Superiority
The blast had ripped through the air, cutting down all before it, but for some reason the intruder wasn't vaporized. He wasn't even burned. He stood up, and patted off his clothes. "What kind of magic do you use?" asked Limos as he descended the small flight of stairs down to his intruder, looking him eye-to-eye. "Whatever it is you shouldn't count on avoiding a second a blast." He lifted his arm and drew the power to the point of his finger and pressed it against the man's skull, causing him to looked worried, but at the same time a strange serenity came over him.
"I'm a researcher, scientist, and that's what I used…I used science to, ahem…deflect your blast," he smiled as he looked up at him. "It was a rather risky move as I didn't know the density, type, or overall make-up of the blast. So, I had to program a completely universal of shield and build it up from there. I figured it would require a lot of power, so I started from there." Limos didn't look happy at that response, he quickly jabbed at his forehead and threw the man back a few feet with a new bleeding wound in the center of his forehead. The man chuckled, apparently he had even suspected this would be how it would go down. He wiped the blood away and shook it off, Limos had held back so he didn't get killed by such a simple move. "I'm sorry, but I am a scientist. Artificial Witch is what my goal is." Limos cocked a smile and moved forward.
"Artificial Witch?" asked Limos as he walked up to him. An evil smirk cast over his face, "I knew some of the best minds were on the project back a couple centuries, but they failed. So, I know you couldn't manage it." He said as moved back and took a few steps away, he didn't mind turning his back on him even though a regular witch could do a lot of damage to someone who was not suspecting it. But this man seemed to hold himself to a higher standard. He just stood there and smiled, he knew what Limos was thinking. Artificial Witch meant Artificial Magic, something that anyone would be hard pressed to create. However, he believed his abilities spoke for themselves.
"I know, I was one of those men, the name's Cham," he said lifting a small hat into the air. "I know Marburg, I was his second-in-command. He mentioned what you were doing here and one of my 'experiments' that seemed to be producing promising results. He said he'd be here." Limos nodded, immediately remembering the monstrous arrow believing it to be the work of some kind of higher power. No way a measly human could generate an attack with such a potent aura. He could feel the shivers run down his spine as he remembered it. Such power came from a human seemed like an impossibility, it drew him to wonder what kind of power he would produce or another witch.
"You're a human, aren't you?" asked Limos immediately sensing something off about the man. He couldn't sense his soul well before because a human soul was easy enough to overlook, its why him, Marburg, and Vigrid preferred the kind of nuclear option. Destroy everything, it was the best insurance policy. "Why aren't you using this wondrous new power?" The man smiled and put his hat back on his head, happy to have caught a big fish. If he could make these three interested in his abilities, he could possibly have a much more reliable army on his hands. These three would basically turn him into the strongest and most potent 'ally' in the world.
"There's a slight problem with it," he explained, "it doesn't seem to react all too well. It kind of corrodes the user, perfection takes time and sacrifice…and of course like all great minds I'm not willing to sacrifice anything, so I'm having other people do it for me." Limos chuckled, figured…a typical human response. He shook his head, but didn't reply and let the man continue. "Don't worry, I won't do anything you don't want me to, I'm just here to observe." Limos paused for a second and looked thoughtful, he put a few more things together before finally speaking up.
"Actually there is one small thing you can do," he said as he sat down, his voice practically dripping of confidence. "You see this banquet I got set out for people who fought my brothers will go to waste if someone else gets here first. And I don't want that to happen, so basically your job is to defeat anyone else. I'd rather not be bothered by those other people. They are too…bothersome for me to take care of. Me and my brothers have near god-like powers, I'd rather not go using them on people undeserving." Cham smiled, slinking away into the shadows once more nearly disappearing due to his lack of a bright soul. In all honesty he preferred it this way himself. Originally he just thought that he would be able to observe his project in action, but now…now he can test out some new things as well. He smiled and moved on. Now time to pick his first target.
