"Yue..." Lucifer smirked, "i was honestly not expecting this, i thought you'd surely be defeated by Belial."
"You underestimated me, that will be your downfall." She says, he expression growing slightly serious but excitement can clearly be seen building up inside her.
"Do not get arrogant just because you defeated my third strongest Principle." He takes a deep breath, his smile growing, "i can finally have her power..."
"What...? Did you take her power upon her death?!"
"Take? No, i merely returned what was already mine." He chuckled, "i bestowed the power of the Principles to them so it is only natural that their power returns to me upon their demise, no?"
Yue stays silent, her excitement dissappears, instead replaced by a sudden feeling of worry and dread. She realises that she would have to fight and defeat Lucifer, otherwise, her brothers and friends will be killed, but how could she ever do something like that?! Considering the legends of Lucifer's power, it's an impossible task! With those thoughts, her nervousness grows.
"You know, you remind of a woman i fought two hundred years ago in the war, she was the one who defeated one of my high demon lords, Belial, and managed to fight toe-to-toe with me." Lucifer laughs, "what's more impressive is that she only had weak Manna and no Vanguard but she had managed to lead three million soldiers to victory against my demonic armies... Even in my prime she still defeated me with her superior intellect."
"Eleanor Evangale, wasn't it?" Yue asks.
"Ah... Yes, that's the one!" Lucifer laughs some more, "i do wonder though... Could you do the same?" Lucifer puts two of his fingers together.
Yue steps back fearfully before Lucifer flicks his fingers and she thrown away through a large tree, breaking through it with great force shattering her spine but she manages to regenerate with her spell, though still struggling to get up. Upon looking up she sees Lucifer floating in the air, his sclera turning teal green. Gazing into his eyes is almost like gazing into time-space itself.
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"Bow." He says coldly and Yue goes on her knees, placing her open palms onto the ground, she releases Manna into the ground for a split second and crimson chains apear, wrapping around Lucifer's leg and throwing down roughly.
"Necto!" Yue says, red webbing around her fingers fuze into a dart that she proceeds to throw at Lucifer, but Lucifer does the same, creating a black dart of black Manna that clashes with Yue's, the darts break apart, reshaping into a maelstrom of black and red Manna that soon dissappears.
Lucifer stands up with a low chuckle, "not bad... You are clearly proficient in spells... Probably a master, no?" He sighs, "alas, i'm afraid that just won't do... You'll need much, much more to even match my power."
Yue grits her teeth and her Vanguard apears on her face again, Lucifer stares with widened eyes before smiling with interest, Yue puts her open hand forward and a black bow apears along with a red string of Manna, she pulls the string back and a giant red glowing arrow apears, twice the size of the bow. Upon releasing the string, the arrow flies through the air, eradicating everything in its path before it stops mere inches from Lucifer's face who is completely unfazed.
"Every flashy attack is useless if it doesn't reach me." He chuckles darkly with a soft smile on his face.
"Imperium!" She says, pointing two fingers at Lucifer controling his body to cancel his own ability making the arrow strike his face.
Lucifer stumbles back, holding his cheek which has a small burn on it that quickly regenerates, "not bad..." He says before apearing next to her, "but it has become quite irritating." Before she can even move he lifts up his arm, "Chorokinesis: Spatial slash." space itself moves itself like a slash and tears off Yue's head.
Yue's body falls, her bow falling next to her body as Lucifer turns around and walks off, he gets close to Helena and touches her shoulder, unpausing time for her, he restrains her with his ability and the eye in space opens again.
He turns around and puts his palm up to use an attack but his arm is blown off by a red arrow, a second arrow the pierces his chest, making him turn around when the arrow dissappears only to see Yue standing with a small smile.
"Yue...!" He says with another grin.
"I was aiming for your head but i suppose my vision still hasn't fully regenerated."
"Your regeneration spells have been automatised?"
"With the help of my Vanguard, of course." With that, Lucifer sighs and unpauses time for Ezra, Qiang and Fa.
The immediatelly try to move to attack when they see Lucifer but are stopped by Yue who tells them about the range of Lucifer's space manipulation being only ten meters. Surprised with Yue's knowledge, Lucifer chuckles and starts to move away into the eye with Helena in hand.
"Ezra, remember that i have offered you mercy today but you have many horrible events in store for you, try to not break too quickly, okay?" And with those final words he enters the eye before the rift in space closes.