Chapter 137: Euclid Lucifuge

"My turn" Masaru said as if to return what Meng Zhang said to him, with his fist covered in dragon divine aura he slammed his fist into Zhang's face destroying his nose while forcing Meng Zhang to take several steps backwards.

BOOM!

Masaru moved radically making it appear as if he was warping left and right while approaching Meng Zhang who closed his eyes for a moment, yet that moment was critical when Masaru slammed his fist into Meng Zhang's solar plexus.

"Cough!" Meng Zhang coughed out saliva, before he could even regain control over the rhytmn, Masaru gripped the back of his head slamming his knee into Meng Zhang's forehead.

BANG!

"Fuuu..." Masaru breathe out as he stomped into the ground with his body cloaked in Dragon divine aura, spider cracks spread beneath his standings before he sprinted leaving behind a single foot sole printed deeply in the ground. With his right arm forming a hook, Masaru slammed his arm straight into Meng Zhang's throat.

"Dragon Lariat!" Masaru roared as he took the next step with much power while moving his arm along with his entire body as a single unit, sending Meng Zhang flying into the skies where the clouds were not covering.

"Warp" Masaru muttered as he took another step before his figure blurred out, the speed of his transfer exceeded what the Gods could perceive with their eyes as they sensed Masaru appearing before the flying Meng Zhang. Grabbing the back of his neck, Masaru pulled his back before throwing him downwards into the clouds.

BOOM!!!

CRACK!!!

The immortal qi which was used to make the cloud platform was diminishing at a rapid pace after enduring the impact of Masaru and Meng Zhang's battle, even the clouds at the edges were cracking up before piece for piece would begin to fall off.

"Damn you!!!" Meng Zhang roared as he slowly stood up, his body was shivering while he gnashed his teeth enduring the ruthless beating Masaru was giving him. Yet due to his rage, he could endure the pain, especially how much his hatred and rage to Masaru increased after being humiliated like this in front of other gods of the same mythology as him.

"Come!" Masaru said, pointing his right palm upside down in front of him while bending his four fingers indicated for Meng Zhang to start his attack, seeing this Meng Zhang took a single step before he blast off into the skies leaving behind air shocks in his trails.

BOOM!

B-BOOM!

BANG!

Masaru and Meng Zhang continued to exchange attacks after attacks causing the surrounding winds to burst with shockwaves, the clouds the gods and immortals were standing on was slowly being destroyed as the cracks spreading faster and faster under each shockwave caused by Masaru and Meng Zhang.

"Let's have a magic show," Masaru said as he creates several magic circles as he unleashed elemental spells at Meng Zhang, Fireballs, Water arrows, Wind blades, lightning needles along with other basic level spells were sent towards Meng Zhang, however, despite being basic the pure destructive power they contained was no different from Advanced spells.

Meng Zhang took a deep breath, "ROAR!!!" Releasing an earthshattering dragon roar to deviate the direction of Masaru's magic spells, Masaru smiled playfully watching meng Zhang panting heavily. before taking it all out with a single dragon breath.

Masaru used his magic attack as nothing more than a simple distraction as he was busy scanning Meng Zhang's divinity, but he felt conflicted as this man had several divinities all related to the Azure dragon but he could only deem one of them worthless for a short period of time which was a restriction he could not overcome yet despite him being able to prolong the effects with training.

"I will choose this" Masaru muttered when he finished making his decision, using space magic he instantly moved himself right behind Meng Zhang, with his right leg cloaked with his bloodline ability Worthless attributed demonic dragon divine aura, he launched a roundhouse kick right at the back of Meng Zhang's head.

BANG!

BOOM!

Meng Zhang crashed face-first into the clouds, it was only a moment later he twitched before pushing himself up with difficulty, coughing up blood however his expression could not help becoming a frown. His body shivering, his eyes squinting before he glared at Masaru who smiled at him playfully.

