Just as planned, only 5 of them remain. It seems the two that hold the God Items are facing Mada right now. Two women and three men standing in front of us. At distant I can see some car. Mada only tell me about the most distinguishing feature of each of them.
From the right, a woman in her twenties in a long blue trench coat. She only tucked the coat on the chest part, the rest is untucked and showed a purple skinny jeans with a pair of saber and handgun. A long pointy tail is getting out of her coat. She reminds me of Lucifer in the Aeshma. Except for her reddish skin and a pair of lamb horn is popping out of her short blonde hair. I guess she’s Satan the Wrath, or Lilith. Mada said that her forte are metal and heat alchemy, the same as Lucifer.
On her side is another woman in her thirties, wears a brown duffle coat. Underneath her duffle, you can see a light gray ribbon tie on her neck and a purple shirt showing a bit from the bottom of her untucked coat. She wears black jeans. Unlike the others with a pair of horn, she only has one horn on her forehead popping out of her long blue hair. Also reddish skin but I see no tail. Her face is somewhat, different. She has no nose and slanting eyes. Mada said the only person with blue hair is Leviathan the Envy, so I guess that’s her. Water alchemy is her forte.
In the middle, a big person wearing big clothes and a cape covering his whole body. The only shown parts are his gray skinned head and his big belly that’s sticking out of his cape. He has a wide jaw. Very wide. He has very big eyes but a small nose. I can’t see his ear as it covered by long wavy hair. His pair of wavy long horn is sticking out of the hair in back of his head. He’s the one we wanted, Mammon the Greed. He doesn’t have any forte, but he excels at all kinds of alchemy.
Next to him is a young man in his teen. He has a burning red skin with a pair of long horn curved to the back. He has black eyes with yellow lens. A pair of fangs is coming out of his mouth. He’s the only person who only wears jeans with no top. Only a big cape on his shoulder, showing his well-built body. On his back, there’s a short hairy tail. As I recalled, the man in the full red and long curved horn is Asmodeus the Lust. His forte is earth based alchemy, similar to earth magic user.
And the last, a man about the same age as Mada. He resembles human so much. The things that show he’s not human are his antenna in the middle of his eyebrows, his ash colored skin, and his bat-like wing. He wears a white shirt and gray waistcoat. His robe is different. His robe only covers his shoulder and some upper part of his body. He’s the last, Beelzebub the Gluttony. Mada said Beelzebub forte is different each generation, so he doesn’t know what his forte at this time.
Mada gave me a full body armor. He said it’s made of special metal that will decrease any physical attack power, but it won’t work for non-physical attack like fire or such. But as I don’t like wearing a helmet, he gave me an iron mask that’s thick on the check and forehead and has two parallelogram holes for my eyes to see.
Unlike me, Ariana is coming without armor at all. She said such thing will only hinder her movement. If I remember correctly, Mada and Nevi are a great martial artist. I can guess she also fights by combining martial arts and magic. She wears one piece long green cloth with a yellow line in its side. Underneath it she wears some tight yellow translucent fabric.
“I only want Mammon, I don’t have any business with the rest of you.”
“You want me? Then, you have to take us on.” Mammon answers Ariana.
“Shut up you lowly demon.” Lilith shouts to him.
Mammon backs off a bit when she shouts.
“Ariana the Great Wizard, would you tell us the reason you want him?” She talks to Ariana.
“I’ve told you. He took my child freedom as his slave for the past seven years.”
“And, this child of yours is?”
“High Priest of Sairkhan, Nevi Frendezcht.”
As Ariana said it, I can see their eyes are widening. It seems no one knew about it.
“My, what a trouble you have caused us Mammon. You took the child of one of Ten Greatest Wizard as your slave?” Leviathan responds to Ariana’s words. “To tell you the truth, I vote to hand him over to her.”
“He, hey, what do you mean?” Mammon is panicking.
“I mean, this is all your problem. You reap what you sow.” Leviathan answers him.
“To tell you the truth, I also want to hand him over.” Beelzebub adds. “But, if we just hand him over, people will start to question our power. So, that’s unlikely to happen.”
Mammon lets out a glad sigh.
“So, as he said. It is not a matter of wanting to hand him over. It is entirely different trouble for us if we hand him over just like that.” Lilith says again. “And we can’t lose in purpose too.”
