Fate's Eternal Foe

Butting in without a plan.

"Senior brother, we're close". the white-robed boy said.

" En". Fredrick replied.

He did not divert his attention as he stayed focused on maintaining the hand seals over the body in the casket.

They were still flying over the Reincarnation River and they had reached a point where a long line of blue spots sped along the river.

Before long, plenty of boats identical to theirs appeared in the distance.

A tall man in grey robes stood on a more intrinsically designed boat that stood foremost in the group. He turned his head and looked in Frederick's direction.

" What took you so long? And where is supreme master Davi?". His voice resounded.

The people on the other boats all wearing black looked on silently.

Fredrick remained silent and continued maintaining the hand seals over the iridescent body.

The other boy on the boat looked back and forth between both of them. When he saw Frederick had no intentions of replying he stuttered.

"Sect master well...... We, we.......".

"Enough!". The grey-robed man cut in.

He turned back to what he was looking at before

" We have been waiting for you guys for a long time.".

In front of him was a circular inscription of runes. It was carved out on the void over the Reincarnation River.

The power of laws radiated from the markings and in the center, a glowing stone hung above a smaller inscription with more complex markings. Tiny runes crisscrossed the stone and gave off a daunting look

A mystical aura gushed out of the stone and an indiscernible pressure impacted the surroundings.

He signalled his hand at Frederick and the boy in white robes steered the boat to his direction.

When their boats were beside each other, the Sect master entered their boat and made a hand seal over the body.

Fredrick dropped his hands and stood up then he bowed to the Sect master.

" Sect master, supreme master Davi had gone to stop the Eternal Palaces. He will be with us shortly". He said respectfully.

The Sect master nodded and left the boat. The casket floated beside him on its own.

He flew to the center of the circle of inscriptions and waved his hand.

The casket opened and the body inside rose and floated to his front. A soft muttering resonated and he changed the hand seal while the body moved to the top of the glowing stone.

Immediately seven white bearded elders flew out of the other boats and stopped just outside of the runes. They started chanting an incantation while they made the same hand seal.

After some time, the markings on the runes started glowing dimly and the Sect master moved towards the body.

Suddenly,

Boom!!!

A large hand made of compressed energy came out of nowhere and blasted him away from the runes.

The force threw the Sect master far away and he crashed into the boats of his followers. The momentum made him crash through a significant number of the boats before he managed to stabilize himself.

The members of the Dark coalition that were thrown out from the destroyed boats all gathered and went behind the Sect master silently.

" I will not allow you to succeed".

A loud voice came booming from a distance. Eugene rushed to the scene immediately after the voice and glared at the Sect master vigilantly.

The Sect master had a blank look on his face for a moment before he turned his head stiffly to look at the runes.

Immediately, his expression changed and his eyes widened with horror displayed clearly in them.

His face grew progressively uglier as he watched the runes become brighter and brighter.

Eugene stood between the runes and the Sect master.

"You shall not get past me today, Fabil. I will not allow you to succeed". He said in a deep voice.

By now the other experts following Eugene had also arrived.

" Finally, we're here!". Efel wiped off imaginary sweat from his forehead.

They all went to stand beside Eugene and guarded the runes against Fabil and his gang.

" Fabil you know your plan is impossible! Just give up this madness". Efel looked at Fabil and said in a serious voice.

Fabil ignored him and continued staring at the circle of runes wide-eyed. He raised his trembling hands and pointed at Eugene.

" YOU!......WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!!!".

After saying that, he crumpled on the boat with a defeated look on his face.

The seven elders had all stopped chanting the incantations and just like Fabil, were staring at the runes in horror.

" It's over, it's all over. We are all dead. Everyone is dead". Fabil mumbled like a madman.

" Sect master!!! ". Fredrick hurried to Fabil " What's happening?". he asked.

The rest of the Dark Coalition members had a look of confusion, but they still stood silent behind Fabil.

Fabian got up with shaky legs and pointed at Eugene

"He did this. He has ruined everything. This bastard ruined everything. Now 'He' is going to come back."

Hearing this, Eugene's countenance changed.

He pointed at himself " Me? how? what did I do?"

As he spoke, he inadvertently recalled what the Dark Coalition had been doing before he arrived and his eyes widened in fear.

