Ascension of the Nephilim

The moment Kyros saw her, Kyros cursed.

"Kyros? We're not fighting?" Mechiel communicated through the Dark Link that Kyros created between them. She was surprised that Kyros spoke words to halt the enemy from attacking them.

"It's too dangerous! That power that she wields is that of a Cardinal! But I know that her real power should be a Crown or a Conqueror! In short..."

"She's stronger than Heralcus..." Mechiel replied.

"Yes. And by all accounts, we are still weaker than the peak power we revealed against Heralcus. We have no choice. She's too dangerous to fight!"

"Then what do we do?"

"Delay! Lea is the rival of Listrel. Scarlet said that she managed to send Listrel here. We need to wait and hold off as long as possible!" Kyros explained.

"You are from the Planesworld?!" Lea was stunned.

"Indeed we are. We are of the Dark Shine kingdom. We were sent here right after the mysterious death of..." Kyros paused and was frantically looking through the log reports of the death of the two, which he saw a while back.

"...?" Lea was confused.

"The death of who..."

"Umm... I am not quite close to him, so I forgot his name. It's in the tip of my dark tongue..." Kyros rushed to search for the reports and finally found them.

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Warrior of Destiny Eldrich General Argos has been killed.

Rewards:

1% Gigantes Earth Core Energy restored.

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Warrior of Destiny Necromancer Xilen has been killed.

Rewards:

1% Gigantes Earth Core Energy restored.

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Kyros saw the two reports and finally sighed. The reports were buried in the numerous reports and notifications during his battle against Heralcus and even after all the rewards were bestowed. Kyros didn't bother to memorize these names as he never thought it would be worthwhile.

"The Necromancer? Did you mean that guy? Xi- something?" Lea asked.

"Xilen! Necromancer Xilen! Of course! We were worried. We were sent in after we lost contact with everyone. We feared that something may have happened to you and to Lord Argos!"

"Argos? That Eldrich... Of course! He was in the Dark Shine as well!"

"Yes, Princess. We teleported here through a secret spell that the necromancer worshipers of necromancer... Damn it! I forgot his name!" Kyros forgot the name of the necromancer lord of the few viscounts they killed back then. Kyros had to search through the log files.

"Necromancer Damn it?"

"N-No! It's I forgot the name of that stupid necromancer! He had so many silent letters in his name that I forgot how to read it..."

"It's probably of a Necromancer that I don't know of..." Lea shrugged.

"Lorjdenheign! Necromancer Lorjenheign!"

"I don't know him, so you don't need to try hard to recall his name."

"But I fear that her Highness Lea will suspect me of lying about the truth."

"Of course not! When I managed to infiltrate your Dark Link and heard your conversations, why would I suspect you to lie? Frankly, I'm quite impressed that you know of my true powers. Even more intriguing was the fact that you knew of my powers. How did you know that I really am a Conqueror?" Lea laughed.

Mechiel and Kyros had an ugly expressions on their face.

"Still, you said that your current power is something that can fight off at least a Cardinal? Who is this Heralcus, and why did your words indicate that he would be a High Cardinal? You have but a Captain's might. And yet you have the power of a Commander? My... That would mean you would also be a High Cardinal at the very least..." Lea smiled.

The darkness began to surge around the grass below them.

"Anyway... I'm hungry. I can siphon the memories of whatever you're hiding through my soul."

"Actually... I knew you could read through our Dark Link. I'm not an idiot. Bye."

A bright light flashed, and Kyros and Mechiel disappeared.

"What?!" Lea was stunned, and to her surprise, she ordered her Foul Form to attack. The darkness underneath the ground where Kyros and Mechiel stood turned into a massive mouth that bit the area.

It was a large grotesque beast without any eyes or nose. Instead, it was just a dark mouth with a slimy, reptilian form.

But the sudden gnaw did not manage to bite on Kyros or Mechiel.

The dark creature fell back and splashed on the ground, disappearing into a puddle of darkness.

