Chapter 3 – What is beyond him – Elisa Strauss Arcadia
Part 1
Sitting in the isolated room all alone on the bed staring at the ceiling Lucifer showed an anguished face, full of horror
He was horrified, absolutely Horrified hearing what came out of Bright’s mouth, even though he was a little suspicious, he never thought it was this serious, for bright who is strong and thousands of others to actually forget, means that the one behind this incidents should be very strong, be able to erase or control them all, is frightening for even Lucifer.
But worst of all, the most terrifying thing was that it was only him,
He had confirmed it with more people, but all people here had said that they had answered the call and when they left on Monday no particle things happened.
Does that mean it was all just a dream ? The black sky? The monster? Death of people? And the most important one his promise with Maria.
He finally decided to get back up from her sisters words, but now that was all just a dream, nothing happened, so he was still hated by his one and only family member he had.
He just couldn’t take it; it was like he was in heaven just a minute ago, but now dropped to the bottom of hell
He needed the truth, or he collapse.
(Darn it, who can help me?)
Placing his hands on his aching fore head to think, he widened his eyes in shock
He found it.
One irreplaceable evidence he needed.
The scarlet red string on his pinkie, the string he attached when they made the promise.
He was not disillusion, it really happened.
Lucifer jumped in happiness as he got up off the bed.
Since the promise was true then all he needed to do is find the truth and find Maria.
Eyes burning with firm determination and happiness, he hadn’t felt for years.
He decided to ask her
The fourth princess of Elisa Strauss Arcadia
Part 2
Deep inside a single room that was full of luxury decorations that looked very expensive, in the corner of the room a single bluish hair girl with hazel eyes crouched on her bed holding her knees as she stared outside the window at the pure black sky with a full moon that shone brightly in the sky.
Today had been a busy day for her, where she had to prepare a month ago just to summon the heroes, without a single day to rest, putting extreme stress on her.
But now finishing her task she could finally have time to rest.
(What have I done?)
However, even with extreme fatigue, she could not sleep.
For what happened today, was deeply rooted into her mind.
The extreme guilt and sadness in her heart ached as she thought about it, what she and the kingdom had done was unforgivable, dragging the innocent heroes here for their own convenience.
She hated herself for what she had done
Deep in thought, not knowing how much time had passed as she stared outside, she suddenly felt a piercing glare directed at her, where she felt her whole body was cut, looking in the direction she felt the glare.
She found a silver hair youth, standing behind her under the moonlight, glaring at her.
She shivered at the sight of the boys eyes glare at her, involuntary retreating a few steps
(How long has he been there for?)
Before she could say anything
A cold voice directed at her
“Oh, finally got your attention ah princess”
Resounded a voice as he slowly behind her.
“Take took a long time, you know I could have killed you thousands of time, but didn’t you should thank me”
Sarcastically said the youth
“Who are you.. .. no I remember you’re one of the heroes summon today, why are you here?”
Stared Elisa but remained polite as she was in front of a hero
“Oh I came here to talk with you; I would like to ask a few things”
Replied the youth
“What may I help you with then, I think my father has already said everything, but if there is anything you could have just asked my father before or the servants around the castle there is no need to ask me”
Elisa replied suspiciously as she felt something was wrong and the glare she felt from the youth before, she had to remain cautious.
“Ah the thing I want to ask is simple, you r princess, I want to know everything you and you father are hiding from us”
Her heart beat furiously as she heard what the youth said
(Impossible does he remember, no it can’t be)
“What might you be talking about, I don’t understa….”
Before she could finish specking an invisible pressure appeared, forcing her to be pinned to the floor.
“I have you know; I don’t have a lot of patience, tell me now or die, I want to know the real story and why it is different from my memory”
(No way, he really remembers!)
Screamed Elisa in her heart with fear but she felt overjoyed at this discovery
Slowly the pressure vanished and she was able to stand up with shaking legs looking the silver haired youth in front.
“Speak or die now choose”
Asked the boy with a cold voice
“Yes.. I’ll talk”
Hearing this the youth grinned at bit
Slowly she sat on the bed, while the youth sat on the ledge of the window
Slowly gazing at him she began to talk.
“I am sorry what her father said was not the truth at all”
“Then what is the real truth?”
“Firstly the war between the demons and were-beast attacking is true but the main cause of the war was ignited by us humans”
“OH, so saying humans were weak was a lie too, since they could start a war with 2 races”
Still looking at the youth, Elisa slowly nodded
“yeah, we are not as weak as father, said but that is not right, we were once the weakest race in past, but now it’s not like that after that day”
“What day?”
Asked the youth curiously
“ It was about a 21 years ago, suddenly a certain human discovered a power called
Listening to her the youth was displayed a shock face just imaging such power
Elisa continued in a depressed voice
“It was pure delight for us, who had suffered a lot and we were all overjoyed, but soon everything changed 3 years ago, when my father and the rest who got the power
“After countless war, we lost many forces, where we struggled to fight the next battle that’s why we summoned the heroes to fight”
“hey, hey isn’t that just going power crazy and even resorting to taboo magic, they’ve really fallen and are you all just an idiot? Did no one stop it?”
“Of course some stood up and tried to stop it even I tried, but we were powerless and some were imprisoned for treason”
“Oh it that the reason your father hates you?”
