AN: Before we start the story, let's have a little introduction.
Hello, hi, this will be the first fanfic I'm publishing under the name of XPowerPointC. And I've never written an actual fanfic series before so I guess this is a pretty bad idea.
Am I gonna regret it? Absolutely ye- Not. Why would I? I had a lot of fun writing this fanfic with my friends, asking them for ideas and such. It was a great experience, even if it was a little bit tiring.
Anyways, I'm just a beginner writer so please don't expect too much, the time needed to release a new chapter could be quite long and since I'm just a normal high school student, sometimes chapters could take longer than a month to be published.
Also, I'm not perfect in the way of English, nor even close to that. So, seeing some grammar errors and poor choice of words is inevitable.
Now about the fanfic; This fanfic is OCs focused, yes, overpowered nonsense OCs. Oh the Od, what the hell am I doing?
Also, these events start after Volume 14's time in the LN. But the Demon King army doesn't advance as fast as the LN and instead, they stay back and recruit more powerful beings. So we have a bit of time to chill before stuff goes wild.
Fair warning before we start this fanfic, the prologue could be pretty cringe (especially the first one), so yeah, sorry about that; but the chapters in the story won't be, I swear.
Anyways, that's enough introduction. Now let's start this story, shall we?
A blessing upon this wonderful existence
{Arc 1: The start of the Calamity}
[Prologue: The Start of The End]
(3rd person POV)
Vortex, a beautiful and peaceful world where both magic and technology exist. Both mixed with each other to become a Magitek world in its truest sense. Presumably the most advanced civilization in the existence; the hometown of a certain individual.
Over the past 30 years or so, Vortexians have speculated a danger that could be an actual threat to them. From the research, there have been sights of it consuming other universes and it seems, each and every time it consumes one, it would grow stronger and stronger; nobody knew what is its goal but it's safe to assume that, it just wants to be the ruler of the existence, an unstoppable force.
From the proofs, it has been shown that it doesn't have a physical appearance and it has very strange properties. And because of that, the Vortexians have developed spells that may have a chance to counter the, as they named it, Entropy.
And it seems that the Entropy coming for Vortex next and thus, they have been training for years to get ready for the worst. And even if the worst thing comes (Vortex getting destroyed) then everyone has their own escape plans, one way or another.
Until one day, a black mist emerges from the sun, blocking the light from the starry sky. They knew what was coming, some Vortexians who couldn't fight ran and seek for shelter or spaceships, while others decided to stay back and fight, after all even if they are near death they can just press a small device that they carry; a device that would transfer them into a random available world.
Once the sky is fully covered in darkness, a barrier around the planet has been activated, this barrier acts as the last defense for the planet, adding to the fact that the Vortex planet itself is already extremely durable, the Entropy wouldn't be able to destroy the planet as easily as others.
And it finally came, strange creatures began to fall from the sky, down upon this beautiful world...
And thus, a fiery war has been started.
Fire, ice, thunder, and all kind of spells fly through the sky. Energy bullets and astral/specter arrows follow after. Warriors striking back and forth, fighting, and killing the strange creatures as if there's no tomorrow.
...Somewhere else in the main war zone...
"Lightning, lightning, LIGHTNING!"
A certain individual who others called X, consecutively casts 3 ultra-powerful blue bolts of lightning, vaporizing the 3 strange creatures that were unfortunate to be in his sight; More and more creatures began to descend, from weird tentacle creatures to giant humanoids.
One managed to catch him off-guard but before it could do anything; X turned back in an instant a gave it a gentle punch into the face, causing it to be knocked away a few miles or so.
Seeing as dangers aren't near him at the moment, X took his chance.
"Xerith!" the person named X unleashed a war cry, directing toward the sky while standing in the middle of the warzone, a few seconds later thunder struck in front of him... But he was unaffected by it.
After the dust fades away, the shape of something starts to become clearer; Finally, it was the shape of a sword, a long black sword, its blade had a cyan outline which represents a certain element.
X then picks it up, a surprisingly light but sharp sword, X then slowly slid his fingers across the blade, feeling the sensation of his old friend who has been with him since the start of his life.
"Looks like I need your help again, old friend." X whispered to the sword in his hand.
He then realized that three humanoid monsters are now surrounding him; he quickly got back into his battle stance.
The three creatures then began to circle around him with incredible speed and quickly close the distance, well, incredible speed if you are anyone but X.
"So, you three are the agile ones, huh? Heh, wanna have a race then?" X mocked them, not sure if they understood what he said though.
The three then charged in, the first one attempted to stab X with a dagger, which in return, X perfectly parried the attack with his sword, leaving the first humanoid creature stunned. Without wasting his chance, X grabbed its collar and swung it around him, making the other two come to a stop.
One attempted to use its spear to impale X while also keeping a good distance for itself, X swiftly dodged to the side and used the creature whose collar was still being held as the replacement for his old position. The spear went through the creature's heart, stopping it from living.
"One down, two to go." X said as he cut the spear in half and then went straight for the creature whose spear is now unusable; the other creature used a shield to block the strike and slightly pulls its other arm back, getting ready to counter-strike.
"A fatal mistake!" X had already expected this and instantly cast a piercing lightning bolt, penetrating both before they could even react to it.
Now that his minor annoyance is out of the way, X turns to the left and spots his friends.
"Cursed group petrification!" The voice came from a girl who had just cast a spell.
"Thanks, Mibula, now my turn!" Then a guy shouted as he run and strike and finish the immobile enemies in a flash.