Lea moved towards it, made the dark ooze move out of the way, and revealed the strange markings on the ground.

Lea was stunned as she could easily tell what it was.

"Impossible! An Energy Conversion Circle made of Darkness! How can this be! Not even the Dark Wise Ones can do this!" Lea jumped towards it and extended her hands to touch it. Instead, she channeled the dark energy to see where the two teleport out.

"Did they already create a portal point?" Lea frowned. But then she realized that the power of the portal only had the power to send those who activated it in a vertical direction.

"Up?!" Lea stared above and saw Kyros falling.

Massive darkness would cover the dome at night, and the dark energies would double in amount. Kyros drew out this darkness and pulled it into his sword. And once it was gathered around the sword...

"[Skotos Eis Phos]!" Kyros shouted and caused the darkness he gathered to shoot down on Lea.

BLAST!

The dark puddle charged up and met the beam, and a pained screech was heard.

But suddenly, the entire beam was split in half as a dark blade cut through it.

Kyros quickly raised his shield, and the light disappeared as the dark night blended with Kyros and his shield.

BOOM!

Kyros was blown back, but the darkness was able to stop the attack.

He flew and quickly allowed the darkness to appear around to create wings as he flew faster to the ground evading a large maw from the skies.

"Light Devouring Darkness." Kyros frowned.

"Amazing dexterity." Lea was impressed as the darkness returned to her tail.

"Amazing Dark recovery for your Grendelor Darkling. I thought I nearly killed that one with my previous attack."

"Who are you? You're quite strong. You have a captain's strength but can easily surpass a Commander. What power! Are you someone just like me? Stronger but forced to live in a mortal, fragile shell?"

"You could say that." Kyros smiled.

"You knew I could sense the Dark Link, so you answered when that woman of yours spoke. But it was to delay me from killing you. Had you pleaded and kept silent, I would have attacked you a second sooner. But you answered and made me curious..." So Lea began to analyze the plot of Kyros.

"And to entice more of my curiosity, you even managed to name the very allies that I met. That's why you took your time to use whatever power you had to delay and complete the magic circle. I was deceived. You never managed to create another point where the teleportation was supposed to be, and you used it to beam you up to the sky, make the attack and buy time. All of that so your precious woman could retreat."

"Of course. She's not like us. I can take a blow or two from you. Of course, I would have died if you used plain Force of Magic other than darkness."

"Ah... So you do know your weaknesses."

"Of course. How would I have lived for so long if not for knowing my strengths? What of you? Did Listrel kill your main body? How come your Dark Soul resided in Middle? I guess you don't know your weaknesses." Kyros chuckled.

Lea's smirk turns into a glare.

"Hmp! Speak while you can. You are desperate. You are buying time to make your little girlfriend flee. You even used your Shadow Clones to move with your girlfriend, hoping to distract me. I can pinpoint the very direction of where your girlfriend is!"

"Wrong. I'm buying time so that Listrel will arrive and kill you. She is my weakness. If you chase after her, it will be troublesome. I don't even need to hurt you. I need to survive long enough for Listrel to arrive and kill you."

"Kill me? She'll kill you as well!"

"No. My allies sent Listrel here. She is looking for me. And that ally that sent her in was a succubus, just like my girlfriend. If she was spared, we will too. Didn't you see me make a bright light?" Kyros laughed as he wielded darkness and harnessed [Skotos Eis Phos] to turn it to pure holy.

"So I didn't imagine it. What are you?"

"Why waste my voice with you? I'll help Listrel kill you, and I'll save myself the effort and give my long, lengthy, and complex explanation to someone who matters."

"Then I'll just kill you, right here, and right now!"

"Are you ready?" Lea sneered.

"Wow. You're too strong. I change my mind. You are someone I'd rather not deal with right now."

"...What?" Lea was confused.

"I am buying time for Lea to arrive. And my girlfriend ran off with all her might so that she could buy time to create another energy conversion circle. She's not as fast as me. And now, she created the point where I am to teleport. Bye."

FLASH!

Kyros disappeared.