Burial

“Kalfa...”

“I... I-already know.” The beast girl wasted no time in holding out her two hands in front of her. Then she spoke with conviction.

“Roar.” Kalfa spoke, Igniting a swirling red set of runes to dance around her two fists. The runes twisted and merged into a glowing amber light, which gradually formed two heavy sized gauntlets, shaped into the head of two white lion heads which wrapped crudely around her upper arm.

A demonic growl emerged out from the lions covering her fists. The twins glanced over briefly, they had no time to admire the famous power of ‘gears’, the trump card for the mortals which they used at one point to dominate their own people during the great wars.

Both Aubrey and Elisa had also sensed an incredibly large amount of Qi nearby. And in response they removed their restraints and allowed their Qi’s to surge wildly to their optimum states. Being quite tired though, this looked to have caused strain against their bodies as noticeable writhing veins appeared beneath their skin.

Orion stood motionlessly as his eyes narrowed towards the gaping maw. Seconds turned into minutes...nothing emerged but the deep-rooted fears of his anxious heart. And then... soft footsteps emerged from the unknown... followed by the arrival of three slowly approaching silhouettes.

The three figures revealed themselves out into the open. They were slender in build, dressed in bizarre and revealing clothing which showed large areas of their chest and their upper legs. That might’ve been the topic of their focus, if it not for the noticeable ivory like horns protruding away from their helms.

There was a fellow standing in the middle of the trio. His eyes scanned the quartet before befalling against the tall brute in Orion.

Orion felt something likened to a disaster descending upon him all of sudden. He knew these three were trouble the moment he beheld them. And for the first time in as long as he could remember. He questioned whether or not he would make it out of this alive.

Whilst the company from the Lucien Kingdom were steadying themselves for what would certainly be a testing fight. The man with silvery long hair and an ivory curved horn stepped forward. He moved his slender neck from side to side with his eyes softly closed. An almost dream-like set of long white eye lashes grew away from his eye lids. There was a subtle crack from his neck before he opened his eyes again. His half-closed eye lids beheld the four warriors .

“Greetings...you all must be the Knights from the coalition of Kingdoms, yes?” he asked soothingly clear

The group furrowed their brows. There seemed to be a shared feeling of slight shock spreading through their thoughts. Orion refused to allow their morale to be shaken any more than it already was.

He stomped his two feet forward and beat his iron fist against his armored breast plate.

“And you must be the dreaded ones... fallen from grace! Scourge of the Kingdoms and bringers of perpetual hell...the demon clan.”

“hoho-Demon? What gave you the impression we are demons?” asked Ryuu, his soothing watery voice sent chills running down Orions spine.

“We’re not here to play games...so today you will die...just like the days of old”

*Whooooosh* A golden light started to emit around Orion’s entire body

He clenched his muscles and allowed a surging rush of power to run amok within him. The visible golden aura shone so brightly that those around needed to briefly shield away their direct gazes.

“Grrrraaaaaaaaargh!” A guttural roar bellowed into the heavens, and an aftershock left ripples throughout the open clearing. A gust of many leaves whipped into a vortex surrounding Orion whilst his entire armor had underwent a drastic change.

Once the dust had finally settled and the leaves gradually fell onto the ground. What was in place of Orion was a grotesque spiked full set of heavy armor. The helmet shaped into a metallic boar with sharp iron tusks and glowing ruby slits in place of the helmet's eyes.

Within his left arm was a thick slab of iron, too crude to be dubbed a great sword. It was the bastard kind and almost fused together with his iron spike of a hand.

Orions gear was in its fully activated mode. The rest of his company were still in a semi shocked state by the sheer power emitting from his newly formed armor.

The three mysterious figures were also shocked by the look across their faces. Orion felt confidence growing within him with every heavy breath he took. With his concept gear equipped, he felt as though the whole world could be crushed with his very bare hands. He raised one foot up and moved it forward. Once he brought it down the ground trembled.

“I must say...that power is truly impressive- I hold no doubts as to how you mortals managed to subdue just about every race, solely from borrowing powers from the Gods and guardians...But tis a shame...all great kingdoms must one day fall” Orion couldn’t really talk whilst he was within this form, but his mind was surging with questions as to why none of the three fellows before him weren't showing any signs of being worried, or even slightly disturbed by his show of power. In fact, he even noticed the red haired girl smiling at him.

Ryuu slowly lifted his slenderly perfect jade-like arm to the heavens. A gesture as though he was waiting for the sun to fall into the palm of his very hand.

“It truly is a pity...a pity that you mortals aren’t good at detecting what things exist beneath your very eyes.”

Ryuu snatched at something against the air and Orion was left almost speechless as the world around him smashed into millions of pieces.

*CRASH!!!*

Suddenly. he found himself submerged within an intense sea of darkness.