HPDBC Chapter 513: A Victory, but at what cost?
Chapter 513: A Victory, but at what cost?
Lorem’s body trembled the moment the sky turned black and everything exploded in a mass of flames and pure darkness.
The sensation felt strange when she crushed the skull of a skeleton knight under her foot, her abdomen, and chest tightened, before a cold sensation travelled up her spine.
The next moment, an explosion so huge it swept up the entirety of Ulvar followed.
"Asura?"
"Asuraaaa!" Lorem screamed the moment she saw the direction and magnitude of the explosion.
Her body shuddered, before she rushed towards the burst of smoke, before a pair of delicate hands grasped her shoulders and pulled her back.
"Helia, let go!"
"No, I cannot."
Two dear friends wrestled in the air, both carrying a precious seed inside them, a hope for the future of their endangered race. They could only watch in horror as Asura’s figure was swallowed by the strange black star’s explosion.
"He’ll be fine. You said it yourself, right? He can’t die."
"But look at that, how can he be fine, you know what he’s like always pushing himself for us!"
Helia paused.
She didn’t know what to do. She understood the danger and sensed the explosion even from the far distance. A primal instinct told her not to approach it.
The black phoenix wanted to say that she knew Asura wouldn’t die, but even then. The strange black star’s power was too strong, even for Asura. Moreover, she could feel a faint yet distinct aura from it. An aura of pure death. The power was not only meant to kill, but to annihilate any trace of life.
If Asura were to be caught in it.
’No, I cannot lose myself. We cannot miss this chance to seize the land.’
Helliana didn’t wish for their efforts to come to nothing.
How long did they fight this war?
How many died just to approach this beach.
Even now, the western forces of Drakkur fought against the main army of the undead. Without their necromancer and leader, they became weaker, and less organised.
’But it’s still hundreds of thousands of them.’
And So she slapped Lorem, who struggled to rush to the black sphere that remained after the explosion.
Pah
"Ouch, damn it that hurt. Helia why did you hit me?"
"You’re too stupid, we cannot approach that place now. I can feel the death aura even from this distance. If you approach it, we will both die."
Lorem paused.
"I would rather not leave him there, alone."
The city of Ulvar had been destroyed. Nothing remained except for crumbled rocks and debris.
The port itself had collapsed, along with many of the buildings. Only the outer perimeter was left relatively untouched.
Though the centre of the explosion created a deep crater, at least twenty metres deep. And the only thing that remained was the faint flickering black flames in the shape of a gigantic egg and a pile of bones in the centre. All of them charred black.
There were thousands if not more corpses in the area. The battle for Ulvar, however, was finished. The next step was the extermination of the undead, and to create a new city.
"Shall we enter the city, and greet our husband?"
Lorem gazed back to the sleepy Xavida and Helliana, now with dark bags under her eyes after days of continuous fighting and no sleep. Still, they wanted to see Asura and his return from that dark egg.
Though they didn’t know how much longer he would remain asleep.
The egg flickered for some time after that. But as time passed, it slowly dimmed and vanished. The moment it did, a man stood naked and gazing up at the moon with a calm atmosphere. His eyes were half opened, with a devilish charm, while his black hair fluttered around in the wind.
"As expected, this is the look that suits me most." Asura muttered to himself, now able to change between any colour and shade of eye and hair colour, though he didn’t understand why. Continue your saga on empire
"Is it over? It is actually over? Did we win?"
Asura felt like he was in a strange dream.
"Asura?"
"Darling?"
"Husband!"
Lorem, Xavida and Helliana called out to him, the depth of the crater difficult to enter for normal humans, but their wings fluttered, helping them land close to him.
The bodies of all three women suddenly wrapped around him, with a soft and warm sensation.
"It is good to see you all. I missed you." He said in a low tone.
"I am so glad to see you back, my darling."
Asura smiled and held them, as they embraced one another in a deep kiss. It felt like a lifetime since he had kissed any of his lovers.
But after the embrace and the kiss finished. Asura looked around and sighed.
"It is really all over. Now it is just clean-up and rebuilding."
"Yes. I don’t know how much of your plan worked, but the main army was defeated, and the western forces won as well." Helliana hugged his back, stroking the faint scars from the battle, gently pressing her lips against them as she enjoyed his warmth.
"Though, I have heard a rumour that the bastard is alive and well, and fled towards the capital." Lorem added to Helliana’s words.
The bastard was, of course, Xavida’s uncle, the man who caused all this issue.
’I knew from the start he would one day become my enemy, but if I knew how many lives would be taken because he chose this path.’
Asura could only regret that his lack of speed caused hundreds of thousands of people to die, and that wasn’t including the poor innocent people forcibly killed to create his army.
"I have to let them rest easy, we have to kill him."
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