"For your crimes against my kingdom, I hereby sentence you to death," The Chaos Lord said in a low threatening tone.
"That will be hard to do since were a basically immortal," Keith shot back as he broke the first seal of his weapon and so did Merlin. They both lunged at the king with immense speed and swung their weapons to decapitate his head but he did backflip to avoid their attacks.
Keith and Merlin had a surprised look in their eyes. "You quite fast," Merlin said. Merlin and Keith looked at each other and nodded. They both assumed their positions Keith went to the right of Kairos and Merlin went to the left.
Keith lunged forwards and unleashed a flurry of sword swings, each arc carrying more power than the last. Kairos dodged and deflected the attacks skillfully with his golden trident. Merlin saw an opening and lunged forward and swung his scythe diagonally to slash his back.
Kairos could sense the impending danger and turned his crown into a rapier and deflected Merlin's incoming attack. The Chaos lord swung his sword towards Merlin, releasing a golden slash that cut through Merlin's shirt and chest as blood oozed from his body.
With his other hand he thrust his trident toward Keith and impaled him in the chest and sent him hurtling towards the wall. Keith got up and felt slight pain in his back. "Ahh! My back," he muttered, his voice barely a whisper.
"I guess old is catching up to you," Merlin said in a sarcastic tone as he picked himself and lunged at Kairos and swung his scythe multiple sending purple arcs of energy toward him but the attacks were deflecting with relative and was kicked in the abdomen and was sent hurtling towards a wall. He gripped his scythe tightly and impaled it into the ground and stopped his momentum.
"Haha very funny," Keith said in an indignant tone as lunged at Kairos and unleashed a flurry of attacks, each strike was executed with deadly precision and strength. He also used his ice element to create lances that were hung right above them. At his command the lances rained upon them like a hailstorm. Merlin and Keith had kept a safe distance from the ice lances. Kairos dodged the attacks with immense speed, his kin sense of danger also telling him when to dodge.
Whilst he was dodging the attacks Keith shot a bolt of lightning at Kairos but his attack got absorbed by Kairos' armor and shot back right at Keith in which Keith absorbed it with his katana and swung his sword releasing a black arc of energy towards Kairos.
He tried to block it with his trident but it got destroyed instantly, leaving the Chaos Lord with only one weapon, his sword. Both Merlin and Keith bolted towards Kairos and well they proceeded to jump him.
Keith delivering sword strikes with blinding speed and deadly precision. The Chaos Lord skillfully dodged and parried his attacks. He was also dodging the scythe attacks from Merlin but after a while his sword broke and his armor was getting worn out.
He took a few steps backs and removed his armor which also acted as restraints for him. He was finally taking this battle seriously.
His body radiated a red malevolent aura that sent shivers down their spines. Their hair stood up and their instincts were warning them to stay away from him and that he is too powerful.
They tried using their transformation but nothing happened and they saw a system notification pop up.
[Host is currently too weak to use their transformation]
"Ah shit," Merlin and Keith said in unison. Kairos lunged at them with blinding speed and punched the two in the gut creating a giant hole in their stomach. A look of shock was plastered on their as they realized Kairos' true rank. He was a Developing Soul Realm Rank 1.
E Rank- SSS Rank is part of one Se Realm known as the Origin Realm. Origin Realm works as the foundation of Se users in order to break through to the Soul Realm which has five minors Realms. The minor realms are:
1.Developing soul Realm.
2.Quarter blooming Soul Realm.
3.Half Blooming Soul Realm.
4.Full Bloom Soul Realm.
5. Nascent Soul Realm.
Each minor realm is divided into 5 Ranks. The Developing Soul Realm is for creating 5 souls inside your body but the souls will be in a sleep-like state. Quarter to Full bloom soul realm's main goal is to wake up those sleeping souls. The Nascent Soul Realm is mainly for merging the five souls you have successfully awoken.
Since Keith and Merlin were barely SSS Rank they didn't have the means to fight people who were one realm above them but they did have one solution for them to win this fight.
"By the power of all Celestials I hereby use my innate skill at the cost of five of my fingers. I swear to not regenerate these fingers for the next ten years. Great Merger, merger of skills and energy that traverses the power of the omniverse I activate you," Keith muttered under his breath.
Keith turned into sphere of pure red energy and Merlin turned into a sphere of pure blue energy. The two spheres of energy rotated around each which left Kairos awestruck for a moment before he sent a lightning attack at the spheres trying to disrupt whatever process was going on but his attack got absorbed. The spheres of energy collided with each other and merged with each other to create a sphere of purple energy. The purple sphere exploded creating a blinding flashing light.
What emerged from the blinding was a handsome young man. He had beautiful purple hair, long black eyelashes and deep ocean blue eyes. His skin was as smooth as silk and as pale as snow. He had a well-defined jawline. His face was a face that would make even deities jealous.
His height was roughly 6'5 feet. He wore a black t-shirt, black jacket with gold stripes on it, black trousers and black shoes.
The man's body was radiating with a very strong killing intent and an intimidating aura. Kairos was dumbstruck, he tried to piece together what just happened and the only answer that came to mind is that these two had just merged into one. But he tried to deny it since there has never been a Celestial that has ever successfully merged with another Celestial.
He thought that it might be an illusion but his instincts were telling him otherwise. The person in front of him was not an illusion but he was actually real. He readied himself as he got into a fighting and lunged at the man in front of him. Right now, there was only one thing on his mind and that was to eradicate the threat in front of him