Bab 29: The Graveyard
"How long is this ritual supposed to take? The half-breed trash is waking up," Jake groggily made out the voice of the ultimate class that had cold-cocked him.
"With the blood of his enemy forcibly taken, the dark lord shall be reborn!"
Jake awoke, tied to a tombstone hanging off the ground. What the hell happened to him? 'Wait, what about Fleur!?' Jake thought to himself in a panic as he looked around his surroundings. He flared his magic throughout his body and with a tug of strength, ripped himself free of the chains that tied him to the tombstone!
Jake slumped to the ground, free, before quickly scrambling to his feet. Looking around rapidly, he saw Fleur's body, lifeless on the ground nearby.
Jake felt his heart break a little at seeing her lifeless eyes staring out at nothing. "Fleur…" Jake spoke to himself in sadness.
"Too bad the fat human killed her so fast. She was a beauty, I could have had some fun with her while these fools finished their ritual," an extremely arrogant voice said disgustingly. Jake glared over to the voice and spotted an older man with black hair and violet eyes. He was also immaculately dressed in a three-piece black suit. Jake immediately had him figured for a devil. Beyond where the man was standing was a large bubbling black cauldron that the fat man who murdered Fleur was chanting over.
Jake's anger flared at the sight of the killer as he immediately formed an ice spear in his hand and hurled it at the fat man! The spear flew right past the older devil who didn't even bat an eye to try and stop it as it flew true and impaled the fat man through his torso!
"Ugggh!" Wormtail shrieked in agony as the spear pierced him. "Master, save me," he said with a final whimper before the cauldron next to him exploded!
From the remains of the destroyed cauldron emerged a man—no, Jake thought, he looked more like a monster. He almost resembled a stray devil. His entire complexion was incredibly pale, his face was completely flat, and he was missing a nose! But what struck Jake the most were the man's eyes…when he turned to face his way, Jake could see that the man had the exact same shade of blue eyes that he had!
The pale snake man simply looked at the deceased form of his follower on the ground before he shrugged in mild annoyance. With the wave of his hand, he managed to conjure robes for himself. "Well, isn't that a delightfully remarkable ability," the man's voice had a hiss-like quality to it. "To be able to use magic without a wand now. I thank you for the donation of your blood in resurrecting me, Jake Gremory," the snake man sneered at Jake as he spoke.
"Who the fuck are you two?" Jake shouted at the pair of them.
"How rude of me to forget my manners, even in the presence of filth like yourself," the well-dressed man spoke. "You will refer to me, boy, as Lord Bael," he introduced himself.
"And I'm quite sure I have no need of an introduction," the snake-faced man said with glee as he continued testing out a few spells without his wand. He marveled at these so-called devils being able to use spells so easily! And now, with this power, taking over the wizarding world would be much easier. Voldemort also felt that his magic reserves were almost ten times as strong as they were in his prime. He was truly 'thankful' to Jake Gremory for donating his blood to resurrect him, as he was now much stronger.
As the snake man was just monologuing in his own head, Jake just glared at him and spat out, "I have no idea who the hell you are, you snake-face, noseless dickhead!"
"Pfffff, hahaha!" Lord Bael laughed at the look of shock on his new ally's face. Serves the cocky former wizard right. The man didn't even know devils existed until he sought him out to work together in order to exact revenge against the boy who had inadvertently foiled all of his plans!
"I AM LORD VOLDEMORT, YOU FOOL!" He screamed at Jake. "The future ruler of the entire wizarding world!"
Now, Jake had heard of him; he just had no idea what the guy had looked like. It didn't matter to Jake, though, who this guy was. Either way, he'd make him pay for ordering the man to kill Fleur! "I don't give a shit who you are. Why did you bring me here!? Why did you murder Fleur?" Jake angrily shouted at them.
"I'll answer that," Lord Bael said with a laugh. "Of course, it was to get revenge on you, Jake Gremory, for ruining all of my plans. Because of you, I was forced to leave the underworld, branded as a criminal when it came out that I tried to kill my son and ex-wife. The little bastard dared to be born without the noble power of destruction after all!" Lord Bael said as he conjured a small sphere of destruction magic in his palm as a demonstration. "I couldn't let such a stain on my reputation go for siring such a failure, after all!"
Jake came to a realization. "You're Sairaorg's father, the one who sent that stray devil assassin after him!" Jake accused Lord Bael.
"Indeed, you are correct," he responded. "Too bad that stupid trash failed to kill them because of your interference. My bitch ex-wife Misla then reported me to the Satans, and I've been hunted ever since. I have fallen so low as to be forced to hide in this pathetic 'wizarding world'," he spat in disgust at the term. "But then, I heard rumors, you see, rumors of a dark lord that wanted revenge against a certain red-haired youth."
Jake thought to himself that this man was truly vile… He was also pretty delusional if he thought his plan would have ever worked in the first place, even if Jake didn't interfere. Wasn't his wife also an ultimate-class devil? Why would he send a high-class assassin after her?...
