Another century flies by and it passes yet again within my perception as no longer than a year would for a mortal, maybe this is a side effect of my existence as a higher being?
I shake my head as I stand and head to the tall arch-like windows of my throne room, and ruminate on my first steps, Rouge, is already proclaiming himself the 'rightful' ruler of Hell, as first born and 'strongest' of the Primordial Daemons. *Sigh* I may have been too passive, no matter, the others are ignoring him and allowing him to do and say as he wants, which aligns with the original timeline, if this continues he will continue to grow more influential and eventually Bleu and Vert will act. Before that, I will act first and continue to change the world around me, for my benefit.
The plan will go ahead as I outlined, Vert will fall by my hand, however, considering the moves Rouge is taking I will need to counter, I still have a millennia or two before I can and want to leave this place. I do not want to give this guy any control over me. Luckily Verts territory is next to mine, once I defeat her, I will swallow up her territory and gain a dependable ally and strip one away from Rouge.
Right, no more sitting back and being recluse. Time to ensure my sovereignty, freedom and superiority.
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A few days later:
"Kali! Come here." Kali appears from one of the doors connecting to my throne room, and bows low with a gentle demeanour, there was an intense look in her eyes, but I guess that is from her professionalism and how seriously she takes her job. That must be exhausting...
I went on to mention casually as I reached the window to fly off "Look after the place for me while I am gone, it should only be for a day at most, I am going to deal with some business." I hear her warming voice behind me "At once, My Lord, I will ensure everything runs smoothly in your absence!"
I do not even look back as I lunge out the window and speed off into the distance, towards the territory of Vert.
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Territory of Vert:
As I arrive at the border of Verts territory, a vast open stretch of barren land, which is surprisingly how most of hell looks like right now, except some land marks like my territories jagged mountains. I wait. I know she can sense me, I let out my Daemonic Haki, as the air around me bends and warps under the pressure.
If anyone other than a Primordial Daemon was here, they would instantly perish under the immense strain the pressure would put on their feeble existences.
Suddenly, a Dimensional Gate opens in front of me, a large rectangle swirling portal, and out walks my target, of average height, with long, thick curly green hair and eyes, a round face and soft features, while sporting a giant green and silver greatsword. She seems quite aloof and overly serious, however, if nothing has changed too much because of me, this should just be because she is shy, from my memories of this world, that was one of her key personality traits, along with being serious and dedicated to her job of serving Rouge.
"Gris what a surprise, out of all of us, I did not think you would be the one to attack first, I thought it would be that prideful and overconfident 'King of Hell.'" She said with some cold sarcasm at the end. With my hands in the pockets of my black as night pants that seem to blend in with the shadows of the environment, I look over her and then speak indifferently "Vert, you may misinterpret what I am here for, so I will spell it out simply for you, bend the knee and serve me." She seemed to show a slight surprise on her naturally arrogant and detached face, before speaking with a bit more fire, I might have riled up her pride it seems. "You think you can make me kneel and serve you? I am a Primordial, and you think, you, as my equal, can make me serve you like you are better?" I just sigh slightly at her ignorance, I cannot blame her, she does not know, yet, that even among Primordial Daemons there can be large gaps in power. "Enough, Vert, I will show you that ignorance is not always bliss, and considering the speed at which Rouge is moving, I cannot waste precious time of my immortal existence speaking with you like this." She seems to look slightly puzzled at my words.
Then both of our Daemonic Haki's clash making cracks and ravines form around us.
Suddenly I hear her mutter Agility, Strength, and then Vert propels at me like a bullet. I simply, with my hands still in my pockets, sidestep her piercing strike from her greatsword, before twirling my body quickly to the left as she follows through with a wide sweeping strike. She then stretches out her hand before launching a fireball the size of a car at me, I simply stand there, and take it head on. Just as it was about to reach and swallow me whole, I use Anti-Magic Shield, as it reaches me, it simply fizzles out before dissipating.
Wow, this anti-magic really is op, I have tested it with Kali over the years, but thought she was just too weak and so it was natural reaction, but even a Primordial Daemons magic is affected in such as way? I know they and I are still relatively young, but still. However, when it comes to much stronger magic, it might not be able to do much, I guess I could use this fight to test it.
