103 Breakthrough!
The area was filled with smoke and ash until a massive vortex appeared in the center. It devoured and completely dispersed the ash and left there was a demonic young man. The blood vessels on his face were bulging he was experiencing extreme rage. His body was bloody, and the strange violet pattern seemed to burn along his body.
"Your failure means death!" Asmodeus said in cold anger, he had previously been playful. But to dare cause such damage to his avatar, that truly enraged him.
"Shit, what can we do now?" Remmie said as he gritted his teeth and quickly retreated.
"Nothing, we can only have a short internecine struggle." Dante said as he retreated with Tiberius, at that moment serpents flew out from everywhere attacking them.
They released the embers of the energy fighting of the serpents. Asmodeus watched with glee as the Grand Stage experts slowly lost their power. The continued to blast away the almost infinite serpents until they were out of energy.
Then when Asmodeus was about to intervene, he felt space fluctuate close to the dream formation. Asmodeus' heart gripped there were more of them! He had already invested so much to get into the dream formation. He wouldn't allow for any failures, he quickly moved to the dream formation.
He stood there in an anticipation of a fight as his energy rotated to the max. He knew that a kingdom like this would have much more battle power...
Then much to his surprise, it wasn't a tide of experts, a pair of jade arms in black robes tore open space. Out of it came a masked young man with an aura of shadows! He looked over at Asmodeus' human form and seemed to pry into his very existence.
'How is that possible? I must be imagining it....' Asmodeus said to himself, what kind of existence would it take to see through him.
It would take someone of the same level of prestige. He didn't believe that such a person existed in the mortal realm.
"Who are you? Are you here to block me?" Asmodeus said as his blood energy exploded, behind him was the phantom of a massive primordial serpent. It appeared as if it was the ultimate predator as it radiated killing intent at the masked figure.
"Block? I am merely admiring the battle that you fought.... oh, the destruction." The masked young man snickered as he sealed up the gate that he opened.
"You'd best answer me." Asmodeus said impatiently as his aura became even stronger, yet the young man didn't seem to flinch.
"Well, that is simple enough." He said as he smirked, and his aura fully released.
"I am the winner!" The masked young laughed, as his mask seemed to open like an eye. It was an eye of chaos, that held immense nomological might.
"What?" Asmodeus said dumbfounded.
"Well its better if I show, isn't it?" The young man smirked as he filled his palm over in it was a star the size of a palm! It shined with intense starlight and brightness and along it were a complex matrix of restrictions
"What is that?" In all his eons of life, he had never seen such a spell circle.
The masked young man smirked as he raised the star and left it levitating in front of him. He charged his fist up with immense spatial force and punched out shattering the star. Asmodeus felt all the hairs on his body stand up in fear. He quickly retreated out of the range, as a huge amount of spatial energy flew out like a beam.
Everything in its path was obliterated into nothing, Asmodeus looked over at the dissipating spatial energy with dread. The power he felt was not enough to harm him, it wasn't even at the level of a grand knight. He was confused as to why he was so terrified a moment ago.
"Humph, is that the strongest attack you have?" Asmodeus teased as he stared down the young man.
"That was never my intention...." The masked man snickered as the starlight in front of him quickly expanded. From behind him a pair of violet eyes opened in his shadow.
"Primordial Will of Space, nothingness reigns supreme; Let there be void!" The masked man declared
The spell circle seemed to respond as the spell circle shattered, in its place came a vacuum and soon after an infinite abyss!
"You....you....how did you open the abyss world?" Asmodeus yelled out in extreme fear, and then from the portal came massive tentacles.
The sky seemed to respond in anger and the stars in the sky disappeared. It was an infinite abyss of darkness, coldness, and predator eyes that came from the abyss. Loud shrieks of malice echoed in the realm, and Asmodeus' body started to shiver. The vileness of the abyss far surpassed anything that purgatory could produce.
They flew out rapidly attacking only Asmodeus for some reason, along Asmodeus' body the violet corruption burned hotter. The Astral devils seemed to be pursuing that. More devils flew out from the sky with their massive and strange geometries destroying the land.
They were all extreme abominations twisted mortal forms, and they had no understanding of space. They could appear anywhere at any moment terrifying those that remained.
"If the Abyss marks you, it will never stop its pursuit...This is what happens, when one does as you have to challenge it." The young man mumbled, he knew that Asmodeus would be corrupted when he came to the mortal realm.
