After the rounds we all went home to celebrate Lilith, Kyron, Pandora and Cynthia's victory but Lilith stayed with Kyron so it was only us seven.
"VICTORY!" Arthur said as he popped a confetti canon.
Everyone laughed and drank and ate till they passed out, which they didn't.
"Laertes get a load of this, We're getting married." Arthur said as he swayed side to side while holding Cynthia in his arms.
"Arthur you're drunk and you're under age."
"Relax Laertes, I'm technically old enough to drink and I'm pretty sure I'm even older than the people who can up with that law."
"You're not, the overlords came up with it before your grandfather was born. You was born on the 3rd December 455AD and the law was established long before that."
Arthur just kept drinking and so did the others.
"Aren't you going to join them?"
"I prefer not to." Pandora said as she looked down at the countertop of the kitchen.
"What's wrong?"
"I need to tell you something."
"What?"
"My father wants me to go back."
"Well you should then, I don't want to, you know, interfere with your family again."
"Okay then, I'll go back but can I ask you a question?"
"Go on."
"Would you want to go back?"
"Never in hell."
"I see what you did there."
"Thanks. You should try go back, do you know why?"
"No, my father didn't tell me but I'm sure there doesn't need to be a meaning to go back home."
"Yeah. The Asyloriam is nice but there's no place like home."
"I'll listen to you then. I'm going after the tournaments."
"Then I cherish the time we have left with each other."
"Yeah." Pandora said almost with melancholy.
I looked at her from the corner of my eye, only to see that her smile kept disappearing into her sadness. Her eyes looked like they were about to water and her face was glum. I don't know if what she said to the others in secret is true or not, I don't know her true feelings towards me, whether she sees me as a colleague, friend, enemy, rival or something more or something less. Her true feelings can only be understood by her as she keeps me from seeing her thoughts and hides her feelings from me using her skills. It's as if she tries to hide some things. She has only acted like this because it helps with my plans, she didn't really have any affections towards me, but that's only what I think. I sat on the top of the Asyloriam's roof and just thought about what her father said to her. She could easily lie to me but I technically have a built in lie detector and can identify if any person is lying or not.
"You did it didn't you."
"What are you talking about?"
"You know what I'm talking about, I'm not stupid."
"Yeah I did."
"You did it so Kyron is out of the tournament so that Lilith's alone."
"Pretty much."
"So that's me and Lilith participating alone and you're going to add more to that list aren't you."
"You saw right through me then."
"So who's your next target?"
"You'll see."
"Not in the next round then, probably going to be someone strong, someone like Arthur."
"Wow! How did you know?"
"Pandora, I have an IQ of 7,582,963, something like that cannot fool me."
"How did you even manage to calculate your IQ?"
"My father's tests. He had a vizier who made an IQ test which could calculate my IQ."
"Cassius Gallio Dryadilas. The Chess King."
"Yeah."
My teacher, one of the only people I actually respect. A man with such a high IQ he was about on par with me. He planned every battle my father fought in and ever battle was either stalemate or checkmate, as he used to always say.
"Eris's father. I only met him once or twice, he is a good man."
"Yeah he is."
"About my father-"
Suddenly, a beam hit the house. The beam almost destroyed the whole house but the barrier I put up protected the living room which we were in.
Guess this is what they call Plot Armour.
As the gust of wind slowly disappeared, what looked like a person could be seen walking towards us.
"Are you guys alright?" I said as I quickly changed to my Awakened Form.
"Yeah, you?" Arthur said.
"Yeah I'm alright."
"Who is that?" Pandora said.
"I don't know, I can't read their mana."
"What?!" Cynthia said.
We could hear the fear from her voice. A person who can hide their mana like me, Lilith, Arthur and Pandora should be extremely powerful and even that is an understatement. I drawed my katana and unsheathed it. The ground rumbled and time stopped. The rubble stopped in the air but we could still move as we transcend time and space.
"Put your weapons away, I'm only here to talk."
"Who the hell destroys someone's house just to talk?"
"Quiet Arthur, questions later."
"Nyx, at least restore our home."
"Fine then. Restore."
The rubble from the house moved back to their original places, soon the whole house went back to its original state. Nyx stood next to us as she restored the house she destroyed. Her long coat and her long black hair swayed in the air, her blood red eyes looked at me as I watched her.
"What?"
"What did you want to talk about?"
"I need to talk to you, the half elf and the human Vasilias."
"My name's Pandora."
"My name's Nyx the Primordial of Mysanyxta, let's get along." Nyx said with sarcasm.
"Where do you want to talk?"
"We can talk here but I'm gonna have to create a sound barrier so the others can't hear."
"Why?" Arthur asked.
"It's severely important."
"Okay then."
A barrier engulfed us, soon the outside world could be seen but not heard.
"So what is it?"
"I'll start with your weapons."
"Our weapons?"
"Quiet Arthur and let the woman speak." I said as I was eager to know about the weapon I wield but as normal, no emotions appeared on my face to show.
"Arthur and Levantes, you two have something called the Arcane Relics."
"Arcane Relics?"
"Yes Arthur and I'm sure that Levantes is familiar about the topic." Nyx looked at me and I just looked back.
