Chapter 4 Power to wipe away a universe in a grain of sand...
Week later, nearby of the Wall...
Sub-zero coldness followed behind a beautiful humanoid being of embodied ice and winter, while she flew by the giant crystal wall with a grace of a master dancer, leaving behind a thick layer of shining ice upon the walls surface. Soon the entirety of this side of the Wall was covered in ice and frost, actually making it look a bit better.
Having now finished icing the annoying crystal blockade, frosty maiden floated before the middle section of the Wall, eyeing it for a moment, before gathering some snowflakes upon her palm and blowing them towards the ice layer, creating a smooth outcropping of ice. She then proceeded to give its very tip a gentle tap with her index finger, oddly causing an echoing 'ting'-sound.
Following the little tap, bright blue spider web cracks formed from the point of touch, covering entirety of the iced surface, not quite breaking. Frosty maiden looked satisfied, before raising her hand... And snapping her fingers, causing all of the created ice shatter in a spectacular sight. Like a rain of diamonds, fading to dust.
When the shining dust had settled, there was an enormous layer missing from the entirety of the crystalline wall, little more missing here and there. And unfortunately, not even a minute later, it began visibly fix itself once again, much to the annoyance of the frosty lady, who showed it by shooting a few giant-sized icicles at it, mostly just out of spite, before flying to the nearby hill overlooking at the Wall, and the duo standing there waiting.
After arriving to the hill, she kneeled respectfully before a reindeer wearing a red crystal around its fluffy neck.
"I am sorry, Høvding Ishorn. The target just has too high regeneration capability for me to destroy, without causing damage to your kins village."
"Its alright Shiva, we tried. Maybe with some more meditation we could fine tune it? Any comment about it lady Naja?" Ishorn asked from the marilith standing behind her.
"Its a possibility. Especially with the bond you have developed in a record time. Is that pact giving some manner of a boost in power and learning?" Naja said, while inquiring about recent info they had learned, receiving a confirming nod from Shiva.
"Did you perhaps sense anything special while up there?"
"Actually yes. There was a momentary surge of power on the other side of the wall at the moment of its regeneration starting. There most likely is a power source of sorts out of our reach, keeping the Wall up whenever it is damaged. I would be able to fly to it, but it would leave thee too drained, Høvding Ishorn."
"I understand. You may leave now." Ishorn said, while giving a humble nod to Shiva, who smiled to her kindly in turn before fading away, until she would be summoned once again.
"If only we had more subtle fire power against that darn thing..." Naja thought out loud, before having an idea.
"Say, Ishorn... Is there potentially any kind of sacred sites or some kind of calm place nearby, where I could meditate? With any luck, we might find some more help."
"Hmmm... Actually yes, there just might be one." was reindeers answer. With the decision made, Ishorn began to lead Naja to that place.
Northwestern edge of the valley.
"Over there, in that cave. There lies a place we call Smeltedigel av Elementer, or Crucible of Elements in the common tongue. It was found by Høvding Store gevirer, long before the time of the Wall. According to tales, he thought it being one of the most serene places where the four cardinal-elements co-exist without harming each other." Ishorn explained while pointing respectfully at a large cave-entrance, that clearly went deeper into the mountain.
"Fascinating... Can you please tell Tirek not to get worried too quick? I'd rather not risk meditation potentially breaking."
"I will. He clearly like you." Ishorn said with a mischievous wink.
"I'm well aware." Naja jovially commented back, while showing her now Ice-Elemental-materia equipped wristband, given by mentioned horned centaur.
After Ishorn left, Naja proceeded to enter the cave, holding palm full of fire on one of her hands for light. Luckily the tunnel in it was more than big enough for somebeing of her size. The natural tunnel seemingly twisted and turned seemingly in several ways, going progressively lower in a rather mild angle. Soon Naja began to wonder how far the tunnel would actually go? Maybe to the hearth of this mountain?
But soon after those thoughts, the tunnel opened up into roomy cavern. And she could see how it earned its name from the deer-folk. On one side there was a calm stream, most likely from an underground river. On the opposite side of was a small pool of bubbling lava. The roof of the cavern had lightly glowing raw gems and was seemingly supported by large pillars of petrified roots of some truly ancient tree. And finally there was a gentle breeze coming from somewhere, keeping the air circulated and fresh. It really felt truly serene and harmonious place, even with an elevated spot between the stream of water and pool of lava, with some moss growing on the middle of it, that looked to be roomy enough for being of mariliths size category.
"Well this sure feels like a nice place." Naja commented while dispelling her own fire, and slithered to the elevated mossy spot in the cavern, proceeding to coil up in her more relaxed meditation stance. To reach more calm state of mind, Naja began to recite Nine-cuts(Kuji-in) mantra, along with doing the hand proper hand signs (mudra) in a calm manner out of respect for this place.
"Rin... Pyō... Tō... Sha... Kai... Jin... Retsu... Zai... Zen..." she half-whispered to herself, feeling soothing calmness wash over her body, while opening her mind to the latent energies around her.
