Sorry for the late post. I got in an accident and bedridden on the hospital for days without my laptop.

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“You didn’t neglect your dance training, right?” Eri asks Erfia.

Erfia shakes her head. “Of course not.”

“Then, show me how far you have improved. I’m thinking of telling Mada you’re ready for the snake swords.”

“Yeay.” Erfia yells.

Now, we’re in a very big house. Or should I say, it’s more like a small castle with no defense wall. This place got everything. Swimming pool, garden, stables, farm, maid, butler, and a lot of things. This house is more like an orphanage. A lot of children with no parent are taken care of.

We are gathering in the garden with a big spare room. In front of us, there're 3 square image projections showing Mada. It seems Mada asks her to bail us out and watch his fight with Cirion. I don’t know where he is right now. But all I can see is a wasteland in his back.

“What? Surprised with this image projection?” Lucifer asks me as she takes a seat.

We are having the seat with a mat placed on the garden. Some kids also come with us to watch him.

“Ye, yeah.” I nod. “I thought only some skillful wizards able to do it.”

“Hahaha, no it’s not.” Lucifer answers me. “It is you people from the new continent that depend on the mana too much. People of the old continent like us, demons and angels, rely on the technology more. So, these kind of things could be easily mass produced.”

“I guess so.” Kurua agrees with her.

Yeah I also agree with her. People of the new continent still depend on the mana too much. If there’s some great technology exist, they only use it for a public purpose where the government can watch over them. Like the gate of the world. If normal people want to buy it, they have to buy it directly from the angels. But that gate of the world will be considered illegal gate so the government will arrest that person.

As the value of someone is measured by their mana reserves, the nobility which has high mana reserve, don’t want normal people climb to the top by using technology. So basically, it just so the nobility could be the ruler.

“By the way, I have a question for you.” I ask Lucifer.

“Yes, what is it?”

“What is your relationship with Mada?”

She looks at me. She glares so intensely. I could sense some chill into my nerve. But then she’s laughing. All those chill instantly gone.

“Hahaha, well, normally people would be angry at you for talking to me casually. But as you’re Mada’s company, I can’t have that.” She pauses for a moment and lean her body forward. “Hmm, let’s see. We’re a lover.”

Uh, what? Did I hear it wrong? Yes. I think I hear it wrong.

“I was his first love, and he was my first love. It’s that simple.” Lucifer continues her words.

Ah, ah. I think, I didn’t hear it wrong. It seems my ear didn’t deceive me.

“A, anyway. What’s with that big gold sword in Mada’s hand?” I try to change the course of the topic.

I ask her about Mada’s weapon. He’s holding a big black sword with a gold ornament lining in the middle and its halt. I can say at least the sword length is 1.8 meters. That’s a very big sword.

“Ah, that. I gave it to him to face Cirion. The Arbiter. A Weapon of Calamity.”

“A Weapon of Calamity?” I got a little shocked.

“Yes,” Lucifer answers me. “Before the God Items came into existence, Weapon of Calamity was the top most precious things in the word.”

“I thought it’s only a fairy tale.” I comment at her words.

“Well,” Kurua adds an explanation. “That’s because only few people can withhold its power. If the holder is not good enough, the holder will run berserk and destroy everything around him. And by the time, fewer people are able to use it, creating more berserk people. As it stands, the government around the world limit it only to selected few.”

“And because of that, fewer blacksmith is able to create it. And the material needed is no longer known.” Lucifer adds another. “Currently, there’s no blacksmith capable of creating Weapon of Calamity. It is said at the current moment the amount of Weapon of Calamity is less than 200 in the whole world.”

Lucifer turns her eyes to us. “Didn’t you people fought Cana’an in Ul Thadur? He possessed The Mighty Fist, right?”

It seems she already knew about our role in the Fall of Ul Thadur. Did Mada tell her or she already knew about it beforehand?

“Well, I didn’t give him the chance to use it. So, they don’t know its true power.”

Suddenly Mada’s voice appear out of thin air. I look around but I can’t see him. Then, I look into the speaker that placed a little far from us.

“You hear our conversation, eh?” Lucifer talks to him.

I look into the image transmission and see Mada is holding her left hand to his ear.

“Yeah. Stop teasing her, Lucy.”

I fell silent for a moment. I feel so awkward toward him even though I only hear his voice. It means he heard my first question to her.

“Ah, c’mon. I just want to play a bit.”

So, she did in purpose? Damn! I got tricked.

“Yeah, whatever. By the way, is it alright if I break this thing when I fight?”

“Well, no normal people could break it. But knowing you, it is very possible.” Lucifer responds to Mada.

“Well, you’ll see how I break it. By the way, how my little girl doing? She’s not abandoning her dance lesson, is she?”

