Previously on "The Chaos Within":-

He turned around and walked towards the royal guards with a grin.

"HELLOOOOOO You sacks of SHIT!" Leonardo grins with his arms spread sideways. "Allow me to introduce myself more properly... MY NAME IS......... FUCK YOU ALL! AHAHAHA!"

His eyes laid on Arthas.

"ARTHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS?!!! How I've been wishing to dance with you since the last 30 minutes"

"Authorityyyyyyy" The large entity stares at Arthas like a predator with the same grin as Leonardo

"Shall we?" Leonardo cracks his knuckles.

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Authority started to vanish bit by bit until he was completely gone.

A red tattoo made of black lines formed on Leonardo's right arm but an only small part of it was drawn.

Leo raised his right arm, checking the red tattoo on it, it was faintly flashing and 3/4 of it has vanished so far. The more powerful his attacks are, the more energy Leo uses and the more of the tattoo's lines are erased along with it, his energy is consumed faster than original demons since he's only half a demon. That's Leonardo's weakness. There are two ways to recharge his powers though.

1. By resting for a whole day for his energy to recharge passively.

2. You'll find out soon.

"Oh maaaaaaan, I'm running out of juice", he sighed and raised his bow, aiming at the royal guards' squad before him, shooting an arrow but this time the arrow seemed a lot weaker than before. The guards raised their shields and blocked the arrow, it only caused a small explosion without causing any casualties.

"For real?!!" Leo tilted his head aside, irritated.

Arthas was observing Leonardo from a distance, his eye caught Leo staring at his tattoo, "I see, so that's some sort of a gauge of your power, how amusing!"

"He's weaker than before, TAKE HIM OUT!" The squad leader shouted.

"O-oh", Leo exclaimed as he tried to run away but found himself surrounded by two squads.

"Can't we just negotiate about this?", he raised his hands up like a thief who just got busted by cops.

"KILL HIM!"

"Eeeeeeeeeh?!!!!" Leo paused, "Well shit!".

Leo picked a sword with his right hand which was laying on the ground, beside one of the royal guards' bodies.

He raised the sword in a defensive stance, observing his surroundings.

Three royal guards charged at Leonardo, first one tried to stab Leonardo's torso but, Leonardo swiftly stepped to his right and swinging his sword towards his opponent's throat, slicing it down.

The guard fell down on his knees, choking on his own blood but Leo swung his sword once more chopping his head off.

Leonardo's body glowed with red energy for a moment but then he felt a large object breaking through the air behind him, about to strike his head, he turned around and leaned his head back to the left as the edge of a great sword passed 1 centimeter above his nose. He twisted on his right toe in an attempt to counter-attack but his foe quickly blocked it with his greatsword, smirking at him. It was an elite bulky guard with a greatsword.

"Leave him to me", Said the Elite bulky Royal guard, the other guards halted upon receiving his command.

*Click*

Leo was already aiming a Desert Eagle handgun at the bulky guard's neck with his left hand.

"Wha-"

"BANG!" Leonardo mimicking a gun sound.

*Trigger pulled* -> *PEW!*

The bullet pierced his head, as his body collapsed on the ground. And, again, Leonardo's body glowed once more for a moment.

"Fucking SCUM!" one of the royal guards yelled.

"Heeeey! I never said I was gonna play fair!" Leonardo shrugged with a grin.

As usual, Leonardo usually keeps two combat knives, two handguns and three to four throwing knives on him.

Arthas raised an eyebrow while observing Leonardo from a distance.

"CHARGE!" A squad commander shouted as the two squads charged at Leo.

Leonardo kept a bold expression as he raised his left hand, aiming his Desert Eagle in their direction.

The gun glowed with dark red energy as black electricity flickered around its barrel.

"Burst!" the word escaped Leonardo's lips as he pulled the trigger. The gun released an explosion of dark red energy in a straight line, headed towards the two squads. They all screamed while vanishing inside the dark energy's blast, ceasing out of existence.

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"Xander, was it?", Leonardo smirked at Alexander.

