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(I hit quite a rut while writing this, so it isn’t the best but it IS done.)

Standing atop the tallest mound of burning bodies was a burly monster of a man with shoulder length pitch black hair and piercing red eyes named Xavier Bloodbayne. All around him were the remnants of an immense army that had mobilized and matched against him in a last ditch effort to prevent the total annihilation of their species. No more than 5 days ago rumor began to spread of a man cloaked in a thick red energy fog, known as Dread Energy, that had appeared on the coast and began sweeping through the towns and villages on the outskirts of the country; leaving a bloody trail of death and destruction in his wake.

Fearing the annihilation of their people, the 5 Kings that governed the land decided it was time to set aside their petty differences and stand together against the senseless slaughter. They commanded that every able bodied man and woman under their rule to unify and create The 5 Kingdom Army. With all manner of weapons and magical abilities they waged war on Xavier for 3 days straight; a veritable sea of warriors pushing onwards in one grand attempt at salvation.

From his perch Xavier looked upon the carnage he had brought upon the land with pride as he basked in self adulation as he reaped the fruits of his labor. Each pile of bodies had thick clouds of dark red smoke rolling off of them as the red flames in which they were drenched devoured everything they touched. By the time that Drom would have begun to appear on the battlefield it was already saturated with an incredible amount of Dread Energy; painting an incredibly detailed picture of the surrounding area and all things within it.

The very instant in which Drom established connection with the realm that Xavier had been bullying, a series of metaphorical alarms started sounding within his mind as he became aware of changes in atmospheric pressure and ambient energy levels. In response to these changes Xavier commanded the cloud of Dread Energy to condense on his location; miles worth of non-corporeal particulate coming together to create a veritable wall of Dread Energy that stretched out for a mile in any given direction from Xavier’s body. For any being that relied on a rudimentary means of sight or one based on energy detection, they would find Xavier wholly indiscernible from the writhing red cloud. Everything that comprises the physical body of Xavier is made of the same basic building blocks as the Dread Energy in the air rendering him practically invisible.

At the same time the cloud was condensing, a wave of static electricity would waft from end to end in a bright flash of red light; nothing more than each particle storing an electrical charge that would measure little more than 100 Joules. For the moment, this was all Xavier would do as he awaited some sort of movement or action from Drom; expecting nothing less then the beginning of a glorious battle

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As Drom entered the crimson cloud he would have little to no discernible impact on it as the particles of Dread Energy were currently locked in their ethereal state and possessed little to no physical presence; a fact exasperated by the fact that he presented no defense against the energy. For every millisecond that he is exposed to the power of Dread Energy, he would have hundreds of thousands of individual particles trying to force their way through his skin/clothing/armor as though he were shaking hands with the core of a nuclear reactor. Should the battle end within the next few minutes, such a dosage of Dread Energy would prove to be inconsequential, but the longer the battle drags on the greater the dosage and the more potent the effects.

When it came to the electrification of the crimson cloud, Xavier had not expected any sort of spectacular outcome to come so soon after initiating the charge. It was more of a preamble to a greater power than a straight out attack, but the outcome it provided was welcomed all the same. By allowing the electricity to run through his body, Drom was also allowing a rather large dosage of Dread Energy into his body as well. After all, Xavier did not possess a single power or ability that was not either powered by or fused with Dread Energy. So in the very instant the electricity entered Drom’s body Xavier was granted an incredibly detailed sight of his would be opponent. Circulatory systems, skeletal structure, muscular structure, nervous system etc, anything that could be touched by an electrical charge in his body was imprinted on Xavier’s mind. The only thing that would have gone differently then what Drom would have intended, was the idea of the electrical charge leaving his body. Now that it had entered him, it and the excess energy it carried, were locked inside and ready to wreak some havoc on the beings innards.

In just a few microseconds after sensing the lightning within Drom, Xavier sent a mental command to the numerous particles of Dread Energy within Drom so as to make use of their metamorphic capabilities; shifting from their ethereal state to that of Dreadful Flames with an explosive force comparable to a simple firecracker. The flames that they would create weren’t capable of generating any amazing levels of heat, but they were capable of eradicating any physical matter the instant they made contact with it; each particle creating a crude sphere of flames roughly ¼ inch in diameter. Water, blood, oil, any sort of liquid would not be able to stop the miraculously spontaneous combustion of these particles or hinder the spreading of the flames. Seeing as how Drom had already willingly saturated himself through and through with the particles of Dread Energy, he would be hard pressed to find a suitable defense within the next few milliseconds.