Lilith took a huge leap and dashed towards Kyo, unlike other times Kyo managed to actually react and dodge the attack but just barley, Lilith did not lose any time and instantly turned back to engage in hand to hand combat, it was obvious that Lilith was holding back and not using her gloves power at all but Kyo was still having a lot of trouble and was getting hit most of the times, as he realized that he was inferior in close combat he suddenly dashed backwards and released huge amount of soul current towards Lilith, something she wasn't expecting, she managed to guard it at the last second but was blasted away and collided with a wall, she stood up and said:- "When did your soul current increase so much, yesterday you barley had enough to break a rock" - "No idea but this is pointless, i need a weapon to use my technique, do you have any advices?" Said Kyo- "Me personally, i prefer a scythe but its your choice really" Said Lilith - "Scythe is not really a good option, i need something that is good with my technique" Said Kyo as he shook his head- "You could try a whip?" Said Lilith- "Hmmm, not a bad idea really, i could do tricky stuff with my technique" Said Kyo- "I will ask those idiots to get you one" Said Lilith- "Hold it there, i have a better idea" said Deygon- "And what could that be?" Said Lilith- "This thing, i don't know what i should call it" Said Deygon as he pulled out a weird weapon- "What is that?" Said Kyo- "This is a chain that has sharp tip, you can attack all sorts of deadly stuff to it, i made it and it extends very long, works as a whip too" Said Deygon as he handed it over to kyo- "Alrighty, let's see" Said kyo as he wrapped the chain around his arm and body, leaving only a little bit of it hanging around with a sharp tip- "Well, let's test it in a fight" Said Lilith as she got in a fighting stance once moreWithout wasting a second Kyo threw the chain towards Lilith, using his technique to curve it on the way, Lilith jumped up in air in an attempt to dodge it but the chain still followed her, leaving her completely defenseless in the air, in an instant it wrapped around Lilith, just as Kyo thought he was going to win by slamming her on the ground, Lilith spread open her arms and instantly broke the chains into little pieces, As the chains fell on the ground Kyo didn't hesitate for a second and instantly turned them into little spikes that he flew towards Lilith but this time they just bent upon colliding with her- "What the hell" Said Kyo in confused lookLilith took the opportunity and attacked him while he was defenseless but Kyo still managed to restore the weapon to it's original form at the last second and restrained Lilith with it once more as he sent her flying, midway in the air Lilith once again was starting to break the chains but Kyo kept repairing it with his technique, suddenly Kyo used soul current release once again, but this time the beam was bigger than Lilith had ever seen coming from him, her survival instincts suddenly took over and she used her technique to borrow power from her glove and deflect the beam but it just kept going, Kyo pouring more and more energy to it, Lilith was already struggling to keep up with it, as she noticed that the beam just kept getting bigger and bigger she yelled out: - "ALRIGHT KYO, IT'S ENOUGH, THE TRAINING IS OVER"But all for nothing, Kyo didn't seem to be listening, Lilith was slowly losing her soul current, as she fell on her knees she let out yet another scream:- "KYO IT'S ENOUGH, IF THIS KEEPS UP I WILL DIE"Still without any response from Kyo, Suddenly the overflowing soul current was too much to be compressed and burst out, the explosion blasting everything away, as the dust cleared Lilith was lying on the ground, her body all injured and mangled struggling to breath, it seemed that she managed to use her canvas at the last second to protect herself from the blast but it was clearly not enough, she suddenly saw Kyo approaching her but something seemed to be off, he didn't seem like himself, with insane speed he approached Lilith and grabbed her face, suddenly Lilith started screaming in pain as blue light started coming out of her mouth and eyes, unable to speak or move all Lilith could do was just let it happen, as her soul was about to completely explode from the pressure on it Deygon came from behind and punched Kyo in the head, blasting him away and knocking him out, as he approached now unconscious Lilith and in an attempt to save her, he started preforming healing current - "Shit, it's not working, YOU OVER THERE, GO GET ME THE INVASION ARTIFACT" Yelled out Deygon to a demon that was standing nearby- "Sir, are you sure? we have been