107 Sleep
Inside the imperial sky palace, the flame princess sat at a long golden table. She and Sword king sat next to each other to represent equal powers. From the various noble families were their patriarchs, and every powerful figure in the kingdom sat on the sides.
"That can't be...." Isaiah yelled out as Sasha described the circumstances of the Devil's birth.
"I tell no lies, you can ask anyone else. It was Lucas that is responsible...." She said as she held back her hatred and anger.
"But he died, how is he responsible?" Elton said as his voice quivered, for all this to happen to his disciple.
"I am sorry to say, but Lucas or rather Lucifer is responsible. He caused all this destruction and severely harmed the king!" She coldly said.
"The king was even forced to use an ancient spatial transmission charm." She revealed as the faces of a few noble patriarchs darkened.
"Is the king alright?" A tall middle-aged figure with a scarred face asked.
"He is quite fine, thank you for asking Duke Alois." She said in a sarcastic tone, but Alois just quietly sat down.
"But...." Elton was about to say when his grandfather stopped him. Everyone was sending looks of hatred towards them. They were after all training the man that destroyed Rain.
"We would like to apologize to all of Rain, we were unaware of Lucas or rather Lucifer's evil schemes." Isaiah said in a desolate voice as he bowed his head to the nobles.
"Hmph, what are words worth?" An azure clothed Elder said.
"To the noble of a sharp tongue such as yourself Dawson. Isn't words all you have?" Elton retorted in anger.
"You dare?!?" Dawson said as he stared down Elton.
"Enough!" Sasha yelled out as she released her scarlet flames, she looked like a devil from hell! Everyone directed their attention to her after her piercing yell.
"Bickering solves nothing, my brother and I shall be directing the rebuilding of Rain. Our father should return soon enough." She declared as she stood up from the table.
No one stopped her tacitly agreeing that she would lead, at least on the surface...Sword King followed behind as they exited the room, and Isaiah quickly left taking Elton along with him. They walked outside and flew down to the ground from the sky palace.
"Grandfather, why did you concede?" Elton asked in confusion
"What else could we do; even if Lucas didn't do it, it doesn't matter. They need a scapegoat had we insisted anymore, we would have been the scapegoats...." Isaiah said masking his anger.
"Honestly they may be right...." Isaiah muttered under his breath.
"Grandfather, how could you possibly say that?" Elton said trying to hide his disgust.
"Don't act coy with me, you saw the signs." Isaiah said in a half yelling voice as he stared down Elton.
"Why were we so spared earlier when the restrictions exploded?" He yelled at Elton as he walked closer
"What about when that dragon appeared and Lucas happened to disappear?" He said as he grabbed Elton's shoulder
"What about that time when he condensed his sword heart path?" He said as he now stared Elton in the eye
"What about the suspiciousness of his background that we hid?" He said as he let go of his grip and turned around.
"I don't care, my disciple is my disciple. Regardless of his sins, I will still stand by him!" Elton yelled in an earth-shattering voice, his sword intent seemed to metamorphose.
In the sky appeared a strange heart, it seemed to beat with powerful sword intent.
"To progress on your sword heart now of all times." Isaiah said in a surprised voice.
"You are right about that, he is forever our disciple." Isaiah said with conviction.
"Then let us make a place for him to return to when he is strong!" Isaiah said with a smirk
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In the imperial palace, Sword king and Sasha quietly walked next to each other. They entered the throne room, and sitting on the throne was an old man. His body seemed decrepit, and he had broken white scales all over his body. He opened his eyes which seemed to have the embers of a fire burning in them.
"How did it go?" He asked in an old and wise tone.
"It went okay father, are you feeling better?" Sasha asked in sadness.
"I feel better, but this the consequence of igniting the ancestral bloodline scripture." He said in a desolate voice.
"That devil, he benefited from your suffering!" Sasha said in an angry voice.
"Sasha, he saved our kingdom in a way. Had that Demonic serpent succeeded, he would have wiped all of us out...." The king's body couldn't help but shiver in fear when he remembered that terrifying serpent-like stare.
"But father...." She was about to say.
"But nothing, it is irrelevant that man spared us. With his potential, he is destined to rule this world...." The king said as he remembered the circumstances after he passed out.
He cracked the transmission charm, but it was extremely slow. The attack from Asmodeus was flying at him, and he knew he would die. Then he felt something happen and space became extremely fragile. He heard a voice, speak to him.
"I normally don't save weirdos, but a debt is a debt." He said as the transmission charm glowed with immense power and transmitted him far away.
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I shuttled through the void and appeared in an abyssal space. In front of me was an eldritch portal of evil. Inside was a devilish eye with multiple tentacles overflowing.
"Thank you for your help." Daemon said as he looked at me, I still in my most powerful state for a little longer.
"It was nothing, but I'd like the true soul of that Magus." I intoned as I tapped the space in front of, and a massive black lotus with a vortex at its center appeared.
The Astral devil looked at the vortex with nervousness, I created an ice shard that resonated with the one implanted inside of the offering.
The devil felt the resonance and some fear of my methods, so he spat out a point mass of death. On the ball shined a face similar to Remmie. The black lotus consumed the point mass and entered my body.
"May the will of the abyss bless your path." The Astral devil said with an evil smirk as I disappeared.
I tore open space and flew thousands of meters in moments. With my extreme power right now, I could move at unimaginable speeds using spatial magic.
"Drrak create a resonance loop with the location." I said in a cold voice, Drrak appeared out my shadow. I could feel my spatial energy resonate with a distant spell circle.
The spell circle released a massive amount of magic energy. I released my own energy and punched open space. I went through the opened space, and in moments appeared inside Sopulla's temple. The moment I reached the temple, my body split apart. From it, two beams of white and black flew apart and collided on to the ground.
"Damn!" Lucifer said as he stood up from the ground. His body was riddled with injuries and his magic power was in chaos. Even the point mass that held his true soul was damaged.
"Calm yourself...." Lucas said as he approached Lucifer, he was equally as harmed just calmer about it.
"His Highness has recommended, that we do not fuse without extreme necessity." Lucas said as he calmly looked on at Lucifer, in a way they were brothers.
So they held a strange bond although they only knew each for a little while. They each existed in Lord of Shadows, holding some of his values. They had always been one their entire life, and being separated couldn't change that bond.
"Well we have the time, and we need to heal." Lucifer said as he flipped his palm, and in it appeared a black lotus.
"Are those the insights?" Lucas asked in curiosity.
"Yes, here's your part." Lucifer said as he ripped out a demonic head. The black lotus ground it to pieces and took out a few fragments.
It was an extremely sharp sword intent, the demonic parts were sliced away. Lucifer took a deep breath devouring the demonic fragments. He released a black point mass of death, and another one of fire. He fused the sword intent with the point mass of fire. Then he sent the point mass at Lucas.
They both simultaneously consumed their individual point masses. Their bodies were parched from fusion, and this infusion stabilized their injuries.
Around them formed a cocoon on Lucifer it was a black cocoon of death. On Lucas, it was a white cocoon and a strange rotating green energy. It seemed something awoke in Lucas, Drrak left Lucifer's shadow and watched this happen.
'Life, he inherited her power....' Drrak thought as he sighed
"What a terrifying path, that you've created." Drrak commented as his dragon form expanded. He became a massive thousand meter dragon and spread his wings.
"When you reawaken, the world will shake!" Drrak laughed as he flew off into the skies.
As Drrak departed into the skies enjoying the area outside of the temple. A heartbeat started to build up in the temple if one listened carefully it was two heartbeats in perfect rhythm.
