Chapter 523: The Night’s End
“Heed my call, Votum! Honorem!” shouted Ananta from the sky.
The twin daggers flew up and into her awaiting hands. She crossed the blades and channeled all the Chaos raging within her heart. The daggers shined with brilliant jade light and the sky darkened with storm clouds. An emerald tree of lightning manifested down from the clouds, like roots stretching to the earth.
Lunae and Holo watched in disbelief as the lightning spanned over the district, poised to smite the queen’s foes in a flash of brilliant thunder. But Ananta’s gaze wasn’t focused on either of them. No, Ananta stared at Melantha, standing still with eyes closed at the other end of the district.
Holo’s eyes widened in alarm. “Nel!” She Flickered away in the direction of her sister. She disappeared and reappeared in a flash every 30 meters, but it wasn’t enough.
With cold iridescent eyes, Ananta aimed her blades at Melantha’s still form. The emerald tree flared brightly, new branches of lightning sprouting downwards, when a blast of orange light and black smoke ignited in the night sky. In its wake, Kaleidrog emerged in a massive Flicker spell.
The dragon lord’s pristine azure scales had been scorched black from the chaotic lightning. His hide was split all across his body, oozing fresh scarlet blood. The pale cerulean wings were torn from where Honorem’s edge had found him. But his eyes— his sapphire eyes burned with an inner storm like never before.
“ANANTA!!” Kaleidrog roared in a mighty voice that boomed over the sky.
“You’re alive!?” Ananta’s face twisted with anger and surprise. She turned her daggers on him and the emerald tree answered. Jagged roots of lightning thundered down on the dragon, but he spread his wings and channeled True Yellow.
Three spheres of Radiant magic coalesced around him, each brighter and larger than the last. The emerald fire wrapped around the spheres, crackling with the sound of thunder as it squeezed and burned over the chromatic spell.