The sheer intensity and the blend of the crimson and silver colours of the void make it even more intense. "So we need to enter this and clear it? But why do we need to do it? Can't others do it?" I asked, puzzled and worried. Vaelith replied sternly yet lowly to himself, "You still haven't unlocked it, huh? You will realize the real purpose and see it through your eyes.", "We are the only people in this area who are unaffected by this surrounding and when a Void appears of this level your normal veteran fighters can't do much," he continued in a voice loud enough for both of us to hear. He smiled and added, "Besides, I need to prove to you that I am not some weakling and I am someone much more than what I seem to others' eyes." Following this remark, we both entered the Void, which brought us to a lonely landscape with dried-out vegetation, corpses, and a massive mansion in front of us with the words "WELCOME" displayed in full on a gigantic banner. We entered the mansion only to be greeted with a horrific scene, with a creature sitting on the throne of corpses like royalty with a terrifying smile on its face. "Ke ke ke, so you are the elf I sensed, and you are probably the human", the creature said with a maniac smile, still sitting on his throne made up of corpses, then he added while pointing at Vaelith "You will make a perfect addition to my throne." "Are you serious? Are we going to take on this beast? Not to mention it looks very ferocious.", I asked with a concerned voice.
"Don't worry, let me handle this and witness the power I hold within me, and acknowledge me, human. While I am here, no harm shall come to you.", Vaelith said with a calm and confident voice, while removing three rings from his hand and handing them to me to take care of them carefully. "Never expected a beast from the godless gate to be in this realm. If I remember well, this is the planet Elaris from the 5th layer. So sad to see an once beautiful planet now in such a ruin. Won't you agree, Vaelkris?", Vaelith asked with a serious tone while looking at the creature in front of us. The creature asked with a voice filled with amusement "Am I that famous now? Was that war such a big deal, Ke Ke Ke!!!!". Vaelith responded with a serious tone, "How can history forget the commander Vaelkris, The hollow Tyrant", listening to it within the deepest abyss of the Dusk Maw, where reality fractures and time begins to rot, sits Vaelkris, the Hollow Tyrant—a being of impossible origin, exiled from the Godless Gate for reasons lost to history. His throne, a grotesque monument of fused bone and rotting echoes, pulses with the dying screams of those who dared to challenge him, was amused and then said with a voice full of malice, "I shall guide you to the afterlife then elf." With that, the towering, skeletal husk clad in a regal yet decayed exoskeleton, etched with runes from a forgotten tongue. A crown of shifting black fire, devouring all light yet illuminating nothing, stood up from his throne. His form is constantly unraveling, flesh and bone appearing to glitch in and out of existence. His eyes are voids within voids, staring not at the world before him but into timelines that never came to pass. "Just observe closely and evaluate human, today you will see beings that fight for their legacy and existence.", Vaelith said to me, and I nodded with hesitation.
"That human seems very close to you, and you seem not so hostile to him despite your status of bei...", before Vaelkris could have finished his sentence, Vaelith, with his super speed and enhanced strength, struck first at him but Vaelkris evaded the attack by casting his magic of total defence before hand which covered his body with a layer that slowed down the time around it by 3/4th of the original speed. "Wow!!! If it weren't for my high reflex, I would have died, but as you can see, I am not some ordinary creature as you mentioned before. Even slowing down that attack by 3/4th of the original speed, you were very fast ha ha ha!!!!! How amusing, I like it, you are a worthy opponent. I would have loved to fight you with my original body, but since I am bound to these laws and restrictions, I will make it very fast and you will not be able to notice your painless death. Consider this as my last bit of mercy.", Vaelkris said with a threatening tone. As Vaelkris was going to attack, there was a sudden shift in the atmosphere, which threatened Vaelkris to his core as Vaelith began to say, "This was the last gift and legacy passed down by many generations within my family, and my father gave this to me before he passed away.", then he began to chant
"Forged for destruction, light piercing through veils of shadow,
A way of life intertwined with death's embrace,
Unknown to wielders, yet known to victims,
The power of spirituality, twisted and refined to corrupt,
Demonic in nature, yet calm within,
With a single strike, it claims the soul of its prey."
A sword came out of the ground forged with nothing but darkness. Seeing this, Vaelkris felt the despair that he felt when he was banished after many centuries. With a terrified voice he screamed "It ca..c..can't be, how do you have this, so you are in charge now, that means that human is....", before he could have finished his sentence Vaelith landed his first and final strike with his sword on Vaelkris. "Yes, you are right, he is the guy that will lead the new world, he is the one that is entrusted with fate. Hope is still there. You lost yours, but we never lost ours, we just waited till the right time came. Every character has its value, no one is here without any purpose , everyone has its own purpose", Vaelith said in Vaelkris' ear as he was dying as his last parting words for him.