Chapter 143 - 131: A Long Ass Chapter (1/2)

(A Month Later)

*Clang* *Clang* *Clang*

Sparks flew everywhere whenever Vali tried to hit War with his black spear.

Vali wore the scorched armor of the black knights of Lordran. Two horns protrude from the top of the helm, designs so neat of the chest plate, the gauntlets let him move his hands as free as if he never wore it, and leggings that made metallic sound in every step.

Like an experienced warrior, Vali, with his amazing speed, suddenly appeared in front of War with his spear ready to stab the older warrior in front of him with the force of a meteor! But War blocked it with the just the tip of his finger, stopping the spear instantly.

Yet, Vali was not finished yet. He jumped away from War and then shot up, almost crashing to the ceilings. Using the ceilings of the training room, he then used all the forced his legs could muster and pushed himself to go towards War with extreme speed that it left a shockwave that almost destroyed the ceilings! With his spear pointing towards War, he plunged the spear into War's chest that's covered by a golden armor which had the helm designed like a lion.

”Heup!”

The shockwave that occurred upon contact between them destroyed the floor and everything around them, yet War simply took the blow head on, not even flinching for a second. He pointed at Vali's forehead with his hand while the younger warrior's spear clashed upon his armor, and flicked Vali's forehead and then the white haired boy flew across the training room, only stopping when he crashed into the titanium wall.

A deep hole was created in the wall, and smoke filled Vali's vision. When he finally came out of that hole, he was holding his head as if he was in pain. He took off the helm and threw it away out of haste, just to ease the pain he was feeling.

”Aaaaaahh! Shit, this hurts way too much! Couldn't you have been a little softer, you f.u.c.k.i.n.g old man!” Vali yelled a stream of curses towards War, and the older warrior only stayed stoic.

From across the room, War only said, ”You are a warrior, am I right? Then you can take at least this much. The Spartans suffered much more than this when they were your age, and they were only humans. Even when their bloodline had all but ended, their strength is still feared even among the supernatural. They were only humans, yet you can't even do a quarter of what they can do when they were your age. How pathetic!”

”Shut it! I am already stronger than any Ultimate-Class being! Can't I just take a break? I've been training for almost a month now!” Vali complained, after immediately shortening the distance between him and War just after a couple of steps.

”A warrior does not complain! A warrior can take on everything that life throws at him! You are a warrior!! War said, trying to at least shut Vali's complains.

The white haired boy only muttered curses. He then readied his spear, its edge shining under the light of the training room.

But then, War took off his helm and smiled at Vali, ”But maybe you could take a little break. It has been 12 hours since you started training today, after all.”

”Finally!” Vali cheered happily, before instantly running out of the training room to get some snacks and watch some TV to relax.

Now, don't get him wrong, he still loves fighting but not when he loses for like every round. He is still a child, after all. Every single day since the day he became one of Hikaru's pawns, he trained harder than anyone his age. Every day, he was covered in his own blood and sweat while shakily holding the spear that Hikaru gave him.

The first time he got his equipment, he struggled to even move while wearing it. Every piece of the armor weighs a total of 500 Kilograms each, and the black spear was around one ton. They were the heaviest things he had to wear in his life, but it helped him grow his physical strength even further. Due to his genetics as the great grandson of Lucifer himself, he was able to grow stronger quicker than any devils the same age as him.

While he does complain whenever War kicks his ass, he doesn't dislike the training. It makes him grow stronger than ever before, and this is all for the sake of getting revenge to his father and grandfather. Oh, how he loves to slaughter the two of them and spread their innards all over the place.

He had abandoned his other goal, which is to best Great Red, and instead replaced it with another goal; become stronger than his master, AKA, Hikaru.

He found out that his master is even stronger than Great Red, if the light show of him destroying a solar system wasn't enough proof of his strength. Hikaru is by far the strongest being he has seen in his life. Azazel can't even bring himself to look at Hikaru's eyes without feeling fear towards the powerful being.

But the most surprising part was how submissive War, Pestilence, and Lady Death were towards Hikaru. They literally couldn't speak his name without trembling a little. Those three are the three most powerful beings he has ever seen in his life, even Super Devils can't compare to their strength. Most ”powerful” beings in this world aren't even as strong as War's finger, and that's even an understatement.

