Bloodlines of the Ancient Pantheons

Chapter 601: DCI. The Black Wings

The Shieldmaiden and the enemy looked at each other, while the wood of the spear handle creaked between his white fingers, clutching his grip as if he wanted to show her the anger was feeling, despite his impassive expression.

The Dark Matter advanced slightly over Freydis' body, sliding over her legs and continuing to move upward, wrapping her intimate parts and lower abdomen.

"Aaaargh! No! Let me go! Let me go, you dirty alien! You... you..."

During Freydis' screams, something anomalous happened to the sky above the city of Klorr and a slight seismic shock ensued, agitating the houses and other buildings surrounding the square, contributing to fully destroy their damaged parts.

The earthquake forced all the warriors to stop and the Xis suddenly looked away from his prey, looking around and then turning his gaze upwards.

The earthquakes broke down abruptly and the clouds above their heads began to get angry, starting to release lightning bolts and thunders, as if suddenly the weather situation had changed drastically and from a clear and serene sky had transformed that quiet and calm atmosphere into chaos that precedes a strong storm.

The strong wind forced the warriors who were charging in the direction of the Xis to stop and just as they too began to realize that something unexpected was about to happen, something fell from the sky.

An unidentified object traveled at incredible speed towards the Xis and when it hit the ground, it unleashed an explosion so strong that it wiped out the warriors, causing them to crawl on the square floor several meters away until they found themselves near the castle, their starting point.

Even Freydis, who until a moment earlier was imprisoned in the dark matter of the Frostsinner, managed to break free and was wiped out.

As she fell backward, the Shieldmaiden, who had lost her spear, clung to one of the boulders launched shortly before by the enemy, so as to stop her advance to the castle and be able to stay close to Dag, who at that time was no longer even visible in the midst of the whirlwind of dust generated by the impact of that object that fell from the sky.

Reidar, who had been on his knees all the time crying after running out of hope to save Dag and wasting his chance, risking being killed by the Frostsinner, covered his eyes to resist the wind and stood up, noting that the Werewolves had flown backward like pawns on a chessboard, moved by incredible force, something that went even beyond the understanding of the alien, who had failed to dodge that blow.

As the archer tried to distinguish his Captain's body amid all that dust, hoping that someone or something had run to his aid, he heard the shrill verse of a bird coming from behind his back.

A large crow lay on his shoulder, leaving the archer petrified and surprised, knowing that crows were not particularly sociable birds with humans and that, until then, they were nothing more than the incarnation of Hakon, who was spying on Dag using the eyes of that winged animals.

"Uh?! Go away, go away, damn it!" Reidar exclaimed, frantically moving his hand and pushing away the crow, that got up in the air and stood on Kranus's shoulder, looking toward the center of the square.

The ice mage, who had not been able to take in his men's place the difficult decision to run and save Dag, turned his face towards that of the bird: it was as if that crow was using his shoulder as a foothold to be able to witness the clash between Dag and the Xis.

Amazed at this strange behavior, while the thick cloud of dust still enveloped the two fighters, Reidar noted that unlike the crows they had faced in the past, that crow's eyes were completely black, not as purple as when under the control of the Lies Of Loki leader, whose remains still lay somewhere in the square.

*craaa*craaa*

Other crows began to fly with a downward trajectory towards Reidar and Kranus as if they came from the top of the castle.

"What's going on?! Where do all these birds come from?!" Kranus asked, who was bewildered as an inexperienced young warrior, knowing that there were no forests or woods around their location and that crows rarely roamed within cities.

One by one, dozens of black crows flew over the heads of the Giants Of Ymir, turning in the air and perching on their shoulders and inside the castle, near them, as if they wanted to make their presence felt.

Kranus and Reidar, who were witnessing that out-of-the-ordinary scene without being able to do anything, turned back to Dag, trying to figure out whether what had just happened depended on him or the Xis, who appeared to have been struck by a lightning bolt.

The clouds above Klorr began to disperse and thunder and lightning diminished as their power did. 

However, in the middle of a particular cloud, a kind of gap, smaller than the one from which the Xis had sprung, opened: it was a bright, yellowish circle, shining in the darkness of that fateful night, during which Dag would write his fate.

"Daaag! Dag! *cough*cough*! Daa... *cough*!" 

Freydis rose from the ground and ran towards her man, hoping with all her heart that he would not die during that explosion and continuing to look upwards, fearing that another Xis or an even more powerful enemy might emerge out of that gap in the clouds.

The dust thinned out until it disappeared into thin air and the object that had fallen like a bolt from the sky began to take shape under the gaze of all present, who gasped and could no longer move.

Dag's body was unmoved on the ground, still in the middle of his transformation and free from the dark matter cocoon that kept him imprisoned until a moment earlier.

Despite his extensive injuries and near-death, Dag managed to move slightly, stretching his back and trying to regain the use of the limbs, whose bones had been broken along with his nerves, torn from the strong squeeze of Xis' power.