(Ok, I made a big mistake and pushed the power of the Chinese Pantheon too much just to give Romonus a fight. Now, Elders are going to be Peak High Class, the Patriarch Middle Ultimate. The Ancestor will be Peak Ultimate to semi-Satan.
The strong Ancestors will be Satan.)
Romonus never had touched a spear before, but the longer he held the True Longinus the more skills his Demonic Instinct fed into his mind. Now, he was facing a Cultivator that had used a spear for what could be thousands of years.
This was the best way to learn from a master of the spear. As such he lowered his power to at least match the Patriarch to learn. He tensed his 6 Demonic wings which began to power down slightly. The Runes covering every part of them began to lose their shimmer as he readied himself for another fight that could not challenge him.
He stared at the Patriarch and his Elders with a shake of the head.
'First, to deal with the pests.'
He raised his new spear into the sky and formed over 1,000 Magic Circles behind him with ease. Each spell activated as he cast a bombardment of magic down at the Cultivators. The Elders all seemed to panic at the barrage, but the Patriarch did not.
The Patriarch squinted his slitted eyes as he surged his Qi into his Gunandao.
"Magic is inferior to Cultivation. DRAGON RAMPAGE!"
He pierced with the Guando and projected an Azure Asian Dragon formed of Blue Lightning toward the spell barrage. Romonus watched as the Dragon and his spells clashed in a massive explosion.
The Dragon was destroyed and it stopped his first bombardment. However, Romonus' Magic Circles were still open and that was basic elemental mana. He had not used his own Demonic Mana as he had just pulled it from around him.
"Is that all? My magic can do this."
He hefted Ruin Maker as he changed the Spell Formulas to more dangerous magics. Chaos Magic, Dark Magic, Spirit Magic, Death Magic, Abyss Magic, Darkness, Time, Space, Void, and Curses of many types. Seeing the advanced use of Magic the Patriarch scoffed.
"No matter the Spell, the power of the Azure Dragon shall prevail."
He turned to his 10 Elders and motioned with his head.
"Go, I will handle the Demon. Capture his sister and my Son's soul. It must be retrieved and saved."
"AT ONCE!"
At his words, his Elders flew down to stop Grayfia who was flying through the Army of Cultivators alongside the Shadows Romonus sent with her. Each one could not be destroyed fully as they healed as long as Romonus had energy.
Unless you could destroy souls which only the mighty could do, they were effectively immortal. The biggest power of his Necromancy was the link he shared with Archaon.
Archaon made Mana, and Romonus converted that into Demonic Mana. That was drawn by Archaon to make more mana in an infinite loop. As long as Archaon and Romonus fought together, they would not run out of energy.
He showed it as he continuously launched a bombardment of advanced Magic at the Patriarch. The Ancient Cultivator was forced to call on his Spear Dao as he sliced through the thousands of spells launched his way.
Seeing how he was enduring, made Romonus finally feel a tiny amount of joy.
"Taste the power of Gravity."
While his Spell barrage was ongoing he drew on his Gravity Magic. In front of him, he created over 100 small black holes. He launched them at the Patriarch as he did not cease his Magic Barrage.
'Master Dormuteth told me this, Gravity can Create Blackholes. Blackholes warp Space and Time, so use Gravity to affect Time.'
He watched on as the horrified Patriarch called on every part of his Martial Might and Cultivation Techniques to dodge, cut apart, and endure the Black holes. Romonus smirked as he saw the Patriatch try to slice one of them open.
He focused on it and caused it to avoid the Guando Swing before colliding with the chest of the Cultivator. The small Black Hole exploded and enveloped him in its all-devouring singularity.
Down bellow every fighter was forced to look up as the Patriarch's agonized roars came from the middle of the Black Hole bomb.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! HOW DOES A BLACK HOLE TO THE FACE FEEL!"
He found this incredibly funny, but when the Black Hole Bomb ran out of power everyone saw the extremely wounded Patriarch His robe was gone, his body had giant chunks cut out of it and he was missing his feet up to his knees.