“You know of that”
“I’m not blind I can see it with my own eyes, he was just like a bastard I know and that why I came to ask you”
“ah I see, so I was that obvious”
Elsia smiled with a dejected smile
“Our relation started to break up then and now we both are like what you see, I am know just a disposal tool, quite sadden is it?, I was even used as a sacrifice to summon the heroes”
“Ehh Sacrifrice then why are you here? No was the hero summoning really dangerous?”
“No, It that’s wrong, the hero summoning should had been 50% of success, but the father wanted loyal heroes to fight for him, so he changed the magic adding new elements of brainwashing on to it, so they were all loyal to him, so it success decrease to 15%”
“Then why is it that I’m ok?
“Magic such as brain washing, normally doesn’t work on people stronger than them, so it means you’re more powerful than the brain washing magic that took 3 million peoples magic to use, and probably why you don’t have a hero alignment. ”
“I am just special that’s all, but why did you help him then if it was so dangerous”
“I know it was that, but what can I do my mother is a cumbine of the king who used to be a peasant, If I didn’t do it my mother and I will die, that is our destiny”
”Destiny huh, sounds all good but your just afraid to step forward for your own path”
Snarled the boy
“Yes you right, I pathetic, ha, ha ha”
Looking at her dejected, the boy could not help but remember his past, when he too was powerless, frustration emerged within his heart as she was too similar to him.
“Hey you, let me tell you a story – it was about a boy that was called trash at his birth. he was born in a family, who for generations was renowned to be the strongest , but he had no ability what so ever, out of the 7 elements of fire, lightning, ice, water, wind, light and darkness, he had none, he had no talent whatsoever and was destined to be a failure, he too thought that but his parents and someone else did not, they took the kid and continued to train and teach him many things at a small age, putting him on harsh and deadly training and the boy soon grew stronger than the people around him, gaining recognition of the surrounding and making his parents proud. But in the end even if the boy grew up to be strong than anyone, he never made a chose to move forward even though he thought it was right. He was haunted for life for not moving forward. So if you think it is wrong don’t do it and if it is right then move forward and don’t be like that boy who didn’t choose ”
“Really, then what happens if I fail?”
“Then just stand back up or have someone that will support you and make sure you don’t fail that’s all”
“Yeah thank you, you’re the first person to say this to me, even my mother never said that?”
“yeah whatever, I just hate idiot like that, I didn’t particular help you”
“Yeah I get it, so what happened should I do now”
“you choose I don’t know”
Thinking it over a while , Elisa finally remembered
“ I know I will go to≪ Ordesia ≫ the other human city that is in co-existence with other races to ask them to help me stop this war.
“Oh sounds good, but how do you plan to do it, if you just ask them do you believe the will just accept”
“ I have a friend there, who should share the same idea as me and she has some authority there, and I will prove myself worth of their trust if needed and I know many things that will benefit them”
“ok then, good luck then and bye”
Turning around the boy was about to leave but
“Wait I have a request, could you please help me and my mother escape her, with my power, I can’t safely escape together with her, but with you it can be possible please help”
turning around the boy looked at her bowing head and sighed
“Ah so annoying, but I will not do it free of charge, you will repay me later, you hear that, I am not a hero nor a saint, you better be prepared”
“YES, I know, in the future if you need something just ask, I will fulfil it no matter what”
“Yeah Yeah, then get ready in two days’ time and we will leave then at midnight, since you wouldn’t be able to leave the castle even if you wanted to by orders of you father right?”
“Yes I will be ready then!”
Turning around again when
“Wait what is your name?”
“oh didn’t I tell you the names – Kusanagi Elstein Lucifer”
Finally disappearing without a sound, the room became quiet, with only one girl standing there.
Part 3
In the darkness of the night, shimmering with the light of the moon the solemn palace was in deep silence, only the sounds of the hooting owls and the clattering of the soldiers shoes that was patrolling could be heard.
But within this dead silent night a black figure could be seen glooming in the darkness silently creeping around, if one was to see this the would feel they have met a ghost as no human figure could be seen, just a black mist like object floating in the sky.
“Those darn humans, they actually succeed in summon a bunch of heroes, they really do want war, so be it if it is war you want, it is war you get, I will burn all you pathetic bugs to smithereens.”
Voiced the blast mist that sounded like a women’s voice
Looking down her surrounds she could feel the urge to destroy the disgusting place, which could be easily achieved with just a flick of a finger.
But she resisted the urge
As she was here on a mission ordered by one of the < Five Great Disasters >- The demon king Ruling over hell Ashura to investigate the enemy, but when she arrived she could feel a power magic flow in the surrounding palace.
Later investigating, she found that a hero summon was used to summon a bunch of powerful heroes.
She could feel there powers were weak right now and she could easily destroy them with some trouble as they will eventual become a hindrances to the plan but who would report back to demon king of ≪Evila≫ with the information. She cannot let her personal feeling run wild in this important situation that can affect the plan and her duties as one of the 7 deadly sins - Arcanina of the Pride.
Although she had the confidence the leave somewhat intact against the
She could feel that she was definitely not a match; she needed to investigate what it is and quickly report back and if possible eliminated it even at the cost of her life.
She silently crept deeper into the palace in her mist form and arrived at the inner walls but suddenly she feel a piercing cold within her heart where she felt like she was stabbed by knives.