Unsurprisingly Limos was thinking the same thing. He sat back, his head kicked back against the wall. Would it even be worth it? For him to get up and out of his chair? He sighed, maybe he could just strike some of them down from here. Then again why waste a good thing? He has Cham scouting out for people to potentially strike down, so why should he extend himself, too? A good king always lets his pawns take the offensive while he relaxes. However, that plan seemed destined to fall through. Almost instantly the two men in the black suits burst into the room. They entered in from the opposite ends of the room, both of them avoiding the tunnel Cham came into. Limos let out a loud moan, honestly these guys weren't even Weapons or Meisters…their souls were so puny. They both sporting impressive guns, but of different designs, but Limos didn't fear guns. He completely overwhelmed them, he was much stronger than them. Besides at least now he didn't have to get up and out of his seat.
Cham moved out into the field, slowly beginning to examine his opponents. Just some weak human beings from the looks of it. He never understood why Lord Death relied on the human and meister combos to repel Kishins…it seemed like it would be impossible for the young teenagers to defeat the more superior Kishins and Witches. Cham smiled, grinning broadly and opening his hands up. He still hadn't managed to get a good grip on it, but after examining Limos shot, he was fairly certain he could replicate it. An evil smile crossed his face, and like all god scientist he needed a guinea pig to test his newfound powers out on. Any one of those meisters would do…if they did he did, if they didn't…well, he'd just keep shooting until he got it right. He took aim and let a very precise beam out. He couldn't create a big deadly blast like Limos or Vigrid, but he could produce a fine laser using his power. "Kishin Laser."
"Really?" said a man jumping into the middle of the fight with his one arm outstretched after deflecting the laser. He was one of the DWMA's allies during this fight, but he wasn't actually one of them. He wasn't involved with the other two previously mentioned organizations that came here either. As a matter of fact, he probably wouldn't have showed up if it was just Lord Death asking for help or even if it was just a bomb that went off. No, he came for a very specific reason. And that is to kill Limos. He stepped forward and pulled his now seared white glove off of his hand and replaced it with a new one. "I really hope that wasn't you cause if it was, then I had no reason to come here…I'm already much stronger than you are." Cham crouched further down and quickly pivoted around, disappearing into the burned small cliffs of the island. He didn't want to get involved with him, it made no sense for him to. He was just here to try and prevent some people from getting in to where Limos was. He wasn't about to put his life on the line to do so though. He quickly skittered away and into the darkness.
The man moaned and shook his head, small fries clinging onto a god was his number one pet peeve. He spared little thought as he glanced back and at the kids he saved. "Get going, brats…there's about to be a blood bath ahead of you." He tightened his grip, making sure his gloves were on tightly enough. Destroying his opponent, that was his sole goal and he wouldn't stop until he accomplished it. Not now…not ever! Truth be told, while Lord Death was fine with the others tagging along he felt a little worried about this one. He wasn't quite sure if he could handle himself, but it was already beginning to look like it was just his worries. This man was quite capable of protecting himself. "I will defeat you."
(-With Michael and the rest-)
Michael spent little time, quickly nocking an arrow and letting it fly. The arrow burst through the air, slicing into the skin of one of the golems, breaking the golems shoulder and easily destroying its inner gears. The golem reared back, its shoulder completely destroyed and it couldn't work at all, however, that was the least of its worries. Ash leapt up, pushing both of his feet against the golem's chest, from there he quickly whipped around in a complete circle bringing his bladed gauntlet smashing straight the golem's forehead. The metal broke completely causing the golem's systems to shut down. Melody lashed out, wrapping her yo-yo around the golem's head and quickly whipped it around again bringing it into another golem's body and breaking straight through it as well. The trio was doing well to get this far.
"I wonder what's up with all of the golems," moaned Helena as she came up and joined them. The rest of the group sighed and rolled their eyes. She had been barely managing to pull her own weight, but they had to admit even if she was only barely pulling her own weight, she certainly did help lighten the load. The entire group was beginning to breathe heavily, the fact was simple…taking down golems was hard work. They shrugged it off and sat down, they needed a few more moments to rest and recover before charging off again. The golems weren't too bright or strong…but they certainly were a lot of them. "I mean I would've thought that as a Kishin or a witch, he would use…you know, Kishins and Witches. Why use these guys?"
"I don't know, maybe all of the Kishins and Witches are celebrating someone's birthday," offered Shi, this caused everyone to shake their heads, but seeing as how they had no real idea why all of the Kishins and Witches were gone and in all reality it didn't matter where they were…just as long as they weren't here. However, with that being said…they couldn't help but feel a sick feeling wash over them. It was almost as if they were walking into a trap.
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