Chapter 326 - Dawn Of The Last Twilight
One by one, the spheres exploded. Gigantic beasts emerged from the spheres, each of them had unique features and colors.
The Man hovered above the beasts and extended his arms to the side, "Everyone, let us all welcome with open arms, the Seven Deathly Sins!"
As the spheres finished cracking on all of the Sins, their aura completely dominated all of the auras in all expanse of the kingdom. From the east to the west, from the north to the south, the six terrifyingly ominous aura was the only thing they could feel.
It felt as though their bodies started to get numb, while they suffocate on the intense feeling given by the presence in front of them. The beasts awoke from their slumber and hovered in the air like gods.
"One, two, three, four, five, six," Hope counted. "But there're only six of them."
A slender beast roared and leaped in front of them. Its figure was humanoid, one that was very thin. Its face was composed of a human head with elongated mouth, much like a snout of a dog. Its hair was thinning, only having a few green strands.
Its most unique feature was perhaps its rusty gold color. Its skin had warts, wrinkles, and all the matter of bumps even when there's barely any meat in it.
"This is Livor," the Man introduced. "The Sin of Envy, and the Sinner of Duplication and Theft."
"Livor! Who is this man and why does he know your name?" another Sin spoke. This time, this sin was a humanoid female but she had a large pod of flower in replace of its legs.
Its hair was composed of vines while his skin was made of moss. It had long arms that reached up to the unopened flower below it with claws that was made of wood.
The Man hovered over the female Sin and smiled at him, bowing his head slightly, "Aviditio, the Sin of Greed, the Mother of the Deathly Sins and Root of Evil. I am pleased to make your acquaintance."
"He even knows your name Aviditio," another one of the Sins spoke.
This time, the Sin was familiar. It was the one who first had its claw out of its shell and broke it from outsiide. It had a humanoid figure but has a forest boar features. Its head was of a boar with its tusk on the side of its mouth. The Sin had a large stomach with an inverted belly button while a belt of human skulls was tied below it.
Its skin was dark brown wit fur on its arms, legs and chest. The brownish black scales formed its armor on its shoulders, crotch, knees, and a small portion of it was located in its head. The Sin had a mullet haircut that ran was connected on the hair in its back, extending it to its tail.
"Should we just kill them all?" the boar-like Sin asked his allies.
"Ah, the Sin of Gluttony, Vorata," the Man now hovered to the fat Sin. "You are the Taker of Souls and the Devourer of Flesh. You were the one who killed– and eat– the strongest Angel, Axellius."
"He even knows that?" Livor looked up and growled. "Who are, you human?!"
The Man did not finish his introductions. He floated above the sins and extending his arms to his side. "I am the Angel who seeks what you were ordered to do."
"The destruction of all life and the enslavement of all realms?" another Sin asked.
This Sin had a centaur-like features. It had the upper body of a woman and lower body of a horse. But instead of horse's legs, it had four human legs attached to a horse's body. Its tail was a long series of beads that had a sword at the tip. It carries the tip as its weapon, gripping the handle of the sword while it was a attached to the tail.
"Yes, Sin of Pride, Juno," the Man smiled. "And the people in front of you are the ones who are trying to stop you from doing so."
"What can these puny mortals do?" Livor asked while crawling closer to Polschk who was lying lifeless on the ground. The old man could only shake, unable to move because of his wounds as the twenty foot beast was getting closer and closer. "They are so tiny."
Livor narrowed his eyes while seeing Polschk shake in fear. Even Lance and the others at the bleachers were struggling to find the courage to move at the presence of such aura.
"This is impossible," Connor gulped. "This is nothing like the ones we fought before. Even someone with Malice's level could only take down one of them. This is nothing compared to us."
"Don't let your hope waiver!" Lance yelled. He brandished his swords and lit them up with the color of their auras, one was black and the other was white. "They may be strong, but we have the numbers. If all of us come together we can–"
With a single sweep of its long and slender arms, Livor wiped Polschk's head from his body. The old man was powerful, even successfully defending himself agaisnt Lance and his party for a long period of time.
One of the Sins killing him off just like that was saying something else. These beasts are clearly out of anyone's level.
"You are Eternals!" Lance yelled to his friends. "When they sought the destruction of your Realms, it is your duty to protect your home."
Connor shrugged. He grit his teeth and morphed into his Infernal form and turned to look at Lance, "That's funny. I never considered Inferno as my home."
"True," Hope also morphed into his dragonoid form. "The home I consider is where you guys are. It can be Terra, or any other Realm, as long as its with all of you."
"Elliot may no longer be with us, but his strength and his words live on," Ed whispered. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes, gathering up power and charging it in his right arm. "Let us protect Terra and let us never leave a friend behind. We're a party after all."
Ed opened his eyes and his right arm burst into a bright purple light. The aura from his sleeve slowly raised up like smoke, forming a gigantic armored arm made from his aura. The boy gasped and looked at his friends, all bearing the same shocked expression as he did.
"What is that?!" Connor gasped. "Ed, that looks like what'll happen to your right arm when we leave you alone in a room for three full days."
"Shut up!" Ed yelled. "I also do not know what's happening, but it is happening."
Ed moved his right hand and the gigantic holographic-looking hand followed his movements. Ed then brandished his sword, raising it in the air. The gigantic arm followed his movements. It took another surge of aura from Ed's sleeved arm and formed a sword on its own, raising it in the air like how Ed raised his.
"This is so cool!" Ed cheered. "Guys, I finally caught up to you!"
Ed was going to high-five Connor when a swarm of shattered glass rained down upon them. He was going to cover himself up with his right arm when a large wall of white and black bricks blocked the attack.
"You have to stay alert," Lance yelled. "It's too early to celebrate. Remember, we are still outnumbered."
Blocking a jet of pure force of water, Vorata threw its stone axe at the attack. There was a twine that connected its wrist and the axe that he used to pull its weapon back when the jet of water stopped.
"Who's outnumbered again?" Aquarius smirked. He was riding a large wave of water along with Minos. The wave of water descended and they met up with Lance and his party.
Another attack that was made from a beam of flames was blocked by Juno. It thrust his sword and created a small dome from its energy to block the flames. Juno then raised its front legs and slammed it in the air, making the beam of flames stop because of the force she exerted.
"Well that was anticlimactic," Frederick chuckled. He was walking from one of the gates with Elizabeth, Jester, Alice, and Galaxia.
Lance was about to ask where Luck was when they all heard a loud whistling sound from above the Sins. The man was there, riding the air and raising his sword while pointing at the sins. "You centaur chick! You're mine!"
"How dare you?!" Vorata growled and threw his axe at Luck.
The man deactivated his spell, making himself fall to the ground and roll to the side to avoid the axe. Even with Luck's large build, he looked tiny compared to Vorata's weapon alone. His size was the same one as the stone head of the axe, making him pout and shrug.
"You're a big man, I guess you need a big weapon," Luck snickered.. "But this fight is not over. The Twilight War has only just begun!"