The White Chronicle

Chapter 26 - Guardians vs The Figure

Atlas and Amihan are busy helping the people of Vale. Atlas moved the earth to give people a wall of stone to feel safe. Amihan scout returns and says that the figure is missing they seem to lose him.

Atlas pride kicks in. He went out and looked for the assailant. After a few moments, he can hear the birds by the distance disturbed from their nest. There, he sees in the distance a small town of Usang Dalo is under attack by the figure. Atlas sees this town's citizen is less fortunate than the River Town as see all of their houses burning and their citizens fleeing as fast as possible – no guardians was there to stop this figure's rampage.

Atlas approached and the figure, rage, and justice fuming from within. The figure also detects him as sniffs the air and smiled. He pointed his finger and yelled "Dust!"

Atlas curled his fist and readies his stance. "Bring it!"

The two clash. Atlas fist flies in a frenzy hitting the figure square in the chest. The figure twists his spear and tries to deflect Atlas attack's but Atlas' fists are fast if not faster. Before the figure spear can connect with Atlas, fists came flying towards the shaft, redirect the tip of the blade back to the figure.

Atlas steps back to take a quick breather. There the figure's wound heals. The spear gave an orange glow just like what Gil told him early.

"Malaka! That is ambrosia!" Atlas knows this is a fight he won't last. The spear can heal the user and can be magically recalled like Leshin uses his. The figure's strength can be replenished in an instant and the bugs inside him are yet to awaken.

The figure punches Atlas but it didn't faze him a bit. Atlas returned the favor by punching the figure in his chest. The blow was so strong that the figure flew meters away from him and rolled thru the hills below them. Atlas waste no time and rushes in. He threw a flurry of punches and kept the figure rolling away from Usang Dalo and kept his body from regenerating.

Every punch Atlas made was enough to crush a house. It wasn't enough to kill him but enough to daze the figure. Atlas' mind goes blank. All he thinks is to keep punching till the figure is far away from the town. After rolling and rolling down the hill, Atlas made a powerful uppercut and send the figure flying to the sky and off into the distance. The blow was so powerful that when it connected with the figure, huge shockwaves shook the ground.

"YEAH! That's what I am talking about!" Atlas yells for his short victory.

Amihan flies above Atlas and yelled "Atlas! What was that?!"

"What?! I can't help it. I took the fight to him before he can reach us."

Amihan put her hands on her forehead in disappointment in his lack of foresight and understanding. "NO! Atlas. Look at where you send him flying to!"

Atlas looks over the direction where he sent the figure and sees four black towers.

"OH NO!" Atlas realizes the gravity of what he did. He wasted no time and runs toward the four towers.

Amihan flies low and started to yell at Atlas for his stupidity but no amount of scolding can undo what he did. Amihan just kept her cool and ask Atlas to run faster. Atlas nods and pushes his legs to the limits.

Tala was alerted to the loud crash of the figure falling to the forest near them.

"Leshin! Shamir! It's here!" Tala wasted no time and she puts her ice magic to use. The ice froze the figure in place. It slowed its movement but never its rage. Leshin lends a hand and puts up a good defense. Shamir summons her sand and created a huge wave of sand to push the figure away.