Chapter 25 – Battle of Sanguinem II

[Owari no Seraph, Kyoto Vampire Progenitor Coalition temporary base – 29th December, 2020 10:31]

Lest Karr was charging toward the direction where the giant Haro robot was.

Along the way, there were a lot of vampire soldiers fainted on the ground. They were knocked down by the Haro Robot's weaponry.

What really happened was, although Haro Robot's weapons looked like they were very destructive, they all could just make the opponent losing consciousness, and none of them was fatal weapon.

After several seconds of running, Lest Karr finally arrived where the Haro Robot was, thus he jumped up, and gave the Haro Robot a heavy punch.

"Ouch!" Haro Robot was knocked down heavily, thus its assault was stopped.

"It's time to stop! You goofy machine!" Lest Karr landed and said.

Haro Robot then stood up. "How dare you call my Haro Robot R-3000 goofy machine?! You will pay for this!"

Haro Robot aimed all of its laser cannons toward Lest Karr. "Take this!" All cannons shot toward him.

However, Lest Karr just quickly moved and avoided the attacks.

"You can't hit me at all!"

Lest Karr jumped up again, and this time, he kicked the Haro Robot hard, thus made it fall down once again.

"Ouch!" Red Haro, inside Haro Robot, said.

"My speed surpasses yours, and I'm smaller than you! Do you think you really can hit me that easily?" Lest Karr said. "In front of me, you're just a pile of scrap!"

"How dare you…?!" Red Haro said. "But you're right. I can't hit you easily. So I have prepared something for you! Lest Karr!"

The Haro Robot opened its palms and shot out two small metal balls on the ground.

The metal balls then quickly generated two images. They were Scorpion and Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat.

"These are…" Lest Karr said in surprise.

"They are the holograms made by my new invention, Magic Hologram Projector!" Red Haro said. "Although they are images, they can still fight and hurt you!"

"Hah! You think an image can fight me?"

"Sure we're just images and weaker than the real ones, but…" Image of Scorpion said.

"Are you sure you can beat us with your vampire's strength only? Or… do you think you can use Shinnok's power to fight us, in front of everyone who don't know what your true identity is?" Image of Sub-Zero said.

Image of Sub-Zero was right, since at this moment in the base, there were many vampire soldiers who were watching and did not know Lest Karr's preexistence was actually Shinnok.

If Lest Karr showed his true power, it would just destroy his long-standing plan. Therefore, Lest Karr could only use his vampire's strength.

"Damn you!" Lest Karr said angrily. Both sides then charged toward each other, and the battle has begun.

[Owari no Seraph, Sanguinem entrance C – 29th December, 2020 10:42]

The battle between Nix Parthe, and Inaho, Slaine was still continuing.

The combat between blades was happening in an extremely fast pace. Inaho was holding his blades from his Space Load-out equipment. Slaine was holding the Beam Katana, which was from a Martian Kataphrakt, Argyre.

On the other hand, Nix was holding his sword, Sento.

The wrestling between blades was in full swing, which surprised Inaho and Slaine, since it was unexpected that Nix's speed was fast enough to match theirs.

"How could you have this such speed? Do you have your preexistence's memory?" Slaine said while fighting.

"…" Nix did not respond, but instead he just quickly stepped on the ground hard, and created a shockwave that repelled both Inaho and Slaine away.

"I don't know what you are talking about!" Nix said.

"So he doesn't regain any memory?" Inaho said.

"But how come… he has that such power?! It makes no sense!" Slaine said.

After Slaine said that, Nix quickly charged toward them.

Seeing this, Inaho and Slaine quickly put up a defense stance, and blocked Nix's fast assault.

Nix's great strength almost made them fail to resist.

"You're… so strong…!" Slaine said, with his hands shaking.

"You're also not weak, human." Nix said. "Then how about this?"

Nix quickly hit Slaine's stomach hard with his bare hand, and Slaine was pushed several meters away. Blood was even vomited out from his mouth.

Inaho quickly ran toward Slaine, and supported him before he fell down.

"Oh! It looks like your body also has a good defense. The force I applied on you should be able to force your skeleton out!"

With the help of Inaho, Slaine was able to stand still.

"It's lucky that we have AAS armor! It strengthened our defense…" Slaine said. "However, it seems like we didn't have enough power to take him down."

"Inaho, do you have any plan?" Slaine then said quietly.

Inaho started to think. "From the evidence we've seen, Nix Parthe should be that Mortal Kombatant, but his strength is more than I thought…" He also said quietly.

"Close combat is useless. We have to wait until he uses his telekinesis power again." Inaho continued. "If that's the case…"

After the conversation, Inaho took out his machine gun and started shooting. Slaine also shot several missiles from his wing toward Nix.

