Lifting my eyes a dozen of ters towards the horned beast that materialized, a smile marred my lips as vicious scars revealing pale white bones entered my sight. Glowing red with sword light ebbing from his wounds, Beleth growled.
"Arsene."
"MY LORD!" Howled Drar pivoting off his feet in a flash of demonic light. By the ti my eyes slid towards Drar, He had appeared over twenty ters away, on one knee. His chest heaved as large globs of blood drained out of his body. Thick black webs of veins stretched from his chest up toward his neck. At the sa ti, the whites of his eyes had long turned black as he struggled not to fall face-first into the earth.
Lifting the small embers of the first Prince's Soul, a cruel smile marred my lips. " Do you think he was a Blood Lord? First Sitri, now Alzimar. How long till I bleed the hells of its nobles?" Beleth's expression turned hideous as he bore his fangs. " No need to behave like a rabid dog. Offer your head, and I, your King, shall consider granting you a rciful eternal tornt."
A/N: How does one have a rciful Tornt?
"Arsene!" Seethed Beleth as a tornado of divinity spiraled off the First King's body. "You will release his soul."
The smile on my lips stretched even higher as I slowly soared into the skies. Standing higher than that of Beleth, a Sinful Aura of Pride tainted by the Abyss wrapped around my body like a blaze of flas. Burning with a radiant aura that seed more devilish than this false Hell.
Noctom grew arced towards Beleth, surrounded by a storm of elents. "Kneel… and I'll grant thee rcy."
Light flashes and explosions of demonic essence erupted in a pillar of devastation that splintered the skies and shattered the hells as flas black as night showered my vision as I parried Beleth's strike.
Jitters of utter delight hamred at my heart, following a slew of laughter that ca off as howls. "So you choose death? Beleth, I shall break you!"
"Impossible!"
"So this is what it ans to be a demon? Not bad…" I mused as the Concept of Supremacy spiraled around . Information that I never knew, and experiences I never lived, all seed to co at one after the other.
Like I had lived billions of cycles as a Demon, a brutal strike of utter chaos and tornt fueled by my madness, alongside the souls I held, took hold of at that mont as Noctem blazed forth.
A clash shook the skies that rivaled those of titans and fractured the domain laws around . Beleth was torn from the skies in a catastrophic blaze, striking against the surface of Avenos, splinting the earth, and piercing through so deep his body was bathed by magma.
Ghastly howls of tornted souls soared from up the Hells as they attempted to escape. I fell following the Dao of Light and Lightning. My body flashed like a bolt of lightning hundreds of tis the speed of light. By the ti I blink, Noctem was at Beleth's face, poise for execution.
DING!
"NO!" Howled the First King of the Nines, parrying my blow as divinity protected his body from Stormblade. But the mont our blade t, Storm of Heavenly Bind ca crashing down.
Another pillar of light spiraled through the air as a vicious gash over the left shoulder of my doing appeared over a Paragon.
"This cannot be! NO! NO! NO!" Shouted Beleth making distance as I chased upwards back towards the surface of Avenos.
Embers of light black as night ricocheted off our blades as a whirlwind of sword light and spear light fused with storm light spiraled through Avenos. The ideas continued flowing faster as I felt I was finally using my demonic side correctly.
Suddenly Noctem froze in the air as a sudden shockwave held in place. A force almost like astral essence, different, caught . And I shuttered. But oddly enough, not out of fear.
???
Vibrations! Shit!
Shadow Stepping out of range, blood slowly began to ebb from my pores.
"I'm going to kill you!" Whispered Beleth, tightening the grip of his greatsword that slowly began to shift to that of a halbert, a combination of ax and spear. "I swear I'm going to kill you. I will not stand for this humiliation! I'll not stand for it! I'll NOT!"
"Words of a loathso shit stain. Kill ?" I sneered, spitting as darkness attached itself to , almost like it were my lover. It protected . "You belong to , Beleth? And a slave like you will not be permitted to have pride. Not before this King."
"Di—'
Shadow Stepping, my fist caught his chin as my foot whipped towards his temple. My first blow wasn't ant to blast him away; it was ant to do as much internal damage as possible. And applying storm blade to all my attacks was just a bonus.
A dazing light flashed through his eyes, but Beleth quickly recovered as he weaved around my kick. His halbert whipped towards , but Noctom flashed to parry as my index finger caring a dreadful spear intent shot forth.
Actions and reactions suddenly filled our battle as wounds began to shred our bodies. Beleth was more skilled, but I found him lacking in a super close-range battle that required his fist. He wasn't quicker, and his sches were subpar at best.
Paragon or not, I could foresee what he'd do and react. Each reaction I acted upon had begun to refine my instincts, and as the days flew by, I began to acclimate Sitri and Yesh. To help enhance this experience. I didn't know why but for so reason… I felt myself growing closer to sothing. The stage to Paragons was close, but I felt much more room to improve.
It felt like I was close to sothing else. The more laws I incorporated, Mortal and Heavenly, all seed to push to heights I never knew were possible.
"If you keep this up, Arsene, you'll be a Chaos Lord in a few Dao Cycles," Lily said to as my blade clashed with Beleth, whose foot suddenly struck against my abdon; he used the laws of vibrations to sohow transverse the space akin to shadow slash.
Blood bubbled from my lips as my organs began to be crushed under his monstrous strength. I staggered back but not before Heavenly Bind ca from the skies, but Beleth was ready as he pointed towards .
"Disrupt!"
"Don't use spells against a paragon if your not a Paragon," warned Lily. "He'll always have that advantage."
Blood exploded out of my mouth and noise as I felt a soul attack disrupt my ntal incantation. Despite being instantaneous, Beleth sohow managed to disrupt a spell already cast…. He was attacking the link between Man and the Arcanes. Interesting. I need to learn that.
"Heal yourself. If this keeps up, you'll lose."
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