CHAPTER – 8
THE STRONGEST MONSTER OF THE ABYSS
"I see so you have been living here since the day you were born." I asked the little monster in my palm.
"Yes, my queen, since the day I have been born, I have found myself confined in these walls. But finally our queen is here to look after our welfare. I am so happy." A tiny squeaking voice rang in my head.
"Yeah about that part… can we discuss about it a little first?" I showed a bit of hesitation in saying this but the 'queen' part has still been bugging .
"My queen is my queen… that's the only thing I know." And this tiny sweet voice doesn't seem to back down or take a no for an answer.
Huhhhh…. How did it even co to this.
I think, it all started when I entered floor 98 ...
I could hear clattering voices from all over the place, almost similar to a ticking of an analogue clock, as I crossed the arc passage. It was a huge grass plain, with a water fountain on the very right corner and a cluster of Magitite trees which illuminated the whole place like a glowing Christmas tree.
It was more of a paradise than a monster lair. But the only thing that made feel off was the clattering – tal scraping noises from the huge giant spiders inhabiting this place.
To be honest I was more into enjoying the view than the thought of fighting them. Also for reasons, they felt so nostalgic, as if looking at a reflection of myself which I was once.
As I made my presence known to these spiders, I expected them to bring the fight directly to . I prepared myself to send them off to the other side without hurting. I couldn't show them sympathy if they try to hurt . Though if possible I will make it easy for them to pass on.
All the spiders suddenly stopped moving their front claws or doing the work they might have be doing, maybe like washing their fangs or scrubbing their spider webs in the running water. But staring in my direction and then again in the left corner of the floor, where a huge black spider was resting on a huge pumice rock, maybe treating it like a throne of so kind.
Suddenly the black spider made out a huge roar after looking intently in my direction and all the other spiders froze in their places.
I didn't understood what was happening, but it was fun watching them nonetheless. If they tried to act suspiciously I was going to annihilate them either way, so it's all in the good.
As their distorted arrangent quickly turned into a classified special arrangent of rows and columns, they matching and synchronizing their movents marched towards , in a sowhat akin to a parade or processions I would see on television when the military rallies to the parliant.
I was more than ready to unleash my spell, when the black spider appeared in front of … it was so quick that I wouldn't have been able to react, if I didn't keep my guard up. Was it teleportation, maybe shadow movent from the looks of it? They are all high level spiders after all and with huge bodies like that they are quite a monstrous sight to look at.
Well, I did also looked the sa when I was one… as I was imrsed in my thoughts of my dark and harsh past… a shrill voice excitedly banged in my head, even though it did not crossed paths between my two ears.
Was it telepathic communication, but with whom, as I focused on the receiving… I was awestruck…
"The queen has finally returned. Bow before the queen."
Wait! What…what's going on? A monster talking. But how… could it be that I am hearing things, am I that adverse to killing spiders now. But if they try to harm then I have no choice. I should just burn them after all.
When suddenly a status ssage appeared as if an oracle, to prevent the demise of these innocent spiders who were now bowing and shouting praises for their queen. But where is she?
I failed to spot another huge or powerful spider except for the black one, but he too was a part of this entire parade-charade, rather he is the one who initiated all of this and the others followed.
[LEGACY OF GODDESS ARACHNE. TITLE ACTIVATION.]
[CONFIRMING EVOLUTION. CONFIRMING LEVEL STEPS]
[TRANSFERRING RIGHTS… PROCESS INITIALIZING]
Wait, what's with my status all of a sudden, and why is Al acting on his own with his emotionless chanical voice.
[SUB-TITLE : QUEEN OF ALL SPIDERS.]
[AUTHORITY ACTIVATED.]
How did I get this title now? Is it because of that weird title which I have since my birth? Why is it activating on its own, is it so inner chanism, with so conditions to be fulfilled.
And if the title is the 'Queen of Spiders' does that an their queen is .
Just to confirm... I asked the black spider by directing my gaze at him. Since they can make understand their language through thought communication, the vice-versa should work too or at least I am hoping for it in that matter.
"Can you tell who your queen is?"
"It's you my humble Queen." a loud voice again ran through my head again.
I knew it, but what should I do with it now. All of the spiders almost numbered in hundreds, ranging from different coloured shells - blue, green, red, gray, violet and the one who was standing in front of was the only black spider.
He appeared to be indeed the most powerful among them and the one at the top.
So titles do work like authority, and the spiders instinctively respond to my presence. Before this I had never used the power of a title, but it does seem useful now. Maybe I should try to acquire more of them. But I have to make sure that I don't end up with a weird one.
"All, hail the mighty queen."
"All hail the majestic queen."
"All hail…."
"Okay fine! I am your queen. So stop for now." I who got frustrated with their loud noises, without thinking shouted inside my mind. But it seems that due to telepathic thought path communication they heard it.
A pin drop silence fell in the bottomless chasm of the labyrinth, and except for my worried looks, strained forehead and the flowing downstream water - nothing seems to be moving. Are they mad at because I shouted at them?
I looked at the black spider and could tell he was eagerly waiting for sothing.
So I tried doing this… being as direct as possible.
"By any chance do you want sothing from specifically as your queen." I need to gain there trust. If by any chance we can reach to a conclusion to stop our fight, then I am more than willing for a peace negotiation.
The black spider walked in front a bit and tilting his black spherical head, attached to its huge body, like bowing to he continued in his earsplitting sound," Oh! Humble queen, as your subjects we can't ask you for anything."
"No, no... There could be sothing I could do for you. Just ask."
"My queen how kind of you to offer us your divine protection."
Wait, but I didn't offer anything to you. You just went and decided it on your own.
He continued, "Then if you must then we want to procure so nutritious food. We have survived till now by eating plants, but it doesn't seem to work for us that much in terms of fulfilling our demands. Would you be willing enough to grant us food with your absolute power?"
Wait! These spiders eat plants. And now they are asking for sothing nutritious… could it be at. So ultimately they are omnivores.
But why haven't I ever thought of eating plants when I was one… right while fighting monsters I would usually end up destroying the whole floor or burning down the whole place. Well, you learn sothing new every day, so I will leave it at that and take it as a lesson.
As for their food, I have defeated a lot of monsters and with help of gluttony and equivalent exchange, I can recreate monster corpses – so will it be okay for them to eat it.
"Will monster corpses work for you all?"
"Anything our queen offers to us we will be honoured to accept it with all of our heart."
Then how about this, I recreated a sand worm corpse to fill almost half the floor, which I once defeated inside the labyrinth. I wonder for how much days it will work for them.
"Thank you, my queen, this will surely make your subjects happy. How could we ever repay to you."
Don't go crying on , you asked for it, so you get it.