"Giving up on close combat already? Hah!"

Nix quickly swung his sword, and bounced all of the bullets coming toward him away. Then he just cut toward the missiles, and made all of them explode without hurting him.

"That's useless!"

The smoke was about to drift away. But then, before all smoke was gone, a grappling hook suddenly appeared and wrapped around Nix's waist tight.

"Huh?"

When the sight was cleared, it could be seen that the grappling hook was actually from Inaho's armor.

"Got you!"

Electric current began to flow through the grappling hook toward Nix. Because of the pain created by the electricity, Nix began to scream.

"It should be able to force him to use telekinesis, right?"

Nix tried to put more force to break the hook. However, since the electricity has limited his exertion, he could not do so.

"No way...! Sento!"

After Nix shouted, a force was released out from his body. The strength was so great that it broke the grappling hook, and created a shock wave toward the 2 people.

The shockwave was so strong that Inaho and Slaine even had to pose a defense stance to keep standing still.

A few moments later, the wave stopped, and an samurai-armored demon, with a scythe in its hand, appeared in front of them.

"Congratulations! You've unlocked the demon inside Sento! So now taste the power of the ancient demon!" Nix said.

Inaho and Slaine were shocked. It was unexpected that Nix's power could come this far.

"That demon, can that be counted as telekinesis?" Slaine asked.

"I don't think so…" Inaho answered.

Their battle was still proceeding.

[Owari no Seraph, Sanguinem entrance D – 29th December, 2020 10:55]

The battle between Krul and Ky Luc was still in progress. However, unlike the fight between Inaho, Slaine and Nix, the situation was totally different.

The both vampires were in the air. One was continuously punching and kicking the other, while the other one has kept getting punched and kicked, and could not even counter.

A few moment later, the one who got hit so many times, was finally fallen on the ground.

"Hahaha… I really… can't beat you…" Ky Luc, the one on the ground, said.

The other one also landed. But the place she landed on was not ground. She was landed on the stomach of Ky Luc, which causing more damages on him.

"I think it's time for you to surrender, Ky Luc!" Krul, the one who beat Ky Luc, said.

"I really can't! If I surrender, I will be in trouble!" Ky Luc said while smiling.

"Still don't want to surrender, huh? Could it be you love being tortured?"

"Of course not…" Ky Luc said. "I just can't…"

"Then let me keep hitting you until you give up!"

After Krul said that, she just continued to punch Ky Luc's stomach with her fastest speed. Blood has been vomited out from Ky Luc's mouth continuously.

"Why don't you surrender?!"

"I… can't…"

The punching still kept on going, but the difference was, the hit position was gradually transferred toward the head.

When the head was hit, Krul just paid more effort, and finally, broke Ky Luc's neck.

Krul stopped. She stood up and looked at the mess she created.

"It's enough!" Krul said. "If you really don't want to say 'I give up', I will just tie you up then."

Looking at the fallen vampire, Krul still did not understand why he would insist on not giving up.

However, what she did not know, was something about to change.

A few moment later, Ky Luc suddenly stood up, twisted his neck and acted like everything was normal.

"You still can stand?" Krul said in surprise.

"Yes, I am." Ky Luc said. "And I won't be tied up by you, Krul-sama."

Ky Luc's saying has surprised Krul a lot.

"How come you said that? Was our difference in strength not enough to convince you that you aren't able to resist me?"

"I know we have the difference in strength." Ky Luc said. "But the truth is…"

Before he finished his words, a grappling hook suddenly appeared and was threw toward Krul.

Krul quickly reacted to it, but the hook was just too fast that it scratched Krul's face and created a wound on her.

After that, the hook returned to Ky Luc's hand, and an abnormally evil smile just appeared on his face. "I… am stronger than you!"

"Where… where was that come from?" Krul was totally shocked.

"These are my real weapons, a pair of grappling hooks. Besides that, I also have a pair of hookswords…"

"These are not normal vampire's weapons…" Krul said. "Thinking of the speed of your last attack, and the weapons, could… it be… you have…"

"I have my memory of preexistence, just like Asuramaru and Lest Karr!"

Krul was even more surprised. It was unbelievable that besides Asuramaru, Lest Karr and Ferid, there was fourth person that had the memory.

"But then… how come…?"

"How come I don't use my true power earlier? Because I have to act. This is the mission given by my boss." Ky Luc said. "And now I just lost my patience to bear the pains from your every hit, so I use my power…"

"…" Krul could not respond, since the situation has suddenly changed badly. She may not be able to fight Ky Luc now because of his preexistence's memory.

