The Book of Abbadon

Battle for Moriarch (Part 2)

The cultists continue to pour into the barrier and you can see the red hue from the cultists committing suicide slowly creeping up the barrier wall towards the center of the dome above the kingdom. You watch the barrier slowly shift colors, tilting your head backwards with everybody else in the tower until the entirety of the barrier is glowing an ominous red and begins to fracture. Then, almost instantly, you hear an extremely loud cracking sound as the dome shatters upon receiving one final bombardment and it breaks into giant glass-like pieces that fall down towards the kingdom below.

Aatu, seeing that the falling fragments of the barrier are about to destroy the kingdom, holds his hand out and warps the space around them to have them crash down onto several of the large vehicles in the opposing army outside the kingdom instead. Aatu then glances around at the sea of cultists that are engulfing the horizon in all directions with a serious stare, who then immediately raise their futuristic rifles now that the barrier is destroyed and begin to open fire on Moriarch's front line. Aatu quickly turns and speaks to you.

“ I tried to rewind and restore the barrier back in time to what it was before it got destroyed, but I was unable to. I had to distort the space around the barrier fragments to move them just like I distorted the space around the Exemplars back in Voldoor. Based on that knowledge alone, it appears that these cultists are capable of tampering with the existence of things as well. “

“ Guards! Go check on the mages responsible for the barrier! We cannot afford to lose our most powerful mages before the enemy even reaches our kingdom! “

King Errol looks back and commands a group of royal guards that are standing behind him. The guards bow their heads respectfully and quickly run through the exit doors of the tower, following the King's orders before the King turns back around and returns his attention to the battle at hand. You watch the flood of cultists continue pushing forward, unloading their magazines as another bombardment of artillery and missiles are fired upon the kingdom. Aatu immediately uses his power over space to teleport the incoming bombardment, having it explode and destroy large portions of the attacking force instead of hitting the kingdom.

After seeing that Aatu has turned the bombardment against them, the artillery and bombing runs stop which allow you to hear the billions of cultists chanting in unison, just like the corrupted mortals did back in Somniohm.

“ NONE. NONE. NONE. NONE. “

They pick up the pace, using their Voldoorian rifles to kill thousands of the knights standing on the frontline of Moriarch’s defenses who are trying to block their ammunition with their shields as the cultists quickly close the gap on the Moriarch soldiers outside of Moriarch's border wall.

Sir Gerard gives another command as the cultists continue to chant.

“ MAGES!! CAST YOUR WARDS AND RUNES!! THEN RETURN FIRE!! “

Sir Gerard says as he points his sword outwards before you see several hundreds of thousands of mages within the defensive battalions casting magical spells that put a protective barrier around Moriarch's frontline to absorb the incoming energy bullets. Then, the mages reveal glowing symbols of various colors and shapes on the battlefield between the attacking army and Moriarch's forces on the outside of the border wall.

The instant that the cultists step on the glowing symbols to gain more ground, the runes on the ground explode violently with different elements corresponding to each rune's color. Orange runes explode into lava that ignites the cultists into flames and melts through their robes into their skin, blue runes explode into ice shards that freeze their limbs and shatter them like glass, green runes implode into air bursts that suck all of the air out of their lungs to suffocate them and yellow runes explode into lightning that electrocutes them and stops their organs from working; all of which are simultaneously erupting thousands of times per second and taking out millions within the opposing force all around the outside of Moriarch's defenses as the cultists continue pushing forward towards the kingdom.