Alexander looked at him and narrowed his eyes, getting in a defensive stance.

"Don't get involved and make sure to save your magic for later, you're gonna need every bit of it."

"Huh? Is that a challenge?"

"A warning!"

Leonardo walked past him with a devilish grin while reloading his Desert Eagle with ammunition.

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Armagedon was exchanging fast-paced blows with the queen causing so many air shockwaves.

Chloe on the other hand was facing difficulty fighting the vampire squad off on her own after using so much of her magic against the queen, and, after trying to protect Nyxx with her ice magic previously.

One of the five vampires charged at her, and swung his sword at her torso, she swung her ice sword sideways but his sword broke through her ice sword, making a cut to her torso.

"Eeek!"

She held her torso then forged another ice sword, she was brave and persistent but odds weren't in her favor.

"Princess Chloe, step aside, please. We have orders from your brother to deal with these invaders!" Julius, the squad commander spoke while unsheathing his thin rapier.

"Fuck my brother!"

"Yes, Chloe, step aside", Leo walked to her as he pulled the slide of his Desert Eagle.

Chloe looked back at Leonardo, "You can't be serious!"

"Dead serious, go tend to Avril and stay by her side"

"You can't just come here and command m-"

"Now?", he shrugged at her with widened eyes.

Chloe gritted her teeth and ran back to Avril's side.

Leo looked back at the squad and twisted his sword with his right hand.

"Now then, I take it her brother is some sort of a high rank in the vampire society?"

"He's our king!"

"What a puny, coward King!"

"Watch your mouth!"

Leonardo went on with his taunting "But it's true! Why isn't he here then hmm? He should show his disgusting corpse-like face and deal with the issue himself instead of sending some wannabe musketeers to do the tas- oh nice sword by the way, totally stylishhhhhhhhh!!" Leonardo chuckled.

The four other squad members growled but Julius gave them a sign to halt.

"Quite the big mouth you've got there, human!"

"I disagree, it's completely an average, normal-sized one. Perhaps a corpse like you can't see it clearly since there are other things you still can't perceive such as-"

Julius charged at Leonardo at high speed in an attempt to pierce his neck with his thin needle-like rapier. Leonardo raised his left hand but the rapier pierced it, however, the rapier's edge also went through the desert eagle's trigger guard, 1 mm away from the trigger.

"-your demise!"

He looked at Leonardo, shocked. Leonardo grinned as he twisted the desert eagle quickly, making sure the barrel is aimed at Julius's chin from below before pushing it forward by the handle.

*Click*

The bullet came out, charged with Leonardo's energy, piercing Julius's skull, finishing him off as his he fell to his knees, turning to bones.

Leonardo glowed in red again, he grabbed the rapier and pulled it off his palm.

"Ouch... Now then, let's-", he shifted his gaze to the four vampires, they were all shocked that their commander was taken out in one swift move.

They all dropped their swords and tried to run off. Leonardo let them run off while his gun was glowing in dark red. He raised his aim at them, shooting them from behind as the dark red explosion beam devoured them, erasing them completely. All that was left of them was some of their toes' bones with steam coming out of them however, one of them dodged the explosion, barely until he found Leonardo standing right next to him with Authority above him, holding his sword up, about to cut him down.

"Death Sentence!" the words escaped Leonardo's lips as Authority swung his sword down, "EXECUTION!" Authority yelled at the last vampire, cutting him into two halves.

Yet again, Leonardo's body glowed for a moment. He placed his left bloody palm on his face and grinned.

"Ehehehe- AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"-"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Leonardo let out a laugh, mixed with evil and madness, he looked like a maniac, a psycho who was having so much fun making killing.

The spectators in the arena were shocked and terrified, they all started to panic after witnessing such a massacre, everyone was running, the arena was being evacuated.

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"That's enough!" Theresa raised her wand and smashed the ground with it. Yellow golden light pierced the ground from below, creating a barrier around each of her foes, including Armagedon, Chloe, Alexandra and Avril.

