The True Legacy of Amandus

The Room seemed to tremble, and from behind them, the holes in the wall that they had blasted open seemed to have time rewind on them, the many broken stones returning to their places on the wall.

Quickly getting into battle stances, they had no need to fight at all as they could only stare awkwardly at each other upon finding out that it was only the walls repairing themselves.

"Umm... Greetings prince Scoria, please my sorry appearance but I just got out of a rather taxing trial you see"

Scoria blinked before replying in kind "No worries, dear Princess Ellora, I also had gotten trapped in a rather vexing trial, luckily I found my way out of it"

"...Was it by chance an infinite hallway?"

Blinking again this time but in surprise, Scoria nodded. "...Yes actually"

Nearing each other at the center of the room, Scoria could finally take proper note of her appearance.

She, just like himself was drenched in a sheen of sweat that soaked through the clothes that were from their respective homelands.

And like him a tear on her robes alongside a few of the accessories on her breast being missing now told him that the trials they experienced were definitely the same.

Having taken note of her appearance in a few moments, Scoria opened his mouth.

"By chance, do you know what the next trial is?"

"No, do you?"

"I wouldn't be asking you that if I knew."

"Ah"

As a silence fell on them and they were silently mulling over what to say next, the altar trembled.

Staring at the altar with vigilance, a ghostly apparition rose from the altar and morphed into the likeness of a rather... familiar man.

'Exor Amandus!?'

Quickly realizing who this man was after a few moments of contemplation and comparison.

Surprise quickly filled their features as a one to one replica of the image outside of the trial chambers was replicated here.

The Infinite Circle Mage was a handsome man with the long, luscious golden hair commonly associated with mages, wearing the long blue robes of an Arch mage that were lined with various rare magically conductive materials he had a powerful vibe to him that couldn't be replicated otherwise.

Keeping his eyes closed, he seemed to use some sort of sixth sense to locate the only two people in the room, and with a solemn aura, he smiled.

That aura of solemnity quickly disappeared however when the man opened his mouth.

"My name is Exor Amandus and... Oh Wow!"

The Hologram with the likeness of the infinite Circle Mage exclaimed loudly while covering their mouth in surprise.

Glancing at the two people in the room simultaneously he continued, a curious look appearing on his visage.

"You aren't affected by the curse despite belonging to the Blood of Heaven and Hell?"

"What!?"

Confusion quickly rose upon the faces of the both of them as they instinctively grabbed for weapons that weren't even there.

Those movements were quite useless as they awkwardly grabbed at nothing but air.

'Ah...'

And as the rest of the words spoken by the mage finally sunk in, they stared at each other with even confusion.

'Hah...?'

'What...?'

"You didn't know? Actually, were you supposed to?" Seemingly unaware of the strange aura that was floating between the two of them, the man continuously spoke.

"Hmm... Was I mistaken? No, I definitely sensed the auras of heaven and hell on you... Oh it's gone now? Interesting"

Awkwardly staring at the Princess and the mage, Scoria spoke "How did you-?"

"How did I know your identity? Even if this is a fragment of my actual soul, this place is still my domain I created, on that note, how come I can't sense your aura's now?"

Floating down to the ground, the apparition slowly circled the young prince of hellfire.

Touching his head and feeling up the strands of hair, the man murmured to himself.

"How interesting, I can only feel the aura when touching you, and even then it's rather faint"

"Don't treat me as an object you foolish mage!"

Swinging a leg at the man, Exor Amandus quickly dodged. "Whoops! That's a bit dangerous young man someone could get hurt!"

"That's the point you pretentious fool!"

"How fun!"

Dodging the following blows, Exor Amandus flipped through the air and hid behind Ellora despite being nearly twice her size.

Upon seeing that incredibly shameless action, the prince of Morgast paused his following actions with a dark look on his face.

Looking back at the Mage, Ellora spoke a question theat was brewing within her mind "What do you mean by curse?"

"Oh, you didn't know? Actually, makes sense that younglings like you wouldn't know"

"Hmm... How do I explain this so that you can understand...?" The man rubbed his chin with a contemplative look before snapping his fingers.

"I trust you know how a bloodline curse works correct?"

Scoria took a glance at Ellora "Well... since there's no using in hiding it anymore then yes, as Royalty we were expected to be able to curse bloodlines at the age of five"

"Oh! You were royalty? I didn't know!"