"Hey! Do you have to steal my kills like that, Adozan?! Sigh, you never change do you?" The female mage named Mibula half-frustratedly said.
"Heh, isn't that why you lov-" The warrior whose name is Adozan responded but it was cut off.
The ground suddenly start to shake violently and a loud female voice came from the local megaphone tower.
"ATTENTION ATTENTION, THE ENTROPY IS ABOUT TO RELEASE THE BLACK HOLE, EVERYONE IN THE WAR ZONE PLEASE SEEK FOR A SPACESHIP AND EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY. I REPEAT..."
The voice then repeats once more.
"SHIT! MIBULA RUN! ME AND X WILL STAY BACK AND-" Adozan shouted but it was cut by X with him holding a hand up, he then says,
"No, you and Mibula need to run away now, I will stay back and hold off for everyone, you two wouldn't be able to hold them off once there are too many."
"Hey, are you doubting my powe-" The girl said as the guy also says, "But-" But both got cut off by X.
"No, I don't doubt your power but I know that I alone can hold off for quite a time, giving you both and others to evacuate safely." X said with confidence.
They both consider for a short moment as the ground begins to shake with even more intensity. Finally, Adozan says,
"Sigh, alright then, we will leave it to you... After all, you have some unknown techniques, you always win or stalemate in fights, nevertheless you are gonna stall for quite a time." Adozan wanted to stay back with X but he knew that he should run away with Mibula.
"If you want that then we will give you it, you stubborn moron! But you better come back before my and Adozan's marriage you hear me?!" Mibula said, which got a deadpan response from Adozan.
"Really now, Mibula?" Mibula sticks her tongue out as she closes an eye.
Little did she know, a seemingly black knight was behind her and swung a greatsword at her...!
"MIBULA!" Adozan screamed toward Mibula.
Clank.
Mibula who's shocked, quickly turned back to see X, who just cut the greatsword in half.
"Hey Adozan! Mind if you protect your girlfriend for a second?!" X shouted, his right eye glowing a little bit of blue.
"GRAHHH!" The black knight roared and pull its hand back only to evaporate instantly after getting hit by a swift slash from X.
"Mibula, Adozan, run, NOW!" X shouted.
They both nod without saying a single word as they start to run toward a spaceship. Running midway, Adozan stopped, looked back, and says,
"Thanks for everything, X" And then he continues his way.
And in response X lowered his hat for a split second before getting back to battle position.
Thousands of these strange creatures surround him and him only.
"No other choice then... (X then presses his left hand's palm against his chest) ACCELERATION!" X casts one of his exclusive spells onto himself and began his dominance.
The creatures around him began to slow down in his vision. X then wasted no time striking each of them, one by one while they didn't even realize that they've already died.
The area was cleared temporarily, the ground starts to shatter, he looks at the sky and sees a lot of spaceships escaping the Vortex's atmosphere. One of them has Mibula waving at him.
He then looks at the Entropy, raising both of his hands up, directly pointing at the Entropy far away. He then gets ready to cast a special seal that only 100 people in the entire existence could possibly perform with success.
It was a seal that will both seal his own power and the target, a double-edged sword, while he is going to be sealed too, he knew that it would have a much bigger effect on the target.
Finally, he opened a portal that will transport him into another world once he goes through it.
He looks around for a moment, the place where he was born, the beautiful Vortex is going to be destroyed. He stares for minutes but it's actually just a second for others as his acceleration is in its activation.
He knew that the Vortexians most likely won't be gone forever and so is the planet, it will take a long time to rebuild everything, so he don't have to worry too much. But if the Entropy gets too strong, that wouldn't be a possibility. And as such, he made a promise to himself that he will kill the entity, no matter what method he have to use.
"So long, goodbye home. CURSED SEAL! ACCELERATE!" X cast 2 final spells before he collapsed onto his back and fell through the portal that he made.
X created a dark purple sphere that seemed to eradicate the mana that was unfortunate enough to be in its destruction range.
X then cast Accelerate on the ominous dark ball, increasing Cursed seal's velocity by hundreds of times.
If anyone who saw this from afar would've thought that he just blasted a strange dark laser or such; After these 2 actions, X collapsed onto his back and fell through the portal that he made.
Falling into the portal, he could see that he was in a forest but right now he couldn't move as he had just drained all his mana and stamina; he lost his consciousness soon after.
But not before he heard a loud roar from the Entropy, most likely it has been sealed by X and because of that, X rested in peace knowing that he has done what he was told to do by a long-time friend of his, whose name is 'Time'.
Elsewhere...
A loud roar came from the Entropy, seems like it has been hit by something that did a number on it.
After a moment of realization, the Entropy is now furious, it quickly created a black hole near Vortex but to its annoyance, the Vortexians have made a barrier that could withstand the force of the black hole.
"Captain, should we send a signal to the nearby universes?"
"Yes, do it. Warn them to evacuate immediately. If we currently don't have enough power to fight against the Entropy, then I doubt anyone else in the existence can." The captain responded.
'Maybe... We need help from the outside after all, huh?' The captain thought.
"Also, tell them that if we work together, we may have a chance to fight against the Entropy before it's too late.
AN: This prologue is cringe, the second one is much much better.
Feel free to send suggestions or criticism, I will try my best to improve.
You can PM me if you want, or you can DM me on discord, my user is: XPowerpointC#1140
Writer: X (He sucks) proofreader: Akuma
Somewhere else in a different universe.
