Against the World II: Transgression
Chapter 48: Whole Again, Part 1
LUCIFER doesn't believe what happened. How could he, a four-dimensional being, be made to his knees with just a single word? It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make any sense. It must be an incomprehensible illusion. Impossible this is reality.
However, putting it into an illusion was also impossible. Even if it was Supreme Magic [Endless Thought] though. And although (whether) he could be dragged into the illusion, his [Reality Destruction] would easily shatter the illusion.
However, both of his legs were currently completely kneeling. It's counter reality. Paradoxes. It's impossible to happen, but it happens. Lucifer has no idea how this could have happened other than assuming that he is now in a dream. However, his eyes were too wide awake to believe this was a dream.
“What's up, Lucifer? You don't like kneeling? Want to try prostrating?”
As soon as Xavier's question reached Lucifer's ear, his body began to move in alignment with the crater surface. A growl of rage instantly shot out from Lucifer's mouth, filling the air. And a moment later he re-entered his strongest mode – his form has returned to black energy that is hand-held, legged, and headed.
This time the controls are better than ever. If previously anything that approached it would have been destroyed, this time Lucifer managed not to destroy the surface of the crater. The force that had forced him to his knees was now able to fight. Slowly this former archangel stood up.
“Ah, I thought it was impossible to make an individual as strong as you prostrate with just one command.”
Lucifer's attention focused on the commander. Being in the strongest mode made him realize the stark difference in the opponent. He did not radiate the air of existence not because he was too weak, but because he did not allow anything from his body to come out. He doesn't even let out air when he's breathing.
Xavier's body was like a singularity; no information could come out of it. He is not affected by anything that does not exceed him.
“So apparently. You have now become a perfect being like me – we are now standing in the same degree. But—” Lucifer raised and clenched both his hands. “—don't think you're in the wind. Infinity Domain: Cloak of Infinity.”
The hot, dark red energy instantly coated Lucifer's dark black body. Its shattered spirit produced an enormous amount of energy. That energy would form the same universe after some time. Lucifer uses that energy to form the Cloak of Infinity, mimicking the Cloak of God that Xavier previously used. After this he won't be able to use the [Infinity Domain] for some time, maybe even forever, but Lucifer doesn't care.
If I have to sacrifice [Infinity Domain], let it be!
With a cry that filled his head, Lucifer darted to attack Xavier who only looked at him silently. One blow was enough to destroy everything, but Lucifer concentrated his attack on both hands so that no energy would be wasted. So, even though the planet should have been destroyed, there was not the slightest destruction. Not even the pebbles that were kicked were destroyed.
“This is the last round!” lucifer exclaimed along with a right fist that slid towards the commander's face. “Dead and bina—”
“Take another fight,” cut Xavier while holding Lucifer's punch with his palm. At the same time, they were no longer in the craters of the ruined former mountains. They had instantly been above a calm, boundless sea.
Lucifer spontaneously pulled out his hand and unleashed the punch of the other hand, but Xavier only tilted his head avoiding the blow. The energy that the blow released made space shatter, even the ocean was split to an unattainable extent. However, before the dimension was completely destroyed with just a single blow of Lucifer, time quickly restored the vanishing space.
Lucifer doesn't stop there. It releases the third, fourth, fifth, and so on. Space is starting to crumble here and there. The boundless ocean has become like a slashed circle. Even the dimensional sky began to collapse. Time tried to normalize space, but Lucifer's attacks were so tangled.
“Shut up and die, Xavier!” lucifer shouted while smashing his hands over Xavier's head.
“I told you,” said Xavier while blocking both hands of an ex-angel with his left arm. “Take no fight.”
“Don't big head! It's still per—”
Lucifer's mouth was silenced as Xavier brushed off his left-footed kick and quickly clutched his neck with his right hand. The grip was so strong, and at the same time the Cloak of Infinity Lucifer disappeared. The energy of the former angel is absorbed in great quantity. At the same time, the nearly destroyed dimension had returned as it was.
“Takkan no fight,” reset Xavier—and instantly also form Lucifer began to become normal. The black energy that was trailing his body had been absorbed by Xavier. “What there is is is only the provision of punishment.”
Lucifer is not silent. Although his throat had been ruptured due to Xavier's increasingly strong grip, his hands and legs tried to put up a fight. However, his body was instantly jolted as the [Complete Annihilation] disappeared from within him.
“I'll take Supreme Magic from you,” Xavier continued ignoring Lucifer's horror view.
Lucifer no longer felt [Eternal Zero]. That's not all. Even all of his normal magic was gone. [Holy Magic] and the [Light Magic] that he had never used again since being expelled from heaven also disappeared without a trace. And most frighteningly, he felt his body weaken significantly.
“Then I will remove Nueva from your body.”
There's nothing Lucifer can do. His eyes could only look desperately at Nueva's normal body which the commander pulled out.
The loss of Xavier's grip from his neck caused Lucifer to fall on the surface of the water. However, he did not try to stand up and run away. His eyes looked in shock and despair at the Emperor's body lying behind Xavier's feet. He was no longer a four-dimensional being; he was just an angel who evolved into a dragonoid.
“And then—”
Lucifer reflexed looked up hearing those two words – life had disappeared from his eyes.
“—I'll kill you until there's nothing left of you even a particle.”
Flames of all colors appeared above Xavier's right palm. However, unlike what he had seen before, it was the white fire that became the center of the fire. A perfect white energy ball the size of a fist formed as all the flames fused together. Eight accretion disks formed by crossing each other around the energy sphere. However, unlike before, the accretion disk is dark black.
“You have any last words? There aren't. Then, perish in the perfect sense. Turn Null.”