Using the distraction, Grayfia covered herself in an armor of ice. From behind her back, she launched over 1,000 ice blades that stabbed several Culivators dead.
High-Class Cultivators were nothing to her and she slaughtered them like they were pigs. She opened her hands and created two Ice Blades before moving in close.
Thanks to her Queen Piece she had the Speed of a Knight, the Strength of a Rook, and the Magic of a Bishop. She was called the Ultimate Queen because her husband needed a Mutation Queen Piece to turn her.
Her strength had been growing since the end of the Great War which made Romonus stare at her. He sighed as his brother did win the lottery when it came to wives.
'LUCKY BASTARD! Too back I am no backstabber. Dad doesn't count since Mom hated him.'
He shook his thoughts away as he observed her fighting style. She moved through the Cultivators with her her arms moving like blurs of Ice. To Grayfia, time had slowed and she carefully hacked off the heads of each of her foes before slicing them in half.
She wasn't alone as her Shadow Vanguard threw themselves in harm's way to allow her to not bother with defense. The three Satan Class Cultivator Shadows still used their techniques and brought their own bloody paths.
This included the son of the Patriarch Romonus hit with a Black Hole bomb. The Elders were not succeeding in trapping him because Grimaldus made sue to cost them their lives for the attempt.
He was flying like a blur of weapons. From his back, he fired his dual-mounted Adrathic Canons, Triple Barreled Reaver Laser Ruinator Canons, Apocalypse Missile Launchers, Sun Furry Annihalater Gatling Guns, and his head-mounted Death Strike Cannon.
Latia had begged her Uncle to add as many Warlord Titan Weapons as he could. Ajuka being himself could not help himself and he had programmed as many as he could. Grimaldus could form them at will from his living metal body with ease. That was not even speaking of his multitude of melee weapons or his magical abilities as he was deadly anywhere.
Seeing that just made Romonus want Latia to finish her K'Ddai Destroyer already. When she got older, he was going to give her one hell of a first time. He could hardly wait for that, but now he fought.
His thoughts had only taken a few milliseconds with how quickly his mind could run through information. He looked back at the Patriarch since the Elders and Cultivators were taken care of. The massive wounds of the Black Hole that had torn his body apart began to close.
His Draconic heritage works to heal his injuries.
"Took you a while. It felt like hours to me."
The Patriarch snarled in anger as he gripped his Guandao.
"You won't talk so big."
Both of them flew high into the sky and locked onto each other. Romonus was so much larger in his Devil Trigger state that the Cultivator seemed tiny.
"I hope for your eternal soul you are prepared to use everything. I have lived a long time and never has anyone challenged me."
'It's been 13 years, but that still feels like a long time.'
The Cultivator pointed his spear at Romonus with eyes burning with self-righteous fury.
"I will. You murdered my son, enslaved his soul. I will take everything you hold dear, your sister will give me another son. I will take your soul and make you watch."
Romonus squinted his eyes as no one talked about Grayfia like that in front of him.
"For the record, he demanded me to hand my sister over to him. She is the one down there slaughtering everyone along with your son. Since you are the same, prepare to join him as my loyal shadow."
That just seemed to set him off as he roared to the sky with the force of a Dragon. The sky filled with Blue Thunderclouds and it started to rain freezing cold rain. Romonus looked up at the sky with both his weapons gripped in his hands.
He looked back down and saw Jiang or whatever his name was charge toward him at blinding speeds.
'Time to test out if I can use all my abilities in tandem.'
He activated his Demonic Touki causing a dark purple aura to envelop him. His Demon Heart thundered away. He drew energy from his link to Archaon and synchronized his senses to Archaon.
'Ready?'
'I am Armored.'
He bellowed as he lunged forward with his body tensed for combat. When he reached Jiang he lifted Ruin Maker and swung it back down with a massive coating of Power of Destruction.
