Cosmic grave
Somewherebetween the post-golden age and now era of calmness, stretching out into the deepest parts of the physical realm, one peers into the in-between seeing what's beyond.
This tale is story of one the federal alliance greatest bounty hunters and the one with fastest swordsmanship in the whole organization, Elwin a hybrid weaver who was personal tasked from the council of weavers & his father to defeat a powerful calamity causing havoc across multiple star-systems known as the "world butcher" and soon after his starting reign of terror, passively due to calamities innate hollow energy traits of carrying chaos and natural disaster within it, the areas around him became dead zones and spread farther beyond what the federal alliance was able to fully be assessed.
Now let us begin…
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Deep in the vastness of space, far out into the dead zone within its ever expanding darkness, sits a brightly lit star traveling at the unfathomable speed of light. But actually it was more than that, what was actually moving was none other than, Elwin light-walker, a weaver hybrid and son of the being titled as hero of weavers Noktus.
Elwin while still traveling in his light form looks down at himself, inspecting his own outfit, he sees fitted black pants with dark boots and Two beige belts that hang loosely around his waist, including, a gold chain that rests atop the first belt he's wearing, also Elwin's shirt vest is half buttoned along leaving his chest being exposed having a small necklace around him that keeps dear to himself.
And on his back he carries two dual blades being one of the few weavers to utilize dual weaponry.
"I'll need to be wary of other possible threats outside of the calamity, most especially since when they appear other things evolve and grow in strength due to the influence of true hollow energy radiating all throughout the different areas I'll need to find." Elwin thought outwardly, Now reaching his destination.
This location is of course the titanic skull of a cosmic leviathan, people have now turned it into a port for trades, bounties, and sponsored fights for all kinds.
Elwin then takes a look around and quickly realizes that the entire dead zone is made up of the cosmic serpents still left, "…it's actually crazy the scale of these creatures, this thing must was nearly fully grown if not a young adult and judging by the scale of damage around the nearby star systems & galaxies, I'd say the being who fought and killed this monarch was quite powerful themself & either one: weaver, two: calamity, three: monarch. And regardless of which theory is worse I have strong feelings about what my intuition is leading towards."
After finishing his slight rambling, Elwin landed in front of the skull mouth entrance, dropping down onto one of its massive teeth that dwarfed Elwin in scale, as the lingering stars reflected off his light pink eyes and contrasted nicely with his muscular frame coupled by the smoothness of brown skin. But soon Elwin sensed something was off and assumed an immediate battle stance, his hand already on the the hilt of one his duel blades.
Encircling him are 1,000 irregulars ordered by the ruler of the skulls port named "slithering grave" to attack Elwin and bring him forward to leaders chambers.
"Well aren't all of you nice enough to welcome me to your little port of fools." Elwin unsheathes his two blades and before any of the first 500 hundred soldiers could blink, all of them are cleaved in half instantly, blood splattering across the gargantuan skull's mouth.
Jumping back Elwin points out his finger to another 100 irregulars in front of him and then says: "stardust Vega" Instantaneously Elwin converges multiple streams of light from the surrounding stars in the area, quickly, manifesting into reality, he forms a large powerful singular beam, which generates a larger & far stronger output of attack, which is great enough to blast through the body of a dragon of annihilation if hit by it directly.
Encircling him are 1,000 irregulars ordered by the ruler of the skulls port named "slithering grave" to attack Elwin and bring him forward to leaders chambers.
"Well aren't all of you nice enough to welcome me to your little port of fools." Elwin unsheathes his two blades and before any of the first 500 hundred soldiers could blink, all of them are cleaved in half instantly, blood splattering across the gargantuan skull's mouth.
Jumping back Elwin points out his finger to another 100 irregulars in front of him and then says: "stardust Vega" Instantaneously Elwin converges multiple streams of light from the surrounding stars in the area, quickly, manifesting into reality, he forms a large powerful singular beam, which generates a larger & far stronger output of attack, which is great enough to blast through the body of a dragon of annihilation if hit by it directly.
The beam blast forward in a blinding shine of pure starry light, all one hundred of the irregulars body are torn apart and filled with bloody holes the size of cannons, and due to the after effects of Elwin star dusts causing burns that force those who can heal via restoration to take twice as longer due to his stars heat & radiating pressure on the wounds.
Turning to see the last of the soldiers, Elwin takes a step back by a single meter, then in a split second later, he appears behind the rest of the crew. His blade trickled with blood traveling down the edge of its bladed tip.
All one-thousand irregulars were killed in under 10 seconds, less than a minute's worth of time, none of them could perceive let alone register whatever just happened.
And the scariest fact of all was Elwin still held back on how fast he could've gone, quickly swinging his blade to knock last of blood off he then places them back into his sheaths, now walking towards inner room of mouths entrance.
When entering the inside he sees three different rooms and of course a massive hall similar to the size of fighting arena.
A second later, what sounds like speakers kick on, "Well this is interesting we've got ourselves here a visitor and one who thinks he can simply kill my subordinates and get away with it huh." Elwin remains quiet for a second then responds in calm and respectful voice: "I'm sorry that you feel that way, but I can't say I had a full choice, especially because you sent over thousand irregulars that work for under you to take me out because you sent me in the dead zone radius, am I right?." Elwin got into battle stance with one hand on one of his blades ready to strike at anything to move.
"…oh if that's how you see it , ..then very well, I shall make your death sastifying to watch and laugh at filthy weaver hybrid." The announcer then cuts off and black door in the middle opens up letting something walk into massive hall room.