keeping this for centuries and you want to use it now?" Said the demon in scared expression- "GET IT I SAID" Yelled out Deygon once moreThe demon scared that he would be killed by Deygon, went and grabbed a weir looking key and handed it over to him, Deygon took key and snapped it in half, weird essence came out of it and it formed a gate, Deygon picked up Lilith and went in the gate without a second of hesitation, as he came to the other side, he seemed to be in the afterlife as he screamed:- "SOMEBODY HELP, WHERE IS MAONZ" Without a second being wasted Maonz appeared behind Deygon, as he was about to ask him a question with angry face he noticed Lilith and dashed towards her as he started using healing current himself on her, he looked up at Deygon and said:- "Did you do this to her?"- "No but that is not relevant right now, you have got to save her" Said Deygon- "I know that" Said Maonz as he screamed for other angels to comeOn Maonz's call a few high tier angels appeared and all of them started using healing current on Lilith- "Do any of you know where Azrael went?" Said MaonzBut without any response- "UUUGH, Fuck this, she will not survive like this, i have never seen something like that, her soul is about to explode"Suddenly from the crowd emerged Naomi, she took a look around but as soon as she caught a glimpse of Lilith she ran to her and said:- "What happened here, who did this to her?"- "How can we get in contact with Azrael, he said he would help us, where is he when we need him, that bastard" Said Maonz- "He is a god, we can't just summon him like that as we please" Said Naomi- "What other choice do we have?" Said Maonz- "Call Nygoz, he should be able to help"- "I don't know where he is" Said Maonz- "He went into another dimension, shit" Said Naomi- "I will attempt to cancel our pact, maybe he will think that something is wrong and show up" Said Maonz as he released the healing current on Lilith and started performing some sort of technique, suddenly a symbol appeared on his right arm that took a spin- "Let's see what happens now" Said Maonz as he returned to healing LilithA few moments later a portal opened up behind them as Nygoz stepped out of it, without noticing Lilith he looked at Maonz and said:- "What did you try to cancel the pact for?"- "I wanted to call you, we need your help" Said Maonz as he pointed towards unconscious LilithAs Nygoz looked towards Lilith, his face was taken by pure terror as he said:- "This is just insane, move away"Nygoz reached towards Lilith and used his healing current, unlike others he finished healing Lilith in a minute, as he finished Lilith opened up her eyes and sat up as she looked around and Said:- "Afterlife? what, why?"- "Who did this to you Lilith?" Said Nygoz- "That white haired boy did" Said Deygon- "You mean Kyo? he barley has enough soul current to create a little spark, what do you mean and who even are you" Said Nygoz- "No he is not lying" Said Lilith- "This is crazy, your soul was literally was about to explode, i have never seen anything like that, you are saying that Kyo did that?" Said Nygoz- "That is what i said, have never seen anything like that" Said Maonz- "I have" Said Naomi with frightened face- "What do you mean" Said Nygoz- "It was just like Sadan's" Said Naomi- "Are you even listening to yourself? this sounds insane" Said Maonz- "Once again, she is right, it's the same method Sadan used to kill Balthazar, he just overloaded his soul with soul current and it ended up exploding" Said Lilith- "I couldn't do that even if i tried, that is absolute insanity" Said Maonz- "Where is Kyo right now" Said Nygoz- "I left him in the underworld" Said DeygonWithout a second hesitation Nygoz opened up a portal and a few seconds later returned with unconscious Kyo on his back, he placed him next to Lilith and started examining his body, afew seconds later he squinted his eyes and said:- "This is very strange, his soul current amount is larger than everybody else's here except for mine" - "How is that possible, he barley had more than weakest of the demons just yesterday?" Said Lilith- "Seems like being exposed to Sadan's technique affected him somehow but it's strange it only affected him, where is Ayame i need to check her too" Said Nygoz- "she is resting now, taking a break from our training, i don't think we should let her know about this just yet, if something is wrong with her i will let you know myself" Said Naomi- "Ya good idea" Said Nygoz- "Should we wake him up now?" Said Maonz- "Yes we should, if he is still out of his mind i will put him down for good" Said Nygoz- "Let's hope we don't have to get to that point" Said NaomiNygoz put two fingers on Kyo's