(I’ve been found impossible)
She was one of the Seven Deadly sins, who prided herself in her strength and ability, where even one of the
Before she could think of the answer, it had already appeared before her, a silver hair boy was standing in front, grinning at her confused and panicking face, while waving to her.
Part 4
After leaving the room Lucifer started jumping from roof to roof , thinking about what he heard
(He sacrificed his own daughters…?)
Listening to the explanation, Lucifer scowled over the kings insanity.
(This world is more corrupted than my own)
Suddenly he felt something in front of him in a distant, even though there is nothing there, quickly using his mind eye he detected a presences in front of him, glaring at it, the black mist seemed to weakened in confusion and soon a red hair beauty with brown curly horns, on her head while a brown eyes, wearing a red dress over her well-developed chest appeared staring at him.
Finding it fun looking at her confused face, Lucifer decided to wave at her.
“Who are you brat, to be able to find me, means you’re not an ordinary person”
“No, I just a person who happened to pass by, don’t mind me”
“Are you making fun of me, do you actually think i will believe that, your the strong pressure i been feeling, what are you here”
“Oh you noticed me, you not just a dumb bitch are you?, if you want to find the answer, then make me say it with force if you can”
Hearing this the Arcanina was enraged, she never had been so insulted before like this and by a mere human.
Lucifer normally would remain cautious but right now he was annoyed today he fought against monsters, his sister near death, separating, dragged into a messed up world, and remembering many past things, he was too stressed and needed to vent it out when an bitch just appeared before him, just perfect time for a stress reliever.
“Today is the day you will die brat”
Emitting a black aura in the surrounding and before Lucifer noticed his surrounds changed
He was in the sky a minute ago but now he was standing on the ground in a forest
Feeling his surrounding, Lucifer could the darkness and surround animal live
“Kid it too late to regret now you are in my world,”
Suddenly stakes fell from the sky, quickly evading by jumping backwards
But behind him, 4 daggers came flying towards him
Quickly catch the daggers he threw it back to the direction it came from but only to hit a tree.
Using minds eye, he could locate her but she suddenly disappeared when he found her
(Illusion, no the feelings to real, it’s teleportation)
Using the soul force, lucifer wrapped around his body to act as a body armour, to prevent Arcanina from
teleport things into his body
While fire balls arrived in front of him and the suddenly disappeared and hit him on the back.
The power was incredible, even though he had soul force amour, he was still burned
When a ball of compressed air exploded in front of him, he was sent flying.
As well as sometimes reciving a punch to his body
As expect of the demon race that excelled in magic, their power of magic was strong for even lucifers defences as well as their physical attacks where way stronger than a humans.
If not for his abnormal body , he could not even withstand 10 hits
As the constant attacks arrived at lucifer, he kept dodging the attacks
Where the battle lasted for 3 hours
But in the end, Arcanina had commit one mistake where she could not teleport in time when lucifer found where and received a bombardment of 100 attacks in a second and was down on the ground
Where lucifer was sitting on top of her
With a dagger pointed towards her neck
Arcanina who was glare at lucifer
“no need, to be so violent, I won’t kill you, but I want something in exchange,”
“who would listen to you”
“no no, if you listen you may actually get some benefits, if am not wrong, you should be a spy or something from the demon kingdom, right”
“so what ”
“my condition is are simple if you help me and 2 others escape with your teleportation i can grantee for a year
1 – that no matter, what you demons plans are, I don’t plan to step in and interfere, nut only if you don’t not get in my way and harm those important to me
2 – that I have someone who knowns the inner working of this kingdom, where she is in need of help to escape, if you leaned us your power of teleportation, then she can easily escape”
“sounds good, but like hell I will believe you so easily”
“yes that right so why don’t we have a contract then, if I remember correctly it is said that you demons have power to make contracts where the rules are absolute”
“…….”
“if your still unsure, I will tell you that the person, that trying to escape is the 4thprincess Elisa Strauss Acardia so the information she will provide will be of great importances”
“I will give you some time to think if you want”
“No, it enough, if you wanted to you could have easily kill me here no discussion necessary and from your words I felt no sense of lies,”
“oh why so calm now”
“I have calmly analyse the situation and going with your request should be the best, where we have one less enemy and get information for free, should be the ideal for me”
“yeah now just get the temporary contract done and we will met in 2 days at midnight in the royal palace gardens if you can”
“who do you think your talking to , brat”
“a loser of mines”
“darn it, brat you just got lucky”
Taking out a paper she wrote down the rules
IN ACCORDANCE TO THE CONTRACT, ARACANINA MUST ASSIST LUCIFER TO HELP PRINCESS ELISA STRAUSS ARCADIA ESCAPE TOGETHER WITH HER MOTHER WITH HER TELEPORTATION AND ANYTHING WITHIN HER POWER TO ENSURE THEIR SAFETY.
IN EXCHANGE
1 – LUCIFER WILL NOT INTERFERE WITH THE DEMONS PLAN, IF THEY DO NOT CAUSE HARM TO HIM OR THOSE IMPORTANT TO HIM FOR A YEAR
2 – PRINCESS ELISA WILL PROVIDE INFORMATION ON THE ARCADIA KINGDOM OG THERE FUTURE PLANS AND THE SORT
IN ACCORDANCE'S TO THE RULES IF EITHER ONE FAILS TO FULLFILL THERE PART THEY WILL BE PUNISHED BY DEATH. THEREBY CONTRACT WILL AUTOMATICALLY BREAK AFTER A YEARS TIME.
