Frozen Gold within the Dark Night

[Grayfia's POV]

At the onset of an apocalyptic scenario of darkness, my golden spear clashed against Nyx's darkness with devastating strength.

*BAAANGG!!!*

Black lightning sparks were released whenever we clashed, I noticed that she had been using some darkness technique to tolerate the impact of my faith, the goddess' pitch-black hair waved like a void and her eyes had long since transformed into what resembled moon shards.

I grit my teeth and kept my gaze firm on her, she smirked and allowed the momentum of my strike to carry on, ducking and dancing with overwhelming experience, she's a combatant.

From her hands a ball of darkness morphed into a pitch-black scythe which she swung towards my neck, I managed to move my own spear and used it to shield myself, but it was then that the scythe morphed like a slippery snake, intending to behead me!

*WHOOOSHH!!!*

"HAHAHA!~" Nyx's wicked laughter resonated like the cries of a banshee in the Agares Territory.

The next thing I saw was my head falling, beheaded... I could only grit my teeth in disbelief at how much she was controlling the fight. Her destructive potential is not as great as mine, nor is her physical strength, but when it comes to fighting experience, she outlasts me!

*CRACK!*

My body decomposed into shards of Golden Ice that joined each other again, forming my body back to its original state as if nothing had happened.

I made some distance between Nyx and me and panted. The Goddess played with her scythe drawing black circles in space and walking through the void towards me, her grim never leaving my eyes.

"You're easy to kill, are you?~ is that also Lord Golden Dragon's power? that doesn't resemble ice magic any longer moreover... unlike the other elements, whenever you use Ice, there are no magic circles, so that is another one of your authorities?~"

"..."

Instead of giving her any information I charged forward once again, producing several magic circles around her, intending to use a kamikaze attack at my favour. It doesn't matter if my magic hits me as well.

Nyx seemed to have sensed that, she smiled and created another one of her void portals which she entered before I could even reach her.

"Do you think I'd just allow you to set me a trap?"

"Stubborn..." I said, now that she has moved away my magic circles were rendered unusable... I closed my palm and all of them disappeared, forming themselves once again all-around Nyx, shining in beautiful gold.

This time she didn't teleport away, instead, she regarded me confidently and kept walking towards me with the gigantic pitch-black scythe in her hand.

"Nothing can be more stubborn than me cutting your head as you refuse to die... what is your secret, Grayfia?~"

"You seem to be getting confident with me, Nyx" I remarked, walking towards her as well with much the same speed.

"We're going to be marital sisters after all, what is the problem?~"

When she said that to me, my eyes shifted even if just slightly towards my master who had been looking at everything but... I found him with his eyes closed, snoring loudly.

!!!

'Why are you sleeping there, master?! just go back home and wait for me!' I sighed in exasperation, refocusing my gaze on Nyx with hatred.

"Y-You... I'd suggest you let go of any thoughts of courting Richter-sama"

"Now that's a pity..." She flickered her fingers and I saw how another Nyx materialised in front of my master!

"YOU DARE!?"

I created a golden spear right that instant and shot it ferociously towards the other Nyx.

*WHOOOSH!!*

However, it was as if my spear phased through the nothingness, the spear crashed drastically against some unknown territory of the underworld, I don't understand what's happening.

"That's merely an illusion... now, how about you and I keep fighting while I have some words with Lord Golden Dragon~"

I was about to refuse her idea, but a gargantuan black wall suddenly formed, dividing the world in two, I was here with Nyx and on the other side master was with the other Nyx.

This woman does know how to make me fume... whoever dares to disturb my master's sleep... I must kill.

*RUMBLE!!!*

"You're making me want to kill you more and more, Nyx... I'm here fighting with you, why must you mess around with my master"

The world around me began turning into ice as I regarded her with dark shades. In response darkness began to seep out of Nyx's body as well, like a war of authorities.

"He doesn't belong to you. I can feel his power... he's a primordial deity just like me, but on a greater scale, you have no right to stop me from speaking to him, Demon Goddess~!"

Nyx knew that I would no longer focus on this battle, so she decided to press me, lunging towards me with her scythe and taking us both to the ground.

I felt in the distance how the two gods, Erebus and Tartarus had begun retreating which means that this operation of theirs is ending.

*CLAAANGG!!*

I blased through with full physical strength, sending her far away from me and chasing right after, "Aren't you going to retreat as well?!"

My spear and her scythe met in the middle once again with fierceness, she pressed me with her darkness, truly a master of her element.

"Why would I?! Hades' death was unexpected; but if you think that old fool didn't think about this, you're wrong~"

Her palm created a ball of darkness that collided against my chest before exploding with black smoke, I felt her grasp my wrist and swing me down towards the Agares Territory.

*BOOOMMMMMMM!!!!*

I groaned slightly, having created a crater deep inside that killed several retreating Grim Reapers, all around me there were but corpses.

*BAAANGG!!*

Nyx landed not too far away, creating as much destruction as she could, her darkness spread forward sucking all the corpses of either grim reapers or devils into her shadow, licking her lips.

"No one gets to miss this beautiful night, why don't we fight here instead?~ or are you afraid to kill innocents, are you really a demon?~"

"Y-You-!"

I couldn't allow myself to be underestimated in front of my master anymore, but I have to admit this Primordial Goddess is a fierce opponent.

When we clashed again I did indeed try to not cause as much destruction in the already foregone Agares Territory; the floating island had long since collapsed and this could no longer be called one of the most advanced cities in the underworld. There was just ruin, corpses, but also... scarce survivors which I didn't want to finish off.

"I thought you didn't care about the underworld!" Nyx didn't seem to care and with each slash she created so much destruction that she was technically forcing me out of dodging and more into tanking her attacks.

I was confident that her attacks wouldn't be able to do anything to me since she beheaded me last time but my devil fruit saved me.

Alas, her next strike was imbued in darkness and she managed to slice through my arm, dragging blood!

!!!

"How!?" I yelled and made some distance, recalling that the same had happened with Sirzechs.

"I don't know how you're doing it, but that power of yours is clearly weak against faith... I wonder what would happen if I behead you again like this?~"

*CLAANGGG!!*

Utterly tired of her mockery I clashed against her again, why? why is my physical strength not overwhelming her?

"You're strong Grayfia Lucifuge, but you're missing experience and shrewdness~"

*RUMBLE!*

"Thanks to Ophis' Infinity, I'm able to reach new heights... let me show you what I can do, Lord Richter!"

She extended her arms widely and changed with overwhelming ominous aura.

<HAUNTED WORLD!>

A rush of void and nothingness came out of her body like torrents of a tsunami, quickly coating the Agares Territory.

I felt how I was being sucked into this overwhelming darkness and grit my teeth, deciding to go all out!

*RUMBLE!!*

<ICE AGE!>

The whole Agares Territory was engulfed in darkness and Golden Ice, if there were any lives left, soon they'd scatter... the gales of cracking space spread upon the feeling of our joint divinities, my golden ice clashed against her infinite darkness and the only thing I could possibly see in front of me was a worthy rival.

"That's it, Grayfia! THAT'S HOW GODS BATTLE!"

I looked at the distance where the black screen was no longer covering us, master was once again standing on his own but when I saw his expression, this time he looked thrilled.

My master is enjoying this.