It became a giant, born of rock and clay and dirt and grass, carrying whole trees and sidewalks up its body. Its head and shoulders alone were enough to dwarf the crumbling castle by its side.
The Rainlords wasted no time attacking. In unison, explosions and materials and gunfire and beams of nearly invisible light all bombarded the earthy titan with a furious maelstrom, carving out chunks of its body and causing it to shower chipped rocks across the battlefield.
But it wasn’t enough. The giant’s body repaired itself as quickly as they could damage it. Even a pair of rapid singularities from Octavia did little more than make the golem shiver before refilling the gaping caverns in its stone flesh.
The ground all but vanished beneath the beast’s clawed feet, sunken in so greatly that it flattened the hill that they had all been standing on. Rhein’s Keep shifted as its foundation did, losing many of its broken pieces to a sudden landslide but otherwise remaining intact.
The beast grew to its full height, a living skyscraper for Rheinhal, complete with the same devil’s face as Sanko’s mask, this time bearing a devil’s body to go along with it. It had the hunched posture of a gorilla with its short legs and long, powerful arms; and from its huge back jutted two enormous wings, crooked and grotesque and almost certainly incapable of flight, if that mattered. It probably didn’t, Zeff felt.
From his position of momentary safety atop an icy platform, Zeff reached for everything he could muster from his mind. Pan-forma burned inside him, granting three important increases: soul defenses, physical regeneration, and connectivity of his creations. The latter bonus was often overlooked somewhat, but it meant that Zeff could create complex structures more easily, treat multiple creations as one in his mind, and even have his materialized mass regenerate on its own, if he wanted it to.
And he called on each of those material enhancements now as he created something that had been in his mind for years but that he had never quite been able to manage without forma to help him.
The body of it was a long tube of soul-strengthened ice, thick enough to withstand cannon fire--because that was exactly what this was going to be: an enormous cannon. Only without the fire.
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This needs theme music. Soaring violins with ice-bright chimes, flailing flutists backed by resonant oboe tones. A mad monkey whaling at the timpani and bass drums with four cybernetic limbs. A rousing aria performed by the cephalopod mandibles of Cthulhu, unearthy screams melding into a somehow beautiful melody. Roaring beneath it all, the last flash of light emitted by a star before it collapses into a singularity, translated to sound and looped into a choir's tones.
ReplyDeleteOMG I was too busy rereading awesome parts of the story and I didn't even notice this chapter was posted! Where's my knife and fork? I'm bout to dig in!
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ReplyDeleteReading to this makes it so much more
ReplyDeleteThat means a total of 4 pages (with the bonuses)?
ReplyDeleteIndeed. One more today and then three tomorrow.
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ReplyDeleteI'm finding it hard to see the futures of the Rainlords fighting Sanko.
ReplyDeleteFrost, I've heard of glass cannons, but this is ridiculous! xD
ReplyDeleteOtherwise remaining in tact.
ReplyDeleteI think that's an extra space. Unless Sanko actually is somehow encompassed by an abstract concept which she doesn't have any particular interest in.
And this is when all of them are good guys. The more common fights, at least one faction thinks of it as a bonus if they cause massive devastation in their wake.
ReplyDeleteRight you are. Fixed now, thank you.
ReplyDeleteIce based weapons are so cool.
ReplyDeleteIf it regenerates on its own if he creates a system that fires automatically and the regenerates he could have a self-sustaining and firing cannon. Since it would be difficult to aim it would probably only be useful against large opponents, like Sanko, or structures.
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