When Lucifer and Arcanina both sign it with their blood, where it then split in half and went into their bodies.
“”Now then goodbye”
Turning around Arcanina left like the wind
While lucifer stared at the sky
(Wait, she could have at least sent me back to the castle)
While complaining lucifer walked back towards the Acardia kingdom that he felt was nearby.
Part 5
Two days had passed in a blink of an eye
with his agreement with Arcanina then escaping will be easy, so Lucifer wasn’t particularly bother.
and Elisa was ready to leave with her mother and Lucifer was prepared too, for the past two days he gather much knowledge of the surrounds and this world to be able to leave and find his sister while not be suspicious.
And now at midnight he crept out of his room and headed to Elisa.
Seeing her with an older woman with the same bluish hair colour he guessed she was her mother.
“Are you ready”
Both nodding their heads
Lucifer took them outside, into the midnight, while somehow travelled towards their destination undetected.
Arriving in the royal garden
Lucifer and the two stayed silent and waited for Arcanina
Lucifer had already, talked about the plan with the two
Although reluctant to believe in a demon, they trusted the contract and lucifer
Soon a red figure emerged from within the shadows of the garden.
Seeing her, lucifer could not help but smile.
During the fight, he could see that she was trustworthy but he was not sure if she will keep their promise even with a contract.
“Yo Arcanina waited for you a long time ”
“I needed time to prepare of course and me the symbol of pride, will definitely keep her promise”
“Then let’s go without further delay”
“Ok, but I will ask are you will to keep your side of your promise and not interfere with our plans and tell us all the secrets and plans of the
“yes I plan to not interfere with this world as much as possible but if you guys attack me and those important to me that different and the secrets and plans of the
Affirming Lucifer’s words, the princess nod with firm determination.
She this Arcanina smiled and began to work on her teleportation magic and soon a dark black light with magic ritual appeared below their feets and seconds later, 4 bodies disappeared from the palace gardens.
As they teleportation finished.
Lucifer and the group surrounding changed where they were on a larger clearing area with a forest in front of them and the scent of the salty breeze could be felt behind them.
“Hey are we a the right places, I was sure asked to be teleport near the city of
“I don’t know, I was sure to teleport there, but there seems to a mistake maybe…”
However before Arcanina could finish she feel to one kneel
“What’s wrong?”
“This area I full of divine energy, my power from teleportation has somehow been depleted so I can’t resist this divine energy”
“I see, seems like someone interfered with our teleportation and brought us here, right”
Suddenly Rustling sounds could be heard within the forest and a minute later, 500 knights and 50
“You deviants bastards, release the princess and her mother and surrender or face death”
Shouted one of the knights that looked like the commander
“Hey Arcanina do I hear a pig squealing or something?”
“No, no I think it should be an just insect getting squashed”
“I see, anyway how you condition”
“I should be fine, although divine land bless weakens me but it does no damage unlike holy magic of the sort, so resting a while will do, but will take a bit longer than usual until I can teleport again”
“Then no problem”
“There is a problem Lucifer, can you please mind your surroundings” (princess)
“What Surrounding I see nothing but insects and pigs that looked ugly begging to be slaughtered”
“NO, I don’t care how you see them but we ‘ve been surrounded 500 knights and look at that badge of their armour, they all should be
“Ahem, princess, there is one problem I like to point out and that the great me has no friends”
“I that something you bragging about!!”
As the joyful conversation continued
An angry voice interrupted them
“YOU BASTARDS, HOW DARE YOU INGORE US, GO”
Receiving the order
50 knights charged forward towards Arcanina, while another 50 charged towards the princess and her mother.
“Ah so annoying, but I think later night exercise should be good”
Standing up Lucifer, stretched his arms and legs and began to walk towards the charging knights.
In the eyes of the knights, brat was arrogant to the extreme where they have never been so looked down upon.
As the knights arrived, before Lucifer, they drew out the swords and thrusted towards Lucifer, but Lucifer easily evaded and grabbed the knights forward and punched onto the middle of the chest armour.
Many thought it was a useless attack but surprisingly the knight that received the attack was blow back 10 meters, laying on the ground foaming, where his armours where I tatters with a deep dent of a fist mark in the middle.
Seeing this sight many were shocked but Lucifer didn’t stop and carried on where the knights where attacking were blown away by either a kick or punch.
And with a minute, 50 knights where down for the count all foaming.
While Arcanina side had also defeated the 50 knights
Looking at pathetic state of the knights, the princess could only feel sympathy and embarrassment towards herself for making such a big fuss.
On the other hand the commander was speechless, they had prepared for the inferences of Arcanina, when retrieving the princess, but they never heard of the boy in front of them was so strong.
They only heard a useless boy accompanying, but what was before them was anything beyond useless.
For a boy to single-handle defeat 50
(What, the hell is he, the information provided had nothing about him)
Turning his head towards the
He wanted to ask but before, he could a voice sound,
“If that’s all you got, then beat it thrash, the great me has no time with the like of you”
“Kid, show some respect, though you may have won 50 knights, they were not awakened”
“Oh, then lets see what can a awakened knight do?”
“Fine squad 3 awaken now and show this brat your power”
““Yes””
Quickly 25 knights brought out a bottle of red liquid of [Crimson] they drank it in one gulp, where muscles on their body expanded.