He had gotten along with the giant lizard living under the caste, since it reminded him a little of Albion. The lizard is kind towards him for some reason but he's going to complain about it since they are now best buds! That lizard is strong though. It could destroy a mountain with a swipe of its claws, but its strength is nowhere near to his master's strength.

Anyway, he'll take a break before he goes to rest, since he is going to train again tomorrow.

(With Hikaru)

”Damn, even this is a bit of an overkill.”

Arriving at Stage 1,000,000, he stood up to see a million Black Knights, waiting to kill him.

Now, each and every single one of them are 1/100 as strong as him. They could probably slice him in half, if he isn't careful.

Right now, he equipped no equipment and only came barehanded. He trusts his skills as a fighter, and his overpowered magic spells.

With a snap of his fingers, he muttered, ”Celestial Borg,” and a transparent blue barrier surrounded him. Like hawks, the black knights circled around him like a predator staring at its prey. Unfortunately for them, it seems like the role is reversed.

The arena he was on is a large stone land that stretched farther than the eyes can see. It's a flat land, so it will be easier for the black knights to move around. But the thing that caught his eyes the most were their formations. Tens upon tens of thousands of archers were at the very back, while black knights at the front had huge shields that he has never seen before. At the middle of their formation were the black knights equipped with melee weapons like the giant black great sword, longsword, spear, and short sword.

All of them looked menacing, but that didn't stop Hikaru from creating a giant sun in the sky that was almost as big as the sun. The heat murdered their armors, but they felt no pain, only the robotic commands of the being that created them.

Hikaru then brought down the sun, engulfing the entire arena with light and heat.

After a few seconds or so, the light went down and all of the black knights were gone, not even ashes remained.

”Hmm, that worked well.” Usually, most of them would be able to survive that and immediately attack him so that he won't have the time to cast that spell again. He created that spell when he wanted to know how to create a sun, he named it, ”The Nearing Sun”. Normally, this spell wouldn't even kill a quarter of those black knights, but since he was able to level up his INT Stat, he now has stronger magic power.

Looking at his rewards, he smiled.

[Rewards: 100 Quintillion Souls, Black Knight's Summoning Stone *100, Black Knight's Halberd *10,000, Black Knight's Greatsword *10,000, Black Knight's Longsword *10,000, Black Knight's Short Sword *10,000, Black Knight's Great Bow *10,000, Black Knight Armor Set *2000, Divine Blessings *100,000, Black Knight Gladiator's Duel Blades *10,000, Anti-Demon Fighting Style Book *10, Junk *1,000,000, Undead Feces *1,000,000]

He immediately threw away the junk and feces that appeared as his reward. You see, whenever he dips his hand into the bottomless box he touches other items, and feces are just gross. They are basically undead shit from undead who ate food and never really had the function to digest it, then it turns into Undead Feces. Fortunately for him, he does have the function to digest, except he doesn't get any nutrients, the food just disappears whenever it goes down his throat.

Anyway, point is, it's disgusting and he doesn't want his hands, or any of his body part, near it.

He nodded at the rest of the rewards. He basically has millions of Black Knight Equipment just sitting in his bottomless box, or storage, and he can better equip his army with these weapons and armors. They are not upgraded, since he'll have to upgrade them one by one and that'll take way too long, but they are powerful equipment and no army in the entire galaxy would be able to beat his future army once they are well coordinated and strong enough to actually face some of the fiercest war lords in the universe.

But he hasn't actually built his army yet, he is just currently training his generals, I.e his chess pieces. War, Pestilence, Lady Death, the giant lizard sleeping in his bas.e.m.e.nt, and Tiamat are barely even qualified to be proper generals for him. He had seen what some galactic empires could do. Even their civilians have the power to destroy mountains, and look at his group. In terms of power, his group loses without him.

Vali can't even beat War, though it's only reasonable for him not to since War has more than 3,000,000 power level while Vali only has around 16,000 or so. If he calculated right, War is almost 300 times stronger than Vali.

Currently, he has the Sacred Gear, Divine Dividing. He took it from Vali because he decided to bring this back to one of his children, Taiyou maybe? Yeah, Taiyou is more calm and collected, even surpassing Shikamaru's son in terms of intelligence. Though, they are still growing, so some things might change in the future.

