Chapter 1529 - Mirror Magic (Part 1) (1/2)
When facing an Eldritch, damage didn't matter. The only way to kill them was to force the Abomination to consume all of the energy that comprised their bodies.
Before Vareen could fully reform, Inxialot Warped from the shadows and unleashed all the spells that he had kept at the ready. The King of Liches didn't care one bit for the apprentices and had been waiting for the perfect opportunity for a sneak attack.
'He who strikes first strikes twice, but he who backstabs gets a lot of free strikes!' He thought with a huge grin on his skeletal face.
Inxialot emptied his magic holding rings and exhausted his artifacts' power cores in a single attack that created an explosion so powerful that now Urgamakka became visible from the surface.
The young Awakened had survived the blast only thanks to Inxialot Blinking them at a safe distance.
”Another Lich? What the heck is wrong with this place?” Vareen said in frustration as the undead Blinked away as well. ”Come back here, you coward!”
”It's not cowardice avoiding an opponent you can't beat, Vareen. It's wisdom.” A feminine voice said as a white Warp appeared in front of him.
”When Salaark asked me to deal with an Eldritch asshole in exchange for a pardon, I didn't know that it was you nor that you were attacking my disciple. Otherwise I would have done it for free. Lucky me.”
The woman in front of the Eldritch looked to be in her early forties, about 1.60 meters (5'3”) tall with seven streaks of different colors almost entirely covering her light brown hair. Her dark brown eyes brimmed with white light as she stared at Vareen.
Her features were human, yet Solus's mana sense could see the full-red blood core burning inside her chest while a bright white mana core shone from the necklace hanging from her neck.
'A Lich! That woman is a white cored Lich!' Solus said to Lith as he returned to his human form after closing the hole in his chest.
”Aylen! How can you still be alive?” Vareen said with greed and surprise.
They had met millennia ago in the real Urgamakka, back when she was still a young apprentice and he was already a powerful Eldritch.
”Master, what are you doing here?” Inxialot asked from a Gate, ready to close it the moment things turned for the worse.
”I have come to clean your mess and settle things up with an old friend.” She replied.
”Answer to my question, woman. Did you achieve the white core thanks to my research? Is this how you are still alive?” The Eldritch didn't like being ignored but he could use that time to conjure his pets and absorb them to recover part of his lost strength.
”Yes and no.” Aylen replied, glad to have the time to weave a few more spells. ”Urgamakka fell long before that. I had to turn myself into a Lich in order to survive long enough to achieve the white core.”
”Then I have found not one, but two sources that will allow me to return back to life!” Vareen retrieved the Chaos and the life force that the corrupted animals had stored and jumped at the Lich with renewed vigor.
”About that…” Aylen unleashed Silverwing's Annihilation, a Spirit formation that required seven violet-cored Awakened to reach its true power, but a white-cored could use it on their own.
Seven differently colored rays of light showered the Eldritch, inflicting upon him pain as he had never felt before.
The black ray sealed the Chaos ability to absorb or at least weaken the other elements, allowing the other six to deal to his defenseless body so much damage that it turned Vareen into dust again.