[Prologue 2: Different Universe, Same Calamity]
(3rd person POV)
"Guys! Guys! We've got multiple strange message signals." Worker A said.
"Huh? Multiple signals? Where did they come from?" Worker B said.
"Yeah, we got multiple message signals, and it came from... Wait, I can't detect where it came from..." Worker A said.
"Hm, that's strange, we are usually able to figure out where signals come from, no matter what kind of signal it is. Should we report to the captain?" Worker B said.
"Wait, before we do that, can we take a look at what these message signals are?" Worker C said.
"Agreed, let's take a look at it. I'm sure the captain won't mind." Worker A said.
"Wait, guys! We should-" Worker B's words got cut off.
"It won't hurt if we just take a peek, right?"
"Ugh... Alright fine!"
A while later...
After playing a ton of voice messages, they finally found one that they could understand but... What they heard certainly wasn't what they had expected, not even a little bit.
"Maybe this was a prank from someone?" Worker A asked with a little bit of concern in her voice.
"I don't really know, their voice did sound serious though, what do you think? [Worker B's name]" Worker C asked worker B.
"I don't know either, but just to be sure, let's take a look at the universal telescope." Worker B suggested which got thumbs up from A and C.
Worker B looked into the telescope, only to see... it.
...
Worker B's face turned pale as if he just saw a ghost.
"Uhm... [Worker B's name, is there something wrong?" Worker A asked with concern in her voice and just as worker C was about to say something.
"WE HAVE TO REPORT TO THE CAPTAIN, NOW!" Shouted worker B, currently shocked over what he saw.
[Part 1: A Sorrowful Occasion]
Elsewhere...
Tuesday, December 7th, 2075
A couple walks into the cemetery, and one of them has a bouquet of roses.
The demon has a medium messy silver hair, bright yellow eyes. He wears a long, unbuttoned steel gray coat with two separate coattails. A blue demon symbol is printed on the back of the coat, both of its wings spread to the front on both sides of the coat, and its tail slinks down to the right coattail. A long and silky lining runs along from the edge of the collar of the coat to the rear end of the coattails. The ten cuffs of the sleeves are tightly buttoned together being divided evenly onto each side. Under the coat, he wears a white compression shirt along with black high-tech pants, and high black boots. He also wears a pair of black motorcycle gloves accompanied by silver knuckles armors with very sharp tips on each finger.
While the girl wears a tan colored sweater with small sheep icon knitted on the left chest, and she wears long black pants with a small bag that she wears around her waist, it carries a small spiritual being that is said to be able to cast extremely powerful spells once commanded to. She has long wavy pink hair with a pair of horns on her head, her eyes are brown.
They walk towards the grave of the former member of Project E.W.S.
The guy's face saddened as they both get closer, seeing him like that, the girl consoles him, saying:
"It's fine, Vargus. It's not your fault after all. Don't beat yourself up over it."
Vargus stayed silent for a moment, he then looks at the bouquet in his hand.
"You're right, thanks."
They kept on walking to the grave, as they get closer. A kid bumped into Vargus from behind.
"OW!"
"Oh sorry, are you alright?" The girl asked as she hurrily turns around to check up on the kid.
"Thanks, aunty, I'm fine!"
"Aunty?! Now listen here, kid. I'm only 26 years o-"
"Pfft." Snickered Vargus.
"Hey! I'm not THAT old!"
Hearing Vargus snicker, the kid shifted his eyes over to him, and his eyes immediately widened, as if he recognizes him.
"OH MY GOD! ARE YOU BIG BRO VARGUS?! I'M A BIG FAN OF YOURS!"
"Yeah, I am. By the way, this pink-haired girl right here is Ẽlstany, she is also as famous as I am. I'm surprised that you don't even recognize her."
The kid then looks at Ẽlstany again, and he is still unable to recognize who she is.
"I only know big bro Vargus from the team! I don't know who aunty is!"
Frustrated, Ẽlstany just let the child calls her whatever he wants.
"Oh yea, can I get your autograph pretty please?" The kid asked as he hands Vargus a pen and a piece of paper
"Sure!" He replied.
"Hey! What about me?!" Ẽlstany said.
"Hmmm, maybe aunty's autograph too!"
Vargus signed the paper and handed it over to Ẽlstany for her to sign it.
"Here kid, enjoy."
"Thank you so much!"
"No prob."
The kid then runs off.
Although, something is bothering Ẽlstany. She then turned to Vargus and asks him:
"Hey, Vargus."
"Yea?"
"Don't you think that it's weird that a kid is running around in the cemetery with no supervisor?"
"Hmm, dunno."
Both of them proceed to continue on walking to the former member's grave.
After a while, they reached the grave. Standing in front of it, Vargus hesitated at first.
As he stands in front of it, he felt guilty for what he did. Though, he can't always run away from his past, so he decided to speak.
"Hey, I'm back once again. It's been a long time, isn't it? Y'know, ever since that day, I couldn't forgive myself for what I did. I know it's too late to say this but...I am really sorry for the decision I've made. It was the only way to save everyone...and you. Once again, I apologize from the bottom of my heart, brother."
Vargus then silently walked out of the cemetery along with the girl, leaving behind a bouquet of roses on his half-brother's grave.
While they were walking out of the cemetery, a continuous and rapid beeping was constantly heard.
*beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep* *beep*
"Sounds like an emergency, doesn't it?" Said Ẽlstany.
"Yea, let's see what it is," Vargus opens the device from which the beeping noises came.
Just as he opened it, a hologram of the former members of Project E.W.S popped up.