“No, don’t worry.” I answer him. “Even at the current moment, Eri is teaching her.”

“Good. Watch closely. As you are going to see what might happen when two one word title in hold of Weapon of Calamity fight.”

Two? Wait? Is that mean Cirion also has a Weapon of Calamity other than his God Item?

The vision of the image is becoming further and shows us an image of a train being moved. The train itself is being held by a lot of metal. It is moved by a sliding earth with a lot of symbols on the ground. I didn’t know they could use alchemy this way. Finally the train stopped and all the metal holding the train is gone. As the metal gone, the train’s door flying to the horizon.

In its door. A beast man of gorilla type is coming out. He holds a big war axe in his back. But we can’t see his face as the image is being blurred around his face.

“I’m sorry but I have to blur out his face and cut all any other sound other than Mada’s. If we can hear or read his lip movement, we will be under his God Item power.”

Wow, so the Voice of Obedience hold such power. Mada, you have to defeat him.

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Finally, he came. A gorilla man with height of at least 2.5 meters. He didn’t wear any armor or shirt. All he wears are long pants with a pair of boots. It shows all of his scars. Damn. You’re just an exhibitionist. But at least it lets me see the Voice of Obedience. A small white crystal with some silver ornament. I designed it as an earring but he adds silky long metal to make it into a necklace. So he found out that to use God Items, the holder doesn’t need to use the way it designed. As long as he wears it as anything in his body, it is usable.

But Voice of Obedience is not a problem right now. The real problem is his war axe. The Devil’s Blow. It has the appearance of one side axe like a tomahawk with a long and big blade. It has a gray color with a red line. Like my pair of Dragon and Phoenix, it can let out an air blow. But, it has 100 times more power than my pair of Dragon and Phoenix. And what’s more, he only needs to swing it following some fight pattern to let it out. The Devil’s Blow air explosion will only out toward the front of its swing Unlike Dragon and Phoenix which blow to every direction. When he swings it toward my face, his body won’t get an effect of the air explosion.

I look into my mana ring. Lucy has filled it so I can use it to my heart content.

“You, I command you to tell me what is going on.” He talks as he walks closer to me.

“Yes, sir.” I answer him. “My name is Mada. Lucifer asks me to fight you and put you under arrest.”

“Hmm, so that’s how it is.” He stops in front of me. “What a nice weapon you got there. I want it. Give it to me!”

“Yes, sir.”

As I answer him, I swing this big sword as fast as I can. Unfortunately he catches on quick and jumps back a few steps. He’s fast, as expected from one word hero.

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“What are you doing?”

“You didn’t realize I’m not under Voice of Obedience’s power? Didn’t you realize it when I tell you my name? You didn’t even ask for it!” I get back to my stance.

“If you didn’t fall under my power. It means you got God Item with you.”

“Let’s skip the chit-chat. I’ll get every information out of your head right after I kill you.” I walk to him while dragging the Arbiter.

It’s not like I’m not strong enough to hold the Arbiter. By dragging it, it seems like I’m some kind of psycho that only wants a fight. By doing this, he will look down on me.

“Every info out of my head, eh? I can guess you got the Perfect Role Play. What a useless bitch!”

Without further ado, I run and swing this big sword toward him. He blocks it with his side of the axe. As our weapon of calamity clash, the air around us is explodes. Some of my shirt and skin are shredded as well as his skin and pants.

He sends out a kick. I jump to avoid it. By using his axe as the support, I send out a kick to his face. Without moving his arm, he lowers his body and avoids it. I spin in his axe and jump back to put some distance between us.

So, even if he’s using a big war axe and got a big body, he still got a high agility. And on top of that, it seems he got an extraordinary sense of balance. He can lower his body without moving his hand at all.

“Are you done? Now, my turn!”

Cirion run towards me. He’s fast. In just a moment, he’s already standing in front of me and swinging his axe from his upper right. I take a step back and swing my big sword. I manage to repel his attack and his axe is being deflected. Just like before, the air explodes as our weapon of calamity clash. But he doesn’t stop. He spins his body and send another swing to my right. I hold it by using this big sword. The axe continues its track to my left by grazing this sword. Another air explosion comes.

I pass the sword to my left hand and make a spin. I swing the sword to his left. Aiming for his head. He’s not slow at all. In that brief moment, his axe already holds my sword. Normal person would be deaf already when they have a clashing weapon of calamity near their head. But people capable of holding a weapon of calamity is granted by resistance of it. That’s why only our clothes and skin shredded, not our flesh.

“Heh, you’re not bad for a human.”

“Whatever!”

I take back my sword and swing it again. I put my full strength in this blow. He realizes if he holds it his arm may break, so he jumps to his right side to avoid it. I missed.