“Brat you will pay for looking down on the knight order”
After saying so the 25 knights charged forward at a fast speed that was unbelievable for a person wearing full body heavy amour.
As the group arrived in front of lucifer, they surround him in a circle and brought their sword high above their head and chopped down, where a tearing sound was heard after.
“Ha serves you right”
But before rejoice anymore, the knights all flew into the air towards different directions and the crashed down unconscious, while in the previous location, stood a boy with one had in air like he was strike a pose, while his other hand was holding onto the blades of 25 swords.
“Is that all you got, then there no point in staying, although the plan got messed up – Arcanina take those two and leave here first, I can manage on my own, there things I want to try on them ”
“OK But I can’t teleport in this strong barrier and my power hasn’t fully restored yet”
“Fine, leave it to me”
Putting his hands of Arcanina back he poured half his soul for e into her giving her a quicky power recovery and temporary power boast in order to successfully teleport away.
Feeling lucifer soul force, Arcanina could not help but be stunned at the overwhelming energy .
Feeling her power was fully restored,
Arcanina grabbed Elisa and her mother and black light arose around them.
Recovering from the shock the commanders Shouted
“Don’t let them escape”
While many rushed towards them,
“Not so fast, your sticking with me”
but was intersected by lucifer.
While Arcanina and the 2 others vanished.
Grinned at the knights face that failed their mission
Lucifer could not help but grin
“Now then, why don’t you all come and play with me for a bit”
Grinned Lucifer
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This arose humiliation towards the knights as they were looked down upon by a kid
20 knights charged towards Lucifer slashing with their swords,
but before their attacks hit, the figure of Lucifer disappeared
and then a tremendous pain ran through their body and all 20 knight simultaneously fell to the floor unconscious.
Seeing their comrades fall so easily fear ran down the others spine
But quickly recover, they used numbers as their advantage and attacked again with 50 knights
And then 100 including some of the
But they all shared the same fate.
“Mage go and attack too”
Realising it was useless; the commander decided to uses the mage crop stationed at the back.
Unlike demons and other races, humans needed to chant to release their magic, so was very time consuming, so the surrounding knights protected them from attacks.
But unexpected to them, Lucifer just stood there waiting
To them the kid before them was just too overconfident
Finishing chanting the mages released their magic bombardment on Lucifer where hundreds of explosions occurred on Lucifer.
“HA take that brat, that for being too overconfident”
As they were all sure of their victory many erupted into cheers
But soon their faces displayed a face of horror
As standing in the midst of the cloud of dust a human figure emerged without the slightest injuries on his body.
“HOW COULD YOU SURVIVE THAT ATTACK, THAT WAS A BOMBARDMENT OF HUNDREDS OF INTERIMEDATE MAGIC, WITH THAT STRIKE IT SHOUOLD RIVAL AN ADVANCE MAGIC”
“Oh really, then I’m disappointed to think it was that weak”
“M..m..MONSTER ”
Screamed the commander
Part 6
Lucifer was honestly disappointed, he had stayed beck to test the strength of the kingdoms knights, to see if there was any differences between them and his world.
He didn’t do it at the castle was because he did not want to attract too much attention when in the midst of the enemies territory with many unknown elements, but now he could do it all he wanted to.
So Lucifer had adopted the peaceful strategy of receiving their attacks and countering
Showing them the difference in ability to test their strength and as well as to makes them give up.
When he saw the magic of this world, he wanted to see the power of this force, so he received the attack undefended.
The result was that their strength was stronger than his previous world.
But that was all.
Even with the magic attack, the could barely hurt him
It's true that <
Especially Lucifer who had mastered all his families sword style becoming the strongest in his world.
Where his status where overly higher than a standard level 100 <
Even facing millions of opponents he could somehow manage
The knights before him was skilled with the help of the [Elstein swordsman] students, they were indeed a powerful force for other people who are level 70 or below.
But they all relied too much on the unknown power of [crimson] and did not fully master their own skills
If the user had a strong power, if he had no skills to perfectly utilise it.
He was just an unskilled person in control of the power.
If that's the case then, Lucifer at the present point of ability, skills and experience was far bigger than them.
Ever since he was born, Lucifer had been walking dangerous paths every day to get stronger.
The path they walk was different---------and that right now has turned into this overwhelming difference in ability.
Seeing that the level of this world was the same
Swiftly deciding that there was no point in stay here anymore, Lucifer decide to leave.
He could easily walk away from this depressed army or disarmed any opponents that dared yo charged at him.
Part 7
while he was about to leave, he suddenly felt a powerful pressure from the forest.
Drawing lucifers attention there, he found theemerges 2 figures.
A man holding a sword with brown hair and brown eyes and a strong muscular body around the age of 35
And the other was a man holding a spear with long green hair and eyes and a strong muscular body around the age of 37
Although differently they looked like twins.
From the strength of the pressure, Lucifer had deemed them to be
But it was not the knights that he had seen next to the king, they should be the ones that should have returned after a mission or the sort as Lucifer had not seen them in the castle for the last few days.