Because one cannot challenge the abyssal will, and the act of moving through such huge space without permission was a challenge. It would have huge ramifications from the abyssal will. It is because of this that the gods do not send down their avatars because that itself is quite dangerous.
The devils from the abyss overflowed even natural law had to intervene to shut the gate. The abyssal will and natural law fought one another, as more devils came out and the portals closed. At this point, the abyssal will withdrew but it still supported the remaining devils.
The sky darkened from their malevolent presence as they flew at Asmodeus. They didn't bother with the young man, who quietly watched things happen.
"What do you want, Lucas...?" Dante said in a transmission to the young man, he recognized that terrifying eye on his mask. He knew without a doubt that Lucas was related. So, he made a bet hoping to work together, with him to beat Asmodeus.
"You cannot provide me with what I desire." The young man coldly intoned.
"Humph, insolence we are Grand Stage experts. What can we not provide you with?" Remmie said with a cold snort.
"Well Dante you can't give me anything, but you Remmie can give me quite a lot." The young man snickered as he grabbed the corner of his mask.
"Good, such consideration is to be rewarded." Remmie laughed as he approached the young man.
"Now tell me what is it you desire?" Remmie laughed as he clenched his fist ready to kill.
"Well..." The young man said as he slowly removed the mask, and underneath it was Lucas' face burning with Elemental Brandings.
Remmie's face turned pale in surprise, he felt his heart tremble intense fear. The premonition that he made a terrible decision surfaced once again.
"You can die for me!" The young man laughed as a portal opened, in it, an eye of evil and multiple tentacles reached out. It was Astral Devil Daemon! He quickly grabbed and swallow Remmie into the portal disappearing.
Tiberius looked stunned when he saw that he was Lucas, warriors had great memories he remembered that child from years ago.
"You....how are you still alive?" Tiberius screamed out in fear.
"What are you talking about." Dante asked in confusion, then all sudden Asmodeus was being grabbed by multiple abyss devils in the sky.
"Damn mortals!" Asmodeus screamed out as the death flames on his body were being squashed by the tentacles. Natural law and the Abyssal will both hated Asmodeus, so they cooperated to slay his avatar.
Remmie just made the mistake of approaching a darling of the Abyss. Since the young man helped to summon the abyssal will, it decided to guard him to an extent. Also considering he made a deal beforehand with Daemon.
"I will get that blood, I will take that divine origin!" Asmodeus raved as the young man moved in front of him.
"So, it was as I thought, you want to become the Lord of Shadows." Lucas intoned as he watched the Abyss devils tear up Asmodeus.
"You must have found that prophecy in the Ancient Temple. Sadly, there is only one destined Lord of Shadows." The young man laughed out as the Astral Devils destroyed Asmodeus, his avatar's energy exploded out.
The Astral devils quickly consumed the energy, they were about to attack for the divine energy. Until a massive dragon with violet eyes flashed out of Lucas' shadow. It quickly consumed the divine energy and flew back into the shadows. The Astral devils quietly looked on in fear, and Dante seemed to copy them.
"That's....the Shadowborn noble dragon." He stuttered out as he noticed the Astral Devils change targets. They started to attack all the lifeforms they could attack.
Space shattered in front of the dream formation, and then an altar appeared. On it was a long and thin saber-like sword, it was bloodstained and rustic. From Lucas' body came the First King's sword intent, and then the sword started to crazily resonate.
It flew out from the Altar like a tempest and flew right into Lucas' hands. He gripped it and swung it once, the space around him seemed to distort and he smiled as he looked at Dante and Tiberius.
"It is only fitting that there be an audience for this next part." He snickered a massive realm tree appeared behind him piercing into the firmament. Atop the tree was a phoenix, at the bottom of the tree laid a wolf, all as wind shadows passed along the tree.
Then a Kirin flashed into existence from a stream of lightning and roared in the skies. Then unending devilish qi formed a shadow devil with 9 blue lines along it, and lastly, an infinite serpent coiled along the tree reaching for heaven's vault.
The black sword levitated in front of him, and he sent the 6 phantom shadows into the sword. They flew in with immense power, and the sword started to shake.
At that moment Dante was fighting off Astral devils, without the abyssal will they were much weaker. But his power had fallen below the Grand Stage, and the same applied to Tiberius. Making the fight still tough for them.
In the distance approached a few experts, it was the blue robed mage, Walter, Elder Shu, and Elder Chen. They flew without regard for the Astral devils, and on their body, was a massive amount of blood and injuries. Dante looked over at Elder Shu in surprise he didn't see Young Master Shen among them.