"You bastard!" He screamed as his speed suddenly accelerated hoping to slam his fist into Masaru's face, however, Masaru caught the fist with his hand as the smile on his face became even bigger. Meng Zhang who saw his smile became even angrier, his chest was aching, and he could feel his face was overheating and his blood was pumping way to actively.

Breathing heavily as Meng Zhang felt Masaru managed to shut down his divinity as Guardian of the East, although it was seen as done unintentionally. However, Meng Zhang knew that Masaru did this on purpose with a hidden message behind this attack. This was a testament to saying Zhang became the fake and Masaru became the real one.

[Boy takes this battle serious, that dragon have gone mad! He is using his lifeforce to forcibly increase his divinity, right now he is struggling to control it and when he can it will be over!] Drago warned Masaru anxiously.

[Master... Summon me please] Masaru was taken aback when he sensed Akiva calling for him.

Not sure why his familiar was calling him, since he trusted this partner he summoned his familiar, when it appeared he almost slipped over his own feet feeling shocked as he saw a gigantic Anaconda staring into his eyes, if he didn't have his connection he would have mistaken this anaconda for something else. He could feel that Akiva had advanced to Mid God Class without him realizing it.

[My gawd! What the hell is up with this snake transforming into an anaconda, is she going to become a dragon next?] Drago mumbled as he was shocked again.

[Master, from now on. Akiva will always be with you] Akiva said as she smiled warmly before her body burst into particles.

The particles entered Masaru's body, Masaru could not help touch his body reflexively "What's going on?"

[She is becoming a spirit similar to me in order to possess, Avalon.] Drago answered but was shocked at the sight how the snake was possessing Avalon,

[What the hell is with you, collecting strange stuff and even stranger things happen] Drago moaned about Masaru who would always be awarded with artefacts and collect strange beasts to become his familiars, and stuff like this always happened. Even he himself, was one of those Wonders.

[IYA! Don't scratch grandpa!] Drago cried out in pain,

[Grandpa bad! Big Sis is coming home!] Byakko hissed,

[What you mean Byakko?] Drago asked,

[I don't know] Byakko said with a confused tone, even she could not understand it. She only knew instinctively that her big sis was coming.

Masaru shook his head ignoring their discussion, but he felt his body was recovering faster, it appears that Avalon's performance has increased his recovery rate.

"Akiva?" Masaru called out as he felt Avalon within him vibrating, a smile formed on his face as he looks at Meng Zhang with a confident smile.

Meng Zhang who used a miracle drug to heal his injuries did not take Masaru's smile kindly, with a single snort he blasts off towards Masaru leaving a rising cloud of dust in his tracks, despite being healed of injuries his exhaustion was still evident.

Masaru shook his head, taking his breaths in a rhythm accompanied with a set of a radical movement, Masaru slips away from Meng Zhang's sight using his famed trackless steps with his palm he channelled lightning attributed magic to spark at the moment he reappeared at the side of Meng Zhang slamming his palm against Meng Zhang's.

BANG!

"AAAAHHHH!" Meng Zhang screamed out feeling his head was numb, his eyes felt dried and his brain activity was frozen for an instant. If he was not a God then this attack could have killed him then and there, Masaru once again disappeared and reappeared at his other side slamming his lightning spark palm on Meng Zhang's other ear.

The Gods and Goddess who was watching the fight felt conflicted to see one of their own beings completely toyed with by a boy hundreds of thousands of years younger than Seiryuu, Masaru was building up his momentum as he could feel his body was becoming lighter. He had waited for the day he could thoroughly humiliate Meng Zhang for what he did a hundred fault.

And what he did not expect was that his divine grimoire was sending out a calling voice to his girls letting them feel he was in need of their faith, just as the Kissing Prayer gives the girls an immense boost upon a kiss, Masaru could recover his strength faster with the faith the girls held for him. What Masaru wanted, was to end this fight as flashily as possible only then would people think twice when aiming for his family.

He was not certain why, but he could hear the voices of Ingvild, Akeno, Stephani, Jeanne, Shirone, Everest, Angelica, Yui, Ichika, Sakura, Roygun, Ulrika, Kuroka, Sona, all of them were calling out for him. His body was shivering as he felt as if adrenaline was making his body excited, yet a warm feeling he was familiar with made him wonder what was going on.