"You, honestly don't need to."
"You are so kind my queen, let us all dedicate our lives in your na. Please use our ager lives to fulfill all your ans."
Wait! Didn't you decide it all on your own? But I don't think there is any backing out now and it's not like I can't use their help. All I need to do as a queen is to make sure that they live a happy life and do not die because of any avoidable circumstance. If serving , their queen makes them happy, then I shouldn't refuse the offer, as long as I don't make their life less comfortable or put them in harm's way.
"But is this amount really enough for you all."
"Yes, my queen most probably for a month or two."
Are they dieting freaks, with their size, even this amount won't last for an hour.
Oh, I see that's how it is…
I understood the whole farce when they shrank themselves. That's right, until now they had been using body transformation, but their true size is almost that of a nail and can still lower their body size to a thick marker's dot.
Colour impressed, they changed from abominable apocalyptic creatures to household innocent child-like spiders.
Most of them were now feeding on the sand worm, while I was checking their stats through appraisal.
To be honest, they were not much of fighters or attack magic user monsters. Though they have high resistances, but they are mostly sneaky type ones. Most of them possessed skills for hidden attacks like poison breath, confusion, paralysis, sleep, mirage, dream contact and even extended to mind attack skills like hypnosis and taking body control.
Now I can see their true potential as a mini squad- a small army of spider troops, good for scouting and directly taking out bosses of the opposing armies. To be honest no one would even suspect them and they can just go and do anything.
Hiding is not a problem for them at all, if they learn advanced conceal, then not even investigative skills would work on them.
"My queen is there anything I can do for you." The black spider ca to on its own violation with the exact proposal I had wanted.
"But first can you tell what I should call you."
"I am sorry for making it difficult but I don't possess a na."
Right I had doubt about that, only singular entity monsters possesses nas.
"Then how about I call you Elly."
"It makes so happy to obtain a na from our benevolent queen." It looked like he was about to cry in joy, but now that he is turned his original body size small, his voice has beco shrill and sweet. It's much better this way.
So, I taught him on how to learn 'advanced conceal' skill. I tried to make it a rather fun activity for them. So, by playing hide and skill with each other. But simply playing won't cut it; they needed to be engaged in combat too, and to catch each other they had to use their webs. It will improve their combat skills in the end and so of them will learn the required skills. Well, we will get to see the results in a month or two.
As a compensation I made a promise to teleport lots of at monster to this floor and also guarantee their safety when they needed . With help of Elly's skill we could even communicate over long distance and when I would need them ever in future I could just teleport them to my side.
This makes realize that what I am doing might be similar to monster taming but since they call their queen then should I call it monster subordination.
"Hey by the way Elly, do you know what's there on the lower floors."
"I am sorry my queen, but even we don't know. None of them have ever ventured outside of these floors. It doesn't seem we can either. Unless you appeared. Now our restrictions have been lifted." That was sothing new for to learn. Due to my authority, they are no more bound to the rules and dinsion barriers that maintain order in this place.
Yes, that might be true, when I appeared sohow they too got the title of worker spiders. Am I running so kind of corporate system now!!
"Sorry for being useless my queen."
"No problem, you all just try to live a healthy and fun life here."
"But I can tell you one thing that whatever there is below us, is not alive. We never sensed any life energy coming from there but always experienced a cold powerful surging malevolent energy occupying it."
"That does help…" well I have a clue now. And I think I know what I should expect then.
After that we said our goodbyes to each other and all the other spiders seed to be overwheld by leaving. But I assured them that I will help them whenever they have a problem.
And that's how our little congregation ca to an end and thus a spider colony was found under my supervision.
***
////////////////// FLOOR – 98 //////////////////
Who would have thought that I would be able to see such a creepy and yet fascinating sight so day. Till now I had only seen it in video gas and novels, but they do really exist in this world.
Those who sleep for eternity and yet walk the land, those who look straight forward at their goal and yet are mindless, those that are already rotten but yet immortal – the UNDEAD.
As I was a step away from the gate, the lower land was filled with a dense pitch-black mist.
"So, that's what is called a black miasma pool. For one to be here… it's sure is a mystery right now…"
Usually they could be said as naturally occurring pounds in the realm of dead, Hell. But for one to be here and so huge to cover the entire floor. I needed to tread carefully in here.
From what I have learnt, these pools is what power up the monsters, causing different changes in their bodies, pretty much like evolution. But its way-worse because it takes away their sanity and fear of death and instill in them the thought to destroy whatever is in front of them.
I looked at all the humanoid like creatures, creatures other than humanoid shapes with almost no forms. Undead, zombies, skull people – whatever one calls them were walking on this floor. The air was so cool to almost make my breath clog in my throat. The sight of these indescribable creatures, the coal-black darkness did not only had consud the floor but also had plagued their hearts which almost made scramble backwards.
But I had to move forward, even though this was my first-hand experience with them, I had to learn to deal with such a problem at so point if I wanted to succeed in my and Athena's goal.
So, to first know of their weaknesses and strengths properly, I wanted to play it safe and avoid the black miasma and its adverse affects. Even though I have magic immunity and resistance I doubt it would be absolutely effective against such an overwhelming amount. I had to keep my promise with mother after all to not get hurt if I am able to.
So from the stairs alone I decided to launch magical attacks, since they won't respond to my presence unless I enter the floor or step into the black miasma.
[GRAVI – SPHERE]
[WIND CUTTER]
[FUSION SPHERE]
I launched my preliminary rail of attacks, but unfortunately it had no effect on them. On those whom I cast gravity sphere stay stuck to the ground. On those whom I cut through wind cutter, felled into various parts but continued to grossly walk with their cut down half bodies.
With no choice I decided to raise the level of spells.
[BLACK FLARE]
In the next instant the whole floor was on fire, which confird the fact I had learned about the undead. Magic is ineffective on them. The black fire just spread over their bodies with doing no damage whatsoever and died out.
The reason being, that the undead are specific creatures that possess infinite and zero amount of magical energy. They keep on alternating between them. For a body which ceases to have a soul, but when their escaping consciousness ends up in a loop of leaving and re-entering a body it gives rise to an undead.
When the consciousness leave their bodies they have zero magical energy, and when their consciousness returns back by absorbing magic energy from the surrounding and pure black miasma they have almost an infinite supply of it. This process is fast in undead who have strong will and are powerful, while it's comparatively slower in the weak ones.
This leads to the conclusion that my black fire magic failed and so will the other magic spells.
I an killing an already dead being sounds la. Though I have to do just that.
To be more precise to defeat an undead we need to erase their existence.
In this world people have only one solution of defeating an undead, that is divine light magic, which works well in destroying the magical veins and severe their consciousness form their will.