“You do realize that if I hit you, not only your weapon but this weapon will also break right?” I ask him.

“Of course I do. If this weapon breaks, how can I manage to fight another person like you?”

“You don’t need to think about it.”

I leap forward and pierce through the air. He uses his axe to change my attack direction. He lets out a fist at me at the same time the air explodes. I hold my sword in my right hand and hold his fist with my left hand.

I continue my words. “You won’t have any chance to live on after all.”

I let go of my sword and slam him in the ground. As I let out a punch, he pulls his axe and uses its side as a shield. My hand hit the axe hard.

Damn, that’s hurt.

He kicks me in the gut and sends me flying back. I land and take my sword back. He comes at me and unleashes a few attacks. His attacks are not the same as before. It lacks the power. One side slash, two high slashes, one low slash, and another side slash. Needless to say I deflect all of them.

“Hahaha, you’re dead!” He yells at me.

He takes few steps back and swings his axe downward. At that moment, I could see the air explodes toward me. Those powerless attack are the pattern. In that short moment, I swing my sword to my right side. I can feel the air explosion is destroying anything in my side.

The explosion would create some crater-like hole in the ground. The Devil’s Blow air explosion has the range of 1 kilometer. If this battle takes place in the city, the city would have been destroyed completely from our weapon clashes and the air explosion. And most of one word title possess a weapon of calamity. That’s why sane people like me, Kurua, and Lucy avoid the city to be our battleground.

“Do you seriously think I've got no idea of your attack? Unfortunately, for you, I know it.” I act high and might. “Let me tell you. This weapon of calamity, the Arbiter’s, one and only power is to copy and neutralize any attack another weapon of calamity unleashed. So, in the face of this weapon, all weapon of calamity has been rendered into normal weapon.”

Well, it might look cool and overpower and all. However, the weakness of the arbiter is it can only use as a defense. It needs the opponent to let out its power for the arbiter to copy. Without a good reflex, my body would have been destroyed before I could counter his air explosion.

As I say the arbiter’s power, I can see he’s shaken for a moment. This is my chance. I throw my sword at him. He lets his guard down and uses the axe as a shield. I held back to make sure both of our weapons not break. He’s knocked back. I jump and take my snake hook out of the Keeper. I cut his hand that holds the axe and land a few meters from him. As I land, I extend my snake hook and pull his axe to me. Now his axe is in my possession.

“Now that your axe is in my possession and Voice of Obedience is useless against me, you have no chance of victory anymore.”

I throw his hand and take the axe as he’s groveling in the ground.

“That’s it. You’re going to regret this.” Cirion speaks in a loud voice.

I can feel the air is changing. The air is flowing toward his body from every direction. I feel something strange. I jump to the arbiter and take it. At that moment, I see he’s growing into a bigger gorilla. A giant gorilla. I take a look into his necklace and see its silky metal became big too. I guess it’s a special metal that will expand when he transforms.

“Hahaha, you’re the first person ever to make me show this form. Carve this sight into your memories as I send you to hell.”

“Hah,” I sigh.

I jump back as he attacks me. He might be stronger, but he became a bit slower. I jump to give us some distance. I put the arbiter and the snake hook back into the Keeper and take the pointing tip of desperation. By now, in my right hand I hold the axe and in my left hand I hold a longbow.

“Lucy, Reis, and everybody. You will see the true power of this longbow. Pointing tip of desperation.”

I hold my longbow and hit it with the axe as hard as I can. Instead of the longbow break, the axe is breaking.

“You might not know this, but pointing tip of desperation is also a weapon of calamity. If I break another weapon of calamity against it like this, it will show its true form.”

The wooden longbow is glowing and then it changes into a metal long bow. It has a black color with blue lining. In its bow attached two spears.

He attacks me and I jump to his head. Using his head as a step, I jump to his back and run further.

“When it shows its true form, it will give two spears as a projectile. A black spear and a blue spear. In this case, I will use the black spear.”

I stop and see at the distance I’ve put between us. After I make sure our distance is more than 500 meters, I put the black spear into the longbow and take aim. It seems he’s angry and jumps to me.

“Hahaha, such spear will only scratch me. It won’t kill me.” He yells.

What a jump. It’s so high. But as long our distance is more than 500 meters, it doesn’t matter to me. I shoot the black spear, and it hits his chest. As he said, it only scratches him. If, it only a spear.

Blarr

The air blast hit me hard. At that moment, a big explosion came out of the spear. A big fireball appears in the air. Engulf anything around it.

I manage to stand still.

“It is a high explosive spear that will destroy anything in a radius of 500 meters. This long bow will deploy an invisible barrier that will protect me from the air blast. So, I can enjoy this magnificent view without being afraid of the air blast.” I continue my explanation.