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The moment the two of them howled at each other, their aura exploded as they grasped each other's hand.

Verlox’s silver aura clashed with Darky’s light dark purple one, destroying the furniture in the room and creating a small crater beneath them which only grew stronger with each passing seconds.

Veralox: “Don’t even think of leaving this place alive.” He said with a smirk.

Darky: “Heh, try to kill me if you can.” He said as he used more of his power, trying to overpower him.

The sudden surge of power from Darky slightly put Verlox in a difficult position as the dark purple aura slowly began to eat Verlox’s silver one, yet only a smile could be seen on his face.

Veralox: “Are you done ?” He said as his golden eyes shone.

Verlox’s silver aura suddenly transformed into a dark silver one and began to completely reversed the situation as he leisurely forced Darky on his knees.

Darky: “Y-You bastard, don’t underestimate me !” He yelled as he used even more power to try to regain the upper hand, but the situation didn’t change, Verlox still overpowered him with a sadistic smile.

Veralox: “What? Did you say something ?” He said as he used even more power every time Darky used more himself.

The shock between the two aura slowly turned into a cyclone which destroyed the ceiling of the temple, growing bigger and stronger with with each seconds, forcing me to envelop myself with a shield otherwise the display of power would have already sent me flying away… I guess he forgot about me.

A strong golden light suddenly enveloped everyone in the room for a few seconds, blinding us for a few seconds. It was Lumenia’s magic.

When the light dissipated, we weren’t in the room anymore but in a completely different place. The landscape was completely different from anything I had seen in this world, it was a barren place.

Lumenia: “Sigh… Guess it will end up like this after all.” She said as she looked at the confrontation between Verlox and Darky with a wry smile.

Lumenia looked at me for a moment as she began to think about how to deal with the situation, but quickly shook her head and looked back at the two gods. She was probably thinking about using me to subdue Verlox but wasn’t sure if it’ll work.

Seeing that he had no way of winning a direct confrontation with Verlox, Darky used his power to break free of Verlox’s grasp and flew back to Lumenia’s side.

Darky: “Tch.. How can he be that much stronger than me? We are both Primal Gods so we should be equal…”

Veralox: “Why did you run away, were you that scared ?” He said with a smile showing the joy he was feeling at this moment.

Darky: “Lumenia, let’s start.” He said as he opened his hands and concentrated his aura in the form of a large war axe.

The war axe was slightly black with a tinge of purple on the edge and was emitting a faint dark purple aura, but the most impressive thing was its size. The war axe, of course, wasn’t a simple one, for someone like Darky who was at least four meters big, the axe was even bigger than Verlox, a whole three meter large war axe.

Lumenia at his side also formed two things by using her aura, it was a golden sword in her right hand and shield in her left one. The air around the sword was slightly distorted as small white lightning could be seen around it. From the shield was emanating a warm appeasing orange light.

Veralox: “Summoning your Ether Weapons? You really think you will be able to beat me like that ?” Verlox said with a displeased expression.

Darky: “What? Are you jealous because you don’t have one ?” He said with a smirk, earning Verlox’s angry stare.

During our stay at Aorlan, Verlox explained to me what an ether weapon was. In short it is a weapon formed with pure condensed magic for thousand of years, the weapon will gain a personality and soul which is linked with his wielder. Since only gods are able to condense magic they are the only one able to create one.

Of course the strength will vary depending on who made it, for example the Ether Weapon made by a Lower God will be far weaker than one made by a Primal God, they will also die at the same time as their owner.

Actually, I’ve been surrounded by Ether Weapons without even knowing it. Inkvir who was a High God had an Ether Weapon, it was his sword. Eniel’s katanas are actually also Ether Weapons, Verlox had experimented on making one for himself, but it failed and gave a preformed one which he gave to Eniel.

I myself have one, Kiel is a special type of Ether Weapon… Even though my mother made her within a few seconds instead of thousand years, but I don’t know if my parents themselves possess one since they don’t really need one anyway.

Veralox: “I don’t need one to kill you guys anyway, my hands are far enough.” He said as he clenched his fists.

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A few minutes passed since the start of their battle and Verlox is still fighting in his human form.

You know, when he said “my hands are far enough” I thought it was only an expression, but actually… It wasn’t.

Not even using magic or anything, Verlox is actually fighting against them with his hands and feet like a martial artist in those anime who are blocking swords by using their hands.

Lumenia is using her sword as a rapier against him, making countless thrusting attack and pressing on Verlox, but he is dodging most of them by slightly moving his body and using his hands to deviate the ones who would hit him.

Darky: “HUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH” Darky howled as he charged from behind him, swinging his massive war axe at Verlox at an incredible speed, cutting Verlox in two and cutting a mountain afar with the wind pressure.