But for this humongous pool of miasma and undead numbering in hundreds it would almost take an entire day. And I don't like to work like a bull, but take smart steps for quick total annihilation of my enemy.
So, it was my best ti to try out my new weapon that I once failed to control. But after regular practice with mother I was finally able to gain complete control over it.
I will also able to confirm the exact potency of this weapon and its limits at the sa ti.
"Soul Weapon Manifest. DELERE SPHERE"
The next instant I was covered inside a translucent white colour sphere. This was my soul weapon. Unlike any other soul weapon, it was one of its kind because I cannot use it directly to attack.
The ground below got erased, so I used wind magic to sky walk. I took my first step on the floor into the back miasma pool.
Closing my eyes I hurriedly moved my legs and hesitatingly placing them on the ground, I was safely standing on the floor.
"Finally… without a scratch." I looked around and was surprised to see how this black miasma pool was reacting to my soul weapon. As soon as the black mist touched the periphery of the sphere it vanished leaving an empty space which was then covered by the surrounding mist. The process continued forever, as if the sphere was acting as so kind of a sink or a drainage point.
But the sudden change in the level of black miasma had already alerted the undead of their energy source being depleted by .
They took an offensive side. So ca running in my direction empty handed, so with rusted swords and wearing brown rusted armours.
Even the monster looking type undead did the sa and mindlessly attacked .
But I was not bothered, the mont they touched the sphere, they vanished. Not even a single trail left behind, almost being reduced to nothing.
As if they were being deleted from reality. That's the feeling I get.
I was happy as I moved forward towards the next gate leading to the final floor. I did not need to do anything except walk as all of my enemies unthinkingly vanished from my sight as did the most of black miasma which was almost completely gone with few traces behind.
Then not to forget about the undead mounting over black horses. Those really fired up; watching them in real life was a dream co true. But they too found a similar ending of being erased.
Within fifteen minutes I had not only defeated all my enemies but also purified the land. But seeing the floor did not make much happy. The fertility of the soil was gone; it was burnt to the very bottom of ground, with almost all of magic being used to sustain the black miasma itself.
I decided to pick up so soil, and later try finding ways to restore it to normal in as little ti as possible. I might have to confront these good for nothing creatures in future later too.
So it's better to be prepared.
***
////////////////// FLOOR – 100 /////////////////////
The situation just can't get worse, than currently what it is.
I had started getting bad premonitions the mont I saw a four square gate sealing the passage to the final floor. Just like an unwritten invitation or label ─
'1 LABYRINTH FINAL BOSS MONSTER, ORDER UP.'
Using my Wind fan I slashed through the gate, ripping apart it into two pieces with a clean cut, it was obvious that mother's gift would prevail against these pesky ancient doors. Though now I regret it when I think I could open a museum with these kinds of objects. The people would go crazy in my previous world on such a discovery claiming – 'a fine piece of ancient work.', 'a breakthrough in ancient tis technological advancent.' Or what not stupidity over a dumb door. At least give it a rest, it might be just a door to soone's washroom in old tis.
But maybe it would be just considered an old dull gate in this world and the idea of a museum, won't work that well in magical world, because things needed to be put to use instead of being hanged on walls or bore the mind of school children on a museum trip. Then there are all kinds of restoration and sustaining magic which defeats the entire purpose of recording ti artifacts.
But the world which I was about to enter had no limits or boundaries as such. I would have thought as much when this floor is the only one separated with a sealed door.
'DANGER' is etched and has been echoing in this empty dark space. I could neither perceive a wall nor the ground. It was all covered in pitch-black miasma much darker and denser than the last ti. But instead of being surrounded by undead, a huge black sphere was floating in the centre of the place.
With no choice I activated my soul weapon and stepped into the black miasma. And it still is ineffective on . But I was still creeped out by how the miasma was reacting.
It was a curious sight, but at the sa ti, it made feel indescribably uneasy. For a mont I felt it was alive, as it started converging and bouncing over the surface of sphere.
I had taken only a few steps, when the air instantly froze as if soone had forcibly for a mont stopped the ticking of all the clocks in the world. The black sphere started revolving at its place at an indefinite pace. Sotis it took turns, tilted its axis, and changed speed. It was clear to that this black sphere was taking so kind of a form when I started feeling an overwhelming presence from the inside. I used my appraisal and analysis skill at the sa ti and started studying the situation.
"So, now that would explain, why so much black miasma has accumulated on this floor."
I was getting anxious by every second, as more and more of this dark matter spewed out of the black sphere and finally it completed its form.
Skinless, fleshless hands clad in a raven-black robe with an invisible bottom covered in black fog, clutching a gargantuan sword which seed to be able to split the ground and sky at the sa ti.
The gaze from its vacant orbs of its bleached-white skull had a familiar sense of emptiness as though it captures the soul of anyone who dared to stare in them.
In that mont of stillness, it had already concluded that I was the live prey.
The final boss monster turned out to be none other than a soul reaper – Thanatos – The Guardian Angel of Gates of Hell.
Maybe I should start praying, but unfortunately I have always been an atheist from heart.
But even after eting gods for real, my viewpoint hasn't changed. Gods are not beings that fulfill our pesky wishes but have much more responsibility to look after the world's order and maintain a proper balance in the fundantal forces of nature. They won't have ti to hear our pleas and even if they hear, they have no obligation to fulfill it. And then there are people who says : God helps only those who helps themselves. Humans just cannot stay on the sa platform.
I think I don't need to pray to them, because I have befriended one of them after all. Haven't I…!!!
So I am going to et her and there's no stopping . I am going to take this apocalyptic monster down in a beat.
I instantly increased the reach of my soul weapon and holding the hand fan near my heart I fird my grip on the ground and relaxed my muscles.
In the next instant, all I was able to perceive was a black shadow and the shining tip of the sword heading in my direction at a lightning speed.
It is faster than I imagined for a bag of broken ancient bones.
I was more than ready to counterattack as I spread the blades of the wind fan and pushing my hand a bit backwards prepared to counterattack its blow. The reaper was about to touch the sphere and I was already dancing in the skies with the thought that I had already won.
...I…. CAN'T MOVE.
What's happening?
My senses, my foothold all had started to suddenly whittle down. My strength receding into the background as if it failed to response to my urges. This has never happened. So why now…
I was the only one who had stopped, while the reaper's blade was upon in a flash. I had no ti to be surprised and yet at this decisive mont – it was as though the connection between my mind and body was severed.
I forcing myself tried to hold the wind fan in front and putting all of my strength into my All Seeing Eyes of the Gods used thought acceleration.
