"What can I say other than you are one ugly ugly god." I'll admit in the annals of great comebacks to god creatures threatening to kill you this was well not the best, but most of those other much more witty people DID NOT LIVE THROUGH THEIR ENCOUNTER BOO YAH! The god councilman held apart his meat maw of arms (which also had other arms sticking out of them) and I felt the magical ropes holding me start to pull in different directions, it felt like he was literally trying to rip me apart. I tried to fight back with magic, but it appeared whatever he wrapped me in blocked that entirely (stupid weird volcano god powers). I was preparing to embrace whatever horrible afterlife was planned for me when lightning danced all over the council god's body and I was roughly reintroduced to the ground.
"NOW YOU DANCE FOR ME YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Telrrax wasn't just using magic, she was over using it, like I know I don't mention corruption as often because for me its just another problem (oh the joys of life theft), but at the rate of power being displayed by Telrrax she was about to explode the bad way, and from the look on her face it wouldn't bother her a bit. The council god was distracted, but I didn't see any of the usual signs of magical infliction. I tried to add to it with fire, but again I didn't see anything, like my gun shot earlier nothing got through. The creature laughed, a horrible belly full of misbegotten flesh laugh, and then with a whip of his arm both Telrrax and I were smashed with more of his magical cable, it felt like getting hit with a tree branch.
"Do you think that your petty magical ability can hurt A GOD?" When he said god, the volcano roared, "I am consumed with the life and souls of my crew, a hundred men gave their power to me and soon you will join me!" The creatures arm grew and snatched me up dragging me to his disgusting maw I smelled a scent I'd rather not put to words and the creature smiled.
"So you're some kind of god of life power?" I felt the blood again in my throat, but this time it felt like it was almost being drawn out of me.
"Yes my power is one from many, you can not kill me for I am life itself." I smiled, and spit some blood on my hand. The creature opened its maw to swallow me whole and I slid the blood along side the roof of his mouth saying dark words as I did so. Class what have I told you about necromancers and being touched? The reaction was immediate, the creature recoiled, he dropped me to the ground his large arm contracted and pulsed the flesh rotting like at the end of a large infection.
"What did you do to me?" His voice changed from the amplified shout to that of a scared old man.
"Blood magic, a necrotic curse, you see you are the GOD of life, well I know a thing or two about death, and you are right I could not overwhelm your life force, but I can release it." His face twisted, the volcano bellowed, I knew then it was a good time to leave. I picked up Telrrax as the god creatures screams started up again, the power of the lives he had stolen was being turned inward exploding him from within (I could have also tried to drain the power out of him, but after the vengeance god I'm not that freaking crazy to mess with a god again). The lava below was no longer being kept in check, the heat and power of it was immense, if Telrrax and I hadn't gotten out of there when we did we would have been cooked in it (another reason to not simply steal the power). The flesh creature of Telrrax's was still out cold and I felt a bit sorry for its unnatural death, but it didn't exactly have a natural life. I had to move fast the volcano was making noises that it was going to blow, and I wasn't exactly the strongest guy and despite Telrrax being fairly thin she wasn't an easy carry down a damn mountain side after I'd been batted around by a flesh god.
As you can assume gentle weird reader of a journal I'm not publishing in a way at all. I lived, as did Telrrax. The aftermath will be tommorrow's entry. And no I won't teach you the power to unleash someone's own life force, I'm saving that one for when I run across Morley again (which as you can probably assume is what my mentor learned the blood magic for in the first place, to kill other necromancers in a horrible way).
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