Richard, seeing no other options, decided to implement his last resort.
He pulled out Project: Sol disk and chucked it at Elias. The disk exploded like a bright flashbang, and its smaller parts splintered off in their own miniature explosions around the room. All shadows and darkness in the area would immediately be removed, effectively disabling Elias’ powers and rendering him unconscious.
The shadows shrunk back to one corner of room, where they swirled restlessly but did not attack.
Your mistaken in your belief of hope. I’m not controlling that boy, only giving him power…
Elias… Do you need more of my power? I can give it to you, but you’ll need to pay off your debt…
“What debt?” Elias responded. “I did everything you asked of me. They weakened me and i couldn’t do anything.”
Shadow King laughs, while doing so he transfers ten percent of his power to Elias. Elias would be able to feel a greater strength rushing into him.
The debt that you owe to yourself… Bringing your sister to the winning side…
Elias growled, and the shadow stirred.
you call that the winning side? Luxatium says in Elias’s mind. That’s pretty sad, Swordbreaker. The light in the room intensifies, and urges into Elias’s mind, trying to force Swordbreaker out.
I do, although I’ve only been allowing you here, perhaps when I force you out you’ll see what absorbing a being stronger than any id did to me.
Shadow King forces Luxatium out of Elias’s mind creating a mental barrier hundred-fold stronger than before m
#“hmm someone’s in a pickle aren’t they? if you want i could maybe see about dropping over some guards maybe a vitae tick or two, for a price of course.”
All the light in the realm of light begins to dim, except immediately around Luxatium. “You should know better than to fight me here, where I am strongest.” He whispers, then begins walking towards Elias.
Shadow King laughs, his voice now audible to everyone in the room,
“Unlike before, where I was the id of the end, of death, of corruption, I am now both the id of Shadow and Death! I am Shadow Breaker! I am the very shadows you see, every shadow you see. Light can never get rid of me, Life only bores me. I am the herald of the end, fore-teller of the dead. You claim to be strongest here. In that case then I shall remove the comfort, by shatter the dimensional plane you are in and replacing it with shadow.”
Shadows start to cover Elias’s body, till he could not be seen by any light.
@L.O.S.S-KAL
Michael hesitated for a moment.
…Name your price, he eventually said to The Collect in his mind.
#“i fancy a brain, a still living one, either xir’algath or angel, whichever’s easier to obtain. you don’t have to do so immediately but quickly.”
Did I hear you correctly? You asked for a brain? Michael asked, confused by the odd request.
#“you did. my request is a functional brain, either one of your own kinds or one of those glorified ink stain’s brains will do.”
“You can’t win here.” Luxatium says, sending a beam of concentrated light at Elias’s shadowed form. “Darkness has always fled from light.”
A cold smile comes across the Shadow King’s face,
“The end takes all, and I am the id of the end.”
The shadows take form, as Shadow Breaker now stands among them. He looks at Elias and taps the floor with his foot. The floor decays becoming rusted, before it snaps and crumbles underneath Elias’s weight. Below Elias was a pool of shadow, which is where he would disappear into.
Shadow Breaker’s glowing red eyes looks into Michael’s face,
“You knew who the shadow king was. You might want to inform your friend here of what I am now, because I am no mere id.”
Michael paused as he considered the options. He turned to The Grand Seraphim for guidance. The Seraphim, detecting no malicious intent from The Collect, simply gave a nod of approval.
Very well, do you thing. But do not kill Elias. I only merely wish for him to be incapacitated. Michael said to The Collect.
#“wish granted, i expect the brain in about four to six business days.”
With that two “Leadhead” class chassis appeared alongside a large mechanical quadraped with tall spindly limbs and glass bulbs of unknown fluids. As they appeared the colour seemed to drain from the surroundings
Luxatium uses all the light of the realm of life to try to contain Shadow Breaker.