Chapter 1699: The leader of a race
There was nothing quite as depressing and frustrating as your own body failing you. Jack had a body far stronger than any fairy his level. In fact, he could confidently say that he probably had the strongest body of any living fairy in the universe. Yet today, it had failed him, and was reduced to a trembling mess.
Once, Lex had been supremely impressed by the versatility of the fairies powers. They had far surpassed what Lex had available to him as a human. Yet in exchange for such an amazing power, fairies lacked the extreme adaptability of humans, which is also one of the reasons Jack hadn’t been able to grow as strong as Lex.
The fact that the fairy race was cursed was an entirely separate issue that wasn’t even being considered in this equation.
The fact was that, in this critical moment, his body failed him, his wings failed him, and he was dragged down by the decline of his entire race. If it weren’t for Jack’s extreme will power, he would have already been brought to his knees. But while that will kept him standing, it could not help him surpass the vast difference between him and the being sitting in front of him.
Jack searched anywhere and everywhere in his body for something, anything, that he could use at that moment. No matter what the universe said, no matter how weak he was, no matter how difficult the situation seemed, he was not resigned to just watching the alligator suffer.
Its wounded leg was curled up against its body and it whimpered as it tried to keep fighting, but clearly it was no longer able to fight.
"He has successfully attracted my attention. Hey captain, would you like to be my slave?"
Grimshaw asked, his words asking a question but his intention a command. Jack felt it - the universe. It acknowledged the intention, and was morphing his mind to make it happen.
That’s when a flash of clarity shot through the rage in Jack’s mind and he remembered the universe. The stupid, biased, accursed universe. It was always present, it was always watching, always acknowledging.
"I swear..." he said in his heart, but Jack did not need to complete the words when green light in the shape of pentagons began to rise out of his body. Lex and Jack were different, but they were also one. The oath made by one stood equally true for the other, and so the power of a Paladin was shared equally between the two.
Everything else had failed, but the power granted to him for completing impossible tasks, for his own faith in his oath, stayed. So long as he stayed true to his oath, this power would never leave him.