Chapter 305: The Perpetual Tug-Of-War
She conveyed her weariness non-verbally and Lee Shen asked Cryo to take her away from the ship.
The miasma flowing out of the ship''s deck gained density with each passing moment. This created an area of influence around the ship which forced them to retreat.
[Lee, I assume that the artefact has a sliver of Deathw in it. I can feel its presence now.]
When the condensation was over a limit, D began to notice the manifestation of pure Death energy inside the ship. Most importantly, it was faint and weak.
When all were silent and trying to find a solution in the face of ever-growing threat, Rue raised her voice and told Lee to release the Fallen Tubian outside, into the miasma.
[Are you crazy? The miasma and the Fallen are of the same energy.]
[Exactly. They could fuse together and be a bigger threat.]
When D and Hudson scolded Rue for her opinion, she replied without losing her cool.
"Yes. Both the Fallen and the artefact of ship and pendant share the same energy of Death.
But I came to this conclusion after a lot of pondering.
The Fallen Tubian has shed its physical shell to avoid deportation. This was an irreversible deed and the Fallen had be one with its affinity.
So essentially, the Fallen is now a pseudow fragment.
The artefact has a faint amount ofw of Death energy in it. When it umtes enough miasma, it could produce the effect of a significant fraction of the totalw fragment.
But the reason I asked you to release the Fallen Tubian is that both the artefact and the amorphous entity seems to hold a tiny bit on consciousness.
Due to the peculiarities of the element and affinity, the Death energy does not allow them tobine but urges to defeat and take over the other.
Coincidentally, if you are to release the Tubian now, then their focus would naturally shift towards the resonating sources of simr energy.
I have foreseen two possible conclusions. 99.9% says that both of them would get destroyed in the process. But the remaining negligible fraction concludes that the Death energies from both sources could be united."
The exnation of the True Druid was thorough and borate that Hudson felt himself to be a toddler inparison with Rue''s insight. He apuded her reasoning capability that transcends present and foresees future, even if it was only a fraction.
Lee did not dare a second thought and quickly took out the ss prison. He threw it into the water andmanded it to break.
The ss cube fell into the water and disappeared.
A couple of secondster, the Chief Raider, nowpletely immersed in thew of Death, turned in the direction where the Fallen had fallen.
A sense of confusion and anger coupled with great cautiousness could be seen on the face that had its skin partially melted away.
When the miasma began to pool around the ship on a grand scale, Hudsonmented-
[ it is beginning.]
A sudden turbulence followed the preceding moments of tranquillity. The Fallen Tubian''s figure could be seen climbing up the ship.
"It grew!"
When released from its confinement, the Fallen began to exhibit its true extent of powers. Its powers were unleashed and it quickly sensed the presence of Death energy in the vicinity.
While expanding like a Vampire Squid, the Fallen slowly engulfed the entire ship. Its glossy ck surface fended off the ship''s apparitions and a tug-of-war for dominance could be seen.
Soon, the Fallen enveloped the shippletely. Now all that left in the sea was a giant glossy-ck object.
Suddenly, the ship began to shrink at a tremendous rate. It was so quick that Lee suddenly assumed that a ck hole had originated inside it.
"Retreat!!"
Rue shouted and Lee repeated these words. The Draconic Wyverns quickly moved away from the spot and a secondter, they experienced an enormous pull.
Even after dashing away from the ship, the beasts felt the pull''s magnitude on them. Thus the beasts attributed the respective element on them and the boost proved useful.
The cloud formation began to show immense instabilities as lightning and clear sky dynamically covered the air. The veil of darkness around them intensified and weakened alternatively.
[The Deathw fragment is forming.]
Hudson conveyed that the Fallen Tubian''s affinity and the artefacts'' energy are fusing, with a surprise brimming in his voice. When he nced at Rue, he saw her frowning and scratching her head.
Then D asked uncertainly.
[Rue, what was the negligible conclusion again?]
"Why?"
[Because that is happening.]
Not only Rue''s probabilities were wrong but it was also inurate as D added that despite the formation of the Deathw fragment, both the contender were alive and kicking each other.
"If that is the case, then they have attained my third conclusion."
[Wait, there was a third conclusion?]
Rue nodded at Hudson and continued-
"But its probability was too negligible to consider."
Lee Shen sounded his curiosity to know that third possibility and Rue replied-
"The third possibility is equilibrium. The Fallen and the artefacts with their advantages and disadvantages would fight to conquer each other. This would give birth to a stable condition where the cycle is perpetual until one of then concedes.
But neither of them would give away their chance to be the one above other.
The equilibrium would be delicate, yet powerful. Any external intervention would be eradicated by the sheer pressure they emit."
Rue paused and sensed the silence. No one responded as they all fell into thoughts.
[Rue, what would happen if the equilibrium is disturbed?]
"There would be two possibilities.
One, the opponents in the tug-of-war would shatter the stability and would use everyst bit of their powers to remove the other from existence.
Two, the Fallen and the ship would disintegrate out of existence leaving behind their affinity and element to merge and form the fragment.
The possibility of swinging between these two entirely depends upon the catalyst."