"The Arcane Relics, you mean the weapons which were made for the Primordials and Yaldabaoth himself?"
"Exactly Half-Elf."
Pandora looked like she was about to explode but she contained her anger and let Nyx carry on.
"The Arcane Relics are the strongest known weapons to exist in our world. They are higher than the Archon grade thus the name, Arcane."
"So Arcane is the grade higher than Archon?"
"Seems like you catch on pretty quick human."
"WHY DO YOU SAY LAERTES'S NAME BUT NOT OURS?!"
Pandora and Arthur were clearly beyond enraged but both let Nyx carry one because they knew clearly that even with me they would both lose to Nyx.
"Know your place human."
We all felt Nyx's cold, murderous intent. At that moment we all stayed quiet and let Nyx carry on without interruptions.
"Anyways, there are only nine Arcane Relics and two of them are here."
"I see but there's six primordials and then there's Yaldabaoth so how is there nine?" Arthur said confused.
"There were originally eight but we don't know how the ninth came to exist."
"What? You guys don't even know?"
"Yes Half-Elf, even we don't know and we also don't know who has it."
"That's rare."
"Let's move on. I'm sure you guys know about the Archon King."
"Yeah, the king who rules over the Kingdoms."
"Well the last one was Yaldabaoth and there's going to be another one pretty soon."
Nyx said as she looked at me.
"I'm not up for something that exhausting."
"Someone I knew said that as well and look what they became, strongest being in existence."
"Where's the others?"
"We're going to them now."
A large portal that looked that it lead to the cosmos appeared infront of us. We all walked through the portal without hesitation. We walked through what looked like a corridor for what seemed like minutes but we only walked for a couple of seconds. After walking for some time we could then just about see a hall on the other end.
"Hurry up then, they're waiting."
"Don't rush us Nyx, let us take our time."
"The only thing I won't rush is your torture so you better hurry up human."
As we entered the hall we found five other people. They were all almost scattered around the room doing their own things.
The Primordials.
"They're here."
Their attention was pointed at us. They looked at us almost as if they were judging us.
"Hello there my students."
He's here.
"Hello Tartarus."
I caught Erebus staring daggers at me from the corner of my eye.
Not even welcoming your grandson, looks like it runs in the family.
"Hello Levantes."
"Aether, leave him alone."
Aether came behind me and hugged me almost violently making me almost drop on the floor.
"Lose some weight."
Aether then threw multiple punches at me which I dodged with ease by tilting my head side to side. Eventually, she stopped.
"Levantes Artrium Volomir, how's your studies?"
"The fact you asked clearly means you don't know a thing about me."
We then looked at each other. The atmosphere could be cut with a knife.
"Now, now, let's not be hasty and fight." A small girl said. The girl had brown hair and blue eyes, she was not a human but something we don't know.
"Fine then Amanke."
Amanke? The Primordial of Creation? She's one of the most powerful of the Primordials.
"Nice to meet you Levantes." Amanke said.
"Hello there Amanke, I'm Arthur Pendragon, the Human Vasilias, King of Camelot and Excalibur."
"Hello Arthur." Amanke said as she smiled at him.
"Relax Arthur, Cynthia's waiting."
"Don't have to remind me Laertes."
"Laertes?"
"It's a nickname Aether."
"Why Laertes?"
"Laertes here, killed-" Arthur stopped instantly after I looked at him.
"You can continue." I said as there was no stopping it as Aether asked.
"He killed Mauros Lariar."
"Mauros, you mean-"
"Yes Erebus."
"It's grandfather Levantes."
"Act like one first."
"I'm the one who made you that powerful, the strength you have now is because of me and what is given can be taken."
"WHAT YOU GAVE ME WAS NOT FROM YOU! I F*CKING GAINED IT FROM TRAINING AND NOT FROM YOUR F*CKING SO CALLED TRAINING!"
"Quiet children, we shall start."
Instantly we both listened to Nyx but my anger still remained.
"Most of us know why we are here."
"Not really-"
"Quiet human. We are here because the next Archon King's coming is soon."
"What happened to Yaldabaoth?"
"YOU FOOLISH HALF-ELF. DO NOT SPEAK HIS NAME!"
"Calm down Erebus."
"Why did he reincarnate?" I said.
As I said my question we all saw the Primordials face's change. Fear was written on their faces and they all kept quiet.
"Persaeus."
"Who?"
"Don't worry, you'll know sooner or later."
Persaeus, the Greek god of Destruction. Perhaps there is some correlation between the two of them.
It's him. It's definitely him. [Nyx's thoughts]
"Well it was nice meeting you-"
"Wait. Levantes, do you know about it?"
"About what?"
"Don't worry. The Archon King's coming so be careful."
Scenario 491,390-A. [Nyx's thoughts]
As we went back to the portal we all knew something was wrong. What could make the current strongest being in existence to speak like that? What can make a group who can destroy worlds forget about Otheoses that scared? Who the hell is Persaeus? These questions filled out minds.
"You're thinking about it as well."
"Of course I am. Our combined IQs is definitely over a million so can we figure this out?"
"I'm sorry Arthur but I have no clue."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
As we walked towards the end of the portal's corridor we found that what was at the end was not our house but something much, much worse.