Hey guys, I know it's been a while but I finally have the next chapter ready. Enjoy.
"Wo-ho-hoo! This place is massive!"
After walking out of the gate and I found myself in a colosseum with a more than distinct Roman theme. The designer of this place must've liked the Roman Empire. Though to distracted by the scene before me, I didn't notice the company I had beside me.
"So, this is the human who took on Nabe and caught Lord Ainz's attention as a possible player," mused a voice beside me.
Snapping out of my state of wonder, I turned to face the source of the voice. Before me stood a tall man dressed in a white and orange stripped suit and trousers. He wore black gloves and round spectacles with what looked like diamonds behind them.
"First off, she took me on. And secondly yes, that I am. Garmadon Edward. Pleasure to make your acquaintance," I stated, raising a hand. "Judging by your attire, and scaly tail, I'm guessing you're Demiurge. 7th floor guardian."
The demon only flinched slightly at suddenly being addressed so lightly while keeping his composure with his arms by his side and back straight.
"Hah! He got you good Demiurge," yelled a childish voice. "I'm beginning to like this guy already."
Standing to my left was a child no taller than my waist. She looked like Mare but was wearing a red suit that displayed more masculinity. She had different coloured eyes with blonde hair and wore leather brown gloves that clutched her sides as she laughed.
"Urrgh," Demiurge groaned as he pushed up his glasses.
"And you, are the second elf twin Aura. 6th floor guardian. Am I right?"
"Yep, that's me," the elf said, straightening up her back. "It's nice you meet you Garmadon. By the way is it true that you pushed Nabe back with a single kick?"
"Well, I guess so. Though I can't say I'm happy about kicking a girl so hard that it made her bleed. Even if she is a Doppel ganger."
"A true warrior knows when to be sympathetically when it is needed," growled a deep voice behind me. "That is a warriors' trait to be respected."
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"You're awesome."
Cocytus just stood there, a little taken back by what I said but maintained his composure. "Urrrgh thanks. I am Cocytus, guardian of the 5th floor of the great tomb of Nazarick and I welcome you to amphitheter of the 6th floor. I understand you wield a sword and are quite formidable with it. Mind if I see it?"
"Oh, yeah sure, sure, sure," materializing a katana, I showed the weapon to the four-armed guardian.
"So, you can materialize weapons at will," Cocytus admired, inspecting the weapon.
"Yes, if I can imagine it I can make it."
Cocytus was quite for a moment. "Ever tried making a fortress?"
"Yeah naar. I can't make anything bigger than a shield most of the time. I'm thinking it's due to my imagination."
"Well then, try and imagine it's bigger details first before moving on to the smaller one's next time you get the chance."
"That's actually a good idea. I'll try that."
'Why haven't I ever thought of that before?'
"Anyway," Cocytus began, returning to the sword in my hand. "A peculiar design to say the least. Similar to some of the swords I use. Mind if I hold it?"
"Sorry to disappoint, but I'm afraid you can't," I sadly said, letting the katana fall from my hand. "Shortly after letting go of something I materialize….it disappears."
Embedding itself into the ground, the katana disappeared in a series of blue pixels. A single slit in the ground was all that showed the katana ever existed. The guardians starred puzzled.
"If that's the case," a feminine voice spoke up. "Why didn't that chalk board disappear until it was broken?"
Coming up behind us was Albedo. Dawned in black armor she held the axe she attacked me with in her right hand and under her left she clutched a black helmet with horns.
'Definitely her armor from episode 3.'
"You mean the chalk board you broke?"
Albedo glared at me, gripping her axe tighter. "You lower life form. If you weren't favored by Ainz I'd cut you down where you stand."
"Yeah you can do that later if you want to. That reminds me, do you know where Ainz is? He kinda vanished after….vanishing."
"YOU DARE ADDRESS A SUPREME BEING SO LIGHTLY!" Albedo screamed, dropping her helmet and swinging her axe at my neck.
"That's enough Albedo," Demiurge said, appearing in the path of the axe and catching it millimeters away from my neck. "Now's not the time for petty squabbles," turning to me he continued. "Lord Ainz has gone to the treasury and has left us to judge the match in his place. Also, I would prefer you'd address Lord Ainz in a more respectable manner from now on."