The reaper was definitely being hurt by the soul weapon's sphere, but sothing unique was occurring simultaneously. The sphere was corroding.
"So, this is Rot Magic." I think I have overestimated the powers of my soul weapon and underestimated the enemy at the sa ti.
According to analysis Rot Magic – is an all decaying skill. Whenever anything cos into the vicinity of the soul reaper it starts to decay on its own. Ti itself started decaying, almost halted when it approached . My energy started decaying as it touched the sphere which corroded as well.
There was no more ti to think, the only imdiate solution to get out of this ss was to release all the stored energy inside the flag at once.
A burst of light magic, and the soul reaper made a retreat with clanking bones sound, its rattle resonating in this hollow place made it even more sinister.
I would have loved to open a ghost house here! But having such a scary ghost with such a dangerous unique skill should not be left loose.
I needed to gain back my energy, and the parts of the skin burn I suffered around my hand due to its rot magic.
[DIVINE HEAL]
The next mont I knew all the black miasma in my nearby vicinity got purified as well as the reaper seems to be frustrated by it as it led out a huge howl. I wondered how did it even manage to make out a voice without an Adam's apple or a tongue.
"That's none of you business. Damn you!!" that's what it eyes appeared to be saying to .
How did I even miss that, Divine Heal is the highest divine light magic I can use. Obviously it would work better than my soul weapon.
But I think I only made the boss monster angrier with how the black miasma has been condensing behind him and acting so violent. This was a mistake from my side to use a spell without thinking how the monster would retaliate. Of course if I use a power that endangers its very existence it would co at full force. But I was still recovering from the ti lag the Rot skill has caused.
I can't get my head around it of how to defeat such a strong entity without getting near it. It's obvious all magic spells would decay before it makes contact with it.
I tried to ransack my brain as every second passed, but nothing seems to surface. It was a blank, is it too due to effect of the rot skill…. Or am I scared… this ti.
In these few seconds of negligence and ignorance I have left the reaper unattended. I tried to move, but this ti my legs seed to be sinking inside the knee deep water ground.
The black mist had turned into a liquid, while a small tsunami of it was rising before the reaper's back.
What is it trying to do now.
The streams of black fluid repeatedly clashed in mid air and before I could recover from the fact that I was sinking deeper into the quicksand of this dark matter a huge black gate manifested and floated on the turbulent surface.
The reaper's body shook heavily as the black fluid now started flooding the entire region, while it went beyond my waist level and started draining itself into the black gate summoned by the black angel.
My consciousness still fading, my body still not accustod to such high concentration of black miasma in liquid form I was losing my will power and magic that was being sucked out of like a sponge being repeatedly unscrunced tightly to drain the last drop of water from it. My body was in a lot of pain. But…
My only thoughts remaining of getting hurt, as I was being pulled towards the gate and finally sucked into it. My only regret to be unable to put any resistance because I was too relaxed for soone who wanted to conquer a labyrinth.
I just forgot how cruel and unforgiving this place could be.
I was now completely imrsed inside the black fluid, as it started entering through my mouth and nose when I opened it in search of air.
***
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MONSTER DIARY
THANATOS {DARK ANGEL}
NA : THANATOS
AGE : -----
RACE : MYSTIC SOUL REAPER
LEVEL : 9200
HP : 800,000
MP :900,000
SP : ?????
UNIQUE SKILL : [ROT MAGIC]
SKILLS : [ADVANCED BLACK MIASMA LV10] [PURGATORY FLAS] [IMMORTALITY] [ULTRA-SELF REGENERATION][NECROMANCY] [GATES OF HELL]
TITLES : GUARDIAN OF GATE OF HELL
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///////////// ALICIA ASCALON ASHBORN - POV ///////////////
It has now dawned upon of how I forgot to learn swimming from mother. But I was drowning deeper and deeper into this endless, bottomless pit, going along with the current, being pulled down to its non-existent foundation.
Light fading… all I rembered was being hauled inside the hell gate which the reaper summoned.
My hand seed to be as empty as it only grasped nothing. The more I tried, the more my body hurt.
I wished to LIVE, I did not wanted to die. I had felt this way more than I can count. This coldness in my mind, this single thought of living and a wish to survive.
That all I had hoped for….
I don't want to go out like this… it's so pathetic and maybe so much like .
As if soone then responding to my call, two brilliant lights in my hands illuminated in this black-pitch omnipotence for a second, or so I thought as the vestiges of darkness returned to the depths of hell… I imrsed into it further and further until I finally fell asleep.
When I was back on earth sotis I always thought it would be good to sleep and never wake up. Waking up day after day only beca boring - more appropriately it never felt like wanting to see a tomorrow. For it was like the sa day, sa things being repeated on its own, stuck in a loop where even if I want to, I cannot proceed on the desired path I wanted to.
It was as if soone was controlling my life and I couldn't even do a thing about it. And that soone might be the one because of whom I can't do or beco things I wanted to. I couldn't reach it, neither can I fight it.
So it would be good to skip out on so day. No one would mind, no one rembers nor I want to rember them. Taking a break….
Is that what I wanted….
Maybe.
But that is sothing I don't want right now. Because the feeling of each passing day, is like a loss that no living being can avoid. Specially in this life, this change and feeling was visible to as one of the most.
So was I not alive back then, were my days on earth of no consequence.
Does that make the present useless, in front of a powerful foe…
I don't know…
"Why don't I answer it for you?!!"
Till now it felt like I was talking to myself and answering on my own. But this second voice woke up as I realized myself sitting in the only chair of my room; my hands tied up by a thin rope and interlocked on the back.
The person standing in front of was yet another wearing the school uniform with a weird smile, as if it made her feel pleasure in seeing her own reflection in a miserable state.
What a bizarre situation! I don't think I could get a bit more worried or surprised because pretty much I have gotten used to seeing myself.
It's weird talking to other personalities of , like last ti it was a kindred one and other was a devilish one.
I wonder which kind of is this one now, to be creepy enough to tie her own self in her past ho.
"You have the answer." I asked in my weakened state. My head still felt heavy and numb, as if recovering from the shock of the attack from the soul reaper.
"Well I do but I am not interested in telling you." This new gave a quick response and she sounded a bit rude and awful at the sa ti.
"Can I have so tea and biscuits when you are at it?"
"What do you need those for?" She still questioned like an investigator would question a criminal, but I am not one, even though I am tied like this.
"Well I do need them but I am not interested in telling you." I smirked. But playing tit for tat or teasing my own self is not my kind of fetish.
"You think it's funny. You know that right this mont you are dying in the real world, do you still think you have ti to play around." She kicked one of the legs of a chair making it unstable on its three footing alone.
