#THE_RED_CRYSTER
©Sir Zach
EPISODE 94
Agatha was pan-ting as she flew up in the sky with her staff. She had exhausted most of her energy, repeatedly killing the souls that continued to rise again and again. Her brows drew together, seeing how the ashes were forming the figures of the escapees from hell.
She looked up to the sky and pleaded, “Son, hurry. We need you.”
Feeling her strength draining away, she gathered up the remaining of her power to eradicate the same forces of Hades. She needed to do it one more time before deciding to rest.
Chanting a few words, more of her snakes came out of nowhere and they quickly ran across the battleground to turn the enemies back into dust!
Agatha’s power was indeed supreme. She was very effective in taking down her rivals. The only problem was, the souls did not really die. Her attacks, altogether, merely gave the masters almost an hour of rest.
From behind the enemy lines, Hades came out of Khalid’s body. He laughed thorou-ghly, seeing how the white witch’s energy had started to deplete. There was no killing him and his soldiers!
“What did I tell you, Khalid! My soldiers are doing you a favor!” Told Hades with his devilish eyes. “Now, it’s time to attack! I don’t know exactly why the wielder of the soul slayer blade has not yet awakened. I don’t think this is normal, but still. For sure he will be back as a soul to attempt to kill us all.”
“Since the white witch is retreating, it’s time for you to lead the strike!” Suggested Hades eagerly! “For as long as we can take out the soul slayer blade from his body, the wielder of the sword will not fully awaken!”
“Okay! I’ll take care of it!” Replied Khalid. He also saw how Agatha had grown tired. He knew it was now his turn to retaliate.
With conviction, he announced, “Prepare to die!”
Khalid had raised in his palms the power of the six crystals once more, ready to attack, but in that very second, he felt a strange warmth coming from behind him. He immediately shifted himself to another space to see who dared strike at him.
“Haaaahhhh!” It was from Amanda. Abasi had brou-ght her back to fight with them. She had created two swords of fire and she was already in her phoenix form.
She went past Hades and focused only on Khalid, thru-sting her fiery blades fiercely.
She blazed at him while Khalid hastily created wings of his own, activating the power of the red crystal. Amanda’s arrival came to sudden for Khalid that he panicked for a second.
In Khalid’s anger, he tried to drag Amanda to another world, generating a wormhole for her as a trap, seeing her charge at high speed.
“Amanda, watch out!” Abasi quickly pulled her back, saving her from behind sent to an uncertain place. Both he and the master of fire were drifting in the sky, facing Khalid.
The master of fire had to fight. She did not have the luxury of time to talk to her son or cry further for Christopher’s decisions. She could only hope that Akurra’s telling was the truth. She put all her focus on the future of her son, gathering all her courage, and return to fight Khalid with Abasi.
While she tried to slow down Khalid, it was a different action below them.
The attacks of the evil souls surged on the master of the wind and earth. Agatha had taken her rest with Orion and Trisha, watching over Christopher’s body.
To aid Brody and Taara, Kyle’s forces had now advanced outside of the borders, striking at the souls that would escape the wrath of the masters.
Theo also came, after hearing what happened to Christopher. it was on the grounds that Agatha explained the destiny of their son. Agatha also knew, but by the request of Christopher, like Abasi, she kept it from Amanda and most especially from Theo and Ca-ssy.
Another hour pa-ssed. It would seem like it was a never-ending battle. Killing the evil souls from hell momentarily, only to rise again in minutes.
A few of Kyle’s soldiers became wounded and had to retreat. Brody and Taara kept at it, attacking with all their might.
From the skies, Amanda and Abasi tried to counter Khalid, with only the elements that they had, but soon they realized their powers were weak in contrast to Khalid’s. Even if Abasi had the yellow crystal within him, he will soon lose its strength in less than an hour. It would once again need to return to the original master.
After receiving several blows of wind and water, Amanda admitted that they needed all six crystal to attack against Khalid. It was too early to involve his son in the battle as Khalid was still too strong.
Even Khalid acknowledged this that he gave Amanda and Abasi a quick break. He laughed, mocking the two while they were in mid-air. He said, “Clearly, you are no match for me and I haven’t even used all my accu-mulated powers! All you do is evade my attacks, but you have not harmed me in any way!”
“The only way for you to even level with me is for all masters to attack me at the same time! Don’t you see?” Khalid hinted, seeing how pathetic Amanda and Abasi, looked.
“Don’t worry, Khalid, your wish will soon happen. Just you wait and see!” Revealed Absi, screaming from behind Amanda.
“You are just a scu-m, fronting those soldiers from hell! If it were not for them, we would have already taken you down!” Told Amanda!
“I am not a scu-m! I am wise, deserving of all the powers that I have!” Told Khalid. “I will live longer, take my beloved with me in an eternity of youth!”
“There are still other worlds out there – more powers than can bless life and youth! I will stop at nothing to acquire what I need!” Khalid announced before seemingly collecting his energy and preparing to throw a blast at Amanda and Abasi.