"Hey, haven't seen y'all for a while. How's it been?" Asked Vargus, bearing a warm smile on his face.
"Yea! Me and Vargus barely even saw you guys after the ceremony!"
To their surprise, the members don't seem to be excited at all. Instead, they see the former member's terrified faces.
"Ville, we don't have much time left, there's a signal that was sent to us from the other universe informing us about an entity." One of them spoke.
"Hm, based on your voice I could tell how serious this is. Tell me more about it if you don't mind." He responded.
"We cannot elaborate on it clearly since we don't have much information on it. But we've got a recording... or multiple recordings because there are millions of unknown languages in there. Nevertheless, one of them is our language, anyways we've got a recording of people from another universe. We will send it to you in just a second." The call ended.
"An entity huh... I wonder, how bad would it be." Ẽlstany wonders to herself with her hand under her chin.
"Maybe it is as lethal as "The Formality One", it see-"; Vargus got interrupted by the notification from the device.
"Hello, this is a message from the Vortex, you may or may not know who we are but please, listen to us! Evacuate IMMEDIATELY! Run away as far and as fast as possible from this and the local universes. A dangerous creature is going to destroy you all! Even we, the rumored invincible Vortexians had no chance against it and so are you... But, if we can find and work with each other then... Maybe, just maybe we will have a chance. If not... then we are afraid that the whole existence will be at the risk of-"
The voice message got cut off by a loud roar being heard in the background.
...
...
...
The voice message left Ẽlstany speechless and terrified.
"They...were slaughtered?" She worriedly asks.
"It seems so. C'mon, let's go to the headquarters. We don't have much time to waste."
They both took of running to the headquarters together.
A while later...
They finally arrived at the headquarters to reunite with everyone.
After seeing Vargus is here, one of the members pointed towards the camera that was set in the satellite, pointing the lens to the sun.
Vargus inspects the camera and to his surprise. A huge amount of dark mist emerges from the sun, completely covering it.
Witnessing this phenomenon, Vargus quickly runs out of the headquarters. Looking up at the sky, he noticed that the sky turned darker and the atmosphere has gotten a lot colder due to the lack of heat from the sun.
"Ville, there's not much time left, we'll have to do it, Zalthic will be coming with you while the others stay back to evacuate as many people as they could." One of the members hurriedly spoke.
"Alright, tell Zal to meet me at the satellite. We'll try our best to hold the entity back while you guys evacuate everyone."
Vargus immediately spread his wings and took off as soon as he finished his sentence.
"Damn, he's still as hasty as usual." Zalthic said.
Zalthic is tall, and although he might not be as well bulked as Vargus, his overall statistics are said to be at the same level of Vargus. He has a pair of angelic wings behind him, along with a halo above his head that shines brighter than the sun.
Zalthic then walks out of the headquarters, ready to take off so he could keep up with Vargus. Before taking off, he turned around to look at the members, "Good luck to y'all," He spreads his wings, soaring up the dark sky.
"You too." They replied.
The Doomsday.
[Part 2: The Fallen Angel]
On the way to the destination, Zalthic saw a lot of strange creatures descends down from the sky.
And as much as he wants to kill them, he has something far more important to do.
"I trust you guys." He said.
Few minutes later, Zalthic has arrived at the destination to meet up with Vargus. He then noticed something strange around the entity, he tapped on Vargus's shoulder.
"Hey, Ville... Do you notice something weird around the entity?"
"What is it?"
"It has been... Sealed? Perhaps someone from the other universe that it destroyed inflicted on it."
True to his words, the entity seemed to have some words of unknown language lingering around it, glowing black and purple every now and then.
"Say, it's been years since we last fought together. Wanna do that old synergizing combo?"
"Hmph, you're still as care-free as always, and I like that part of yours, Zal"
Both proceeds to engage with the entity after they jumped out of the satellite, repeatedly dodging its attack and deflecting the things that the entity threw at them.
Furious, the entity creates 3 enormous black holes and throws the black holes at them.
Seeing 3 unstoppable forces thrown at them, Vargus charges up a beam with his mouth and blasts the beam at the black holes.
The black holes then casually absorb his beam, leaving him dumbfounded, "Oh yeah, those are black holes."
Seeing the opportunity, Zalthic uses this chance to cast a spell that he's wanting to use for a while.
He chanted, causing all the 3 destructive black holes to disappear without a trace.
...
"Hmph. I must say, that's extremely impressive. Since when were you able to do that?"
"Thanks, I learned it 3 years ago!" Zalthic excitedly replied.
Seeing that the 2 individuals somehow managed to negate its black holes. The entity uses an unknown ability that spreads dark energy all over the universe.
The dark energy then starts spreading rapidly around them.
[Part 3: The Angel And The Demon]
Vargus has now realized that this entity's goal is to destroy every universe that it goes into, he panicky shouts at Zalthic.
"ZAL, GO BACK TO THE PLANET AND TELEPORT EVERYONE TO A DIFFERENT DIMENS-"
Before Vargus gets to finish his sentence, Zalthic has been already corrupted by the dark energy that radiates from the entity due to his weak resistance against dark-related things.
[Note: Zalthic's race is Angel, and his resistance to dark-related stuff such as energy, attacks, and more, is extremely bad. In this case, the dark energy corrupted his mind, to which he no longer has control over what he does, everything he does will be against his will.]
As Zalthic slowly shifts his eyes over to Vargus, Vargus asks him why he is looking at him in a horrified tone
Zalthic stayed silent and pointed his sword towards Vargus.