Everything changed after his Baptism with even his Power of Destruction evolving. It used to be Crimson and Black, but it had become Crimson and Purple. Even its ability to annihilate had taken to new extremes.
When Jiang saw the giant destructive slash coming down he drew his Qi from his Dantian. He called on his Spear Heart the advanced state of his Dao and swung upwards. He cleaved the sky open and when his Guandao and Ruin Maker clashed Space exploded.
However, neither he nor Romonus were pushed backward by the explosion. In that same exchange, Romonus stabbed out with the True Longinius at Jiang's heart. The Cultivator though pulled his Guando back and paired it along with the sword slash from Ruin Maker.
'Oh, he is skilled at least.'
Romonus' arms never stopped moving as he stabbed, slashed, cleaved, and swung his sword and spear. Each time he carved open the sky, but even then Jiang in his rage and his Dao of the Spear matched him blow for blow.
No, he was exceeding Romonus in pure skill. Sure if Romonus used his full power he could finish the fight at any time, but he used this time to learn. His Demonic Instict was polishing his skills which meant that he was learning in real time. Each time he was parried, Jiang managed to send a stab or swang at him that smashed against Archaon.
Any minor damage he inflicted healed before it settled, but it just made Romonus' grin wider. Even Jiang, a Cultivator who had been alive for over 25,000 years. Almost double the time that Zekram had lived began to feel a chill.
Since Cultivators often stayed in Seclusion meditating a lot of their lives were just spent Cultivating and absorbing the 'Power of Heaven and Earth' which was just mana.
Even then, his long life of battle meant that he could feel that Romonus was improving by the second.
'This monster, I must end it soon.'
He activated his Cultivation Technique and began to draw out his Dragon Qi from his Dantian. This caused his heart to beat faster and his body began to grow Azure Scales. His mustache seemed to become like an Asian Dragon and the power in his Dao increased.
Romonus felt it firsthand as the Patriarch went from just enduring his swings to pushing back. Romonus squinted his eyes as all around them miles of Dark Purple Thread of POD formed around them.
'How do you endure this I wonder?'
Jiang squinted his eyes as Romonus began to test his old method. Hundreds of miles of destructive threads continued to slice at the Cultivator trying to cleave him apart. It took every ounce of his martial skill to not lose an arm.
That would have been fatal as Romonus had not stopped moving his weapons. Losing an arm here would mean losing his head. However, the longer the duel raged the more he felt that Romonus was beginning to analyze his Dao.
Romonus pulled his arm back and launched a giant beam of Demonic Light from his Spear hitting the Patriarch in the chest. As he hurried through the sky his deadly threads weaved together into giant spears, swords, halberds, knives, and shurikens.
He controlled these weapons with the finesse of a hundred warriors. The Patriarch was starting to feel like pulling out his long hair because Romonus seemed to never run out of tricks. Magic, Thread, Gravity, Sword, Spear, and who knows what else.
Romonus was now fighting him with just his mental prowess as he observed how the Patriarch fought with his spear. More importantly how his Dao worked which was what he wanted to understand.
From what he remembered in his past life when he went through a phase where he read Cultivation Novels it was the understanding of your weapon. How did he understand the Sword and Spear? For swords it was easy, they were both his Focus to cast his deadly magics and his weapon. They cleaved through his enemies and left devastation every time he used them.
His sword was a tool of murder, a staff, and his death dealer. Ruin Maker unlike Archaon was not sentient despite every piece of gear having been infused with Soul Energy. As for the True Longinus, the spear itself was not sentient.
The Will of God inside of it was which meant that the spear was just a Holy piece of Metal. Now though, it was corrupted which meant that it had tasted the blood of not just the son of God, but also the energy of the most powerful Demon to grace this world.
'Swords, Spears, Armor, all of them are weapons, and weapons are made to kill. However, a weapon also drives your goals forward. They can be anything.'
Suddenly, something clicked in his mind. As he was not a Cultivator he didn't just get a Dao, but he had delved deeper into his understanding of the blade.
