Resonance of the Abyss

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When Azrael and Vesna arrived at the surface, they were met with the destroyed landscape.

The once wretched slums were transformed into a ruin landmark, the already sorry excuse of houses turned into depressed pits.

The terrain had sunken deep into the ground, pits and craters formed everywhere, slight earthquakes were also felt time to time.

Bodies of those unfortunate people, who were caught up in that battle's aftermath, were scattered around the surface with their body parts thrown at random locations.

The ground was painted with thick scarlet colour, and drowned in a strange black liquid goo.

In between the whole catastrophe, stood Kaltain, his body bruised at its near limit. His clothes were torn, a gaping wound was fresh in between his torso and limbs, there was no need to mention that he was bleeding profusely.

In front of him was a figure eerily similar to him just pitch black in appearance, with a plastered grin on its face. The figure was unscathed or at least that was it seemed looking at it.

Its entire body was made up of black gooey material, which was currently drowning the surface. Its legs buried into the gooey substance, its body a amalgamation of that substance, there was no concerte way to discern its wound.

Seeing the scene in front of her, Vesna's figure was visibly trembling, clenching her fists. She took a deep breath before condensing cosmic energy, she sent a golden beam of light beelined at Kaltain.

As a result his battered figure showed some change, his wound up body started healing albeit at a much slower rate but it was healing at the very least.

The liquid figure gazed at Vesna, after seeing the beam of golden light. Next instance it was in front of her, its figure still connected with the gooey liquid beneath.

The figure launched an attack, punching at Vesna. Instead of his fist if that it was, colliding with Vesna. It was the figure who got thwarted down the ground by Azrael's kick.

Its liquid figure assimilated with the liquid below, rendering the attack quite useless.

"Vesna, hold the baby and run away from here."

Hearing Azrael's remark, Vesna wanted to refute but under his tensed gaze she couldn't get the courage to talk back.

"I know that your strong but your kit isn't suited for frontal assault, and it's also a selfish request from me to save the baby."

He bowed down to Vesna, showing his sincerity. His voice didn't waver proving his honest request.

Vesna's eyes glistened with tears, she rubbed her eyes before with conviction she said. "Don't worry about the child, I will take care of it. Just don't let yourself or Kaltain get hurt. It's my request."

Vesna also tried to bow, but Azrael shoved the baby in her embrace before she could.

"We don't have enough time."

Before she could register what just happened, she was thrown at extreme speed at south ward direction away from the upcoming battle.

Just as Azrael threw Vesna, he was attacked by the gooey figure. It hurled a thousand spikes coated to brim with cosmic energy at him.

He didn't dodge it, before the spikes could hit, ten or so miniature black holes intercepted the attacks. Consuming the liquified water in the process too.

The figure shrieked, it was finally feeling pain. Listening to its shirek someone else was more than happy....

Kaltain, using the opportunity. He slammed his fists on the ground, the ground cracked separating with the liquid. At once, the liquid present started floating in air, after which it condensed in a spherical shape.

The size of the sphere was huge, around 20 m in diameter. Even so, its original size was much bigger. Comparable to rivers, but now it was condensed into a ball.

The liquid inside rippled furiously, causing cracks and some drops to escape. The damage was mended in an instant, so it didn't really matter.

Azrael approached Kaltain, making fun of him.

"Now you look like a battle hardened warrior, they will accept you now as their own for sure."

Kaltain sneered. "As if I want to be associated with those no lives."

Azrael put his hands on his mouth, making an 'oh' expression. "Aren't you harsh, looks like you took quite a serious beating."

Kaltain motioned his hands pointing at his body, as if saying look what do you think, was it serious or not.

"Yeah, sorry for asking."

There was silence for a second, before they started laughing together.

Their laughter subsided instantly, when the liquid broke from its prison chamber.

It attacked both of them furiously but was met by the collective force of ten black holes trying to devour its existence.

It tried resisting for some time, after it couldn't it changed its liquid form into a solid one. The black holes tried to devour it but couldn't do anything.

It was as if a metal hammer was used to mine ores, completely pointless. The black holes just scraped its body surface, producing faint ember sparks.

The figure swatted the black holes away, they were thrown quite a distance away before disintegrating into nothingness.

The figure took the appearance of Kaltain again, this time around instead of a grin its face was frowning with its mouth wide open, showing a sharp pitch black set of teeth.

Its mouth was drooling with strange black mucus, it was a question whether it was drooling because of hunger or anger.

It didn't matter, they would find it quite soon enough….