Chapter 2. Mystery.

P6: I take on time.

There I stood in the space made out of the authority of time & space with infinite clocks floating around facing off against the Celestial of time Zazaba.

I don't know all the details surrounding Celestials but the term authority was something I was quite familiar with.

It's well known that concepts existed before anything; it is what allowed existence to exist after all and they will exist after everything is gone but— concepts are mere shadows to authorities.

In other words, authorities are beyond the scope of concepts.

“It's time to make you pay for your disturbance,” Zazaba said.

He hovered above looking down upon me.

“Let's get this over with,” I replied with my orange eyes glowing.

I cast an enormous isahel magic circle that appeared behind me.

A huge beam of fire shot directly at Zazaba with enough magic power to destroy the world.

Zazaba was engulfed by the flames.

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The flames vanished and Zazaba was nowhere to be seen.

Unfortunately, this was not the end.

Celestials are not just the embodiment of the authority they rule over, they are the authority. What I fought was just an avatar that made Celestials hard to kill.

Another Avatar showed up.

“Hahaha! Nice try Vampire. I am a Celestial! I am immortal and eternal, possessing unlimited power! It's foolish for a Vampire to think that it can defeat me!” Zazaba said with pride.

I knew this wasn't going to be easy but he made the mistake of not knowing who he fought…a mistake he would come to regret.

“Now Vampire filth let me show you the power of the authority of time!” Zazaba snapped his fingers.

The clock's hands began to spin faster and faster.

“Turn to dust under eternal time,” Zazaba said.

He fast forward eternities in the hopes of me becoming old and weak becoming nothing but dust.

“What?!” Zazaba was stunned to see that nothing had happened.

I smirked at him.

“What's the matter, do you need a timeout?”

My body wasn't ordinary, I would not age a single second even if the authority of time was sped up.

“I see you aren't ordinary after all,” He said in a more collective tone.

Zazaba snapped his fingers again.

*snap*

Suddenly the clock hands stopped spinning.

“Then you shall remain frozen in time,” He said.

Golden chains wrapped around my body, it was the authority of time being stopped.

“Haha, may you stay here for all time. Now you have all the time in the world to think about your failure filthy Vampire,”

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“I think you like the sound of your voice to be talking all this nonsense,” I said.

“Impossible! How can you speak?!”

The aura of nullification is a skill that activates whenever I'm in danger, even authority-based attacks are nothing in front of me.

The chains began to crack.

“No! NOO! This should not be possible!” Zazaba was in a state of confusion in combination with panic.

The chains shattered and disappeared altogether becoming nothing.

Zazaba couldn't believe what he saw.

“Just who are you?” Zazaba asked.

“Oh. I didn't know a mighty Celestial wanted to know the name of a filthy Vampire,” I replied.

Zazaba was frustrated, which was a stark contrast to how he was at the beginning.

“Now I will unleash my full might upon you,”

A cube appeared with me at the centre tapped within it.

“Be crushed under the infinite weight of your world,” Zazaba clenched his fist.

The cube represented the weight of my world and began to become smaller and smaller, the ceiling and sides grew closer and closer.

“Haha! Not so arrogant now,” Zazaba said crossing his arms.

I was in serious danger at that moment.

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The walls drew closer and closer…

At least that's what I wanted him to believe.

I placed each of my hands against one of the sides pushing back against the weight.

Zazaba was surprised yet again, “This cannot be! NO MORTAL CAN POSSESS THIS MUCH STRENGTH!”

I then pushed the walls away destroying the cube with my aura of nullification.

“I had my fun with you Celestial of time. It's time to end this,” I said with my orange eyes glowing.

I used my beams of disintegration to destroy all the floating clocks simultaneously.

“HUH?!!” Zazaba was stunned.

“You asked who I was. I believe actions speak louder than words,” I said.

I held out my hand as if I was about to grab something.

A light appeared in my hand which turned into a golden spear.

“I am the Vampire King Cassius Xeonos. The ruler of Transylvania. Be grateful that I permit you to meet your end by my spear Balance Breaker,”

Zazaba shivered in fear.

Balance Breaker was the most powerful weapon in my arsenal, it could pierce anything and if something was pierced by it it would cease to exist not even authority was safe from its power.

“CURSE YOU!!!!!” Zazaba charged at me faster than the authority of time to catch me off guard.

“AAA!” My spear pierced his chest.

Gold blood spilled from his body.

“You hurt me?..........Why am I not regenerating?” He said with a silent tone of confusion. Celestials can regenerate themselves even if they are erased across reality but Balance Breaker will always overcome anything and anyone.

“You don't deserve to know,” I answered.

Without raising my spear to strike him I pierced him another 1000 times instantly.

“Any final words?” I asked before he was gone.

He was covered in golden blood.

With a faint voice, he said these words. “Watch your world turn into chaos now that time & space will no longer be in order,”

He was right without the authority of time & space, the concept of time & space that keeps time and space existing would no longer exist destroying the world.

Well, that would have happened if it wasn't…

“With Balance Breaker that effect won't happen,”

With Balance Breaker, any causes and effects that I do not want to happen won't happen including those based on authority.

What would happen is that a new Time Celestial would take his place.

“Hahaha……..What a shame,” With that, he vanished ceasing to exist.

Balance Breaker vanished from my hands.

I teleported back to Transylvania where Leyla and Cecilia looked after Esteban was still unconscious on a bench.

“How is he?” I asked.

I knew they both wanted to ask how I was but at this moment Esteban was the number one priority.

“He's not waking up,” Leyla said with concern.

Cecilia also shared the same deep concern for him.

“We tried rimiel but it wouldn't help,” Cecilia mentioned with her continuously casting rimiel.

I figured as much.

“He's not physically harmed rimiel won't help,” I said walking toward him.

I crouched down.

I examined him with my magic eyes.

“His time was close to being stolen by Zazaba, luckily I was there to stop him. The reason why he won't wake up is because Zazaba put him in eternal sleep,” I had no idea why Zazaba did that.

Perhaps he sensed my presence and knew he couldn't follow through with proceeding further but didn't want him to escape who knows.

I activated my aura of nullification to break the effects Zazaba placed on him.

Moments passed…

Esteban's eyes slowly opened.

He sat up slowly holding his face with his right hand.

“Wh-What happened?” Esteban asked confused.

“You were saved by Cass-I mean Ilyas,” Leyla replied almost spilling my secret.

Esteban couldn't make sense of what happened.

“You saved me? I remember a being in front of me,” He said still being hazy.

“Esteban, why did you want to trade away your time?” I asked.

Esteban constantly being followed by black feathers was Zazaba telling him that the hour of his time being collected was drawing closer but, for him to do that Zazaba needed Esteban to sign a contract which would permit him to do so.

“You shouldn't have saved me,” He said with a sorrowful tone.

“What are you talking about?” Cecilia's curiosity was triggered but not just hers.

We all awaited Esteban to explain his actions.

“I-I made a huge mistake,” Esteban said with tears running down his cheek.