Darkened Daylight

(11)

---flash---flash---

Raymen charged forward with his two whip swords. I bared my claws along with all my elements and charged vice-versa.

---boooom---

Both of us suffered a certain amount of damage. But Raymen vomited black blood. On the other hand, I got a cut on my cheek. The ancient deity gasped, "What kind of infinito are you? Your blood is reddish!!"

[Huh?]

I touched my cheek to check the colour of my blood.

"!!!!", the colour was black but was resonating red when being reflected in brightness.

[I thought master turned me into a complete infinito. But, why am I seeing human blood.]

"An infinito's blood must be pure black. Why is your blood different? Don't tell me you are an intruder from another dimension!", Raymen questioned.

I replied, "Is that important to you? This blood could be the remnant of my demon-god self!!"

[Damn it. Just buy it already. I don't want a sub-task to be added to my first task.]

He responded, "Oh... Well, the system did say you were a demon god. So, there can be possibilities for variables like you to exist!"

[Thank God... Hopefully, this fool bought it.]

---flip---dash---

He jumped on me. I gathered all the metal pieces and engaged towards him with my bare claws.

---clash---clang---clash---clash---clang---clang---

His long whip swords clanged with my claws while the kicks clashed with one another.

---fwoosh---flick---

I used the fire breath on him while using my claws. But he managed to dodge it.

---clang---fwoosh---clang(x_)---clang---fwoosh---clash---smack---crash---

My claws clanged against both his swords. Then, we both exchanged collision attacks for a moment. In between the fight, I unleashed my fire breath on him twice but little did it do any damage. After a few blows, he flexed both his arms upwards for his next strike. He was left wide open. I took the opportunity to interfere. My claws clashed with the hilts of his whip swords. He got pushed back a little. After making a front flip, I landed a downward kick on his head. Due to my strike, his face crashed into the rocky area.

I said, "Why am I seeing no tabs on your forehead? The system panel sure pops up if you execute any martial art!!"

He was still on the ground where his face got buried into the rocks. I asked again, "Why are you not using your techniques? Are you trying to buy time for someone's arrival?!"

He immediately got up and walked a few meters away from me. He exclaimed, "I would never do such a thing. It's just that, one cannot carelessly go all out from the start when facing an overbearing tyrant!!"

[Is this guy calling me a tyrant? He is getting on my nerves.]

I warned him, "Hey oldman, you better watch what you say. Who are you calling a tyrant?!"

He got back to his battle stance. I got a hunch that he was about to go all out.

[Would you look at that?

Maybe it's time for me to go all out for the first time.]

---fwoosh---

The ancient deity released his energy. His high-level flames became crystal clear. What's weird was Raymen grinning in the midst of it. I chuckled at the oldman being hyped up for his final battle.

[Since this is his final battle, I will let him laugh as much as he wants.]

---fwoooosshh---

Seeing the oldman pumped up, I too did the same. Released all my power. The darkened crimson flames enwrapped all the element matter that was under my authority. Solid, liquid, gas, also other matters like sound, waves and gravitational fluctuations were resonating with my darkened flames. All the crystals were unleashing darkened crimson flames. Fire turned into dark flames, water turned into black hot water where all other liquid particles got assimilated in it.

[Authority to 'rule over everything' entered into its ultimate stage. I am also assimilating my excessive darkness bit by bit. With this, I would succeed in accumulating up to 41% of my power. For now, let's call it ...

Authority to 'command everything'.]

---whoooossh---

The new evolution of authority burst my power furthermore. I too smiled just like the oldman.

...

{At the dark reigner's residency}

"This kid achieved my fifty million years of journey in a single day. Even during my time, I wasn't that clever. The entirety of existence was going through developments. Even if the whole existence was developed, I won't be able to complete such a feat in a single day. This young man might surpass even me in the near future... !", said a certain someone while looking into a giant transparent sphere projecting Adrona's fight with Raymen. That certain someone was dark reigner mumbling to himself in his oldman appearance.

"To gain such insight on the term 'matter' took me fifty million years by combining the element authorities into a special authority. That still left me with 29 authorities... !", said the dark reigner.

He then smirked and all of a sudden began to mumble, "But my disciple... my grand law achieved a 'singularity' on 'matter' in no time. Even if he was in his first life, he might have achieved it in just a few centuries.

When an origin entity completes a great feat such as achieving a single authority that can command many things, we would call it singularity. To us origin entities, the term 'singularity' is equivalent to the term 'treasure'.

I have three singularities, Martha has two singularities and Kraissilis has five singularities.

My disciple achieved his first singularity. I did a good thing by bestowing the authority of 'understand' to him.

Since 'understand' authority was the first singularity that I had achieved... Now my disciple has two singularities. He doesn't even know what that means!"

