WARNING: Lengthy chapter, very little dialog, nothing but fighting for 90% of this chapter. I recommend reading in intervals but if you want to read it in one go, more power to you. That being said this is the final chapter, the next is the epilog, enjoy the show.
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(Seth's POV)
I open the door,
at long last,
my final battle is apon me.
I walk down the row as I see the back of Brandon sitting comfortably on the front pew,
I stop halfway to him and mentally prepare my nerves,
only one of us will walk away alive.
After a lot of self reflecting I can finally understand why my parents felt the need to serve in the army,
I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
My parents are out there somewhere fighting for their country just as I am about to fight for humanity.
I approch the front pew and stop a few rows down,
Brandon gets up and turns around to face me,
his eyes full of resolve,
just like mine.
"Sorry to make you wait oh king of calamity, the gilded hero is finally here to see you." I say as I shift movement and prepare to draw my chokuto sword from my hip.
"You declared war on me the moment you sacrificed Penny and Leon,
and now I'm here to finish that war."
I say as I give him my most serious face ever and bitter tone.
Brandon smiles at me like he can read me like a book,
the look of someone who's having fun toying with another's emotions.
"I meditated on your words and though we are cut from the same cloth,
I have to stop you.
Not because I want revenge but because you are a threat to the world."
Brandon closes his eyes and takes a deep breath in.
"In this sword of mine lies the hopes and dreams for a better world."
He summons his odachi and stabs it into the floor,
whipping up a shockwave capable of pushing me back slightly.
"Do you honestly believe your will is capable of overpowering mine?"
The shockwave stops pushing me back but I resume stance.
"There's no doubt that you are strong, but that flimsy sword of yours is still a tool, just like my shadows."
I say as we return the same glare.
"Then let's put that theory of yours to test then shall we? Betting our lives too while we're at it."
He responds.
"Of course, I'd have it no other way."
I draw my chokuto sword as he rests his odachi on his shoulder.
"Finally, everything that has oppressed me will be annihilated."
I respond with my emotion like always. "I'm not about to let you do that!"
This fucker has the audacity to grin at me! "Yet I'll do it anyway and there's nothing you or anyone else can do to stop me."
Suddenly I felt a different presence in this room, somthing demon and yet other worldly.
"Now this is some entertainment, then whoever wins this battle I shall give thee the full Demon Lord title as well as strength."
I hear a demonic voice say as I look up to see a pair of glowing yellow orange eyes, as if instinctively I knew it was Satan himself. A white light shines from both eyes onto me and Brandon and all of a sudden I felt new power,
I never knew was there begin to surface. "Satan you backstabber."
Was all Brandon mutterd.
"I didn't backstab you,
I simply felt it would be a waste if you ended up dead so I merely gave the boy the other half the power should you die. You want that other half that bad then fetch it from him.
Best of luck to you both gentlemen." Satan's eyes disappear from our view as the portal to Hell closes.
"I'm going to save humanity, and get revenge for Penny and Leon!" Me and Brandon rush each other and begin to clash swords.
"Be silent! I'll rip you limb from limb, take back the power that's rightfully mine, slay your siblings and rule this world as it's king!"
Brandon's odachi changes the blade color to black and flings two black orbs that explode apon contact of the pews,
I dodge by the skin of my teeth and roll away right as he landed and stabbed his odachi into the floor,
discharging a lightning rune.
I rush him and slash him a few times but his cuts heal instantly right as I cut through him,
Brandon blasts me across the room with lightning then send a barrage of ice spikes at me at near lightning speed,
I use Grenzbrecher lvl 1 to teleport near Brandon and attack him with Shadow Wind, slicing the air with blade and sending a black crescent shaped slash at him and cutting through his ice barrage.
Brandon attempted to block it head on on but ended up deflecting it making part of the cieling collapse.
"What do you hope to achieve when you get that power?!"
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Artificial
AksiA boy that always dreamed of being a hero that became a mercenary, Which became a demon. Follow Seth as he goes on a journey that blurs the lines of black and white, a corrupt system and equally corrupt race of higher beings. Can Seth fix both sides...