"Dude, this is not the time for jokes. We need to hold the entity back."
...
...
...
"Fucking hell." Vargus snarled.
Zalthic proceeds to swing his sword at Vargus the moment he let his guard down. Severing his left arm, blood starts spilling from his left arm. Strangely, Vargus seems to be unbothered by it.
Noticing that, Zalthic imbues his sword with Holy magic and swings it at Vargus again, aiming for his right arm. Vargus moved his right leg and then disappeared in plain sight. Confused, Zalthic rapidly shifts his eyes everywhere in seek of Vargus.
And then his surrounding starts to vibrate, dark blue lines appeared everywhere as the vibration gets more intense until an echoing voice was heard behind his back.
"I am sorry, Zal."
Vargus appeared behind Zalthic. Before he even gets to react, Vargus swings his Battle Axe at him. Zalthic managed to block his attack with his sword, but the force that Vargus uses to hit him with was so strong that it knocked Zalthic far away. As the matter of fact, Vargus's blow was too strong that it broke Zalthic's arms when he tried to block it. (It was Vargus's intention after all.)
"Your arm is broken now, Zal. Stay down."
Upon hearing that, Zalthic turned into his Archangel form. His arms returned to normal as soon as he completed his transformation.
"Serate!" Zalthic chanted, summoning a Blessed sword.
Seeing that, Vargus just stares at Zalthic with his pitiful eyes before turning into his hybrid form as well;
His hybrid was created between a dragon and a demon. For that, he is a fully armoured demon as the armours are made out of blades, at the same time, he looks like a humanoid knight. His wings are as fierce as a dragon, widely spreading to the sides with a tail slinking down from his mid-back. Some gaps illuminates the blue neon color too.
Vargus hesitated for a moment before summoning something, but then again, he wanted to save his best friend from the corruption.
"Eurazer." He chanted, summoning a Cursed Blade.
The runes of Vargus's blade started glowing intensely, he then stabs himself with the blade.
Causing it to merge with the core on his chest, he grunts in pain as the blade slowly becomes one with him.
Taking this opportunity, Zalthic fired a Holy beam at Vargus with his sword. Again, he disappeared before Zalthic's eyes, but he doesn't panicky look around anymore, he raised his hand up, asking the entity to lend him a bit of its power.
Amused, the entity lent him a large amount of its power, making Zalthic screams in pain as the entity's power slowly blend in with his body.
"[Kill...the...demon...]" The entity spoke inside of Zalthic's head
Hearing his friend's bloody scream, Vargus stopped using his ability, he looked at his friend again, but this time he's been fully corrupted.
"Not again..." Vargus mumbled.
Vargus proceeds to engage first, charging at Zalthic, Zalthic charged back at him. Both swing their weapon at the same time, creating a powerful clash between the two of them. Amidst the clash, Vargus yells at Zalthic to snap out of it. Zal says nothing, instead, he kicks Vargus in the stomach.
The kick was unusually stronger, it sent Vargus flying for a good amount of length before he regained his balance.
After regaining his balance, Vargus fired a beam at Zalthic with his mouth. And with just a flick of his finger, Zalthic deflected the beam straight back at Vargus. Caught by surprise, Vargus fires another beam in hope of neglecting the deflected beam, two beams then come into contact, resulting in an atomic explosion.
"Shit, I can only fire a beam one more time before I collapse."
[Note: Firing a beam drains a lot of stamina as it requires you to use all of your muscle power to keep the beam stable enough to be fired, it also depends on how strong the beam is, too. In this case, Vargus fired a nuclear-level beam.]
Overhearing what Vargus said, Zalthic now knows that if Vargus is forced to fire another beam that has the same destructive level, then victory will be secured. With new knowledge, he charges at Vargus and performs a downward strike with his sword, Vargus quickly raises his Battle Axe to block the strike in return to create another clash that will hold both of them in place.
To Vargus's surprise, the strength that Zalthic strikes him with is somehow stronger than Vargus's half-brother's strength, the strike then knocked Vargus back to the planet with extreme speed while Zalthic catches up with him.
The entity floats there, enjoying the desperation that Vargus is currently feeling while feeding on the nearby planets, leaving only the planet that Vargus lives in.
A few seconds later...
Vargus brutally crashed into a forest.
"Argh...He was weaker than me before, but now he can match my half-brother's strength? Fuck, this is getting out of hand." Vargus thought.
Coincidentally, an acquaintance of Vargus's was there near the crashing site.
"Ville?!"
Hearing a familiar voice, Vargus tries his best to stand up after the crash, but he couldn't, he tried looking at the person with the familiar voice that he heard. Unfortunately, his eyesight is slowly giving up on him, his hybrid form followed and fades away and the blade that he used to stab himself earlier emerges from his chest.
The acquaintance then rushes over to Vargus as they cast a healing spell on him. Seeing the acquaintance rushing over to him, he tried yelling at them to get away, but the crash earlier fatally injured his spine and vital organs. Despite being able to heal those injuries as a Demon, he couldn't heal himself because of exhaustion from firing the beams.
"Ville, what happened?! What kind of force sent you back this brutally?!"
Vargus tried to keep his eyes open to see who the person is while repeatedly telling them to get away.
"Hang in there, the spell is healing you. Breathe in and out slowly, alright?"
Vargus nodded whilst looking up to the sky, cautiously waiting for Zalthic despite his injuries.
Minutes later, after the healing spell has healed Vargus enough to regain his eyesight, he looks over to the acquaintance.