“hey hey, for the king to actually send 2
Sounded Lucifer Sarcastically
“ Of course, this is a disaster, we are facing right now, the princess who holds a lot of important information being abducted by one of the Seven deadly sins Arcanina of the pride and you who holds unknown power, Although the others seem to have escaped but suppress you, will also do”
“Ha you really give us a lot of credit, but no matter”
Taking an attack with [Ama-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi ] in his hand
Lucifer dashing to the Two < World Imperial Knight>, though his movements were fast for the other knights but to the Two < World Imperial Knight> it was a speed they could easily see.
However at a distance of 4 meters away, the figure of Lucifer sudden disappeared from their sights and before they knew it his figure was right in front of them slashing his katana towards their throats.
Quickly evading sideways, they somehow managed to dodge the blow only leaving a swallow cut on their throats.
Cold sweat rolled down their forehead as if they had dodged a second later. They would have been decapitated.
They had watched the fight between Lucifer and the other knights to determine the situation, but in the end they didn’t completely gauge the strength of Lucifer and somewhat underestimated.
Not giving them the chances to rest, Lucifer kicked off the ground with Sparks flying from the sole of his boots, dashing to the Two < World Imperial Knight>, leaving after images behind him.
This was
Whistling though the air, his sword slashing down towards the Two < World Imperial Knight> bodies.
This time without a moment of delay the Two < World Imperial Knight>‘s body began to move as well.
The brown haired < World Imperial Knight> took his sword and slashed towards the incoming Lucifer.
Lucifer twisted his body to evade the attack and counter attacked swing his sword upwards toward the knight’s face
The sword knight took a guarding stance to block the blow and was ready to counter attack straight away after the attack was block.
But what came to a surprise was that Lucifer’s blow was far stronger than they had anticipated.
And he was blown a few steps back.
But using the time the spear knight rushed behind Lucifer and rapidly stabbed his spear that let out a pure blue glow towards Lucifer.
With the slightest movement of his foot work [Phantom Lightning Steps], Lucifer easily evaded.
But what came to surprise him was enough though he had evaded, slightly deep cuts appeared on his body.
“Not bad, to think you could injure me, if I am not wrong that spear had invoked wind magic surrounding the tip of the spear causing an invisible attack right”
“That’s correct, normally you should have already been cut to shrewd but I guess the power was not enough”
“That right, though I was careless but no excuse”
Although Lucifer like to fight strong opponents and theses two before him was strong, he could not afford to let his emotions run wild, where he needed to leave here and unknown if more of the same level opponents would come.
Even if Lucifer was strong, he was human and facing against many
Lucifer had deemed that that there was no point in fighting them,
so he decided to quickly finish them off with his skills, he had seen through these Two < World Imperial Knight>‘s level where only about level 92
Unleashing a red light from his sword.
Lucifer charged at a higher speed toward the knights, slashing the unsheathed [Ama-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi ] downwards towards the
Unable to retract to Lucifer’s speed, he could not dodge in time so he invoke fire magic on the sword and attacked Lucifer’s sword to defenced.
But as the weapon clashed, there were no metal sounds of sword clashing.
When the two swords clashed, Lucifer sword had easily cut through the < World Imperial Knight>‘s sword and attack his body armour, which too shared the same fate and hit ditrectly onto the knights body.
This was
« Vorpal Strike »
That mainly focused on power of the attack, where a high temperate of 500 Celsius flame was produced to increase the power of the blow where it could melt through the opponents defenses in an instant and deliver an attack the enemy.
It was also a mistake for the knight to defense with fire magic invoked which lead to the increase in Lucifer’s attack.
A powerful fire blow hit the defending brown haired
Suddenly a dagger was thrown towards Lucifer, where he blocked with his sword.
But using this chances the other
Quickly checking his wound, he was horrified, half of his chest had been scorch from left to right.
The
The injuries where heavy, and if not treated in time he may die, quickly asking a healer from the mage group to heal him, the spear wielding knight stood up and faced Lucifer full of killing intention.
Taking out a bottle with red liquid [Crimson] that was not like the one Lucifer saw, the spear wielder drank the whole bottle.
Suddenly his whole body emitted a red glow and the pressure he emitted heightened to a frightening level.
Even Lucifer felt chilled down his spine, this power up was not like the others, the knights ability should have reached about level 100 or maybe over.
Quickly retreating a few step back, Lucifer stared at his opponent, he could feel the danger.
As the place where Lucifer was standing a huge hole was dug out.
(What power)
Even Lucifer could barely see it
However the attack did not end, the spear wielder charger forward releasing multiple blue thrusts.
The rapid spear thrust aimed towards Lucifer vital points on his body, quickly block the important points he managed to block it but many still pierced through him, where blood oozed out like a waterfall.
There was not time to think as another thrust of bluish light appeared again, but this time Lucifer was prepared
“《Kusanagi Elstein》 Scarlet True-Light Style - Fifth Style - Infinity Blade Arts – Silver Lightning Flash”
Releasing silver flashes from his sword Lucifer counter with speed.
As the multiple clashes of silver and blue attacks streamed through the area, multiple metals clashing could be heard
Leaving the people watching speechless and the wonderful fight, where both could be seen to be evenly matched.
But in reality, Lucifer was getting pushed back, the first attacks he had received were heavy and had caused his movements to dull, where he could not keep up with the incoming attacks.
If this battle continued as a stalemate, Lucifer would not last as his body was heavy injured and with continuous long period uses of 《Kusanagi Elstein》 Scarlet True-Light, heavy burden would accumulate in his body and he would eventually lose.
