Chapter 229: Hit Streak

DISCLAIMER: This story is NOT MINE IN ANY WAY. That honor has gone to the gorgeous bastard Ryuugi. This has been pulled from his Spacebattles publishment at threads/rwby-the-gamer-the-games-we-play-disk-five.341621/. Anyway on with the present…err learn.

Hit Streak

The world started to shimmer, shifting patterns of area rippling outwards from the palm of my hand. That gentle gathered in my hand and it was all however strong, reminding me distantly of the Brahmastra, of the spear I would shaped out of skinny air.

However no, this was one thing else, if each bit as intense. As a substitute of roaring from my fingers in a colossal torrent of sample, one thing unusual happenedthe gentle appeared to twist in upon itself. Fourteen tendrils started to slowly stretch from my palm, twisting round some central level as they did, earlier than connecting at a degree lower than a meter from my pores and skin. The second they did, one thing appeared to pulse inside me, beating alongside my twin hearts, and the sunshine shinned, brightening nearly painfully for a second earlier than a slim, hair-thin line of energy started to emerge from my hand, intersecting cleanly with the purpose of connection immediately in entrance of it.

My first considered it was that it was strangethe gentle, bizarrely, moved slowly. It appeared to cross the area between Malkuth and I at a glacial tempo, burning by means of the world prefer it was a candle melting; if not for my senses, I would not have been sure it was shifting in any respect. It took me a second to appreciate that wasn’t what was truly occurring, cross-referencing it towards my view of the world. Malkuth appeared frozen, together with the chaotic storm of warmth and light-weight I would product of this world. The place I might distinguish matter as a significant factor, it appeared halted and nonetheless, as if time had stopped round me once more.

Besides, that wasn’t it. I would discover if I used to be the topic of time manipulation; this was one thing else, if nonetheless acquainted. The truth is, I used to be reminded of the final time I would met Malkuth and of what had occurred shortly earlier than, once I’d used a whit Mud crystal.

The world wasn’t shifting any slower. I used to be simply perceiving it as if it have been standing stillas if I personally have been gentle.

After which issues started to alter. It appeared to occur slowly, however I used to be conscious that, if not for my present view on actuality, I in all probability would not have been in a position to see any of it in any respect. The burning chaos I would made inside my Sanctuary with Lucifer’s powerit all started to movement in direction of me. With a twitch of weird movement, I felt my thirty-six wings unfold behind me, shifting and never shifting as Sahasrara shined by means of my pores and skin. The hell I would been constructing appeared to assemble in them, flowing into them in a flood of sunshine till I wasn’t sure the place they stopped and the remainder of the world beganand quickly it did not matter.

The world started to condense round us, the warmth that had crammed my Sanctuary shrinking steadily inwards because it was drawn into Lucifer after which into me, leaving nothing behind however a lightless void. The star I would created adopted it, shrinking in pulsing waves because it was drawn into me and flowed beneath my pores and skin. Quickly, solely Malkuth and I remained, and I used to be solely in a position to understand the previous due to my extra esoteric senses.

Then my view of the world started to slim, whilst I shed my pores and skin. Sahasrara sprang forth absolutely from the place it had been hidden beneath my Metamorphosis, and I might really feel myself being drawn into the Gentle once more. My wings started to shrink into my physique, fading from the tip inwards, and the remainder of me was fast to observe. I felt as if I used to be being crushed and twisted, drawn and pulled round a central level, and I used to be in a position to see it as my physique swirled round and thru itself till my head, limbs, and chest have been all vague. I watched from the surface perspective Sahasrara granted me because the final of my physique was sucked down into my arm till even that started to movement into the collect gentle. After a momentfor I wasn’t certain if or how time utilized in a state comparable to thisthe solely issues left of ‘me’ have been the fourteen spiraling columns that circled the central pillar, and people too quickly flowed into the central level, which gathered and encompassed the whole lot I would created, the whole lot I used to be. My energy, my different, my created inferno, we have been all drawn into a degree that was no bigger than Malkuth’s portal had been.