“So Ca-ssandra is still alive?” Amanda asked with a frown. “You – kept the master of the heart alive!”
“Of course! She is still my beloved. Soon, she will understand all that I am doing and will side with me,” told Khalid. “But what do you care? Right now, I need to get the thing that matters the most.”
“Amanda, for the very last time. Tell your son to give up the sword and I will leave you in peace,” offered Khalid. “I will go back to the future and never come back, ever again.”
“I’m afraid… that is not possible!” Told Amanda. “How could we let someone so evil as you live? We will fight you till the end!”
“Khalid, the spirits will soon end your life! You’ll see!” Told Abasi, recalling how it was before when Hades died after years of internally battling the spirits.
Despite Abasi’s warning, however, Khalid only laughed. He said, “You think I don’t know that? They have been playing with me lately, but I have many lives left! And I – I have a trump card of my own.”
“It’s unfortunate that you have to say that, for with only the powers that you have, it is not enough to put me down! You may be able to for a minute or a second, but I will ascend triumphantly in this battle!” Khalid announced with certainty!
He prepared to attack, seeing Amanda and Abasi did the same, but just at that very moment, he saw a blue crystal flying past him and dwelled into Amanda’s body, shocking everyone including the master of time and space and that of the fire.
They did not know who commanded it, but Christopher’s crystal came to settle in Amanda’s body, adding to her newfound strength!
Base on their recent testing, she had four hours to use it inside her body.
“No!” said Khalid. He was already pleased when Christopher could not use his crystal since he stabbed himself, but now, seeing his crystal go to the master of fire, it shocked him.
He wrapped himself with several protective layers of shield to search for Christopher’s body and to his shock, the soul slayer had already awakened!
The battle halted for that very brief moment! Everyone turned to see Christopher’s soul stand behind his own body and holding up the soul slayer blade. It was him who ordered the spirit of water, Mahli, to temporarily live in Amanda’s body.
His frame emitted in white-blue light, his aura reflected of sanctity, blessed with the power to kill evil!
In the past few hours, he received blessings from both the guardians of heaven and hell with his plans, before his soul was sent back to Aeros and do his rightful duty. It took him a while, but he was confident the escapees from hell would no longer have their way out.
Christopher pointed out the two-meter sword forward and declared, “Live no more, you evil souls!”
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“Masters, now that Chris had returned as the soul slayer, we must help him!” Abasi told in the heads of each and every master of the earth.
“He won’t be able to slay all of them at the same time, so we need to continue temporary fighting against these evil souls! We will only deliver a reasonable amount to Chris’s way, one that is manageable in his fighting capacity,” Abasi added, and all the masters confirmed.
“Amanda and I will do our best to weaken Khalid so Orion can have the chance to take him down,” told Abasi.
“Right! Here I go! Haaaahhhh!” Taara once again, raised herself in mid-air, thru-sting her shuriken blade and combining it with the strength of her wind.
Aside from that, Taara also commanded wind storms in another direction, keeping the rest of the escapees from hell to approach Christopher all at the same time.
In another group, Brody turned the soils into the form of soft concrete. He then easily dried the mixture up, trapping the souls altogether. With his body of steel and after creating a blade of his own, Brody then charged at the enemies, turning them back into ashes!
Meanwhile, Christopher started to slay the evil souls.
Holding firmly to a two-meter blade, it was very easy for him to reach the souls with one swing. Two to three translucent forms, smelling of hell, would come at him, but they were no match to Christopher’s wings.
His speed and his ability to maneuver his body, swinging it upward when needed, made it difficult for the evil souls to reach.
With one swoosh, each soul wound up being cut into half and gradually, their bodies burned in blue flames until their form turned into smoke!
Little by little, the numbers of the enemies had reduced! It was all thanks to the awakening of Christopher as the soul slayer.
Meanwhile, Khalid was forced to move further and further away from the battlegrounds, thanks to Amanda’s fierce advances. Now that she had both water and fire as her tool of weapon, she was able to counter, controlling the same element that was thrown at her.
When Khalid would spring up water to her direction, she easily willed it back to the land. On Khalid’s last attempt to use water, Amanda created mist out of the combination of water and fire.
Khalid was blinded for seconds that Amanda surged, creating a blade of fire.
Amanda’s advances came so suddenly that he was sent drifting fifty meters away from their original space.
The three of them landed on the ground, and Amanda continued to create fog.
Khalid laughed out loud, saying, “Impressive. I never thought of creating steam vapor before.”
He created layers of shield around him, for he could not see anything. Only smoke surrounded him. Trying to find where Amanda would appear before him, he said, “It’s no use though. I have protection around me. You can never bring me down!”
Khalid kept looking around for seconds more, but he could not find Amanda. He became impatient and thought to shift to another space when he suddenly saw a familiar image.
His heart suddenly raised for he thought he saw Ca-ssandra. He muttered, “Ca-ssandra? No. Impossible.”