Verlox body blurred and disappeared before reappearing in the air behind Darky, making one of my signature moves… A flying kick in Darky’s head burying it in the ground.

I thought Verlox was fighting like a martial artist, but this move was definitely the one of a ninja, how is it called again ?... ‘Substitution'?

Verlox opened his left hand and formed a spear hand as he tried to pierce Darky’s massive body, but his strike was blocked by Lumenia’s shield who then made him retreat with a swipe of her sword.

Darky stood up as he grumbled a few curse about Verlox which made me wish my hearing wasn’t as good as it is.

Veralox: “Weren’t you confident a while ago ?” Verlox said as he laughed at Darky’s face covered with dirt.

Darky: “Y-You fucker, I won’t go easy anymore !”

Darky’s body began to emit a strong purple light, growing more intense and intense, forming a pillar of purple light in the sky. Lumenia at his side was doing the same, she was also releasing a golden light.

Seeing this, Verlox who until now had the expression of a someone playing with two kids became serious and looked at me.

Veralox: “Use it.” He said to me.

At his words, I took out a small blue orb which he gave to me a few days before the meeting and crush it. The broken orb vanished into a blue light which formed a two meters protective sphere around me. It a crystallisation of Veralox magic he made in order to keep me safe during the fight.

The real fight between the three Primal Gods started now.

Darky charged at Verlox as he loudly howled, his speed was nothing like before and he left behind him a trail of dark light which corrupted the earth, turning it black.

Under his aura, the war axe turned crimson and a purple flame surrounded its edge.

Darky swiped at Verlox with all his strength, the swipe was so powerful that it even changed the movement of the wind in the whole area.

Verlox had nowhere to dodge, if he retreated he would still be hit but the deadly wind pressure and the purple flame, he also couldn’t dodge on the side because of the large range of the gigantic axe. Attacking head on was also out of question.

As I was wondering how he would deal with the situation, Verlox showed an expression filled with pleasure and battlelust as he threw a punch at the massive war axe.

The moment his punch collided with the axe, Verlox released his own magic to enhance his attack and also slightly transformed his hand, using his own scales and claw to match the Ether Weapon.

Under their power, the whole area turned into a crater with just one exchange.

Both Verlox and Darky retreated.

Veralox: “Two might be quite difficult after all.” He said as he looked at the broken scales on his hand.

On the other hand, Darky couldn’t help but reveal a smile as he looked at Verlox’s serious expression.

Once again, Darky charged at Verlox but this time with Lumenia by his side.

With her power released, Lumenia’s sword became light blue, something close to a light saber and her shield completely orange.

Under the assault of the two of them, Verlox had a hard time to defend himself. The two of them don’t even let him the time to defend himself.

Darky’s assault forced him to create a barrier to defend against his war axe, repelling it as a crack appear on it, but it closed as Verlox infused more mana inside the barrier.

Darky: “What an annoying barrier… Lumenia, let’s do it.” He said with a little crooked smile.

Lumenia: “Fine…”

Lumenia charged at Verlox, followed by Darky behind her. Darky’s attitude made Verlox uneasy as he wondered what kind of trickery he had prepared, making him enhance even more his barrier just as a security

The moment her sword came in contact with the barrier, it was effortlessly cut like it was made of paper as Verlox couldn’t help but be bewildered.

It didn’t take long for him to regain his mind at Darky who was behind her charged with all his power, making a slam attack which seemed like it would even cut through space and cut the world in two. Combined with Lumenia who was aiming at Verlox’s neck with her sword, he was in a very difficult position.

Shina: “VERLOX !!” I screamed as I saw the two weapon approach him.

The strength of the attacks covered the area with dust, making me unable to see what happened.

Two figure came out of the dust, it was Darky who had a large smile and Lumenia who was staring seriously at the place where Verlox was.

As the dust vanished, I finally could see Verlox’s figure which made me relieved, but what I saw next shook my heart.

He was covered with blood, it was gushing out of his torso, a large wound made by Darky’s axe. It wasn’t a shallow one and he was lucky that he didn’t die on the spot, both of his hands were wounded and slightly burned. He probably used them to block the two weapons in order to avoid a fatal wound. Some blood was also flowing out of his neck where Lumenia had aimed, but it luckily missed the artery.

Shina: “Enough…”

Veralox: “Huh, did you say something ?”

Shina: “Hic...It’s enough Verlox, y-you don’t have to continue let’s just leave...Hic… P-Please don’t die.” I weakly said as tears began to run across my cheeks.

Veralox: “Hah… I made her cry, I can’t continue like this, right.”

