A black silhouette was walking in the ashes of a ruined world with their heads tilted downwards.
Despite the silhouette looking downwards it seemed to not even affect the way the silhouette looked at the world. The silhouette seemingly omniscient point of view gazed at the world with calmness, remaining tranquil and unrippled.
Step by step they walk with unfathomable smoothness, undisturbed by the state of chaos that the world was in.
Each step that the figure took was unremorseful, yet as the time passed by the silhouette something began to wakened inside of it.
Their long strides started to slow down before finally coming into a complete and utter stop at a long stretch of dirt and rot.
Soon after tears start to form in their eyes, the tears were shallow at first, merely blinding the vision of the silhouette, although not long after this would soon come to a humongous change. The small tears that slowly started to slip down their cheeks slowly started to speed up. The black figure didn't even try to stop them, as if they knew what was going to happen.
The tears spilled faster and faster with no end in sight. Like a dam was fully open into the world. The black silhouette slowly started to drown within their tears, as if it was a form of repentance!
Yet that was not all the tears started to do. The ashes that had long stained the world started to become overwhelm by the sheer magnitude of the open dam of tears. Slowly but surely the ashes too started to drown within the tears of the black silhouette as well with break necking speeds!
After the world of ashes drowned, the black silhouette finally tilted their gaze upward.
Their crystal, pale blue eyes stared at the submerged world and miraculously started to sing a wonderful poem.
"Oh World... How wonderful and magical you are."
"Laced with dreams and mysteries."
"All beings can fall asleep within your embrace."
"Oh world will you set me free from my chains?"
"I ask of you this, in this ocean of bliss, will you stack the odds against me?"
"Will you bear you fangs at my wildest dreams?"
"Will you stake your claws at harmless flesh?"
"Will you show me compassion as I do you?"
"Will your indifferent heart show me some gratitude?"
"Oh world, at the end of all this, will you finally give me a kiss?"
Oh how the figure sang and sang in the submerged abyss.
Despite even knowing that the world would never to them.
And finally once the figure finished singing their last hymns.
They suddenly looked up, straight onto the moon! Their was another figure watching the black silhouette this whole time!
The being on the moon recognized that the black silhouette could see it. Yet what could it do? Slowly but slowly but surely the black silhouette tears started to produce tears and an even higher rate. In less than 30 seconds the moon as captured by the ocean of tears and soon after this the moon too was submerged!
The tears had collected the eyes daring to look upon the black silhouette. The eyes were being crushed due to the all powerful pressure that was being afflicted onto it. Before the tears would crush the eyes to dust, the black silhouette said this.
"This time has not yet come to pass."
Then the eyes were kindly crushed with limitless power.
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"Christina! Arron! You good for nothing sow and dirt bag!"
In a dimly lit room, a man was furiously staring at a woman with blue eyes and golden blond hair that was named Christina and another man with black hair and eyes that was named Arron
"How could you two do this to me? How could you turn your back upon our friendship and love like this?"
The woman signed with tiredness, as if she's experienced this thousands of times before this moment and simply stated to the man.
"Lamech, you and me both know that we've fell out of love long ago and that communication wasn't in both of our best interest at the time."
"What kind of wife will do this to her husband! I should wipe out your life from this world at this instant!"
The man, Lamech hair started to overflow with magical energy his pure white hair started to become wild and untamed like a beast, one may be hesitant to say that he albinism despite his white hair due to the stress his body. He looked as if he was a man on borrow time.
"Lamech just stop it, I can't bear to see you like this. Ever since that fateful day you've lost all right to call Christina your wife." Arron said
"Arron, you sleazebag! I helped you out when your family was on hard times and you just up and cold slept with my wife!? I cared for you like a brother!"
"And I respect that Lamech, I really do, that's why I didn't make my moves on Christina when I learnt that you loved her. I thought that you two would have been the most wonderful couple imageable and how imagine my shock when you began to abuse her when she went though two miscarriages. "
Lamech started to speak again but Arron beat him too it
"Lamech, you were my idol when we were younger. I thought that you, the greatest prodigy of the Golden Dawn would surely be better than that. Yet here we stand."
"You..."
"LAMECH" Christina shouted. "Just stop, you have no place here at the Golden Dawn. In your pursuit of magical knowledge over faith you've lost not only your accomplishments, but also your home, your friends, your, status, your physical body right now is so ruined that nothing short of a miracle can make sure you don't just fall over and die. Even now I'm still unsure on how your living... But most importantly, Lamech you've misses the day the kids were born."
Snow started to fall...
"This time it wasn't a miscarriage Lamech. Our children are alive and well, one boy and girl; twins."
"I won't let them call you father, Lamech." Christina stated "I'll make sure that they know that blood flowing in their vain is meaningless, both yours and mines."
In between her robes two babies comes out. A sleepy chubby baby girl with golden hair dressed in a pink PJ; clearly the baby girl took after her mother more than her father.
"The girls name is Caroline and she was born first, she's a very big baby unlike her little brother she was incredibly hard to push out. A fighter she is."
Then the boy came out. He had white patches of hair and his baby fat was prominent and like his sister they both shared the same crystal blue eyes, but unlike her he was wide awake, simply staring calmly at everyone present. As if he was taking everything in one blink at a time.
Lamech breath hitched.
The snow started to fall harder.
"You might not know since you stay in your workshop twenty four-seven, but both of these children were born on the worst snow storm this year. And on Christmas Day to booth."
"I know how much you wanted a boy Lamech, especially due to the way the world is now..."