She did not for the moment care about the passage of time, as she just concentrated on her breathing, only feeling the breeze on her skin and the soft moss under her scales. Maybe some hours of meditating later, she reached her zen-phase while momentarily letting go of her emotions, which in turn actually did attract the interest of something truly potent. And soon after that, a tall root-like plant began to grow before marilith, holding a green crystal, like many other materias before it.
Maybe half an hour later, Naja finally came out from her meditative trance, while noticing the growth carrying the materia before her. First thing she noticed was that it was a rather small one; much smaller than third of her finger nail in fact.
"Well now, let's have a look at you, little one." she said, while carefully picking up the little materia and setting it gently on her palm, before reaching for it with her senses... And was almost overwhelmed by a titanic, maybe even a near cosmic, maelstrom of magic. By sheer luck and willpower she managed to weather the storm, getting into its metaphorical eye, where it felt almost eerily calm and empty. Almost fearful even...
'Hello? May I inquire your name?' Naja mentally called out to the materia. 'Don't be afraid, I will not hurt you.' she continued soothingly, with almost motherly tone.
Then she heard a little, whispering voice in her mind. It sounded like a small child, saying one word...
'...Ultima...'
oh sh*t, things are about to get explosive
Well damn, you wanted firepower you just got it
Well, shit. A good number of people were thinking about a summon but instead we get a MOAS
Well that will work so long as she has the mp to cast it
Yea I'd say that works.
Complain about not having enough firepower and then you get most likely too much lol.
I kinda want to see art of this cavern
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Me to, it sounds very beautiful. Also, sweet lord Ultima.
Now witch version of ultima is it?
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I'll say, that spell is more dangerous than most summons.
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Least it wasnt FF8s Apocalypse spell...(unless you use a cheat device,its only able to be drawn from the FINAL boss. Which is dumb since it could be junctioned.)
Well now sun ass is truly boned....
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What's MOAS?
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My first thought was MOAB (Mother Of All Bombs AKA. Biggest bomb that isn't a nuke), so maybe it's something like that?
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There's the FF7:CC apocalypse spell version and even the brave exvius version. I think it's better than Alterna.
If you're wondering what kind of magic Alterna is, imagine a concentrated black hole/singularity that possibly break reality itself
Now how big is the damage is going to be since it is being Ultima?
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Yes
The only god tier spell that hasn’t made an appearance at this point is meteo.
Shes going to attack! Get to the chopper and fly away as far as you can!
Mother of all storms.
So many different versions of Ultima, the FFXIV version is just a very large explosion that easily disentergrates and warps metal and stone.
Neat
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Alterna's just a glorified death spell with an Ultima side effect.
wish they were more creative with it; but it takes out adamantoise just fine.
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I second that.
So are Naja and Tirek going to end up adopting Cozy Glow in this? That filly clearly needs some adult guidance...
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Has Bahamut made an appearance yet?
Time to BLOW SHIT UP! The biggest middle finger spell from the final fantasy series? ( According to a story I read before, I haven't actually had the damn chance to play any final fantasy game other than... I think it was 13? Or was it 14? Eh. Didn't get very far and finish them though. ) Yeah, this is gonna be a really useful trump card.
Wait so is this the spell ultima or the summon?
Because the summon would be a nasty double egged sword
stupid thought but If Shiva can't attack without destroying the village Ultima won't be able to do much else.
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No. Though personally I count summons as their own category. So basically what I view as the highest of the high spell wise is Holy/Pearl, Flare, Ultima, and Meteo.
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What about Merton/Meltdown?
am I the only one to get chills at the end there ? So very excited for what comes next
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I'll say 13 as 14 is an MMO
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Hadn’t occurred to me. I rarely focused on Terra in the world of ruin and the one time I got crusader I didn’t feel like grinding it out.
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My guess would be that it's the Mother Of All Spells. Since, Ultima is considered one of, if not the most, powerful spells in FF history.
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Green so it's the spell.
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Yeah, she wont take no shit from anyone hahah
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Ah okay then, that might be for the best seeing how if the Espers/Lucavi from Ivalice come into the story then the conflict could become three sided. but that is just my opinion.
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Yep, when you consider that Chaos is one of the Espers from FFXII and that Ultima outranks him.
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If really think about it, she might do what she wants and wont listen to anyone. Equestria would be alot of trouble. Im actually wondering if this isn't a summon but a magick now.
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It was going to be the mother of all spells but storm kinda works.
Every time a new chapter comes out and I finish it I be like
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KT23uB5XaXg
Well, well, well, what do we have here? The ultimate materia? danger is coming soon to an Equestria near you!
ROFLMAO and just like that she got the biggest fuck you spell in final fantasy and in my opinion my personal favorite after maxing out the stats
Well, I certainly don't want to be Naga's enemy right now.
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Dayum, son! What could that poor Marlboro have possibly done to warrant getting hit by an orbital laser cannon?
Just watched the Ultima boss fight from Xll....
Well, I think somebody is gonna regetti their life choices.
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have you ever fought one of those things?
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that one being celestia being the dumbest creature that is shit at running a country she is running it into the ground fast and even her former student is most likely still following her albet very doubtfully