'Hmm... I fucked up' Thinking those thoughts as Ellora sent an aghast look at him, the man cheerfully continued.

"Well, since we have the basics down, the curse that you have been affected with is similar to a bloodline curse but on a different scale"

"A scale that is on the level of an entire dimension, three in fact"

"How is that possible? Even as a Princess that has been educated at birth, there are no spells capable of doing such an act, and even if it was possible the power and resources it would take would have to be astronomical"

"Oh? You were a princess of Heaven as well?"

"Y- No actually..."

Falling silent, Exor didn't pursue the subject before continuing his explanation.

"Well it's simple really, because the origin of the curse was on the level of the three main Gods and thus was able to do so"

Hearing those words, the two royal heirs violently shivered.

"What do you--?"

Ignoring the both of them, Exor Amandus conjured up four different Apparitions.

"Here is a practical show of how powerful this curse is"

In front of them, an Angel with wings of a pigeon and a pair of white haloes stood besides a Devil with wings of a crow and two sharp horns, alongside an Engel with Crystal wings and two long feathery tails and a Demon with Bat wings and a pair of whip like tails.

Currently, they were floating in place with a blank look on their faces and were static in their actions.

Not for long however, if the Infinite Circle Mage had a say in it.

"Right in front of us, we have four different Great souls that I had the luck of stumbling upon during my travels in the overworld that were on the level of Noble"

"Which level of noble may I ask?"

"..." Pausing for a moment, Exor Amandus smiling responded to Ellora's question and started to chant.

"Why Duke and Duchess level my dear"

"!"

"!"

[Souls of the Dead memories past, waken from your eternal slumber and rise from the Underworld]

[Undead Sanctification]

"Urg..." The four apparitions slowly moved from their static poses and gained a mote of light in their dead eyes before closing them and clutching their heads.

The Angel recovered first as they opened their bright blue eyes and stared blankly forwards at the three figures in front of her.

Well, that was before the Angel gained a hint of recognition in their eyes and quickly bowed to the Princess of Stratus.

Or at least, what Scoria once thought was the princess of Stratus.

"Heavenly Princess! I didn't expect you to appear before us in our trying times!"

"Urg..." The Engel groaned softly as they tried to understand what was going on before their eyes quickly flew open.

"The Heavenly Princess!?"

Quickly opening a pair of yellow eyes, the demon and devil that were still waking up from their undeath quickly came to their senses and stared at the pair that spoke.

"A Heavenly Princess is on the front lines!?"

Seeing only an Angel and Engel that were looking at a girl, the face of the Demon and Devil contorted ferociously.

Hearing those words, the Engel unconsciously looked at the direction of the voice and their face morphed uglily.

"This Bastard!? Angel Duchess Rianna! Aid me in dispatching this Devil Duke and Demon Duchess!"

"A Devil Duke!?"

Quickly manifesting a longsword of Ice but failing, the Duchess Rianna didn't care in the slightest as she spun from her crouched position and took in the appearance of the Devil Duke and Demon Duchess.

Upon seeing each other, Scoria and Ellora were left dumbfounded as both the great forces of Hell and Heaven on the level of a Duke instantly did away with formalities and instantly dove into battle.

There were no signs of trying to understand the situation that they were in or how they suddenly appeared here.

The only thought that resounded in their heads was the thought of "Murder"

"That should be the only thought that's resounding in their heads right now"

Unlike his previous appearance of being a man who didn't take anything seriously, Exor Amandus had an uncharacteristically serious look on his face as the four great powers wielded an uncharacteristic ferocity in their movements and attacked each other.

"This is the Power of the Abyssal Hatred cast by a greater being."

"Its functions are terribly simple, but that's why it's so terrifying."

"To cause rage, an unrelenting rage that goes on dominating the mind of those affected so that all that the thoughts affected can have is one of immeasurable hatred for the other."

"Of course, this event you are seeing right now is rather downsized as they have been incredibly weakened by prolonged death and their minds are in a state of disarray but..."

"This is the level of ferocity that you would expect a normal angel or demon would exhibit upon facing each other"

"Of course, The curse is not without its flaws as it has a downside that the things that carry the same power as the curse, redirects it to them."

Click Click Click

The two souls stopped fighting each other with the intent to kill and turned to the source of the noise before quickly attacking it with the same ferocity as before.

"Just like that"

Attacking the newcomer, Scoria and Ellora both frowned upon seeing the horribly misshapen creature that crawled into the room.

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