"No need to be nervous! I have told you I am not allowed to use my power, right? If I continue fighting, my boss will kill me! So you can be assured."

After Ky Luc said that, he then turned around, and prepared to leave.

"For now on, I'll leave the war between you and Lest Karr, since it's just all a boring puppet show. But Krul Tepes, we will meet each other again. When that time happens, I promise you I will pay you tenfold for the pain, and give you a horrible death!"

The conversation ended, thus Ky Luc disappeared. His speed while leaving was just too fast that even Krul's eyes could not trace it.

As he left, Krul just knelt down. "Tsk!" At the time being, Krul was totally annoyed, and angry, since she has been played for the whole time.

[Owari no Seraph, Kyoto Vampire Progenitor Coalition temporary base – 29th December, 2020 10:55]

On the other side of the vampire progenitor army base, Ferid, and Urd, were in a 1-on-1 battle.

Ferid was one of the 7th progenitors, and Urd was the 2nd progenitor. Normally, the strength, speed and power of Ferid should be weaker than Urd, which the difference was shown by the difference in ranking.

However, what was happening in the battlefield now, was that Ferid had an even fight with Urd.

"Where did your strength come from, Ferid Bathory?!" Urd said in surprise, while fighting.

"I actually don't have the strength like yours, but… could you figure it out that I have some technique~~, Urd-sama~~?"

After Ferid said that, Urd quickly stepped backward, and started to observe Ferid.

"Your posture… martial arts?"

"Yeah, you figured it out! As I expected, Urd-sama!"

"But where did you learn the technique from?"

"I learnt them from an old sensei. Urd-sama, you actually knew him!"

Then Urd tried to recall his memory. After a few seconds, he thought of something, thus showed a shocked emotion on his face.

"Shujinko?"

"Yes, he's my sensei."

After Ferid answered, Urd started to think again.

"That old man, I nearly forgot about him…" Urd said. "But still, it's unexpected you still remembered the martial arts he taught you."

"Of course, I remembered." Ferid said. "He's my mentor. Also, he was the one who took care of Ashera, Krul and Nix, right?"

"You remind me about that… The memory is coming back."

"Yeah, and life at that time was a lot of fun!" Ferid said. "Until… the first progenitor took Ashera away!"

Ferid's words recalled Urd's memory again. It has reminded Urd, how much he hated his father.

"The first progenitor… Nix and I couldn't forgive him, and Rigr Stafford!"

"And also Lest Karr!"

Urd was shocked again. "You still think Lest Karr was suspicious?"

"Actually, we have the evidences now. We have even fought him for a few times…"

Urd's face showed even more surprised. "So Lest Karr… are truly the one…"

"Yes." Ferid said. "He was one of the masterminds, and the one who desired for the Seraph of the End, even more than us."

"Why would him…?"

"I'm sure you'll know the reason later on!"

Then Urd began to think again.

"So that's why these all things happened…"

"And now, since you know the truth, please help us, Urd-sama." Ferid said.

"…" Urd hesitated a little bit. "How can I help you?"

"You and Nix could gather information for us, and please act like you don't know anything in front of Lest Karr."

"That's easy job!"

"Also, may you command the coalition to retreat? We could prepare the next plan after that."

"Is that it?"

"Yeah!"

"Alright!" Urd then turned around, and looked at some vampire soldiers who were witnessing their battle.

"Inform other unit! We're now retreat!" Urd commanded.

As the command was out, the vampire soldiers left the place and began to spread the order to other units.

"Thank you very much, Urd-sama! You really help us a lot."

"No need to thank me. All of these were for Ashera, in case of we could save him!"

"Ah, talking about Ashera, I have a good news for you!"

"Good news?"

"Ashera was back. He was now fighting somewhere in Sanguinem!"

Urd was totally surprised once more. "Is that… true?"

"Yes, totally true~~!"

After Ferid said that, smile appeared on Urd's face. "Ha, I see." After completing his words, Urd turned around, along with the smile, and began the preparation for retreat.

[Owari no Seraph, Sanguinem entrance C – 29th December, 2020 11:04]

The armored demon was attacking Inaho and Slaine. They both used their blades to block the demon's fatal scythe.

"The demon… was even stronger than I thought!" Slaine said.

They both put more effort and pushed the scythe away, thus stepped backward to create a distance between them and the demon.

"It's even stronger than the data we have! It seems like it has been strengthened with the time passed…" Inaho said.

"Then… what should we do?!" Slaine said.

Inaho started to think. "As the demon is the one attacking us now, if we just aim for the demon…" Inaho said. "That could actually be our advantage!"

