ARC SIX:CH-6.9

A few minutes ago....

The cold glint of the blade thrusting towards Nulis made him shiver. He got up on his two feet, with the intention of dodging the sword crashing on him.

Clang!

The sword was intercepted by another force.

"What is the meaning of this?"

The representative stared at Prince Levi as he replied with utmost respect.

"Prince, It is my duty to slay this traitor before us. Please let me take over from here."

Levi held the lustrous sword with his bare hands, preventing it from falling further. He stared at the man dressed in suit.

"Did sister give you the order to kill him?"

The man replied. "I take it upon myself to finish him off. Your sister never gave me the order."

Levi glanced at the push doll before him. His eyes narrowed slightly. The push doll was looking back at him with his blue eyes waning a bit. Giving the man a glare he stated as a matter of fact. "You can beat him to a pulp but killing him is not allowed. I will have his soul sustained in another body. Slaying him is off limits."

"Prince Levi please forgive me but I cannot do that." Their queen couldn't lay her hands on this traitor but that didn't mean she would stop anyone from slaying Elm. As long as it was someone else and not her, she would gladly let the traitor die by someone else's blade.

"The traitor must die."

"This isn't what I agreed to!" Levi flung the sword aback, causing the representative to stagger back a few steps.

The representative sighed. He knew this was bound to happen. After all Prince Levi was fond of Elm ever since he was young.

However....he must take matters into his hands and kill Elm. Letting him live all this time, they have been merciful for so long.

"Prince Levi please forgive me for my rudeness."

He then attacked the young boy.

Levi looked down at the injured doll. "What are you looking at? Hurry up and run away at some distance."

Nulis was shocked. His blue eyes widened as he stared at the man who have beaten him to this state, causing even his soul to leak from his body. Now the very same man who was trying to kill him was telling him to escape?

And what was with their conversation? He was a traitor? Of the gods? Moreover there was somone called sister who was behind the attack?

"Didn't you wanted to kill me too?" He couldn't help but ask this person.

Levi bit his lips. "I just wanted to play with you for a bit." He didn't say anything more than that. Instead he turned around sprinting towards the representative.

He will not let anyone kill Elm. Sure beating him up to a pulp was acceptable but killing him wasn't allowed. He was going to take this person back to heaven and put his remaining soul inside a spiritual body. Then he would erase his memories before befriending him again. In that way he could have Elm for himself. When he told his sister about it she had agreed to his request.

"As long as he is harmless you can have him." His sister's words rang in his ears.

But she lied to him.

"Prince Levi. Please you must allow me to punish that traitor."

He will never allow that. Levi kicked the representative on his abdomen, causing him to cough out a mouthful of blood. The man intercepted the heavenly sword of the prince slashing towards him with his sword. The representative clenched his hand to a fist. He was about to send a powerful punch towards the young prince.

"Does your loyalty really lie with the gods? Are you going to lay your hand on me?"

The representative heard their prince question his loyalty. He stared back at him with a fierce glare replying.

"My loyalty lies with the queen."

After saying so he did not hesitate to punch the prince on his face.

Everytime their swords clashed it caused the ground to tremble heavily. The surrounding buildings inside the domain was crumbling to massive mass of boulders. Amidst their fight they felt the domain shatter to pieces.

This was the scene that greeted Ivar when he broke through the domain.

From the corner of his eyes Levi saw the intruder walk towards Elm. He saw the person pick up the push doll in his arms with care gently.

"Get inside me and rest." Ivar caressed Nulis lightly as he told him to withdraw inside him. He transferred some of his soul force into the push doll body.

"Is it better even by bit?"

The system shook his head. "Your soul force is comfortingly warm." He could feel the leaking stop at one point. Like Ivar had suggested he went inside Ivar's body, hiding himself inside him.

"Elm."

The system heard his partner speak. His soul was brimming with a warm feeling.

"That's your name. Your real name." Ivar told him.

"Elm?"

"Hm." He reaffirmed.

Elm. So that's his real name. Elm. Elm. Elm. The name kept reverberating in his mind giving him a sense of fullness.

"Hehe!" He let out a rather idiotic laugh. "Thank you so much partner."

Ivar felt a lump of air stuck in his throat. For a split second he felt as if tears would fall out from his eyes. He had this sudden urge of wanting to cry. His lips trembled for a bit. Clearing his throat he hid this feeling of almost being driven to tears within himself.

"Rest well." He could only utter these two words.

"Ok." The system replied humming happily.

Levi and the man in suit stopped fighting. Both of them stared at the person who have destroyed the domain. This person was oozing with a formidable aura.

"Who is he?" Levi asked the representative.

"The rebel who is linked to Elm."

So this rebel was one of the targets? Levi thought to himself. According to what he knew this rebel was one of the many characters who broke through his original world. Sometimes characters would break through worlds because of varying two reasons. One was when the gods who created them made them too powerful the characters would tend to develop their own consciousness. Other times it was often due to the legacy of the readers that would shape the consciousness of the characters. However when these two factors were accomplished by a single individual they were given the chance to ascend godhood. These cases happened rarely. It was even more frequent these few hundred years. When incidents like this occur it was the duty of the gods in the heaven realm to get rid of possible new gods. He could see the signs of breaking through in the soul of the rebel before him.

"Prince Levi please withdraw from this world. I shall take over from here."

Levi ignored the words of the man in suit. His eyes were busy studying the rebel in who resided Elm.

"Levi! Return immediately! Heed my order. I am addressing you as the queen of the heaven realm."

He heard his sister berate him in his mind. He was reluctant.

"I will teleport you to the bridge. Do you understand?" Her voice was assertive as she repeated her words to him. "Do you understand what you have to do?"