He felt a slight fear towards [Scarlet] that could enhance ones strength to this frightening degree, no wonder, humans the weakest race went power crazy and declared war on the demons and were beast.
He needs to take a chance,
Stopping his attacks, he jumped back 15 meters with [lightning phantom steps]
The silver light on the blade changed to a blazing red colour, with the ground below him started to burn.
Feeling danger the spear wielder, did not charge forward, but wait.
However that was a mistake as they red light around the blade grew stronger and stronger by the second.
Finally seeing his mistake, it was too late.
Swing his sword sideways, the red light expanding out like a large sword and mowed down the surround setting everything within 25 meters to blaze.
This was
Scarlet True-Light Style - Fourth Style - Absolute Blade Arts – Third Form
« Blaze»
Super powerful attack with a bigger range, where the fire energy is shaped into a large sword giving user a larger range of attack that will mow down everything and burn in to cinders though the fire temperate and power decrease with distances.
Normally the attack strength would be average, when just releasing it would only be about the range of 1 meter.
But with the time that the knight did not charge forward at the unknown attack,
Lucifer put nearly all his soul force into it, storing the power to allow maximum damage and large range attack
Nevertheless this left him tried and defenceless,
However with the spear wielding knight, who received the attack down on the ground with his body cut in two and the surrounding in fire, where many others lay on the ground injured or die by receiving an indirectly attacked, the area looked like a battle field.
Fear ran through the surviving knights, where they could not move from fear and horror that this was caused by one person.
They did not think to attack Lucifer.
Part 8
Slowly getting up like nothing, Lucifer felt excoriating pain, but he did not reveal it.
With his last attack, he had depleted his soul force and the backlash of the attack his injuries further worsened.
Thinking that he better leave here quickly, he turned and was about to leave when.
Suddenly his body couldn’t move, he looked down to find that his that is whole body was covered in a thin layer of ice.
Intermediate level Ice Magic?
In the corner of his eyes he saw a figure with silver hair showing a rarely seen smile.
It was the Ice Queen, Athena
She had patiently waited for the chances; she knew with her current strength in order to deal with Lucifer was impossible; she needed to wait for the right opportunity to deal the critical blow to him.
And now was the time, After his mortal combat with the
And the time was now, though the ice Magic was weak but it successfully stopped the movement of the tried Lucifer.
Seeing this, she understood that Lucifer had weakened considerable and using this chance she quickly closed in and slashed her sword towards Lucifer’s heart.
Lucifer successfully broke through the ice and somehow managed to dodging the blow with difficulty.
However he couldn’t completely dodge the blow to his body as his reaction was too slow after being frozen a bit and exhaustion.
Where the spear pierced into the middle of his chest
Damaging the blood vessels
Causing him to vomit a mouthful of blood
However Lucifer also felt his body was not moving as it was supposed to.
But he didn’t have the time to think as before him.
A sword flashed again in front of him and this time directly pierced his right chest.
Receiving the tremendous blow
With the sudden impact Lucifer was blown away a few meters, landing on the edge of the cliff lying there with blood oozing out of his wound.
His blood vessels near his heart had been pierced
Slowly walking towards him.
It was Athena.
She had successfully delivered a fatal blow towards Lucifer.
Where now she could just quietly watch him die
Even if it was him, he was sure he was gone to die in a minute or two with this kind of injury.
Everyone who recovered from the shock thought the same as they could sense the fading life of Lucifer who was about to die, so they didn’t attack.
But Athena did stop, with a heart full of hatred she walked towards Lucifer to deliver the final blow.
But suddenly cracking sounds could be heard causing Athena to jump backwards.
Where she could see millions of cracks emerge from the ground
With the grand battle that had been a bit overboard and her energy Athena released that gave it the final blow.
Soon the land was unable to support itself and the pressure and began to fall apart
Where the ground broke into parts where many lumps of rock fell into the sea.
And with the unmovable Lucifer that lay on the debris, he too shared the same fate and fell into the sea.
Part 9
After the collapse of the cliff.
Athena was standing on the solid ground near the edge of the cliff, even though it was not safe she still wanted to confirm it herself, the death of Lucifer
in her hands was her prize for todays battle
[Ama-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi ]
one of the 21 divine swords of the
clenching her fist in angier as she regretted she couldn’t personal finish off Lucifer and see him dead.
Although she knew with his injuries he would definitely die no matter what, but she was still unsatisfied.
She had carefully planned this day after they arrived
Like Lucifer she too had retained her memories and decided to go ask the princess which she also deemed worth.
Arriving outside the door she had heard the voice of Lucifer and the princess
Staying outside the room she listened to the conversation with the princess and Lucifer.
From the story she found many answers.
One was that unlike Lucifer retaining his memories because of his strength.
Athena who was far inferior to him knew that the reason for retaining her memories was not because she was strong like Lucifer but because her intense hatred towards Lucifer that suppressed the brainwashing magic.
Using that opportunity she decided to uses this kingdom to kill Lucifer, where she deliberately leaked out there plan of their escape causing the king to send out people to capture them.
But with Arcannia of the pride in legion the king worried about the safety of the kingdom and set up a plan, where they had set up a barrier in advance to capture the teleportation magic and trap them in an isolated distance away from the capital.
But with the short preparations and time, they decided on the most suitable location, near the sea as the land was full of divine energy that could weaken the demons.
