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Suddenly, a twang would echo at the edge of Eve's mind as her barriers fluctuated wildly. It was like a giant had simply stepped over the pathetic wooden fence erected before it. It was then that the earth beneath the temple shook and an awful grating sound assaulted their ears - the shrill grinding of feeble stone against hard scales.

"Such insolence..." the Unweaver's horrible voice rumbled through the air. "Speaking my Name with such disrespect... Tell me, Mother of Man... What is it that you are trying to do? Do you think that even absorbing the power of the Circle will put you on equal footing against me? Gods have trembled at my footsteps. Entire worlds have been snuffed out by my Voice! What possible hope could you have, Outcast of Eden?"

The tremors continued as a massive serpentine form shimmered into reality around the base of the temple. Its scales were black as the void - in stark contrast against the burning sands - and cords of muscle coiled beneath them like adamantine. A shroud of darkness coated the serpent's body like smokey sludge that sizzled and corroded the stone of the temple.

Four titanic arms stretched out from the beast, whose tail continued to coil up the temple walls. They top ended in razor sharp crab-like pincers, while the bottom pair were adorned with clawed hands that pushed the abominable serpent body further up the wall. Two bat-like wings were folded neatly against the serpent's body.

Finally, after several agonizingly slow seconds, the Black Serpent reared its head over the balcony that Eve and Sirad stood upon. Its head was like a dragon, yet it was adorned with a horrific pair of pincers instead of a maw. The beast lifted up its forearms and brace its wrists against the roof while the reararms dug deeply into the temple walls on either side of the balcony.

The Beast, the Great Black Serpent, looked nothing as they two remembered of the Unweaver, but His eyes... His terrible eyes... Left His identity unmistakable.

Eve, however, would recognize this monstrous form. It was far greater and more terrible, but it was the same as that fateful day eons ago - in the Garden of Eden.

Eve's face contorted as the barrier fluctuated and she fell to a knee, still focusing on the spellwork. Eve's mind began to reel from the immense power she was trying to harness and control through the extension of her will. Yet her mind, thrown into disarray by the emergence of Erebuz onto the field continued to work, albeit at a now frenzied pace. She felt the temple rock from the Serpent now rising up to her pedestal of power and heard the words spoken to her.

"I know I cannot stop you Erebuz, there is only one who can rise to your power. One whom I hope will see what I am about to do. You may be beyond my reach... but your armies are. Your forces drawn here will be nothing but ash and dust. I am Eve, Mother of Man and Third created in this Verse. I will not be ended here by this."

Eve's voice stopped as she gazed upon the snake's eyes. Those horrible eyes which made her one good eye widen in the sudden realization. From in her belly, rage erupted from the woman and she unleashed a bellow of hatred. The spellwork was unstable as her attention faltered for just a moment. Her body tensed as she looked to Sirad and she yelled "Protect me Lillith!! I must complete my work. Halt the Snake! Destroy that foul serpent which cast me from my home!!"

From this work, the pace rapidly increased at the determent of Eve's body. Her form rippled as the power, now flowing like a tidal wave, threatened to rip her body asunder. Her arms cracked like glass, and her body glowed and seethed with the yellow energy of Violence. Eve's arms grew quickly burned as if suffering from third degree burns. The power of the Circle was breaking her body as she cried in agony from it "Leolik!!" She exclaimed into the sky "He must be halted!!!"