Chương 37: Chapter 35
"Here I come." Once Daniel said these words with his cold emotionless voice, he stomped on the ground cracking it before he shot at Ophis like a bullet as if air wasn't a hindrance to him, his eyes sharp like swords and aura so dark and destructive swirling around him violently as if wanting to taste blood.
Ophis with serious eyes, she noticed how Daniel's aura changed and became much more destructive than before making her pleased inwardly as he finally got serious and she as well need to get serious too. So with the energy of Infinity dancing around her hands and feet, she also stomped on the ground before she shot at him with lighting speed leaving powerful wind impact behind.
Shooooooo—
DAAAMMMMMMMMMM!!!!
BOOOOOOOOOM!!!!
Both their fists collided with each other creating a great and unfathomable impact that destroyed the area around them, cracks appeared everywhere around them due to the strong impact coming from the collision of their fists, but it didn't end here, they used their martial arts and attacked each other with formidable strength that no one could fight against.
Not even gods can.
Both Daniel and Ophis were fighting without taking into account the area around, their minds and eyes were only focused on each other, thinking on how to attack and beat each other.
Their attacks were aiming at the vital parts and points of each other's bodies that could kill any god if faced by it.
BOOOOOM!!! BAAAAAM!!!
As they exchanged blows, they moved from place to place destroy it one after the other not leaving anything behind, they were roaring with fighting spirits that was igniting their souls to no end.
Ophis was using the rebound effect from Daniel's body, distanced herself before raising both of her hands before she was surrounded by black outline of energy then two chunks of earth were lifted creating huge big balls and engulfing them with black fire like meteors, and with a swift hand motion to the ground, the two meteors shot at Daniel with incredible speed that broke the speed of sound.
[Black Meteors]
Normally, something that big and heavy would have huge weight affecting their speed making it slower, but Ophis with her perfect manipulation of her power, she increased their speed hundred folds and shot them at Daniel intending to turn him to ash and erase him completely.
But Daniel wasn't backing down from a confrontation, immediately, the area around him decreased significantly in temperature that it froze and both his hands turned icy blue before with all of his strength, he punched the ground with both his hands but it didn't broke, rather, a huge wave of ice blue tsunami moved at those two meteors with incredible speed.
[Tsunami of Ice]
SWOOOOSHHHHH!!!!
The two meteors were engulfed by the wave of icy tsunami freezing them completely and making them fall onto the ground like two normal big balls.
Then with a flick of his fingers, the two big balls shattered to million pieces like salt.
The two opponents looked at each other with dangerous gleam in their eyes before throwing elemental attacks at each other with swift and flexible movements.
Each other evaded the other's attacks before launching another one at the other.
Fire, ice, water, earth, wind, light, darkness, many different attacks were thrown at each other destroying the environment even further.
A joy and pleasure filled Ophis as she exchanged attacks and blows with Daniel as it had been many years that she had fought like that with someone equal to her or rather he may be stronger but need some time.
From her vast experience, she knew how strong was Daniel, his fighting spirit, his urges to destroy and attack, she felt a deep attraction toward his energy, she wanted to be swallowed by it, she wanted to become one with it, a deep urge arose inside Ophis's cold heart that never knew such feelings at all.
Maybe because she had a fight since a very very long time, she felt like that, so she shrugged this feeling off and focused on the fight in front of her, there was a clear desire in her eyes right now, which was fighting with all she had with Daniel as she knew he could take it all and get out alive.
And with that feeling, Ophis's power surged significantly and dangerously without end while leveling the earth around her high in the sky and destroying everything around with just her aura.
A very strong, powerful, heavy, unfathomable, insurmountable pressure befell on Daniel and expanded until it covered nearly half of the dimension making that half tremble violently and shattering the earth around while the shadow soldiers who were affected by that pressure were flattened to the ground and turning them into dark violet mist that flew in the air before their bodies were resurrected again and then flattened to the ground and turned into mist before the process was repeated.
Bellion, Igris, Beru, Iron, Tusk and the other generals felt the pressure and knelt on the ground while gritting their teeth, the earth under them cracked due to how heavy the pressure was.
'Such a pressure.' Bellion was amazed.
Back to the scene.
Daniel who felt the pressure didn't kneel on the ground or something, he was just standing there as if the pressure didn't affect him but he was looking at Ophis who had her energy engulfing her like a cocoon, his brows furrowed deeply and his eyes glowing intensely.
He didn't run and attack that cocoon at all because if he did, he could cause a rebound effect that would put Ophis into a dangerous situation as her soul could be damaged causing a sharp decrease in her powers.
