Chapter 22: Drasul the Lich King

Cyril rushed into Kyra's Nexus bag, then rushed out of the mansion and entered the large portal that led to Krakatoom's lair.

When he arrived, he realized the whole mountain was blown apart. Cyril's 5 monsters were pinning back a lich king, but were unable to fully defeat him.

Fenrir the Giant Wolf, Surtur the gigantic Fire Demon, Ymir the Ice Giant, the two dragons Nidhoggr and Krakatoom were at a stalemate. When they were alive, any one of them was easily a match for the lich king. However, they were undead, and the lich king's powers were over the undead.

Lich kings were powerful necromancers who uses spells or rituals to bind his spirit to a horcrux granting him immortality and power over the undead.

Cyril's puppets were his own creations using his deep understanding of the law of death and has never before been done in such a way by any necromancer. Thus the lich king could not undo the puppets nor take control them. 

However, because of the lich king's superior powers in necromancy, the 5 monsters could not attack either, only defend and corner the lich king.

Cyril frowned and unleashed his elemental might on the lich king, throwing wind blades and earth projectiles at him in abandon. All the elements merely bounced off an energy field generated by the lich king. The lich king was indeed very powerful and was the very same lich king that was narrowly defeated by Krakatoom thousands of years ago.

The lich king shot death energy at Cyril, at which a mere touch would kill any living thing. They had no effect on the puppets, but Cyril had to be careful. He tried to deflect the death energy with a wall of stone but as death energy is not energy from the physical world, it went right through Cyril's shield. He dodged at the last minute and threw his stink bombs, daggers, he even used his whistle. But as the lich king was an undead, none of them had any effect.

Cyril frowned as nothing he did was effective, yet he had to dodge all the attacks of the lich king. The 5 monster puppets are the only thing giving him an advantage, otherwise the lich king could even enter the Nexus and he could do nothing about it. Who knows what damage he could do with all the dead gods inside that were not yet puppets.

The battle was at a stalemate and Cyril was running out of options.

"Do you need help father?" came an unearthly voice from inside the portal. Suddenly Hela casually stepped out. 

The lich king immediately attacked the newcomer with death energy. The deadly blast approached Hela and suddenly dissipated. Hela gave the lich king a deadly stare and all his defenses collapsed. 

"How did you do that? Who are you? You cannot do this..... " the lich king stated in an unearthly voice, then suddenly bowed down. "My mistress. I am your servant, Drasul" the lich king stated with fear and humility. He was unable to help himself but cower in fear. He was a mere lich king, while she was a Goddess of Death.

Hela commanded Drasul to surrender his horcrux to her. As he handed it over, she took it and crushed it in her hand. However, the lich king did not crumble to dust. 

From Hela's hand came a red ball of floating energy, much like the process of creating one of Cyril's puppets. She passed the red ball to Cyril, who understood Hela's intentions and swallowed it. 

As a lich king, his skeletal body no longer had any internal organs. Cyril could not make him into a puppet the normal way. However, as the process of creating the horcruxes uses similar spells using the lich king's own internal organs, Hela used the horcrux to replace the organs needed for Cyril's puppet making ritual.

Drasul was now his puppet and was totally under his control the way his other puppets were.

As the dragon's lair was destroyed. Cyril commanded all his puppets, including Drasul into the Nexus. He then created a tornado to sweep up whatever gold was remaining and then entered with Hela and closed the portal.  

He had alot of rebuilding to do.