Spacer Clans Adventure 2: Naero's Gambit (51 page)

Vane bore down on her, arcs of pur
e scarlet energy bristling around him.

“
Far too late for that, monster. You must perish for the good of all. I told you this hour would come.”

Instinctively, Naero drew back
again, trying to evade his attack. She rose up within her receding sphere.

Vane closed in
once more. Gathering his powers.

“
Don’t do this,” Naero begged. “Please. Help me. I know I can’t fully control all of my abilities yet. I’m trying as hard as I can.”

“Y
es, and look at the results? Countless lives crushed and eradicated. Janosha vaporized–an entire planet. You must never be allowed to reach your full potential. Now hold still and embrace your fate.”

Naero put
her hands out before her, holding her palms out defensively. Pleading.

“N
o. Don’t. I can’t be responsible for what–"

“I
know. You can’t help yourself. You are an abomination!”

Vane smashed into her
, piercing all of her defenses as if they were shattering glass.

In the distance, she sensed that Master
Jo and Master Tree finally broke free.

Too late.

Master Vane attacked, trying to overwhelm her with raw power.

He pummeled her with impossible blows.

In the end, he beat her up badly, but only succeeded in knocking her around once more.

Om roared in their mind.

Kexxian defense protocols unlocked and on line.

Energized glowing armor of some advanced origin formed around her like a hi-tek battle suit.

Naero saw out of her third eye as it awoke and burst into radiance like a blue-white star.

Master Vane came at her once more, all of his powers focused through his primary scarlet, burning eye centered in his forehead.

All of his other flaming eyes closed as he concentrated, his skull wreathed in weird cosmic flames like a mane of cosmic fire.

“S
ee how powerful you have already become? No adept could have withstood those lethal attacks. We must finish this now, before the others can interfere.”

“P
lease Master Vane. Please, don’t do this.”

“Y
ou will fall before the greatest of all Cosmic attack techniques. I am one of the few who have ever learned to master it. The Eye of Annihilation!”

The
same Chaos technique that had destroyed Hashiko. Even she couldn’t control it properly.

A massiv
e blood red beam of destroying Cosmic force shot straight at her.

It all happened so fast. Naero heard Om screaming.

Reflection defense. Analyze incoming cosmic assault. Duplicate and reflect attack tenfold!

Just before the incoming blast vaporized her, a blue-white beam shot out of her own third eye to war against Master Vane
’s powers.

The C
osmic flows flared intensely.

Naero screamed as if her body and soul were being sucked through the eye of a black hole
’s needle.

The wide blue beam quickly drove back the red
beam to its source.

At the last instant, High Master Vane cried out in terror.

“Impossible! There can be no such–”

The destroying energy ignited on contact.

A massive detonation on the Astral Plane blinded the area within a few light years.

High Masters
Jo and Tree barely managed to withdraw and shield the others. All of their spheres shattered.

P
ure cosmic energy punched into High Master Vane right before Naero’s eyes.

Driving him back like a white hot comet.

He struggled against it with all his might.

Obliterated to glowing ash and dust, screaming in the wake of his
own annihilation.

High Master
Vane’s dying force of will echoed off into the universe.

Naero would have caught her breath if she had any.

The outcome left her completely stunned for a shuddering instant.

Om…what did we just do?

We had no choice. My sole purpose is to defend our current form.

Naero stared down at her hands in terror. Tendrils of
Cosmic energy rippled and still curled off of her body and her sphere like smoke.

Om…
Haisha!

We
just killed a High Master of the Spacer Mystics!

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