["Telling your only ally on the battlefield to run away, how truly foolish you're, human. You now have no aid to back you up. Perhaps you wish to die early?"] Mammon proclaimed.
["Wish to die early? Well, I can't predict the future, but I can use common sense to tell you that fighting against me won't be pretty."] Richard placed his palm on his neck, cracking it to the side to loosen up his muscles.
["One thing you demons don't understand about us humans, and Atlantis City, is how our skills work. It's simple really; Skills are obtained by taking the Sorcerer discipline program, as it awakens one's soul, and manifests their worldview into reality, while also transcending their worldview over the basic laws of magic."]
Richard held out his palm, conjuring a powerful light-magic in his hand, shocking both William, and Mammon.
["As an example, if someone's worldview was them being an invincible "protagonist" then they would obtain a skill that'll make them invulnerable to certain harm. If another persons worldview was imagining themselves as a "Master Fire user", then they would obtain a skill that lets them conjure inextinguishable flames. You get it now? Sure, you may have a worldview to the world, but there's also worldviews directed to yourself and how you see yourself in the world."]
["So you're saying; however you see yourself in the world will be the skill given to you from that outlook?"] Mammon curiously asked.
["Precisely. You demons aren't half bad at understanding things, are you?"] Richard had suddenly launched a powerful ray of light from his hand past William, and Mammon's head, missing them by an inch.
The aftermath of the attack would leave them stunned, as they turned around to see a catastrophic explosion, towering dozen of mountains in the distance, and even vaporizing them with relative ease.
["He destroyed mountains with a single attack!?"] William proclaimed.
The two demons looked at Richard with nervous sweat, realizing the danger of their situation.
["So this is your skill I take it?"] Asked Mammon.
["Yeah that's right, it's a skill given to me from the Sorcerers program. The outlook I had of myself in the world was always someone who conducted justice, to whomever done wrong. I view myself as someone who purifies evil, and it's perfect for handling demons like you."] Richard menacingly smiled, having a hint of sadism in his expression.
["You utter fool, taking us down won't be so easy."] Mammon proclaimed while proceeding to conjure hefty flames inside her hands, thrusting them forward to cause a massive explosion of fire.
The explosion was directed at Richard, attempting to burn him alive before he could react, however—
["GuHhHhhH!"] Mammon grunted.
A rope made of light had extended from the explosion and wrapped around her neck, pulling her inwards to Richard.
The human was also unharmed.
["As someone who believes they're justice incarnate, my skill allows me to get stronger against those who has done evil through the course of their life!"] Richard shouted, proceeding to punch Mammon in the face once she was pulled towards him.
["Gaaaah—!"] Mammon felt her body fly backwards, however the rope around her neck pulled her inwards again.
["Mammon!"] William looked down to the ground, grabbing a sword from one of the dead soldiers, proceeding to charge at Mammon, cutting the rope in half.
["Y-You bastard!"] Mammon yelled whilst summoning a wave of ice towards Richard, freezing everything in its path.
["Haaaah!"] Richard counterattacked the ice, vaporizing it in a instant with his skill.
["My skill is called filtering luminosity! It moves at light speed, and can even go beyond that! It erases those who have sinned from existence. My skill is unbeatable, especially to the likes of you demons; All your kind has ever done, was kill, take, and rule. You all are greedy bastards, so it's perfect for taking your heads!"] Richard sadistically smiled, launching another ray of light, but towards William this time.
["S-Shit... it's too fast, I can't dodge it—!"] William widened his eyes as the golden ray of light approached him.
He felt as if his life flashed before his eyes... but—
["William, you imbecile!"] Mammon shouted.
William was suddenly lifted from the ground by a powerful windstorm that swept under his feet, saving him from certain death.
("Hm? That woman, Mammon was it? She reacted to my filtering luminosity. She's dangerous. Reacting to light speed movement is no easy feat. The only concepts in this world that can move at light speed is teleportation, and those who have obtained certain skills from the Sorcerer program.")
