Tales of Astora: Legacy

Chapter 68: Elemyr of Dark Moon

Chapter 68: Elemyr of Dark Moon

Readying their combat stance, Alastor and Luna charged toward the Monochrome. An unusual sight it was, to see a demon lord and a goddess fighting side by side against a common foe. Albeit this was only an ephemeral truce between them, it showed us something, something compelling: peace was possible. Yes, we, standing for all the races, might have our differences. Yes, we might fight each other from time to time. But it didn't mean that we hated each other so much we couldn't share the same sky in a huge world like Astora. At the very least, Alastor and Luna didn't look that way. If we could reach a mutual understanding, then perhaps the idea of a peaceful world between the races might not seem that much of an illusion after all. But alas, this wasn't time to talk about peace, not when there was a giant man-eating freaking monster with a bad artistic sense of choice for skin colour was roaming around in front of you.

The fight might seem one-sided at first with the monster at a great disadvantage as he had to fight two adversaries at the same time and they were not just any random foe like the soldiers. However, that would be the case if you didn't take in account Solana, or rather her body. While the creature was waving his long arms around, smashing everything, with her upper half sticking out on the monster's chest, Solana's body was holding her golden bow and fired consecutively a rain of seeking arrows of light that would pursue the two till the end of earth. Even if they somehow managed to avoid the arrows despite its incredible speed, the thing could change its trajectory to find them as if it was alive. And at that speed, they looked more like laser beams than actual arrows.

"How annoying these are!" muttered Alastor as he increased his flying speed to avoid the beams.

"It's Solana' specialty, <Living Arrow>. You can't escape from them. Our only option is to intercept them before they hit us, else this will never end." Advised Luna as she quickly slashed an arrow with her shadowy daggers.

"Or this!" Alastor grinned as he thought of a plan to deal with these arrows.

Diving right toward the monster, he skilfully glided between its legs. But that act had a purpose, aside from making the monster even more annoyed as it couldn't hit him with its giant fists. If we took in account the speed of the arrows, even if they had the ability to change their trajectory, it would still take a short moment before they could actually do it. By moving toward the monster, Alastor has lured all the arrows pursuing him into hitting it instead, damaging it as well of getting rid of the pursuers. Two birds with one stone, as they said.

But based on the little injuries it caused, the Monochrome seemed to have taken on Solana's properties, meaning it was very resistant to light elemental attack. But that also meant that it would be vulnerable to dark damage. Coincidentally, we had a demon lord and a Goddess of darkness right here.

"<Dark Spheres>" Alastor invoked black orbs filling the area and bombarded the monster's location, destroying it little by little. Each orb would provoke a small explosion, obliterating the monster's flesh bit by bit before the wounds could even heal.

"<Blade of the Dark Moon>" The two daggers that Luna has been using suddenly shined brightly, radiating a nebulous luminescence before disintegrating into particles that would fuse together to form a long dark sword that looked nothing like the common swords found in Astora. The blade, obsidian in colour, was unusually thin and long, attached to a handle. With such a fragile blade, it seemed that its purpose was not to endure strike like a normal sword would. Instead, it was designed to cut through flesh with a single fast slash. In ancient times, there were warriors who used that type of swords but nowadays that culture seemed to have died out, leaving very few successors to the art: the katana.