'What is going on? This power and feelings, girls?' Masaru thought while clenching his fist,

Shortly afterwards, he heard a majestic feminine voice that felt so familiar >>Masaru... For the sake of your objective I will allow the usage of this power, despite it being a bit too soon. However, you will compensate me for breaking the rule for you, so don't forget it<<

>>This is a technique you can only use it once a month... And it's called Groom's Vow, it will unlock Kouryuu's powers but it comes at a price<<

Masaru knew everything came at the price, however, the price was surprisingly only internal damage and a weakened state for a duration of time which could be recovered with Avalon, the downside was the fact it could only be used once a month.

It was then Masaru felt the magic words float within his mind as he understood, seeing how Meng Zhang was approaching him a smile form on his face as he could envision the girls around him as he whispered words that contained mystical powers that allowed the girls to hear his voice despite being far from one another.

"The Four directions with me as the Centre" Masaru muttered as winds began to swirls around him picking up rubbles and dirt, a trace of golden aura began to leak out of Masaru's body as his hair was flickering with a tint of gold. His eyes became slits while the amber colour transformed into gold.

"My existence represents the pride of my pledge" Suddenly his body burst out a thick layer of dragon divine aura covering his body.

"No matter how arduous the trials may be, no matter how much the heavens hate me, no matter how much the hell rejects me," Masaru muttered, these words caused the girls who felt and heard his words to tear up, even he himself did not realize what he was saying, He was in an epiphany state.

He continued, "I shall walk upon the corpses of my beloved's enemies. Kouryuu Divinity down!" Masaru screamed as the area around him exploded, the swirl of the wind did not break apart yet from him who already appeared in front of Meng Zhang,

The winds, the shockwaves of his speed breaking through barriers one after the other. Yet none of that mattered, what mattered was the golden hammer Masaru held in his hands. Masaru could see Meng Zhang's eyes widen from shock, to surprise to fear. His body shivering as he felt the familiar aura surrounding Masaru, it was only then Meng Zhang realized the true existence of Masaru's sacred gear.

"You're---"

BANG!!!!

Splat!"

Masaru slammed the hammer using his arms and body in a full swing into Meng Zhang's chest with force enough to cause his chest to cave in while some of his ribs pierce through his back, while a shredded hole appeared in the form of the hammer as the body shredded under the force of the hammer. "From this day forth, you are no longer the true Azure Dragon God"

Meng Zhang coughed out blood as he glared at Masaru with an unwillingness facial expression not wanting to die in a place like this, but the attack of Masaru destroyed his divinity as well. "Why? Why do you have Kouryuu's power? Was it not... No...."

Before Meng Zhang completed his sentence he realized that the sacred gear was originally Kouryuu, Byakko had been protecting Kouryuu even to this day. Masaru's hair reverts back to its silver colour and his amber coloured eyes returned. Even his original Azure Dragon Emporer, Azure Authority was cancelled out.

Meng Zhang collapsed on the ground as he wheezes, Lin stopped her combat as she rushed over to Meng Zhang. Masaru who managed to complete his objective, kept his eyes firmly on both Lin Guang and Meng Zhang. The fear in their eyes was enough for him to know that he made the right bet to use that move, despite the fact he could not move his body normally as the side effect from gaining such a massive increase in power.

If Meng Zhang was not in his dragon wrath mode, he would have been instantly killed by Masaru's move, it was only because he became a high-class god temporary he could resist Masaru's high-class god once-off attack although he was still dying from not being able to resist the entire impact.

Masaru could sense his internal injuries were being treated by Avalon that gained a spirit, now the progress of healing would only take a day for him to recover from his internal injuries and two days from his weakened state.

