Chapter 287: The Calm In The Storm Part 5

After ending the call, Arias casually put the phone away and stood up from the edge of the bed, walking over toward the closet where he began to remove his clothes. 

As he was doing this, he felt the breeze come from the open balcony and turned his head to find he had an unwelcome guest. "Klarion," Arias nonchalantly called out the name as he looked at Klarion, who slowly paced into the room with a wide grin on his face and an orange cat in his hands.

"Well, well, well, Look who finally showed themselves. I've been looking for you," Klarion announced quite enthusiastically as he slowly walked closer to Arias while stroking the cat in his hold.

Arias didn't look the least bit perturbed by this. "You best have a fairly good reason considering the inconveniences you've cost me," Arias stated, making Klarion laugh out as if it were a joke. "Ouuu, I am so scared. Oh wait, I'm not," Klarion laughed louder as he extended one hand toward Arias, with a red glow suddenly emerging from it. 

"A shame, you should be." The moment these words left Arias's lips, the entire room seemed to shake as reality itself felt like it was collapsing. The once confident expression on Klarion's face turned sour as he was confused by what was happening.

Before he could even question it, however, the entire surrounding warped before changing to an entirely different scene altogether. Klarion looked down at his feet and found he was knee-deep in marshy swamp water. He looked around, confused, and yelled out, "What kind of trick is this?" as he quickly hovered out of the water. 

"No trick. I just don't need you ruining the delicate balance I've struggled to create at such an important juncture of my plans. Unfortunately, I had assumed you to be at least smart enough to recognize that you weren't my match. I thought you would have at least kept yourself hidden in whatever magical dimension you crawled out from, but instead, here you are, presenting yourself to me."

Klarion kept turning around, looking in all directions, but couldn't see Arias's figure anywhere. He got angry and yelled out, "Where the hell are you? Come out right now!" As Klarion said this, he began to fire large chaotic beams of red light in random directions. As they hit the surrounding forest, they tore through trees like they were grass, and in the water, they caused it to rise and splash in all directions. 

This alerted all the animals in the surrounding area to flee. Arias was actually fairly close to Klarion and was at this time casually looking on his phone. There, Arias was putting measures into place for his satellites to block all imagery over the Amazon rain forest. As soon as he did this, Arias casually put the phone back in his pocket, and his figure appeared as if out of thin air.

"There you are," Klarion smiled at this. Before he raised his hand directly toward Arias and appeared ready to shoot yet another beam. Arias's figure, however, shifted in what seemed like the blink of an eye to be right in front of Klarion. Arias's hand then clamped Klarion by the face, and with a casual throw, he sent Clarion flying downwards, colliding with the river below.

*Splash*

However, the splash had been so vicious that a shockwave caused the water in that particular area to rise up entirely for a moment, shattering the riverbanks nearby and causing trees to snap down.

Arias looked down nonchalantly and could see Klarion immediately emerge out of the scattered water, more angry than ever. At this time, Teekl, the cat, whose fur had also gotten wet had its eyes become red as it leapt out of Klarion's hands and turned gigantic, becoming several feet tall as it lunged toward Arias while roaring in an unsettling manner. 

However, the moment it reached Arius, he swatted it with his left hand like an annoying fly and sent it flying to the left side of the riverbank, smashing through numerous trees, some of whose branches and stems pierced into the flesh as it roared out in pain. 

"Teekl!" Klarion yelled out in anger before turning to Arias and yelling, "How dare you!"

Klarion brought both of his hands together and prepared what seemed like an incredibly huge attack, as a ball of energy, roughly the size of a tank, appeared above Klarion's head, which he soon threw towards Arias's direction. 

However, the moment that ball correlated with Arias, it dissipated as if it was thin air. Arias narrowed his gaze at Klarion, shaking his head slightly. "A shame, I expected you arcane beings to pose even more of a threat than I'd initially thought. Well, I suppose I was wrong." As Arias said this, he took a deep breath, and his eyes took on a resplendent golden glow before golden beams of light shot out and hit Klarion right in the chest. 

The beam proceeded to travel behind him and tore through kilometers of ground before Arias eventually stopped, causing a long line to appear on the geographical surface of that area, which the water soon quickly filled in.

Klarion spat out black blood, but the injury caused him to fall almost instantly as his expression turned dark. He asked Arius, "What are you?" Arias didn't answer, his figure his instead disappeared again, before appearing behind Klarion. 

Klarion wasn't prepared and felt a strong grip at his back. This was Arias's hand as he soon dug into Klarion's back and gripped him by his spinal cord, answering, "I'm your worst nightmare." As he said this, Arias gripped the spine with such strength that it began to crack before he threw Klarion yet again in the direction he had thrown the cat.

Klarion tumbled like a piece of meat, and the already chaotic debris present—numerous twigs, branches, and so on—snapped in all directions as they pierced Klarion's flesh until his body hit a large jagged stump, which embedded itself in his abdomen area. 

*Argh!*

He let out a pained expression and raised his head to look at Arius with incredible concern. However, this concern quickly shifted to anger due to the mediation he was currently being shown.

However, Teekl morphed back into a small cat, looking incredibly hurt as it stumbled toward Klarion's side. Klarion looked at Teekl and became even more angry, looking at Arius and saying, "Just you wait, this isn't over."

Before Klarion could reach out to take Teekl, Arias's figure appeared, and he held the supernatural cat in his grip, lifting it off from the ground with his right hand. Klarion immediately tried to reach out to stop him, but Arias kicked him in the face and kept his foot firmly planted on it, in an even more humiliating act. The cat also struggled in Arias's hold, but it could do nothing.

Arias then looked down at Klarion, stating, "Luthor had quite the information on you, witch boy, and I personally was interested in learning more about you so called Lords of chaos. Sadly, it seems you're nothing more than spoiled children, in which case, there is no value in your presence in my world." 

Klarion struggled and shot beams out of his hands with every word Arius said, the surrounding forest continued to suffer, beam after beam of destruction. However, Arias didn't budge as all attacks that hit his body left no mark. Klarion was completely helpless.

After Arias had finished speaking, he turned his attention toward the cat and made his grip harder on its neck. The cat began to squeal in pain, and Klarion began to struggle harder. "No, Teekl, don't you dare!" 

Arias ignored Klarion's pleas and forced his hand to a close, snapping the cat's neck and causing its entire body to burst into meaty flesh. 

"No!" Klarion began to yell out in an insane manner as his entire figure began to blur. "I'll get you back for this. I'll get—" Before he could finish his threats, his entire figure seemed to be dragged into the ground under him by a reddish glow, leaving nothing present on the scene aside from his familiar's meaty remains scattered all around.

So, it takes more than that to kill them. Interesting" Arias thought to himself before his figure vanished as well from the scene.