My head spasmed up and now in a frantic nod. 'Oh my god oh my god, I almost had my head decapitated! Calm down calm down, he said 'the treasury' right? Didn't Ainz go there before fighting Shalltear to fight Shalltear? Oh god, is he going to fight even if I best Albedo in this fight? If I best Albedo in this fight.'
"So you best fight hard!" Mare squealed, doing the peace sign in both hands.
"Anyway," Demiurge interrupted, releasing the axe blade and pushing up his glasses. "We'll remain in the stadium and judge from there. Best of luck to the both of you."
Turning to face the other way, Demiurge, Mare and Cocytus began walking towards the edge of the arena. Only to jump the rest midway.
"Now then," Albedo started, picking up her helmet and strapping her it on. "Your're going to learn why I'm the overseer of Nazarick and why little no gooders like you never disrespect the great Lord Ainz and the lady Albedo!"
Charging towards me she held her axe back, preparing to slice me in two.
"I still think you're hot."
"AAAAAHHHHH!"
With a sudden burst of rage, she swung the axe faster than I could see it.
Shing
It felt like a really bad stomach cramp as the axe cleaved me in two, the top half of my body slowly turning over as I fell.
'Ah-ha-ha-h-ow! Dam this hurts. She's even faster than in the anime. But I bet she's not faster than my eye!'
Upside down now I raised my arms and landed while regenerating my lower half with pants and boots. Seeing my opening I brought my left leg down on Albedos head.
Clang!
The force of the blow knocked her down forward and crashing into the ground. The tremor created caused me to lose my balance and fall on my back.
Slightly dazed I activated my eye just in time to see the glint of a blade being brought down on me. Creating a silver halberd in both hands I moved to intercept the strike. With the blow making contact my arms were jarred in to the ground.
"Aha!"
"You have quick reflexes, I'll give you that much," Albedo said, looming over me while pressing down. "But you're still nothing but a lower life form compared to me. You can't- AAAAHHHHH!"
Cut off, she screamed in pain with blue sparks of electricity pulsing out of her. Concentrating the electricity into my hands, I pumped her full of volts through the contacting metal halberd and axe.
"Will you stop talking like that!" I yelled, pushing her to the side.
Scrambling to my feet I held the halberd aloft in both hands. Albedo looking like she was unfazed, held her axe low, ready to charge.
"Hey um, I know this is sudden, but um. You're close with the pleadias maids, aren't you?"
"What's it to you lower life form," Albedo snarled, yellow eyes shining through the helmets slits.
"Well I've got the hots for one of them and I was wondering if you think I've got a chance with her?"
This threw Albedo off balance in both surprise and shock. "How dare you talk of the maids that way! You are the most idiotic delusionist I've ever met," she said, bending her knees. "After I'm done with you, you won't have a chance with anything ever again. [Lightning pace]!"
Chanting her spell, Albedos feet glowed a light blue, in a flash she disappeared from sight. But my eye was able to follow her movements.
Darting to the side I avoided a down strike of a lightning quick blade crashing into the ground. Swinging my own weapon at her chest though the opening it was met with a harsh
Clang!
Holding her axe vertical with the head still buried in the ground, Albedo was using the pole of her axe to defend herself against my halberd. Yanking the axe out of the ground she pared away my weapon before spinning clockwise on the spot and brining the axe head around aimed for the side of my abdomen.
"[Heavy strike]!" she chanted.
Having only enough time to bring my right arm to defend after being thrown off balance, the axe head crushed into the metal as it made contact. The brute force of the blow sent me flying across the ring, tumbling across the ground and coming to a grinding halt. My hood fell over my head as I laid sprawled on the ground in a cloud of dust.
"Urrrrrgh. Dam that was rough-!"
Click click.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHH!" screaming in pain I glanced down at my left arm. The cloaks sleeve had been torn off during the tumble and the arm itself had been twisted in such a way that it looked like a cheese twisty from my world.
It was dislocated, bending back from the elbow and snapped in several places. The fingers were no different. I wouldn't even dare look at my shoulder.
'That tumble was worse than I thought!'
Red sparks danced around both my arms as the healing took effect. Wincing, the pain intensified as my arms put themselves back together.
"Alright," I yelled getting up and flexing my arms. "Shit just got serious!"