Then Inaho whispered what he thought to Slaine. "Nilokeras!" Inaho said.

"Huh?" Nix said. It seemed like he could hear what they said but could not understand it.

"Can that work?" Slaine said in surprise.

"Yup!" Inaho said confidently.

Because of the confidence Inaho showed, "Then let's go!" Slaine has also been cheered up.

The demon has started its assault again. It charged toward the two people, and quickly swung its scythe toward them.

"I won't let you hurt us!" Reacting to the demon's assault, Slaine quickly jumped up, and tried to ram toward the demon.

"You're committing suicide!" Nix said in surprise.

"No, I'm not!"

The scythe hit Slaine. But instead of him getting damaged, the scythe was suddenly disintegrated.

"How could…?!" Nix was shocked.

Then Slaine quickly hugged the demon. For the parts Slaine contacted with the demon, those parts began to decompose in a rapid way. Thus within a few seconds, the demon was totally vanished.

This disintegration power was from a Martian Kataphrakt, Nilokeras, which could generate a dimensional barrier that could absorb any physical matter and energy, thus created a visual effect that looked like the enemy was decomposed.

"No! The demon…!" Nix yelled.

"Now, Slaine!"

As Inaho shouted, Slaine quickly generated two giant rocket fists, and shot them toward Nix.

Those fists quickly flew toward Nix and grabbed his body, thus pushing him forward toward a wall.

The fists were the power from a Martian Kataphrakt, named Hellas.

Then after a moment, the fists finally hit the wall. Cracks were made on top of it, thus fixed Nix there.

"Such power… I can't move…!" Nix said.

"If grappling hooks cannot seal your movement, we could use a more powerful weapon to do so!" Inaho said. "And now, you should have no choice but to use your power!"

"Darn it!" Nix quickly dropped his sword, and used his telekinesis power to move his sword toward the 2 people.

The speed of the sword was very high, since he wanted to take down the 2 people before they could do something, as he already knew, they were planning on something.

However, "And now it's our chance! Slaine!"

Inaho and Slaine both put their fingers on their forehead quickly. A high-energy electronic wave was created from their equipment, thus interfering with the telekinesis power Nix released to control the sword.

"This is… Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…!" Nix screamed painfully, thus lost control on his sword, which made his sword dropped on the ground.

"And now, the battle is finished." Inaho and Slaine stopped releasing the wave, thus Nix stopped screaming. "You shouldn't be able to move now."

Then after a few moment, "How do you know… I have such kind of weakness…? And plan for… all of these?" Nix said slowly, and weakly.

"As we know, you are a telekinesis user. From the research we have done on a Mortal Kombantant, we knew there was a wave with a specific wavelength could interfere it, thus weakening the user." Inaho explained. "Therefore, we are waiting for you to use your telekinesis, so we can activate the interference wave."

"But the problem was, it seems like you're not willing to use that, so we have to pay more efforts to force you into a situation that you can only choose to use telekinesis." Slaine said.

"Heh… you're right... I knew what you're waiting for…" Nix said. "Although you said it quietly… I'm blind… my ears were good enough to hear your conversation…"

"I see." Inaho said. "That's a mistake I made. I didn't expect you have such a good pair of ears."

Then Inaho and Slaine walked toward Nix.

"Now I've lost… Kill me…" Nix said.

"Sorry, but we won't do that…"

After Inaho said that, the two fists suddenly disappeared. Nix then fell down but was caught by Slaine. Slaine has released him.

"Why… did you?"

"Nix Parthe, we are not your enemies." Inaho said. "Although from your manner, it seems like you hate humans. However, what we are doing is helping your friends, Ferid and Krul, and also Ashera."

Nix was shocked as Inaho talked about Ashera.

"And we also know why you came here. You wanted to investigate on how Ferid and Krul were convicted, right?" Slaine said.

Hearing from that, Nix was even more shocked. His mind has been read by the two humans.

"… Yes…" Nix admitted.

"Then let us explain what happened, and what the truth is…"

Inaho started to explain the whole situation to Nix. Nix was surprised about the preexistence, and the origin of this world related to Mortal Kombat, and Owari no Seraph.

"So Lest Karr, which was Shinnok, was the mastermind?" Nix said.

"Yup."

"And Ashera… was back?"

"Yes."

After hearing the answer, "…" Nix could not say anything. His mask just felt off, thus showed his both eyes.

His eyes were completely white, without any pupil, or iris on them.

Tears started to come out from his eyes. With the smile on his face, it seemed like he has brought back the treasure he lost a long time ago.

"I'm so glad…! Ashera… you're back!"

