89 Devil Avatar

In a desert, a spatial portal broken opened releasing deadly apocalyptic fumes. A young man in black robes appeared, the robe was adorned with a two-horned devil with blue lines along it on the back. The young man radiated intense devil qi, as the path to slaughter formed from his gaze.

With a swipe of his hands, the apocalyptic fumes dispersed. He quickly masked all the magical fluctuations as his gaze turned towards a capital off to the distance. It was a massive city surrounded by a massive magical dome! It was the Dread Capital, the young man shot off to the capital with haste.

At his high speed, he reached the capital in minutes, the guards standing at the gate took one look at the young man before unhesitantly opening the gates. He moved through unhindered as his form disappeared into the city unseen by anyone else.

Then as a night fell on a rooftop, the young man appeared again this time his qi was calmed and he fiddled with qi as he waited. Soon a man clad in black leather appeared out of the shadows and approached the young man.

"You are?" The black-clad man said with uncertainty

The young man flashed a sigil of dagger and sword with his left hand. The black-clad man looked stunned for a moment before quickly getting on one knee with subservience.

"Branch Leader, I sincerely apologize for my disrespect." He said with authenticity, this was the power of earned status.

Every branch leader is a warrior at the peak of inner reformation on the cusp of becoming a transitioning knight. But for a large number of resources, they have to hide their level and act as a mortal for the silent swords guild.

"Give this to the Dread Director." The young man said as he threw documents, and blended into the shadows disappear.

The black robed man noticed the young man when he entered the city and became curious as he started following. But what really scared him was when he appeared on the roof of the Silent Swords information board. The young man seemed to appear and disappear in an instant.

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Outside of the city, I was walking along a desert path, slowly approaching the meeting point I designated. Ever since the Ruins were closed, I had been spending time investigating Brian and Lewis' memories and running experiments with my free time.

I found rather interesting information on the identity of their director, and the location of the last shipment of star herbs they gathered. As I walked the sand seemed to darken and then I stopped once the sand was as black as the sky.

'Cursed land.' I thought as I took samples of the sand and put in it some test tubes for later. When certain fey beasts die, their blood leaves a malevolent intent in the sand which evolves into curse land. The true importance of coming here for me was the ability to obscure magical fluctuations.

As I put the sample away, a figure sped into the area with multiple sonic booms approaching. Soon the figure became visible, it was a swarthy man with tattoos all over his body wearing plate armor. To his back was a greatsword that radiated killing intent involuntarily. He stopped close to me with a scowling expression.

"You're the thunder cultivator that robbed us two days ago?" The man said sternly as I smiled.

"So it was you after all." I laughed as I had recognized the director. He was the guard that sold me off all those years ago. Seems that fate has brought us together again!

"Who are you?" The director asked confused as he tried to recognize me. Then the image of an unwilling little boy being forced into the caravan overlapped with the devilishly handsome young man of now.

"You! You can't be alive?!?" The director said he took a step back in shock.

"I'm standing right here aren't I?" I laughed as swirling devil qi emerged from my body. The screams of agony of powerful demons emerged leaving dread in the director's heart.

"Return the herbs, and I won't say a word to anyone about you." The director hesitantly said, he didn't want to say that but something made him feel compelled to give up now.

"I won't be having any of that." I laughed as I unsheathed my saber and slashed out with a devilish sword.

The devil qi's multifarious nature took the form of a fire and the director raised his greatsword to block. The qi slammed into the sword and singed the blade but the director was unaffected. He grabbed the greatsword and put it over his shoulder.

"Then fine I'll rip the herbs off of your dead body." He roared as he slashed his sword releasing a massive shockwave of sword qi. My devil qi condensed only my sword edge as I stabbed into the shockwave dividing it.

Quickly we flew at each other and exchanged more blows, I blasted out with more devil qi taking the form of fire, ice, and many more magical phenomenon. But it seemed like his greatsword could block anything I threw.

After 20 more blows of getting nowhere, I retreated back and started to release a volley of sword beams. The resplendent beams cut across like lightning leaving only a trail of devilish intent. The director barely guarded against the beams as they overwhelmed him.

I continued to shoot away releasing an unending volley of qi, even though I felt my intent wane in force. As soon as he felt my sword qi weaken the director roared as he released another shockwave, but this one was his own unending volley. He shot over 3 consecutive shockwaves blessed by the heaviness of his qi.

I dodged back trying to avoid further strikes as I raised my saber to guard. But the heaviness of the qi cut against my guard and I was forced back with injuries throughout my body.

"Is that the best you got? Because you'd better use that thunder power before you die." The director said as he arrogantly stood over me. I snickered and regained my stance, as more devil qi generated from my body. The qi condensed into my eyes as I released a charming and evil power.

"Devil's Gaze." The power of bedevilment emerged as a shadow devil appeared behind me. Along its body was 9 blue lines, and there were two horns with the dipped singed by a blood red color. My gaze weakened his powers as his heavy sword qi lost a 1/3 of its weight.

"Did you think just lowering my weight would work?" He laughed as his physique cracked and exuded intense strength. His muscles bulged as he radiated blood vitality and his sword qi soared. He grabbed his greatsword and held it at the peak of attack. Intense sword qi condensed making the sword glean with a white color

"Great Divide!" He slammed down as his muscles accelerated the fall of his sword. All along his slash, the world seemed to divide. The attack generated a sword beam that threatened to obliterate me.

The director looked at my calm expression surprised. I had a bit of an arrogant smirk as the sword beam flew to my throat and I didn't move. Then all of sudden a thunderstorm formed in the sky, and an array of thunderbolts came as heavenly judgment striking the sword beam into oblivion.

The director looked at the sky with surprise as a Kirin emerged from the cloud's radiating dignity. On the back of the Kirin was a young man dressed in thunder robes, and on the back was a Kirin. Looking closely the young man had 6 points of resemblance with the other one in front of him!

The Kirin flew down to the ground with a thunderclap as it fused into the young man with the thunder robes. Along his body were nomological lightning runes flashing with intense electrical power. He stood next to the devilish young man giving the impression that they were brothers.

"You two...what are you?" The director asked as he looked at the lightning man. They were thunder cultivator that raided them.

"Since you wanted to see my thunder power I'll show you." The lightning man said as the shadow devil crackled. The young man fused into the devilish young man as lightning runes emerged on his body. The shadow devil seemed to be struck with lightning becoming a thunder devil!

"Thunder Devil!" He roared as the devil's eyes crackled with evil lightning as it's body expanded into a terrifying devil form. The devilish young man gripped his fists as his power more than doubled with the effects of fusion.

After killing Brian and stealing his memories, Lucas took the method of true soul splitting and created an avatar art. Then he split he sword intents and codes into different avatars sending them out into the world to progress on his plans.