The Godsfall Chronicles

Book 7, Chapter 77 - Completing the Mission

“All done?”

Selene walked over a shattered scryspire . These tools broke like this when their capabilities were exceeded . As the trembling earth quieted, she knew that Cloudhawk’s goal had been achieved .

“I’ll look . ” Selene jumped into the broken tower .

Inside she saw Cloudhawk, drained of all his strength . He was lying on his back and panting like a dog whipped within an inch of his life . He felt drained and spent, unable to move a single hair .

“f.u.c.k… Belial, that a.s.shole . He didn’t… say it would be this… tiring . I felt like… I almost exploded . ” Cloudhawk groaned between deep breaths . “Help me up . ”

He’d succeeded in exchanging two truly ma.s.sive items . The Source was highly energetic, ma.s.sive in scale but relatively light in ma.s.s . As a result it strongly resisted his attempts to move it . It took Cloudhawk all of his strength to hold out, but in the end luck was on his side .

Selene carefully lifted him up so he could rest against her . He was drenched in sweat, his black hair stuck to his pale face . As always his dark eyes glimmered with mischievous power, like tunnels to a distant light .

Her eyes housed a mixture of bitterness and loss . As Selene gently wiped away the sweat from his brow, there was a rare moment of tenderness from this typically aloof beauty . The warmth from her soft touch brought him back to years ago . He took her by the wrist and said, “Don’t worry . I didn’t push too hard . There was no danger . ”

“You’ve always loved the desperate gambit . ”

“It’s the only thing that’s kept me alive this long . ”

The two shared a laugh . He wasn’t in a hurry to get up, so the two remained in their solitude for a little while . He pressed his back against her and felt the soft threads of her hair tickling his neck . He looked out across the barren horizon .

“What are you thinking?”

“Oh… I’m just thinking, this place would look beautiful if it were green again . ”

Selene nodded . “Yeah . It’s been dead a long time, but I don’t think it will be like this forever . ”

A new life…

Cloudhawk raised his head, looking up at the sky as though he could see through it to the distant universe beyond . Toward the hostile enemy that approached .

The G.o.ds were so strong . It seemed like if they wanted to destroy this planet, it would be as easy as turning over one’s hand .

Yet, for some reason, they couldn’t . They needed Cloudhawk . If the G.o.d King’s words were to be believed, he represented something special .

“I don’t know why, but when I encountered the G.o.d King… I felt the same way I did the first time I met Arcturus . ”

“How so?”

“The G.o.d King doesn’t want to kill me . At least not right now . ”

“Why not?” Selene’s face had hardened when she heard the old Governor’s name .

“I can’t say for sure . It’s… waiting for something . Waiting for me to grow . It doesn’t make any sense to me . It’s the master of time, what else could it be trying to achieve?”

Selene replied . “I don’t think you need to trouble with it . We know very little about that creature . It’s motives are a mystery, which is not surprising for something so strong . Right now we should focus on the things we can control, like preparing for this war . ”

“Yeah, you’re right . ”

Eventually others came to check on them . Belial made his report . “Kesjir is gone . All of the Source has been transferred here successfully . ”

“We’re receiving information from the capital,” h.e.l.lflower added . “There was a significant earthquake spanning 250 kilometers but it pa.s.sed quickly . There is now a ma.s.sive crystal – you succeeded . We can begin mining the Source right away . ”

Cloudhawk nodded . “What were people’s reactions?”

“Disbelief that you actually did it,” h.e.l.lflower replied, surprise on her own pretty features . “We now have a ma.s.sive, almost inexhaustible source of energy . It will make everything easier . Everyone who saw it will know this and follow you anywhere . ”

Source . A crystal, inundated with mental power . The energy it held was the power of creation . In theory, if one possessed enough mental energy then they possessed anything . Source was the key, a universal currency! It could be exchanged for whatever they needed .

Of course, the prerequisite was that someone knew how to use it . After all, Source didn’t come from a person . What it could accomplish might be different from what a demonhunter could summon .

“Let’s take a look . ”

Aside from his attack on Sanctuary, this was Cloudhawk’s greatest miracle . He knew how awesome the accomplishment was, but he wanted to see it with his own eyes . By the time they reached the Southern Capital he was mostly recovered .

The citizens of the capital, on the other hand, were still reeling from the spectacle . The army made sure things didn’t get too out of hand, and most were now back in their homes or districts . There were still many airs.h.i.+ps in the skies above, floating lazily around the ma.s.sive crystal that had appeared to the south-west of the city .

It was a towering plateau, several thousand meters high . It caught the sunlight and glittered alluringly like some sort of divine palace . Within it one could faintly see the spirits winding among the crystal .

At a glance the Source was long and flat, roughly oval in shape . Roughly eighty percent was buried underground, but even so it was a mountainous structure on the border of the city . The process of transferring it and the warping of s.p.a.ce had caused the crystal to crack . Ma.s.sive pieces were tumbling free and littering the surrounding area .

Airs.h.i.+ps shuttled back and forth, s.n.a.t.c.hing up these fragments and moving them into the city . From this point on Greenland would never have to worry about production or defense . One of these chunks was enough to provide for the city’s millions of inhabitants, at least for a little while . The trouble came in the knowledge of what this power represented . It came from the suffering of generations . So to honor those who had their essence stolen, it should be used for the betterment of the species and not wasted capriciously .

“I can use the Source to create a large defensive zone . One even the weapons of the G.o.ds would have a hard time piercing . It’s where we’ll make our stand . ” Cloudhawk was pleased with the results .

He was confident that he was right . The Source would protect them, sustain production and keep them operating at full capacity . He could rely on it to help with the ma.s.s evacuations he had planned . All the preparations they needed to accomplish before the G.o.ds arrived were now possible .

“What are we waiting for? Time to get to work . ”

No time to waste resting . Source was mental energy, but using it to power relics required talent and ability . There was still a lot for him to do .

Time was running out .

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