I guess it worked. It really provoked her. This was just an investigative question. I wanted to confirm whether this person is really or soone else. And I would say none. I would never get angry or frustrated on these kinds of replies. So is she so kind of shadow personality of mine.
Is it because of my dual swords, that these kinds of etings happens between myself. But what is it that the swords want from to make go through this.
"Why aren't you responding." She again repeatedly kicked on the legs of the chair which shook it for an instant but was not strong enough to topple it. It's clear that she is not a friendly type.
I still remained quite I needed to sort my thoughts while I still had the chance. To think of a way to get past its Rot attack magic which always surrounds it like an invisible blanket. But nothing is going to work; my ways won't cut it this ti. Even if I use the first ability of the Dual Blades and that the black sword is able to cut through magic and absorb it. It will be only for an instant and the Rot magic would activate on itself again.
"Anyway if you are going to die, and since you have made up your mind, I will kill you myself."
"Wait I never made up my mind to accept my death."
"What are you talking about; the whole point of being you here is that you accepted your death." This , really hates talking, is too loud and is not at all behaving as how I would do.
Anger… we need to control it all the ti. If I don't then it will probably make others hate more, not that it would make a difference. And yet I was always averse to showing the feelings of anger and hatred. I never hated anyone, though I did get angry and sad of how people show their true faces to and what people want from . And yet I found it useless, because those cannot deliver solutions of my life problems to .
"But why do you want to kill ?" well I ought to know the reason, if the killer is willing to offer it up himself, then I should probably not hold back.
"You are seriously asking … shouldn't you know the answer already."
"No, I really don't know. So while we are at it, why don't you tell as my final wish?"
She made a kind of annoyed face as if she was about to punch anyti soon, if I pushed her even a bit more.
"Because it's all your fault. You did this to …"
What!!! Did I do to her again, she is the one keeping tied and….
Suddenly mories started playing like a film in my mind. Tis when I was alone, when things were unfair towards or when I had a problem and I wanted soone to help out. Those were not exactly my mories at the mont but how this '' specifically clung to these mories. But why?
I thought I had already left all of it behind. So why they are so much hurting ?
"It's because you kept closed up, all this ti. Kept quiet, did not stood for yourself, it's all because of you I am so miserable and in so much pain. That's right I am your pent-up anger, you have kept stored up until this ti and even now you are bottling it all up. But I won't allow it anymore." Her serious tone and the pressured anger which I was feeling from her now was enough to give goosebumps.
I gulped, but decided not to be intimidated.
"So, what exactly you want to do? Snapping out like you are doing now wouldn't have solved the problem it would have only worsened the situation."
"Don't sermon on ways of peaceful noble life. If you can't make yourself happy you transfer all the pain to while you sat back act all innocent as if nothing really happened. I want to let loose too."
The wooden floor of the room started shaking; the ceiling flickered as so of the white powder fell down from it. Well I already knew this room had a weak built, and it would collapse anyti during an earthquake.
But why is it moving so much, the windows cracked with shards of glasses flying into the room.
To my horror, outside the window, a huge raging storm of the sa black miasma was forming that pulled in here.
This dream-like or conscious world too was now being invaded by the black miasma.
"As each day passed, you gave up hope and decided that it couldn't get worse. While you kept quite I was tornted here, locked up in the corner. Why didn't you try to stop it? Why didn't you just destroy everything in your way?" this girl… even with so much going on the outside, she is still continuing with her nonsensical farce… but why does it hurts so much when she is speaking like that. I don't think it's true…or could it be that she has really been here all this ti.
Because there is no reason for her to lie. She is just …so why would she lie to herself.
"How can you even say that, when you know that is not the right way to do things? You can't just change people's thoughts about you, so it's better to stay away from than facing them." I still can't agree, if all one wants is to take out their anger on others.
"Yes you are right, maybe it could be better solved by killing everyone who stood in my way of happiness. It won't be that difficult for the current you. I know you too crave for it, I could tell because we are the sa person. Just imagining all the ways to make them suffer and watch as they scream for help, already makes wanting to do it." Her eyes narrowed as if they were being controlled by the evil residing inside of the miasma.
I needed to get out of here.
"Wake up! What are you doing, stop spouting nonsense, you know we can't hurt innocent people. So how can you say sothing like that?" I scread at her. Maybe because she was , I thought I could get angry with myself at least. No, one would get hurt, or dislike this way.
"So, you too are going to stop from doing what I want to. You couldn't speak up then, so why now. Don't go thinking that shouting at yourself would not hurt your feelings. You don't know what happiness is, so you ignored and snatched away my happiness too."
She ca close to and bending a little, pointing at my heart, she whispered in my ears. My eyesight began scorching, as everything turned fuzzy. The shock had rendered numb to the extent that I couldn't feel the moisture that had surfaced in my eyes. I was burning from inside, because of the rage of this person who spoke in my ears -
"Because you will be the only one hurting the most. So burn with ."
At that mont the roof got torn like a massive storm and all other natural calamities had hit the place at the sa ti. Black miasma started seeping in from below the closed door.
It started hurting more and more as I scread. I was really scared. Scared for my own life this ti. Not knowing what would happen next and the only thing ahead I see is a blank, it made more scared of taking another step.
So this is how she felt. With nowhere to go, nowhere to run, with no one to show you kindness and all on your own, she endured, all of this alone.
And yet again, she took it all upon herself, as I felt a sudden relief from the pain which was bursting inside until now. Light returning back in my eyes – I looked for her.
Seeing that the girl was now drenched in a tornado of so kind of black mist as she stood there shouldering all of it on her own. I wanted to shift my gaze away, but her screams chased down and knocked my ears. The debris of the roof, the burning effect of the black mist and my own unwanted feelings, she again took it away.
But why ―
"St…Stop… get away." This ti I scread at her because I couldn't look away anymore. Because I had left her abandoned and forgotten, she turned out like this. This side of mine, or even though I am just imagining things, maybe its right to voice your own thoughts, when you can avoid others from being hurt and specially when you are hurting yourself.
I did little to prevent the abuse, other than to refuse to react, presumably in the hopes they would tire of bullying if they couldn't get any reaction from my side. But learning of her abandonnt, it seed common knowledge at the site that... over ti, my ignoring the bullying backfired. So, I marked myself off as emotionless, to go along with them.
You cannot accept resistance from anyone if you are weak, and both the sides know very well about it. But I at the sa ti did not try to change things.
And even now this powerlessness is showing how laid back I have been and how hollow my dreams are.
"Don't sit and watch there. Run away. Don't die on . And if you try to die again, before that I will kill you myself." I could tell from her voice that she was barely able to speak and was being tornted by that black raging mist, more than she is letting to show it on her face.
