A transparent blue sword made of pure mana appeared in my hand and I dashed forward. Cladding the blue sword with my white lotus aura I swung my blade when I appeared in front of it. However, the thing raised its hand and when my mana blade made contact it shattered like glass.
'Huh?'
Before I could react a giant fist connected with my stomach and I was launched back. I slammed into the wall hard but that wasn't the major issue. The major problem was that my ribs were broken and my organs were basically wrecked however, right after I could feel my body start to heal itself.
This was my unique physique, as people liked to call it here. It was called the "Immortal Body Physique." The physique was able to regenerate anything, whether it be a lost arm or a few broken bones.
Looking at the Great Calamity in front of me, I tried to breathe but couldn't. But this did give me a look at it. It was tall with an intimidating figure while its body was chiselled like a Greek god. Its skin was a dark black however, there were also what seemed to be purple runes on its right arm. Raising my outstretched hand dozens of magic circles appeared in the air before bolts of golden lightning shot toward it.
A loud explosion followed, and I quickly stood up as the last of my ribs fell back into place. Before I could attack, a black spear made of pure mana headed toward me. Reacting instantly, my body started to take on a golden hue before a transparent golden sword appeared in my hand. Swinging my blade, I split the spear in half before I charged forward. Channelling most of my holy power into my sword, I then swung it, causing an arc of pure holy power to launch toward it.
Seeing the arc head toward it, it raised its right hand filled with black mana before it shot forward colliding with the blast of holy power. As it collided a loud explosion occurred causing me to jump back.
'What the hell?'
From what I gathered this guy wasn't using demonic energy like the other humanoids I faced but rather something more powerful.
With a deep breath, I dispersed all the holy power around me and in my body. The next moment the great calamity appeared from the smoke. Beams of black mana headed toward me but before they hit me a dark blue transparent barrier appeared blocking the beams.
Soon a dark blood red aura covered my body before a blood-red transparent blade appeared in my right hand. Raising my left hand a blood-red sphere appeared before I pointed at the barrier and a dark red beam shot toward it. Breaking through the barrier it connected with the beams and shattered right through it. The beam rushed toward the Great Calamity but it simply raised its right hand and slammed the red beam like a bug. When the fist made contact it witht he beam shattered like glass much like my sword.
'What the hell is that arm?'
Using my white lotus aura I strengthened my legs and combined it with my demonic energy creating a pink hue that surrounded my legs. Dashing forward with tremendous speed I quickly appeared in front of the great calamity and swung my blade. At the same time, the black mana quickly gathered in the Great Calamity's palm before a large black blade was created.
Our blades collided however, no sparks were created nor was there a metal sound. Raising my hand a small magic circle appeared from a bolt of crimson-red lightning shot toward the great calamity. Backing away at the same time I heard a loud boom as the bolt connected with the great calamity.
I was about to attack again, but suddenly, a crushing force descended on me, making me get on my knees and causing my mana blade to disappear. I tried getting up, but I couldn't due to the pressure that was pinning me down.
'Gravity Magic?'
I had encountered a lot of mages in this world some even with the gravity attribute. However, I hadn't faced anything like this before!
"You're starting to annoy me," Hearing the voice I looked up to see that the great calamity was heading towards me.
"Fu-fuck,"
Raising its hand a purple glow filled the space before a few giant rocks started to float in the air. It then clenched its left fist and the giant rocks suddenly headed toward me.
As the mana congregated around me, I activated one of my spells. My vision shifted, however, I still felt the pressure, but I wasn't on the floor anymore. I was in the air above the great calamity. Creating a red mana blade, I fell downward thanks to the spell. The next moment, though, more sharp rocks surrounded me. Using my teleportation magic again I appeared behind the great calamity and stabbed my sword straight through its chest.
Yet there was no reaction.
Suddenly I felt a warm feeling from its back which was followed by a golden glow.
'Holy Power!?'
Using my teleportation spell again I quickly appeared a few feet away from the great calamity. The next moment a giant burst of holy power decimated where I was. Before I could do anything else I was suddenly in front of the great calamity. The only thing that separated us was a couple of inches of air. The next thing I knew I was hit and sent flying into the wall.
I started to cough violently and soon I was just coughing up blood. I was breathing heavily yet I could understand why my body wasn't healing. Looking at the great calamity I saw that its right hand was pulsing in some sort of purple energy.
That right hand was some sort of armament or something. From what I observed, it had the ability to cancel out all sorts of magic. But that didn't seem to be all it could do, as I couldn't regenerate, meaning it did something to my body.
'Damn I really didn't want to use this'
As holy power accumulated in my hand and my injury was healing I saw the calamity's shadow get bigger. As it did tendrils made of pure shadow started to coil and grab at it. However, it simply started to tear its way through the tendrils. Then those tendrils started to turn into hands. Suddenly a figure made of pure shadow appeared behind the great calamity wielding a giant sword.
Noticing this a beam of black mana suddenly was shot from the back decimating the figure before penetrating deep into the wall.
However, more and more figures made of shadows appeared around the room before they charged toward the great calamity.
Necromancy.