"Hey Ville, it's me Ẽlstany. What even happened up there?"
"There's no time...to explain...call Darius...we need to stop...him."
"Stop who?!" Ẽlstany asked him in sheer panic.
Manifesting all the strength to speak, Vargus was only able to utter a word, "Zal..."
"What?! I don't understand!"
"Just...do it...please."
The moment Vargus finishes his sentence, a sword came falling out of the sky, plucking into Vargus's chest, he coughed up blood the moment the shove plucks right through his chest. Looking up at the sky, he spotted Zalthic flying towards him, seemingly about to stomp him, he looks over to Ẽlstany.
"VILLE?!"
"G-Go."
"B-But-"
Vargus's consciousness is starting to give up on him, in his final moments before passing out, he fires a weak beam that only has enough firepower to knock Ẽlstany out of range. Seeing the situation from above, Zalthic smiled deviously as if he has achieved victory, he speeds up and lands on Vargus's stomach brutally, knocking him unconscious.
"VILLE!"
The scream grabbed Zalthic's attention, he looked over to Ẽlstany, who is trying to get closer to Vargus, he summons a barrage of beams with his sword and fires them at Ẽlstany, she summoned a shield to block them, but the beams effortlessly pierce through the shield, piercing her all over her body. She falls to the ground, blood starts gushing out all over her body. Now seeing that Ẽlstany is immobilized, Zalthic pulls the sword out of Vargus's chest.
Just as Zalthic was about to kill Vargus, hundreds of spears came flying directly at Zalthic from deep in the forest, he easily deflected all of them, then a spear came flying at him with an insane speed, it pierced through his chest and sent him flying for 1-2 kilometers.
From the deep of the forest reveals a tall masculine figure, holding a spear in their hand, casting a few spells on Ẽlstany, temporarily healing her.
"Shit, I'm too late. Stany, I hope these spells of mine are enough to keep you stable for a moment. Go heal Vargus, I'll hold Zal off."
Darius then runs off in the direction of which he sent Zal flying.
"A-Alright," Ẽlstany hurriedly limbs over to Vargus, she places her hands on his chest and then pours all of her strength into the healing spell.
"Hang in there, please..."
[Meanwhile, inside Vargus's mind.]
(Vargus POV)
"Hey, Hey, HEY! WAKE UP!"
Hearing the voice, I opened my eyes to see myself in a forest, I got up and looked around to see where the voice came from and there was no one. Shit, am I dreaming right now? Or was all of that just a dream?
And then a familiar silhouette appears behind a big tree, I quickly got up on my feet and starts running towards the tree. Disappointingly, no one was behind it. Maybe I'm just going crazy after what has just happened.
As I was about to turn around, someone suddenly appeared infront of me and caught me off guard.
"YO! LONG TIME NO SEE!"
I screamed a single word, then I fall back to the ground after the jumpscare, I look up to see who was it, and I see a long messy black haired guy hanging from a tree branch with both of his legs. Wait, long messy black haired guy...He sounds just like my half-brother. Curious I am, I got up from the ground to look at the guy again.
"Recognize me?" The unknown guy enthusiastically asked me.
That voice, it's him, it's literally him, but there's no way he is alive, I KILLED him. But...does that even matter? What matters to me the most is that he is alive once again...
"B-Brother?" I asked him in pure shock.
"Oh hey, you recognized me! That's great!"
"H-How are you even...alive?"
"That's the neat part, I'm not. In fact, I am inside your mind. Welcome to the inner world!"
Inner world...I always thought that was a rumour, but it's true!
Hearing that, I remained silent in awe.
"What? Not impressed? Well I mean, I was able to transfer a tiny bit of my energy left into you when I died and here I am, talking to you."
He said as he let go of the tree branch, landing on his feet.
"N-No, it's just that I'm happy to see you again after all this time. Even if my mind is playing tricks, I am still happy regardless."
"That's great to hear!"
"Well, I know it's late to say this...But-"
He shushed me with his finger.
"Nah, I forgive you, you managed to save everyone by doing that."
Upon hearing that, I fell on both of my knees, relieved that he forgave me.
"Thank you."
"It's fine, keep walking on the path you chose, don't turn around, alright?"
"Alright."
He kneeled down, placing his hand on my shoulder.
"Ok listen, I don't have much time left and so do you. I will lend you the rest of my abilities and what is left of mine, you go and kill that entity to protect everyone for me," He lent me his other hand, "Grab my hand, and you will have it," he said as his palm ignites
I reached my hand out to grab his hand, but before I get to grab it, an echoing voice from the distance reached our ears.
"[VILLE! WAKE UP! PLEASE!]"
Ah... My partner's voice, well I guess I shouldn't be wasting anymore time.
My half-brother stands up, offering me his hand once again, warmly smiling at me. It lights up my determination to complete this task.
The fire in his palm intensifies, growing larger in size as he speaks. "Although, it's a shame that I want to spend more time with you in here, but it is time for both of us to part ways once again."
And as much as I wanted to stay in this world with him, I reached out to his hand, grabbing it.
A flow of red energy starts transferring from his body to mine, merging together with my blue energy, creating a purple energy flow and forming a dark purple aura around me.
The inner world started fading away, I looked at my half-brother for the last time before parting ways with eachother again.
"See you next year, brother. Appreciate your help." I said, with a warm smile on my face.
"Heh, see ya, and happy birthday, kid." Chucked Alfrotrich, sending me off with a bright smile.
My vision blacks out as he disappears.
