"I can help you", I suddenly heard in my mind. Those weren't really words, which I discovered a second or maybe two later, as I focused on them more. Those were raw thoughts that just blood in my mind like an uninvited weed that grows even in the most carefully tended garden.
"Hope?", I asked, because that's the only person whom I could think of. That mysterious being was definitely there, waiting, observing. The other psionic like The Great One, was currently too busy to contact at all.
"It's , Hope", I heard in response. "I've seen your struggle. I've seen the struggle of those you care for. I've seen them pay with their lives to make sure the mission would succeed. I can help. Allow in", I was told.
Call n idiot, but sothing was imdiately off. Hope didn't say a thing to during the whole thing, but now decided to say sothing? Right when I was staring at a bunch of overlords so powerful that each was capable of destroying a whole planet just by themselves.
We were trying to kill each other and we unleashed hell upon our battleground.
I couldn't really tell who it was. Maybe because I was so damn tired and damaged. Maybe because my body was about to fall apart and was only held by the skill acquired through the device, but this ssage didn't make my mind imdiately click, making sure that it was the person that the voice claid to be.
It could very well be any of the assholes ahead of .
"No", I answered. Then I felt a bit of pressure on my mind, as if whoever it was tried to get inside even without my invitation. Unfortunately for them, my defenses were really strong, and still intact since most of the battle transpired on the field of reality, not inside the field of thoughts. The pressure vanished, leaving no trace of who was actually responsible for this maneuver.
This voice didn't actually change anything in my situation. I was still against the three overlords who were able to stand on their feet despite all the injuries and the damage constantly provided by the hostile environnt.
The battle of wills continued.
I was desperately trying to find a way, while not collapsing, with the weird encounter still on the back of my head, like a lurking ghost.
Then it struck . There was a way out. A very simple one. I summoned a voidling on the platform ahead of , among the overlords. They imdiately destroyed it, mustering up enough strength, but I replied with another one and another.
One of them eventually collapsed. The two others were butchered a mont later. I won.
Maybe in a very unimpressive manner, but I still was the one who was victorious. It didn't change my situation, but it did make forget about the intrusion into my mind.
The situation was terrible, and I felt awful. About to collapse at any mont, especially when so of my 'Dreadnought' abilities were fading away since I was no longer fighting. Suddenly I felt so heavy. I haven't felt like that in a while. My eyes were closing down on their own. It was so hard to keep them open. Each blink was like brushing against death itself.
But I found a solution, or maybe the solution found . It was staring at from the other platform in the form of voidlings who just butchered the overlords.
I made them cut a piece of the enemy each and paved a road for them to rejoin . At the sa ti, I used every little bit of any type of energy I was regaining to protect myself from the environnt.
It was still devouring , but maybe a tiny bit slower.
Reunited with my minions, I made them carry away toward the closest safe point in the sea of lava. I didn't really know where one was, and on top of that, I was blind, so the direction was actually picked at random.
The voidlings' vision didn't help at all too, since, as I said, it was a true sea of lava.
They fed so genes as we were desperately trying to escape. If I could I would shadow walk the hell away, but the device was still active, preventing from doing that. Surprisingly the close proximity of my minions helped, as they were blocking so of the heat.
It still was a ruthless march, and I didn't even finish myself, as they were practically carrying . Eventually, after hours upon hours, I reached a rocky piece of land that was solid. The air was toxic, but with a little bit of magic, I was able to produce enough for myself. Without all the heat I was also able to slowly regain enough strength to at least travel normally.
This led to find the plaza and the device, where I consud the fruit. To my surprise, it was untouched by anything which was happening everywhere around the whole planet. Maybe the damn piece of bio-technology fixed this part of the world, or maybe the overlords desperately tried to leave it undamaged during our fight, that it was able to survive like that. In the end, it didn't matter.
The consumption made even stronger than I was, a true monster, but I still ended up sitting on my ass, staring at the devastation ahead.
I needed days to get my strength together. And even if I was to sohow get it all back, the general supre, who was awaiting , probably accompanied by several strong warriors, was an obstacle I had no hope of overcoming.
To tell you the truth, I just wanted to pack my things and leave. Never co back. But, sadly, I didn't have such an option.
After wasting hours, just laying down, to gather enough strength to try sothing that blossod in my mind, I eventually got back on my feet.
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