Battle Royale: Apocalyptone

Tale 4: Final Chapter - One True Blessing

That dream? No one can explain this thing. Even my family can't explain this dream we shared.

As the time I woke up, I saw a shadow, creeping my beloved kids. I activated my trap and alarm bell. That shadow quickly dodged my trap, and it is about to kill me. 

But then, Atalante, my wife, attacked it with her Excalibur, but it did just hide somewhere. She started to wake up our children, and I started to create a vehicle with some boosters from some Illusionist's fragments and Semiramis' dark magic. It will take time to do it. The Plague was about to come to our area. The shadow's still there. I know they can buy me more time. 

About to finish the build, I started to use all my energy to speed up the process. The shadow's still not yet destroyed. I told my family to enter and drive safely, while I am going to be the turn to finish the shadow. The children told me that it will risk me more, and Oberon has healing powers. I told him to save it since many people are going to be aggressively attacking anyone within their vision. Semiramis insisted to do my risk. Atalante said to her that this is why we are still surviving and this punishment tested our strengths and fate. I activated the vehicle's power. The vehicle will be at 2000 HP, which possible to make them possible to be hidden from the shadow. They left me, and seeing Semiramis crying gave me strength to use all my remaining power to create battle wings. I battled him with the beams from the wings called "Gamma", which destroys everything on its path. Then there, that beam hit the shadow, and so the explosion affected me.

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My dad just died and we knew it. If an Architect dies, so as his creations will shatter, giving him afterlife damage bonus. I have healing powers ready, so I gave them a regenerating buff while the vehicle started to collapse. I used Merlin to regenerate the dead, to buy us more time to get at least to the center of the Plague's Eye. His soul is not there and I knew it, but spending his energy will also spend mine. My sister, Semiramis, buffed me with efficiency spell from her scroll in her inventory, which discounts my energy spending. At this moment, the vehicle is still in intact, temporarily.

His doppelganger created a drone, as an attack assistant. It can be possible, but it can deplete energy faster. Suddenly, he began to spoke, instructing me to give him one Illusion fragment. At that moment, some dark swords begun to attack him. Semiramis threw it. About to lose the dead manipulation spell, he cast a fusion spell called "Great Rift", where all Great Builds will collapse but instead of damaging anyone, it will become a source of great teleportation. That spell begun to pull us like a second and with just a blink, we're already on the center of the Plague's Eye.

I am thankful that I did this spell for the sake of our safety. Suddenly, Apollo noticed me with something strange on me. They noticed that my hand that is holding Merlin is going to become ashes. I started to become weak. I tried to use any healing spell but it doesn't work. I heard his voice. He told me that he is connected to my energy. The attacks were actually buffed with curses, and that curse is unknown to us. The curse can corrupts energy, which can also corrupt my lifeform. At this moment, I have nothing to do but to make myself expire. Semiramis cried again, as if she'll lose her partner. She noticed that my eyes started to grow darker. 

I wished them all that they will do their best to survive and at least, kill the Assassin, as if he can only do this curses. I distributed all my remaining non-corrupted energy to Semiramis, as her weapon. 

And so, I became blind, deaf, and cannot sense things anymore, except the one feeling that I knew who it came from.

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"Mama, your back!" I shouted my mom. She raised her armor and her shield and blocked the sword projectile. The Reaping Jack actually attacked us. I saw his attacks, and it's like he did 11 consecutive hits in a blink of an eye. My mother can't resist this, so she summon Excalibur and blocked his attacks completely. She knew what attack pattern he is doing, so she uses an Ultimate move for Guardian paradigm, "Quake of Swords", that summons massive copies of the same sword from the ground. It really can kill all enemies. I know she can beat him. 

After that, he disappeared. We thought he's dead. We smiled with each other because he retreated. Suddenly, she felt like someone stabbed her. The blood fell down from her chest. She was weakened. Her smile changed into a despair one. I was crying that I'll lose another one from my family. My young siblings was shocked at this moment. I tried to tell my mom to still breathe, but a ghostly girl figure came and pointed Apollo, then she pointed at somewhere. She snapped, revealing a shining glare from an invisible metal. "ATTACK!" The last cry of my mother.

I loss control of my powers, which summons conjuring butterflies to protect the siblings from that metal. I used a fragment of Illusionist's spells and reveal the invisible metal. It is actually Reaping Jack, using the Third Layer of the Reality. About to be attacked, I blocked him with a golem summoning spell, but it won't work, since he can kill with a hit. Venus used a grenade to distract him, but things go worse since he activated a buff that absorbs damage to make it the damage of his homing cursed swords. As a fail move, he homes a cursed sword unto her. Apollo blocked it with his bow, but that destroyed it. "Use my pistol, brother," she said to him. He handled the pistol, but it restricted him instantly by an electric shock. He instead used his Ultimate spell, "Quiverlocked", which blocks anything with arrow manipulation, but also attacks the target.

I manipulate the butterflies to attack Reaping Jack, but it doesn't affect him. Apollo rushed to him with his ultimate still active. It damaged him, at least, but he countered it. About to launch his rushing attack, Apollo blocked his way. "Do not hurt my sister!", he shouted. 

It ended very tragically, as I saw how he was being sliced into two. Venus screamed, and just cried. I cast a Dark Beam spell, but he just stabbed me. I held his blade and charged a self-sacrificial area damage spell. 

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Brother! Sister!

I cried even more, but when I face up, I saw his creepy face staring at me. He still hold the blade with the blood of the three people I loved. I screamed, but I grew power. That time, I summon a big gun, heavier than I never tried to carry, a weightlifting barrel. That gun is a bazooka, an ultimate. I set fire in the skies. This thing, I may look like I gave up. About to attack me, I activated another Ultimate, "Fire Works". That missile become a rain of bullets with nuclear explosion on hit. That way, he can't attack me, and he needs to escape. I grabbed his hand, just to not let him use the Third Layer of the Reality. I know it's stupid, but at least I still have Illusionist' fragments I've collected. At these point, I activated the fragment to make me become a gemstone material. This is a self-sacrificial, but it will wounded him more. But this is not what I planned. I will use my fragments of my own body to change my pistol into a crossbow, designed based on my family. It drained all bullets and became one arrow. I pointed it to him, pulled the trigger and explodes.

I became unconscious, but I knew he fled away. That crossbow has a curse on it, that it will limit all his combos only to three hits per 10 seconds. The gemstone material became part of me, but it drains my life force. Suddenly, I saw a priest and he's willing to help. Healing will not help with my current buff, and I wanted to be with my family again. I asked him a blessing by a sand drawing, but he still wanted to heal me. I pointed him the sand drawing and he understood me. He knew that it was hard to lose a dying child, but this is what I wanted. 

After the blessing, I can feel their embraced. With their touched, I made it into the afterlife.