Uriel landed behind Masaru as he caught the boy before he fell "Good Work, you are reaching higher once again" Uriel spoke with a wry smile

"Dear Archangel Uriel, could you please not smile or at least not directly to me?, I'm scared you will make me jump over the other side of the Fence" Masaru joked casually,

Causing Uriel's face to cramp for a moment before he sighed, "At least you still have enough energy to joke around"

Lin picked up Zhang in her embrace as she spoke with a shaky voice "Meng Zhang, you can't go! You can't leave me alone!" Lin cried, Masaru who heard this was shocked as he could not understand the relationship between Zhang and Lin at all, according to everything he knew was the fact these two were using each other. Could it be, they were acting?

"L-Lin... Energy is... being... drained" Zhang mumbled before his eyes closed and he died at that very moment, Lin who heard his last words thought for a moment before she realized she had been having a weird feeling this entire time.

'Someone is pulling our divinity power?' Lin thought, the Chinese gods and goddesses glance at Masaru with complicated gazes, even if Meng Zhang was wrong he was still one of theirs.

But before anyone could react a man with an appearance in his early twenties with silver hair that is tied in a braided hairstyle wearing a silver robe with detailed accessories appeared before them all. The man clapped his hands as he smiled broadly "Good Work! You have done something invaluable for us Masaru"

Hearing the man's voice Masaru forced himself to stand up as he glared at the man, he knew it, but he did not want to believe it.

"EUCLID! How can you still be alive!? According to our information, you should have died during that combat" Masaru screamed out towards Euclid,

Euclid smirked as he felt proud to have fooled the devils for a long time, although he caused his existence to emerge from the shadows ahead of time at least it will not hinder his master's plans. "It's surprising you knew about me, but boy... I was never dead to begin with" He muttered

From this exchange, the Gods and Goddesses knew Masaru was not a part of this and was used just like them, Euclid smiled as he looks at Lin with a pitiful gaze "It's a shame, for the shake of reviving the true dragon God the blood of a Dragon God is required. After all, we can't create things without ingredients"

Euclid licks his lips as he could not find himself to take a liking to this woman, he prefered those who strongly resembled his sister after all.

'True Dragon god!? Is he referring to Ophis or Great Red?' Masaru thought while trying to search through his memories he read a lot, especially in regards to dragons yet other than those two and Kouryuu he did not find any other Dragons that were crowned as a God. 'Or do they intend to create one?'

"You did something to Meng Zhang and Me!? You are a traitor! We helped you and you failed to help us secure Kouryuu all those years ago!" Lin screamed out causing everyone to feel shocked,

After hearing her scream, all the bits of information they had they could finally get it. The shock they felt during their revelation on what truly happened during that situation back then caused them to shiver. All these years, Meng Zhang and Lin Guang lied to them and betrayed them for the sake of Kouryuu's powers for their own selfishness?

Euclid laughed happily as he takes out a small device with a glass container filled with golden liquid within it, if one look closes faint traces of golden aura was being pulled from Lin's body into the device that condenses it into liquid form.

"In order to keep that sacred gear working, I had to get some batteries that could give me endless energy for the sake of our new world" Euclid muttered,

Others would not get what Euclid said, however, Masaru was different as he naturally knew it. a Cold shiver run down his spine as he remembers just recently he was reported about the Holy Grail.

And the cost of using the Holy Grail extensively is not something one can do that easily unless they could supply endless energy for it, not to mention the things one could do with the Holy Grail. Was infinite like Ophis.

Masaru sighed as he still need to recover as he glances at Uriel, since he was in no condition to make a move he could only count on this handsome man to save the day/

"I'm fine" Masaru whispered softly,

Hearing Masaru's words Uriel smiled with appreciation as he prepares to leap at Euclid.

"I have overstayed and my time is limited" Euclid muttered as the device suddenly began to suck out Lin's divinity in a frenzy causing the once beautiful woman to become a shrivelling old woman

"You bastard" Lin muttered before she collapsed, dead. It did not even take that long for it to suck her dry, it caused the gods and goddesses to take a step back. However, Uriel and Masaru took a step forward as they knew he could not do that instantly, such a thing required a long time to set up for it to work like that.

