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Krayth grunted with effort as he brought Beyruun down on a Plague Trooper attempting to flank him without assistance. His sibling found the creature's neck, carving through it to the other side as poison pumped from its neck as some infectious fountain. His eyes caught Blood ahead of him, cutting down a foe with a single strike. He took a step back, towards Liliana and Tombz. "Good. It comes naturally to you." was the Anima's praise to his protege before he answered Tombz's call.

Beyruun could sense what was coming. Its mass tingled in KRayth's fingers as it warped into itself and up Krayth's left hand to become a familiar black gauntlets, tips barbed with jagged claws. He didn't offer Glacia parting words or an assurance of her doom. She was nothing to him, but her soul... with the knowledge of two of the Plague Generals, perhaps something more could be gleaned from this catastrophe. Her shadow prison dissolved into thin air as Krayth and Tombz took their hold on her. He bared his teeth as they clenched together, his muscles burning with fatigue and venom as he assisted in her execution. As her body snapped jerkingly down the middle through bone and muscle, Krayth's eyes became like Beyruun's as his Exodus reached out from his hand and stabbed itself into the General's remains. The Desert Lord's head swung back to regard the heavens as his knees gave out in the learning of a lifetime through a single second. Then he stood, swaying as his head swam and vision blurred. The poison was taking its toll, but Glacia's essence revitalized him to some extent. He felt the familiarity of Glacia's sinuous muscles like they were his own; faster, and more lithe. Krayth raised his free hand to point upwards, back into the stone of the mountain wall and the Palace interior.

"Sephra is inside. There is still time. Come, let us end this."

The Fallen's story was beginning to come into focus. The Lady of Poisons own tale of fanaticism, torture and destruction becoming a part of him. Now, between the conjoined memories of Ivy and Glacia, he knew Sephra like a sister. Her murder would be deeply intimate, if Krayth had the strength to carry on... he turned to the Seer. "If you've managed some antidote from her blood, I could use it."

Krayth took the antidote he was offered, but did not move to use it. Instead he stooped over Glacia's grisly remains as Liliana spoke of a mirror. One he now knew very well. The Plague General's means of contact between one another, and their Lord... His fingers activated a hidden plate in the sprayer and retrieved the mirror with ease, as though he knew it had been there all along. It was intact, and its reflective surface glistened with a liquid wetness like strychnine. Krayth stared into its venomous reflection of himself and spoke to Liliana.

"That man in the Palace, I recognize him from Amaterasu's meeting. We need the aid of his soldiers. Sephra plans to turn Jiaum's crater into a natural cauldron of poison. They have sealed the entrance to the mountain."

The Anima turned his black eyes up to Tombz, Liliana and Blood.

"Tell him this news immediately. If you can unseal the passage with their help, then Sephra's plans fail. They may have destroyed Jiaum, but they will have no victory here."

Krayth set one foot a step behind him, steadying his frame as he swooned from the venom within. He had the means to save himself, but not yet... Ivy and Glacia had used these mirrors many times, and so had he. The poison still coursing in his veins allowed him the power to speak through it, and he would. Once again regarding the mirror, his lips formed the words that had been said many times before.

"My Lord."

Krayth's mouth began to water.

As that youthful, elegant face appeared in the late Glacia's mirror, a maelstrom of emotion erupted inside of Krayth. Jaw clenching and unclenching, eyes glistening with tears, the Anima sneered down at the visage before him. His voice was haggard with grief, but behind it was so much blind and murderous hatred that this nameless man, this villain beyond measure, would know that each biting word was as deadly as an asp.

"You killed my wife, worm. Remember her name, Azur Bascule. Burn it into your mind and never forget it. For her I've killed Ivy and Glacia, and for her I am bringing you a gift. One you will suffer forever, beyond the reach of time, peace and death. Do not pray to Grix. You have failed him. Pray to Sephra. Pray that she kills me, or I will make you watch what I do to her..."

As his eyes, unblinking, wet and wide, ripped down through the mirror and into the Plague General's flesh, the Anima lost hold on his inhibition. The mirror's glistening surface was suddenly split with a fine crystalline line as his shaking hand cracked the mirror. He opened his mouth to take a deep and tremulous breath, but his expression was hungry. As though he would move to devour the mirror itself. Then there was a sudden touch against his arm, and he was full. His fatigue gone without a trace, and his heart hammering so fast in his chest he felt as though he might explode. He turned, mirror tilting just enough that the Plague General might see Liliana and her final words. Krayth looked into Liliana's eyes, and while he did not speak she knew that he was deeply grateful for this empowerment. The Anima turned back to the mirror, and with malice on his tongue and venom in his blood the Dark Avenger swore, "Now, nothing will stop me."

He slipped the mirror away, into the folds of his armor. Liliana nad Tombz had departed, but now there was another face in the courtyard... one that worshipped Grix, and one he had not seen since it had conveniently vanished from Triwinds as he discovered Azur's corpse. The Anima stared at Srin, and spoke the Black Speech to his Shadow Sister.

"এই লোক, শ্যাডো বোন, তাকে অনুসরণ এবং অন্যদের সাথে থাকুন এবং সুড়ঙ্গ সীলমোহর ভাঙ্গিয়া খোলা. আপনার চোখ থেকে তাঁকে না ..."

He clasped his Nox'Sala tight at the forearm, exchanging more silent words with her eyes before he stepped away and looked up, towards the aura he desired to steep in carnage. He was ready. It was time. Bursting with fury and energy, The Void Lord melted away, into the shadows and earth.

[EXIT]

Blood Iben'la Ahad

Dark Avenger / Devils Eye Desert / Draconian / Student / Bloody Red Queen / Strength/Speed: 8/5 / Energy: 300/300
Hidden Blade (1) / Grapple Gauntlet (1) / Dagger (1) / Crossbow Bolts: 75/75 / Throwing Knives: 20/20 / Smoke Bombs: 10/10

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