novelbin Chapter 269: Vaelith vs Leon III: The Edict of Obey
Chapter 269: Vaelith vs Leon III: The Edict of Obey
Sharp air flew around Leon as Vaelith dashed through him like a shadow with veins. He froze in the air when the last feather of Vaelith vanished from his skin.
Leon’s eyes widened while a mixture of blood and water gushed out of his mouth. Behind him, heated air hammered on his neck. ’What is happening to my body?’
He tried to move his arms, but they didn’t obey him. Only his eyes spiraled around in their sockets.
"Your mind demands a fight, but your cells recognize their creator." Vaelith slammed a heavy hand on Leon’s right shoulder. The impact sent Leon crashing onto the ground beneath him.
Dust burst upward as the earth folded inward like a piece of paper.
"Leon, we need you."
Zoe’s voice echoed in Leon’s head and charged his muscles when his dual heart began to slow drastically.
Warm blood trailed down from his forehead to his chest while his eyes slowly cracked open. "I, I’m coming, Zoe."
Through the blurry red-gold-blue vision, bone-crackling sounds echoed around Leon when he caught sight of the two Hi-no-Kami he had lost earlier.
The moment he stretched his hands toward them, the swords began to vibrate on the ground. They dashed toward him as if they had a mind of their own, while a blue glow raveled around them.
A red sonic wave exploded when he caught them. The wave pushed all the dust away and gave the earth the chance to show its wounds.
In the sky, heavy winds bounced on the ground as Vaelith’s wings slapped countless sharp feathers toward Leon.
Every single feather transformed into a light-grey light beam. They slammed on the ground like an angry lightning storm at its peak.
Just as two reached Leon’s side, Leon leaped two meters back and pulled the shield. With a single inhale, a blue glow seeped out of his eyes with a tiny skull shape and dashed into the shield.
The metal body of the shield began to transform into countless shapes. The hasty air slammed Leon in every direction, but he didn’t crack his eyes open.
Deep within the blackness of his eyelids, he saw the first golden fiery sword he had tasted at the night of the Granum Tower drawing closer to him like a lost but found treasure.
Vaelith’s eyes widened when he saw the red-gold-blue glow around Leon intensifying. ’It’s nice I had you.’
Countless light-grey beams of light tore out of the dead sky and slammed onto him when he spun around like a wheel without a break. Every passing second of getting hit by his own power caused the feathers on him to transform into elongated tentacles.
Thorns began appearing on the gold right above his head when an extra began forming at the center. Just as the ring closed, the light-grey beam of light directed its path and flew through the rings on his head.
His fingers grew long and sharp while the bindrune tattoo at the center of his chest began to clean itself, leaving the skin plopping.
The moment the entire bindrune disappeared from him, the light-grey beam of light vanished from his head.
Vaelith took in a deep breath, then stretched his right arm toward the ground where Leon stood.
Air bounced off all the gravel beside Leon’s boots as his body leaped into the air as if being pulled by an invisible string.
In the darkness behind his eyelids, the golden burning sword whirled around him like a bird while a complete dark being in a thorn crown appeared before him.
Leon’s heart rate spiked when he remembered it to be the same face he had seen in his bathroom window of the Storm Mansion, the night before his return to Agatha came.
His head snapped sideways as he forced his eyes to open, but they didn’t. The more the figure closed in with him in the darkness, the more he felt his veins burning inside his skin.
A blue glow flashed on Leon when the figure materialized with him and vanished. A newly given energy flew out of Leon when his eyes finally gave out, as if they were waiting for the figure to merge itself with Leon.
"Let me take over, Leon Storm."
A voice that carried the scream of hell echoed in Leon’s head when he shifted his gaze toward the glowing Hi-no-Kami in his hands.
When he increased his grip on the hilt, his eyes went dead black while a faint smile tore across his lips.
"Now watch how I show you what you were lacking."
Leon’s legs began moving on their own while the voice continued to speak in him as if his body was no longer his.
The light-grey beams of light appeared from the sky and landed on Leon, but he didn’t crouch down or scream; he simply absorbed them with a smile on his face.
The moment the beams vanished from his head, a bindrune burned itself at the center of his chest.
He leaped into the air while the red-gold cloth fluttered at his back like flames. They unraveled themselves from Leon’s neck and began spinning into a blazing mixture of gold-red-blue-grey fire. "We meet again, VAELITH THE FALLEN HALO!"
Vaelith smiled when he recognized the voice to be the same one The Destroyer had used fifteen years ago. He looked at his palms, then clenched them with a silent rift. "Indeed."
He shifted his gaze to the new Destroyer, then spread his arms wide. "I thought we would never meet."
The wings at Vaelith’s back sharpened and gleamed as he dashed toward Leon and grabbed his neck.
The black glow in Leon’s eyes began to falter when Vaelith’s grip increased on his skin.
Vaelith hurled both himself and Leon upward like a rocket.
Crashing sounds echoed around them as they paved their way through the thick walls at the top of the skies until they appeared outside the tunnel leading toward the inner world, Tartarus.
Stars filled the skies when Vaelith hurled Leon toward them. He glanced at the stars in the sky, then shifted his gaze to his palms. "Fifteen years!"
A loud, cunning laughter echoed from him and he dashed upward and stopped at the front of the moon’s glow.
Leon’s body floated like a lifeless bird when he reached the dark clouds of the Hell land. The cry of night birds flew around him and pulled him from the death of his dark self.
Vaelith dashed toward Leon and slammed a punch on Leon’s chest. The impact sent Leon crashing onto the rocky ground, causing rootlike cracks to spread sideways.
Vaelith lowered himself toward the ground. He inhaled deeply when his feet touched the chilled ground.
White blood gushed out of Leon as he coughed.
Sharp footsteps echoed when Vaelith began moving toward him. "To defy ’Obey’, your intent cannot simply be loud."
Vaelith kicked Leon in the chest and sent him rolling on the ground like a metal ball. He flew toward Leon’s back when he saw a sharp pointed stone where Leon’s body was heading and kicked him from behind. "Your intent must be so sharp it cuts through the very concept of submission."