Chapter 70
Syragoth didn't hesitate even for one second, he plunged the knife inside his chest piercing his heart, exactly where the death aura was, then Hollow puts her hands on the table in front of her, the table giving off a black mixed with red light and Syragoth's name appears on it, then she says;
"Syragoth Roarkyn, esruCfoytilatrommi."
Immediately as she finishes talking, Syragoth starts screaming and falls to his knees, the knife inside his chest glowing with a dark-red light, then hollow screams;
"Ark be ready, i can hold the 'Curse of immortality' only for ten seconds, and in this time the Skies will see us, but i think that when it will see you, is going to back off."
Ark nods and turns his head towards the skies above; there he sees dark clouds like night that foretolds the end of the world. A black lightning like snakes starts to hit the ground around them. But it doesn't do any damages, is like the lightning is not real.
But he knows that if anyone is hit by that lightning it will die immediately, because that lightning damages the soul. He laughs and says;
"So, you old deceiver. It seems that you are still fine and in power. If you want to stay like that, then i recommend you make yourself just like you always have, disappear without a trace."
The skies for a moment become even more violent and destructive, but then after, the clouds start to disperse and disappear. He turns back and sees Syragoth bleeding from his eyes, ears, and mouth. From the start of the curse only five seconds passed. Hollow also is sweating; she needs her entire concentration and power to be able to fight against the death aura.
Always when she uses heaven defying curses for someone else, the skies try to intervene, and for her also are harder to do. But things are going pretty well for now, especially that Ark managed to stop the deceiving old skies with only words. She can use her entire focus to fight with the death aura and not worry about the skies at the same time.
In the end the ten seconds pass, then Hollow can't hold the curse anymore she stops, and the screaming Syragoth finally finds relief again. Hollow says;
"You can take out the knife now, i managed to defeat more than half of the death aura inside your heart, but i don't know how much that freed your powers."
She looks down at her table and sees Syragoth name turn into a red ball and starts floating with the others, she sees millions of such balls, and when a new ball appears there, it remains there forever, that means that Hollow can curse someone even one million years later if she wants, she doesn't need anything else, nor the distance matters. Once a red ball forms it means that she has you in her database forever and she can curse you anytime she wants.
That's why she is so dangerous, and so many fears her, not to mention that her curses are really powerful, even someone at the Dimension Ruler Level can't break it. Only some old monsters like 'Old One' could do that, and there are not so many of those. Plus is not like it doesn't affect them at all, it does, but not so strong like at the others.
She puts her table and knife back, then she turns towards Ark and sees him smiling towards her, she also smiles and then goes towards him. She hears him say;
"You managed to defeat more than half, that is awesome. You are even more powerful than the old monsters. Did you train with me in thought, i mean to defeat me? That's why you are so powerful now?"
Hollow doesn't say anything and starts to whistle, then she turns towards Syragoth and says;
"So, how do you feel? How much power do you think you can use now?"
Ark looks at her, and starts laughing, he thought he was the only one so shameless. But he is also curious about Syragoth.
"I am feeling awesome, i missed the feeling of freedom, even if there still is a little bit of death aura, now in the future i can even expel it myself. Now i can use 90% of my power. Even if i fight against a Celestial Leader, i can hold my ground and even defeat him if i play my card well. And when i will be able to use 100% of my power, then the Leaders will have to avoid me if they want to live, especially if i start stealing their powers."
He raises his hand and makes a fist while saying that, like crushing a Celestial in his hand. Then he smiles and says;
"Thank you, lady Hollow, i will remember this for the rest of my life, if you need me for something in the future just say the word, and i will be there."
Hollow smiles and nods, then she says;
"If you want to let loose a little bit with your new powers then there are still some enemies on the planet."
Syragoth smiles and nods at both of them, then he disappears from his spot. Ark and Hollow turn to one another, and they start walking back to the city they first came to.
At Morven and Zmaug side they are also almost done with the cleaning of Lore 561 Planet, and at the end they run into a problem, Zmaug asks;
"Morven what can we do? We can't let them kill the people, but we also can't make them leave."
Morven turns to him and says;
"It's all that Artifacts fault, because of that Artifact they closed themselves inside this Mountain City like a tortoise, and they are also protected by that Artifact against my darkness, so i can't control them. Unless we manage to take that Artifact from them, we can't save the hostages."
Zmaug turns towards the gates that leads inside the mountain City and sighs, then he turns back and looks at the scenery behind him. This planet is only forests and mountains, even from space you can only see greenery, trees so big that put mount Everest from the old Earth to shame, their trunks so big you can't see the end of them, their crowns so spread that looks like the sky is only leaves and branches. These trees are the home of the 'Tree Elves'.
Then there are the ones who are in trouble, the 'Mountain' Elves' they are the ones who live inside the earth, many being Dark Elves and not all Dark elves are evil, there are good ones like these. And the Mercenaries took the biggest City Mountain hostage. There are more than a few million Elves down there.
And the Boss of the Mercenaries has an Artifact so powerful that can keep Morven's Darkness at bay, and there are only a few hundred Mercenaries down there, but the Artifact's protection is on every single one like they are inside a golden cocoon. And no normal weapons or normal spell can break that barrier. So they can only be at the mercy of the Mercenaries, especially that they have some powerful weapons that can fire World Destruction Strikes. So, Morven and Zmaug are in a pinch.
But an Elf from the Tree's Elves come to them and says;
"I talked with my people, and one knows a way inside, a hidden way. But it wasn't used in a long time, and he doesn't know if the road is blocked or there are monster lairs there."
Zmaug says immediately;
"That is no problem, we need to go fast."
But Morven says;
"Wait a moment, if the Mercenary finds that we both disappeared with half of the Tree's Elves Army then they will know something is wrong. We can't leave both. We need an elite team formed, only the best. Then one of us will go with them and attack the Mercenaries from inside. And the best would be if i go. Because if i manage to take control of one of them then i will know all their secrets. I will be able to kill their boss from the shadows."
Zmaug thinks for a moment then nods, he also thinks this is their best plan.
"Okay, then i will wait here and from time to time i will make trouble, so that their focus is in front, and not behind them."
Then the chief elf gives the order and immediately some Elves starts gathering in front of them. There are only ten elves, but they look really powerful, they are the Ten Pillars of the Tree Elves. The strongest Soldiers trained only for war. Morven looks at them and nods, then he says;
"We will go inside the City Mountain, this is a stealth mission, so we need to be careful that we are not found, when we reach the city, our main objective will be the Boss that holds the Artifact, if we manage to take him out, or to take the Artifact from him, then it's our win. Let's go, we have a city to save."