I manage to arrive unnoticed as both parties seem to ignore my existence. Just as both parties engage I sense a huge amount of mana teleporting to the location.
I look and see that Abaddon has arrived, along with his trademark swarm of magic locusts. Standing up, I draw my sword and move in to catch him off guard, but the attack ends up being futile as my blade clashes with his. I force my blade against his, hoping to overpower him, but he sends his locust swarm to attack. Upon closer inspection, I see that the locusts he uses aren't normal ones; they appear to have human faces with crowns upon their head.
They begin to land on me, but I manage to get away before many of them latch on. Using Murray's lightning magic, I fry off the ones that grabbed on to me. I throw a ball of fire at him, but he just uses a few locusts to absorb the damage.
"To easy! You're going to have to try harder than that to kill the Overlord of destruction," Abaddon shouts.
I grunt as he appears behind me and slices at me, I turn and block, but the force is too much and he sends me flying through a building and into the bottom floor of the building. I slowly rise as pieces of cement fall behind me. Then I see the black swarm swerving between the falling rubble, their scorpion tails and sharp teeth become apparent as a few land on me and begin to attack. Murray's magic helps once again, and with a crack of electricity I burn them off, but I have to get away from the rest of the swarm, so I look around quickly and find a maze of rubble to climb through. Jumping between ledges and underneath girders leads to me outrunning the swarm, but the insects keep chasing me. Abaddon takes advantage of my attention and again attacks, punching me in the face and blasting me through the air; I recover and dash at Abaddon, catching him off-guard.
I slice him in the front of the thigh since he still attempted to dodge. The swarm arrives and surrounds Abaddon, completely covering him, as the swarm moves away again, I see that Abaddon has transformed. He has grown four transparent insect wings, his eyes have forced out from their sockets and have become compound, and his mouth has sprouted a pair of mandibles, giving him a truly insectoid appearance. I rush him immediately, but he blocks and begins a flurry of attacks, each being backed by a small swarm of locust. "Fool, my compound eyes allow me to see you coming from any direction," he explains, just as he feigns a sword attack he reaches in with his mandibles. I block off the mandibles, but I can feel the force he is putting in his bite is an attempt to shatter my sword, but as my attention has shifted to the mandibles, he goes in for a stab. He hits me straight in the stomach, but I manage to get away before it goes in too deep. I hold my stomach in an attempt to stop the bleeding, but I wince as the pain from the locusts that he was using becomes apparent.
"Learn all there is to know, Manabu!" I yell, shocking Abaddon.
My sword becomes a book and Abaddon begins to laugh uncontrollably. The pages begin to turn and I activate cure to heal the wound made by Abaddon and his locusts.
"Ah, so your one of the spell slingin' types, I see," Abaddon comments, preparing to attack. He moves in and I blast out a much more powerful fireball, but he uses the locusts to shield again, as he attacks I conjure up an earthen wall, hearing the satisfying clank of Abaddon's sword I shoot a high powered water blast through the wall. Abaddon, recovering from the attack, gets struck by the water stream, knocking a small part of the swarm out of the air, as well as sending Abaddon away. Abaddon recovers and we stare each other down for a second, both of us collecting ourselves for another exchange, but we both look in the same direction as another raw manaed creature approaches.
"It would seem that Dracul has arrived," Abaddon chuckles as he says this, but his smile flips upside down, as the mana source isn't another overlord but a humanoid creature with fur along the shoulders and head.
The creature dispatches a soul reaper quickly and turns its head towards Abaddon and me. Our soul pressures, largely unnoticed by each other, become overwhelmed by this creature's. The creature smashes its hand into me as it tries to smash me, but I extend the book outwardly with steel to make the creature smash its hand into the wall. A sickening crack is heard, and the creature recoils, seemingly unfazed by the damage, switching focus to Abaddon. It prepares a strange blast of energy and Abaddon, stares at it blankly, unaware on what to do. The pressure is intensified as the energy goes off, and Abaddon tries to block the attack with his swarm, but the swarm disintegrates. The energy hits Abaddon, just before it hits him, I feel the soul pressure get stronger as well as the mana exertion increase from Abaddon. He appears out of the energy undamaged, but he has grown demonic wings, replacing the insect wings as well as showing the bones leading throughout each wing. His face has grown even more insectoid, adding in facial structure of a locust as well as the strong legs and four arms. The creature looks surprised, but goes in to attack again, but Abaddon sends a torrent of his locusts.
Just as he does this, 3 women appear nearby and berate it, "What are you doing you stupid beast! We need to help Lady Harribel out, not mess around with these morons!" the one with blue hair and a horn shouts.
The creature is blasted back by the torrent, and apparently listens to these women, as it turns and quickly rejoins the battle near the center of the town. The ladies stare at Abaddon and me for a moment, and then quickly go back with the creature. Shortly afterward, a blaze of fire appears and we both flinch as the creatures soul pressure and mana presence completely disappear.