Vert takes advantage of my inner musings to throw multiple Fire Lances at me which I yet again defend against, using my Anti-Magic Shield, before she uses the smoke and distraction to catch me off guard. However, I simply use Strength, and then grab her sword arm tightly, and decide to taunt her in hopes of making her use more powerful magic. "Vert, are you really this weak? You are disgracing us Primordials." She strains to pull herself away as she distances herself and says seriously "What kind of anomaly are you Gris? That power, I can feel it negates my elemental power, no kind of element should be able to do that." I simply reply "That is because it isn't an element." Before deciding it is time to step this fight up a notch, I use one of the many new skills I have learned over this century, that my Anti-Magic Manipulation has allowed for, creating some new skills that have never been seen before in this world to my knowledge. I raise my hand outwards and simply whisper Anti-Magic Beam Emission, before a large beam of pure anti-magic energy shoots at Vert with a high pitch whistling sound, as the mere presence of it, rips up the ground around it. Vert, quickly throws up multiple Flame Walls to block it, but my beam easily cuts through, like a knife through butter, she then, to my surprise starts to layer Preservation Magic over her Flame Walls, which seems to slow down the deterioration. Hmm, interesting, this was worth dragging out the fight, it seems to not be too detrimental to me or my power, however, it is a slight weakness I will need to look into later.
She then uses a Dimensional Gate to appear high in the air away from the beam, I then launch myself into the air to meet her and quickly start throwing Anti-Magic Lances at her to keep her on her toes, as she is defending and moving at a blur to a mortal, I start to prepare a move to end this, a century prior I created and mastered the Extra Skill: Anti-Magic Armada, based upon Gate of Babylon, however, over this century I have mastered many new anti-magic related skills, to the point I have neglected the elemental magic I could learned fairly easily in this world due to the nature of a Primordial.
However, I can learn that stuff later on, now after seeing Vert combine preservation magic with her elemental flame magic, I had an idea, I cannot believe I didn't think of this earlier, I have a very interesting skill Weapon Beam Emission, which allows me to shoot beams of anti-magic from weapons, physical ones or magical ones, however, I am not much of a close combat person, I prefer to fight at range, so since I don't use weapons, I forgot about it, however, my other skill, Anti-Magic Armada, now what would happen if I combines these two mastered skills?
I whisper, Anti-Magic Armada and thousands of weapons of different kinds, all made up of anti-magic appear in the dark and gloomy sky above, almost blending in, and then I whisper yet again, Weapon Beam Emission, It sounds easy combining two skills, and I guess if they were any other they would be, but the nature of these two skills being so destructive and powerful, along with having to make sure that the beams match and attach to each and every weapon, and there being thousands... it was intricate to say the least. I had to concentrate fully on it, and a certain someone might say I was currently 'surpassing my limits.'
As this was ongoing, I could not keep up pressuring Vert with the lances.
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Vert POV:
As I took a breather, I saw what Gris was doing and instantly tensed, "What kind of monster is this guy?!" However, I could not keep the admiration from brewing, although, I was also a Primordial and I would not be outdone, or ever want to bend the knee to someone else, my pride wouldn't allow it.
I have been practising this magic for a while now, the only way to overcome whatever this anomaly is doing will be with it, I have focused most of my time on fire magic, it is probably my strongest, however I can use others. But my preference is fire. I put my sword away, before reaching out with both hands as I summon Firestorm a large torrent of flames that can cover a whole town appears around me and then I combine with Magic Barrier to condense it down drastically, then apply Explosion, this combination of magic gave birth to something I like to call Explosive Flame Magic, as I was about to launch it at Gris, I see him suddenly smile, something I thought impossible, considering the little I know of him, one thing I do know, he is quite emotionless.
Then the weapons in the air blitz forward, screeching like banshees as they break the sound barrier.
I could only think for a second before I rushed my attack out to meet his.
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New Skills:
Daemons Haki
Weapon Beam Emission
Anti-Magic Beam Emission
(A/N The first fight scene of the novel, what did you guys think? Any improvements that can be made? Make sure to leave a review and let me know what you think of the novel so far!)