Levi did not want to leave. If he left there was no telling if this representative over here would slay Elm for good. He did not want anyone to kill Elm. He cannot trust this issue regarding Elm to anyone else. He must oversee the matter by himself.

You are not leaving! Both of you!

His crimson red mana flared viciously, draping his entire body in it. Ivar summoned his red dragon. The length of the mighty beast covered the expanse of the sky.

"Its been a while master." The dragon spoke.

Ivar gave him a mere glance. "Since when did you began to speak?" He did not remember this dragon being able to speak.

"I have always been a conscious part of you master. Thanks to master's soul growing stronger now I have been blessed with the gift of speech." The dragon's voice spoke rigidly.

Ivar was too busy to even check his soul force. He didn't even notice it until now that his soul force was indeed brimming with fullness. It was as if his soul was evolving. He threw the matter regarding this aside for now.

"You take care of that man in suit. Kill him."

"As you wish. Master."

The dragon glided forward in the sky. He let out a loud roar, causing the enitre space to vibrate and shake heavily. His body was draped in crimson red flames, the thick magicules on his body flaring brightly. Sliding through the distance he sprang forward aiming at his enemy.

The dragon's mouth slit open. It sucked in the magicules inside it's mouth ready to blast it's breath onto its target.

BOOOOOMMMMMMMM.

The melting heat of the breathe caused the enemy to split apart. The representative dodged to his left, as he did this he felt the scorching heat of the crimson red flame clutching on his skin. He was about to attack the rebel but the next moment his back was dripping with water, sweating heavily. He could feel the gaze of the monstrous beast behind him, causing his body to go numb for a second. A summoned dragon made out of pure destructive magicules....

"Master told me to kill you." The dragon's hoarse voice fell next to his ears.

The representative looked back steering his eyes backwards. As he did this he angled his weapon secretively, preparing for a sneak attack. The burning eyes of the dragon were locked onto him, as if the beast was ready to gobble him up.

"Ahhhhh!"

The man in suit screamed as he attacked the giant beast.

On the other side Ivar was already battling the young boy. Two powerful auras of crimson red and white clashed aganist each other, letting out sparks of turbulence in the area causing the ground to flip over. The two forces of equivalent strength kept clashing, sometimes on the ground and sometimes in mid air. In a few minutes the image of two individuals punching and kicking each other flashed across the enitre space, their after image reappearing in different spots.

BOOOOMMMMMM.

The body of the young boy flew backwards crashing down on the ground. Ivar jumped down onto him, clenching both of fist together he hammered it upon him, unleashing his enitre mana onto his hands.

Boom!

The ground exploded ferociously coming undone like chopped bamboo sticks. Levi twisted himself towards his right. He summoned his heavenly sword above the sky. The gigantic sword crashed down to where they were.

"Phoenix. Shrink."

The sword shrunk in size. It dove down aiming for its enemy. Ivar turned around. His hands formed into a fist as he punched against the sword flying down to him. When the tip of the blade touched his knuckles both the blade and Ivar's body was yanked backward, the force of their collision caused them to fly back a few meters.

Kick! Ivar killed the momentum of the collision. He did not even take a breathe before sprinting towards his target again.

Levi was likewise the same. He held phoenix by his hand.

"Mould."

The sword in his hand transformed to another weapon. It turned to a spear, the end of the blade diverging into two knives. Levi accumulated his mana points into the tip of the spear. He shoot it towards the rebel while sprinting forward at the same time.

Ivar snapped the spear catching it in between his two palms. He then destroyed the head of it with his destructive energy.

Levi jabbed down his knee onto Ivar's hands. The latter punched his hands up to intercept the leg of the other person. With his other hand Levi grabbed his phoenix by head. Twirling it backwards he injected his holy mana into the two diverging knives. Not waiting for a moment later he thrusted them forward.

Zit. Zittt.

Levi saw the rebel destroy his Phoenix's ultimate form with ease. Little by little his Phoenix was shattering under the crimson red mana. His eyes narrowed. This guy!

His movements were fluid and unhindered. The way he fought implied that this man have been through many battles. Compared to himself, this guy was a veteran.

Thuweck!

Crunch. Crunch.

The sound of a male screaming entered his ears. He did not have the time to divert his eyes from his opponent. So he just glanced at that direction for once.

What he saw took him by surprise. The dragon made of mana was gobbling up the representative, causing the skin of the man to melt due to the flaring heat of its skin.

"You don't have the time to let your eyes linger around when you are facing me."

Levi heard his enemy's voice fall on him at a very close distance.

BOOOOMMMMMM!

A heart wrenching punch fell on his abdomen. The force of the hand was so strong that it drilled into his skin, wrinkling his stomach. Cough. He coughed out a mouthful of blood when he felt a foreign force invading his body. The crimson red mana drilled into his body, eroding his organs. Ivar poured his magicules inside the young boy before throwing him away.

During this time when the people of the heaven realm were busy preparing for the battle the peaceful heaven realm was being visited by its most unexpected visitor.

"Is the person you are loking for here?" A tall black haired man spoke to this companion. He had a petite body proportion. Specially his legs. Half of his body was dominated by his long legs. His waist was lean and thin. He was here because of his companion.

The person being addressed was a two meter giant. His shoulders were broad. His build was masculine. He was very tall and handsome, except that his face was on the rougher side. Specially his naturally slanting eyes that were a shade of beautiful light yellow. His white hair was braided into a loose tail which kinda stood out compared to his manly vibe.

"I don't think he is here right now."

The black haired man paused for a while. "Are you even sure the person you are looking for is still alive?"

The other person glared at him. With sullen eyes he yelled at him. "He is alive!"