Chapter 113: The Final Battle

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Ivery walked to Luther and Eos who laid on the ground wailing in pain.

Luther lifted up the kreigsmesser and Ivery pointed her rapier at Eos's head.

"It's over Eos." Ivery said

"Haha.." Eos weakly laughed

"It is not...not yet." Eos said

A dark purple burst of energy released from Eos, making Ivery and Luther jump back. Eos stood up and with a snap of her fingers, Ivery's Excalibur that was lodged in Xia's chest shattered into pieces.

Ivery looked with the slightest amount of shock that Eos was able to break her sword filled to the brim with holy magic.

"Now that's more like it.." Luther grinned as his eyes turned completely black

"Now, fight like a true dark god of the underworld!" Luther's voice became incredibly deep while he laughed maniacally, thin black veins surfaced on his skin

Black mist poured from his body and completely surrounded the entire area and still continued to spread farther.

The clear day blue sky turned completely black. Thin black veins spread across his body and face.

Xia weakly stood up and felt an unimaginable sense of dread.

Luther's massively sinister aura made it feel as if their skin was being burned, peeled off and frozen all at once.

The air around them that was once warm turned freezing cold.

Luther then walked behind Ivery. His free hand wrapped around her waist and he whispered something in her ear. Confusing and concerning both Eos and Xia.

"Little Xia don't give them time to do anything!" Eos shouted to Xia as she raised her hand and a blast of dark purple energy left her palm and headed straight for Ivery and Luther.

Luther raised his hand and effortlessly absorbed Eos's magic.

Xia was still heavily injured from Ivery's last attack against her but she still mustered the strength and summoned a long, dark copper tinted sword with a black handle.

She dashed towards Ivery in a flash.

Just as she did her eyes widened, within the same instant she watched Ivery stab Luther's hand with the same dagger she used to stab Ivery in her heart. And that very dagger was thrusted deep into her own chest, piercing her heart.

"Ah!" Xia fell on the ground and rolled around in excruciating agony

"W-What did you do to me!" Xia's eyes started to turn black and the same thin black veins that appeared on Luther's skin, started to spread across hers

"Consider my flesh, blood, bones and right down to my very last cell a poison, even a speck of my blood will cause you a fate worst than death." Luther told her with a bone chilling smile

"The black magic in my blood will corrode your organs slowly and painfully, you'll feel every part of your insides as they burn and melt down into nothing, and your prowess core will become so tainted that it'll completely explode and shatter and you'll feel every bit of the pain as your prowess veins shut down, one by one after it does."

Xia couldn't hear anything anymore, the immense pain she felt was far too intense to be able to focus on anything.

"But I wonder though..." Luther's blackened eyes looked at Eos

Within a blink, Eos saw Luther crouched down in front of her. Her body froze and couldn't react. She couldn't follow his movements at all!

"You're quite disappointing Eos...I got all excited for nothing." Luther sighed and shoved his hand into Eos's chest

Eos screamed and scratched at Luther's face once she realized what he was intending to do. As soon as his blood dripped on her hand, it started to melt and burn away at what one could consider her flesh and bones.

""T-This whole thing was for naught...everything was pointless from the beginning..I even thought that useless girl could increase my chances at revenge..but even now I am still suffering and being punished for the sake of love.." Eos weakly chuckled to herself realizing what her impending fate was

"About time you started talking with actual sense." Luther scoffed

Luther began to extract the black magic from Eos.

"Y-You will regret this boy! Your body could not possibly handle even more black magic than you already possess! You may have some of your sanity left but if you take in my power you will be done for, your mind will shatter and you will be nothing but a walking calamity!" Eos shouted as she felt herself getting weaker the more Luther absorbed her power

The scratch marks on Luther's face healed and the black mist that lingered around the area increased and more of it poured from his body.

"Shh..." Luther put a finger to his lips

"Don't worry about me, I've been a walking calamity for awhile now, so your magic is barely a drop in a sea that surges within me." He said to her with a twist of his hand

He finished his extraction and pulled his hand out from her chest. With his other hand he quickly plunged the kreigsmesser into Eos's heart, she was far too weakened to react.

Her vision went blurry as her black blood flowed from her mouth.

Ivery ran over then immediately turned down the rapier in her hand and forced it into Eos's forehead.

Cracks spread across her body and she fell apart like broken glass.

"Is it over..?" Ivery asked

"It should be.." Luther glanced over at Xia's corroding body

"I actually don't want her to die so fast.." Luther snapped his fingers

Xia's body stopped melting away and her body began to heal.

"You can heal like that now?" Ivery asked him in awe

"She needs certain body parts in order to be tortured, and I didn't fully heal her, a large part of her internal organs are as good as done, all except for her vital ones." Luther smiled

One of Eos's many abilities seemed to be 'restore', it's similar to Ivery's ability 'reversion' but the difference was that Ivery's abilities can fix or revert objects to when they were first created or to the state before they were broken. This 'restore' ability was for organic things, it could restore the body internally and externally to a state before it was injured and even return lost body parts. Which explained how Xia was fully healed after getting her tongue ripped out and her hands cut off.