The fog came in and out, but the figure two meters away from him seemed to be Ca-ssandra, the future master of the heart.
He could not hear any voice, but she seemed to be in pain. He could not tell which clothes she was wearing because of the fog, but it looked like she was on fire!
The picture slowly became clearer to him and he noticed how Ca-ssandra was burning!
He frowned, seeing how Ca-ssandra’s li-ps formed into words of help. He muttered, “No, this cannot be?”
While Khalid doubted what he saw for a second, he lowered his guard and took down his layers of protection. Right at that very moment, he heard a loud roaring sound from behind him!
“Hiyaaahh!” It was Amanda, ready with her blade of fire. “Fiena! Hear me! You must not help Khalid! Flee his body!”
Khalid evaded, but Amanda still hit him perfectly in the side of his stomach. Khalid immediately bled and partly burned. However, in response to Amanda’s attack, he also created a blade of steel, using the power of the earth.
Amanda quickly turned to escape, but the blade slashed against her back, paining her tremendously. Then, in a split second, Amanda disappeared, obviously being taken by Abasi into another wormhole.
Khalid turned to find the image of Ca-ssandra, but to his dismay, the same figure slowly shifted to the form of Abasi. He then noticed how Abasi was holding a charm and was chanting a few words.
It was then when he realized it was another kind of magic, allowed Abasi to transform, looking like Ca-ssandra. He could only hiss in regret, having fallen for the trap.
He coughed as he grunted in pain, feeling the wound on his stomach.
Wasting no time, he immediately put himself into another protection and brou-ght out the brown crystal. He commanded for himself to be heald.
However, seconds pa-ssed and the brown crystal did not do as commanded. It made Khalid scream in anger! He hissed before mumbling, “Fine! I can use the powers I have taken!”
Khalid had a-ssembled all the charms and magic sources in one place of his home, and he could easily bring it to wherever he was, using the power of time and space.
Some of the powers he had used to provide him with immortality had been used when he attacked the gates of hell with Hades. He has yet to collect new powers, but they decided to go after the wielder of the deadly swords first.
He brou-ght out a seed that was flashing in white light. His body trembled as he swallowed it down. Right after taking it down, his body soon became bright! He screamed loudly as the light seemed to come out of his body!
“Aaahhhhhhh! Ahhhhh!” His yells were so deafening!
Amanda, on the other hand, tried to strike at his layers of protection, even if she was injured, she forced her body to attack. She kept thru-sting her fiery blades, but no matter how ha-rd she tried, its protection was powerful.
Following Khalid’s loud scream, a wave of light circled around him and it ran in the outer direction of his body. The same light forced Abasi’s and Amanda’s body to fly away from Khalid’s.
At the same time, the mist that Amanda made fully disappeared. It would seem to them that the same white light that came out of Khalid’s body eradicated all hazards that stood his way.
To the shock of Amanda and Abasi, Khalid’s body seemed to have grown. His frame was bigger and the wound from his stomach had disappeared. His hair turned yellow and his eyes were completely white!
“Hahaha! This is your fault now! I was planning to use that seed of life for a greater battle, but you left me with no choice! Now, I am even stronger and vigorous!” Khalid laughed some more before declaring, “Now, you have no chance whatsoever!”
“We’ll see about that!” Khalid turned up to the sky and was shocked to see Taara.
He sneered and took the chance to look past the masters. He saw that only half of the evil souls stood their ground. Now, only Brody was repeatedly turning them into ashes while Christopher slowly eradicated the souls.
Khalid also saw how Hades had joined the battle, trying to get throu-ghChristopher. He also saw how the young boy who carried the golden blade was helping Christopher as well.
While the Venusian Sword could not kill the souls, but the boy acted to delay the attacks towards the soul slayer.
“It won’t take long, your evil souls will be wiped out! And all of us can fight you, for good!” Added Taara.
“No matter how many times you heal, Khalid! We will kill you again and again until you have nothing left to give you health and life!” Abasi swore with his eyes narrowing.
Khalid hissed in anger. If all the masters would gather before them and use their powers, chances are they would almost be even, knowing the fact that they have also gained more strength than what history had told.
His frace grimaced, thinking how tiring these masters were, and it angered him how they were so difficult to kill!
Then, an idea crept into his head. His earlier frown turned into a devilish grin. He muttered, “Then, I shall call on… Eimuth!”
With the power of time and space, he brou-ght out from the future, a dagger that had a monster carved on its handle, and without delay, he cut throu-ghhis blood and let the red fluid stain the same dagger.
“Watch and see, masters, and the people of this land! My pet will bring an end to your lives today!” Khalid announced before strongly thru-sting to the skies, the same dagger that he earlier held.
He threw it so vigorously that it reached the cloudy skies of Aeros! Only after seeing it disappeared in his line of sight, did Khalid said, “Come to me, Eimuth! Let us cause destruction here in this land of Pelagy!”
Seeing what appeared in the skies, the people of Aeros speculated their end.
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