She stood so strong, while I gave up every ti so soon…
"Run away. Leave here. I won't die this easily. But we don't know what will happen to you if that black miasma continues like that." I begged her to stop going through all of this.
"Don't take pity on . Now go."
I needed to move. I needed to save her. Specially now, when I think I have gotten stronger from before. And if I show my weakness again, it would be like lying to the hopes of people who have cared about . So, let move once more, even if I am feeling so helpless now.
The back ropes which were keeping tied to my chair, suddenly burst open, as if I had finally broken through my own restriction binding .
I ran closer to the other , but with how dangerous the storm was, I couldn't seem to get closer to her.
"I am sorry! It's all because of …"
"Don't co closer; this will take you in with , run while you still have the chance." The words of her got muffled in inside the storm, but I still understood her.
"I am not running away. You suffered because you had to fight alone with my true desires. But not anymore, I am not going to leave you alone. If you stay here then you will definitely die."
"That might be true, but it won't be similar to your death if I die here. I will just disappear, like I always have been. But isn't it good, it is because I can die now, that I can appreciate life."
"I don't get what you an. But since we both have sa life, you have a heart too. That ans you are already alive. You don't have to go this far to prove yourself and take all the burden."
"Dying will be a proof that I have a heart. And I can take more than this, this has nothing on . Just rember that I existed within you and maybe sotis get angry for yourself. Just maybe…"
I stood there for a mont and the next thing I knew; I was forcing my hand through the revolving wall of black miasma that stood between and her.
"Kyaaahhhhh…."
"Wait! What are you doing? You don't need to die with ."
"I am not dying. Neither are you going to suffer anymore because of . I am leaving this place and you are coming with ."
"Coming with you… get moving. I have always been here since the day I have known I existed. I don't think there's any else place I belong."
"You told you were alone, but it could be the only reason that I ca here to get you. You taught that there's no reason to fight against it if it's your true desire."
"Now, I don't understand what you are saying."
"There's no need to. There is no reason to be here anymore. You said you wanted to get loose, but doesn't that an you wanted soone's company too. So, isn't it the right ti to be together!"
"Together … with you."
"Aahhhhaahhh…" the black mist was ripping my skin and burning at the sa ti. If I kept at it any longer, my hands might also be ripped apart.
"See, if you stay with , you will get hurt more and more, and I don't know… whether this anger is controllable or not. I do realize now, that anger might be the cause of others hating too and I don't know what I will do if you start hating too."
"Just co with because there's still so much you can do with than better dying here. You might be just my imagination with different values of life attached to you. But there's no reason for you to be here. Grab my hand and let's leave this place."
"Fine then I won't hesitate, you asked for and I will give you my power. Right then let us be together as one from here on."
Clasps.
My hands fumbled in the dark in search of her hand as she held out her own and grasped it. A special culmination of black and golden light surrounded her as it consud the entire vicinity and the next the whole world around .
The only thing I rembered from there was her confident smile and that I was finally able to understand myself a bit more.
[DUAL BLADES : WHITE & BLACK SWORDS]
[SKILL : ABSOLUTE LIFE & DEATH CONTROL ACTIVATED]
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Cold & Hollow. An infinite valley of darkness and the silence of death.
The soul reaper brandishing its huge long sword, beckoned through his hands as the gates of hell which he had summoned through his own power closed its doors upon this mortal world. The place returned to its quietness again and the intruder had been dealt with. The soul reaper stood in its place…
One could say that it was relieved by ditating in the peacefulness of its own creepy dark domain or it was sizing up the peacefulness before the storm would hit.
After a few seconds, as if there was an uproar among the souls inhabiting the black pool, but even though the source was untraceable, two streaks of bright light flashed upon the gate carving a cross and a white figure jumped out by slamming the indestructible gates of hell.
"Dual Wielding. ARANEOLUS Technique. First Form. QUAD SPECTA."
A powerful single concentrated quick draw attack from both my blades converging all my energy at a single point, I slashed the gates of hell open.
My sword left white and black traces behind as it flew forward and collided with the soul reaper's blade, sparks flying in every direction. But only the reaper was knocked backwards by the force of impact, leaving a huge gap in between.
I held my swords perfectly still before and let a smile curl the corners of my mouth.
"I have co back for my sweet revenge."
The bones of the reaper again rattled and crackled as if one were putting salt through pyrolysis or playing a clam shell as a living instrunt.
"By any chance, is your whole body like a music instrunt in itself?" I tried to ask a question out of curiosity. I do hear so blowing instrunts and organ pipes are sotis made up of bones, and if for him it is natural then maybe he should join a band called 'Dead Beat.'
"Gyaaaaaahhhhh…" As if disturbed by my offer it led out a huge scream and refused to be a part of such a prestigious entertainnt production group.
Responding to the cries of the soul reaper, the broken gates started subrging into the water, and thousands of souls flew out at the sa ti, forming black circular masses in the huge sky. They kept on growing in size until they were huge enough that they could destroy an entire building if allowed free fall.
The Reaper pointing his sword at went for another piercing thrust aid directly at my heart. At first I leaped in to face the enemy with my own blades, without missing a mont's guess. I blocked the sword which he swung hard at with my white sword. As I was about to aim my black sword at his neck, I instinctively jumped back, leaving a space in between. Making a blue barrier over , I blocked the huge black teor of souls falling on .
I knew the barrier couldn't hold it any longer, as several cracks have started appearing on it. But I had already a new ace up my sleeve.
I switched on the new skill of my black sword and making a piercing shot in a vertical direction a peaceful single touch of my black blade which was still much darker than the cumulonimbus of souls it dispersed and yet it reflected light as if conquering the darkness itself.
In that mont all the souls were put to rest altogether. The shadow of clouds which could have shadowed even the brilliant rays of sun was extinguished by a night's black spell of my sword.
This was the effect of the new second ability my swords had gained. The first ability, in which the black sword could absorb any magic and the white sword, could re-emit it. The second ability was even more fearso, as if it was handing down the very essence of life and death itself as the na of the skill stated. The white sword had the ability to kill anything whatever it touched if it is alive. While the black sword had the ability to kill anything or remove the existence of any non-living or dead. In simple terms a single touch from my sword ant ga over.
My black sword since could kill any non-living thing – might be an undead, a skill or even magic itself.
As such, now the Rot Magic of the soul reaper had no effect on at all.
Erupting in rage and unable to understand his attack failed the reaper cast a sharper, icy and dangerous glance at with its eyes. The aura of darkness it exuded instantly thickened.
"How dare you steal my reaped souls…" that's what the eye of the soul reaper's says since he couldn't speak on his own. He was unable to understand how did I get past through his unique skill.
