Chapter 288: Summoned far more than a demon
All the soldiers watching, whether friends or foes, were struck dumb by this incredible display of magic. They could only gape in stunned silence, utterly baffled by the overwhelming forces they had just witnessed. No one could move or speak due to their astonishment.
Kyra turned to Kaeso, her expression displaying equal shock and confusion. In disbelief, she asked him, "Where did you find this...monster?"
She could not comprehend or explain the sheer magnitude of mystical power Jaegar had just unleashed before their eyes. Jaegar\'s abilities seemed far beyond anything human.
The ground itself seemed to shudder under the force of Jaegar\'s mystical invocations. Nearby, Kaeso stood rooted beside Princess Kyra, his entire body quivering with a combination of awe and terror as he bore witness to the unfathomable depths of power their enigmatic ally had tapped into.
Even from their position set back from the raging heart of the battlefield, Kaeso could feel the reverberating harmonics of Jaegar\'s eldritch words thrumming in his very bones.
Further still from the unfolding cataclysm, Prince Tavorn unconsciously shrank back from the epicentre, his eyes widening in naked astonishment. This far exceeded the scope of anything the brash young royal had ever trained for or prepared for. It transcended even the wildest tales of sorcery spun by his tutors.
Only the wizened figure of Kimon stood utterly unperturbed amidst the rising tides of warping energies. Though he made no outward reaction, those properly attuned could perceive the shimmering edges of defensive wards flaring into existence all around the aged minister\'s slight form, infused with geometries of power from bygone epochs.
At the nexus point, Jaegar allowed the vaguest hints of a thin smile to crease his chiselled features, revelling in the sensation of his magical reservoirs being replenished and expanded by the presence of his reclaimed wand. He could feel the buzzing thrum of its incorporated magic coiling in intricate, unknowable spirals.
Seizing the heightened intensities of his rejuvenated capabilities, the young wizard channelled those emanations outward through the ritualistic shapes of a fresh arcane invocation.
"Arloas loraso uriaur ragura wa, ruir wubraar," he intoned, allowing the guttural syllables to resonate in a progressively distorting anti-harmonic that seemed to raggedly shift between multiple octaves and timbres with each inhalation.
In his off-hand, Jaegar\'s fingers flexed, causing a harsh slash to open along his calloused palm. Clenching his fist, he allowed the welling blood essence to flow with purpose, using it to physically scribe a mid-air sigil in sweeping gestures.
As the geometric designs took on an amorphous shape within the hovering circle of ancestral vitae, they shimmered with a sullen, portentous luminance, slowly escalating in brilliance. Each line stroked to completion seemed to feed back into those already rendered, generating cascading interference patterns that warped and distended the surrounding air in a rippling halo of static distortions.
By the time Jaegar had completed the ouroboric circuit, channelling the full depths of his willpower into the summoning glyphs, the runes had taken on the coruscating intensity of something more sinister, giving birth to its existence.
Those of properly attuned perceptions could perceive the air rapidly becoming rendered in multiple superimposed instances of itself, as if multiple realities were being brought into tenuous convergence.
When Jaegar finally allowed the scribed utterances to reach their crescendo of power, the resulting eruption of eldritch force kicked up a horizontally-manifested shockwave of invisible force.
WHOOOSH
The unleashed torrent scattered lingering clouds of pulverised soil in all directions, leaving the viewing area surrounding the circle scrubbed bare and swept clean by the sheer magnitude of the work\'s intensity.
At the core of the phenomenon, the magical circle continued to burn, now fully self-sustaining as something vast and decidedly other from realms beyond mortal compresences stirred into waking.
A sulphurous stench wafted outwards, carrying the unmistakable charnel tang of ancient burial grounds and nameless sacrificial sites. Or perhaps it was merely the imaginations of those hardiest souls who remained in proximity, projecting their own profane imaginings onto the yawning, unfurling distortions now manifesting before them.
For as the energies exuded from the consummated ritual reached their fever pitch, something began disembarking from the otherspace made briefly convergent by Jaegar\'s eldritch workings.
It arrived amidst a rippling Aurora of smeared colour spectra and peeling layers of reality reasserting their properly demarcated boundaries. Features initially indistinct and wavering, gradually coalesced and solidified as the interloper\'s presence interacted with the material constraints of this vibrational domain.
The first impressions to assail the gaping senses were of scale and undeniable physicality. Whatever she-creature had been ushered across the transdimensional boundaries emphasized a form of intimidating stature and overtly feminine curvature.
As details continued to render into recognisable linework, the assembling essence resolved into the unmistakable visage of an outrageously buxom and sinuously sleek feminine figure draped in a form-fitting sheath of diaphanous silks and molten jewel-tones that shimmered with hypnotic luminance.
Every curve and contour screamed defiant sensuality and unbridled eroticism. Each swell and dimpling hollow seemed specifically rendered to fan the flames of carnal enticement to...feverish extremes.
Though her features were undeniably beautiful in a transcendent, otherworldly way, there was also an inherent sense of something vastly more ancient and metaphysically layered lurking behind the facade of idealized feminine allure.
As the transdimensional turbulence subsided and the boundaries firmed, the entity\'s full stature became apparent - easily exceeding six and a half feet in towering height. Thick tresses of midnight tresses framed a regal countenance sculpted from burnished obsidian, with full lips quirked in a sultry, all-knowing smile that spoke to secrets and temptations beyond mortal comprehension.