forehead as he sent a little bit of soul current to his brain, next second Kyo stood up and looked around confused - "What do you remember" Said Nygoz- "Everything" Said Kyo with dreadful face as if he saw a ghost- "Do you know why did that happen?" Said Nygoz- "I just released my soul current and, the rest was just, like i wasn't myself anymore, i was hearing her begging me to stop but i kept going as if i wanted to kill her, this is not fine, please do something about it" Said Kyo- "Can you release only a little bit of it for me?" Said NygozKyo nodded and did as he was told, he released a little bit of soul current, Nygoz hovered his hand over it and touched it, his face shifting into shocked, he turned to Kyo and said:-"It seems you have consumed part of Sadan's soul somehow"- "What? how is this possible?" Said Kyo- "Once you burn out your soul current, your soul instinctively uses up Sadan's which later takes control over your actions like a drug, it's Sadan's soul so its only natural that it has part of his consciousness and desire to kill in it" Said Nygoz- "How do i get rid of it? please help me" Said Kyo- "There is no way to get rid of his soul without harming yours, if you don't burn up your soul current his will never come out in the first place, it's only a little fragment of Sadan's soul, like a grain of sand in the universe but there is one thing i want you all to know" Said Nygoz- "And what would that be? Said Maonz- "Sadan has nearly boundless soul current, you could take everyone that has ever lived, take their soul current, combine it and then multiply it by billions of times, you still wouldn't have even 1% of Sadan's total soul current so even a little grain of sand in the universe is powerful enough to cause a huge destruction so proceed on your training with caution"- "How did this even happen" Said Kyo- "I have no idea but it's even stranger that it only affected you and nobody else, but it should be fine to go now, don't use up too much soul current, i have stuff to do now, very important stuff" Said Nygoz as he opened up a portal and went in it- "I guess we should go back to underworld too" Said Lilith- "Before you go, how did you get in here?" Said Maonz- "I used the invasion artifact, Balthazar designed it with a soul of an angel, he was planning on using it to invade the afterlife when the time was right but he never got to use it" Said Deygon- "So it's gone now?" Said Maonz- "Sadly" Said Deygon- "It's still open, let's go in it before it closes, thanks for taking care of me" Said Lilith as he grabbed Kyo's hand and jumped in the gate, Deygon following themAs Kyo and Lilith arrived in the underworld the gate closed at the last second, Lilith turned towards Kyo and said:- "I know how you are feeling right now but i want you to know that none of it was your fault, it was Sadan and Sadan only, we should just keep training" Said Lilith- "No way, what if i end up hurting you again?" Said Kyo- "I won't let my guard down this time, i activated my canvas without hand signs so it wasn't powerful enough to protect me but this time i am aware of the danger ahead so i will be careful" Said Lilith- "What is the point of the hand signs anyways?" asked Kyo- "Well you see, there are 4 types of hand signs: Hawk, Lion, Camel and Elephant, Hawk increases the casting speed of your technique, Lion increases the power of your technique, Camel reduces the amount of soul current consumed upon casting techniques, and Elephant makes it easier to concentrate on the technique to use it easier" Answered Lilith- "I see, which one do you use?" Said Kyo- "Lion obviously" Said Lilith- "Which one should i use, what do you recommend" Said Kyo- "Hand signs barley improve anything on regular techniques and aren't worth using at all, only Hawk is any good for surprise attacks, we mostly use it for canvases and complicated techniques but, each hand sign only takes up one hand, we have two hands, we can combine different hand signs or use two of them at the same time for double result, there are also chants, each technique has it's perfect chant, they just make using techniques easier but its only useful while using canvas once again, it's nearly impossible to use canvas without chants" Said Lilith - "Alright, so it's no use for hand signs just yet" Said Kyo- "Let's go back to our training, shall we?" Said Lilith- "Right" Said Kyo as he got in a fighting stanceMeanwhile in the afterlife, Naomi just came back to Ayame after checking the commotion- "So what was it all about?" Said Ayame in worried tone- "It's nothing, some building collapsed" Said Naomi- "Alright, let's train more, i wonder how is Kyo doing" Said Ayame as she looked down