"I think I get it."
He turned back to the powerful Jiang who was not only destroying his weapons of threads but moving closer. Romonus grinned as he charged at the Cultivator. He pulled Ruin Maker back and stabbed out as a Sword could be a Spear.
A Spear could slash like a sword if you were strong enough. A rudimentary intent formed along his sword and he drove it into the chest of the Patriarch.
"Intent is just how you understand your weapon given shape. I thank you for the lesson."
Jiang grit his teeth and stabs his Gundao into Romonus' chest.
"I DON'T DIE EASY!"
His Spear Heart allowed him to punch through Archaon with extreme difficulty and into Romonus' Demon Heart. Romonus could feel the Lightning and Wind of the Azure Dragon flow into his body intending to kill him.
He felt his Demon Heart explode, but it was a pointless endeavor as you could not kill him by wounding his body. Not before Valerie modified him, and not after.
"What makes you think I do?"
Romonus sliced down and cleaved a giant purple wound in the Cultivator's body. The burning wound refused to close as he had activated the Chaos element from the flames of Tiamat.
"I thank you, Patriarch. You taught me something. You are more skilled them most, but your total power is nothing big. Satan Class levels of power are just not that great."
Jiang felt his rage rise as he used his Azure Dragon Water Qi to douse the flames. He forced his wound to close as he glared at Romonus with murderous hate.
"YOU-"
Before he finished Romonus' Sword and Spear Intent flowed into his weapons. He swung down instantly. Almost horrified, Jiang lost both his arms in that double slash. In that same swing, Romonus cleaved the Barrier that had been formed open like a tuna can.
When it opened up, Grayfia looked up surrounded by numerous corpses. All of them were pierced through with ice, encased in it and some even had all the blood inside them turn into ice spikes that stabbed out within them.
'What did he do?'
As she was distracted an Elder charged at her with his Sword.
"LIGHTNING TRIBULATION S-"
Before he finished Grimaldus flew behind him and cut his head into 5 bloody chunks with his Molecular Disruption Claws. She snapped out of it as Romonus created a massive Bounded Field to not only trap the Souls here but to keep destruction at a minimum.
He Spartan Kicked the Patriarch and sent him flying against the Bounded Field. Jiang grit his teeth as he focuses on his missing arms and tried to grow them back
"DAMN DEMON!"
Romonus grinned as he looked at the shiny Guando sticking out of his chest.
"Archaon. Eat it."
The Patriarch watched as the weapon that had been gifted to him by the Ancestor was devoured by Archaon like a pocky stick. When he ate it Archaon seemed to purr.
"Yummy."
Jiang spat blood out as his Spirit Weapon was gone. Romonus chuckled as he teleported behind the Cultivator. He had learned what he needed as this whole time he had been playing around.
With the True Longinus, he cleaved his head off, with Ruin Maker he chopped off his limbs and with his large tail, he cut him in half, but kept the heart in one piece.
"You were not the foe I wanted. You were just a fake."
Disappointed that he did not face a battle to the death, Romonus looked to the sky.
'Boss, the Sparda bloodline honestly is too op. Thank you.'
It made his life easier which was what mattered.
'Serve.'
From the Corpse, the Patriatch's Soul clawed its way out along with the hundreds of Cultivators Grayfia, Grimaldus, and his shadows had slaughtered.
"Kill the rest."
At his order, the Patriarch Shadow descended and massacred his sect members. Seeing the bloody rampage, Romonus was tempted to stick around to face the Ancestor or their Ascended Ancestors.
However, he was not an idiot and when the last Azure Dragon Sect Cultivator was dead and turned into a shadow he drew them all to his shadow.
'Grayfia, Grimaldus, come on. We are leaving.'
Both of them flew to his side and without missing a beat he teleported away. He got what he wanted and he was going to be checking up on his Peerage. He wanted to see if they got into battles of their own.
While he was here, he might as well pay the Twillight Corpse Sect a visit.