Voldemort cut in with a laugh. "Indeed, you and I have never met, and yet you've been a massive thorn in my side, Jake Gremory! You killed three of my most loyal followers yourself, and then, apparently, your older brother went and crippled my dear Lucious, the most loyal of my minions. Now, it will be much more difficult to restart my Order of Death Eaters with so many of them lost," he spat out in anger. But then his frown turned into a smirk. "And that's when I, still as a pathetic homunculus infant, found Lord Bael here. He explained to me about the truth of the world that Dumbledore and the ICW had hidden! The truth about how weak we wizards truly are in the grand scheme of things! That's when I decided to switch from using Harry Potter's blood in my ritual to using yours instead. And now I too have the power of the devils!" As he exclaimed this, Voldemort flared his magic power and, to Jake's shock, it matched his own high-class reserves. Voldemort simply laughed in glee at his newfound power.
Lord Bael also flared his own power out towards Jake, and he started to feel himself sweat. This guy wasn't as strong as his ex-wife Misla or even close to Serafall, but he was still a couple of times stronger than Jake was! He probably had a lot more combat experience also, despite him being such an arrogant monster…
"And now, Jake, you die! AVADA KADAVRA!" Voldemort shouted out the killing curse and, instead of a small green spell like Jake had seen before, this time a LANCE of green death energy was sent hurling towards Jake! Caught off guard, Jake didn't have enough time to dodge, so his spell circles flared as he threw up the strongest ice shield he could in front of himself, hoping it would be enough. The green lance of death collided with Jake's shield, and in an explosion of magic, Jake's shield and the lance both destroyed each other! Jake sighed in relief at blocking the curse. It was a close one though…
Despite his spell failing to kill the boy, Voldemort had an absolute look of glee on his face. "That was absolutely wonderful!" he shouted out, marveling at his newfound strength. Truly, it was the strongest magic he'd ever cast!
Lord Bael just let out a whistle at that spell Voldemort had cast. "Not bad," he said to the smirking snake face. "But why don't I show you the real heights that can be achieved in this world!"
Jake threw his guard up, knowing that he'd have to compete with an ultimate-class head-on now! "RUIN EXTINCTION!" Lord Bael shouted out his spell's name as a massive wave of destruction was released from his spell circle right towards Jake. Everything in its path was vaporized! The various tombstones all around were turned to dust instantly as the wave passed over them, heading to destroy Jake!
"Shit!" Jake said, screaming internally at the power of that spell headed his way. He threw his hands in front of him before unleashing his own spell to counter it. "ICY AVALANCHE!" Jake shouted as a miniature iceberg formed in front of him and blasted towards the wave of destruction! The two spells collided in the middle of the now-destroyed graveyard, and to Jake's horror, his spells started to lose out to the destruction!
"They say power isn't everything," Voldemort laughed, watching on. "But they are wrong!" He was awed, seeing Lord Bael's power, and he vowed to himself he would surpass him soon and then, as a gift to the man, grant him a swift death for daring to think Lord Voldemort would ever have a partner.
Jake's iceberg managed to greatly diminish the wave of destruction, but in the end, it still won out and blasted through his spell... Jake could only look on in shock as the wave smashed through his spell and crashed directly into him! Jake could feel absolute agony as the destructive energy ravaged his entire body!
Luckily for Jake, he had managed to greatly weaken the destructive power; otherwise, he might have been instantly killed! In his desperation, Jake instinctively called on his bloodline for the second time that day as the power of Destruction that was ravaging his body slowly began being absorbed by his magic, taking it in as his own and making him resistant towards it! It was an act of absolute desperation, but thankfully for him it paid off. This went on completely unbeknownst to Lord Bael, who was just laughing the whole time, thinking that his spell was doing catastrophic damage to the boy he hated more than anything currently.
Eventually, the magic of the spell passed through him fully, and even with his bloodline saving him, Jake was left in a tattered state. His robes were completely shredded, and his skin was bleeding and covered in burns all over his body. Jake also found himself panting at how much magic he just used to not die. He felt like he was down to well under half his reserves, meanwhile, Lord Bael was just standing there casually, looking at him with a smirk like his spell had cost him nothing to cast. Jake wanted to wipe that smirk off his smug face by immediately sending a blast of his own destructive power right back at him, but he decided to wisely hold off on that for now and save it as a last-resort trump card. What Jake needed to do now was figure out a way out of this situation.
"..."
Jake, in his injured and bleeding state, knew that this situation was close to unwinnable. He could fight Voldemort and probably win since the latter may have devil magic now, but he lacked a spell circle to reduce his casting cost. But Jake knew he just wasn't strong enough yet to take on an ultimate class. 'Do I have to flee?' He thought to himself. Could he even flee? Was he just going to run away with his tail between his legs and call Serafall for help?
No! He wouldn't do that! Fleeing would also mean abandoning Fleur's body in this graveyard. He also didn't even know if he realistically would be able to escape the two of them anyway. He was going to have to stand and fight!
Jake spat some blood out of his mouth before turning to his two enemies who were 'kind enough' to let him recover himself a bit after that devastating attack. He gave them a cocky grin, much to their shock. They'd thought he'd be groveling on the ground and begging for mercy right about now. "Come on then," Jake gave them a sneer, "are we going to fight, or are we going to stand around all night?"
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