290. Greed Counter

290. Greed Counter

Just like the We Discarded Many of the past, it could not be defeated in a traditional manner. Or perhaps defeated at all. No matter what they used, no matter how many buildings needed to be levelled or blood had to be spilled, they could not reach Frost.

The Conditions did not make any sense. The Requirements were just as vague. For an entity that could not be damaged they could only wonder how to suppress it.

“The difference being between Suppressing Frost and Subjugating Frost!?” Jury demanded an answer, reaching for her distant lover, only to clasp at the air.

“That’s in 6 to 7 days!” Jury complained. “Unless – Nav! Ugh! GET OUT OF OUR WAY! Nav! My Isolation Sphere! Can it accelerate time in here!?”

“What for!? You trying to starve us to death!?” Cer barked.

“Look around idiot! Open your eyes!” Ber punched Cer along the jaw, mounting her as she took hold of her collar and violently shook her. “NO ONE CAN DIE IN HERE!”

“You think I’m that blind!? I want to distract myself! Let me be this phase of the moon! Or do you want me to sulk and brood again!? Serum G’s gone! I… have to go through these phases of my moon!”

“GET OFF HER RES!” Jury despised their infighting and roughly separated the two using her tail. Ber, on passing, threw a cloud of smoke over them as bolts of lighting shot from her wings.

When the cloud disappeared, all three were greeted by the end of her claws.

“Will you two stop for just one second!?” Ber roared, causing Jury to take hold of one of her claws and push it away.

“Listen to me! Frost can hear us! The Corrupted can hear everything! If she knew you were killing each other for her then what hope do we have of brining her back! If even one of us disappeared, then there’s no saving her!” Jury became the voice of reason for the group. “Don’t get emotional now. I know I’m a hypocrite for saying this, and I know I out of everyone can’t afford to lose my head, but we need to pull our hearts together more than just our heads!”

“I know that! That’s exactly why I’m frustrated. We don’t have a way to stop Frost. All we can do is prolong it. I can’t stop trying. With a Beholder… why are we still so powerless?” Cer growled. “We’re Moons dammit! Fuck them! Fuck the Impuritas! I just want to save Frost!”

“We all do!” Ber said, lowering her claws.

It was difficult trying to come to terms with Frost’s Corruption Event. In a way, they all felt like they had failed Frost. More than just frustration, it was guilt that ate them. In truth there was little they could have done to prevent it, but even so, they still could not help but believe that there must have been another way.

Standing on the crossroads of the direction of the heart, the group sorted out their differences and woes, melding their hearts into one. The requirements were too vague to fulfil, and Jury took it upon herself to activate her Isolation Sphere.

She currently possessed 150,000,000 NEX. With Ber’s contribution, it soared up to 240,000,00 NEX, or 240 Greater Nex; 240gn. With 100,000,000 Nex she could erect an Isolation Sphere large enough to encompass Frost and her Corrupted Zone.

As a Beholder, she wondered why her, or Carpalis’ presence did little to affect Frost’s Corrupted Zone. Nav only answered with:

No one knew what Nav meant by it and assumed Nav just wanted to return to their heads. However, Nav somehow spoke a little too fondly about it.

That being said, as if responding to the bloodshed carried out within the blue city, the Corrupted Frost strangled her humanity as she slowly moved up to her feet, limping in the direction of the blood. The sign of the fiery crown caught alight.

Suddenly, her Humanity caught alight, and Frost’s HP rapidly dwindled. Her body burned as she walked down the path of the fiery crown, passing through mounds of flesh until her Humanity was reduced to cinders.

The city began to shake. Gold slowly began to bleed into the blue as Jury channelled her intentions into creating the Isolation Sphere. Through it, a single elapsed day within would have caused 10 to elapse outside.

By then the Nexus would become available.

Because they knew in their hearts that they alone would not be able to take down this existential crisis.

We Discarded Many | HP: 1,000

We Discarded Many | HP: 500

We Discarded Many | HP: 100

We Discarded Many | HP: 10

We Discarded Many | HP: 1

Frost was reduced to cinders, crying out one last time before her body broke into a thousand particles of light.

However, the Nexus throbbed once again, as if to warn the world of an impending danger.

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To the rest of the world, it was as if the city of blue had vanished into thin air. But unbeknownst to them was that a colossal barrier concealed its contents from the prying eyes of the world. It did not stop stray Impuritas from approaching, or Dungeons from forming within its proximity.

However, if only they had known what lurked within then they would not have spiralled into the depths of despair. The city of blue had turned into gold, and the Corrupted child transformed into a soldier in black, with golden embellishments dangling from her body.

She had become identical to her Hired Arm. However, embedded into her chest was a blue diamond, and one hundred blue arms exploded from her back like worms. They took the form of wings as she aimed a Victorian era rifle at her foes; a pale Justica Arm with a bored barrel.

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Greed Counter

Frost

AFFINITY : Civilization

LEVEL : 130

ORIGIN : Disorder

HP : 240,000

ATT : 3,000

MAG ATT : 7,500

ATT DEF : 3,200

MAG DEF : 3,200

MP : 35,000

RESIST : 600

AGI : 1