While Athena secretly grouped together students that hated Lucifer and asked the king to go together with a reasonable excuse, while keeping all this secret from bright who would surely interfere.
However the king did not take into account the power of Lucifer that took away all their advantages.
However this did not matter to Athena
She had just secretly watched everything and sacrificed others to weaken the strength of Lucifer and tire him out.
After Lucifer’s fight with the
But for safety she check first with ice magic and in additional to the ice attack, she had also thrown a poison needle at the same time where even Lucifer did not notice he was poisoned due to his skin beginning frozen.
However it was not going as planned as the princess who would weigh down Lucifer even more had escaped, so had taken longer than expected to weaken Lucifer.
But in the end she still managed to corner Lucifer.
But the regret of not personally killing him and seeing him dead in front of her eyes, regret and frustration erupted within her.
But there was nothing she can do
She had lost track of Lucifer as he fell into the sea and had no way to search.
As the sea current was strong and powerful monsters lurked in the water where even heroes like them can’t go in there unprepared.
Slowly turning she heels around at walking together with the injured group of knights and students back to the kingdom.
But at the result, she could not help but feel a bit of happiness,
(Finally, finally I did it, father, brother , sister, if you’re looking I finally got your revenge and killed Lucifer, may you rest in peace)
Part 10
While sinking into the cold deep water, all the wounds he received stun like hell as the seawater seeped into the body, enhancing his pain even more.
But he was powerless to do anything, just quietly staring at surface of the war above him
(I am going to die like this)
A sense of regret assaulted him
He knew he was too lenient, in the past he was taught that wavering against an enemy could cause his death, so in the past he was merciless to his enemies, but now he changed.
He was a bit too overconfident.
He played too much with the knights and
Where if he had done what he was taught and quickly finished off his enemies, he wouldn’t be in this mess.
(I still had many things to do; I can’t die here, dying by such a mistake in this rotten world this sucks)
But his body refused to move and he continued to sink, he couldn’t breathe.
There was nothing he could do, but just wait until he dead, while cursing this world and himself.
His consciousness slowly fading
He could suddenly hear a gentle female voice in his mind
[SINCE YOU’RE SO DISSATIFIED, DO YOU WISH FOR POWER TO THROW THIS WORLD INTO TURMOIL?]
He must be going crazy in his mind, but he still answered
[No , I already have the power to survive , to protect those important to me and destroy those that harm them , but now I just want help to get out of this mess]
[Really?]
[Yeah really, now just get me out of here and heal me if you can, you shit head]
[WHAT A RUDE AND ARROGANT PERSON, HAVEN’T YOUR MOM TAUGHT YOU TO BE POLITE WHEN ASKING FOR HELP?]
[Nope she only said to be polite to someone you care about and the rest can go eat shit]
[….VERY UNIQUE I GUESS]
[Yeah, now what is it you want again]
[AH YEAH I WILL OFFER YOU POWER TO SAVE YOUR LIVE FOR SOMETHING IN EXCHANGE]
[….No, don’t want to]
[BUT DIDN’T YOU SAY YOU NEED HELP A SECOND AGO]
[Well I’ll changed my mind that’s all]
[WHY ?, AREN’T YOU DYING NOW?]
[yeah ]
[THEN ACCEPT MY OFFER]
[No and first of all why should I actual believe in a spook voice like you, who sounds like those suspicious stalkers and sale man that I always bet up, somehow I feel that if I said “yes”, something important to me will be lost ]
[….SOMEHOW, I GET THE FEELING YOU HAVE MISUNDERSTOOD SOMETHING….CAN I ASK YOU, WHAT DO YOU THINK I WILL TAKE FROM YOU IN EXCHANGE FOR MY HELP ]
[My chastity]
[YOU!!, YOU THINK AM A PERVERT DON’T YOU?!!]
[Don’t worry, I never thought like that]
[REALLY?]
[ Yeah I just think that you are the type of person, who likes to do this and that……., ]
[…..]
[That’s all]
[….OH I SEE, I AM NO GOOD, THEN GOODBYE]
[Yeah, goodbye]
[….]
While Lucifer’s conscious slowly fading
[WAIT, ARE YOU JUST SATAFIED WITH THIS]
[Of course not but there is nothing I can do, so that’s it]
[THEN WHY DON’T YOU ACCEPT MY OFFER]
[….Fine I will tell you the real reason. It just very simple, I dislike power]
[WHY?... DON’T HUMANS ALL DESIRE POWER?]
[Normally I will just say “I have no obligation to tell you ”… but since I going to die anyway, ------I guess I can tell you, -----long ago, even though I was strong, for greater power,------I sacrificed many people,----- many I loved and cared for, ------as well as many innocent people----- and In the end I got nothing but misery, where I couldn’t even step up when I needed to ------that’s all]
After specking Lucifer consciousness finally gave in
[I SEE, HE’S JUST THE SAME, I FINALLY FOUND A WORTHY PERSON]
Laughed from the female voice, with a ting of happiness
[SINCE THE CONTRACT WASN’T DONE, THERE IS NOTHING I CAN DO, BUT AS LEAST I WILL HEAL YOUR INJURIES]
Slowly a faint shining gold light surrounded Lucifer’s body where all his injuries instantly disappeared
[NOW, TILL THE TIME WE MET AGAIN, MY CHOSEN ONE ---- LUCIFER ]