Nix tried to wipe out his tears, but they just kept coming out.

Then after a few minutes, Nix just calmed down, so the conversation continued.

"So, Nix, now you know the truth. Would you like to be our companion?"

"Of course, since you are trusted by Ashera, I am happy to be your companion!"

"Then could you help us to do something?"

Inaho started to explain to Nix, what they wanted him to do.

"So you want me to act like I know nothing, and then try to monitor Lest Karr?"

"Yes!"

"No problem! Leave it to me!"

"Great!"

As Nix promised, he began to prepare to leave, but before that, "Before I leave, what're your names again?"

"I am Inaho, Kaizuka Inaho!"

"And I'm Slaine, Slaine Troyard!"

"Inaho and Slaine… Your names, I will not forget!"

After Nix finished his words, a vampire soldier arrived. It looked like he was a soldier from the vampire progenitor coalition.

"Nix-sama! Urd-sama has commanded everyone to retreat!"

After the soldier said that, Nix suddenly jumped backward, and kept a distance from Inaho and Slaine.

"Huh! Today's your lucky day! Next time you see me, you'll be dead!"

With the acting finished, Nix turned around, and followed the soldier to leave entrance C.

"Ah, wait! I forgot to tell him his preexistence's name…" Slaine said.

"No need. Soon he will find out himself. So don't mind it." Inaho said.

"Right, Takahashi Kenshi?"

[Owari no Seraph, Kyoto Vampire Progenitor Coalition temporary base – 29th December, 2020 11:06]

"Damn you! Damn you!"

Lest Karr was still in a bitter fight with holograms of Scorpion and Sub-Zero.

Since he could not use his power in front of everyone, his vampire's strength could only put him into an even battle with the two images.

But then suddenly, a vampire soldier arrived near them.

"Lest Karr-sama! Urd-sama has ordered everyone to retreat!"

Hearing this, Lest Karr was totally shocked.

"Retreat already?!"

"Haha! Looks like our plan is totally successful!"

After Red Haro said that, the visual images of both ninja suddenly disappeared. "There was no need to fight anymore, right, Lest Karr?"

"You're right! Damn it! I don't even expect it will end this soon! Good for you this time!"

Lest Karr turned around, and prepared to retreat.

"Such a boring war! It only lasted less than 2 hours! And it has ended!" Lest Karr said discontentedly.

"Or… is it?" For all of a sudden, Lest Karr turned his face sideway, and showed his evil smile.

And then he turned back, and walked out of the battlefield.

Red Haro did not chase him, since his mission was only to stop him, and now as the war was ended, there was no advantage for it to keep fighting.

[Owari no Seraph, Sanguinem entrance E – 29th December, 2020 11:06]

The battle between Asuramaru and Triborg was now in full swing.

Asuramaru's charged punch was colliding with Triborg Sektor's rocket-powered punch.

The speed was so fast that even water under them was rolled up, thus spray was everywhere.

As the close combat was even for both sides, they all tried to step backward and choose a different strategy.

"Try my new technique! Raiden Kannon!" Asuramaru summoned several charged katana in the air, and was prepared to begin his new assault.

"Impressive! Then how about this?"

Triborg tried to do something, but then suddenly, he stopped.

"Our battle has ended…" Sektor said.

"Why did you stop?!" Asuramaru said in surprise.

"Urd-sama has ordered everyone to retreat! The war ended!" Sektor said. "You all have done a really good job…"

"Ha! That means Jennifer succeeded! Great!" Asuramaru said. "But then now, you're going to retreat?"

"Yes, since keep fighting will make me suspicious toward other vampires, retreat is the best choice." Sektor said. "Also, there's no difference if I am not here!"

"It's still the end of all of you today! Do you really think there is no 'more'?" Sektor continued.

"Oh, what do you mean? Urd already commanded all of you to retreat!"

"Heheh! You really think the war will end like this? Then I would like to surprise you. The army from the Netherrealm will be ambushing you today! And you don't even know where they come from!"

"Oh, so you're talking about that. Then I'm going to disappoint you! Do you know why there is no trace of Yuu, Mika, Kaneki and Kirito in this war?"

"What?! They are… Could it be… you even knew about this already?!" Sektor said in surprise.

"Sorry to surprise and disappoint you~~!"

[Owari no Seraph, Sanguinem south garden – 29th December, 2020 11:10]

At the south of Sanguinem, there was a garden hidden there.

Suddenly, a large portal opened up. The Netherrealm army was about to proceed.

However, there were 4 people waiting for them. They were Kaneki, Kirito, Yuu and Mika.

The true battle of the Sanguinem was about to begin.

To be continued…