Storm Tide Online

Episode 9

I look at my status menu to check out this Corrupt Body, I look at the description which reads, dark energy has infested you body, if you don't purge the energy, you will be affiliated by the dark element.

That spell must have been dark magic, I look at the mirror with mixed feelings, I focus the energy from my body into the mirror which begins to heat to a extremely high temperature, I drop the mirror, but it doesn't shatter. The mirror only becomes brighter, so much we all have to cover our eyes. The brightness lasts for 10 seconds before disappearing, when we open our eyes, the mirror changed, the air it gave became different, just being near it gave me a feeling of hope and peace. "What is up with your mirror," Fang says after a while.

"No clue, it feels different though," I tell him.

"Check the stats," Austin inputs.

I open the Mirror's menu to check its transformation

   Heaven's Mirror

Grey rank

100-500 MATK

Take this mirror to the Legendary Elven Blacksmith Pyria, she is the 

only she can transform this heavenly mirror back to its original glory.

That's pretty conclusive, but my mirror is ruined, now I have to use my staff. "Well, I'm going to talk to the king of the elves to see if I can find a legendary blacksmith for my poor mirror," I sadly state.

"Okay, we'll just going to stay here and train," Fang tells me.

"Okay, see y'all later," I wave good bye as I walk away from them towards the Elven empire.

There's few monsters, but I can easily dispatched them if I have to, I love how this forest goes with the monsters well. The trees with frost and light snow on the ground that builds to the Frozen Land that should have lots of monsters there, so Fang and the guys should find some training there. I try to summon Xetar again, but it still says invalid. I open my menu to see my skills from Xetar are still there, but why can't I summoning him. I look at my status menu to see there's a new section called Covenanted Gods. I spot Xetar and Udon in my contracted god list, I open another window to summon my gods which is to say a dumb chant, "Heavenly Gods, I command you to answer my heavenly call, Xear and Udon come."

Two blobs of light leave my chest as they float a couple feet from me, the blobs start making some crazy shapes until they take a human form and settle their glowing. Xetar kneels pale faced, Udon isn't in good shape either, it seems wherever they went drained them a bit. "Master, It's nice to see you again," Udon smiles at me.

Xetar nods towards me trying to gather his bearings and magic, "Have you guy heard of a Corrupt Body."

"Yes, my old master obtained one. It's caused from using magic that evil gods used or banned magic."

"Is there a cure," I ask.

"Yes, but you would essentially become a god," Xetar tells me.

"Becoming a god is hard because you have to kill a god and absorb their god stone," Udon tells me.

"Could I kill a minor god?"

"With strategy, you could kill Yemir pretty easily," Udon cuts me off.

"who's Yemir," I ask.

"Yemir, God of Animals, he's pretty much a rival of mine since he always sends new animals that he creates to try to slay me, but they fail everytime," Xetar tells me.

"Take me to him," I tell them.

Xetar grabs my right shoulder and warps to a clearing, overflowing with nature and magic that places my mind in a euphoria.I spot a man, wearing bark as armor. He's playing a harp with animals surrounding him, I command Xetar and Udon to guard me while I cast my spells, I focus on the chi and Mana around me to focus into my finger and act like the ink to a pen as I draw a magic array to channel my magic through. "Let the fiery sun and cold moon cross, so I may invoke this spell. Eclipse," the gold magic circle spins.
The clearing turns a blood red as the man summons dual swords, "you will not invade this holy clearing."

Yemir summons  a green array that sends a green wolf head at me, I can't really block it mid chant and I need to focus. I have to deviate my focus, I draw a separate simple array that glows a fiery orange as I use my left hand to channel it to form a barrier around me. The wolf head gets eaten by the flames as I return to the complex array that needs its magic nodes drawn, I focus my wind and fire magic into each node as Udon performs a complicated footwork that makes him vanish from my sight and appear behind Yemir, he sends two slashes at his block, but Yemir activates some kind of lifesaving skill that creates a turtle shell on his back. Xetar fires two arrows at Yemir's shoulder and stomach, Yemir uses his daggers to chop them down, but he's wide open for me. "Flame Burst," the array fires a swirling blast of fire.

Yemir turns around and uses his turtle shell to block the flame burst, the blast gets absorbed by the shell that glows red, his body begins to burn as he charges me with even greater speed than before. I have to switch weapons, I requip to my sword that hums as I pour my magic into it. I raise it as a counter-strike to Yemir's charge, but he cancels the skill and uses the momentum to slide behind me delivering a slash to my back that almost empties my health. I quickly activate swap with Udon and activate Sayir's Light to recover. " Xetar, cover me," I equip my mirror.

I know it can corrupt me more, but I need its power for this last time. "Heavenly mirror, I humbly ask of you to bestow your power upon me, so I may defeat this for. I call upon the heaven's light, Godly Spark."

The mirror's runes glows white as the mirror surface reveals a woman in a white gown, I feel warmth travel through my veins, it's like a mother's embrace-its comforting. I let the warmth spread down into my core, I feel my back slit open as two wings appear as pure silver armor appear on my body. I look in the corner of my vision to see its called Valkyries' Wrath, I materialize my sword and charge at Yemir, who seems shocked for a corrupted god. I activate Valkyries' Charge which is going to get some getting used to the speed, I perform a quick slash at Yemir's head before changing the trajectory to his shoulder to weaken his strikes and attack power, Yemir has no choice to shift his body to the left, so the blade passes his veins and tendons. Xetar takes the moment to fire two arrows behind the right shoulder, Yemir can only take the arrows and chop the wood off and leave the arrows in. Udon performs his footwork again as I perform my own footwork to pincer strike Yemir. The footwork makes my movements unpredictable, I reinforce my blade with fire magic as I push my mind and strike to quicken, I send two strikes at Yemir's spine and shoulder as Yemir aims for his jugular. Yemir ducks, but Udon tilts his blade downward as our blades slash his spinal cord. Yemir's health is down to 10%, I can finish this easily. "Heavenly Crash," a magic array appears in the sky covering a acre of sky.

Comets start to rain down on Yemir, who uses his own footwork to dodge, but the comets under my guidance strike his path and finally him. destroying the last bit of his health. I cancel Heavenly Crash as my magic bottoms out and my Valkyrie form cancels itself. Xetar walks up to me and sends his magic into me to help me recover to my peak condition, Udon brings a clear orb that has a forest inside of it and a old stone chalice, full of green liquid. "That's God's Ambrosia, but it's usually golden. Yemir might've mixed his blood with it to breakthrough to become a major god. This should help you enter a demigod-hood , then if you get another God's Ambrosia, you will become a minor god like us," Udon explains.

I take the chalice and I begin to drink the liquid that causes my veins to burn and I feel like my body is going to explode