The snow storm reached its peak
Christina handed Caroline to Arron and made sure to hold the nameless boy with both hands
"I never named him, you know." Christina hugged him tight, her beautiful, yet distant eyes meet her son's eyes for a moment. The world seemed to still as time stretched into eternity
Then at a shocking turn her finger nails turned razor sharp and pierce through the baby boy's stomach!
Lamech when watching this instantly lunched a multiple high ranking magical attacks at the two home-wreckers.
The two expecting this outburst set up magical shields to protect themselves. However, the shields couldn't withhold Lamech's absolute fury of spells. In less than ten seconds their magical shields broke and they had to take evasive maneuvers.
Arron summoning his staff began to condense his mana with in and launched spells in an attempted to halt Lamech's spell craft. However it was soon proven to be futile endeavor, as Lamech's spells were imbued to the brim of mana. With Lamech's awe inspiring mana capacity it was to be expected.
Lamech started to use his specialty magic as a Tree of Life started to unfold behind him. "Chokmah, Yesod, Hod, Netzach" he viscously stated, his pale body started to look more invigorated than before
When seeing this Christina activated her body-manipulation magic. Her body began to to shift following the magical pathways of her body. Bones began to thicken, skin reinforcing, nails sharpening.
Arron also started to use his specialty magic as well; space started to ripple around his hands, folding in and out like a never ending spiral
Christina said to Arron "Be careful even when weaken to this point he's still an ultimate class magician. Despite him using magic from a begotten age."
Arron nodded
Arron released his magic and space started to rip apart towards Lamech's heart. At the same moment, Christina flesh extended at him, her arms reshaping into hundred of blades all aiming at Lamech.
Yet the moment that Lamech used his specialty magic the fight itself was futile.
Yesod, was a perfect counter to anything that Arron could put up, it allowed him to anchor and de-anchor entities into space allowing the user to clump up the enemies movements to an absurd degree.
Hod, was also a good counter against Christina due to the fact that it pinpointed the vulnerabilities of both magical and physical attacks
Netzach, is what allowed Lamech's sickly body to even keep on moving in this high speed battle. It grants the user of this branch incredible stamina and also made sure that his magical output was being sustained, reducing his fatigue immensity.
Finally Chokmah, it gave the user an increase of foresight, allowing him to predict his emeries moves and intent to provide a wonderful battle field advantage.
All of these abilities allowed Lamech to easily battle both Arron and Christina at the same time.
"Gevurah" Lamech spoke
And wrath answered
Christina started to scream as her increase muscle mass started to fold inwards, her body modifications started to unravel violently as her body. She was hurled backwards with such high force that she began to ski across the ground, leaving her gasping for air
Arron's eyes witnessing this sight turned bloodshot, and began to fold space once more, this time it was above them-bending gravity, it grabbed the already ruined house and gathered the snow and stones in order to make the equivalent to a asteroid. immediately after forming them it came like a shooting star.
"Tch..."
Lamech used Yesod to hold up the make-shift asteroid in place. But within that time frame Arron had already reached Christina. Using the opportunity Arron used his space magic to initiate a teleportation circle!
Lamech seeing this grew outraged. "You dare to run from me!? When I find you I'll make sure to erase all exist of you two!" he roared attempting to launch one more Gevurah
Arron holding on to Caroline said this. "We knew we could never have beaten you no matter what methods we use Lamech." Arron took one more breath "You should run while you have the chance. Mages from Grauzauberer coming to capture you, consider this my last regards from a former friend."
Arron completed the teleportation before the final Gevurah could make it to him. This only left Lamech and the nameless baby's corpse as the only remains in the ruins.
Lamech fell to his knees shaking with both rage and despair. Tears started to form in his eye lids. "Should I just kill myself here? There's no point of me living any longer..." he started to mutter.
His mind came to a complete halt as Chokmah's provided hyper senses picked up on a small and minuscule movement, shallow breathing could be heard.
"Could it be!?"
Lamech went instantly to the nameless baby boy's corpse only to find out that it didn't perish yet!
Lamech saw the nameless baby's pale crystal blue eyes looking at him, tiredly. Preparing to go to sleep forever.
"Chesed!" Lamech quickly repeated over and over in hopes of staling out the baby's death.
Lamech quickly got up and made a teleportation circle using 'Hod' into his workshop.
"Don't shut your eyes just yet. Endure for me please... Your all I have left in this rotten world!"
Eventually using Chesed the wound did close but that didn't regenerate the sheer amount of blood lost within the five minutes of battle. Yet this had not bothered Lamech in the slightest as he had the perfect fix for it. As he rummaged throughout his belongings he finally found it.
A Vial of Phoenix Tears!
Lamech rushed back to his son and carefully applied the vial into the baby's mouth. Finally the baby's pale complexion began to subside and his wide eyes started to be at ease.
Lamech raised the baby up admiring his willpower and eyes. Unlike his sister he inherited more from his father than his mother.
"My child... While I have made many terrible mistakes in my life. I'll do my upmost best to raise you." Lamech spoke from the bottom of his heart to the nameless baby.
Further speaking he said this "My son I've dreamed of this moment for a long time... Before I even became the man I was today. Luckily I already have a name set for you. You no longer have to remain nameless"
"Noah, welcome into this world. I am your father, Lamech and until my death I'll be the one to keep you company." Lamech smiled so brightly that it might as well have been a supernova exploding.
The now named baby - Noah stared at the Lamech for a few seconds and smiled right back at him
"What a wild day." Noah though and finally went to sleep.
And when Noah when to sleep, Lamech still holding the boy up smiled.
His smile didn't last long however, as a jet spray of yellow liquid came from Noah's genitalia splashing onto Lamech's tired face.
Lamech quickly stop holding Noah up opting to just set him down on his workshop table.