But the king didn't despair, he laughed feebly as he slowly stood up and he turned to face Dave. Hidden in a hand was the small fragment from the Death Heart.
"Even if my legion falls today," the Undead King tossed the crystal to Dave, who grabbed it reflexively, "WE SHALL RISE AGAIN!"
The Black Heart Rotated rapidly, and more cracks appeared. The Black heart dissolved into a vortex of black energy and poured itself into the Undead King. The king breathed in the black energy and his body radiated an umbral glow, like a black hole as it consumed every iota of light in the world.
The Undead King grew in size, his arm and the holes in his body mending. Leaping at the archangel grabbed on in a bear hug. The King's body sizzled as holy met unholy the king's eyes turned red, and a berserker-like madness took over.
The angel squirmed in the sky, barely able to support the added weight of the undead king.
"Foul THING! Release ME!"
The undead king laughed hysterically as his body burned in the holy light coming from the angel. The Ash king was at a loss, if he attacked the Undead, he would burn from the light and his fire would hurt the angel. While the demon hesitated, the undead king opened his mouth and bit one of the angel's eight wings, ripping it off with a jerk of his head. Bloody rainbow-feathers fell from the sky like leaves.
The archangel lost balance and they plummeted to the ground. The archangel landed underneath the the undead king who had his sword in an overhand grip, swinging down at the angel's face. But the demon threw himself at them and tackled the undead away from the angel.
The undead king went sprawling to the ground, his body corroded from contact with holy light. The angel was in no way better off, body was fighting the corruption of undead ichor, the holy light dimming.
The Ash King flew like a lightning bolt at the Undead King and they exchanged a flurry of blows. The Ash King speared through the Undead King's abdomen, but the latter didn't flinch, he stepped forward shoving the spear deeper into his own stomach, grabbing the ash king by the shoulder he threw the demon to the ground and pinned him down. Then the undead king struck down with his sword, cutting off one of the Ash King's demon horns. The Ash king let go of his spear, wailing in pain.
The angel had recovered enough to stand and shoot the undead king with another holy-light ray.
The undead king didn't try to dodge the angels attack, he took the hit and his entire left side disintegrated. He just grinned wildly and his remaining hand swung his sword. A void-making, reality-destroying black wave of energy shot out at the Archangel. The Archangel tried to dodge, but at that moment a nearby wendigo latched onto an armor-clad leg, pinning the angel down. Unable to dodge away, the archangel blocked the ray with all seven of its remaining wings. The attack scorched the feathers black.
The undead king laughed like a madman his body oozing ichor. He laughed and shouted, "FOR THE LEGION!"
Then the undead king's body exploded.
A wave of umbral energy shot over the whole city and out to the far horizon in every direction, its speed increasing as it moved farther away. As each undead form was touched by the wave it slowly disintegrated into specks of dark light.
The dark energy didn't seem to affect Dave. His ring of the Death God shone brightly for a moment then its light faded.
Dave was left alone in the entire Undead Realm. Facing him were the angel and the Ash King. But they were in a great deal of pain from the explosion of the Death Heart and the King, the energy had damaged them badly, they were both close to dissolution themselves.
Dave was at a loss, he didn't know what to do.
That was when the Ash King shook himself from his stupor and, disregarding the state of his health, he made to cut Dave apart, lunging at him. But a vortex opened behind Dave and sucked him in, taking him away from the Dead Realm.
Chapter end
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