105 True Self

Lucifer took a deep breath and exhaled, the air seemed to darken from his presence. Space bent around his form, as he removed the void sword from its black sheath. It seemed to respond to his aura and it shined with a violet light.

"Pseudo Aura Weapon, that weapon...." Dante's heart latched he had seen that saber before. He never thought it had this much power and potential.

Lucas smiled in turn and grabbed the levitating black sword. The moment he touched it, they seemed to fuse together. The sword hummed with joy, as it released an undying sword intent. White globs of energy appeared all around Lucas.

"Who is who?" Dante asked in confusion, they seemed to be different people yet the same.

"We are but merely parts of the Lord of Shadows." Lucifer snickered.

"We only represent his power." Lucas responded in turn, they seemed to relate to one another mentally.

"Let's test out our powers." Lucifer said as the violet void sword flashed with nomological runes.

The runes were extremely intricate and seemed to be formed of natural laws. Dante looked at the sword in confusion, then he quickly dodged back in fear.

Right at that moment space seemed to fluctuate, as Lucifer appeared in front of Dante and slashed his chest. Dante barely dodged back and got a single slash across his chest. He felt his magic energy escape through the slash.

"Prowess of a level 50 mage." Dante said as he gritted his teeth, at this point his strength was only at half step grand mage.

He could be harmed by this level of attack power, and he was also attacked without warning.

"So, you did kill Brian, and you even destroyed my plans, you little animal!" Dante said in extreme anger.

"You will die today!" His domain was destroyed, but with the power of a peak mage he still had other moves.

"Heat Wave." Behind him appeared a line of scarlet flames, the fire flew at Lucifer like a tidal wave intent on swallowing him.

"Lucas, if you could." He said as he shattered the void dodging the heat wave. It didn't stop there Dante redirected it at Lucifer once again.

When Lucifer reappeared he was behind Lucas, who was gripping the First King's black sword.

"Ouroboros Code" Lucas coldly intoned as the sword intent around him double. Everything within 10 meters was saturated with his sword intent.

"Serpentine Armor" In front of Lucas the sword intent formed a wall of serpents, each with divine prestige.

The sword intent rotated as the snakes coiled at a high speed. The snakes quickly neutralized the incoming flames.

"Elemental Demolition: Phoenix Flames." Lucas' sword started to burn with golden embers, they were extremely small but held immense power.

He raised his sword and cut through his own Serpentine. The armor augmented the slash and generated a golden sword beam. It seemed to hold the power of a sun as it flew at Dante.

"Tiberius!" Dante knew he couldn't handle an attack with his body in this condition now.

"Demon Slayer." Tiberius yelled out as he sent a flying blood red skull at the incoming beam.

They quickly collided, the skull seemed to have the upper hand at first. Then the sword beam seemed to explode with golden flames. The embers became an inferno as it quickly devoured the entire skull.

"Such evil arts cannot infect the purity of the Phoenix!" Lucas snorted as the inferno exploded out, he and Lucifer watched Tiberius and Dante retreat.

"Walter, Albert, Shu, and Chen. Help us kill this little demon!" Dante yelled to the experts that came earlier.

At that moment a few more people came, it was Carol, her father, Sasha, Sword King, and a few other faces.

"Lucas?!?" Carol said in a surprised voice as she stared at the two young men in the sky.

The one with black hair was only similar based on facial features. The other one looked exactly like Lucas but with long ears.

"Who are you? Why do you attack our kingdom?" Flame Princess Sasha probed.

"Well I should give proper introductions, shouldn't I?" Lucifer snickered as he appeared in front of Sasha

"Show off...." Lucas said as he disappeared into the wind and appeared next to Lucifer.

"We are parts of Lord of Shadows" Lucifer said in a playful voice.

"We mean no harm to your kingdom, and we will leave soon." Lucas said in a cold voice

"No harm? What about all this destruction, also what about the many lives you sacrificed?!?" Sasha screamed out as a fiery aura of appeared around her.

"The destruction was caused by Asmodeus, Dante, Remmie, and Tiberius." Lucas intoned in a calm voice.

"As for the lives that were sacrificed, they mean nothing." Lucifer snickered

"Nothing...." Sasha gritted her teeth, she didn't even know where her father was.

"Whoever you are, you must die!" Dante said in anger as he released a barrage of flame fists.