"Don't worry I am going to fix your problem of your raging heart for dead bodies and souls." I said smiling at him as I prepared myself for another close combat exchange.
"Quite I was made to rule the darkness. I am going to make this your grave." That's what the soul reaper's eyes said in return for my favour I was going to do to him.
The aura of darkness surrounding his being amplified again. I felt a slight fierce blowing form behind. The air, the water and the very being that might have made up this floor was being pulled towards him and absorbed into one entity.
Drenched in malignant darkness a new being rged out of the omnicoloured light, tendrils of darkness erged forth behind him. At the sa ti the air cracked and two black feathered wings spread out, as if darkness burst outward to burn everything into it.
Holy Crap! He is really a ssenger of death or rather a dark angel maybe!
"I am going to send you to a dark, cool and comfortable place." That's what his lit-up eyes were saying, pointing his huge blade at a young innocent girl like .
"You don't have it in you to defeat , you empty dead brain."
Both of us dashed in mid-air as our swords t in a stalemate again and again. Like a dance between total darkness and the light from my white sword and the radiance reflected from my black sword. I cut through its every attack as every ti his sword ca to a halt before scratching with an eerie sound. Both of us knew a single scratch form any of our sword would an an instant death now.
The White & Black swords rattled violently. While my weapons weren't being corroded, I could still feel the power of its Rot magic slowly making its way towards . The closer he got, the harder it beca to defend. For thin stick bones like him, his raw strength was astronomical.
Paying no mind to the few blows that the demon blocked, I continued with my attacks. Tightening the grip over my blades I went for a combo attack, a continuous flowing attack which increases in strength after each rotation I made on my foot.
Forming a twisting, swirling vicious flow of wind I blocked all the black projectiles he threw at from all sides, while, I increased the number of strikes and made continuous slashes.
It was working, the black angel, seems that he couldn't maintain this form for too long. It might be putting too much pressure on him. He then again started to put distance between us by going himself on defensive and increasing his ranged attacks.
Dodging my next vertical cut it flew back and again made a rattling noise with its bones. It again started collecting power from its surroundings and was preparing for a final attack, which I could tell from the looks of it because he is pushing himself to accumulate more of it than usual.
He was at his limit, while I know I have grown stronger with this new ability, and had adjusted pretty quickly to this dense miasma now. But the rot magic even though being blocked by my black sword's skill, it still is not nullified. If this bag of bones has got a little brain, then he would probably put all his magical reserves in its unique skill and go for the instant final blow.
So, I needed to do the sa. To respond its strongest attack with one of the strongest of my own.
"You are not leaving from here alive. It will be the end of you." That's what the soul reaper's eyes says as it roared while condensing all its magic power in a twist around its sword.
"You can't stop . Anyone who stands in my way will die." I gave my final reply to him taking an offensive stance, with the deep trust in my swords. Before eting her I might have frozen up with the power the soul reaper has been emitting this entire ti, the press of death was lurking everywhere, and yet I could still feel a new fla of courage glowing brightly as a star even in this dark age.
"Dual Wielding. ARANEOLUS Technique. Second Form. Red Garden Tempest."
Magical aura shot forth from both of my swords and body, which burst forth in a nimbus of colourful vibrant light transcending all the powerful attacks I have used until now.
As if all the darkness evaporating from the black miasma pool, small buds started appearing on the surface. The malignance being absorbed as the nutrients to the new young buds, it blossod into a beautiful red spider lily flower garden, covering the entire floor.
The soul reaper devastated with his magic supply being reduced and his domain snatched away, it burst into motion and so did I. Making a vertical downward cut from the top it wanted to slash through between.
I leaped forward in the sa instant, bursting ripples through the air, my white sword moved to intercept his sword mid-air.
CLANG.
Sparks flew, unstable release of magical energy due to our collision released almost imdiately, devastated the whole area.
And when the smoke and tides of water fell back to its place, my black sword was piercing right through the middle of its chest, while the white sword ran through his sword, almost slicing it in half. It crumbled with cracks, shattered and fell to pieces on the ground.
The bones inside the black cape started turning into grey fairy dust, mixing itself in the steep water, never to be separated from its ho.
My eyes fell on the ground, still flooded with water, but this ti it had a clear luster to it. But my red spider lily garden was now all shriveled up, as its petals fell on the surface of water after purifying it.
Out of habit I swiped both swords and returned them to their scabbards placed alongside my waist, appearing and disappearing whenever I wanted. Just then the voice of chanical Al rang through my head, as if declaring the end of the match and bringing it to a final conclusive chapter.
[YOU HAVE LEVELED UP]
[YOU HAVE REACHED LEVEL 30]
[ACQUIRED TITLE : SHADOW LORD]
[ALL SEEING EYES OF THE GODS ACTIVATED]
[EIGHT FORM : EYE OF NÉVMA]
An unsavory feeling went past my head, as if all the energy was being drained and forced into at the sa instant. I knew I needed to go to sleep now. But I just can't fall asleep in water. With the remaining light in my eyes, I conjured a small room out of wood and earth, opened the door and fell on the not so fancy bed in the inside, in an instant.
Exactly after five days when I woke up and crossed the door of the tiny room I had conjured, I could see a clear blue ground of water with red spider lilies growing all over the place.
It was a sight to behold and to be engraved in one's mory, never to be forgotten.
Maybe it was a gift for defeating the Soul Reaper.
At the sa ti I rembered I had earned the title 'Shadow Lord'.
According to analysis skill, this title would actually fit what one would call a necromancer. But I think it's still different. According to the authority of title, I can turn a dead body into a special existence called a 'shadow'.
As for how it works, is by creating a soul copy form my gluttony skill and then overwriting its very being and giving it a physical form and ultimate loyalty to their master.
So it's not bringing back people to life but more like resurrecting the dead. I had the best test subject, the monster I killed just now.
"Arise." I said in a deep tone.
Wait! It's not like its necessary to speak this word, just imagining the use of authority makes it work. But I wanted to try saying it either way, at the sa ti I was upset with how stiff the title sounded. I would have liked sothing more along the line like the 'Witch of the Doom'.
Well it's not like the system allows to file a complaint for its bad naming sense, but this new ability seems highly useful. If I consider all the strong monsters I have defeated and with their special abilities…. I can already have subordinates who can do things even my spider subordinates can't do.
For now, from my gluttony skill, which had absorbed the soul reaper, now started taking a new form, as a hazy radiant black smoke slowly converged into taking a flickering shape similar to the original appearance of the reaper.
There was nothing like the deep screams of the dead, or the scent of dead bodies, rather the place slled fresh due to the red flowers and there were neither graves nor hands popping out. I am scared of watching horror movies, but at the sa ti my dreams and expectations might have been crushed with what the prospects I though this title might have entailed.