And thenthat level flickered out, as if consuming even itself, and there was nothing carry however Malkuth and the darkness.

However then there was gentle. There was no form too it, nothing that might actually outline itit simply exploded outwards from an infinitesimally small level to an unspeakably large one. I could not really feel it, watching it from the surface as I used to be, however I might see its immensity, the facility that crammed each nook of my Sanctuary and appeared to pressure the very confined of area. Whether or not due to how I would fueled it or the numbers I would used, it was an enormous attacksomething much more intense that what I would created with Lucifer. It reached the boundaries I would laid down and washed again upon and over itself, rising and shrinking, creating and destroying, and easily filling the world with its majesty. Merely seeing it was wonderful, awe-inspiring, and greater than somewhat terrifying. If I would been caught within the wake of such an assault, I wasn’t sure I would be capable to survive it, even with all my defenses and benefits.

Malkuth, thoughhe wasn’t the middle of that assault, however he was nonetheless caught inside it. I watched because the Gentle expanded to embody him, washing over him like a tsunami, and the place the Astras had accomplished nothing, I noticed him burn. Gilgamesh’s physique appeared to ignite on the very contact of it, going up in blue and white flames that appeared to devour and unravel him the place even Lucifer had failed, consuming at his flesh in pursuit of what laid inside and burning with unspeakable brightness. I noticed Malkuth resist immediately, elevating energy towards the assault and sending sparks of his personal power flashing over the Grimm’s darkish flesh to defend it from the sunshine and change no matter was misplaced. At a look, it appeared like he was doing a reasonably good job of it, nevertheless it appeared this wasn’t one thing he might merely ignore.

That was excellent news for me; it meant I used to be proper. He could not use his full energy inside one other’s physique, or he’d had considerably extra choices out there to him. If I needed to guess, I would say he was utilizing no matter connection he needed to the Grimm to change them, exerting his energy over Gilgamesh and the matter that composed him. He was reworking it and altering the way it interacted with pure legal guidelines, however he had his limits, or else he’d be shaping your entire world round us; at greatest, I used to be solely preventing a dim shadow of Malkuth. Nonetheless a terrifying foe, maybe, however not an unbeatable one, whilst I used to be proper now.

I might damage him.

Now it was only a matter of doing so rather a lot. Lux Aeterna wasn’t as much as that process, I might inform that a lot instantly; no matter injury it was doing to Gilgamesh was superficial at greatest, at the least for somebody that had gotten his total physique annihilated and gotten again up. The Gentle washing over him decreased him to an nearly stick-like determine, nevertheless it would not kill him.

After all, I would figured as a lot. As I would already famous, if it was that simple, I would have received the primary time. Granted, I preferred to assume turning what had principally been hell in a bottle right into a weapon was fairly good even by my requirements, however I would identified full nicely I would need to go for broke on this struggle. I wasn’t going to have the ability to win this with only one trump card; I would have to layer dozens, letting them construct off of each other. I would used Thaumiel to create my boundaries, my boundaries to strengthen Lucifer, Lucifer to energy Lux Aeternaand now Lux Aeterna to energy one thing else.

The Gentle that had burst outwards with unspeakable power immediately withdrew, as if being sucked again down the way in which it got here. It did not swirl or writhe or something of the kind, each little bit of it utterly indistinguishable from the restbut it contracted right into a small sphere that then unfolded and commenced to reshape itself. Thirty-two wings uncurled from the sphere as ‘I’ stood tall as soon as extra and checked out Malkuth.

Then I cut up twice, two an identical copies of myself drifting out of me and to both facet. One was, in fact, my counterpart, however the different was my Gentle Elemental Keter, maybe the truest illustration of my soul now all however bursting with the facility I would gathered and contained to form his kind. Bringing him out like this, to truly struggle, was troublesome at the most effective of instances, however the state of affairs was about as supreme as it might ever beand I wanted his assist.