He burst into a long laughter, "Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah…!"

He then at once stopped laughing and said, "With two singularities, he would just grow stronger by every minute and every second.

Martha, Kraissilis, I hope your disciples are hanging there well enough!"

...

{Back to the battle between Adrona and Raymen}

---boom---boom---boom---boom---boom---boom---boom---___and so on---

In the outer atmosphere, in between the floating rocks, I and Raymen were exchanging blows that were leading to constant explosions. Raymen was going all out. He executed every technique in order. As the technique's number went further, they became more and more outstanding. Per every ten techniques, there was a numbering pattern.

...

| Innate trait: hellish battle god

Executing: Raymen's war god chronicles verse-2

Technique 7: raging whip 7th s***h |

{Parried this technique by reshaping metal crystals into long swords and clashing with the whip swords.}

...

| Innate trait: hellish battle god

Executing: Raymen's war god chronicles verse-2

Technique 13: devil's 3rd flame |

{Evaded the attack with the help of my darkened crimson flames.}

...

| Innate trait: hellish battle god

Executing: Raymen's war god chronicles verse-2

Technique 26: demon god's 6th wrath |

{Parried the technique when I reshaped all solid matter into daggers and clashed with him.}

...

| Innate trait: hellish battle god

Executing: Raymen's war god chronicles verse-2

Technique 31: mighty god king's 1st wave |

{Parried the technique by controlling my sound, wind and gravity manipulation.}

...

| Innate trait: hellish battle god

Executing: Raymen's war god chronicles verse-2

Technique 44: riverine 4 flows |

{Evaded the technique using dense liquid matter as a shield.}

...

| Innate trait: hellish battle god

Executing: Raymen's war god chronicles verse-2

Technique 58: 8 edges of heaven's domain |

{Parried the technique with darkened flame breath.}

...

| Innate trait: hellish battle god

Executing: Raymen's war god chronicles verse-2

Technique 65: dragon's 5th s***h |

{Evaded the s***h by using my claws as a medium to avert the trajectory of the strike.}

...

| Innate trait: hellish battle god

Executing: Raymen's war god chronicles verse-2

Technique 72: supreme deity 2nd series |

{Evaded the series of slashes with swift and flicked movements.}

...

| Innate trait: hellish battle god

Executing: Raymen's war god chronicles verse-2

Technique 89: execution of the 9th ultra s***h |

{Parried the technique by gathering and reshaping all the solid matter into the shape of a hammer for clashing with his whip swords.}

...

| Innate trait: hellish battle god

Executing: Raymen's war god chronicles verse-2

Technique 99: 9th absolute singularity strike |

{Parried the technique with darkened flame breath and by controlling numerous daggers made up of solid matter in mid-air against the enemy strike.}

...

He executed all his techniques on me orderly and I either evaded or parried them. I only remembered a few out of all that made me feel threatened. Like the ones above. After Raymen executing 99 techniques and me anticipating all those attacks, the rocks that were levitating in the outer atmosphere crumbled into bit size pebbles. Raymen and I had no choice but to levitate in between those rocks while exchanging glares. Both of us were contained with bruises all over our skin. I then raised my right palm and made a finger snap.

---whoosh---

The rocks that were levitating near us got pushed away. The whole field became clear. I said, "Deity gramps, what are you waiting for? Execute your final technique. I will face it gladly!"

"Fine...!", he exclaimed with a long pause.

---fwoooossh---

The rocks that were away got even further away. Particles of dust began to swirl around and later formed a cyclone. I and Raymen were inside the eye of the cyclone. Soon, the swirling became extreme. I and Raymen were still glaring at each other.

---whoosh---

All of a sudden, he threw away his right hand's whip sword. What's even weirder was that the whip sword was thrown at me.

[Why would a martial artist throw away his own weapon?]

---fwooosh---

The thrown whip sword began to swirl around me clockwise with a ten-metred circumference. I got on guard by encircling myself with darkened crimson flames.

---whoosh---fwoosh---

He then threw his second whip sword. It swirled around me anti-clockwise. I increased the density of my encircling flames, henceforth hardening my defence.

---fwoooossh---

The whip swords swirled even faster. I gritted my teeth, unable to see Raymen.

[Damn it. What is his final technique going to be? I can't even see him or his system panel.]

""Technique 100:!"", said a certain someone.

[Huh? This is something similar to 'domain of the will' that I used in my previous life.]

I raised my head only to be left dumbfounded. It was Raymen who was about to use his ultimate technique. His voice emitted pressure.

[This is a different version of the domain of the will.]

He then locked his hands and said,

""Lord of the abyss's supreme judgement!!""

---fwoooossh(x2)---

The speed of the swirling doubled. I felt pressured.