Leonardo pulled a string by his black armor's right shoulder, making his armor disassemble as it fell off Leonardo's torso, arms and legs, he quickly grabbed his bow and-

"Burst!" Leonardo's smashed the ground with his right leg, thrusting himself forward by Nyxx's left side, he then smashed the floor one more time to change his course to direct himself at Nyxx and in a blink he lifted Nyxx up in his arms, one second before the light surrounded her completely.

*Smash* and reached the other end of the arena, sliding on it, making a carve on the arena's ground while braking himself with his right toe.

Right then, the black armor made cracks to the ground upon touching it, looks like the armor was so heavy for Leo to move freely, that was a disadvantage due to its high resilience after all.

Arthas looked back at Leonardo and Avril with his right eyebrow twitching.

"This is bad", Nyxx had that shocked look on her face.

"Explain?" Leonardo asked.

"It's a Binding Technique called "Earth Veins". It's the queen's trump card, she can bind all the opponents she touched with a gold barrier, the barrier prevents the victim from escaping and prevents any external power from passing through"

"Sugoi!"

"What?"

"Means "Amazing" in Japanese, anywho, continue!"

"For real?"

"What?"

"Our only allies and sister are in danger and you're making silly jokes!"

"Well-"

"We've got to do something"

"Thanks for interrupting me!"

"Leo!!!!"

"Ok, fine... I think it's better that way though, no one can touch them like this, right?"

"No, but-"

*Light strings came out of the barrier from the inside, attaching themselves to Alex's arm, same thing with Chloe and Armagedon*

"This is the real power of the spell, now it's going to consume their magic powers and Armagedon's demonic power, once it has consumed them it will start devouring their life force, transferring it all to Theresa. Each second that passes Theresa gets even more powerful"

"Well, Shit!"

Theresa turned to them and smirked, "Now then, as you can see, things are not in your favor. Just give us Avril and I'll let you leave with your friends"

Alexandra coughed as she was getting weaker by the second.

"Get out of here, Leonardo. Don't listen to this crazy bit- *cough*-"

Avril looked back at Leonardo, "Do it, we've already lost, brother, please."

". . . ."

"Leo, we have no time, please, I've already used a lot of my life force, saving me is pointless, sooner or later I'll die with that little life force I've got left, please, brother, just leave me here-"

Leonardo looked at his sister in his arms then back at Theresa, "Quite the offer! But I'm afraid my sister's life equals your entire kingdom!"

"Fool, you've just made the wrong choice." Theresa frowned.

". . ."

"LEO!", Nyxx yelled at him.

"Hold on tight!" Leonardo warned Avril.

"Wha-"

Red Energy surrounded his legs, making a sound that's similar to a jet's engine starting up.

"Burst.", Leonardo smashed his right toe to the ground with full force, thrusting himself up like a bullet.

*Voom!*

"Tch, he's so stubborn.", Arthas used his light speed, reaching them in the sky below the clouds, swinging his sword at Leonardo's back.

"Judgement!"

"AUTHORITY", Authority let out a battle cry as he appeared around Leonardo and Nyxx, swinging his sword down at Arthas, intercepting his strike, tossing Arthas backward with his powerful swing.

Leonardo grinned as he kicked his right toe into the air, making a dark red energy explosion to thrust himself forward, away from the Capital like an artillery shell. Both him and Nyxx pierced the sound barrier due to the high speed of Leonardo's burst.

*Voom!*

Nyxx closed her eyes due to the air pressure, Leo kept his right arm wrapped around her, keeping her face against his chest as they were about to hit the ground.

*Smash!*

Leonardo hit the ground as he twisted on his left toe, keeping his right toe against the ground, curving on it, braking himself until they have completely stopped.

Arthas arrived with his light speed.

"Hey, that was a nice move, I admit it."

"Why thank you!" Leonardo placed Nyxx down slowly.

"Leo, please!" Nyxx begged him.

"I'll be right back!" he patted her head twice with a smile before turning around to face Arthas.

Theresa walked towards them while yawning.

"Oh, finally, I was getting sick of waiting", Leonardo smirked.

