Chapter 111 - BATTLE OF THE GODS I (1/2)
Battles.
Each battle has a name.
The Battle of Hastings.
The War of the Roses.
Why does it matter that battles have names? Because names bestow meanings.
A name attached to a date or particular conflict can shape our understanding of what the conflict is all about.
The battle between Azief and Sasha that day was called the Battle of the Gods.
For the first time, mankind saw what happens when two great people who possess such an explosive power battle each other, how each and every one of their actions could affect the world.
For those who saw the battles from the distance, looking up from the ground, looking from the forest, from the black caves in the fire region, from the cover of the cloak protecting their face from their sand on the desert region, all they see was two being fighting a celestial war up high on the clouds.
They saw men....defy the very nature of human. Booming sound filled the sky, as both of those beings battled each other for supremacy.
Lightning flashed, and thunders roared.
They were like Gods of Old, cruel and unsympathetic. Their battle that day affect so many lives, and taken many souls even though they only fight each other.
Their actions ripple.
It is also because of that battles, that years from then on, a treaty between the most powerful people will be established.
The Battle of the Gods was the first battle involving a truly high level user against each other and put alarms all over the world, for the man called Lord Shadow.
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Sasha flew pass the clouds of the suffocating heat of the Flame region as she keep coughing black blood from her mouth.
Behind her, was the man with the black hood, flying as fast as lightning, separating the clouds with his dash amidst the clouds with a momentum of a raging dragon
The man did not say anything but his anger is boundless.
For the past hours, she managed to keep him from her by relying on her magical trove of artifacts and because of her chariots but she knows she couldn't run forever.
Sometimes she would shoot some energy blast at him but the man just deflected it with his bare hands.
The physical body of the man exceeds what Sasha has ever seen in her life.
Not even Katarina has such sturdy physique that she could just deflect a compact energy blast with just her bare hands.
But the man can and he does it with such ease. Thankfully, his speed is inferior to the chariot. If not she would be dead by now.
The man killing intent was not hidden at all. Sasha knows the man meant to kill her the moment she fallen into his hands.
So she would not herself get caught, no matter the cost.
But she also knows she does not have a chance of survival if she keep running. She has been thinking of something the moment she discovers that the man have no intention of letting her go.
But the price is too steep and she hesitated. Still…..even at this moment, with the man in the hood hot on her tails…she still hesitated….because the price is truly steep.
But she keep holding her bag of holding and looking at it, delaying the inevitable.
'HALT!' The man yelled from behind with voice akin of a thunder peal but when she heard that yell, the faster the chariot became, and the weaker Sasha became.
Her Essence was running amok inside her meridians, and she could feel her vitality drained each second; feeling like her life force was snapped out of existence.
The feeling is like losing a memory you never know you had. Feeling a sense of a loss of something you never knew you had.
As Sasha looks at her chariot she knew she doesn't have much time to decide
The Flame Spirit Horse is almost extinguished as her essence tree is beginning to rot and the energy she could supply to the chariot is running out.
She can't keep this long.
She gritted her teeth as she pop some more pills inside her mouth….but the potion she needs to drink, she still hesitated.
She will not drink it unless it was truly the last resort.
Her Essence Tree was forcefully replenished when she down that pill and she could feel her longevity shortened.
She coughed a lump of black blood inside the fast flying chariot as she grit her teeth enduring the pain and the headache that came.
Then a sound exploded from behind her chariot, sounding like something detonated.
She looks back in alarm and frowned as she could see the man in the black hood punch through the air.
The air compressed around the man hand and a ball of wind compacted and shot towards her like a wind cannon.
The compacted air was surrounded by a swirling dark red mist making it look fiendish and induce fear in the enemy heart.
The wind changed direction as the wind cannon pass through the clouds and crashed the behind of her chariots and the chariot rocks like it was colliding with a twenty ton truck.
Sasha could not help but feel her internal organ was shaking because of the impact and she almost let go of the reins.
But she keeps holding on even as her skin was lacerated.
Sasha eyes become red. Her hand still tightly holding the reins of the chariots but her nerves are frayed.
Her internal organs are in a mess, and her energy is in chaos.
'Heh' she smiles bitterly. She could not accept this. She refuses to accept this.
Then she brings something out from her bag of holding and something comes out from her bag of holding.
A vial of greenish potion is in her left hand as her right hand keeps holding the reins.
She could not accept this outcome! She contemplated of drinking the Life Burning Potion. She got the Life Burning Potion when she defeated a Snow Ghost in the White Mountain.
It was a terrible monster and powerful.
She could not accept dying here….just because she makes a small mistakes. The chariot still sails through the cloud like thunder.
And Azief is still following the chariot form behind.
Looking from the ground one could misunderstand because all they could see was a streak of yellow streak passing the clouds like lightning and a black lightning.
For someone who does not have vision abilities they might even misunderstand them as natural disaster.
They see lightning. They hear thunder roaring when it was actually Azief and Sasha while the sound they heard was the sound of Azief attack.
And sometimes some places were attack from the sky as it leaves holes in the ground.
Azief who was pursuing Sasha is perplexed. It has been hours but he could still not reach the chariot.
As he dodges another spike of diamond from Sasha attack, Azief still pursues her. Because this time Azief is interested in the chariots.
Sasha value has just gone up in Azief eyes. If before, he wanted to devour the essence inside Sasha body, now Azief wanted to know about the chariot.