From the black door steps out, a tall male giant, extremely muscular in frame, he carries two massive battle axes both more then 3 meters in length and is wearing black suit that's been reworked as layered armor woven into the fibers.
At the other two doors, they both open up almost immediately and release two enormous humanoid shaped lizards with three clawed fingers and thick tails used to support their bodies hulking weight.
The Creatures were known as "sawtooths" and there skin were similar to a dark burgundy having small white eyes and being able to produce hollow energy out from their body, which made them particularly more powerful then the average thing you'd fight out in a dead zone. Even though weakest creatures, still pose substantial threats to greater good.
two sawtooths lunge forward, at inhuman speeds, there jagged teeth, slicked with drewl from hunger of having not been fed. Putting ample strength behind his legs, then opening his third eye, to see apart of giants fate in turn sensing the potential attack ahead of time, instantly his hollow energy flex's and then boost forward activating burst flow to blitz pass the giant downward attack before it even happens.
Elwin quickly puts up his left arm then two fingers and motion a circle in front of him manifesting different spiky star clusters from his fingertips, split second after, Elwin then appears next to one of sawtooths, immediately his blade thrust foward at and unprecedented speed, striking the creature tail and tearing through with swing & pull of his blade.
Soon After feeling its tail get sliced, sawtooth turns to Elwin and goes to bite out his throat, aiming to tear at it, one, two, five, eleven, fifteen strikes rapidly sent out from the beast deathly jaws.
Jumping to the side into roll, dodging out of the way, Elwin while still in motion, gesture his two fingers , then disappears and seminally appears again front of sawtooth swinging his blade upwards vertically slashing at creatures right eye, then in even swifter motion of his blade handling, Elwin swaps the blade behind his back to left hand then with added hollow energy force & burst flow; the blade digs into reinforced sawtooths body, tearing through skin & flesh while slicing out chunk of the beast abdomen.
Taking another step back after the first strike landed, Elwin then thrusting forward again now with his left hand, plunges his divine instrument into sawtooths shoulder next, switches the hand grip motion to reverse grip, stomps his foot on ground with enhanced strength, displacing arena underneath.
Moment later, Elwin blade comes rising up through sawtooth shoulder, the sword tearing out its body violently, its blue colored blood splattering onto the floor, then not taking a second less, Elwin changes back his sword grip position and in a forward arc of the blade swinging, the creatures head is cut cleanly off, Dropping to the hall areas bloody floor,
rolling in front of the giant's feet.
While still moving, the second sawtooth reinforces its body with hollow energy its eyes now locked towards the hybrid weaver, aiming to punch a hole through Elwin skull and smash his face, however, before it can reach his face, Elwin once again blinks to different location of the arena, the creature lets out a loud screech of frustration as to how Elwin can move so swiftly and effectively with only simple hand gestures. Although powerful and capable of producing hollow energy for added strength, sawtooths most notably are extremely animalistic in their nature and don't share the same level of intelligence as beings like Elwin are capable of thinking, while only a sizable fee cases are there where a sawtooth can reach monarch class power.
'…The abilty in use is conjunction, allowing me to teleport in between the different star cluster I've manifested during the battle, and each time I draw that circle gesture, instantly I'm there at knew point.' Elwin while muttering to himself inwardly, starts hastily picking up the pace of his fighting, the sawtooth now noting the increase In the strength of Elwin sword strikes, each swing carrying powerful levels of speed and precision, also notably when trying the sawtooth aims to hit or bite at hybrid weaver, he intuitively parries & deflect attacks coming towards him as if he's already felt them long before beast goes into strike.
Raaaar!!! The sawtooth dashes foward, then swings its tail with enough force to smash through mountaintop, Elwin reinforces his body through hollow energy control, tanking the brunt of damage inflicted, feeling the weight and speed of the tail's whipping striking at his chest, Elwin still holding his ground, gets hit by another two powerful tail whips, the air around whole grand hall snapping into ear piercing sonic booms.
Yet, despite how powerful the attacked were, Elwin remains standing firm, and no blood drawn…the sawtooths face scrunched into toothy expression of anger and knowing it didn't deal the damage it wanted from him.
Elwin sheathed his blade, eyes focused yet almost aloof in how his overall presence felt currently, however under that aloofness, was the pressure of death washing over sawtooth and giant that was waiting for Elwin to finish his scuffle, "don't worry I'll get you in one moment.." and before he could finish, the sawtooth lunged forward its three fingered claws aimed straight at Elwin heart, hybrid blinks out of sawtooth attack range, then appearing above creature floating in air; aiming his hand and gesturing towards the creature with motion of cutting Elwin vocalizes: "false blade" and immediately the creature drops to ground almost collapsing due to sheer sensation of getting cut.. until it realized that its head was actually cut off and that in moment Elwin teleported a second ago, he had already unsheathed his blade & sliced the sawtooths head clean from its shoulders.
Elwin floats down, then turns to look at the giant with two battle axes in armor, shaking some dust off himself, Elwin smiles slightly and says: " you known as weaver and elite member of federal alliance, I must uphold a certain standard for maintaining respect & doing my duty." Then he Turns to look at the giant "so I'll give you a death respectful of that befitting a warrior like yourself."
In the blink of an eye, Elwin appears, in a storm of sparkling clashes of steel between himself and the giant, his twin duel blades meeting cold reinforced metal of the giants duel heavy axes. "Let's see if you can back up those words little half weaver" giant smirks as flying more sparks of weapons clanging together.
Part-2 coming soon…