In front of the Gods and Goddesses, Pangu, Wang Long ad Hei Xiangu stood in front of the people ready to face Euclid.

Yet they were ignored by Euclid who smiled towards Masaru "I look forward to meeting you again boy! See if you can stop me" He muttered before he disappeared the moment a magic circle materialized beneath his feet dodging the combined attacks of the three gods and Uriel.

"Damn it!" Pangu slammed his fist on the ground.

The atmosphere was tense, Masaru was sitting on the ground waiting for Avalon to heal his injuries. Uriel wanted to help Masaru but he remembered that Masaru was a Devil,

"Aiya, if only you were an angel I could have healed you faster, such a same you are but a naughty devil huh?" Uriel muttered with a face filled with pity,

Masaru snorted with a smile "How am I suppose to enjoy the love my women give me then? I will end up becoming a fallen the next moment anyway"

Uriel sighed but Wang Long laughed loudly turning the atmosphere much relaxed.

"Masaru, who was that man?" Wang Long asked grabbing everyone's attention, although Masaru stood up for them they still had their suspicions.

"That man is part of the terrorist group called Khaos Brigade, we are still at war with them. " Masaru began to explain how he infiltrated Khaos Brigade to investigate this group of terrorist, he kept all the information that was sensitive to his and his family's safety to himself while explaining the rest.

"I had a hunch that Euclid Lucifige was the man in charge of the magician rebels, I just did not want to believe it as the man was reported dead... There was even evidence to proof he was dead, that was why I could not even belief my own intuition. Him being alive would cause chaos in the Underworld" Masaru said with a wry smile,

"So for the sake of the underworld, I am willing to owe you a favour if you all will keep the fact Euclid is alive to yourselves for a few months" Masaru spoke with them all, Wang Long did not answer immediately but began to talk with the surrounding gods and goddesses.

After a while, Wang Long came carrying the turtle shell of Genbu, "Before I ask my favour I would like to see if you can absorb this into your sacred gear"

Masaru nodded as he summons in sacred gear in the form of an azure coloured gauntlet, the moment he touched the shell it shined before it was absorbed into the sacred gear.

[Shit! Boy! What the hell have you done now!?] Drago spoke out anxiously as he watched the shell that came out of nowhere bolted into Avalon as well,

"What happened?" Masaru asked,

Drago who was about to lose his mind, he just complained of Masaru who keep getting weird things just had to do it once again! [It entered Avalon where Akiva is in!]

Masaru was surprised but then he understood, the soul that was in the shell was a fragment of the turtle but Genbu was both an Eel and a Turtle together. So it made sense that it would go for the Avalon where Akiva was at.

"It appears you will have someone who will mutate like you did" Masaru spoke with a smirk to which Drago thought for a moment before he smiled,

[I can tease her about it] Drago giggled

"Old Pervert, don't you dare molest my familiar!" Masaru muttered with a serious expression

[Screw you! I am only going to tease her, not sexually harass her!] Drago retorted,

Being a God Wang Long could hear the conversation of the two, he broke out in another roar of laughter as he never met unique partners like this as he clasps his hand on Masaru's shoulder. "Your favour you owe us, is to take the seat as the Centre. Without the existence of Kouryuu who maintains the balance of the four directions, we will be in trouble. Having you take the seat officially would give us time"

"What about Suzaku who died?" Masaru asked as he only had Byakko, Seiryuu and Genbu within him along with Kouryuu, he did not have Suzaku. Wang Long had a complicated face as he thought for a moment

"We will have to search for mythology that also has a phoenix who would be willing to become Suzaku... But you becoming Kouryuu in the name would help us maintain the system for a long enough time for you to find a suitable candidate for Suzaku" Wang Long explained,

Masaru sighed as he felt like he was given three things to do instead of one, but he was benefitting from it as well. "Very well, I will accept it on the condition that Chinese Mythology would join the Peace Alliance. For the sake of our prosperity and to get revenge on those who trampled on China's dignity, we must unite and kick their asses!"