If she was his real enemy, he might have done it, but she wasn't and only a spar partner, beside she is his way to gain greater control over his power and increase it even further. Which was true as he now could feel that he was free and his energy we flowing inside him and around him more tamed and controlled than before.
His elemental attack Tsunami of Ice required a great control over magic and the element of ice, that could be a good demonstration of how his control had increased significantly with his fight against Ophis compared to the last years of course.
Few moments later, the cocoon that was surrounding Ophis exploded creating strong waves of black energy, before from within a figure appeared. She was a tall mature woman with beauty that no one could compare to, her long jet black flowing hair danced in the air white exuding dark mist, her back eyes were even darker with her slit pupils surrounded by two snakes eating themselves, her previous attire disappeared and was replaced by an elegant and exotic black dress that fitted her body and showed how curvaceous she was.
Her skin was white like snow and her features were even more alluring, beautiful and clear.
There was a black glove in both of her hands reaching her elbow with a ring in her ring finger in her right hand.
All in all, she was the epitome of beauty and elegance.
But don't be fooled by her appearance and beauty because under all of this lay a very dangerous and indomitable being that could swallow everything and destroy everything to dust.
This was one of Ohpis's 4 forms, The Black Lady.
This form enabled her a very vast control over all elements beside her Black Lady's attire that was indestructible with immense defence. It also made her undefeatable in terms of magic as all her strength wes directed toward magic and sorcery.
With a flick of her finger she could turn everything to ash or pump life to it again. Just a flick of a finger and everything is done.
But that also meant that her body was weak against physical attacks, that's why she covered herself with strong defensive spells.
Daniel who saw this was awed and astonished, not expecting her to turn like that, but at the same time he felt a sense of unease, as if danger was lurking around. And as if sensing it, he immediately moved to side with fluid movements dodging a very sharp and precise attack coming at him from the back. It was an ice lance that came from the ground.
Looking at Ophis who gave him a small smile, Daniel felt challenged and he never went back on challenge, so immediately without waiting any longer, he shot at Ophis while his eyes glowing intensely looking at the flows of energy around to know where the attack was coming from.
Swoosh!!!
BHAAAAAAM!!!
Immediately a scorched fire ball was shot at him from behind which he dodged before it smashed at the ground and broke it making a small deep crater.
Daniel continued moving while focusing on the flows of energy in the air that looked like moving purple lines to him.
And those lines were coming from Ophis herself.
He moved at Ophis with a speed that kept increasing and increasing with each passing second on the battlefield while Ophis was raining him with countless magic spells that created large and small deep craters. If such attacks were faced by someone other than Daniel, they would be crushed to dust without leaving anything behind, not even a nail.
But Daniel as a Monarch with great powers, he was able to face her relentless attacks, but of course he can't take them head on or else he is done for and will lose.
BOOOOM!! BOOOOOM!!
K-BAAAAM!!!
Explosions occured everywhere Daniel put his steps onto turning it into a dust and debris.
At the same time, Daniel's speed reached an extent that Ophis had never seen, it was like his figure was blending with the nature around, or rather, nature was blending with his figure.
He flickered continuously with strange purple light as his eyes glowed even more intensely while evading the attacks directed at him, he was increasing his energy output bit by bit making him move faster and faster, then suddenly—
SWWWOOOOOOSHHHHH!!!
DENNNNGGGGG!!
His figure vanished and as if the world was moving slowly, Daniel appeared behind Ophis with a flicker with his fist ready to punch while Ophis was slowly moving her head behind as she casted instant barrier skill to protect her body as her dress wasn't covering her whole back so it was a vulnerable spot.
Then gritting his teeth, his fist moved forward at her vulnerable spot in her back before it connected and once the world flow moved back to normal—
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!
SHAAAAAAAAAAA—
Ophis's figure was sent flying forward with a speed that no one could follow while her body flipping like a broken kite in the air.
Although she had casted a barrier spell at the last moment but still, the attack that Daniel had caused was something couldn't be outdone with such a spell.
The weight behind the attack was so great because of his immense speed that seemed like the speed of light, not only that, his fist was enveloped with the death energy at the point of connection causing greater impact than what should have been.
This move was incredible that Daniel himself didn't know how he did it.
Such control and such power, it was like his mind was clearer than normal as if he could see everything and perceive everything no matter how difficult it is or how small or tiny it is, he was seeing everything around as clear as day.
Ophis who was flying with incredible speed collided with many rocky mountains breaking them in the process one by one.
BOOOM!! BOOOOM!!! KA-BOOOM!!!
She stopped after breaking nearly more than 10 rocky mountains before she fell on the ground with a thud, there was some smoke coming out of her body as well.