"Is that something you should say while smiling so handsomely?" Ivery held back a chuckle

Ivery looked at Xia who was unconscious, her hair that was turned light gray was once again brown and the black pentagram mark on her forehead was gone.

"Let's return now.." Luther snapped his fingers again

The black sky began to shatter and everything around them began to dissipate.

"And don't worry about Loki, I healed him already and he's back in his domain to recuperate." Luther told her

"Good.." Ivery breathed with a sigh of relief

Now that he had all of Eos's powers, he was able to break the fabricated plane she made with ease.

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As soon as Ivery blinked she, Luther and Xia who was still unconscious were back in the ruined evaluation center.

She looked around and fully saw the damage done and even the casualties.

Ivery's eyes widened and gasped when she saw the bodies of Stewell Norel, Piere Cortette, Sariell Hesteria...

The state of their bodies could barely be described. They were all crushed by the debris. They most likely couldn't react to everything that was happening fast enough and all died around the same time Ivery and Luther were pulled into the cyclone Xia had created.

"What a shame.." Luther looked at their bodies

"You're not sad? Aren't they your friends?" Ivery asked him worriedly

"Hm..not really, I just think it's a pity that they died in such an embarrassing way." Luther shrugged

Ivery pulled his ear.

"Ouch!" Luther exclaimed

"Don't be like that, you've been with them for so many years, save them." Ivery reprimanded him for his aloofness in this matter

"I granted them pieces of my power and they still couldn't fend for themselves, it would be a waste of energy to do so for disappointments." Luther managed to pull away from Ivery and rubbed his ear

"Luther, if you won't do it for them...do it for me." Ivery sighed

"What do they have to do with you? They still barely acknowledge you since you have yet to fall to their levels of insanity, they try to mimic me and kill for fun, but I've never once killed without a reason, the reasons may have been minor I'll admit but I've never done it for the thrill of it, it's all due to my mental instability, low tolerance and patience." Luther explained

"So why did you share your powers with them and make them mvps if you didn't care about them?" Ivery inquired

"They were interesting and I simply needed extra aid managing the academy affairs." He answered

"Don't you still need that aid then?" Ivery asked with a raised eyebrow

"I have you." Luther grabbed her hand

"I'm not enough you need more help." Ivery shook her head

"You're more than enough, you're all that I need." Luther leaned down to kiss her

She put her hand on his mouth.

"Save them first." Ivery told him

"If I do...what's my reward?" Luther spoke but was muffled due to her hand still covering his mouth

Ivery moved her hand and whispered in his ear.

"Oh?" Luther's eyes lit up

"Say no more my love." Luther grinned

He tapped on the large pieces of debris that laid on the bodies of the mvps and they all broke and crumbled away.

Ivery turned her head and was unsettled by seeing their bodies in such a mashed up state, she had seen a lot of deaths after meeting Luther but being that she knew them made it harder to keep a straight face.

She didn't know how Luther could be so calm when seeing people he was supposed to be close to dead in such a way, to the point beyond recognition even. The only reason she recognized them was only because of their exclusive mvp uniforms.

"I can only restore their bodies to what they were before they were crushed like this, if I use my abilities to revive them, they'll be nothing more than the living dead."

"So like zombies?" Ivery asked with a tilt of her head

"Zombies? A term from your world?" Luther asked

"Yeah, they're walking corpses in other words." Ivery explained

"That's accurate for the most part, but their bodies will still function as if they were alive...but my abilities aren't pure like yours, they'll resurrect in a warped way, they wouldn't be who they were anymore, they'll be husks devoid of any feelings and only respond to my commands." Luther said as he began to restore their bodies

"Oh." Ivery understood

"But then you know what I have to do, right..?" Ivery held her hand and looked down at her palm

"I just don't get it, just one drop of your blood isn't worth the same as their lives." Luther frowned, he held no special attachment to the three of them, yet she was still determined to save them

"You chose them yourself, so they must be destined to come to your aid for much more in the future, and as you know...your choices regarding choosing people to be by your side haven't been wrong so far." Ivery smiled

"I suppose you're right.." He smiled back

"Except for Juliana." Ivery added

"Let's not talk about worthless things." He had forgotten all about her until now

"But is she still really worthless to you? You chose her for a reason didn't you?" Ivery teased

"She was simply stronger than all of the women I knew at that time, so I graced her with some of my power and she got carried away and thought she could be more than a subordinate." Luther chuckled

"Mhm.." Ivery's nails sharpened and she cut the skin of her palm

She kneeled down beside their bodies and Luther held their mouths open, one by one she let drops of her blood fall into their mouths.

Five minutes passed and their eyes opened, they all groggily sat up.

"What the hell happened?" Sariell asked as he looked around

"You all died." Luther bluntly stated

"What?!" Piere's eyes widened

"How?" Stewell couldn't remember a single thing

"You were crushed by debris." Luther held back his laughter and covered his mouth

"And we're asking how!" Piere teared, as much as he adored Luther, he despised his vagueness

"Is he laughing?" Sariell asked

"He's definitely laughing at us..." Stewell sighed

"How embarrassing.." Piere covered his face

"Very." Luther agreed

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