Making a bow and curling up both his hands, I was taken a bit back, with how the monster who was then out for blood of mine was now bowing to .
'How could I ever repay your kindness, for bringing back to life. Master.' A strange tallic voice reached my brain.
I looked straight up and it was probably from this guy in front using thought communication. Black bones, purple glowing eyes and a faint dark purple aura wrapped around its entire body; not to forget the noble, dignified robe he was wearing now.
If not for anything, he looked more like a priest than a ssenger of death; the only difference was that he was actually dead now or maybe he was already dead, then I again killed him and again dragged him back to life. Anyways it's pretty clear to that all death reapers have it rough when it cos to their personal life count.
'Please allow this insignificant one, to serve you for the rest of my life.'
"Wait, serve under ." Now that I think about it, it would be my responsibility now, since I brought him back to life.
'Please bestow, upon your insignificant servant a na.'
Wait. Wait. Isn't he going too fast with it? First a spider army and now I can see that I can summon an undead army. But I won't probably needing one now. If I think about keeping him as a servant, all he needs is my magic.
I stared at him, while he pushed his head more towards the ground, he won't ask for a salary neither complain for food or about living condition, because he can rge with any black spot. It doesn't seem to the bugging type. If he can really follow orders and can really lend his strength, then I see no harm but only the advantages. As for the na, let think… better than calling him Mr. nobody.
"Nekros, how about that?"
'Hence forth, I will be called Nekros.'
I witnessed a sharp purple light lit in its hollowed black skull, which gave the feeling that he might have liked the na. At present I wanted to think more about what to do with this power, but more than that I wanted to leave and get to the surface imdiately.
"So, Nekros, do you know the way to get out of here."
'Yes if Master goes straight from here, then she would find an altar using it you can go back to the entrance of the labyrinth.'
Well, then off we go. Nekros rged with my own shadow reflected on the water surface. I made a final peek at the blue ground and the black sky, but now things might be just reversing.
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STATUS WINDOW
NA : ALICIA ASCALON ASHBORN
AGE : 2 YEAR
RACE : HUMAN
LEVEL : 30
HP : ERR MP : ERR SP : ERR
UNIQUE SKILL : ALL SEEING EYES OF THE GODS
Ø FIRST FORM: EYE OF INVESTIGATION
Ø SECOND FORM : KINETIC EYE
Ø THIRD FORM : EYE OF ADRANEIA
Ø FOURTH FORM : EYE OF SOUL
Ø FIFTH FORM : EQUIVALENT EXCHANGE
Ø SIXTH FORM : EYE OF BEING
Ø SEVENTH FORM : EYE OF VOXDEUS
Ø EIGTH FORM : EYE OF NÉVMA
SKILLS :[GLUTTONY LV 10][ETERNAL POISON] [WORLD SEVERING WEBS] [SAGE OF ADVANCED FIRE MAGIC ] [SAGE OF ADVANCED WATER MAGIC] [SAGE OF DIVINE LIGHT] [SAGE OF ADVANCED WOOD MAGIC] [SAGE OF ADVANCED WIND MAGIC] [ADVANCED SOUND MAGIC] [SAGE OF ADVANCED SPACE- TI MAGIC] [SAGE OF ADVANCED ICE MAGIC] [SAGE OF ADVANCED GRAVITY MAGIC] [SAGE OF DARK MATTER] [SAGE OF ADVANCED LIGHTNING MAGIC] [SAGE OF ADVANCED EARTH MAGIC] [BIO-ENGINEERING] [ELENT MANIPULATION] [ABNORMAL STATUS INFLICTION] [ADVANCED BARRIER MAGIC]
TITLE : LEGACY OF GODDESS ARACHNE, SECRETIVE PLOTTER, IMMORTALITY, RCILESS, TRUE DEMON LORD CANDIDATE, MASTERCHEF, SHADOW LORD
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STATUS WINDOW
The Dual blade of Dawn & Dusk
White & Black swords
SKILLS : [ABSOLUTE MAGIC CONTROL]
[ABSOLUTE LIFE & DEATH CONTROL]
SKILL DESCRIPTION : Allows the user, to change the laws of magic up to a certain extent. The black sword devours all kinds of magic without exception. The white sword has the ability to transmit this magic and also copy the spell signature and recreate it for the user.
Allows the user with the white blade to kill any alive thing. While the black blade allows the user to kill or erase the existence of any dead thing, which further extends to non-living (like - skill effects, items and forces of nature.)
WEAPON DESCRIPTION : [LEVEL AUTHORITY NOT REACHED]
SCABBARDS OF RUBRUM & CAERULEUM
SKILL DESCRIPTION : The red scabbard provides body temperature maintenance in all situation and divine fire magic control. The blue scabbard provides special healing abilities and divine ice magic control.
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EIGTH FORM : EYE OF NÉVMA
Grants user to see other's soul core and interfere with their domain. Can also manipulate other's thought waves and take control over the soul realm if level authority exceeds or the individual is weak-willed.
Allows the user to implant new thoughts and foreshadow impressions of the world on target's mind.
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TITLE : SHADOW LORD
Allows the user to give an alternate form to the souls and dead bodies. Also grant the power to communicate with these shadows.
Shadows also possess the skills and to so extent mories of their previous lives. The user has full control over the mind of the shadows and the shadows gains a personality of absolute loyalty towards the title holder.
Shadows since do that have a perfect physical existence, that ans they are indestructible however weak to light magic.
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SOUL REAPER {THAT'S WHAT HIS EYES SAYS} - POV
For the first ti since the age of Gods and during the Great Wars soone else other than those absolute beings, a mortal was able to stand against in a fight.
Not to forget a mortal strong and bright enough to co back alive from my own purgatory and the gates of hell.
And finally, soone who had a pure heart, to cleanse this cursed water and purify my own heart. To break free from this cursed demonic sword that made mad with the thirst to steal away souls.
Not even Gods whom I once served as a ssenger, tried to help . But instead detesting and falling to the disgrace of a fallen sealed my entire being as the guardian core of this labyrinth.
How! Beautiful, and grand is the purity of this lake where now beautiful flowers blossom, which was only once a mirage to . A place of doom for the lost souls who escaped from the battlefield to here and were finally released from an eternity at such a scared sight.
If only I could know and learn more about this person who freed from my fate and defied the very impossibility.
I have stayed in this place and in a world where life has no value.
I would like to see whether such an existence is an aberration or it would be a new beginning of hope for this world marred and built over blood of those who sacrificed themselves or were sacrificed to hold it.
Will this true light able to light the entire world or will it fade in the shadows of those who lust for power above all else.
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