Detective Dickson 6 : The Ultimate Quandary

The Ultimate War VI

Larias smiled as he stared at Drafla, he knew something was wrong, when he fought against his clones, he felt like he was getting weaker and right now, he felt completely powerless, he had used the last of his power to create a clone and teleport from the area of danger in hopes of deceiving the mistresses to drop down their guard so he could get the jump on them.

"So there are ways to manipulate the Syerian Scimitar?" Larias asks.

"So you have noticed" came all the mistresses voice at once.

"When we fought with you, we were not just trying to attack you aimlessly, we were covering the area with the same part of the Creator that was used to make the scimitar, we needed to find a means to distract you so you wouldn't suspect what was going on and it worked beautifully" the mistresses end, there was a smile on Drafla's face, it looked really creepy

"And right now, there is no hope for you."

"I am a very cautious man" Larias grins as he produces a Scimitar from the shirt he wore

"I was coming to face you in your domain, also when I absorbed the god essence, I was able to see and know all, every possibility of how the tide of every outcome would come out was instantly revealed to me, I viewed over an infinite number of ways of how this battle could turn out and I found good ways to win."

"I am pretty sure the figure you meant to say there was zero" the mistresses say aloud as Drafla taps her fingers.

Immediately, Marcel appears before Larias.

"I am going to make you pay for what you did to me" Marcel says to Larias, he was really aggravated and annoyed.

Ashun could rewrite the happenings of every event, mind, mind, time, place and any other concept at all, she had simply rewritten Marcel to have a grudge against Larias instead of her.

"I suspect this is your work, Ashun" Larias says looking over at Drafla.

"You will never know" all the mistresses grin.

Marcel dashes towards Larias, instantly, two red creatures completely red all through and an ice elf appears far behind him.

Marcel's body becomes enveloped in green energy as he runs towards Larias, he makes a fist and launches it towards him, Larias expecting that simply dives away from harmsway.

One of the red creatures leap towards his position, Larias was still on the floor, it was about to land on him but Larias keeps rolling away causing the creature to continually keep stomping on the ground as it approached him.

An arrow whizzed past him but Larias grabs the arrow, quickly he throws the arrow to the forehead of the red creatures causing him to drop to the ground dead as his entire body gets frozen to block, the other of the red creatures approach, before Larias could do anything, it lifts him from the ground and throws him towards Marcel, Marcel's body was enveloped with green energy, he smiles as he dashes towards Larias and gives him a rewarding punch to the centre of his face causing him to fall to the ground, Marcel dashes towards him as if to kick him.

Larias rolls on the ground away from Marcel's reach, the other red creature was closing in on him from the opposite direction and the elf was shooting arrows at him which he was struggling his hardest to dodge.

Being in Azexela's domain, he had completely lost his omnipotence and invulnerability, he was far weaker than he was but he was still skilled.

When he gained the essence of the seven gods, all this had been revealed to him but Larias enjoyed every bit of it, he loved worthy opponents as he felt this moment was simply exhilarating.

The ice elf shoots another arrow at him, Larias grins as he grabs the arrow while still on the ground, putting all his weight on the arrow which was still in mid air, he does a front flip over it landing on his feet, as he did that, he throws the arrow towards the elf hitting him square in the forehead.

"AHHHHH" the red creature shouts as he runs towards him but Larias simply grabs the arm he was trying to use to hit him, he held it with his right arm, he could hear Marcel coming behind him.

Marcel wanted to use this chance to decimate him, Larias just smiled, as Marcel was about to him, Larias jumped high in the air, slapping the red creatures head, he shoves him over to Marcel, Marcel tried to stop but his momentum was too much, he hits the red creature destroying him.

As soon as he had done that, Larias did a back flip as he impales the Scimitar he had inside Marcel's head burying it in his skull, it came out from his lower chin causing blood to drip.

Marcel had an amazed look before he slumps to his death.

"That's how it's done" Larias grins, he was now facing Drafla.

"You fighting Larias was merely for our own amusement, this sanctuary known as Azexela's domain was once the Mistress' sanctuary, Azexela had won the right to this place as her own when you had initially stepped in" the mistresses say motioning over to Larias( the mistresses are all in Drafla's body)

"But right now, the mistresses are one again and we can manipulate every event that takes place inside the domain as we so wish."

"Meaning if you try and destroy yourselves, it's going to work" Larias smirks in their direction.

"What do you mean?"

"You see earlier on, I lied about finding a way to defeat you when I began to check infinite possibilities, though I did see countless possibilities, all of them ended with me being defeated, that wasn't the limit of all I could view but I intentionally stopped, I wanted to invent a way to personally destroy the mistresses myself" Larias ends with a grin

"I knew you would try and use the Scimitar on me, it's the only thing useful against the supreme beings but I realized something about the Scimitars, they could only affect beings, be it the undead, any form of lower creature, gods and even mistresses but there was something they couldn't affect."

"What?" The three mistresses asked in unison.

