The Showdown 1/3

The two sides faced each other, every one of them ready to defend or strike against the other. Tension ran high as Valentine exerted even more magic from her already powerful state.

"Tsk,"

Rudolf was trying to plan a way for them to deal against Valentine, though she was also a body amplifier and quite possibly stronger than any of the four of them, he believed strategy combined with all four of their magic could earn them the victory.

The two leaders were sitting in the back as they did when they first came, uncaring of the scene, which was unfolding in front of them. Caitlyn could be seen smiling at them as she watched with her cute eyes. Artemis, on the other hand, was no different; his eyes were as cold as ever and looked straight at Rudolf.

It was as if he was pointing out that Rudolf was the one to emerge victorious among the four. As the thought grazed his mind, he shook his head and reassured himself.

No, I will find a way, bastards!

He thought.

Suddenly, Artemis smiled at him; did he hear his thoughts? If he did, they were already a tremendous disadvantage.

The floor below them began to rumble, and they saw Artemis and Caitlyn stand from their chairs. And suddenly the floor disappeared below them, and they fell.

"Crap!"

"What the hell!"

The group screamed in terror as they did not anticipate that the floor was going to work against them.

"6th Tier Magic Barrier: {Ultra Defense Shield!}" Rudolf cast his most powerful defense spell, a green dome appeared them and encompassed the group, shielding them as they fell to the ground. As the ground beneath them cracked under the weight of the spell, the group were tossed around inside.

Dust floated and formed a thick cloud that lowered their vision; even their enhanced senses struggled to see through the thick fog of unknown dust, unlike the normal dust they'd encounter. It was at this point did they realize that the enemy they were facing, the weapons, the metal men, the architecture, the materials, and the two leaders were not from this world.

They couldn't be, sure it was a long stretch of an answer, but it was the only thing they could think of. For not even the three superpowers, the three nations who emerged victorious during the end of the Forgotten Era didn't have such magnificence within their technology, culture, or military. No records or smuggled information even told of such a monstrosity that they were facing.

The spell's dome evaporated after sustaining the brunt of the fall, the cloud of dust then went and covered them, they coughed and struggled to breathe.

"Tsk, cast a spell, Grey!" Liz shouted amid the smoke; she coughed profusely as she uttered the words.

"C-clear!" Grey shouted with difficulty; a strong gust of wind came from his palm and blew the cloud of dust away to the sides. As the dust was blown away, the group were finally able to see each other and the room they were in. It wasn't the lobby nor was it the same hall which they walked in a few minutes ago, it was an area.

Unknown to them, the floors were merely platforms which opened directly above an arena under the building itself. The area was a huge cube room with large white tiles serving as the wall, floor, and ceiling of the area. It was huge and could be said to be half a kilometer wide and a quarter of a kilometer tall. Large lines of white light covered each crack of the tiles illuminating with as much power as a sun to them.

As the cloud of dust finally settled, several claps echoed through the arena. The group looked up and saw Artemis and Caitlyn floating on platforms which glowed underneath them.

"Levitation magic?" Rudolf stared at the two, surprised like the others further as he saw what was one of the rarest and difficult magic spells.

"Tsk, levitation magic is one of the forgotten spells since the Forgotten Era, most of its scrolls and knowledge were nearly erased, I heard levitation magic was very common before the Forgotten Era and now today it is extremely rare. You bastards! Do you think this is fair? What are you doing?! what do you gain from us!?" Shialynn could no longer handle the stress, what pushed her to the breaking point was unknown, but her friends have noticed that she's been acting strangely late and looking at her stomach quite often.

Her voice echoed through the room like a kid laughing in a deep cave. Valentine then crashed down the floor a few meters from them, sending a shock wave powerful enough to send them flying and creating another dust cloud.

Valentine emerged from the dust cloud exerting a more powerful aura than before; her atmosphere was powerful enough that even the non-magic beings like Artemis and Caitlyn could see her body shine a faint gold.

"So this is magic, she's powerful enough to utilize a faint light around her body. For what I heard from the information that the MTF droids got during the infiltration, shes on the peak of A-rank, one step towards Demigod, the average to transcended towards Demigod was in the age of 40 to 50 in age if you train for years, but Valentine however is still 25 in age, and she is gonna be transcended towards Demigod probably less than a year or so, a prodigy indeed," Artemis remarked, followed by a nod from Caitlyn.

"It is quite a sight, something unexplained by modern science but could now be attributed to a new field, the field of magic," Caitlyn replied.

