunted. He split himself into two bodies and attacked us simultaneously using
blistering speed. All of us clashed with his weapons, Magic and Truth. He kept
sending blasts at the Power Core and I kept trying to block them. I looked
through Death Dealer's eyes again but this time they had Sermoff pinned down
and were trying to kill him. I don't know why I was hoping to "see" something
different. Alexander paused; this lull was all I needed to attack. I attacked
with my super frozen spear formed together from my two bracelets but as luck
would have it, he ducked. He actually had the arrogance to taunt me, "Luckily
for you Sermoff is in trouble?"
His
split self-merged back into one whole person and blasted through the dome roof.
He predictably flew over where the Sermoff battle was fought. Alexander blasted
the entire area and Sermoff flew toward Alexander. Alexander then immediately
opened up a portal. They both passed through and the portal closed as if
nothing had ever happened.
"NNNOOO!"
I yelled in rage then added, "Easlum stays on ALERT until Alexander and Sermoff
are dead." I turned saying, "I've got stuff to do."
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