---fwoooossh(x3)---

The swirling speed tripled. Thus, increasing the pressure even more. It then multiplied furthermore.

---fwoooossh(x4)---

---fwoooossh(x5)---

...

The swirling speed just increased constantly. The pressure also kept on increasing. My shield was getting smaller and smaller. When the shield seemed like it was about to break apart, I channelled all my power into my throat and

""ROOOOOOAAAAAARRR!!!!""

yelled out while emitting even more power.

---booooooooooooooooooooom---

It led to an even more devastating explosion than the time with Alkander. It was like a mini sun coming into the sky. Fortunately, original light would only darken the vision of an infinito. So it didn't attract any unnecessary attention.

...

Raymen lost his will to fight since he used all his powers. I too felt fatigued. But there was something in my mind that made me feel overjoyed during the last moment of his attack.

[I was surely on the losing side. But at the last moment, I don't know what happened but some of my excessive darkness got assimilated into my power and I was so stimulated by my death that I laughed.

Even now, I can feel my excessive darkness getting accumulated bit by bit. Right now, I accumulated more than 45% of my darkness. It would be 47% to be more precise. And it is getting accumulated by itself even to this moment? I should ask master about this.]

I looked above towards outer space. It was a gesture to my master. I could feel him smiling at me while I am going through all the hurdles here. I then looked at Raymen who was floating in the outer atmosphere like a dead body with no power left.

I held him in my hands and brought him to a mountain peak. There was a lake in the centre. The moonlight was directly falling on us. He opened his eyes. I made him lean on a rock, washed my face and drank some water to relieve myself. He was looking at me with a smile. I sat in front of him to ask, "You said you will tell me everything 'if I manage to win', right? Better keep your word!"

He attempted, "Why don't you place your palm on my head and see through my memories?!!"

I replied, "I do not want to force you. It will only cause you pain!"

He responded, "Someone like me who betrayed himself for fifty trillion years does not deserve any kind of fair treatment. If you treat me like that, I will consider you as a traitor to yourself or even my lord who became the 'dark reigner'!!"

After listening to him, I had no choice but to do as per his request. I held his forehead with my right palm and injected my darkened crimson flames into his head. He writhed in agony, "Aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrggghhh...aaaarrgh!!!!"

---flick---

The background flipped to another scenario. It was filled with a barren land where there lay a hundred corpses. In between them was Raymen down to his knees with clothes filled with blood. His right hand was nowhere to be seen. He was looking above. And I was standing behind him.

---thud---

A huge figure whose body was emitting black smoke stepped forward and stared at Raymen. Though its body was hard to be seen, its eyes were emanating darkened white flames from the black streams.

"...!!!", I was left in shock. Darkened white flames stage is a harmonized stage of all the seven darkened flames stages.

[Darkened white flames stage?

This mutant assymetron is far above the other assymetrons. Judging from the black smoke, it is omitting light. Presently, I am watching everything from Raymen's perspective. So I cannot decipher this high-level mutant assymetron's appearance.]

Behind that mutant assymetron were other mutant assymetrons who were all of the darkened yellow flames stage. I memorized all their appearances with 'understand' authority. But what shook me more was Alkander who was behind those dark crevasses. I looked into the eyes of the mutant assymetron which was emanating darkened white flames out of its eyes.

It spoke, ""Poor soul, you are the only person who remains alive. Your friends sacrificed themselves for their weakest comrade. Haha...!""

It was speaking via mind communication. The voice indicated male.

[From the pressure this mutant assymetron is unleashing, I can tell that this mind communication is on par with my domain of the will.]

The mutant assymetron then continued, ""Since your comrades sacrificed themselves for you, I will grant them their wish. Leave with repentance and resentment forever!""

[So, the mutant assymetrons a.k.a dark crevasses in the absolute abyss came to this world after the king of gods died in the second war of origins. Alkander received aid from these assymetrons.

That means the martial arts religions that the gods created by themselves must have been taken under control by these dark crevasses forcefully.]

...

Slowly, the scenario became undone and I was back to holding Raymen's forehead. I let go of my hand so that I could face the moonlight that was glowing like sunlight in the eyes of an infinito. I then raised a question, "What was the aftermath like?!"

He replied, "The religions that we made were demolished and made anew under the names of those dark crevasses. Even our martial arts were tossed aside and new techniques were brought into the dark with complete facade. Then came this system that took the facade to a whole new level.

As for me, I was handed over to Alkander for his grudge. I was declared as the guardian spirit of the Alkander religion. The divine Alkander clan was the main headquarter of the whole religion. And I was treated like a servant for fifty trillion years by them...

I can only thank you for relieving this poor soul!"

---whoosh---

Raymen's body turned into dust and vanished into thin air. As for me, I was already on the mountain peak where I planned to be.