Although she was more experienced than Daniel in martial arts and fights but because she slept for too long, her body wasn't at its peak and her brain wasn't that clear yet.
She still need some time until she regain her peak, maybe after some spars with Daniel she would come up victorious with her glorious figure.
She knew that her movements were quite dull as she knew herself better than anyone in this whole universe, so such a result was expected, especially with someone like Daniel who was like a monster in battles, never stop learning what he could learn.
Daniel appeared beside Ophis who was already healed and turned to her loli appearance. She was already standing up.
Her gothic style dress was so cute on her, but it wasn't like that revealing one in the anime but something more modest.
"Are you okay?" Daniel asked as he looked at her from head to toe to see if anything was wrong because he didn't expect his attack to cause such impact, at that time he was in a state of complete focus and control of his powers and himself.
He didn't know how such a thing happened but he could still have a vague feeling of what he felt at that time and that made him more determined to experience that feeling again.
The feeling of absolute power and control. As if everything was in his hands entirely.
Feeling the hint of concern in his voice for her, Ophis felt a warm feeling spreading in her heart as this was the first time someone worry about her like that, so she showed him a very rare and genuine smile she had never showed to anyone except him.
A smile came from the heart.
"I'm okay, Monarch of Shadows. That was a good fight to remind me of my old days." Her monotone voice was very cute in her current form for all those who heard her voice in the anime. She was very cute that could wam your heart and give you the urge to protect her with all that you have.
"You can call me Daniel or Dan if you wish, Ophis." Daniel responded with his deep and calm voice that could play with your heart like strings like the most proficient violinist.
"Um. I will in the next time we spar again. Hope it's too soon." She said as she went back to her cave that was filled with calmness and silence.
Daniel only sighed as he looked at the destruction that have been done by them. There was even a deep trench that extended in the horizon that you couldn't see its end. It would take some time to get an to its normal state.
"What a fight, it's good to have such a sturdy dimension. I can also feel it expanding further. Maybe because my control over my power increased or..." He said as his eyes glowed while looking at his hands and himself. They narrowed slightly like the sharp edge of the sword.
At that time he looked like someone we all know very well, maybe it was just a coincidence or something else?
*Sigh*
[Don't worry, nothing dangerous happened here, just sparring with....a friend] Daniel said as he looked at the horizon, exactly the other side where his shadow soldiers were located. He knew that the earlier battle left them startled but they didn't come as a respect of their king as they knew he didn't order them to fight his fight instated of him.
If something like that happened without his premission, this would be the greatest disrespect to their King.
So they didn't move.
[Continue training my soliders, I want to see an army that can't be defeated in any battlefield and spread terror in the hearts of enemies. Rise your heads high my soldiers and train in my name and grow stronger!] With these words that seemed like a hymn, the shadow soldiers felt their connection with their Liege growing stronger and their loyalty toward him reached new peaks that no loyal solider could reach.
At that moment they kneeled on the ground putting their right hands on their hearts swearing loyalty to their King.
Inside Daniel's soul.
A grandiose figure was sitting on a very great throne smiled crazily, his countless teeth were sharp like swords while his guise sent terror to anyone who saw him.
His two great horns and six black eyes were different than before this time, the horns had purple tips while his eyes were shifting between the usual jet black color to the purple one.
Some spikes appeared on his shoulders with purple tips as well and his figure exuded an air of majesty and splendor yet mixed with terror at the same time as such thing could not exist in reality at all because it defies everything in the universe.
It was chaos itself or more like chaos was incarnated in him with the two distinct auras surrounding his body.
Suddenly the figure opened his mount and said with a voice that echoed in the whole space and continued in the distance.
"He Who Has a Heart of Chaos, Right Side Stained In Death, Left Side Shrouded In Darkness Will Gather All Fragments of Creation Together and Bring Death and Destruction to These Foolish Beings.....Until We Meet Again, ###."
After that nothing was said and everything returned to normal. The being of terror closed his eyes as if went into deep sleep.
What was that? What is that he said?
No one knows, not even the owner himself. He clearly heard them, but didn't understand anything at all, but one thing for sure, everything will be revealed in the future.
But when? No one knows.
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A/N: Sorry for the late update, it was because I found no motivation to continue writing the story since the last chapter, so I will make my decision based on the reactions on this one.
If the reactions were enough, then I will continue, if not then I will stop. As simple as that. As an author, I need motivation, something to make me continue writing the story and come with new ideas to apply in my story.
And another thing, I must say that this is the longest chapter I have ever written in my life, it went beyond my expectations to be honest.
So hope you enjoy and wish you good day.
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