The Earth After Rebirth

He examined the light from the ground and it didn't think he was mistaken. The light was something very special, nothing he'd seen before.

"Dammit. There's so much I can do with that. Kiro do you see that?" The craftsman in him couldn't be hidden, he'd even stopped fighting imagining the perfect weapon that could be produced out of that lightning bolt. Experience tales at m v|l e'm,p| y- r

"Huh? I can make lightning too." Kiro complained sensing the excitement in his friend's voice, he thought, no, he knew that it would be him that would have to go and retrieve it.

"It's not the same, no offense buddy."

Kiro knew it wasn't the same. The properties that lightning bold was made of, were out of this world. Something he'd only ever seen in that realm, when he entered a graveyard for stars.

"How the hell am I supposed to catch lightning?" He thought about throwing Ryu right at it but that didn't work in his mind.

Hiro threw him a small vial. "There, it's made of everything that attracts lightning, be careful."

He caught the vial, looking at his friend with a dumbfounded look. Surely, Hiro didn't put his trinkets above him, did he?

"Hey, this will be dangerous." He murmured.

"You're a guardian, what are you so scared of?"

Kiro sighed. His friend was something akin to a mad scientist now, he just wanted to perfect the next big thing. He was sure the lightning wasn't part of the true blood potion, but he saw something else and wanted to have it.

He threw Ryu to the skies and jumped on him. He understood what they needed to do, they left the others to fight at the bottom. The titans weren't going to make it easy for them though, any of them.

Suddenly, strained elongated arms tried to reach for Kiro. He didn't even need to command his staff, with the unlocked power crossing a quarter mark, he could do what any sentient weapon could for its masters.

They were in sync, Kiro swerved whichever way Ryu went. Avoiding the limbs wasn't easy, counting all of them, Kiro knew there should've been only six but there was much more than that.

The titans started ignoring those on the ground and focused on Kiro. There was clearly something in the air that they didn't want him to find, the last time he was up there, they didn't take so kindly to his distraction.

'Feels like I'm riding a broom, like those old wizards in old films. Kinda cool.' He thought to himself, as both him and his weapon avoided a near the fact attack.

It was a very strange experience. The things arms seemed to stretch for kilometres, it didn't matter where Kiro flew to, the hands were right there to grab at him and attack him.

He wanted to throw the vial into the deep layers of the clouds, but had a bad feeling that, the titans would reach it before the lightning bold did.

He navigated through the dark, red and sunless sky. Finding the lightning bold proved to be different, he figured he needed to at least see it before attracting it.

On the ground, Nikolai had started humming his song of death, before long, the entire area was covered in his whistle of death. He had a much better handle than the last times he'd used it.

He didn't need to concentrate very hard for it to only affect his targets. They all watched in awe as the icy winged creatures bust into millions of shiny shards, one at a time.

'After Dark was it? They're very strong.' Isaac couldn't help but admire. He was glad nobody there could read his thoughts, as this would be a fatal admission if anyone ever found out.

Isla had longed turned back into her original self. She was no longer standing on a mountain, but her mana steps. She casually tapped the flute that hung on her side with her middle finger, which made a beautiful unexpected sound.

This caught the attention of the titan. They divided their hands, the others would go after Kiro while the others would take out the woman in front of them.

Isla had a thin smile on her lips. She did multiple backflips in the air to avoid each arm that attempted to throw her off.

'Are we really the same race and class?' Ursa enquired internally. She was sure that, this wasn't something she could do.

Stepping on air was something, but fighting like that while ensuring the air was solid enough to stand on, was something else entirely.

She moved in a very astute way. She was wearing a half smile and half smirk. The flute was knocked into the air but landed on her back hand and never stopped spinning, then she turned into her palm.

It quickly touched her lips, she pushed just the right amount of air into it. A beautiful sound buzzed out of it. Because Nikolai had destroyed the icy bats and since the three titans were solely focused on Isla and Kiro, the rest on the ground had nothing to do.

Which was perfect because the melody that came out gripped all of them. Isla had yet to perfect the seducer class, she still affected those who weren't the intended targets. But she was glad that, the effects wouldn't be detrimental for them.

She continued to play while dodging the many arms that wanted to rip her to tiny shreds. Nobody could miss the fact that, the arms were getting slower by the second.

"What a goddess, she's an absolute beast." Kiro said, seemingly the only one who wasn't affected this time. Clearly spending more time fortifying his mental wasn't a waste.

Kiro still stopped to stare. He wasn't sure which of her he preferred. The silent but deadly or loud but still deadly. This version of her was still fascinating in his eyes.

He saw a beacon of light at the corner of his eyes, making him turn with the greatest of speeds and approached it fast before opening the vial. A silver light came rushing for him, he didn't let go of the vial.

The next thing he was waking up from the ground, still gripping the vial tightly in his hand. The only difference was that, before, the vial was translucent but now, it was filled with a silver liquid like substance.