Lucifer Clan Tournament-VI

Third Person PoV

Chaos, that was the only word suitable enough to describe the battle that was happening, even then the words meaning was stretched to its limits.

All those attacks were shattered at once when Cain just flexed his ridiculous amount of demonic energy.

Even Zeaira and Ajuka didn't have that much. Ajuka could only sigh and strengthen the barrier even more.

…

Cain was not on the offensive, it would seem he was still not taking the fight seriously, or at least not completely seriously.

Same could be said for Zeaira, she was still in her normal form, not her super devil form. But the same couldn't be said for Scathach.

She was using all of her powers, runes, spear arts, magic, valkyries and her giant strength.

The sole reason Cain wasn't hanged by her spear was due to him knowing her fighting style, thanks to his past experience and the spars they did.

But still with Zeaira supporting Scathach, he couldn't go on the offensive unless he stopped holding back and went super devil or he planned ahead of time.

Scathach rushed towards Cain, dual wielding her spears and using runes with one and magic with the other, while still using them as weapons.

Cain nimbly dodged the two stingers, as he liked to call them, but just as he made some distance from the Godslayer, his wife's love came from behind.

He was able to avoid those gorgeous red orbs of anhilation by doing a sudden backflip, but his shirt was destroyed a little.

He didn't have the time to wallow as the purple haired menace was already back to stabbing him.

He created a makeshift shield of darklight and began deflecting the spears, hoping that the Godslayer would mis-step, giving him an opportunity.

But alas, his wish didn't come true, but he did manage to not get stabbed anywhere, but again one can only be so hopeful.

In the stalemate between Scathach and Cain, few swords made up of PoD entered, Cain was forced to either dodge or deflect them.

And that gave Scathach a chance, the Godslayer instead of stabbing, slashed with her spears, with the rune of disabling on it, and a shield vanished.

And an orb smashed into Cain's ribs, before he could do anything, Scathach had stabbed both of her spears into the ground and landed a powerful double kick into his gut.

Cain could only hopelessly fly to the other end of the arena, but he didn't even have that much leeway, he was caught in a web of PoD, and found runes sticking on them.

Cain smiled ruefully as the web turned into a sphere enclosing him and blew up.

And a explosion happened, Cain had managed to mitigate some of the damage by creating a small barrier just before the explosion went up.

But still his upper clothes were almost gone, only some parts remained, hanging by a thread. And he was bruised on multiple parts of his body.

'Fucking runes, so overpowered!"

"Tch, my clothes."

Cain finally went on the offensive, creating a darklight scythe and rushing towards the grinning Godslayer.

He now kept an eye on Zeaira too, his mind was already busy with handling the valkyries summoned by Scathach using darklight and fighting Scathach, it was burdened even more now.

Scathach didn't back down and kept up for blow for blow with Cain, and even now Cain was slightly worse, as PoD was too troublesome to be dealt with when fighting Scathach.

In a momentary burst of speed, Cain kicked Scathach away and rushed towards Zeaira, but alas, runes, enough said.

An explosion went off again, but Cain suddenly appeared behind Zeaira, and a kick to her ass sent her tumbling near Scathach.

The red head only glared at Cain, while rubbing her now sore ass, while Scathach was grinning even more.

'Now that the two are close by, I need to keep them close, much easier to attack them together.'

Cain was always ready for random runes and thus was able to teleport behind Zeaira just as the explosion happened.

Finally the valkyries were dealt with and Cain was a bit free to use his darklight, much more easily.

The two weapon users rushed but Cain was much faster and collision happened really close to Zeaira, the PoD user wanted to teleport but was unable to as a chain of darklight came near her.

She jumped back but was met with a sea of chains coming for her from every direction.

But instead of panicking she released a large burst of PoD, much more powerful than the darklight, evaporating the part of the arena and the sea for chains.

But before the Crimson-Haired Princess of Destruction could have a moment of rest, a purple blur was shot towards her, clashing with her stomach and making her fall.