Skills are only a thing that Atlantis City has, and there's also categories of skills, such as:
Fusion Skill-Type: This is for people who's skill relies on merging/fusing. Depending on how their skill functions, they can fuse with weapons, traits, abstractions, ideas, and matter.
Materialization Skill-Type: The complete opposite of a Fusion Skill-type. These characters have to call upon their Skill from within themselves and materialize it into a perceivable weapon to fight with or summon it from a different location entirely.
Enhancement Skill-Type: Enhancement Skill-Type users are able to enhance objects with their skill, depending on what it is. They can enhance water to become dense as concrete, enhance mental fortitude, enhance ideas, abstractions, magic, and so much more.
Special Skill-Type: Special Skill-Type users are given unfair abilities that surpass the entirety of other skill categories, allowing them to bend reality to their will, control destiny, defy laws of the world, and commit other unthinkable things.
Richard was someone who had a special skill-type, that not even the strongest of demons could go up against... but yet... Mammon was surprising him from her skill in this battle.
Richard only stood there and glanced at Mammon, trying to analyze and predict her every move.
("Aimlessly launching attacks that can nuke the area isn't a good idea, I need to find a way to take her by surprise. Who knows what she has? If she can react to my attacks, then throwing them out would just be a waste of mana.")
["Perish in the flames of hell!"] Mammon levitated into the air, holding her arms above her head as flames engulfed her entire body.
She looked like a miniature sun, melting the surrounding area in flames that shot up to 10,000 Fahrenheit.
["That magic... she'll burn the entire battlefield, including possible survivors!"] Richard watched as the ground was scorched, and things were vaporized in a instant.
He held out his hands, releasing ten individual rays of light that shot from his finger tips.
They all flew into the sky, as he muttered, ["Scatter!"] Which then sent the rays of light in zig-zags, bouncing off the ground, off each other, off other objects, and etc.
["What the hell is he doing?"] William shouted in question.
["You won't see this coming, you bastards!"] Richard smiled while still controlling the rays of light.
["I wont let you pull off your attack, die!"] Mammon finally conjured a powerful ball of fire inside her hands above her head, as it resembled the sun.
She launched it towards Richard as it scorched the surrounding area, even burning away the ground as if it was paper in a furnace.
["You're mine!"] Richard yelled, suddenly staggering both William, and Mammon.
["Aaaah!"] Mammon would hold her chest, de-casting her spell as she fell to the ground.
["I-Impossible!"] William fell to his knees, before planting on his face.
Both of them had holes inside their bodies, causing them to bleed profusely.
["H-How were we hit? I-I didn't see them coming..."] William coughed up blood.
["This can't be... I was suppose to see it! My Magic eyes of Enhancement allows me to react to anything, as long as I seen it used once!"] Mammon puked blood, rolling to her side.
["So that's what allowed you to react to me? You have magic eyes. Only a few in this world has them, so color me surprised."]
Richard walked up to Mammon, and William, holding a smile on his face.
["Maybe you could've reacted to them, if I didn't send my attacks back in time."]
["Y-You're saying you attacked us back in time? Impossible... that's impossible! The only way you can do that is by moving faster than light itself, but physics doesn't allow it."] Mammon responded.
["Atlantis City has defied the laws of physics already by the creation of skills, so is it really that surprising?"] Richard said.
["You... damn... human!"] William slammed his fist on the ground, stumbling as he tried to get up. ["Not like this... I won't be defeated by you! The demon race will win this war, and stop the likes of you people!"] William finally stood on ten toes, clenching his gigantic fists. ["We have made it this far already, it's too late for me to just back down and submit defeat! Bring everything you got, I'll just crush it with my bare hands!!"]
Richard frowned.
["You are one persistent bastard, you know that? But if you wanna continue onwards... that's fine by me!"]