So right here we wereme, myself, and I.

“Nicely,” Malkuth’s voice echoed within the close to void we had now discovered ourselves inbetween Lucifer and Lux Aeterna, there was nearly nothing left inside my barrier in addition to the three of me and my enemy, who continued to burn with those self same odd blue-white flames. “That was cooland is not this fascinating? I suppose I ought to say it once more, seeing you all like thisso whats up once more, Keter, Keter, and Keter.”

“Sufficient, each of you,” Keter interrupted. “Let’s deal with the matter at handthere’s no purpose to waste time fawning over ourselves, in spite of everything, as a result of we’ll at all times be attractive.”

“All that Gentle and this place remains to be stuffed with sizzling air, I see,” Malkuth mused, interjecting himself into the dialog with what I imaged to be a roll of his eyes. “I knew this is able to occur the second I noticed there have been two of you. Possibly I ought to perform a little extra pruning of your loved ones tree.”

“That is a scary thought,” I mentioned, glancing at myself. “You assume we’ll be okay?”

“Don’t be concerned,” My different confident. “We’re too lovely to die.”

“Yeah, however he is already attempting to threaten us?” I puzzled, shaking my head. “It does form of make me really feel undesirable, you recognize?”

“Don’t be concerned about it,” Keter assured. “I believe he would possibly simply be jealous as a result of he is single.”

“Oh!” Myself and I mentioned on the similar time, drawing out the phrase.

Malkuth snorted barely, shaking his head.

“I really feel as if I ought to have anticipated this,” He mused to himself. “Is it time to struggle but? For some purpose, I wish to damage all of you.”

“Eh,” I mentioned. “You wished to try this from the beginningand you have been the one who wished to speak.”

“You are not unsuitable,” He admitted, turning his gaze my method. “I used to be simply assume it was spectacular, how shortly you introduced the items togetherexpected, maybe, however spectacular. You discovered your shadow, you discovered your previous, and continued on with out succumbing. It is fairly one thing and I wished to let you recognize I recognize all of your onerous work. Is not it a marvel what somewhat motivation can do?”

He was speaking about my father, clearly, however I brushed it offit’s not as if I would ever neglect what he’d accomplished, however I wasn’t precisely struggling to search out the reason why I ought to pummel his head in till he regarded like chunky salsa dip; I used to be simply attempting to determine easy methods to truly do it. In that regard, shopping for a bit extra time was extra helpful to me than throwing stuff at him that in all probability would not work to start with.

So as an alternative, I snorted at him derisively.

“And have a look at youall these years and you are still trapped in that cage,” I replied, making use of light emphasis to the phrases to verify he knew their that means.

He was silent for a second earlier than chuckling once more, although this time there was a slight edge to that.

“Maybe,” He mentioned, with out bothering to ask which cage or whose. “However I suppose it is a type of issues that may’t be helpedyou’re Keter and I am Malkuth. And simply as you might be Thaumiel, I’m Nehemoth.”

I snorted barely and shook my head.

“Bullshit,” I mentioned. “I do not keep in mind the whole lot, however I keep in mind enoughI keep in mind the very day you have been born. Even then, I knew what we have been product of, however so what? We’re greater than the sum of our components or what folks make of us; we made that clear sufficient. We’re each what we selected to be, in the long run.”

“Oh, I do know that higher than anybody,” Malkuth mentioned and he appeared almostpleased. “That is why it may possibly’t be helped, you seebecause you are you and I am me. Right here and now, then and there, endlessly and at all times and even after that, there are some issues that simply do not change.”

Iweclosed our eyes for a second and huffed out a trio of fairly laughs.

“Wonderful,” We mentioned in unison. “If that is what you selected to consider, come on then. I am going to present you ways a lot issues have modified.”