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Pride vs. Envy I

Lemuel, Diana and Mazikeen faced off against Arawn who was walking to them step by step with a small smile plastered unto his face.

"If I were you, I'll come quietly so no one needs to get hurt."

Arawn said, his pupils glaring at Lemuel whose expression was riddled with indifference. "Mazikeen, how strong is he?" Diana whispered to Mazikeen. "He's even stronger than Darkseid or whatever he's called. All in all, even your Gods will think twice before wanting to get on his bad side."

She answered with a frown. "Lemuel, I think it's a good time to get out of this place."

Mazikeen said with a frown. Lemuel on the other hand, had his eyes transfixed on Arawn, looking unimpressed and disgusted at the same time.

"I'd listen to her if I were you. If you think you have any chance of defeating me, then you're beyond foolish." Arawn came to a stop a few meters before the trio.

"Hahaha!" After a few seconds of silence, Lemuel erupted in a hysterical laugh. Mazikeen and Diana looked at him as if he was crazy.

"You're even more prideful than I am." Lemuel wiped a tear from his eye and said in between his laugh.

"Boom!!" Arawn's eyebrows instantly scrunched up in annoyance. The next second, the extended his arm and instantly waved it forth. In a split second, tendrils of blood erupted from his body, which transformed into multiple spears.

Flicking his finger forward, the spears blasted towards the trio at breakneck speeds. Diana and Mazikeen immediately bolted into the sky, while Lemuel only stood there with a smile. Just as the lances were about to ruthlessly pierce his body, they completely halted before his forehead, and exploded, sending a large shockwave across the battlefield.

"Such precise manipulation of divine energy. I'm almost impressed." Arawn scoffed. Instantly, Mazikeen who was floating blasted towards him at full speed, followed by Diana in her Divine form.

"Boom!!!" Another loud explosion set off, sending a large shockwave rippling through the land.

Mazikeen clasped her palms together and a long katana materialized. With the blade in hand, she slashed forward, sending a massive slash of dark energy blasting towards Arawn.

Diana let out a loud cry and stretched her palm forward before a massive beam of lightning blasted towards Arawn with immense ferocity.

"How weak." Arawn smiled and began to levitate. The next second, right as the ferocious attacks were about to decimate his body, he raised his finger.

Immediately, a drop of dark red blood materialized a few meters above his finger. In a few seconds, it expanded to the size of a small pebble, before exploding with a loud boom, sending a massive a bloody shockwave rippling throughout the whole of Themyscira.

Diana and Mazikeen who bore the full brunt of the attack were blasted a several tens of kilometers away, with their bodies riddled with injuries and bloodied.

Almost everyone on the battlefield was sent flying by the attack. Only Queen Hippolyta, Orithia, and a few Amazons were actually left standing on the battlefield with immense shock written all over their faces.

Surprisingly, Lemuel stood in his position with an slight smile on his face.

"That was a good attack. I'm almost impressed." He said and calmly took both of his hands from his pockets. His wings burst out his back, spanning several meters as his body began to levitate in the sky with simple flaps.

"As expected by the wielded of the power of Pride. If you had been scared by that small attack, I would've regretted coming here." Arawn replied, as he faced off against Lemuel.

Lemuel had a small smile on his face. With his wings flapping gently, his image reflected the combination of elegance and divinity stacked infinitely with each other.

"Les see what you can actually do." Arawn smiled and extended his palm forward.

Immediately, another drop of blood materialized before his palm. A few moments later, the drop of blood began to illuminate the entire battlefield, and expanded the size of a small baseball.

"Protect yourselves!!!" The magnitude of the attack by Arawn was enough to send even someone like the Queen of the Amazons into panic mode.

She immediately cried out, and grabbed her shield to protect herself. Orithia also cast a magic spell, protecting herself and several other Amazons.

"Boom!!!" A massive explosion set off, as if several hundred nukes had exploded at a single location. The very core of Themyscira shook, and the oceans surrounding the island began to churn rapidly.

In the face of the attack, Lemuel stretched his palm forward. Immediately, a massive wave of Divine energy burst out, shielding his body from the onslaught. Immediately after, his eyes turned bloodshot, after which he opened his mouth and uttered; "Mend." Immediately, as if nature could hear his words, the effects of Arawn's attacks were immediately canceled out.

Themyscira which had been damaged beyond repair began to mend itself at a fast rate, returning to its previous state.

"I see. No wonder you're not afraid of me. You managed to reach such mastery with the power of Pride." Arawn snickered and clenched his fists.

The control of the the power of the sin of Pride was divided into stages; the first stage allowed the user to exert his will on sentient beings excluding himself.

The second stage allowed the user to exert his will on the forces of nature and the roots of nature itself. The third stage allowed the user to exert his will on the cosmos and the abstrusities of abstract concepts.

At this point, Lemuel could be said to have achieved entry into the second stage, and although it was not bad, he knew it wasn't enough to defeat Arawn.

"The power of Pride may be strong, but at your level it won't be much of a match against me. With the power of Envy at my disposal, not only can I summon and control any being in the universe, I can also transform into said being and replicate their power!!" Arawn spoke, as his body began to transform.

The next moment, Arawn's body completely metamorphosed into a hundred feet large serpentine dragon with wings on its back.

The next moment, several hundred devil like entities burst out of the ground and appeared beside the large dragon that was meandering in the sky.

"Let's see how you deal with this!!!" Arawn roared loudly and blasted towards Lemuel along with the devilish entities at full speed.