Turing to face Albedo, I took off my torn coat and dropped it next to me, revealing both arms and my white shirt stained red with blood.
'I'll need a new shirt after this, or just send it through the wash.'
Materializing a soft ball in hand I set it ablaze before hurtling it towards Albedo, then firing a burst of frost after it. Before it could dematerialize in front of Albedo the fiery projectile was slammed with the blast of frost.
Pfffffffssssssssss
A plume of steam enveloped Albedo, growing rapidly as the frost evaporated. Using the steam as cover I dashed towards the cloud with my eyes x-ray aspect active and a pair of materialized katanas in both hands.
"[Howling wind]!"
A gust of wind erupted from within the steam cloud, revealing Albedo bringing her axe down on my head.
Raising both katanas in front of me I caught the strike in a pincer position. The blade slowly got closer as I lost strength in my shaking left arm.
'Guess that heavy strike spell she used earlier hasn't worn off. I'm suffering from fatigue here. Maybe if I shocke-.'
"[Maximise magic, chain dragon lightning]!"
"AAAAAHHHHH!" screaming in agony electricity gushed through my body with thick lightning bolts spilling out of me.
'I -It feels like my eye balls are about to burst!' gritting my teeth, I rattled my brain around on the physics of electricity. 'Lighting is generated due to an overload of electrons in an object and strikes anything that has a lower electron potential. In this case Albedo has more electrons than me. It's flowing like a stream and when it does- I'VE GOT IT!'
Releasing my left katana, the axe blade guided by my right and drove into my shoulder. Pushed down on one knee I mustered the strength to grip onto the axe and skewing the ground with my right katana.
The lightning sparks poured through the katana and into the ground. The current intensified as it flowed through me with pain intensifying and my flesh burning from the inside out. My reactive healing wasn't able to keep up with the constant damage.
If I had a mirror, I'd swear I'd look like Anikan right now from Star wars Revenge of The Sith (number three).
"YAAAAAAA-HA-HA-HA- HAAAA!"
With my flesh burning and my eye aching Albedo looked down at me, her golden eyes glowing furiously through her visor. With my eye, I could see that she was giving a toothy grin under her helmet.
'I -I -I hope m-m-my th-theory is c-c-correct. Teriyaki chicken,' unable to think straight the pain began to slowly subside, the lightning sparks began to slowly disappear.
Soon the pain of being electrocuted left completely along with the overflowing electrons, except the pain from healing. My skin felt like fried bacon and something warm was running down the side of my face. Ignoring them I focused on the current situation wedged in my shoulder.
'Alright, phase two. Ahhh it hurts when I blink.'
Releasing my katana and slamming my right hand into Albedos abdomen, I used what strength I had left and began sending volt after volt into her armor. The current pulsed in it before flowing through the gauntlets, the axe and back into me through the axe head in my shoulder.
"Lost hope, Garmadon? Such a feeble attempt when you know you've failed," Albedo mocked, raising a fist. "[Heavy strike]."
Chanting her spell Albedo began hammering me on the right shoulder. Each beating nearly tor it off if it weren't for the red sparks dancing ferociously between each strike.
'Almost there...'
The onslaught continued. My arm was having less and less time to heal, but the armor was certainly getting warmer. Steam began to leak from my right hand.
'Almost there….'
"Now prepare to die, human," Albedo snarled, raising her fist once more. "You shall die for your incompetence! Why is my armor feeling warmer?"
"Now!" I screamed, letting loose a burst of frost in place of the volts.
Pffffffsssss!
A cloud of steam erupted from where my hand was. Stunned by the sudden burst of steam, Albedo stopped her pounding. Using the moment of confusion, I pulled my arm back and rammed my fist into her abdomen.
Crink!
Crumbling under the blow, Albedos armor caved in with my fist pounding into her gut.
"Oooof!" she gasped, yanking the axe out of my shoulder and jumping back a bit. Looking down at her armor, she pattered a round hole at her abdomen, which revealed white clothing underneath. "Ho-how is this possible?! My armor was given to me by a supreme being, how could a lower life form, a mere human, cause so much damage?!"
"Ha-ha, it's quite simple really," wheezing, I shakenly got to my feet with my wounds healing. "Your armor may be resilient to physical, and possibly magical attacks, but it's still made of metal. That means it's subject to the laws of electricity."
