At this point, Arthur, who felt he had the situation under control noticed something was different. When his eyes turned to unconscious boy in his hand, his face changed.
As the baleful aura surrounded Thomas, the later shook off the demon prince with a howl. His speed more than doubled in less than a second.
Standing on the pathway of a thousand lights, Thomas had no way to maneuver other than shoot energy off his feet. Simultaneously, a red-purple colour erupted from his body one, two, three red-purple seals. The seals had a hexagon shape and together formed a triangle pattern in the air.
Seeing his intentions, Arthur tried to stop him. "Don't, we are inside the dimensional pathway. We both will die if we fight in here!"
Not caring to hear, Thomas slashed downwards with his hand.
"DIE!" With a rough and vicious roar, a crescent moon-shaped blade fell down upon the demon prince, who blocked it with his arms.
'Urhg!" Pushed back a few meters, Arthur did care about the cut in his left arm as he finally grew worried as more and more attacks arrived one after another.
This barrage of moves didn't leave any way out of him to escape. Most of all, he felt deeply annoyed. A mere human with demon blood and physique had pressured him, a pure-blooded prince this much, what a humiliation.
'He's lost it.' One quick look at the baleful aura radiating of Thomas was enough for him to understand the situation. His father and every other superior demon were plagued by the same problem.
Every demon has a baleful aura appear within their heart as the accumulation of negative emotions, representing the true nature of a demon that could grow stronger through this method. Some demons would delve in battles, plunder and crimes only to accumulate enough negative emotions to get stronger. Of course most demons could live well without depending on it, but when one succumbs to the true nature of a demon, they lose themselves forever becoming a Wraith.
Unlike most human-form demons, a Wraith is one fierce monster that only feeds on death and destruction and has no sense of self. Once a demon is took over by it, the demon will attack and eat anything in front of it, be it animal, beast and even family.
The origin to this aura is something no demon has been able to fully understand other than the fact it only happens to human-form demons, demon beast doesn't suffer from this curse. Since then the human-form demon would live apart from demon beast since being too close to their primal selves would only make the curse stronger.
For this to happen to a Mera of the human race must mean his demonic blood inside him is starting to take over.
He's actually under the control of the baleful aura?! Without question, any demon in this frenzied state is extremely dangerous, even if he has not completely transformed into a Wraith. In a couple minutes, he felt this human with upper stage 2-star Elite power raise all the way to half-step Master adept in his demon form, now he's a least a peak 1-star Master.
'Fuck, because of this kid, we deviated from the route. I must make him waste all his energy in pointless attacks....' Knowing his opponent won't stop for anything in this world, Arthur drew out his weapon, a small golden dagger with small markings in its handle and blade.
Booooom! With a sonic boom, Thomas cut through space, swiftly approaching. The second he rose his hand in order to attack.
In response, Arthur tried to move but realized all his movements seemed frozen in space, no, it was Thomas that was moving too fast.
Inside his body, all his blood ignited into a wildfire that circulated in his veins as the demon pearl next to his heart burned.
His sunlight demon transformation activated instinctively, this time a lot more bestial with large claws, horns and a new set of teeth. Purple and orange colours swirled around in a purple-orange mix, brightening all his tattoos up.
"No!!!" Awakening his own power, Artorias forcibly increased his speed to match Thomas as they started exchanging fast attacks.
Three hundred punched per minute were exchanged between the two as the shockwaves shook the interior of the pathway.
After over ten minutes, Arthur had to evade, landing on a string of light a hundred meters away.
In that instant, the proud demon prince of Sonad royal family was truly afraid as his heart beats fast. He clearly feel Thomas power growing in his frenzied state. each of his punches had been getting faster and together to defend, at this rate it will be he the one who loses.
"Growl!" Drops of liquified energy and demon blood formed at a distance close to Thomas as it circulated a pre-formulated path around his body. Thomas had no sense of his actions, yet performed several hand seals in a matter of 1 millisecond.
A single orange sun rose at back of Thomas' head, with all it's overwhelming might falling upon those below. As a dark red aura mixed into it, its power instantly multiplied as a vicious air awoke within the sun
A massively thick wave of demonic energy burst forth from his body, forming into a glittering gold armour. The entire suit of armour he was wearing is an artifact made of Bloodsun Gold imbued with a strengthening spell and demon runes. This set had been prepared for him by the emperor on the day of his sixteenth birthday, it was also the only gift his father, the emperor had ever given him.
The demon prince's mouth curved into a slight smile as he put his own into attacking. He was sure no attack could break his armor so all he needed was to hit Thomas with a single finishing move. Raising the Spear of Ares above his head, the divine weapon and sun melted as one, bringing forth immense power.
.....Pa! Thomas pierced forward with the last remnants of energy.
The spear and dagger met, along with the dazzling purple-orange radiance clashed with the gold mist.
"I won't lose for a tainted Mera. As a lowly demon, shut up and hear your master!" The dagger pressed forward, step by step, gaining the advantage over Thomas' spear.
However, the result was definitely unexpected. Thomas empty eyes burned with life as every single one of his cells ignited in fury.
"What?!" For a split second, Arthur could swore to have seen a majestique flaming burn in the depths of the boy's eye before the unbelievable happened the spear cut through the demon dagger as easily as butter!
Such a powerful blow, flying straightforward. In short time it reaches the breastplate of the armor.
Shiiiing! All the runes and enchantments of the armor activated immediately and prevented the armor from breaking, even dispersing the remaining force into its surroundings.
However, this wasn't all. After the impact dissipated, a blazing wave of heat emerged from the spear only to be absorbed by the armor.
"This?! AHHHHH, IT'S BURNING!!! My whole body is melting!"
Boooooooooom!
With the explosion, the whole tunnel of light trembled violently as the whole pathway broke down mid-fight.