SHALL WE ?

Langris pov

A golden landscape spread out from under me as and the familiar scene of 13 pillars all at a dazzling heights, surrounded me, the sky was the same golden hue and in the middle was a single star, intense as it was though barely any heat was radiating from it in fact the temperature that came about as a result was quite comfortable.

On the other side where Eron stood was a blackened sky streaming with thunder and lightning, this wasn't a field battle no, we couldn't let the culmination of how we've lived our lives up till this point end like that, so we spread out fields as much as we could letting them mix into a world of gold and gray, a scene straight out a piece of abstract art, but we didn't care. All that mattered within this instant was the person in front of us.

This wasn't the first time we dashed towards each other, it wasn't even the first time today but what made this instant different was that for the first ime in our lives we held nothing back, we had resigned ourselves to the fact that today one of us will die. Our blades met with a force that sent tremors through the man made landscape, I managed to push him back about a foot before he spun with a sideways swipe aimed at my side, i jumped back about two feet only to see his blade streaming towards the center of my head, I quickly swerved my head towards the side dodging it and responded with a fast as light slash at his unprotected torso, he let go of his blade and with more agility that should have been possible he leaned back completely dodging my attack before placing a kick at my unguarded chin. I was sent flying into the air at an impressive speed, with a flip I righted myself and casted flight before letting loose a massive wave of light infused ki

'Kantar style light infused wave'

he had already prepared himself and released an attack of his own

"Kantar style lightning infused wave"

two massive forces of energy came out from out blades before forming into gold and blue crescents, they charged at each other resulting in an explosion comparable to a supernova, the rampaging burst of energy streamed out dyeing our sights white and covered us both with its energy, the rampaging explosion spread out for miles streaming right past the limits of our fields and into the void, yet even within that hell scape we continued to exchange blows, a back and fort of heavenly proportions, blows that could level mountains and split continents were exchanged back and fort almost casually

'Light infused Kantar style path of a star'

I said as I channeled my energy into a thrusting attack so large he should have had no way of dodging and to that he replied

"10th teir magic, DIVINE BELL"

a magic circle came to life under his feet and right after it a massive silver bell appeared one giving off radiant almost holy light, it was swallowed by the attack completely engulfed in a beam it had no hope of surviving, even I almost thought of Eron dead with that, until I heard his voice

"lightning Arcanum edict of Repulsion"

he said, in an instant the entire force of my attack was sucked away compressed to a thin film surrounding his unscaved body, before it spread out in a hellish explosion one whose force he had definitely enhanced with his own power, just as I gathered my power for a counter attack I heard him once more

"red lightning"

as he spoke the thunderous white of his Arcanum turned blood red, it then coagulated around his blade as he made a simple swipe. I switched my form in order to block before abandoning that idea in favour of dodging. I was right, that attack missed me by a mile instead hitting the floor of my Arcanum, as soon as it did so I felt my blood boil, a hellish pain ravaged my insides as every fiber of my being felt burned, as I looked at him my shock must have been evident on my face because he gave me chargined before he spoke

"this never would have happened if you hadn't picked this fight, don't blame me"

my face transformed into a scowl as I spoke

'shut up, I couldn't care less what you think'

still I was surprised, it seemed he had managed to create a new edict one I had never seen before, one that attacked person's vitality while dashing out a fair bit of pain, he had probably taken advantage of the connection between me and my field in order to make that attack, a wicked asshole to the end this bastard.

I retook my stance, I didn't have any counters to this new thing but I was still determined to give it my all, Eron looked at me like I was a fool but even he should have probably never expected surrender, he suddenly released his red lightning and in an instant his lightning turned silver as he said

"even this is over kill for you"

he then charged at me with the same fervour as before hitting me with an overhead strike, it was as I blocked that I felt it

(maybe we should end this)

(I wanna go home)

(this isn't worth it)

(I don't want to kill my brother)

'RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH'

I screamed in an explosion that sent Eron flying before pointing my blade and yelling

'DONT FUCK WITH ME YOU BASTARD, WHERE WAS ALL THAT BRAVADO ALL THAT TAUNTING, IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY THEN DON'T FUCKING BOTHER'

whatever he had hit me with was undoubtedly a psysic attack.

Eron looked at me with with unbothered expression before saying

"is it wrong that I don't want to kill you little Langris"

I looked at him with venom in my eyes as I said

'yes'

"I see"

was all he said before he readjusted his stance taking in and releasing a breath he then spoke

"lightning Arcanum edict of black lightning"

crackling tendrils of ink black dark lightning surrounded him as he said that, my instincts that were already ringing from the impact of his red and silver lightning were practically screaming at this point, this was definitely something much more dangerous

"this lightning has the same effect of my old man's most powerful edict, I'm sure you know what it is"

I visibly shuddered, if that lightning did what I thought it did then I had definitely lost this fight. No, then I was dead, I had considered that possibility and hoped that he would be so fatigued afterwards that Kalen or Raine would be able to kill him without much issue but if this was as powerful as I thought it was then even they had their work cut out for them, I thought back towards this fight, strenght, endurance, raw power I fell behind in all of those categories my only advantage speed was only marginal at best, without the shadow of a doubt I had lost. Yet still I looked to this man his eyes holding not a single trace of hesitation and knew he was going to kill me, there were options to choose from if I wanted to escape, I could simply break the field ejecting us into reality and run or I could focus my energy into my blade cause a tear in space and escape through their, but I did none of that, I was the first Don of Trident city a city with no notable aspects except it economical power and I was going going go down with it, with my eyes still trained on him I took a stance then a resigned expression before saying

'shall we'

Eron nodded and like that we charged each other again, a true and final charge one worthy of brothers, one worthy of Don's.