The hivemind is conquering for me?-Chapter 369: War On Bastion X
Aeletha regained consciousness and immediately spat up blood upon herself. Her features, that had been removed from when she ascended, had come back to her, and they hurt. Aeletha might be blind, but she did not need that sense to know how badly her body was damaged.
The hit from the Colossal entity. She only survived due to the power of her form, but even with her form taking the blow, her ribs were shattered, her spine was broken, one of her legs was missing from the collision with the ground and both of her arms were in varying degrees of serious damage. Not to add onto the fact that her interior organs were most definitely bleeding.
"I've survived worse...*Cough* I will live." She muttered to herself as she tried to activate her amulet, only for her to realise it was no longer around her neck. The light within her eyes dimmed upon realising that until she felt a hand reach out and touched her forehead carefully.
"My Seer! Are you ok?" A familiar voice spoke to her. "Rekosh?" She questioned, as she applied her Psionic vision. Sure enough her bodyguard had somehow managed to survive the destruction all around her and was now kneeling by her side.
"Do I look like I am ok? I don't think *Cough* I don't think I have a bone in my body that isn't broken." Aeletha grumbled, putting on her superior act now she was in the presence of a subordinate, despite it currently being very hard.
"My Seer, I must get you out of here!" Rekosh said as he tossed his gun-spear to the side to attempt to pick Aeletha up. "Rekosh, If you touch me, I am dead. I can still see the future. Do not move me, find my amulet! And be careful..." Aeletha said, causing Rekosh to feel a surge of emotions within as his Seer seemed to care about him.
'I can't get another Rekosh so soon, and your attitude towards me is just to my liking.' She thought as she closed her eyes needlessly for a moment to get whatever rest she could.
*THUD*
The ground rumbled beneath Aeletha. Causing her to open her eyes once more.
*THUD*
The sound was loud, purposefully loud, like something was making a point to be heard.
*THUD*
Suddenly the source of the sound fell into Aeletha Psionic vision. The beast that had swatted her like a fly, that not moments before, was sprawled out on the ground with its thorax connecting the rest of its body together by threads and guts. Now it was stomping the ground as it walked, nary a scratch upon its form.
*THUD*
The colossus took one more step into the long crater before it stopped and pointed its god swatter towards Aeletha in the distance. It then brought its sword up to its neck and mimicked a cutting gesture.
Aeletha was not sure why the being was taunting her, but it scared her almost half to death, which would have been fatal as she already was halfway to death. She took solace within her vision.
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Still clear, she was still surviving this day, she would still lead her people to greatness. She would still die, just not this day. Rekosh ran back to her side at this point and picked up his weapon and began firing relentlessly towards the distant creature. He did not even have to aim considering the target's size.
Aeletha wanted to tell Rekosh to go and help any nearby survivors instead of being a stupidly good bodyguard and sticking with her till the end, but as she observed her surroundings, the only other presence she felt was still alive was a Qen reporter that was already on the out and would be dead any minute.
*THUD* *THUD* *THUD*
The creature began walking at a leisurely pace, for its size, towards Aeletha, scraping its two long swords along the ground as it stretched its other two claws stretched out in front of it like it was about to perform a trivial task.
A fear gripped Aeletha despite her vision remaining true. She attempted desperately to ascend once more, even though she knew it was useless. Not only was her body not in its peak condition, but the attack from Cor'voth had damaged the centre of her array.
She could tell now while she was trying with her everything to ascend that. 'Stupid Plipit. The destruction of the array is the most likely the reason as to why I was knocked out of my ascension.' She convinced herself to bring some comfort to her aching frame.
*THUD* *THUD* *THUD*
The steps of the colossus brought it ever closer, the steps creating enough tremor to cause her body pain at this point. At a mere hundred meters away, Aeletha realised something, her foresight began to fade, leaving her truly blind to her future.
Though knowing what that meant, She turned her full attention towards the Colossus, for that would be the remainder of her future she had left.
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Prime three stared towards the fallen god and felt disappointed. The glare it had been giving her form as it slowly trudged towards it left her thinking It may have another weapon in its arsenal, but it appeared not to be the case.
The other thing that caused Prime three extreme damage also did not seem to be within the vicinity. Prime three felt like the tentacles had been cut off her void swimmer, a feeling of disappointment swelling up within her as she had actually begun to enjoy herself.
'Still, there is my reward awaiting me. More than worth it!'
Just as Prime three was about to take another step forward, she looked up just in time to witness a presence plummet into the ground not too far away from the god class entity, causing her to freeze up.
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Aeletha began coughing as a cloud of dirt dispersed into the air from the impact of whatever just fell in front of her. She had retracted her vision as the impact startled her so she was surprised when she heard.
"Oh man, that landing was rougher than I thought it would be. The heck happened to all the Psionic energy? Argh! My knee kills!"
'Human? Spartari dialect?' Aeletha thought to herself in confusion. As far as she knew, the Coalition had not begun to conscript from the human coalition planets, so what was one doing here? And with the Spartari dialect no less?
Rekosh was quick to act. "Identify yourself or be destroyed!" He yelled towards the, what he assumed to be a human, causing the man to reply. "Oh shut it you big lizard, I'm not here for you. I am looking for-"
"Archon Apollo Lambdason?!?" Aeletha spurted out in shock. How could she not! Not only was she very familiar with the alien armour, but her second, more pleasurable vision had become clearer in an instant.
She was beneath this human, enjoying every second of his strength. Her pain simply vanished, replaced with the utter confusion overwhelming her. "Archon, what are- we are at war- Why are you here?"
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'Oh shit.' I thought to myself upon being recognised. I had no idea how a very injured female of a species I couldn't recognise knew who I was with my armour on, but I had a gut feeling I had to tread my ground carefully or I might not be able to return to Spartari to collect my things.
'Either way, she must be a higher up if she knows who I am and can speak an alien language as well as her bodyguard? Hmm...' Giving myself a second to think, I lined up my lies within Spartari and stated.
"Hello miss, you look awful, no offence. My teacher sent me here for battle experience, but the god that was on the planet was preventing me from joining the fight. I have been stuck up there for ages." I said pointing up.
I wasn't sure why I was entertaining a dying woman, but I just felt a feeling in my chest as I looked towards her that made me feel like I should. As I pointed up, I looked down to check on my knee now that it was feeling better and I noticed something in the dirt by my feet. 'Ooh shiny!'
Aeletha was stunned by what she had just heard. It was almost impossible to believe, but her injury, lack of better judgement, the absurdity of the situation and the vision that was literally pounding inside of her mind made her believe him.
"Archon Apollo I-" She started before she witnessed him pick up an object from the ground. Her Amulet! As the Archon turned his head towards her, his purple visor piercing her body with its gaze, causing goosebumps, she requested.
"Archon, *cough* could you hand me back my amulet?" Looking down at the necklace, I could feel Psionic energy inside, but it did not feel like it could cause any damage so I shrugged my shoulders. "Sure thing." I said as I tossed the necklace towards the more able bodied of the two individuals, who immediately turned, knelt and wrapped the amulet around the dying female.
"Ok, so now I am here, if you could point me in the direction of the enemy I will- Oh never mind, fuck me she's a big one!"