"Now!" Valentine's voice was harsher and more commanding; she sounded like an officer who had seen much from the war. Her eyes began to glow a damp red hue followed by the clenching of her fists under a yellowish haze. She began to exert even more magic within her body, leaking her mana in the surrounding area, nearly covering half of the entire room.

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"She has that much mana! Is she a Demigod?!" Grey began to shake. The group began to shake like Grey, the weakest among them nearly threw up by the exceed amount of mana on that monster in front of them.

"Would we even survive," Rudolf was beginning to doubt their chances, it was either one of them was chosen, or that none of them would live through. He believed he was the chosen one, a vivid image of two gods began to form within their minds; they were staring at two beings of power, a god, and a goddess.

Shialynn broke down into tears, sobbing and wailing as she went on her knees and began to beg for mercy.

"Please! Just spare my baby!" She pleaded.

"What!?" The three were astonished; they didn't expect Shialynn to bare a child; she even admitted herself that she was sterile!

"No..."

Rudolf lowered his sword and stared at Shialynn. his eyes were now red, and tears began to flow down.

What the hell is wrong with these people?

Liz thought, she scanned the three of them as Valentine was shining brightly in the background, Grey was naively brave as ever, staring down at Valentine who was at peak A-rank who has a mana capacity of a demigod but for him was only just in the early stages of A-rank who just level up a week ago, Shialynn was on her knees sobbing like a kid, and Rudolf was staring at her like a broke rapist.

"I have been with idiots all this time?" She began to question her choices, she'd known them for three years, and it's been three and a half years ever since she left her family. Why was she blind for three years? She shrugged off their attitudes as just who they were, that she was happy with them since they accepted her, but was it worth it?

She began to think deeply, she had a good life awaiting her, she was betrothed to a handsome young man who she didn't knew sure, but he seemed sweet enough and was rich, his family had the power within the kingdom even more so that her family. She could've had an easy life and proud parents, maybe even a son or a daughter.

"Why did I waste three years," She whispered, the other three seemed not to notice. Valentine and the other two seemed to be taking their time, letting their group collapse underneath its weight. Did they foresee this already? If so, maybe, just maybe, siding with them wasn't all that bad would it? Besides she'd waste three years of her life living and being an idiot among three more idiots, why don't she joined a new power as their pawn? Maybe she'd regain some of her honor by then.

She then heard Rudolf; he was acting, unlike the person, she knew him as.

"You bitch! You stupid bitch! Whore! Whore!" He shouted at Shialynn, she was still sobbing and refused to look at Rudolf.

"You told me, I'd be the one, I'd be the father! But now what!? What! You whore!"

By now, Artemis was getting annoyed at the drama unfolding below him, he turned his attention towards Valentine and called her with an earpiece attached to her right ear.

"Finish the job," He ordered.

"Yes, master," Valentine replied swiftly, she set her eyes on Grey. Grey had been waiting for her, he smirked at the glowing lady and readied himself. As Valentine began to walk towards him, he thought it would be the best to strike first, and so he did.

"{Deity's Blessing!}" He chanted, a large circle formed above his head and the area below the circle glowed along with him.

He's eyes are also began to glow blue, indicating that he too had powered himself up with mana beyond the capacity of his rank.

"Oh, interesting," Artemis remarked.

"Someone equivalent to Valentine perhaps? We didn't receive this information," Caitlyn looked thrilled.

Liz was the only one of her group paying attention to one Grey had just done.

"{A deity's blessing}"

{Deity's blessing} is a set of enhancement spells granted to a magic-user who had the will strong enough to handle the power. With Grey's case, the blessing he used was from the Blue Goddess and amplified his stats by thirty; he was now basically at the same level and strength as Valentine. With this came a price though, with the blessing, his mana reserves within his own body have been amplified temporarily to store the massive amounts of new magic power, but if he fails to use it all up before the timer was up, he will die of magic asphyxiation.

"Come to me! Demon!" Grey shouted before charging towards his Valentine, with his long spear drawn and stats amplified, his will and heart combined with his naivety, proved to be his greatest strength. Valentine frowned, and she too charged towards Grey with her glowing fists ready to strike.

Liz watched as the two humans of immense power crashed against one another with what could be described as a spectacle of two stars colliding.

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Imma make Valentine fight with fist first, but nearly in the ending of the fight, I'll let her used her katana.

In the orginal, where the hell is Vilvintine's weapon and ice magic? It is said she specialize in frost magic but where is the frost in the future chapter? We all thought her role was supposed to be a mage-assassin, not a fighter, she ain't Yang.

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References: Overlord

Overlord:

-Four Adventurers vs A-rank(Level 100) mage.