One person is missing from their group. Suddenly a figure of a young man appeared in front of us. In a very short moment, a big hand is formed in his right hand. He’s sending a punch. But the big hand destroyed in a blink of an eye and he’s being sent back to their group. His skin already has a lot of cut. I can see at that short moment a magic circle appeared in front of him and let out an air slice towards him. Destroying the big hand. If he didn’t jump backward quickly, he’s already became slices of flesh. Such a short incantation and such power. Just what you expect from one of ten Greatest Wizard.
“If you don’t want to give him to me, then I’ll simply obliterate all of you.”
A lot of red magic circle appear on the surrounding sky. The magic circle is not staying at one place. They’re moving in circle. We jump back and tons of red-hot stone are making their way. I once saw the fastest gun in the world, but this speed is something else. It’s like a lot of enhanced canon is firing at them from every direction. Explosion by explosion is appearing. Showing no sign of stopping.
The land beneath us is spiking, but it destroyed before it touched us. I can feel something else is coming. Asmodeus comes out of the ground and attack us with a spear. I move at him and stop the spear. When I stop the spear, a pair of giant hands made out of rock is ready to squash me. I unleash my power. A giant figure made out of a mana is formed out of my body. Goliath is a giant formed beast in armor. Goliath destroys the rock hand with ease while I attack Asmodeus.
He’s a tricky one. When my attack was about to hit him, he let go of the spear and jump backward. I look back and see the firing is not one sided anymore. A pair of metals are sticking out of the ground and shoots at every direction. The metals are also rotating and match the speed of Ariana’s spell. Lilith matches Ariana’s power.
“Kurua, get Asmodeus. He’s unpredictable.”
I nod and charge to Asmodeus. Goliath sends a punch into him. He made a giant wall made of rock to hold it. But unfortunately, those things won’t work. There’s a reason why I got my one word title. Goliath punches through the rock wall. But before Goliath destroyed him, I saw a figure is flying and took him.
“You’re an idiot if you think your wall could withstand it.”
“Sorry, I didn’t think he would be that strong. Thanks Beel.”
Beelzebub takes him to the sky and then dropped him somewhere. Beelzebub made a bow and an arrow out of black sand on the beach. He shoots the arrow to the sky, and it’s spreading into a thousand of small projectile. I use Goliath to protect me and nothing went through.
Just as I saw the beach, I can see the water in the sea is rising to the level twenty floors building. Will it attack us? But in just a matter of time a lot of magic circles appear in the wave and it froze in an instant. I look back into Ariana but she’s having a hand combat against Lilith that’s using her saber. She froze the wave while fighting Lilith? All the projectiles are still coming to their bodies but they’re still fighting like the projectile is not there. One small mistake and it will result in death.
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“Wahahaha, you can just die.”
Suddenly a big tank rises up from the black sand. When I take a better look, the black sand has gone and changed into white sand. By the voice, I guess it’s Mammon inside. Goliath takes the stone from the destroyed wall and throws it at the tank. But before it hit the tank, a rock emerged and protects it.
A shot is fired. I use Goliath to protect me but I didn’t think about it carefully. The tank bullet went through Goliath. Goliath is not strong enough and got destroyed. The bullet hit me directly. I can feel an explosion burst out and sent me flying. My back hit the stone wall. Before I could rise, the earth already rises and sends out a landslide to me.
“Avalokitesvara.”
As I say it, I create another giant with my mana. This giant is different from Goliath. Its body is more slender but bigger. It has four pairs of arm. Avalokitesvara, or I call Avalo for the short, is the true form of Goliath. Avalo charges at the landslide and makes it disappear. While four hands are busy removing the landslide, the other four take giant rocks and throw it at the tank. The rock rises once again but as Avalo throws it repeatedly, the rock can’t keep up and it hit the tank. The tank destroyed but Mammon managed to get away before that happens.
“It seems this fight won’t end anytime soon.” I mumble to myself.
***
“Wow, that giant wave must be Levi’s doing.” Lucifer speaks in awe.
“And, the one froze it must be Ariana.” I say to him.
We still manage to make a conversation despite we’re having a death fight. He’s using two gun blades and I use both of my katars. This happens once I get close enough. Both of us are trading blows and avoid being hit by any attacks. Belphegor uses the small time when I attack Lucifer to come between us. He redirects my attack back to me. When he does it, I have to make different movement to cancel his counter which usually ends up with me being thrown away. At that time, Lucifer will make some artillery and shoot at me. I endlessly change from my katar to my shield of nothingness to deal physical attack and the non-physical attack simultaneously.
