>>6177915However, two figures end up crashing into separate islands nearby, and you can tell they’re Hearts and Ryuno. Yalbadoth is still high up in the air looking down at you all with what’s probably contempt, arms crossed as he lets everyone feel just how powerful he is. Crap. He doesn’t seem to target any of you just yet, so, small victory there. Hearts and Ryuno manage to get up, but that definitely hurt them.
Meanwhile, the gathered civilians start to converge on Sala and Hado, with her keeping them back, while Zelos, 16, 19, and Raditz carefully knock out many that are apparently being puppeted around by Kakia. It… actually more closely resembles what Yurin did to certain people with her talismans the other year, just through a more powerful magic, and with apparently more willing puppets. He’s about to laugh and starts to cast another spell, circles appearing underneath each of your allies, when he suddenly is not there anymore. In an instant, he’s above the water, and then gets hit in the gut by an Ice-boosted Crane Kick from Chiaotziu, who suddenly appeared in front of him.
He yells at Chiaotzu using words that you can only assume are swears in an ancient tongue when he gets smacked in the back of the head with 16’s other arm, the one afflicted by whatever curse Epithymia cast on it, shrieking out as he holds his head in his hands… and then becoming bizarrely docile and loopy. He calls out to Chiaotzu in a suddenly delirious state, “Oh beautiful doll queen! Flawless porcelain skin of an Angel! You come to me now, may I enshrine your beautAAAAAAGH!”
He’s hit with an Ice Dodonpa from a panicked and blushing Chiaotzu, knocked away and suddenly encased in ice. Many eyes are now locked on him, but to his mild relief the stares are broken by words that echo in all your minds in a booming voice. ‘Pathetic. All of you. PATHETIC.’
It’s not just addressed to you and your allies, but apparently the other Archons as well, as you catch glimpse of Yao, even in her pained state, visibly flinch at those words. The gathered civilians that were attempting to harass Sala and Hado stop suddenly, those that were facing Zelos, 16, 19, and Raditz backing away, all supplicating themselves and calling out to Yalbadoth in ecstatic yet fearful exaltation.
A strange purple glow is visible from up on high, one that… is actually bizarrely hard to properly sense? You can tell there’s energy there but it’s not like anything you’ve felt before. A small blast lazily falls down from the sky. Zelos, Hado, Hearts, and even 19 though seem to realize what it is, each of them yelling out, “DON’T LET IT HIT YOU!”
