Tales of Astora: Legacy

Chapter 58: Curtain Call

Chapter 58: Curtain Call

While Alastor was 'dealing' with Astrea, Ikarus was fighting against the ruler of Malatas, the elf king Aldol. While Aldol had received the power of a demon lord, he has never had any training in combat in his life, leaving him rather clumsy in his fighting style and inexperienced.

"<Annihilation>" The young man shot a disintegrating ray of dark energy toward the celestial. Using her translucent wings, Ikarus gracefully evaded the laser and dived toward Aldol.

"<Flame of Purification>" white flames spiralled around Ikarus before throwing itself onto the air and exploded into a rain of fire covering the entire area. The particular thing about the white flame was that it only damaged those Ikarus deemed as evil, in other words, her enemies. In addition, the flame healed her allies in the surrounding area, making it particularly effective when fighting group against group.

"<Astral Shield>" As the fire reached up to Aldol, a dark barrier adorned with myriad of light dots of different intensity which looked like stars in a night sky englobed his body and protected him from the fire. The problem was if it was a normal fire attack, the shield would be more than enough. However in this case, the white fire, as if it was alive, began to move toward Aldol and engulfed the shield like it was devouring it.

All types of barriers were only good for protection against one or two attacks. But if the attacks were continuously inflicting damages, eventually the shield would crumble, leaving the user completely vulnerable. And since Aldol wasn't taught any of that, he has let the white fire blocking all his ways out. With the barrier beginning to crack and some fire has managed to sneak into it, Aldol was being burned from inside his own barrier. If he cancelled the barrier to get away, he would be burned to death by the rest of the fire. Yet if he stayed here, he would still be burned to death anyway.

"<Worm hole>"

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Ikarus couldn't see Aldol in those fires. The barrier has vanished yet where was his body? He couldn't have turned to ashes that quick. Without any other way, she decided to approach where the barrier was. There was nothing, nothing inside that. Where was he?

"YOU BITCH" A hand appeared from behind Ikarus and punched her, throwing her off to the side. The rest of Aldol began to manifest itself as he walked toward her. His ability <Worm Hole> allowed him to slip into the cracks of dimensions and manifested himself back in another location. It worked in a similar way to Alastor's dimensional magic circle; only, Aldol could actually saw what was happening in the real world even when he was in a crack.

The punch was quite straight forward but powerful enough to make Ikarus groaning in pain. But she didn't give up yet. The gem on Ikarus' spear now switched to a sapphire colour and allowed her to follow with a completely different type of attack. "<Absolute Zero>"

In an instant, giant blocks of ice appeared out of thin air and fell onto where Aldol was. She made sure that he was definitely crushed this time. He didn't have enough time to use that weird spell he did like before. That she was sure. Now Ikarus could only hope that was enough to beat him.

The mountains of ice began to crack and crumbled. Aldol was still alive, injured but alive. And he was very angry.

"You...you hurt me. I swear I will kill you in the most painful way you could imagine." Aldol raged. "But I will have my fun first! <Gravity Crush>"

A tremendous force fell down onto Ikarus, smashing her against the ground. She felt so heavy that she couldn't even lift a finger even though she was trying her best to move away.