“Just as I thought, Mada the Raider is no small deal. You could match both of us when you’re alone.” Belphegor praises me.
I land and equip my katar again. “Thanks for the praises. It would be easier for me if both of you are attackers though.”
Yeah, if Belphegor is attacker too, I could easily attack them without any hesitation. In this situatio, if I attack carelessly Belphegor will redirect my attack back at me.
“I didn’t expect I will use this. It’s not tested yet. This is the first time I ever use this in actual combat.” Lucifer speaks so loud.
Lucifer jumps so high. I can see a line is being formed from his necklace, the Philosopher, into his right hand. He makes a hand gesture and a giant sigil appears in the end of his palm. Part by part, something is appearing in the air. In just a few seconds, a big barrel of cannon has appeared. Aimed at me. I never thought he could use it to this extent. At this extent, Philosopher is superior to Keeper. It can create anything from nothing.
“FIRE!” Lucifer shouts.
A big fireball is being shot at me. Not, it’s not a fireball. More like a meteor is falling.
When it comes to creation, the Keeper might be inferior. But in sense of usefulness, I don’t think so. I jump towards the meteor and concentrate. I extend my right hand and a distortion is starting to show. Belphegor suddenly appears in front of me.
Shit. I let my guard down. He got hold of my right hand and throws me. As my hand moved before the distortion completed, it got cancelled and closed. As I look, the meteor is already close. I won’t have enough time to open another space distortion to take it.
I take Shield of Nothingness and try to hold it. But, it seems weight is not the main source of its power. It’s keep pushing me to the ground. I guess there’s something else inside that cannon. I use my katar on my right hand and make the fire disappear.
Blarr.
No smoke is rising. Just a dust. I manage to destroy the fire and make the explosion effect decreased. And as the weight is gone, I managed to alter its path a little. So, it’s not a direct hit. But even so, the damage I took is way too much. The shield of nothingness crumbles and my left hand is nowhere near fine. Hell. I can’t even move it anymore.
Lucifer lands beside Belphegor. “Wow, when I tested it, a ruin is completely destroyed yet you’re still standing.”
“But,” Belphegor adds. “Now you lost your left arm. There is no chance you could win against-”
Belphegor stops his words when his feet grabbed. A figure is emerging from the ground. An undead. But not one. An army of undead is rising from the ground. They let their guard down when they saw my left hand is wounded. I took the chance to make the army of undead grab them.
They’re trying to repel all the undead but the undead is sticking to their skin. It will keep them occupied for a bit of time. I jump and take my longbow, Pointing Tip of Desperation, from the Keeper. Pointing Tip of Desperation still in its Weapon of Calamity mode with the blue spear. I pull the spear by using my right hand and keep the bow by my feet.
I shoot the spear to the sky. As the spear arrow has been shot, Pointing Tip of Desperation is back to the old curved wooden longbow and I put it back to the Keeper. The spear reaches some altitude then it stops and change into a single ball of ray. I jump back as far as I could from the undead army.
The blue spear of is not a big explosive spear like the black one. The blue spear is a single ray that will shoot a thousand explosive arrows continuously to the designated target. The target is, Lucifer and Belphegor.
Blam blam blam blam
Explosion by explosion is appearing in the place where Lucifer and Belphegor stand. Lots of explosive projectile are coming to them from the ray like a rain. Both of them are trying to make or trans mutate something, but they got no chance as the explosion is keep on coming and my army of undead is keeping them occupied.
It seems they use their mana to make a body layer so it won’t kill them. From the explosion and the horde, something is flying. A necklace, the philosopher, is in the air. I jump as fast as possible and grab it. The order I gave to the army of undead is grab and hold them and try to throw the Philosopher to me when it’s possible.
But as I grab it, my leg is being grabbed. I look into my leg and see Lucifer also jump. He takes a hold of my leg with tons of undead cling into his body.
“You won’t get the Philosopher.”
Lucifer drags me to the horde of explosions.
Shit.
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To Dovahsebrom question, you can say in the previous chapter that Mada need some little time to open the Keeper. Also, the bigger the space opened, you can see Mada need some additional time to concentrate. So, a fast moving opponent with pretty big body compared to weapon is surely hard to put in the Keeper.