Mahouka: The Yotsuba Prince (OC x Mayumi)

Part 40

Chapter 40

Two Years Later

GU JIE

Two years had passed since the war had begun. Two years to the date and in that time, the world had seen a massive paradigm shift, as conventional warfare was now termed dead by many generals and tacticians, as magicians became the forefront of war and conflict.

And yet all magicians were not created equal. GAA was blessed with a talented cohort of magicians, the country also had three Strategic Class Magicians including him, and yet all of it had meant nothing.

Japan had not flexed all of its magical might for the country was engaging not only GAA but also the USNA in the war, and had to divide up its resources to combat both of them, and even yet neither of them had managed to make a proper stand.

And it had all begun with the attack on Fujian Military Base, GAA's largest base which was wiped out in a single strike at the beginning of Japan's offensive, one which was to this day led by a singular magician.

One magician who had decimated batallion after batallion, slaughtered thousands single handedly, that he had forced his own allies in the government to turn on him.

GAA's government had begun negotiating with Japan, despite his misgivings, and they were making good progress as those cowards thought to sacrifice him to protect themselves.

And yet he would not fall, he was GU Jie, the one who had lived for more than a hundred years, and in a way he had created the menace that was Inei Yotsuba.

And now to defeat that menace he knew he to create another one, for in this war no other magician had proven themselves to be his equal, and as he sat there deep underground in the mountain range North of GAA, as he watched all the major military bases of the country destroyed and decimated, as news of GAA's peace treaty with the Japan now aired on the TV.

"Those fools," he whispered as he raised his finger and all the screens infront of him were cut into bits and pieces, as he snarled in rage at the uselessness of those slimy politicians.

"They think they can abandon me without consequences," he lamented cursing those idiots for everyone knew Japan's first term of accepting GAA's surrender involved either his death, or his whereabouts.

And so as he sat there, it happened in the blink of an eye, for a second ago he was not there, and then in a second the throne room was occupied by an additional soul.

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! BOOM!

And the massive door behind him vanished as a sole figure stood opposite to him as he sat in his throne looking towards him with those red eyes of his.

"We finally meet again," Yotsuba's butcher's voice rang out across the Hall. He stood there nonchalantly, his presence filling the room. The psions rushed off his body as he looked straight at him.

"Gu Jie," and Gu Jie smirked, as he found himself facing the very opponent he had been fearing and preparing for all these years.

"So, you have finally come, my creation," he greeted and immediately at his words those red eyes narrowed, as he turned his head to the side, as a an invisible slash cut through the head of chair he had been sitting on.

SLASH!

"I am not your creation," he snarled as Gu Jie smirked.

"Ohh, but you are. Denny it as much as you may, but I am the one who created you, who blessed you with the life and the powers that you now wield," and as his words simmered the walls began to crack, as his psions filled the room, and he watched as a dark slit split his body into two as it expanded above and below his right eye which now flew an ominous red.