Chapter 42: Corruption

One week later...

Lariat: "We're not that far away from shore."

Infinite Island is within sight.

Thoris: "(groaning) Finally..."

Rox looks at Owen.

Rox: "(in head) I know."

Owen: "Uh... Rox?"

Rox blushes as she looks away.

Owen: "(in head) She's been doing that all week. What's going on?"

Veld: "We'd better get ready to dock."

Everyone gathers their weapons.

Nyria: "So it's almost here..."

Makoh: "L-Let's hope we don't have to do something as crazy as dying."

Cale: "I-I doubt that they're going to ask for your help a-and then kill you last second."

Veld: "You're not going to be heading over with us so you don't need to think about that."

Cale: "I-I know!"

Xaena: "You don't need to put Cale down like that! She's just trying to help!"

Veld: "Sorry, it's just that it's true."

Tensions begin to rise.

Lariat: "(sighing) Everyone calm down, we're here."

They have just docked at the vast beach.

Owen: "(determined) Here we go."

A faint light can be seen from the center of the vast jungle.

Rox: "Think you can stay with the boat, Cale?"

Cale remains on board as the others hop off.

Cale: "O-Okay."

Thoris: "(relieved) Thank you."

They all head into the jungle.

Xaena: "I-I'm hoping that Cale was right."

Makoh: "I'm putting a-all of my trust in her."

They soon arrive at a large pillar of white light.

Nyria: "Here we are."

They all step into the pillar.

Owen: "Time to get the results of our work."

They all vanish.

Bael: "They've finally arrived."

The eight arrive at a smaller platform connected to the one with the eight gods.

Lariat: "Smaller than I anticipated."

Xeoin: "It's because the soul is a fraction of a being."

They all slowly walk towards the gods.

Rox: "So what's next?"

Eight pillars appear behind each god.

Poxi: "Step into the pillars and the seal will be restored."

They all start to walk towards the pillars.

Xaena: "Wh-What happens then?"

Jex: "Then we'll temporarily fade from existence and our energy will be replenished."

Nyria: "So we're taking over for a while?"

Floa: "Ye-"

The pillars suddenly turn black.

Soalious: "More like I'm taking over."

Black lighting strikes the gods.

Feaquil: "(in pain) Soalious!"

The heroes are repelled backwards by the blasts.

Soalious: "Man did my plan work!"

Rox: "(struggling) Plan?"

Soalious emerges at the center of the gods.

Soalious: "When you bastards sealed me, I sent one last attack on you!"

510 years ago...

Soalious: "(in head) Guess I need to wait."

Eight, microscopic balls of energy enter the gods the moment the seal is complete.

Present time...

Preio: "That feeling wasn't my imagination!"

The lightning gets harsher.

Soalious: "That attack drained away your energy a lot faster and gave you all my specialty."

Gods: "Fear."

The gods become lifeless as energy from all eight are absorbed into Soalious, but some of it finds their way into the heroes as a last ditch effort without anyone noticing.

Thoris: "(struggling) All we did was loosen the seal instead of repairing it!"

The bodies now have a black light to their eyes.

Soalious: "I always was the smart one."

Everyone else is pushed into the light.

Soalious: "I'll take whatever is left inside you all!"

They vanish into the light the moment Soalious is about to grab them.

Soalious: "Damn, now they're going to fly all over Isa."

The lightning subsides as the pillars vanish.

Soalious: "Time to let me have some fun with my new toys!"

Meanwhile...

Cale: "What's happening?!"

Pure, black clouds cover the world, with red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue, purple, and pink lights flying out from the center, in different directions.

Cale: "I-It can't be!"

Red and orange land north, yellow and green east, light blue and dark blue south, and purple and pink west.

Cale: "(afraid) He's coming..."

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