Chapter 286 Deimos, the Dark Eye 2 (1/2)

Chapter 286 Deimos, the Dark Eye 2

Aldrich deactivated the [Hallowed Ground] The longer he used it, the higher its cooldoould be in between usages As of now, the base cooldoas already high at 10 seconds Using it for a duration over 10 seconds would extend that cooldown all the way up to 1 minute

The soul cloud collapsed, the skeletal faces on Aldrich's cloud sucking the souls in

"It's you, hm?" Deimos looked up at Aldrich His slender, pale arers pointed towards Chrysa as if he had just finished throwing so

Faint sparks of red danced around the elf's dark fingers The telltale sign of denize me as well" Aldrich looked Deimos up and down The elven warlock looked the sa around 180 centie dark bags of sleepless nights A mop of messy, spiky white hair sat on his head, and it was hard to tell whether they hite because of natural color or because of ash

His features were pale and gaunt, his cheeks sunken in like he was just a few days away fro to death "You look just as bad as you did before"

"I'm used to it" Deimos drew his hand back His ash and char stained robes concealed n The robes looked ht fish out of the duht eye turned solid white - the saed on the secret deaze landed on Aldrich, he felt a heavy weight descend all around hiht thatat the bottom of the ocean must have felt like

A smoky black aura started to wrap all around Aldrich's body

[Afflicted by the Curse of Anhil]

Aldrich instantly felt his stats depleting rapidly They could continue to deplete until they were half of what they normally were A severe nerf

"Father-!" Chrysa patted Aldrich's head in concern He raised his hand, telling her it was alright

Aldrich then fired a [Death Bolt] from his hands

Deimos did not react Instead, a masked serpent slithered into sudden view froht red mouth line on the mask split apart and opened i to reveal a pitch black void-like mouth

Wind currents blew in towards the h pitched whine, and vacuureen bolt broke apart into countless little shards, and then those shards faded into nothingness as they drew further and further into the dark

"Same moveset, too," commented Aldrich

The serpent on Dei its red lipped tribal e feathers around its neck, granting it a mesoamerican flair

That was a sranted Dei the theet here so quickly," said Aldrich

"I don't know either You trying to close the Flaed

"I see" Aldrich could guess what had happened By starting the process of closing the Flaht However, since Deiame' automatically warped hiain?" said Deiain? Go ahead Freeme back Make it end forever"

Aldrich paused Was this a sort of trick? "I'll gladly take you up on that offer That is, if it's being ood faith"

"It is I don't want to be here Here-," Deimos waved his bony hands all around hi this again and again - I don't want it I don't want it at all"

"I understand" Aldrich started to float down

In the lore, Dei for him He was born short for an elf with a sickly body that could not jump from tree to tree nor defend himself from the wilds, and elven society very much was attuned with the wild

And with the wild came wild laws Lahere the ere culled from the herd

Deimos was cast away to die as a boy when it was clear he would not stay weak Yet, though his body eak, his ly upon his exile

In particular, he had a special trait to connect to beings froed a pact with a de more than to simply live in a hut by himself, content with peace and solitude

For years, Deimos spent his tiirl washed up near the strea from a head wound, and he nursed her to health

When she came to, she had no irl as his little sister, as the family he had never had Years passed until it ca priestess destined to be sacrificed to the holy fla

Deimos was left to die while his only faed a er, much more self destructive pact with the twin deranted him power

Power that came at the cost of much of his sanity

But Deimos did not need sanity He was here to commit suicide, to kill as many elves as possible before he himself died But the more his sanity faded, the more the demons he had bound himself to took over, and that hy he now tried to open a Fla, Deimos?" said the serpent Her voice had a faint rattle to it as it caentle waves "The elves here are still very real, and they are responsible for burning your dear little sister We cannot stop until all of theone