Shina: “If you continue you’ll die so stop !” I cried, trying to stop him, but the barrier stopped me from leaving from where I was standing.

Veralox: “Hahahaha! Well, just leave it all up to me. Trust me.”

Darky: “If you were to run away, I wouldn’t chase you. After all I don’t bully the weak…” Darky taunted, but from his expression it was obvious that he was lying.

Veralox: “Just a little should be fine. Come to me… Carales.” He mumbled as he opened his hand and a spear filled with seal appeared.

It was a spear made of a material similar to silver with a snow white blade. Yet, despite its beautiful color, it gave out a cold and oppressive aura similar to anger, or maybe it was truly anger if it truly is Verlox’s weapon, seeing its wielder in this state.

Darky’s and Lumenia’s expression suddenly turned ugly as they saw what happened.

Lumenia: “It can’t be… Why do you have one?!” She screamed as her face turned pale, the only reason why they managed to overpower Verlox was because of their Ether Weapon.

Veralox: “I hope this world will hold on…” He said as infused his mana into the spear, breaking all the seals.

The spear shone of a white and black light and Verlox’s eyes turned grey as he took a stance.

Veralox: “Show no hesitation and pierce their souls, Karales !” He said in dragon tongue.

As if agreeing with his, the spear pulsated and absorbed the mana around him.

Verlox suddenly disappeared before reappearing at Darky’s side and thrusting at his stomach.

Lumenia as if she had anticipated his action managed to put her shield on the spear’s trajectory to block the attack.

Right before colliding with the shield, the white and black aura from the spear merged and formed a pure silver light at the tip of the blade. It was a very small light, yet it illuminated the area and from it emanated a very strong power.

When the spear collided with Lumenia’s shield, it only stopped it for one second before piercing through and penetrating Darky’s stomach, forming 50 cm big hole. But luckily for him, the second Lumenia had gained at the expense of her shield and his massive size gave him the time to avoid it to become a fatal wound.

However Verlox didn’t stop here, he withdrew his spear and made another thrust, this time aiming at his heart.

Sensing the danger, Darky grabbed Lumenia’s hand and teleported a little afar from Verlox.

Glaring at Verlox with an ugly expression while ignoring the pain from his stomach, Darky extended his war axe at Lumenia while giving her a meaningful look.

Seeing this, Lumenia nodded and put her sword on the top of Darky’s axe, who suddenly started to glow.

The two weapon merged into one, it was a grey throwing spear in Darky’s hand made from the Ether Weapon of two Primal God to oppose the strongest one.

It was probably their last card, the last chance they had to defeat him now that he had his Ether Weapon.

Using all his strength, Darky threw the spear at Verlox. The mana coming from the spear was nowhere close to anything that had been used before the in this fight.

It flew in a straight line toward Verlox like an arrow shot from a bow. Verlox only smiled as he saw the incoming spear and using his own weapon confronted it head on.

Shina: “Huh?”

Yet, as the spear was approaching him, it suddenly changed direction to come… toward me.

The moment Verlox realized what was happening, it was already too late. The spear had pierced through the shield as if it was made of paper and penetrated my chest…

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As Shina’s body fell on the ground, a single roar could be heard.

“No… NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”

It was Veralox’s scream, not only Veralox was shocked by what happened, but Lumenia was also wearing an expression filled with hatred and disgust as she stared at Darky who changed the direction of the attack at the last moment.

The moment she had filled the war axe with her power, she had lost all control over it and left the management to Darky. Never did she intend to hurt Shina or even Darky to do so to someone who was merely watching the fight.

On the other hand, Darky was laughing like a madman as he watched Veralox’s expression who was now distorted with sadness, hatred and madness.

To him, Shina had become more than someone he was taking care of. She was like a daughter or granddaughter for him. He had seen many deaths before, dragons and humans, even gods. But none mattered to him, but the girl before him was the only one he treated as his family. Never did he feel so close to someone, not even her parents.

As he looked at her limpid body from afar, something was happening of Shina’s body. The necklace she had received from her mother the day she left broke, but as it broke it emitted a strong black light in the sky which made everyone look up in the sky.

The next moment, a pure dark light fell on her body and shook the whole world, making the earth shake and tsunami happen.

A black fog surrounded Shina’s body, making everyone unable to see what was happening. But they all shared one feeling, fear. Their instinct told them to run away from this place, yet it refused to move.

When the fog vanished, Shina was nowhere to be seen, instead there stood a teenager girl clad in a black robe with pure crimson eyes filled with hatred.

As Lumenia and Darky watched the woman bewildered, wondering on who this woman who made them feel such fear was, the few words coming from Veralox’s mouth gave them the answer.

“Milady Mystel…”