Mid-fall Cain appeared near them, his scythe above his head and coming down, like the reapers embrace.

Zeaira's hands were busy with Scathach and she couldn't use an AOE attack due to Scathach being near her.

While the Godslayer was unable to use her hands, as Cain had specifically targeted her hand muscles, making her hands unusable for some time.

…

Before Cain had rushed near the two after kicking Zeaira in the ass, he had already made up a short but effective plan.

'Zeaira doesn't have much control over her PoD when she uses it in high amounts. I can use that.'

He did just that, he deliberately kept Scathach near a fixed distance from Zeaira.

As the sea for chains was destroyed, so was Scathach's footing, due to Cain being ready for that he was able to capitalise on that.

He swatted away the spears, and made quick chops at the biceps and triceps of Scathach, making her hands redundant for a short moment of time and kicked her, making her crash into Zeaira and leading to the current situation.

The two women mid fall by now had already realised that they have been played by Cain.

'He used my lack of control against me!'

'He knew I wouldn't go to help Zeaira and used that to his advantage.'

But that was all for naught as before Cain could make his attack and end this battle, a heavy aura of death appeared and forced both Cain and Zeaira back.

Cain finally lost his clothes, except his pants, which were shredded below his knees. Zeaira had half of her arm made up of PoD.

Whatever that aura was, forced her body to instinctively use her true form to defend.

And a huge circular structure appeared on top of the arena, and Scathach stood directly below the centre of the said structure.

The circular gate, now clearly visible, had various primordial runes etched onto it and was trembling.

Cain and Nyx immediately understood what it was, Nyx even had something like that.

Scathach opened her mouth and began the chant.

"I will show you what lies beyond the world.

I will lock you away in the darkness from the age of the Gods.

Tremble, freeze and shatter into pieces!

Domain Expansion- Gate of Skye!"

The gate shivered even more and opened, winds like the one that flowed in Tartarus came from it, the darkness of it was unsealed.

Growls of beast long since forgotten came but the beasts didn't come as their master didn't call for them, this was Gate of Skye, the personal domain of Scathach Skadi.

Cain could only laugh seeing that, someone in his clan had achieved a domain before him, now he would be the third person as Nyx had one too, but he didn't feel angry.

It brought him joy, he had more power to attain, more being to match and dethrone, the journey to the top of DxD is still not finished.

"Bring it on! Scathach!"

The gate started sucking everything, living, non-living didn't matter to it. Even though beings in the audience felt the pull before it was neutralised by Ajuka.

Both Zeaira and Cain resisted by using their demonic energy, but it was being drained quickly, it was unknown what would happen if one went through the omnious gate, but sensing that it was radiating concepts of darkness, death and casualty, it wouldn't be anything good.

Cain felt that his body wasn't able to move as all of his focus was on stopping the terrifying suction of Scathach's domain.

And that was exactly what Scathach wanted, to freeze Cain, making him an easy target to pierce.

Her domain had two main functions, sucking everything and killing it instantly as it passed through the gate and summoning the beasts she had slain in the former land of shadows.

Now she knew no amount of slain beats would make Cain feel pressured but making him unable to move, she could do her best.

Scathach grinned even more, her facial muscles being torn by her smile. And she raised the two of her spears, she would have liked to get Zeaira's help too, but this was her first time using her domain and she didn't have much choice on who to pull and who not to pull.

'Eh, you win some, you lose some.'

Runes of all kinds began etching into the fabric of reality and the space and time were altered.

"Stab and penetrate!

Thrust and impale!"

Two lines, one for each spear and she thrusted the two in front of her, a red eastern dragon soared and rushed at the frozen Cain who could only watch as it reached for his heart, ignoring all the laws.

Everything stopped for Cain and he used his trump card for moments like this, his body changed, becoming bigger and stronger.

He gained a tail and two horns, his muscles became more strong and that was all he could sense before a force so great hit him, that his body shut down temporarily.

And the arena was no more, the land behind the arena was no more and nothing would be behind that direction anymore, if Ajuka hadn't stopped the thrusts remaining energy.