"They couldn't affect each other, if two Scimitars collide, they will still retain their properties and potency, I realized this from my battle in the alternate creation, when I was being attacked by several Scimitars, I kept blocking and defending myself with my own Scimitar and yet it wasn't getting destroyed neither was theirs" Larias ends with a haughty grin as he looks upon Drafla, she was clearly amazed, even they hadn't realized that yet, mainly because they never tried to experiment before.

"Even with the knowledge you have gained, it still won't prevent you from meeting your doom" the three mistresses tell him.

"Ooh, I wouldn't be so sure about that" Larias ends as he takes a completely silver small cube from his cloth with dimensions of six centimetres.

"I created this personally from the same material which was used to create the Scimitar so that no matter what happened, I would be safe, I imbued with the energy of each of the gods and it's just for one particular purpose."

"What purpose?" The three mistresses ask, the look on Drafla's face shows they were clearly dumbfounded.

"To separate you and completely mask your essence, it also masks my essence too and it does one more thing" Larias ends with a grin.

"What?" They ask.

"How about I show you" Larias grins as he squeezes the cube.

A white fog fills the room, when it cleared out, the mistresses found out that they were all scattered all over the room, Larias was no where to be found but there was a problem, there were two Azexelas and they each stood next to each other.

"So the energy enabled him to change his appearance" Ashun says looking over at the two Azexelas as she turns towards Ashun

"Who do you think is the real one" she asks.

"I am" the Azexela at the right shouts aloud as she points to the other one

"This is an impostor."

"The real Azexela would never fidget, Larias, we know it's you" Drafla says aloud as she points at the Azexela who shouted, then she snaps her fingers.

Usually only Azexela could do as she pleased in her domain but she shared that right amongst the three mistresses so they could now do whatever they wanted to.

As Drafla snaps her fingers, the Azexela she pointed to instantly vaporises, Drafla couldn't comprehend it, she felt something like a force moving her from the position where she was and sending her to another, in the spot where she stood was now another of her.

And that wasn't the only bizarre thing, even Ashun too had multiplied.

"You are such a fool" Ashun says aloud, the Ashun who said that was in a different position and the Ashun she saw initially still retained the same position she had seen her earlier on so all logic points to the Ashun who spoke as being fake.

Drafla couldn't help but feel bad, they had actually destroyed the real Azexela but why did she fidget like that, she had known Azexela from the beginning of the dawn of time, she would never get flustered or aggravated over anything but yet it appeared she did or didn't she, there was something she was missing, then her eyes actually lit up as she found out what Larias was doing but too late.

"I am the real Ashun, you are obviously the fake one" Ashun says to her double as she snaps her fingers, instantly, both of them become nothingness, immediately, Larias appears in the room.

In a game of wits, he had defeated the mistresses.

"You had taken Azexela's form earlier" Drafla says to Larias

"You intentionally fidgeted like that as you know we will instantly attack you as all knew Azexela's real personality and immediately you did that, you switched positions with the real Azexela causing me to destroy her."

"You are absolutely accurate" Larias grins at her

"But do you know what occurred to Ashun."

"I still can't put my finger around it, it makes no sense, it's almost as if she destroyed herself."

"You see" Larias began

"When you first destroyed Azexela, your broke the mistress' pact meaning you no longer had absolute control over this realm, Ashun too knew you had destroyed Azexela and seeing that there were two of you and two of her, she knew that she couldn't easily decipher between the two of yous but she could see that her double was obviously an impostor or so it seemed" Larias ends with a mild grin.

"What do you mean so it seemed?" Drafla asks.

Larias grins as a stone materialises in his hand, he threw it towards the spot where the supposed Ashun's double was and as the stone gets to the position.

"KRAANG KRAAANG KRRANNG" came the sound of glass shattering all over the room.

"I had simply put a mirror there and I aimed it at the perfect angle that it would capture her exact position and appearance without it being obvious, her intended goal was to write whosever that was out of existence in all, what she didn't know was that was her, the mirror was enchanted and it was made with the same material with the Scimitars hence why it retained his potency, so I just made it do a little convincing and Ashun fell for the cheap bait obliterating herself from existence in all" Larias grins

"You see you could have easily wiped me out from the moment I stepped in here" Larias smiles as he continues

"In order to prevent that, since this was your domain, you obviously had the edge so it would be unthinkable that I would be able to defeat you in this plane, that was why I was deliberately trying to annoy and aggravate you, because you so easily fell for my cheap bait, you wanted to torture and make me feel immense pain before destroying me, that was I was able to win, I had already gotten inside your head from the beginning" Larias laughs cruelly, he now had the most haughty grin on his face

"In the game of wits, I have defeated the smartest beings in all of creation, I truly am superior to all."

Drafla was amazed, she didn't know what to do, she had intentionally sent d**k, Lefinna, Angel and Michael from the realm cause they would only hold them back if they faced Larias as they knew it was practically impossible to be defeated in their domain but Larias had done the impossible as he had done many times in the past

"I have to find a way to stall him, the alpha human is yet to find the little gift I left for him in order to ascend high enough to see the creator" Drafla thinks to herself.

