Then, Ruination appeared. A crimson wheel of endings materialized around her, and she bellowed, directing all her possible endings, all her immense power, to meet the impending strike!
Above them all, Moiraine paradoxically appeared, her eyes shining with a
paradoxical rage. She began to burn her very paradoxical nature for power, her form a beacon of defiance.
Even further above, Sigrid appeared as if Order had ordained for her to be at the forefront.
Her face was a mask of cold fury, her forehead splitting open as a bony Eye of Order, a resplendent white pupil at its center, rose to meet the attack.
It shot out a beam of Order, a pure, white light to oppose the killing strike. And then, a howl. Yoshinami's spider form appeared beside them, her many eyes shining with a terrible defiance as she howled out war cry that transcended sound!
An illusion of Heidrun, her lustrous white-gold fur glowing, appeared beside Yoshinami, her hooves raised in a gesture of challenge!
Titano's simple eyes remained simple, but he slapped his chest with a boom that created tremors in the air, and began to enlarge, his form seeking to encompass and cover everyone.
All of them arose. They could all die, but he could not. Not their Master, not the one who had brought them to this glorious place!
Noah saw all of this in slow motion, his existence howling, raging at the absurdity of it all.
And worst of all, in that moment of collective defiance... his mother, Amelia Osmont, appeared beside him.
Beside him!
She had no immense power, no special abilities to offer.
She was simply his mother.
But her presence was a truth that could not be denied, a vulnerability that Noah could not bear.
"OOOH!"
He howled out with all of his existence!
Waves of blue mana, a sea of infinite mana, erupted from his body.
Infinite. Expanding. Pure!
No Fear. No Doubt!
They were filled with emotion, with rage, a rage that asked, Why? Why, after he had done everything, had he not been enough?
Why, after he had given everything, was he still powerless in the face of this immense light?!
And then, his mind buzzed with a singular thought.
He... had not given everything. Not his Everything. Not yet.
For his family. For his people. For himself. He would give Everything in exchange for their survival.
"I give..." he began to speak, his voice a roaring declaration against the inevitable.
But then, a sigh. It echoed out, a sound of immense sadness, and a small figure, Khor, appeared above everyone.
Her eyes were filled with a chilly, melancholic light as she looked upon the scene with a profound distaste.
"Gilgamesh," she uttered, the name a curse on her lips.
Her small figure moved ahead of everyone, appearing as a delicate, almost ethereal being in the face of the massive, terrifying white light.
She opened her mouth.
And with a sense of sadness, of melancholy so deep it would drown the soul, she said, "I Hunger. Therefore I am."
...!
BOOOM!
The light of the killing strike crashed down. The small figure of Khor ate up nearly all of it, her mouth an abyss of inevitability that consumed not just light, but the very authority of the attack.
But a portion of the light was too fast, too pure in its malice. It phased through her, a tiny, almost infinitesimal fraction of the original beam.
It was so small, so insignificant, yet it smashed into Noah.
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