Once he finds the Boosted Gear, he'll give it to Emiyo because he thinks that she is much suited for the Sacred Gear. She is as energetic as her mother, when her mother was a child. Trust him, he knows how ”energetic” Azumi was, and still is. Anyway, Emiyo is hot blooded and will probably do rash things like saving a village or something without knowing the details behind why the village was attacked in the first place.

Emiyo will be perfect for the title of the ”Red Dragon Emperor” but he'll change it into the ”Red Dragon Empress”. He'll castrate the dragon if he has to, just to achieve that title for his sweet daughter.

Somewhere, in some place, a red dragon shuddered.

(Scene Change)

The little planet he left alone for a month had turned into something he might call ”A Really Shitty Place”. Turns out, more than 40,000 years had passed in that little planet of his and, how do I say this, the church that Roddrick built after slaughtering a bunch of people that was dedicated towards him, Hikaru, as their god have been filled with a bunch of popes that are really into kids. Now, that church was dedicated for him by one of his people, and pedophiles roam that church? This is blasphemy towards him! He'll go down there immediately and kill those f.u.c.k.i.n.g shits! He created them and he can f.u.c.k.i.n.g destroy them, that's for sure!

The small planet orbited around a small sun that was 10 times bigger than the small planet. There were two small moons that he created for the little planet. Under that small solar system, he created, was a grass plain that stretched as far as the eyes can see.

The small solar system he created was inside a barrier that engulfed them with darkness, with the small sun being the only light that brightened them. He plans to add more planets soon, but not now. He has something to do, and that thing is to strangle all the popes to the death.

As he was just ready to shrink himself to a microscopic being and jump into that small planet he created himself, he sensed something. It was despair, coming from a little boy in that little world.

He zoomed his vision into that world, only to see 5 thugs surrounding a boy and a girl. The boy shakily held a dulled long sword against the five a.d.u.l.t thugs, while the girl hid behind him. Now that he looks closer, those thugs weren't really thugs, they looked like priests.

(Artorias POV)

I need to escape with Ruth! If I don't, they'll capture and do unspeakable acts towards her!

The five priests in front of me smiled like vile creatures of the wild, like goblins. They all had hungry looking eyes, but they were not looking at me but at Ruth.

I'm scared, no, terrified to fight against them but Ruth is my friend, and friends are always there for each other!

”Be a good boy and just give us the girl and we'll let you live. We'll forget that this happened, okay?” One of them said. I saw their eyes licking Ruth all over the place, and I instantly got mad.

”S-Shut up, you filthy priests! If only all of you didn't exist, then our lives would've been better!” I screamed at them while shakily holding the dulled sword my father had.

”Tch, let me kill him, Airon. He's talking just like my pop, and I hate that.”

The one named Airon just nodded nonchalantly, and said, ”Just don't hurt the girl, she's an important object for the pope. Maybe once he's finish with her we'll get our turns.”

The more I listened to their conversation, the more I got angry at them. These are the people my parents bow down to? Laughable, they are no priests, they are vile beasts that don't have the same privilege as I, a human, have. But what can I do? I don't have any strength nor power to use to defeat them, but I have to protect Ruth!

I saw the one who said he wanted to kill me, slowly walked towards me. He licked the blade he took out from the sheath by his waist, and said, ”Hehehe, I'll make this as painful as possible, boy. You'll regret having been birth into this world after I'm done with you! Hah!”

The priest attacked with the blade, which I clumsily blocked with my dull sword.

*Clang*

While I held the handle of the sword, my hands felt numb after clashing with the priest's blade. He's strong, but if his strength is just like this, I can probably beat him.

The priest smirked, then said, ”You're probably thinking that you could beat me, right, boy? Well, let me tell you something, there's a reason why most people fear us.”

The priest spread lifted his arm, and spread his hand widely before a ball of blue flame appeared on his hand, ”And it's because of this, magic! Everyone is afraid of us because we have magic! Not even a hundred farmers can best one of us priests because we have magic! A single spell can obliterate an army of trained soldiers! Heh, now that I've opened your small eyes, die!”

”Artorias!” Ruth screamed.