"What are you plotting, scum?", Theresa stared at him.

". . . ."

Leonardo rubbed his neck and shrugged.

"You do realize now I'll have to kill Avril, I can still extract the information I need from her with one of my necromancers!"

"Sure!"

"Huh?"

"Go kill her!"

"What?"

"Uhm. . . kill her?"

"You're sick!"

"Yes, I am!"

"So, you'll just step aside and let me murder your sister?"

"Well, I couldn't just hand her over to you in the arena in front of my allies."

". . . . ah ha ha ha ha. . . Fascinating, you're so amusing, I'm starting to like you!"

"I aim to please!" Leonardo smiled, stepping aside for Theresa to do her work.

Theresa smirked and walked past him.

Theresa reached her hand out to Arthas, he nodded and forged a light sword then handed it over to her.

Theresa grabbed the sword and raised it up with both her hands, preparing to stab Nyxx in the guts.

Nyxx smiled at Leonardo with tears dripping down her eyes, "Thank you."

"HOWEVER!" Leonardo yelled with his arms spread sideways.

Theresa halted and looked back at him.

"However . . . what?"

"In return, you'll lose your kingdom!"

"Lose. . . my kingdom?"

"Mhm!"

"And how is that?"

"Well, basically, I'll destroy the capital. . . completely!"

"The capital is not the kingdom!"

"True."

"Okay", she raised the sword again in an attempt to stab Nyxx.

"HOWEVER!"

Theresa got irritated and snorted, she halted again and stared at Leonardo.

"What do you think is going to happen when the capital is erased?"

". . . ."

"Allow me to elaborate, you are a cruel twisted bitch queen, no offense,"

"Non taken!"

"-you have some supporters but you still have a lot of uhm . . . opposition. You see, a few days ago while I was lurking around in your capital, killing thugs, rapers, thieves, and those wannabe guards in shining armors- oh, by the way, one of them was called ... "Paulo"? I think?"

"So it was YOU!"

"Pretty much yes."

"You killed my Lieutenant!!!!!"

"Da!"

"You blew my south gate."

"Mhm,"

"You son of a-"

"I saw a lot of executions in the capital, you are hanging those who oppose you every day to maintain order in your capital, and, by sending the news to every other city under your rule, the news of your executions spread and your grip over the throne tightens more and more every day,"

"But?" Theresa asked.

"But, what's going to happen when the news about your capital's destruction reaches every other city in your kingdom? The Capital which is the big, great city with most of the o-lovely queen's army and her domain. . . all gone to pofff!!!"

". . . ."

"The opposition will rise, and even those other cities under your influence will rise up against you. I mean seriously, who's going to follow a brute bitch queen who can't even protect her capital and center of command?"

"And what makes you think you can destroy my capit-"

"You've got two chances- oh, by the way, Arthas-sama!!!!"

Arthas stared at Leonardo in disgust.

"Can you reach the capital quickly with your speed?", Leonardo rolled up his right sleeve, exposing the lines of his tattoo. The tattoo is complete which means Leonardo is at his full strength.

"I see, so the more you kill the more powerful you get-" Arthas exclaimed as he narrowed his eyes.

"Well, can you?"

"Fuck you!"

"Ok."

Leonardo grinned and kicked his right toe against the ground, thrusting himself up to the sky with a burst, he reached the clouds, a few meters below them.

"I won't let you!" Theresa raised her wand and shot over ten golden magic balls at Leonardo's direction.

Leonardo peeked at her then kicked the air with his right toe, causing an airburst with his explosive energy, twisting in the air like an acrobat, swiftly dodging the golden energy balls, he then sliced one of them with his bow.

"ARTHAS!" Theresa yelled at her Lieutenant.

Arthas didn't wait for the command, he used his light speed and reached Leonardo's back mid-air. Leonardo pulled the string of his bow, aiming towards the Capital while charging his arrow with his dark red energy.

"Tch, you never learn.", Leonardo shook his head.

Arthas swung his light sword at Leonardo's back but, Authority appeared and swung his sword sideways.

