บท 24: Battle
Battle
"Very well, anyone who manages to land a clean hit on me, will have me personally construct the region of the Dimension they've chosen as their abode." Everyone's eyes widened in surprise at the prospective reward.
However, the surprise quickly became excitement. Their Master personally designing their abodes is something all of them desired.
They didn't question whether or not he actually had a good creative ability, instead, it was the sentimental value they cared about.
So without hesitation, they all agreed to the possible reward.
"Alright, then it's settled." Christopher snapped his fingers and the group teleported to another region of the Dimension that was a bit more open and far away from the new city that had appeared within.
Silver, Kim, the Twins, and Thanatos were a few hundred meters away from Christopher who had removed his mask.
This time, he held Scarlet with both hands and entered a simple combat stance as he waited.
The others glanced at each other as they entered a simple formation.
Thanatos was at the very back with the twins by his sides, slightly ahead. And at the forefront were Silver and Kim.
Christopher made no attempts to move as he simply waited for the attacks to come. And he didn't wait long.
Kim was the first one to move as she vanished and Christopher felt a spatial fluctuation behind him.
He swung his sword backwards just as Kim appeared and swung her claws. The two clashed with a loud metallic sound and sparks flew.
But Silver took the opportunity and flashed in front of Christopher, his claws being covered in silver white light as he swung them at Christopher's face.
Calmly, Christopher Snapped his fingers and he teleported out of the way causing Silver to miss and Kim's claws to move and hit nothing.
Kim however, also had the Space attribute and could clearly tell where Christopher was going to reappear. Her head snapped upwards and Christopher was there as she thought.
However, so were several dozens of ten meter long frost lances that were pointed at her and Silver.
Christopher waved his hand and the lances shot downwards with terrifying speed. But at the last moment, a light barrier appeared above the two of them and managed to deflect the lances at the cost of a lot of cracks.
Black chains then appeared all around Christopher in the hundreds and swarmed to bind him. But a surge of light left his body and completely destroyed all of them.
Kim teleported next to him again, using space to keep herself in the air as she started clawing at him, but he blocked her attacks effortlessly.
"We need to bring him to the ground." Umbra told his sister and she nodded.
Her Mana surged as high above Christopher and Kim, a white and gold magic circle dozens of meters in diameter appeared, and then from within it, a massive sword began to emerge.
Christopher naturally noticed this and wasn't just going to stand by.
His speed suddenly shot up and Kim lost track of him for an instant, and before she realized it, his hand was already on her chest.
Ice surged from his hand and encased her completely and caused her body to fall to the ground.
He then looked up at the massive sword of light that was descending like the judgement of the heavens.
White flames blazed to life on his sword and they quickly took on their pink hue, and without a second though, he slashed upwards.
A pink line appeared from the tip of the blade to the hilt, and then it split in half right before reaching Christopher and exploded into harmless particles of light.
Christopher tilted his head and looked around when dozens of clones resembling Umbra appeared around him, all of them with their mouths open as chaotic orbs of darkness formed and fired towards him.
He teleported to the ground before the beams hit him, but the instant he did, an electric blue magic circle spawned at his feet and exploded.
'That was close.' Christopher thought as a light barrier kept the electricity from hitting his body.
At that moment, Kim and Silver appeared at his sides and struck forth. Their claws impacted the light barrier and generated a powerful wind pressure as the barrier slowly began to crack.
'Their teamwork isn't bad.' He thought in approval and looked up to see a bone spear descend and smash into his barrier from above, causing him to be attacked from three sides.
'Scarlet, reduce your sharpness to a non-lethal level.' Christopher instructed.
'Yes Master.' The blade complied immediately.
When it did, Christopher exhaled slightly, and canceled his barrier. And then, his hand blurred, and a moment later, Silver and Kim were sent flying while the bone spear was shredded into nothing.
Christopher then rushed forth towards the Twins and Umbra immediately went forward and cast a Darkness barrier. But Christopher did not care and slashed Scarlet once more, the pink flames slicing through the barrier like it wasn't there.
But at the last moment, Kim teleported and grabbed the twins and teleported away, causing Christopher to miss. Then he looked at Thanatos who had both arms pointed forward with a chaotic ball of black and purple energy.
The ball shot forward but Christopher literally just slapped it away and it flew into the distance before exploding violently.
Thanatos: ( ﾟ皿ﾟ)
Christopher was about to attack again when Silver appeared above him with the help of Kim.
"Lunar Wolf Domain!" He shouted and he vanished along with Christopher.
A moment later, Christopher found himself inside another world.
It was nighttime with countless stars in the sky, and in the center was a massive silver moon.
'A domain huh?' Christopher thought as he felt his entire body becoming heavier.
From what he learnt from the Tome he absorbed, Domains were a magical Manifestation of an individual's mind. Within, there was essentially a new set of laws that anyone inside had to follow unless they countered with a domain of theirs and the caster would receive a dramatic boost while the target would be severely weakened.
Christopher looked forward and saw Silver whose body was crouched down slightly and leaning forward.
'Even with his domain, he isn't going all out yet. Interesting.' Christopher noted as Silver basically teleported behind him and Christopher spun and the two of them clashed.
However unlike before, Christopher took a step back as the force was that overbearing.
'Not bad.' He nodded and teleported, however the moment he appeared, a tentacle of silver light appeared and wrapped around his leg before swinging him and slamming him into the ground.
it didn't do damage as there was a thin film of Mana around Christopher's body that protected him.
But Silver had appeared above him, his eyes glowing as he unleashed a torrent of slashes with his claws.
Christopher countered all of them and snapped his fingers. Wind swarmed around his body and turned into a huge twister.
"Cancel." Silver swiped his hand and made use of his domain, and just as he said, the twister dispersed. However, Christopher was nowhere to be seen.
"You've gotten a lot stronger Silver." Silver blinked and looked up and saw Christopher high in the sky, he held Scarlet high above his head.
"But don't worry, you're gonna get much stronger in the future." As he said that, the heat from the blade suddenly shot up with incredible intensity.
Silver's eyes widened as he watched on, the colour of the flames on the sword changing.
Previously, Christopher had increased the temperature of his flames to the point where they turned white, and when they mixed with the Annihilation energy from Scarlet, they turned pink.
However, he took it a step further, and his flames went from a pure white, to a deep blue, and their temperature climbed higher and higher.
And then when fused with Annihilation, they took on a terrifyingly beautiful purple colour that reflected in Silver's eyes.
'Master." He thought as Christopher's arms tensed.
'You are truly something else.' With that, Christopher gave a light yell and swung the blade, and reality itself seemed to be cleaved in half as a purple line went through the entire domain, and one part of it sunk downwards before the construct became unstable and collapsed.
***
"I get the feeling Silver is failing." Umbra grumbled.
His sister was about to say something before they all looked up, and then a purple line appeared in space before a rift opened, from which Silver fell from.
Kim, who had been on standby, flashed and caught him before he hit the ground.
"You okay?" She asked and Silver coughed up a mouthful of blood before sitting up slightly.
"Ugh, get ready, Master is getting serious now." As he said this, a terrific Aura descended down on the group causing all of their eyes to widen.
They looked up and saw Christopher, purple flames blazed on the surface of Scarlet.
His gaze swept over them and he said lightly.
"Okay, let's kick things up a notch." Then, he pointed a finger down and Kim's eyes widened as she shouted.
"RUN!" And a moment later, Christopher muttered
"Black Hole."
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