" No! Don't tell me.......". He stiffly turned his body and looked at the rune circle behind him.

" What is happening?". shouted Efel. He too had just turned back to look at the runes.

" The body!". one of the female experts who had followed Eugene exclaimed.

" This is bad". The swordsman said as he tightened his hand around the hilt of his sword.

Inside the circle of runes, the iridescent body floated over the glowing stone and a grey-red aura linked the body and the stone.

The runes that formed the circle started glowing brightly and a faint red barrier formed around it.

" You see what you have caused, you big-headed moron!". Fabil cursed angrily at Eugene.

Eugene ignored him and immediately slapped at the barrier decisively. A mass of destructive energy burst out from his palm and wracked at the barrier while causing intense fluctuations in the space. However, the destructive energy faded the barrier still stood there without any damage.

' The barrier is too strong!' Everyone thought.

" It's useless". Efel said calmly from the side. His frivolous personality had disappeared. Instead extreme seriousness showed in his demeanor.

" We have already failed this mission. We now have to try finding the success inside failure that the Monk was talking about". He said with a grave voice.

Devon shook his head. "So it has eventually come to this". He said in a low voice.

Fabian came out of the destroyed boat and glared at Eugene

" This is one of the reasons I dislike you. You always come butting in with every time with that bloated head filled with fake righteousness. Never would you try finding out the real situation rather than make things worse than they were before".

He looked at Efel.

"This moron is right though. These runes were made specifically to draw upon the energy of the universe origin stone to block you while I subdue the remnant will the body. But like always, you had to come in at the worst possible moment to ruin everything! Now we both can do nothing about it and are going to watch while a mindless and violent Kores is let loose on our universe and possibly others".

Eugene turned to Fabil and said in a serious tone " Even though I know we both hate it, we will have to work together this time to hold him off. If we do not cooperate everyone here might die."

While they talked, the tiny runes that crisscrossed the stone started spinning and the light that connected the body and the stone broke into another section that entered the Reincarnation River. A small whirlpool formed in the river around the light.

The blue lights weren't affected and only avoided the light and continued on their journey.

After some moments, some blue fragments started getting attracted to the light from the depths of the river. When they got close to the light, they went around the whirlpool and went back to the river.

This continued until a noticeably smaller fragment was pulled up. Immediately it was sucked up to the light and retracted with the light to the body.

The moment it entered the body, the corpse started shaking violently and the stone started moving towards the body and the light became brighter and brighter until it became a blinding light.

Fabil watched the progression of events and scoffed at Eugene.

" To hell with your damned cooperation! I will not be helping in any way to hold back this demon. You can enjoy it to the fullest. There's no way I'm going to court death with you. Since I would die anyway, why shouldn't I just prolong my death".

Eugene looked at him in shock " You want to escape? You know too well what would happen should Kores be let loose in the universe!"

Fabil looked at him mockingly " I know very well. And that's why I'll be leaving now to go prepare my grave. You can have fun without me."

" Had you kept your nose out of my business everything would have gone smoothly. It's your mess and you should stay to clean it up".

Eugene smiled coldly " You don't really think you can go anywhere while I'm here do you?".

Fabil laughed and waved his hand.

" Watch me".

All the members of the Dark coalition around including Fredrick all flocked to his side.

Fabian looked at Eugene with the same mocking look on his face " I can sense that Supreme master Davi is no longer in this zone. I don't know what happened. But do you think we are like you butting our heads everywhere with no plan? Just because you think you are strong?".

Fabian threw a round disk up and black lights burst out from the disk and covered all the Dark coalition members.

" No! Stop him!". Efel cried out.

Eugene made a hand sign and stretched his hand outward

" Stay here!". He roared

A dark cube filled with dense inscriptions shot towards Fabian and his group and enlarged, wanting to capture them.

" Hehe. I'll thank you another time for holding him back for me. Later losers!". Fabian sneered.

Before the dark cube could reach them, The black lights suddenly contracted at an impossible speed around the Dark Coalition and turned into a black fit before vanishing into space.

By now, the body had stopped shaking and the stone had already fused to its chest.

The eyelids fluttered open.

" Roar!!!!".