Legend of Mautau: Angelorum Lux

Ch 5: Reunions

As Grey held Amy, still sobbing, he suddenly sensed the strange fluctuation of EDE again. Behind the two, dark vortexes began forming from the shadows.

Grey quickly stabbed his remaining sword into the rooftop and used his powers of Rune Swordsmanship as he chanted, “Septimo Spiritus Ignis!”

Glowing red lines shot across the rooftop from the blade to create an enormous red rune circle over a large area of the rooftop. He released the blade, leaving it stuck in the rooftop, and before Amy had time to ask what was happening, he had picked her up in both arms. Then, to Amy’s terror, he carried her to the edge of the roof and leapt off. Just as the anomalies had pulled themselves from the vortexes and were about to pursue, the rune circle glowed brightly, and suddenly the rooftop and the anomalies were engulfed in a fiery explosion. Amy screamed, terrified of the explosion and the fact that they were falling from the roof of a two story building. Grey landed firmly on both feet though, unfazed by the fall.

As he set Amy down on her feet, Grey looked up at the rooftop, which was now engulfed in flames, and said, “We better get out of here. It won’t be long before the authorities show up with questions. Alexander said he’d take care of your dad, leave it to him.”

Finishing up in the Grant’s apartment, Alexander cleaved the last anomaly left in half, along with the entertainment center.

Taking a moment to catch his breath, he muttered, “It seems he has amassed a great number of anomalies. It seemed as though there was no end to them.”

He started to walk towards the door, and then he paused as the room shook and what seemed to be the sound of an explosion echoed through the complex.

Smirking, Alexander said, “Sounds like Grey has his fair share of them too.”

Then Serius said within Alexander’s mind, “As long as he has the bodies and essence to craft them with, he can create as many as he wishes. Who knows how many he’s already made from all the people who’ve been killed in Altera Veritas’ attacks. Most of these were crude though, most likely crafted in haste from the tenants of this complex…” 

As Alexander reached the doorway, he sensed another fluctuation of EDE, and a chill ran down his spine as an empty voice called out, “Yes, it was a suitable test of his growth over the year he’s been under your care, Alexander.”

Alexander spun around as out of a swirling vortex of darkness, Alastor appeared in the living room of the Grant’s apartment.

As his vortex vanished seamlessly behind him, Alastor said, “It’s only been three years, yet so much has happened, hasn’t it? I see Serius is with you. I trust you both have been well?”

Leveling the blade of his enormous sword at Alastor, Alexander remained silent, and after a moment Alastor continued, “Oh? I take it you have no time for pleasantries? Pity… Very well then, I shall be your opponent.”

A dark aura erupted around Alastor, and Alexander steeled himself, muttering, “I may require your assistance Serius…”

Alastor began to channel EDE into his right hand as he said, “Gabriel the Immortal and Serius the Unbound against the leader of Altera Veritas. The odds don’t look good… for you…”

Brigadier General Scott Matthews had finished surveying the wreckage of the destroyed hover car. It seemed from what witnesses they’d questioned that his old friend had fought with someone, and he could only wonder who it could have been. The remains of a dark cloak, almost completely destroyed by flames, seemed to be all that was left of whatever opponent he had faced.