Nightblade (Darkest night)-Chapter 161: Veliscera horde
A wave of crushing power rolled through the city, obliterating a few of the nearby ruins and even pushing the veliscera back.
When the dust cleared, Lucian and the rest were unharmed.
Talia watched the unfolding fight in confusion.
" How are we supposed to even believe this guy is an initiate like the rest of us? This doesn’t even make any sense."
Morgan’s inexplicable strength far surpassed anything she’d ever seen displayed by an initiate. Even without using Umbralis, he was going toe to toe with spectral beasts that even novices would have trouble with.
"This is insane..." she murmured, her eyes narrowing slightly.
When the dust and laughter died down, Morgan stood with the Blood Reaper blades drawn at his side, staring at the agitated veliscera in amusement.
The flames in his eyes burned even brighter, like beacons in the darkness.
His voice turned deeper, taking on a chilling undertone that surprised and froze even his allies in place.
"My, my... You lot certainly never learn."
The flames shrouding the Blood Reaper blades grew, forming an outer glowing shell around the blades.
Lucian stared at him in visible shock
"Is this even still Morgan? "
The power radiating from the scion was simply staggering; it almost felt like a maestro was standing in front of it.
"Did the rest of you hear that, or is it just me?"Talia whispered, frowning slightly.
The veliscera snarled, its eyes darting away from Morgan, its gaze shifting to the youths behind him.
Morgan/Sarenus smirked at the blatant greed in its eyes.
" You poor wretch...how long has it been since you last fed..."
He brandished his blades in a reverse grip, falling into a completely different battle stance.
" Come! If you’re so eager to die, then I’ll have to fulfill your wish."
A wide, dangerous smile appeared on Morgan’s face, his eyes gleaming with murderous glee.
" I’ll see to it that you burn, just like the rest of your kin."
The veliscera sneered at the taunt, growing even taller.
Its reptilian eyes took on a milky colour, the dark catlike irises turning a pale shade of silver.
The veliscera lunged forward with a long ear, ear-splitting screech.
"For what you’ve done, I’ll rip out your guts for fun and devour your soul until there’s nothing! Not a trace of you will be left.
Morgan/Sarenus chuckles, his eyes gleaming in the pale light of the twin moons.
" I don’t suppose you’re going to do that by running that mouth of yours unless you plan to talk me to death first, of course..."
In the next instant, the two clashed in a cacophony of violence.
Sarenus swung the blades with expert ease, flawlessly countering and parrying the Veliscera’s attacks.
The veliscera fought like a crazed beast, lashing out with its fangs and gleaming claws in an elusive flurry of blows.
Striking away a clawed hand, Sarenus closed in, reaching the Veliscera’s claws’ range.
The creature was much taller and larger than Morgan, towering over him by several feet.
This gave it a much wider range, making every one of its attacks lethal.
Morgan/Sarenus weaved around it in a bizarre dance, parrying and countering in the same breath.
The Lord of the drayghar’s combat abilities were a strange combination of human and beast-like movements.
At the most awkward of times, he’d switch to all fours, sheathing the blades and lashing out at the elusive veliscera with the brilliant flames.
"How is a human being even supposed to move like that?" Lucian whispered.
For Lucian, it was like looking at a completely different person.
Sarenus smiled wildly, the white flames in his eyes burning with furious light.
"I think it’s time to end this farce."
A split second later, the boy and the veliscera disappeared into the fog.
Flashes of light and sound reverberated through the fog, the only indicator that the fight was still going on.
From time to time, a pillar of flames erupts, soaring into the skyBlood-curdlingng screeches and wails emanate from within the fog.
" We can’t stay here much longer," Emily murmured.
Turning to Lucian and Talia, she spoke, her green eyes gleaming with a determined light.
" We need to leave. I think we’re slowing him down."
After a few moments, Morgan/Sarenus stepped out for,g cred i silver ichor.
He sighed, grinning slightly.
" You lot are definitely going to have to do much better than this..."
A much larger veliscera stepped forward with a spiteful snarl.
"Monsssster... I know you...I’ve heard of you..."
The leader of the veliscera hissed, stepping back warily.
Sarenus scoffed, drooping slightly. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚
"I wasn’t sure they’d be any that remembered me in this time..."
" And soon, you’ll be buried, for good."
The veliscera screamed a high-pitched shriek rolling over the makeshift battlefield.
In the next second, a multitude of veliscera appeared, their translucent bodies shimmering eerily in the thick fog.
Sarenus stared at the throng of veliscera contemptuously, coming to a stop.
Around him, scorching hot pyres of dhilte flames burned, clearing the fog.
Several veliscera lay on the ground around him in smoking heaps, their bodies slowly dissipating into nothingness.
"While I’m pleasantly flattered by the turn up, don’t you Don’t you think that this is a little unfair? After all, what was it one of you said, the one I killed earlier..."
Sarenus casually tapped his head with one of the blades.
"Let me think...that I wasn’t qualified to fight you."
He scoffed, shaking his head slightly.
" For a daughter of the Lord of dreams, you sure do lie a lot..."
Lucian and the rest stared at Morgan in shock.
"Lord of dreams, what the hell ihe s talking about?"
While the House Thane was shrouded in obscurity, the knowledge that they possessed wasn’t something that the other Great Houses didn’t have access to.
On the contrary, all the Great Houses wielded a significant monopoly over particular knowledge.
Lucian’s eyes narrowed in suspicion.
" How does Morgan know all these things? It simply doesn’t make sense. The way he’s speaking, even his fighting style has changed completely."
In the next second, the Veliscera’s bodies rapidly morphed, their eyes turning to a silver colour.
" Lucian! You guys need to leave now."
Lucian stared at Morgan in bewilderment.
"The Veliscera are getting serious. You need to find a shelter with a sigil. I’ll handle this..."
Lucian nodded, getting to his feet.
"And what’s going to stop the rest of the veliscera from attacking us?" Talia asked somberly.
"From the looks of things, Morgan is confident he can stop that from happening."
Talia sighed, grabbing Amanda and lifting her in one fluid motion.
The air turned colder, a grim tension spreading through the air.
Lucian hastily hauled Cassius, lifting the bulkier Talented to his shoulder.
Lucian let out a weary sigh."
" Well, it’s all or nothing at this point."
In the next moment, the fog cleared in a thunderous explosion of light and sound.