"What does that have to do with anything? And what are these 'laws of electricity'?"
"Remember when I drove my katana into the ground? It increased the current flowing coming from you and not only caused your mana to be depleted quicker, but also heated you armor up. After that your armor wasn't hot enough so I sent more electricity through it, which traveled through the axe and back into me." I announced, tapping my left shoulder. "Since the current went from you to me without any resistance it caused something called a 'short circuit'. Heating your armor up even more. After becoming ragingly hot, all I had to do was rapidly reduce the temperature for it to become brittle as hell!"
Shocked and enraged, Albedo held her axe aloft and prepared to charge. "That's cheating, and that's all humans are good foooooorrrrrr!" crying out she charged, breaking the ground as she did. "[Fallen strike]!"
Materializing a desert eagle gun I aimed for the hole in the armor.
Tuch!
"AAAAAHHHHH!" a flash of white enveloped my vision before being replaced with excruciating pain, like a stick was shoved in my eye and was swirled around.
'WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!'
"Toooo SLOW!" Albedo yelled.
I couldn't see what happened, but an immense pressure was pressed against my chest before I was flung to the other side of the arena, smashing into the wall.
Boom!
Opening my eyes, I found myself wedged in the wall, a gash running up my chest with a purple aura pulsing in it.
'I-I can't move and-and I can't see out of my right eye. What the hell is this thing in my chest?!'
With my healing taking effect, and my wounds closing, I managed to move my left hand in front of my right eye. But the purple aura remained.
'I definitely can't see out of it. What's this? Blood? So that's what the warm feeling on the side of my face from earlier was. Blood was coming from my eye?! That can't be healthy.'
Pulling myself out of the wall and landing on my feet, a jolt of pain shot though my legs. Falling onto my front, the rest of my body throbbed with the same pain.
'I thought my healing was supposed to take care of problems like this? And yet I can still feel muscle pain?'
Flexing my fingers, I noted that I could still manipulate matter, but it hurt like a bitch to do so. A shadow loomed over me followed by something cold being pressed against the back of my neck.
"Feeling the effects of 'fallen strike' yet?" Albedo growled, straining my neck I turned to look up at her. "The spell I used causes your health, stamina and mana to reduce over a certain period of time. If it's active long enough it can kill you."
'Albedo. You may be hot as hell, but now you're cheating.'
Raising her axe, I still couldn't move a muscle. "Goodbye Garmadon. Looks like Ainz will no longer be needing you." With that, she brought her axe down on my neck.
Blasting a blaze of fire out of my hands and feet, I was propelled out of the path of the swing.
Shuunng!
"AAAAHHHHH!" 'I'm screaming way to much in this fight. I might lose my voice after this.'
Tumbling to the ground after the sudden propulsion the searing pain of my legs growing back flooded my senses. The fallen strike effects continued to sap away my stamina.
'I, I can't win this,' I thought rolling onto my back. 'I may have created this character, but even he has limits.' Sniff. 'And now I'm crying. That's just plain pathe-e-etic.'
Closing my eyes, I let the tears run from my eyes. Raising my hand in the air, I croaked out my words. "I surrender."
Still crying, Albedo made her way over to me and stood above me. Opening my eye it was met with hers. Albedos helmet was no longer on her head.
"You think you can just give up, after everything you pulled?" she hissed, eyes shooting daggers. "When I said you'd learn why no one disrespects me, I didn't mean that you'd get a future to use it in. I meant that that it's be the final thing you'd know in this life."
Raising her axe above her head, she glared down at me with the intent to kill. An ear-to-ear grin was spread across her face.
'I-I never thought she would be this heartless to anyone not from Nazarick,' I thought, my body feeling heavier and heavier.
"The reality of the world can be a cruel thing. Goodbye, human," Albedo said, brining the axe down on my neck.
Tchiing!
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"Screw reality, I make my own."
Okay, just a heads up, the next chapter won't come out for a while due to all my school work. Also, I have a few I ideas on how the next chapter is going to play out but I would also like your help and thoughts on the matter. I hope the next one is to your liking, Garmadon35 out.
P.S. Garmadon Edward has one more ability that he has yet to remember.