A chronicle of heroes. Book One: From the void

proached near it. "I notice your aura is different from Avar's but still stems from Avar's energy. What are you?"

m vibrated and rippled until finally, the vibrations dimmed. Tangled masses of blues and greens melded with smoky shadows, but once the realm was clear, Abraxus was still brimming with pain and wrath; a wave of pitch-black energy traveled throughout the darkness's entire structure. Now, all traces of Abraxus's disdain were gone, replaced by a burning hatred. "Do they mean to wipe me out? They mean to obliterate my existence simply because I will not yield to the Infinite One. I am fortunate to have instinctively saved my core. Well, if I have evolved in such a short space of time, I must be a threat to them; that must be a reason for their haste to eradicate my existence." With this thought, Abraxus abandoned what was left of its prior hesitation. The darkness no longer resisted the light, but embraced it, inviting it into its constantly churning structure and allowing its shadowy particles to consume millions of these scattered fragments. Simultaneously, Abraxus consolidated the particles to form a dense cloud and attached it to its own structure, caging these glittering fragments within layers upon layers of blackness until they completely lost their shine. With this process, the darkness felt its form stiffening, transforming into a hardened, crystalline structure of pitch-black plasma, an unknown material that covered its smoky, shadowy interior and, most importantly, its core. Flickering with confidence, Avar summoned another beam of light and shot it towards Abraxus, who did not attempt to resist it this time; the instant it contacted Abraxus's crystallized form, the light exploded into harmless fragments of blue and green. Zaki attempted to strengthen Avar's second beam with a light of his own, but it met the same fate, bursting into multicolored nebulas of residual particles. "You say he is infinite?" Abraxus mocked, "Look how I have overcome your energy in a matter of moments. But I shall not stop here–you cannot comprehend the full extent of my resistance." "Nor have you seen the full extent of ours," Avar countered, and they both continued to advance. A particle of light detached from Avar's outer rim, drifting in front of the light entity and condensing into a huge, spherical structure. It sizzled with intense heat, vibrating with a quiet yet massive attraction. The reddish orb continued to expand, growing larger, brighter, and radiating more heat than the light entities themselves. Once it had reached an impossibly enormous size, it began to slowly rotate, with a layer of burning energy emerging around this fiery ball. As if it was the most natural thing he had ever done, Avar directed this massive supergiant towards Abraxus's form at a dazzling speed, sending the blazing comet hurtling directly towards Abraxus and preparing to deliver ultimate destruction. As the orb careened towards the right side of the outer portion of this dark, crystallized dimension, Abraxus's specks filled with energy