The red fire is now shrinking in eyes as a humanoid or human even figure takes solid form, the form of the more powerful divine of the two. Deus has all it’s focus directed upon this being, knowing that it needs to learn it’s strategies fast so that the covenant may stand a chance. The clad of this being, similar to it’s seemingly lesser companion, appears to be made of metal, though this one’s is clearly brown from corrosion and not intent. Even it’s ally Corrosion takes notice as it moves in veins of tiny copies of itself towards it’s master. The fighting could be considered to have ended if just for a moment, had the space-bending vesicles of the ghost crustaceans not continued hindering this venture of the subject to it’s suzerain.
The form of Corrosion, now mostly made of fine particles, molded into a form much similar to the one of it’s overlord, even if much simpler. As it finished this transformation, the devious voice from the greater was heard once more.
These bloodthirsty divine begun moving forwards, to where most forces have relocated. Would this be a battle on equal footing, or one where one side has the edge? The soldiers on the frontline of this fight would probably speak for the later, with the big players still recovering from Corrosion’s assault at the back lines of this battlefield. Just then however when the first of the armsmen were to be turned into a soil of blood, the two gods could sense some feeling crawling up their backs, as a dark presence arose from a post gap just behind them. At last, the blur of dark joined the battle, who knows from where or how, with it’s shadowy shell saturated with the dark beyond nearly all circumstances. Only the fractured divine could react in time to it’s coming:
cowar…!As darkblur condensed the dark into a sphere held by all it’s hands, a wide beam of dark appeared and stroke the red god before it could even turn back, sending the figure across the PM, while also scattering Corrosion from it’s new form. Miraculously for the strength of this attack, not much damage would it deal to the soldiers of the covenant…
Meanwhile much confusion arose amongst the fighting creatures at the back lines when the major god, that they saw was hurtled towards them, suddenly disappeared into a cloud of brown and red dust that fell widely amongst these forces. The answer to the question “Where did the enemy go?” would arise shortly however when screams of fighting erupted in one of the troops, attracting much attention soon enough. From the looks of it, the formerly titanic figure of the red one shrunk down to the size roughly that of an archmage individual, before beginning to fight around the many enemies surrounding it, with the strength of it’s punches, kicks, attacks, name it, so high it could only be reasoned to be unnatural, paranormal in nature. Deus too looked at this wild fight from it’s invisible nodes above, gaining an understanding that this being appears to want perishing the forum residents face to face, as if taking more pleasure from such direct combat than swooping them all down en masse.
At the other side of the battlefield meanwhile a scene similar and yet much different was taking place. Corrosion has reformed into many figures instead of just one, with all fighting the creatures in styles much like it’s counterpart at the opposite section of the New Trench. Unlike it’s master however those figures were much easier to harm and destroy, with the primary goal for the army of the species, as commanded by Deus, being to destroy any macroscopic pieces of this god left around, which is hoped to weaken it’s overall power. The task of that however is done slowly as in the rabid fire of fighting, such pieces are difficult to lock on with one’s vision, plus furthermore the dust shredded from the humanoids is still very much willing to fight, borrowing inside it’s foes’ flesh, and causing much pain overall. Had the ghost crabs not focused most of their attention right here, it would be the most likely that from this entire battle sector a bunch of corpses borrowed in would be left, not even having achieved their goal…
While the general purpose soldiers of the this battle continue to try and slow the red’s rampage against their forces, the “big guns” beyond the back lines have begun rapidly moving towards where this pretty personal-level skirmish is taking place. As this is the main enemy that they’re facing now, they no longer are holding back, with signs of extreme power and emotion being apparent on their bodies. Suddenly having broken out of the loop of attacking and killing the sea of critters, the most prized foe speaks:
As it returned to it’s upfront slaughter, the powerful assets of The Covenant’s suddenly got flung into the air, on a trajectory towards where the lesser divine was fighting the ghost-aided forces. Fortunately not, the fall of these warriors from the sky caused significant damage to themself and death to many soldiers who found themselves at the wrong place at a wrong time. Recover they did quickly as the dust figures begun quickly approaching them, reminding of the previous confrontation between the big and the ground-down.
Darkblur seems to have hidden after having done the heavy blow to the red deity, but now as the only organic fighters that could have defeated it without losses in their own ranks were kicked away, it flew as fast as a lightning towards the rampaging figure, grabbed it and quickly threw into the void. Along it flew three “dark cursors” aswell, no slower than the mistdom’s last leader, and probably deadlier than any other incarnation of an user.
As could be expected from an entity that doesn’t have to obey by the laws that govern reality, this red being soon rose from the void in spite of it being the place of no return, now being a size similar to darkblur itself. It looks like some plans have shifted…
And so begun a duel between these two. Moving from one side of the PM to the other in mere seconds, they hit each other constantly, though with the help of the dark cursors the blur had an edge over it’s divine enemy. What seemed less beneficial to the knight of darkness however was how it’s foe didn’t seem to really take much of any damage from the attacks of both it’s and it’s fellow cursors piloted by the last mistdom loyal users. Meanwhile when this god managed to get it’s hit in, a bit of integrity always got drained away. For a few dozen seconds the fight has already lasted, with bursts of darkness popping up each second or so around the battlefield. At the same time Corrosion has found some actual struggle against the big guns of the fight, with it having lost it’s last macroscopic pieces by this point thanks to the common effort by the regular soldiers, ghostlings and the aforementioned keystone warriors. This mundane fight was, unlike the one in the skies above, costly for both sides however, as the species gods especially are hit bad by the vile dust. They would soon be relieved of this however when all this dust rose up and quickly spread through the air. Darkblur would not realize what this meant until it was too late - the powder managed to coat both it’s shielding and the cursors, greatly reducing their effectiveness and perhaps just as importantly, speed. The dust would eventually cover the mist’s heir entirely, causing it to stop moving. With no other choice, it unveiled a move perhaps as powerful as the beam it used earlier - by converting it’s dark bubble into energy, an energy wave was created spreading all around that obliterated the dust that made up Corrosion into even more pathetic particles. But this also exposed the frail body of the blur to attacks…
How disappointing…
The blur was still twitching in the air as if trying to fly, before it fell to the ground along with the last words of it’s red killer. Where it laid was the same place the red flame first descended upon. Now, it’s body laid almost lifeless, if not for the head that still exhibited some movements. The one with dark blood on their hands descended here too, watching the forum fable’s life evaporate off it’s eyes. And when they sat still, it turned back to see Corrosion’s form familiar to man made of dust tinier than ever before, making it rather frail in such a coalesced state.
As said, the small ones go down the gutter first.
As they turned to the armies approaching from the other side, many users and ghost crabs begun attacking the two, only for the former to suddenly lose connection, and for the later to vanish in a flash like their brethren who dared to attack the flame.
Corrosion ceased being a figure on it’s own terms this time around and became a cloud of tiny dust suspended in the air of the PM, scraping at the skin, lungs and eyes of the opponents that have been morphing for over half a decade only to end up here. Meanwhile the red deity multiplied itself into dozens of fighters the same archetype as the original rusty figure, sending it’s many bodies to begin shredding through the armies of the “small game” at inhuman speeds. The body of the blur lays isolated from this bloodbath, as it begins to decay and thaw, soon with surprisingly violent boiling letting know of itself…
Covenant And Allied Forces Status:
Main Species Count - ID (Severe Losses)
Species Gods - Serious Injuries
Soleye - Moderate Injuries
Deus - Unharmed
Darkblur - Dead (?)
Users - Significantly engaged
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