It wasn't exactly a "lost art" but rather it wasn't considered to be real magic which is why no one here really practiced it. However, I had learned it through some means and it did help. That being said necromancy wasn't as useful as I thought it would be. Yeah, I resurrected a bunch of undead but they can basically be killed with one strike and would need my mana to regenerate which wasn't an option.
So I decided to do the next best thing.
The Great Calamity kept attacking using the black beams however, soon he stopped and I could feel the pressure of the gravity increase. Cladding my body in my white lotus aura I fought back against the pressure. However, my shadow soldiers were then whacked to the side by a giant rock.
Slowly getting up I could feel that my body was starting to heal itself again. Taking a breath I was about to walk forward before I noticed a glowing rock that was beneath me. I quickly picked it up and after a few seconds, the rock changed shape. The rough edges changed to a comfortable grip and a handle appeared right above my fist. Soon a blade started to extend and when the process was finished I was holding a full-blown sword instead of a glowing rock.
Looking up at the fight I saw my shadow soldiers suddenly on the floor writhing in pain before they simply just disappeared.
Looking at the great calamity I was about to charge forward but I was then suddenly in front of it again. This time I reacted quickly and teleported beside it. Looking at its right arm I swung my blade hoping to sever it but when my sword made contact it shattered.
Quickly teleporting out of the way I grit my teeth.
"Just what the hell are you?"
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POV: Glim Staditsk
As I swung my sword another monster fell. The floor was covered in blood and corpses. I clad my body in my aura as I moved around. This aura technique was something the Staditsk had passed to every head of the family. This was one of the reasons why the Staditsk family was considered one of the strongest swordsman clans in the empire.
Channeling most of my aura through my body I moved toward another monster and cut right through it. Every time I swung my sword another abomination died. Suddenly I felt the hair on my neck rise.
Quickly turning I lifted my blade blocking a strike that was aimed at my head. Suddenly a shadowy figure appeared in front of me wielding daggers. The figure was wearing a hood that covered their face however, I could still see the black veins that stretched across their cheeks.
When the abyss first opened up people were afraid however, they still believed in the empire's soldiers. That didn't last for long as the creatures from the abyss started to wage war on every race and started to push them back.
Seeing how hopeless it looked people started to worship the abyss as some sort of messiah that came to liberate them. People who were granted powers by the abyss were considered traitors.
Kicking the person back the white hue that surrounded me intensified as I ran forward. Swinging my blade I let out a short burst of aura which headed toward the figure. They raised their daggers causing a black hue to surround them.
However, when my attack collided an explosion happened but using my senses I was able to see that they seemed to be fine. Lunging forward I swung my aura-clad blade through the smoke but the clang that I heard told me it was blocked.
I quickly jumped back avoiding the dagger that was aimed for my neck.
Raising my blade I quickly blocked the daggers before I counter-attacked by swinging downward which he dodged. We kept exchanging attacks neither of us taking a hit. I knew sooner or later that I was going to run out of stamina so I tried to think of a way to end this quickly.
Squeezing more aura out of my core I enhanced my muscles and wrapped most of it around my sword. Just as I was about to release one of my stronger attacks as the guy was about to lunge toward me a magic circle appeared where he was standing before a bunch of spikes made of ice pierced right through him.
I was surprised and released some of my aura.
"Seems like you lost an edge," Hearing the familiar voice I turned to see a beautiful woman with brown hair.
Rolling my eyes I prepared my stance "yea, yea,"
I then quickly appeared beside swinging my blade and decapitating the person that was going to stab her.
"I knew he was there you know,"
"Of course you did," I commented before I faced the army "Watch my back,"
This woman was someone I knew back in my academy days. We both joined the knights and the mage core of the empire.
The mage core was the empire's elite team of mages and had the best mages from all over the contient. That being said most mages were nobles which was due to the empire's law that commenors couldn't practice magic.
Thanks to 'him' that law was abolished when the emperor was killed.
It was thanks to 'him' that the world even had a fighting chance. It was a miracle one day he just appeared out of the blue. He then quickly rose through the ranks and was able to single-handedly push back the abyss and its forces and help gather forces to finally end this war.
Looking at the people fighting I couldn't help but finally see the light at the end of this tunnel.
Swinging my sword I killed a few more monsters and looked around to see that we were pushing the monsters and people back.
However, the next moment the earth began to shake as a giant pillar came out of the mountain reaching toward the sky. It was a mix between black and white. The pillar rose so far that it reached the black crack in the sky.
Before I could do anything else the crack started to close and the monsters started to writhe on the floor.
After we finished executing the monsters we started to head inside the mountain. We passed a bunch of corpses of monsters and made it inside a giant cavern with a giant hole on top where you could now see the bright blue sky.
Looking around my eyes fell on a sword that was shattered into pieces.
My eyes shot wide open and I rushed toward the sword. While I hadn't ever seen this sword before I had sensed this type of energy.
I closed my eyes and bit my lip.
I then started to hear something behind me and saw that everyone was kneeling. I then followed suit and kneeled on the floor.
Today the great war had finally ended.
But today was also the day a noble sacrifice was made…
'Rest in peace' I prayed
'Artorias'