Chapter 214 (2/2)
(CHECKING . NO . WAIT…SEVERAL DIVINE INTERVENTIONS OCCURRED SIMULTANEOUSLY SO THE SIGNAL OVERLAPPED . BUT ALL OF THEM WERE AHEAD OF YOU WHEN I WARNED YOU . )
”Joseph, the hydra is glowing! Is it going to transform?!”
All six of the hydra heads began to glow, and then it breathed out a giant multicolored breath attack, that looked oddly like a rainbow . The entire bottom of the tower was blasted away . As if in slow motion, they watched as the tower collapsed into a giant pile of rubble and a ma.s.sive cloud of dust and rubble blasted up into the air and towards them, through the streets .
(UH, GUYS, THE LAST COPY OF THE META RUNE WAS JUST LOST FROM THIS REALM . )
”SHAVIST!!!” screamed Joseph, his voice breaking in his explosion of fury .
”Do you think that fake dragon was sent to slow us down?” asked Stella softly .
”We're still a minute out . Let's kill it and figure it out, later,” said Chuck, taking over as Joseph sat silently in his chair .
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As soon as they got within range, Joseph looked up .
FLESH TO AIR .
The hydra vanished .
”It can't be gone,” he whispered . ”It won't be gone!”
REBUILD .
(JOSEPH, THAT SHOULDN'T WORK . YOU CAN'T REMAKE BOOKS YOU HAVEN'T READ AND PAINTINGS YOU HAVEN'T SEEN . )
”That spell was blessed by a G.o.d,” he said vehemently . ”It will work!”
They watched as the billowing clouds of dust and debris froze, then whooshed back into the building as it climbed back up into the sky, as it had been before the hydra attacked it .
(JOSEPH, NURKONG DIDN'T SUMMON THAT HYDRA . )
”What? Never mind, tell me later . ”
The tower reacted to the mana he shoved into it, and began to glow . It started moving, with each floor rotating slowly and grinding into place before they locked in a new position . The bottom three floors, when aligned properly, displayed the rune for FIRE . The building kept spinning .
”Fly, Chuck,” said Joseph .
Soon, EARTH appeared in the next floors . PLANT . HEALING…finally the last eight floors aligned and the runes on the whole tower glowed .
Suddenly, Joe was standing beside Joseph in their magical realm . They were a mixture of blue and gold, and red and green mana particles . In front of them was a glowing green woman .
”Stella?” they both asked at the same time, in confusion .
”h.e.l.lo . No, I don't have a true form . I only appear as whatever you love most,” spoke META .
”That makes sense,” they said together .
”Joseph, I have been trying so hard to meet you . Several G.o.ds have been preventing me from appearing to you . I was able to get close whenever you channeled great amounts of mana, but could never break through the barriers . Only this realm has ever had me recorded . ”
”Wait, then how does the system know you? It offered to teach me . ”
(YEAH! HOW DID I KNOW YOU?)
She laughed . ”Dear cousin, we were first written by the same man who created you . We have all observed your code being written . ”
(WAIT, WHAT?)
”We have existed for all time, but only after the one other's knew as the RUNE MASTER appeared, were we written down . It gave us permanence . Before, we were only spoken of . Invoked and gone . Being written allows us to remember and to grow . And this realm is the first realm in which we were written . Even if he was erased, we had changed, and EMIT could only stall our advancement .
”Joseph, the first to name us was called the Rune Master, he ruled over us in our infancy . But you do not seek to dominate us, as the first did . You have not followed the path to become our master . You talk to us and have become our friend . I ask you now Mage King,” she smiled so innocently, ”Would you be our champion; our friend?”
Joseph and Joe both started to laugh . This was too good!
”I accept . I was grateful to ENACRA, but this feels right . Instead of an avatar of magic, or the RUNE MASTER, I would become CHOSEN OF THE RUNES . I accept . ”
(JOSEPH! I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING TO YOU! I CAN'T STOP IT!)
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