(3rd person POV)
Ẽlstany is still trying her best to heal Vargus, she keeps on repeating his name. Until, Vargus jolted up, and overflowed with a dark purple aura. Seeing the phenomenon infront of her makes her concerned. Regardless, he is now back, and that is all that matters to her.
"Thank god...you woke up..."
Hearing Ẽlstany's fainting voice, he looked to his side, seeing the wounds all over her body and the blood trail that she left while crawling to him. Panicked, he used the gears on his hands to try to treat her wounds. Luckily, another member arrived at the scene, seeing Ẽlstany in an emergency situation, they rushed over to both Vargus and Ẽlstany's place.
"Lyrio! Thank goodness you're here, can you stay and treat her wounds while I go assist Darius?" Asked Vargus.
"Alright, just go, I'll take good care of her for you." Lyrio replied.
Relieved now that there is someone that he trusts could take care of Ẽlstany, he takes off in the direction where he sensed Darius and Zalthic's presence by using his ability, [Godspeed].
Meanwhile, a few seconds before Vargus wakes up.
Darius is covered in wounds from the duel with Zalthic, despite that, he still tries his best to hold Zalthic off for Ẽlstany to heal Vargus as he tries to snap Zalthic out of it, not knowing that he is beyond savable.
Zalthic doesn't even seem to bother about the attacks that Darius threw at him, he just ate them all up like they are nothing. What's worse is that he is extremely close to reaching the final stage of his form "The Ascended One", the strongest form of the Angel race.
"Shit, I don't think I can hold him off much longer, he is evolving seconds by seconds. I hope Stany succeeded in healing Vargus, or else we will be fucked." Thought Darius.
Zalthic raised his hand up to the air and chanted something, a moment later, millions of Holy Swords came raining down the place where they stand. Witnessing the inevitable attack, Darius points his finger up to the air, and millions of spears rise from the ground and fly at the Holy Swords. Despite his last effort, the Holy Swords easily beat Darius's attacks and continued to rain on him, he was only able to dodge a few of them before getting pierced by one, fatally injuring his right arm.
At the verge of death, Darius closed his eyes.
"Welp, I guess that's it. It is now up to you, Vargus." Mumbled Darius.
As he is still keeping his eyes closed, he heard an inaudible voice, saying, "Time is nothing but a fracture of reality."
[Part 4: The Promise We Made.]
The present.
After a while of closing his eyes, Darius wondered why he isn't dead yet. He slowly opens his eye and look at the sight before him, he sees a familiar back of a certain someone, noticing the dark purple aura.
"Vargus...is that you?" Darius asks as he opens his eyes.
Vargus turns his head around, "If you're concerned about my aura, then don't be worried. I'm fine, go reunite with the others at the place where I crashed. I'll take care of this."
Darius took off in the opposite direction from the archangel. Seeing that, Zalthic tried chasing him, but he was stopped by Vargus's sword.
"Hey Zal, wanna recreate that one time where we sparred with eachother?" Vargus then sliced off Zal's right wing just as he finished his sentence, Zalthic immediately kicked Vargus in panic after seeing that he effortlessly sliced off his wing. Despite that, Zalthic thinks that he could still recover from his injury.
But to Zalthic's surprise, he wasn't able to recover his right wing, he confusingly looked over to it
, just to see it covered with a black flame. He looks at Vargus again, confused about why he has the flame element, he is not the type of person to use elemental spells.
"You're wondering about how I got that flame, right? To answer that, it's from my half-brother. That's all you need to know," Vargus ends the sentence with a small chuckle.
Zalthic snarled and charged at Vargus and jabs him, Vargus jabs back, clashing both of their fists.
"This reminds me a lot about back then, y'know?"
Zalthic grabs Vargus's collar and tried to headbutt Vargus, Vargus did the same, neglecting the damage of Zalthic's headbutt.
"Back then, we would do the same attack as the other one to neglect the attack itself."
Zalthic pulls his head back and creates a beam from his mouth just like Vargus once did, Vargus does the same. Creating a close-ranged explosion, knocking both of them far away.
Vargus then turns into his hybrid form again, and this time, his demon form resembles darkness along with dark flames scorching his body.
And then the two of them circle around the battleground.
"We would usually stall time by doing this, to see who would let their guard down first."
Both sprinted at eachother, clashing their weapon against each other. While both try to overpower one another in the middle of the clash, Vargus headbutted Zalthic, temporarily stunning him.
"And everytime we clash, both of us would try overpowering the other one, and it always ended up in me winning."
Enraged, Zalthic raised his hand up in the air, summoning millions of Holy Swords from the sky and they all come crashing down on Vargus.
"Snail." Chanted Vargus.
Time slows down, everything around Vargus moves just like a snail. He walks towards Zal, facing him.
"Oh yea, that reminds me of when you would sneak in some spells. You're one cheeky bastard, you know that?" Vargus fully stops before Zalthic, as he ends the ability.
Seeing that Vargus somehow appeared infront of him, Zalthic let out a roar before a beam comes crashing down at him. Forcing Vargus to jump back.
The beam reveals Zalthic with many wings and multiple rings surrounding him. Vargus then stood there silently, he looked at the reflection of himself in his sword, wondering if he should do the same thing to his half-brother back then.
The two of them get into their stance, a stance that they used to use specifically for sparring with eachother.
"No matter how many spars we did, it will always ends up in a draw no matter if either side gains advantages or not."
...
They charged at eachother, repeatedly clashing their swords while dodging one another's attacks. The clash finally ends with both of them striking each other's swords with a very strong force, knocking both of them back due to the recoil.