Abaddon turns to me, laughs and asked me, "Well then, where were we?"
He flashes forward, catching me off guard, and despite my shield, he strikes me down. His fist hits me in the cheek and launches me into the ground, Abaddon continues by sending a stream of Locusts, who follows me into the ground. I sit there for a second as I feel the scratchy feet begin to take hold on my skin, and then the pain sets in as the locusts begin to sting and bite. I sense 3 mana sources almost completely disappear. My electricity overpowers them and I blast the locusts off of me. I climb out of the crater and look at my arms. They have several red holes in them and have begun to blacken.
Abaddon laughs, "Fitting that the Overlord of destruction has a way to literally destroy you. Right now the poison from the locusts is dismantling your cells one… by… one."
"You have gotten yourself in quite the pickle haven't you?" the assistant's voice suddenly notes.
"Shut up, I don't need you harassing me right now!" I retort.
I hear the assistant laugh, and then fade away. My book floats up in front of me and flips to the healing pages, and a green light surges forth covering my body and stopping the poison. "No matter, I will just do it again," Abaddon taunts as he sends another wave of his locusts, I use Firaga, sending out white hot flames. "Taimatsu!" A withered voice cries out, just as Abaddon and I's attack begin to engage, white flames engulf both the locusts and my own flames. We both turn to see an old man standing in a prepared stance.
"Who are you and what are you doing here? Do not think that I have not noticed the strength of both of your spiritual pressures." the old man asks.
"I… am the harbinger of destruction, I am Abaddon!" Abaddon shouts, quickly moving to attack the old man.
I move to attack Abaddon, but just as I begin to attack him I hear "Taimatsu!" again, and another torrent of flames is released from the old man's blade. This time, Abaddon is ready and dodges, leaving a locust swarm in his form behind him, which is quickly engulfed. He moves in to just be quickly knocked back by a quick blade swipe from the old man. Using the advantage, I begin conjuring up for a Blizzaja spell. My book turns into a trident as I twirl it in a specific manner, first above me, then to the side, next to my left, and finally in front of me. As I twirl the trident for the last time, I catch it on the end and point it right at Abaddon, and the sky begins to darken. The old man's eyes widen as the locusts surrounding Abaddon flash freeze, just before he does as well. Then, several large ice pillars ending in points form. One starts by flinging itself at Abaddon and hitting him, following him to the ground, exploding into a glacier. The others soon follow, creating a large glacier.
"Impressive, now who are you?" the old man asks again.
"I am Jared, and I was here to defeat him," I tell him as I point to the new Abaddon-cicle, "and now that that is done, I must be on my way."
"Well Jared, I am head captain of the Gotei 13, and my name is Yamamoto, but I must ask you to stay, for I do not know what kind of being you are, nor do I know your intentions," he responds.
"Well unfortunately, I cannot tell you that, but what I may tell you is that I am here to help you and I ask that you do not interfere with my affairs, sir," I politely retort.
"Well, I'm afraid that I may not allow you to freely roam around," Yamamoto tells me ominously.
"Well, how about you follow me around while I finish up here?" I ask him.
He answers, "Well, ever since the creature managed to take out two lieutenants and almost a third, I am reluctant to leave them alone, but seeing the power you just unleashed makes me unwilling to leave you alone."
"Great! Now I need to do one more thing and I will be finished, so follow me" I say.
Yamamoto commands "No, I follow no one, youngster, tell me where we are going and you will be behind me."
"A-Alright," I say slightly surprised, "Over there, near the glowing prism."
"Hmm, shall we be going then youngster?" He queries.
As he does he moves towards the area, and I begin to follow. We arrive near the glowing prism, where I find what I am looking for. The three women, burnt to a crisp, are lying on the ground. I move to touch one on the back, and feel a weak well of mana still fighting to remain. "Good." I mutter under my breath. I pick one up, and her body begins to gradually fade, causing great alarm to Yamamoto.
"Are you leeching their spiritual pressure!?" Yamamoto yells.
"No, I am moving them off site so that they may be re-used, in a sense." I reply, picking up another and doing the same.
"So, you are working with Aizen then," He says solemnly, drawing his staff in a ready stance.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, sir, I have no idea who that is," I say, attempting to calm him down.
I grab the final one as I move away. I get some space as the final woman, one with long dark green hair, and pink dots just below her eyes, begins to fade. I hear "Taimatsu!" as I feel the heat incoming, I dodge out of the way, and then the woman completely disappears. A portal opens up right in front of me and I speed through it.
I turn around and see desert, the portal had closed and I was all by myself. I turn the other way to see two towers in the distance. "Release!" I command. "Hey Simon, three women should be at the castle right now, and I need you to heal them, have the Prans help you," I tell him.
"Alright, anything else master?" Simon wonders.
"No, but they will be more than irate, so try to keep them calm, or unconscious, until I get there, also there may be two to three more that will need the same treatment," I communicate to him.
"Alright, be careful master," Simon says to me.
I sigh, and move towards the tower.