"Where is Young Master Shen." Dante transmitted in concern, at this point if he survived. Without Shen, he would still ultimately die to his father.
"He's over there." Elder Shu screamed out as he pointed at the young man in the sky.
At that moment the sword seemed to eject infinite worldly essence. The energies split into the left and right, on his right appeared a swirling blue magical energy.
On his left globs of white intent gathered together in the form of swords. The two sides each created a massive dragon head, to the right was 5 colored scales. To the left was a white-scaled dragon that held massive intent but lacked runes on its scales.
"Roar!" A massive set of Draconic roars ascended to the skies at a cocoon formed around the young man.
Dante's heart seemed to stop, he felt the energy signature. It was Brian, the king's, and even his own energy around him! Worst of all it seemed he even killed Shen!
"God damn it, he's about to do something extremely dangerous!" Dante said as he gritted his teeth and sent out energy to destroy Lucas, but then natural law seemed to descend around Lucas.
"Damn it, he's advancing and natural law is even helping him." Dante screamed out as Tiberius responded in turn to retreat.
Any knight transitioning would receive recognition from the natural law of the world. But this phenomenon was unheard of, it was as if he was reaching for the legendary realm.
Around Lucas massive amounts of energy seemed to augment the cocoon. Then all sudden the cocoon seemed to release fire and ice and it created a yin-yang symbol! Then a surge of wood essence released from the divine azure tree, supplementing and growing the yin-yang symbol.
"Taiji, that legend from the elves. When one creates and subjugates duality...." Dante said in further dread, this phenomenon didn't seem to end.
The cocoon didn't stop at that, the energy continued to rotate around it. Then magnificent nomological runes appeared around the cocoon, they fused together creating a strange vortex. It was extremely small but then it became a massive 1000-meter vortex.
The Astral devils around it moved away in dread, but the vortex targeted and absorbed them entirely. In the sky appeared a terrifying black lotus each leaf imprinted with 6 phenomena.
The first leaf was a Kirin, the second was a Great tree with elemental powers, the third was an infinity serpent, the fourth was a great devil, the fifth was a black longsword, and on the sixth was a plane of windshadows and apocalyptic fumes.
At the center of the black lotus was a massive spatial rift, the rift expanded and migrated over to the sixth leaf perfectly fusing with it. Then from the cocoon came a cacophony of starbugs that released starlight onto the sixth leaf creating a river of stars! With the Lotus' sixth completion it faded away.
The vortex continued to devour the darkness created by the abyss, the sky seemed to brighten in moments. Around the cocoon now appeared a devilish energy that intertwined with dimensional power. Then unending sword qi generated near the sword qi in the form of a serpent.
Thunder and lightning crackled in the sky as it assembled along the cocoon, and then an intense shadow force intertwined them all. All the energy around the cocoon started to rotate, it was at first a few rotations a minute.
Soon after it was millions of rotations per second, and it started to close in on the center in increments. Shadows fused with lightning, then with Devilish energies, elemental powers, undying sword intent, and even dimensional forces. Then the Draconic auras were fused in, and finally, the energy stopped in front of Lucas.
It condensed to an extremely small and powerful point mass. Along it was the various laws that he had mastered and developed. It was as if natural law was blessing the point mass. The space around it was bending and curving every way imaginable.
Dante's heart froze when he saw that point mass, it held so much power it could even help him reach for the legendary realm. Every expert around felt their hearts ignite with greed, they all flew with intense fervor at Lucas intent on consuming the point mass.
"My path requires far too much energy...." He sighed as he removed a gemstone from his bag of holding. It was a beautiful green gem that held a massive tempest.
"Devour!" He declared as the vortex in front of him consumed the point mass. Then he quickly crushed the green gemstone, the energy entered the vortex of its own volition.
Dante looked on with anger when he realized that was like the gemstone he gave Brian. The runes dissipated as the natural law moved away quickly. Everything seemed to quiet down, and the darkness was lifted.
"So much energy will just gorge him!" Dante snickered as he saw Lucas' body go unresponsive. It remained in the sky but nothing seemed to happen.
"I am the Lord of Shadows and here I awaken!" Lucas yelled out as the world seemed to shake. Around him, even space started to corrode and wither away.
"Truesoul Split!" He yelled out as his powers seemed to wane suddenly. A massive tempest flew out with him at the center, everything and everyone was blown back by the sheer power.
