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Chapter 439 - The Fall of House Durangor (Part 22)

Callahan's blade swung through sparks of mist as Jack reformed himself right behind the Paladin, with a scorching blast of fire straight from the weaponized Catalyst floating before his palm.

"Gah!" The titan grimaced, turning and slashing with his finger as a rectangular blade of flat metal waved at Jack.

He leaped, flipping around the blade as his Catalyst soared around his shoulders and cracked as it fired a powerful shockwave of flames and energy alike at Callahan, who with quick thinking outstretched his flattened hand and waved away the flames around with a sheet of last second metal, fanning the attack in a circle and hurling it straight back at Jack...

Who had already vanished...

And with a powerful bolt of what could have only been lightning... Flames raged to life in the crater once again... This time... Leaving no clearing for anyone... Even himself...

Jack laughed as he skydived straight down Callahan, spinning around his attack as chains of fire shot from his Catalyst along with several lances that soared straight towards the Paladin, while the chains curved around the first attack and pinned Callahan to the ground.

He growled in outrage, feeling the flames explode and reap into his armor... Eating the inside of his chest away with several attacks at once.

Jack followed, kicking straight into Callahan's sternum and launching him into the ground with a second shockwave following suite.

Jack didn't stop, leaping into the air again... He summoned several swords of fire and hurled them downwards, using another instant hex to launch himself after prematurely.

The swords drove into the ground as Callahan sank into the metal, but Jack thought quicker.

BOOM!

He drove into the ground, burning away every bit of stone that sat above the metal tunnels below.

He grabbed Callahan by the boot, his burning hand charring away at the flesh of Callahan's foot and eating all the way up to his leg before he broke free... His eyes glancing down in fear at Jack before soaring into the sky above as his several sky-covering machines shrouded the sky with power behind him.

...

"Damn them all..." An ancient voice grimaced, vanishing in a mist of energy as storm clouds began to roll over the horizon with haste...

Callahan tilted his head, deciding to ignore it and put all of his offense against the grinning demon below him.

But at the same time... Wisps of energy whistled through the flames, and one by one... Bodies vanished from the flames and fell from tiny clouds along the far wall of the crater...

Equan gasped, looking around in fear as the three brothers were nowhere to be seen.

Kaylynn frowned, tilting her head at the new man among their ranks.

Equan frowned, his bones aching in pain as he looked up at the all too familiar man.

"You show yourself now of all times, Volaris?" Equan grimaced, falling into the wall with loss of balance.

Volaris only sighed, his frustrated stormy eyes glancing at the gravely injured group that was Unity.

"I could not see four of your allies... As for Prometheus's last lifeline... I don't think I could remove him from this fight even if I had my authority..." His ancient beard made from a violent storm whistled with the wind of the two mightful fights.

Although he tried not to notice... Equan could clearly say the hatred radiating off of Volaris's titanic body... And he could tell that it was targeted directly towards him...

...

Jack appeared from the flames, slashing down with giant blades of physical flames and meeting the several beams of energy that blocked his path.

Callahan shot forth, knocking into Jack and launching him into the ground below as his machines croaked as colossal beams of energy homed in on Jack from above.

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

Callahan looked down in distain, unable to shake the terrible feeling of meeting Prometheus's fire once again in his long lifetime. 

Jack appeared, grinning in front of Callahan as his Catalyst shot out a ravages blast of chaotic flaming energy.

Callahan tried to form wards of metal, but the attack pierced straight through all of it, tearing into his stomach and melting away his guts...

But Callahan only scowled, still trying to figure out why it was that Prometheus was able to surpass death itself...

'Was it the pact?' He thought, wondering if by breaking his oath in Tartarus... He had somehow beat death at its own game... Using Jack's endless pit of rage as the only sustainable source capable of handling the leftovers of that god...

'To die by corruption... How cruel indeed...' Callahan sighed, turning and slamming a blade of metal straight into Jack's back, launching him towards the ground as chains of his own appeared and shot straight down at the flaming psychopath.

Callahan grimaced, realizing that tendrils of fire had grabbed him by the leg, bringing him down with jack.

Suddenly...

"BRIMSTONE!" Jack screamed as a hex shot down from his Catalyst that hovered gently above Callahan's descending figure...

A mountain of solid flames raged to life around them... Drowning out the world around them... Including the weapons that Callahan had insisted on using.

"How annoying..." Jack complained, his body burning to life above his Catalyst as he reached out with his right hand, his face surging to life with an incarnating smile...

Out of sheer instinct... Callahan summoned his helmet back upon his head, forming tens of hundreds of warding metal sheets between him and Jack.

Jack clenched his fist around an outlandish amount of energy...

And his voice boomed throughout the battlefield.

"THIS CALLAHAN! IS A BATTLE OF IMAGINATION NOW!" He screamed, pulling a train made of pure fire through the flames above... And hurling it down at Callahan with so much might that the flames trembled under their master's strength...

CHOOOO-CHOOOOO!

B-B-B-B-B-B-B-BOOOOM!

CRASH!

Smashing through every bit of protection Callahan had, the train dispersed into flames upon impact, slamming Callahan into the ground below as Jack shot forth with another blast of fire.

Spinning his body as his Catalyst danced around him, he ceased every bit of movements, snapping inertia under his control and pointed his Catalyst downward...

He fired a beam of searing hot flames down at the titan, who braced with his gauntlets being instantly overtaken by the beam of fire...

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