Scathach's attack was equivalent to the infamous, 'I cast fuck everything in that direction' as she almost erased a cardinal direction from the map of Hell.

But that was a tough job even for him, without going super devil, that is, even then he would be tired as he was now, sweating and taking deep breaths for sometime before he went back to normal.

"What was that? Did Cain survive?"

Rayla asked, scared to see the result of that attack and its effect on Cain.

"He should be fine." Nyx said, but her voice didn't sound so sure.

"He is alive." Ajuka said looking at the rubble that had somehow remained in existence even after getting acquainted by Scathach's full power attack boosted by her domain.

The rubble trembled a bit before a black haired man emerged from it. Wearing brand new pants, two horns on his head and a tail waving behind him.

He was bleeding from multiple points and the most prominent wound was the one on his chest, on the left shoulder, just above his heart.

It would seem Cain had managed to survive Gae Bolg once more. Surviving its casualty reversal.

That wound was hideous, his collarbone was visible, and the flesh around it was squirming, trying to regenerate as the curse countered it, Cain was sending darklight there internally to corrupt the curse and eradicate it.

Knowing that the wound would heal itself after a week or two, after the curse was released.

But he needed to do that fast, he remembered how much he had suffered the first time he was hit by it and didn't stop it quickly.

"That was splendidly done, now allow me to end this fight."

Cain said and raised his hand, the scythe of death came to its master's call, from the depths of the world tree.

Scathach, now completely out of energy, could only watch as Cain raised the scythe behind him and chanted, but she didn't get angry or scared.

She was finally happy that Cain was not holding back, he was using his strongest attack.

The Godslayer stood her ground, even if she was guaranteed to lose doesn't mean she wouldn't even try.

But it would all be meaningless.

"Scythe of death, darklight's embrace,

Unleash the tempest, the void to trace.

In the dance of echoes, let chaos surge,

The final requiem, the eternal dirge."

As the words were uttered a huge scythe formed in the sky in purple colour which was gradually covered by darklight and started shining brightly.

"Blight the heavens, shatter the veil,

With each swing, let dimensions quail.

I am the bringer of fate untold,

In this dark symphony, your tale is foretold."

With that two enormous hands appeared and held the scythe and swung it down at the place where Scathach was standing.

The Godslayer closed her eyes, accepting her defeat, both in heart and body. But the attack never came, as it was completely destroyed.

The Godslayer turned around to find Zeaira, no, IT would be the apt term for whatever THAT was, IT was neither devil, neither anything living, IT was like a concept manifested, like the embodiment of destruction itself was here.

Zeaira stood there, her body long since destroyed, only PoD remained, she had activated her strongest card, her super devil form.

The entire Hell was shaking, the space, time and concepts themselves were being erased out of existence.

Ajuka was already getting helped by the two goddesses and Morgan, he didn't want to transform too, three super devils would most certainly destroy the fabric of space and send this place into the dimensional gap.

And the worse thing was, that it was going to happen regardless of what the four did, unless someone stopped the PoD emanating from Zeaira.

"MOVE."

IT spoke, and Scathach felt fear, something even Cain didn't make her feel till now. But she didn't budge, she wouldn't be the Godslayer if fear made her run.

And then IT exploded, dying everything in red. And when Scathach opened her eyes she found herself hosted on one hand by Cain.

She looked at their surroundings to see that, they were in a Kaleidoscope, or not, they were in the dimensional gap.

Ajuka had sent the three of them here to stop any further damage to Hell. The audience was still able to watch them through a tear in space created by Morgan, using the powers of the World, stabilised by Ajuka.

…

"She can't really control it well so, get back, it will end quickly and devastatingly."

Cain said before he sent Scathach back to Hell, in the arena, or what remained of it.

"How does ending it in one attack sound?"

"SOUNDS FINE TO ME."

It said, and then both the monsters prepared their attacks, intent of ending this match in one go.

While a certain dragon was approaching their battle space in the dimensional gap at tremendous speed.