"My original plan" Larias began as he walks towards her

"Was to absorb the essence of the three mistresses but it seems like that would be impossible as there was no way I could defeat them without endangering myself if they were still alive" Larias ends as he approaches Drafla.

Larias had healed from all the injuries he had sustained during the war, he could feel his magnificent power and impregnable invincibility returning back to him and Drafla stood directly before him, she would make a magnificent price, he tells himself as he touches her forehead, he was expecting to feel enormous energy and essence but he couldn't feel anything.

It was then Larias put everything together, why they has originally left the generals of Meglor to face him, while the mistresses tried to fight him here after ensuring that the alpha human escaped, they wanted him to ascend to the presence of the creator, the creator had made himself intentionally scarce and the most catalyst was an humongous form of energy, one which had to be practically limitless.

"You put all of your essence in the alpha human, didn't you" Larias challenges her.

"And what if I did" Drafla smirks at him.

"So you told him a lie, you said the creator stripped you of your status, I knew it was unusual, the creator would never even interfere with the activities in his creation talk less of doing something like that, you intentionally stripped yourself of your status and gave it to the Alpha human" Larias says, his face was all flustered.

"You are not so bad yourself, you should be a detective, that job would fit you quite nicely" Drafla smirks at him.

"Don't play with me" Larias shouts at her

"I was able to see everything, you mentioned the Rezkem realm but I can see everything that is going on there but I can't see him, I have looked over all of the lower realms, the abyss, he isn't there, where did you send him."

"You have been acting like a detective for quite a while, why don't you figure out the mystery" Drafla grins.

"AHHHH" Larias shouts as he ripped Drafla's head from her body, she was totally useless.

Drafla's severed head smiles in Larias' direction

"Earlier on, you said you won in the battle of wits against the mistresses but you were wrong, we all knew one way you would find a way to defeat us, you have done that before so what stops you from doing it again, our original goal was that we would amass enough energy for the alpha human in order to enable him to ascend to the creator, by killing each and everyone of us who had all done a soul cry in d**k's name, you have helped us to achieve our original goals" Drafla ends with a mild smile

"We are the cleverest beings in the whole of creation, did you think we would be bested so easily" she ends as her eyes closes as she breathes her last.

Larias was clearly flustered and annoyed, how had they played him the way they did, he was sure he was on top of things, it looked like all his plan was going perfect but he hadn't accounted for one thing; what their plan actually was.

"Okay Drafla" Larias says looking over at her severed head

"You have always been wise beyond comprehension and I have always feared it, you have won the battle but I assure you, in the end, I shall stand atop all of creation in the end and it's not going to be because of any personal reason in particular, it's all due to three words" Larias ends as he puts on his most haughty grin

"Because I can."

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Dick and the rest has appeared in the realm which separated Reality from existence, the realm where omnipresence doesn't reach, Angel, Michael and Lefinna appeared to be frozen as they just stood and put on strange postures.

Dick suspected that from the way he was just realizing this, he too must have been frozen.

As he tries to figure out the reason why he was frozen, he felt a force to mighty that he was powerless to resist pull him upwards.

He finds himself standing directly before a being who was about eighty feet tall, it was shrouded in glory and splendor, he emitted golden light which illuminated the entire space, it was the creator.

"Hey creator, long time no see, I see you have gotten bigger from the last time we met, you have gotta take it easy on those chilli dogs" d**k grins at him.

"Dickson Reyes" the creator began

"I have seen all the events that took place and I didn't set a particular one in motion, I just watched all unfold as it was exhilarating to see, I deliberately withdrew myself and Drafla from seeing how this will all end as the suspense of this all has kept me on my toes, it's the most spectacular war in creation since your previous incarnation, Ixonquious."

"So why are you telling me all this super story" d**k asks yawning.

"You are the only one who can stop Larias but as you are now, you are powerless against him and that would destroy the fun I am having, Larias is a being of limitless will and determination, I truly fear him, there are only two things I fear" the creator says.

"What's the other?" d**k asks.

"It's of no relevance" the creator answers.

"I know what it is" d**k begins with a haughty grin

"Earlier on, when shady virgin came, you were amazed I was able to thwart and destroy his goals from just having a conversation with Marcel, that was truly when you began to restrict the events of time from Drafla, then later on, you saw 16 year old me and me destroy the morale of blue blur with just mere words, from all these info, it's quite easily to discover that you fear most" d**k ends with a haughty grin.

"And what's that?" The creator asks.

"An association between Ixonquious and I" d**k ends with a mild grin.

"Your inference is as accurate as ever, but that's not the issue, Larias shall approach me for my essence, I have stored half of my entire essence as a reward for completion of a certain trial, if you succeed, you shall claim it while I give Larias the other half as he has impressed me with his amazing accomplishments."

"That sounds fair, gonna be a typical bad guy vs good guy battle, seen that s**t a lot in movies" d**k grins.

"But beware" the creator says

"If you succeed and manage to get half my essence and Larias secures the other half, if the two of you face off against each other, the one with the stronger willpower shall overwhelm the other and completely take the essence present in him and destroy the one with the weaker willpower in the process."

"Oooh shit."