Assemble
Christopher was silent for a few monts. Everything he had learned was, understandably, scary.
He already knew that there were concepts that existed beyond the scope of Creation and Oblivion, he also wasn't surprised that such concepts were 'awake' as Pruina said since he literally fought the embodint of the Void at so point.
But hearing just what one of them was capable of, was downright horrifying. But then again, was he surprised?
A single action from him was all it took to garner the attention of three beings beyond his comprehension. Well, make that four if you consider the entity that was observing him despite being 'asleep'.
So he wasn't surprised that this entity Pruina spoke of carried such power, but that didn't make it any less scary.
'I have no interest in antagonizing any more existential beings.' He thought as his mind started to run.
He didn't want to antagonize any more powerful beings, but would taking Pruina, or his soul rather, be considered antagonizing that entity? After all, Pruina was already 'dead'.
He shook his head inwardly. He wasn't dumb. When one was capable of living as long as those entities, they were bound to hold grudges far longer than what was considered normal. After all, he didn't doubt that millennia or even more had passed when Pruina was found and attacked once more since leaving his Domain. He wouldn't put it past them to co and attack him once more even after a million years.
'That's even if they are still around.' He mused. He didn't doubt their ability to stay alive for that long, but a lot could happen in that ti. Moreover, the fact that this hidden Realm even existed showed that they had for one reason or another left Pruina alone.
All the clans were aware of who it belonged to, after all, so was it really an exaggeration to assu that the instigators knew as well? Probably not. So the chances were that they had let him be. Maybe they believed that he was truly dead, or maybe they thought he wasn't worth the effort.
Whatever it was, Christopher didn't know. What mattered was if he wanted to take Pruina's soul into his Dinsion.
While no one had co for him thus far, the fact that he was still cursed ant that the being that placed the curse in the first place was still around, so was he willing to take the risk and take Pruina in?
'If I do, I still need to remove the curse as well. But I have a few ideas on how to do so.' He humd.
"Oh?" Pruina suddenly exclaid and looked up. Christopher arched a brow at him.
"It seems like your people are protecting you." He said and waved his hand causing a screen to appear near the ceiling of the room.
Christopher saw it and his mouth made an 'o'.
'Right, my body is just kinda standing there, of course, they'd attack it.' He thought as he saw the Scions get ready to face off against his subordinates.
***
When the formation activated, Christopher suddenly went still as his hand dropped to the side.
Everyone watching was startled. One mont, an absurd amount of Mana was generated, and in the next mont, the being that had been thrashing the Scions like toddlers suddenly went still.
"... What?" Vazarwas the first one to pick himself up. Before they could think though, Jenny suddenly shot forward, her eyes gleaming at the sudden opportunity.
'I don't know what happened, but it must have incapacitated him for a mont. All I need is to land a hit, one hit is all I need.' She thought as she pulled back her arm and thrust her claws out.
There was a large explosion as snow was thrown everywhere. But to everyone's surprise, when it cleared, a being stood between Jenny and Christopher.
Jenny strained as she pushed against an Azure-coloured shield, sparks spraying as her incredibly sharp claws tried to slice it apart, but the shield was more durable than she could have imagined.
Behind the shield, Azure stared at Jenny coldly, her blue eyes holding nothing but silent disdain.
Suddenly, all the force Jenny had sent forward was reflected and she got sent flying, landing conveniently next to Constella and Vazar.
At that mont, several rifts appeared around Christopher followed by several entities, and with each one that appeared, the faces of the Scions grew grimr.
Silver looked across the battlefield without an expression before he zeroed in on the Scions, and then he spoke.
"Lady Eidrasil, please watch over Master." He said just as another figure stepped through the portal. It was Eidrasil, but her appearance had changed a bit after the previous upgrade.
Her skin was completely green now, with runes of a lighter shade covering her body like tattoos. Her eyes also held no pupils and were simply filled with that sa soft green light, and her clothes seed to be made from leaves, yet these leaves gave one the feeling that they were the most extravagant leaves one could ever find.
With a nod, she went over to Christopher while the rest of his subordinates stared the Scions down coldly.
"Yall have a lot of nerve, I'll give you that." Belladonna was the first one to speak, her short swords in her hands.
The mont She spoke, her presence simply demanded to be looked at. All the Scions couldn't help but find their gazes shifting to her against their will, and the soldiers fighting Prism weren't doing much better.
Staring at the devastatingly beautiful Vampire, they wanted nothing more than to obey every word she said, no matter what it was, if it allowed even the smallest chance for a bit of contact or a faint caress. They'd do anything, as long as she–
'Dangerous!' The Scions realized just how close they were to falling under Belladonna's charm and quickly activated various techniques ant to protect against mind attacks.
"Oh, they resisted it," Belladonna spoke, her tone filled with mock surprise.
At that mont, sothing flashed past her and Constella was the one who reacted in ti. She held her arm out in front of Vazar just as several attacks too fast for the enhanced eye to see struck her gauntlet several tis in an instant.
Not only were they fast, but the force coupled with the way she blocked the attack in the first place almost caused her elbow to get dislocated.
She hissed as she reeled and Kim's figure beca visible as she stayed low to the ground, her two tails twitching as she stared at them with her slitted pupils.
"Decent reaction ti too." She noted as she tilted her head.
"Who are you?" Vazar growled as he glared at them. First an Arbiter, now this?
"I think you should be more concerned about staying alive, to be honest," Chiara said calmly as she stretched out her paw and the Scions felt a horrific sense of danger, and what was more horrifying was that their intuition told them the source was from their skin!
Realizing they wouldn't be fast enough, they all created powerful films of energy around their muscles.
It was just in ti as their skin was pierced by motes of light which were tiny but incredibly fast and powerful.
Their barriers withstood the attacks, but they were shocked by just how much damage they had sustained. Cracks riddled the barriers, and if not for them, they'd have been turned into sieves.
That's when Silver and Kim moved, going straight for Vazar.
The twins also moved and shot towards Jenny, while Belladonna and Lenax went for Constella.
Azure and Thanatos seed content with protecting Christopher and Eidrasil.
'I see. His body is fine, but his soul has been transported sowhere.' Eidrasil spoke to them through the ntal link all inhabitants of the Dinsion possessed.
'Can you trace it?' Kim asked first.
'Yes, while it's no longer within his body, it is still connected, and from what I can see, there's nothing wrong with it either. Aisha, what do you think?' Hearing this, the seer who had been silent thus far spoke.
'It's as I thought. Just focus on defending him for now. He is making a significant decision right now. So our priority should be to keep him safe.' She explained and all of them gave an imperceptible nod as they focused on their task.
In hindsight, jumping the Scions like this was borderline unfair, but they recently had been feeling a little bit inadequate with Christopher taking all on the hard stuff. So now that they had the chance to be useful, they intended to use such a chance.
As such, the Scions who were praised for being prodigies were about to learn that in the vast multiverse, they weren't as incredible as the people around them made them out to be.
In short, what was about to follow was them getting utterly thrashed.
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