The other experts around him joined, as they released their strongest attacks on us.

"Void Serpent Armor." Lucas and I said at the same time, Lucas created a massive array of spinning sword and snakes. I boosted the sharpness of the swords by creating hundreds of spatial cracks.

I felt my magic power decrease significantly, and even Lucas sword intent waned. The attacks struck our armor and lead to a short struggle. The sword armor was destroyed but the attack dissipated.

"Again!" Dante said as he started attacking again, everyone joining in. Even people below knight level joined in!

"Draconification!" We said together at the same time, on my body appeared black scales with incomplete runes.

On Lucas appeared 5 colored scales all along his body, they lacked runes of defense but they had sword intent and elemental energies! The attacks hit both of our bodies, we were sent flying back as our scales shattered from the damage. I could feel both our physiques sent into chaos. I wasn't as strong physically so I spit up some blood.

"He isn't omnipotent, we can kill him!" Dante yelled to everyone else as the prepared another attack.

"Though we are powerful separate, we can't beat them all...." I said as I looked Lucas in the eye.

He was a part of me, the purely logical and neutral part of myself. I was the more devilish and logical evil part of me. Since I made an armistice with my shadow self, we agreed to work together.

He fused back into myself and agreed not to wake up unless I become disappointing. So, Lucifer can be considered a combination of my own sadistic evil self, influenced by the Lord of Shadows sealed within me.

"True self!" We said in unison as a blinding light exploded from the sky. Just the light of my power destroyed the incoming attack.

I could feel my energies fuse with each other, I was returning...The world seemed to shake, even the heavens feared my return...

Inner and Outer

Knight and Magus

True Soul

Shadow, Astral, Devil

Ouroboros, Lightning, Elemental

All my powers fused together, I could feel the Primordial Essence of Sopulla and Cenir fuse. The green and black didn't reject each other, instead, they seemed to become one! The energy metamorphosed and became a single point mass!

My stats and abilities rapidly evolved and my level exploded. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, all the way to an 18-level increase!

My Eye of Chaos quickly transformed becoming complete, Advanced telekinesis followed soon after becoming perfected. Everything within 1000 meters became clear to me. Even Shadow Mastery increased creating a new technique Ignition! It quickly fused with my codes which also transformed and fused.

I felt Void comprehension increase until it was 20% and I gained another ability spatial sealing! I fused it into my slayer arts further developing my Astral river. Then my magical powers consolidated into my Decomposition Cipher. Which was my elemental mastery path's abilities to decompose the world.

My true form revealed itself, I had half black and half blonde long hair. Half of my robes were white, and the other half was black. Lastly, I had one blue pupil eye and one black pupil eye.

My status refreshed as I looked at it with a smirk of joy.

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Status:

Name: ???

Age: 17

Occupation:

Arcane Slayer

Level: 53

Strength: 383

Speed: 450

Flexibility: 315

Endurance: 315

Magic Power: 200

The attributes above come into effect once the mark of shadows activates.

Blessings:

Mark of shadows

Meditation Art: Abyss Devouring Art

Slayer Arts:

Decomposition Cipher(20%)

-Tempest: Windshadows

-Yin: Icy Wolf

-Curse: Black Phoenix

-Vitality: Divine Tree

Ancestral Code (100%)

-Kirin

--Lightning Step

-Ouroboros

--Serpentine Armor

-Devil

--Devil's Gaze

-Astral

--Astral River

-Shadows

--Ignition

Abilities:

Heart of the Sword(38%)

Draconification

Elemental Affinity (88%)

Eye of Chaos (Complete)

Shadow Mastery (20%)

Magic Body

Illusory Body

Shadow of Providence (256)

Sword Body (38%)

Advanced Telekinesis (Perfection)

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Natural law seemed afraid to approach me, as everything around me seemed to bend away. I squeezed my fists and felt them crack with immense power. Earlier I felt extremely powerful, but right now this power far surpassed anything I could imagine.

Sadly, I could feel the point mass of shadows slowly separating. I was fusing the essence of two different gods. I could at most use this form for 5 minutes max. I can't even unleash my true power otherwise I might anger natural law.

Dante felt my earth-shattering aura and started to edge back. At this point even if all the grand stage experts came out. I could fight them and leave with my life.

"Let me show you omnipotence." I said in an extremely cold and distant voice. Right now, I felt far above them and so I was extremely distant emotionally.