Cpytics were dangerous entities but what truly made them dangerous?
Was it their alien form and apperenace or
their predatory mindset and taste for humans.
Frankly the answer was both and more.
They had inhuman apperance, some so terrifying that looking at it could lead to death, some so abstract they made one question the essence of live and other so beautiful they corroded one's mind.
Cyptics were aliens that much was known and as aliens they had something humanity lacked..a unquie ability one might say.
The true danger of a cryptic lied in their abilities to harness those unquie abilities.
The ability came in all forms, a absolute forcefield that could never be broken, the ability to adapt to any form of phenomenon and the ability to instantly instill fear into other.
So when humanity has sort to question if humans could become cyptics, it wasn't their apperance or nature they wanted no it was simply the abilities they harness and centuries later they had succeed.
The proof of their achievement being Demiurges.
Their minds were altered, their bodies messed with but at the end of it all it granted them unique abilities of the Cyptics surgical impaled into their body and linked with their mind but the keyword statement was linked to the mind in exchange for their powers they begin to take in the nature of the Cyptics and so the corruption stages were created. Centuries ago it was discovered some humans had more of an aptitude to harnessing the abilities of cyptics than other.
It varied in the way that one could only use a certain percentage of a cyptics abilities and anything above that percentage will lead to corruption. Other could use ten, other 40 but no one a 100 percent. For a perfect Demiurge wasn't a human but a Cyptic.
Switching on the earbuds, Seth sighed knowing their commander was probably listening if he was alive at least.
[It's a stall machine...it can't be killed but It can be temporarily halted]
Taking out a stun arrows from his quiver, he carefully placed it within his bow strikes and pulled it back, his aim looked on the origin of the creature tentacles.
"Isis increase it mass using you abilities."
Within the team Isis has the flashiest of abilities, her's allowing her to command the force of gravity to a minimum extent.
"I'll need to concentrate to enact a field larg enough to bring it down."
Responding she leaped back shooting a glare at Seth, whom nod as he letf his bow string and sent his arrow flying through the air,soon impaling the abomination guts.
Like before it let out a fatal charge of electricity stunning the creature but it lasted a mere three seconds and right a the creature was about to move again, two explosion arrow swifty pierce it's stomach, flashing with a brilliant light and explosion, competely incinerating it's guts and tentacles.
The force of the explosive rapturing through it's body sent it staggering back and causing smoked flesh to sip out it's opened guts like paste.
The sight was disturbing and neausting to look at but Seth having seen worst, found his hands moving in a blur,quickly nocking his final arrow into his bow before shooting it into the closing hole of the creature guts. His arrows making it in time was sealed within the creature gut and just as it sealed in, it's stomach inflated with a large boom and soon exploded one's again causing it to stammered and collapsed on the ground where an invisible and crushing force descended onto it craved the ground under it into a crater and burying it within.
Isis having long stabbed her katana into the ground, had her arms placed foward, a transparent purple sphere flashing around her palm as she increased the gravitational force around the abomination.
Sparks of purple lightning cracked around her body and her deep blue eyes burning with a determined passion glowed with an ethereal light indicating she was overexerting herself and nearing the brink of corruption but she had never cared about that. What was always on her mind was seeing a mission through and bringing their commander back would let that happen so be it. So sacrificing bits of her sanaity away she gritted her teeth, tensed her feets to maintain her posture and slowly raised her arms up.
Her actions manifested themselves into a natural phenomenon ripping the soil and land mass around the abomination and lifting them up, then curcling their form just enough they would break, covered the abomination buried within the crater within a solid dome before clasping her palms together to seal it shut.
"Now!"
With Isis pained scream as a signal, AI ranned with all her might, dashing pass Isis and the sealed Abomination before leaping up the stairs leading to the building.
Watching her petite figure disappear into the dark corridors of the school building, Isis sighed in relief as she felt the weight of her abilities crashed back into her causing her kneel to grow week and crumbled to the ground.
As she fell, Seth caught her in the nick of them, now short of arrow.
Seeing the judging look he was giving her, she forced herself back up, ignoring the stream of blood dripping down her nose.
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A few minutes ago.
My steps echoced through the dark corridors of the school building. The window by the side display the ongoing fight between my comrades and the puppet and for a second I entertained the thought of helping them but....
"It's wouldn't make any difference." I whispered blankly observing the flickering red thread curving in distant hallway.
Following the thread I soon began to feel a change in my scenery.
The windows no longer display the outside conflict and was now covered in mass of flesh creeping across the window likes worms, leaving behind a slimy viscous fluids leaking out their trail.
Glad I had taken a light breakfats today, I pulled my coat back glancing at the utility belt strapped to the waist. It contained gears of all kind but frankly most were unless for anymore more than distracting Cyptics but I wasn't planning on fighting one eitherway.
You see I had discovered a new possibility, something that could level me up and prove to my team I was worthless so accepting the Cyptics bait, I was lured in soon arriving infornt of a classroom with a half opened door.
The door was covered in moving flesh coating the door from like moss. Feeling a sudden chill at the thought of pass through that door, my feet frozen unwilling to move but my paralysis was nullified by the possibility of being seen as worthless.
There were emotions more crippling than fear and anxiety came a damn close so with my hand on the trigger of my guns, I broke out of my fear and stepped into the classroom.
What was installed for me I couldn't tell till I was in.