"AUTHORITY!" he pushed Arthas with a powerful swing, tossing him down to the ground. Arthas impacted the ground. The earth cracked and shook by the powerful impact.

"No time to rest! You've got TO WARN ALEXANDER BEFORE MY ARROW REACHES THE CAPITAL!"

Arthas pushed himself up, gritting his teeth.

"Eraser!" Leonardo released the string, shooting the arrow up into the clouds. The arrow whooshed and disappeared into the clouds right away at a very high speed like a missile.

"HAYAKU HAYAK-Oh that means HURRY THE FUCK UP in Japanese!"

Arthas wasted no time, he ran with all of his light speed through the earth until he finally reached the Arena.

"ALEXANDER!"

Alexander looked back at Arthas.

"Goddammit!" Alexander gritted his teeth as he quickly ran while shouting, "I want all mages with defensive spells with me, right NOW! MOVE IT!"

They all lined up by the city's walls, making a long line beside it, preparing their defensive spells to intercept the incoming attack.

Arthas and Alexander looked up at the sky, a few seconds passed but for them, it felt like a few years.

"Do you think it was a fake shot?", Arthas asked Alexander.

"No, the look in his eyes when he warned me-"

*He remembered the look in Leonardo's eyes and the grin he had on his face*

"-He wasn't joking or faking, he was dead serious about it, it was the look of someone who was willing to destroy an entire continent if he had to."

"But, what if he was just trying to buy some ti-.."

"INCOMING!" Alexander yelled, warning his troops.

The clouds were glowing in red as the arrow was passing through. The dark red arrow flew down towards them, piercing the clouds, bursting out of it, whooshing as it's flying down at them like an artillery shell.

"ACTIVATE YOUR SHIELDS!" Alexander Yelled as he activated his shield, forging a gigantic blue shield in front of him.

*WHOOOSH!*

The arrow whooshed right and left until it has finally impacted Alexander's shield.

Leonardo raised his arms sideways with a grin as the arrow was going down about to reach the capital, mumbling to himself "Big bada-boom!"

*Blast*

The arrow exploded into their giant magical shields, resulting in a huge explosion in dark red energy.

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!*

The explosion's diameter expanded more and more, all the other mages' shields were cracking more and more while trying to prevent the explosion from passing through until, their shields shattered like glass, the dark red energy pierced it.

"He's out of his mind, his allies are in the arena they will die too!"

"No, the queen's barrier is protecting them. . . that son of a bitch played his cards right, he knows what he's doing, we're not up against a human, we're up against a filthy fucking devil!"

Leonardo was too busy taking a selfie with his phone, making sure the explosion was into the snapshots, he took a couple of them with his fingers crossed.

Alexander saw all of the other mages dying in the blast, he gritted his teeth and transferred all of his magic to his gigantic shield which expanded more and more to cover the entire capital's side. And right then, they saw something that was shaped like a beast head, roaring inside the explosion, it was trying to pierce through the only magical shield the capital had, Alexander's shield.

Alexandra, Chloe, and Armagedon stared at the explosion from the arena.

Alexandra raised her eyebrows and spoke in a faint tone, "Leo?"

"Amazing!" Chloe blinked twice, seeing so much power was such a rare chance.

"That crazy son of a bitch!" Armagedon chuckled.

The size of the explosion was almost the same as the capital's size. But fortunately, the explosion was vanishing bit by bit until it completely ceased out of existence.

Alexander was too exhausted after holding such a huge explosion off the city, he fell on his knees, panting as his shield cracked and so did his armor.

"Go kill that asshole!" He instructed Arthas before falling on his side.

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The queen gritted her teeth, "You psycho assh-..."

"I've told you, haven't I? My sister's life equals your entire kingdom" Leonardo stared at her from above with widened eyes and a provocative grin. "Ha ha ha ha, AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA", and so, he burst into a psychotic, evil laugh while his body was glowing with dark red energy as all of the mages with defensive spells died during the attack except for Alexander. Now he's charged with more energy and now, he's even more powerful than before.

"AHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!"

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*End of Chapter 23*