Skri'ik awakened. Where was he? What was he doing? Then he remembered. His goal for now was to seek Darkness. He did not care if it costed him his life. As long as he could make progress on establishing an order, he would gladly die. He scanned throughout the nearby clouds.
Luckily for him, he heard the sounds of battle. He traced it to two powerful beings of equal fighting potential. He did not note the looks of one, who appeared to be using some kind of ice powers, but focused on the other. This was Darkness! The odds were surely in Skri'ik's favour today.
He quickly flew over to the area as fast as he could. Then, directly above the ice mage, he struck a bolt of lightning. As it was from directly above, his frost fire did not deflect this. Normally, this would not be powerful, but his power was amplified for some reason.
Magic taint, he had heard it was called. To him, it did not matter. All that mattered was more power.
Power...
Skri'ik shook off these notions. Order was what he wanted, not power.
The ice mage was struck out cold by this lightning bolt. Even Skri'ik had not expected that. Perhaps he was weakened by his ongoing struggle.
Instantly, his head ached. This was the side effect of using too much power. Nevertheless, he quickly recollected himself and floated down from the clouds to the figure of darkness.
"Greetings, Darkness. I have come to negotiate with you. I would like to be accomplices in ushering in a new order - even if it has to be an order of darkness."
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Jivvi Catcocomics
no i don't care about who's more op or what's supposed to happen logically, no progress for 23 pages = corrupted skri'ik intervention, and hopefully an end to the arguments ))