Seeing that this back-and-forth clashing won't do anything, Zalthic flies up to the sky, covering the entity that is wrapping around the sun with his wings. Vargus, on the other hand, raised his sword.
Zalthic then chants something. But for Vargus, he stood there silently.
"Hey, remember our promise? Whoever beats the other one in a spar, then the loser will have to spend the whole year obeying the winner's requests as long as it is not a ridiculous one."
As Vargus finishes his mumbling, Zalthic also finishes up his chant.
"May the light erase this filth."
"May the darkness consumes you."
Both said at the same time.
Once again, they strike each other with their strongest attack. Resulting in an explosion disintegrating everything in a near 2 kilometers radius. However, the explosion didn't even phase either of them.
The two of them stood there, waiting for the dust screen to reveal the other one. After a while of waiting, they see each other, and they both get into their stance once again. But this time, whoever strikes first, will win this never-ending battle.
The two Primordial beings charged at each other, and as they get closer to one another, they rev up for their final strike.
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Meanwhile...
Darius reunited with Ẽlstany and Lyrio, he hurried them to heal him so he could go assist Vargus after the big explosion.
"Hell, that explosion almost killed me. I wonder if Ville and...Zal...are ok." Said Darius, looking in the far, far distance where the battle took place.
"I don't think they are." Lyrio responded.
"If that's the case then we have to sprint to their location after we are all healed up."
Lyrio tightens the bandages, "I am trying my best here, Darius."
"OW! S-Sorry!"
While Lyrio and Darius are both conversing, Ẽlstany sits there, silently healing Darius.
"Hey Stany, you've been silent for a while, are you alright?" Asked Lyrio.
"Y-Yea, I'm fine. It's just that, one of their presence disappeared, I am not sure if it's Ville or Zal-"
"WHAT?! THEN WE NEED TO HURRY UP!" Darius quickly grabbed his spear and runs toward where Vargus and Zalthic are.
"HEY! I'M NOT DONE YET! Well, what are we waiting for? Let's chase after Darius, Stany."
Ẽlstany worriedly nodded and runs after Darius with Lyrio.
They managed to catch up with Darius, but while they were on their way. A spiritual figure appears before their path...
(Meanwhile, at Vargus and Zalthic's location.)
The winner has finally been determined, after countless spars between them that always result in a draw, and finally emerges a victory from this so-called 'spar'.
And the winner is...
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...Öntrenthus Zalthic The Archangel.
Even when Vargus strikes first, his hesitation leads him to his demise to which Zalthic was able to stab him through the heart.
"Fuck...I hesitated." Vargus inaudibly said before collapsing.
Seeing Vargus collapses, he snapped back to his senses, the first thing that came to Zalthic's mind was not "What happened?", but "What have I done...?". He tried to lift Vargus up, but he couldn't even touch Vargus due to the dark flames around his body.
"[Why are you feeling guilty...? You've done your job. Now, come. We will devour this universe together.]" The entity spoke inside of Zalthic's mind.
Zalthic was then sucked towards the entity by an unknown force, he plucked his sword on the ground, reaching out his hand to Vargus. Amplifying the mark on Vargus's right arm.
The ground where he stands starts to shake violently, before he completely loses his ground, as he looked at Vargus for the last time.
"You said...something about the promise...and now you will...fulfill that. This is...my request...please...save everyone..and me."
[Part 5: A Dying Flame Reborns]
The sky gets darker, the atmosphere slowly gets colder and colder, and so is Vargus's body. The dark flame scorching his body is trying its best to keep him warm whilst stopping his bleeding as its last attempt before dying out.
"Ah, I hesitated, I guess this is the end. I hope that everyone has escaped. Jeez, why would I hesitate?!" Thought Vargus, at the same time as the flames die out...
...Until he suddenly stands up again, in a completely zombified state, he opens his mouth, forming a beam. Pouring everything he has into it, he spread his wings, which are slowly withering away.
Looking at the entity slowly devouring the planet that he stands on, he fired the beam at it in an attempt to kill it. If not, fatally injuring it at the very least.
"30...seconds..."
The beam then enlarged itself while on its way to the entity, seeing the beam coming at it. The entity charged up an energy beam and fires it back.
The two beams come into contact, and the entity's beam is seemingly overpowering Vargus's beam.
"Ig...nite!"
He snarled, and then the dark flames starts to scorch his body intensely, the flame grows bigger and bigger in seconds as it gets put into his beam to increase its firepower.
Vargus keeps on trying to improve the beam's firepower with every last bit of his flames. The one-sided clash has now turned into Gamma-ray bursts. Destroying the whole universe within minutes.
Due to being close to the bursts, it destroyed the planet and blew Vargus away.
However, the entity was fatally injured by the Bursts as well. It roared in pain as it releases a huge amount of dark energy, consuming the whole universe.
[Note: he is still in his hybrid form which has insanely high durability to deal with the blow, but due to how strong the Gamma-ray Bursts is, Vargus still got killed by it.]
"That's all...I could...do...for us...both...see you later, Me."
He mumbled as he slowly crumbles away into the darkness.
As the dark energy consumes the universe along with Vargus's crumbling body, something entered his body, turning him into the core for the supernova explosion. It then reinforced his body together and sent him somewhere else...
AN: This was written by a different writer, so the writing style is quite different. Yes, this is a collab with my friends, so don't be surprised if you see multiple different writing styles.
Writer: Ville and Akuma (The Proof-reader)