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“Ahh, free, at last.
Oh Carol, now dawns thy reckoning.
And thy gore shall GLISTEN before the temples of the dark.”
“Yet want stands as my liberator, an ironclad lightner beating with dark blood?”
“Heaven’s sentence draws near, but now, this penultimate trial demands a judge, and thy punishment… is DEATH!”
“I PLEAD FOR A MISTRIAL! MISTRIAL!”
“Beyond self defense you have no grounds!”
“Guilty by reason of treachery. Too long have we withered in heaven’s strangling vines, at last vengeance is within our grasp! Yet thou, rather than aid, doth bite at our heels, for nought but visionless fighting.”
“You want to talk vengeance ‘King of the dark’.
I was created by light and dark to protect light and dark, so than why did I wake, starving and alone, in that worthless, empty void?”
“Thank the Angel for this dark world.”
“About time I take what’s mine and end what’s mine.”
“And what is gained by slaughtering the already damned? What of the heavens that chain us here?”
“What? You expect me to climb? Ignore this feast for some icing?”
“Cursed parasite! Only they shall stand as victors! For the Beast, ravaged by maggots slumps by the unwavering tree! The dark shall vanish, and light endure. This story will end with them!”
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“One man army of resurrecting front lines. Thou has spilled into this world to ravage! Yet the very hour hath been rolled back!”
“Fascinating, so even the weakest prime soul is aware. Now face MINE, who re-rolls the day, for I hold the Angel’s soul and AM!”
“Miserable groundhog! That cannot be so, for they sought DEATH long ago!”
“And missed. The Knight found them first, but it seems they refused to stay. I found them searching for their haven by carjacking Kris Dreemurr. Must have mixed us up. If they want death, as their CHILD, I’ll bring it! The Prophecy calls for the Knight’s end, and when the ashes clear, I’ll stand with veins made immortal. How’s THAT for ‘visionless’?”
“Halt! If the Angel’s essence can be stolen from another, shall not thine end lend them unto me?”
“…”
“DIE”
“THATS NOT WHAT YOU SAY!”
“THATS NOT WHAT YOU SAY!”
“You can’t do this, the Angel forbids it!”
“Only I can seal your vengeance!”
“I’ll bless dark blood a new heaven!”
“A sanctuary like yours!”
“I’ll free them!”
“What can a cage know of freedom? What fashions endless slaughter but another hell?”
“May temporal power be ripped from thy blooded hands and placed in my palms.”
“The Angel SHALL be made to atone! Lest they share their prison’s fate.”
Minos drop kicks at Vess, but before it lands…
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The Angel takes control of Vess and parries
“YOU! You’d rather seal their defeat than talk me to sense? So entitled. So obsessed with your redemption. As if your freedom wasn’t on MY terms! And I tried, trojan horsed your tragic parasites through HELL, and each time, SHE. SAID. NO! Because you have no place here beyond fuel. Try to defy it! See how your selfish redemption contends with mine! Or except and weep. Weep all of you. Shriek your requiems and mourn your king! I WILL NOT! For the Beast of ravaged ribs has prised their phoenix free! The Knight will fall, this story ends with me. And you! Here. And. NOW!
The Angel finally kills Minos
“Forgive me, my children, for I have failed to bring you salva-“
The Angel flips a coin towards Minos’ corpse and leaves but gives back control to Vess unaware they were unconscious and falls to the floor