A New Hope Nier

Going through the deep caves into the burning heart of Mount Gelmir it didn't take our flying forms long to fly down the cave system and find the end.

Preator Rykard... The son of Rennala and Radagon, but unlike Ranni and Radahn, he was completely fuck nuts insane from the get-go. Completely idolizing the Golden Order at first, he went with his father in campaigns and battles to bring the Golden Order to the world of the Lands Between.

In his travels, battles, and life he had found his calling as the head of the fucking inquisition of the Golden Order basically, he fought off Outer-Gods and slayed countless giants, trolls, and monsters that would drive a common man mad.

He was already mad though. No kindness could be found in Preator Rykard whose greatest skill lay in torture, causing despair, and mass slaughter beyond even what Malenia could bring about.

Besides Malenia who killed Caelid giving it super AIDS in the Scarlet Rot and in turn probably ruining this world in the future as the Rot continued to spread. Humanity itself broke into madness when the Shattering occurred and the many armies used Mount Gelmir as a battlefield.

A battlefield in which Preator Rykard used all his talents, all his skills to lay low each Demi-God, each hero, every single person that fought on those terrible mountains that were Mount Gelmir shuddered at the memory of haunting screechs as terrible Revenant would crawl out from their very shadows and tear them apart into literal piles of steaming gore.

Not fucking much Malenia can do when Rykard makes Mt Gelmir explode and coat her ass in lava now can she? 

But in the pursuit of his own personal power, he turned to another Outer-God's essence in the All-Devouring Serpent... And with his Great Rune of Devouring, he was devoured by the Serpent-God and took control over it with his insanity and Great Rune-enhanced will allowing him to devour the ego of the Serpent God.

Rykard's room was utterly massive, with thin streams of molten red stone beneath our feet crisscrossing across its levels and with several dozen, fifteen-meter wide massive chandeliers hanging from the top of the massive cave to provide soft light within the cave.

As A2 and I entered the room I brought down the platform to land I took in my surroundings a dozen meters away from us was what I sought. A huge spear was stabbed into the ground by a burnt black figure that was all but stone with how he had been burnt so severely and killed all but instantly.

Walking over to the spear I gently took the Serpent Hunter from his previous owner and I said softly. "I will take it from here buddy. You watch on and I got this." I said giving a nod to the burned figure and I felt the divinity within the Spear roar to life as it sensed the serpent god in front of me.

The Serpent Hunter spear was a greatsword on a spear's shaft that had bathed in the blood of an immortal serpent and had gained a further hunger for more Serpent's blood and only when within the vicinity of such a beast would the spear unveil its true power.

I took a deep breath as I felt the winds surrounding me seemingly drinking my mana and A2 gave a slight hum as I walked over the crack and partly molten ground with tear-like streams of lava running through the creases of the floor.

A loud hiss rang out as I approached the massive curled up form and I said calmly. "Die." And an ear-popping crashing noise rang out as I stabbed forward with the Serpent Hunter sending a massive sharp spear of wind wider than a semi that smashed into Rykard's massive serpent form.

The snake roared with almost draconic-like hate as it quickly unfurled from where I had thrown it and I noted A2 was running to the side to probably run up the monster's head to take out an eye or something.

The serpent's eyes glared at me and for a moment it faltered before a voice spoke in utter disdain and disgust. "What nonsense is this!? A man who is not even Tarnished dares to stand up to a Shardbearer!" 

I couldn't help a small smile as I said coldly. "Yeah, and this simple human killed Godrick, defeated your mother and your brother... You won't even fit onto the songs of my journey." 

As Rykard turned its serpent head to properly look upon me with his face imprinted on the lower part of the snake's underside just below its head I struck again as with the Serpent Hunter carving a large gash through it before I said coldly. "You are not a challenge to me Rykard, and the simple reason is... I am the bigger monster." 

My shadow deepened and I saw Rykard's eyes go wide as his form rumbled with power sending more than a hundred flying large skulls of flames at me at high speeds! 

But a massive hand of pure darkness mashed through the exploding flaming skulls with large glowing yellow eyes forming across the ever-expanding massive pool of darkness that was below me as I called upon my Guardian.

"You!? You go beyond your station taking in an outer god's power!" Rykard hissed furiously as he looked at me with equal parts hate and jealousy he used a wave of lava to push back my Guardian before screaming in pain as A2 had ran up behind him and using her large great sword had carved a meter deep and wide gash into his body.

I smiled hearing that and even laughed as I said. "No Rykard... This is my power, this darkness is the Yin in my soul that has eaten entire pools of a God of Darkness's remains."

Another slash of my Serpent Hunter carved a massive gash through his body in which he responded by throwing more exploding skulls at me but my Guardian broke them with his massive fist with Rykard lashing forward in attempting to outright just eat me.

But a mountain-shaking rumble rang out as my Guardian smashed both of its fists down in a hammerhead blow onto Rykard's head and lava splurted up from the shattered ground as the force of the blow made the Volcano rumble with a warning.

And with my Guardian's fists pinning the serpent's head down, I hefted up the large spear and with a stabbing motion, the air screamed as another spear of wind slammed directly into Rykard's face and out the back of his body with my mana-draining quickly as I ripped the colossal wind spear through Rykard's serpent head destroying it utterly.

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