23. Light and Dark

I didn't find Lunox at the deeper part of this room, but instead found a teleportation device. This must be linked to where Lunox is, I teleported and found myself in another room where there seems to be someone inside a capsule.

A beautiful maiden, with golden hair strands streaked by dark ones. She was graceful in every sense. Her beauty, would've made any living thing flustered and trapped in a spell. She had two orbs above her wings, one glowing with warm light and the other emitting waves of darkness.

She must be Lunox, I dismissed her capsule but she isn't moving, looks like she's unconscious.

There is no choice but to carry her, and when I made contact with her, I heard a voice inside my head, "I'll be always there with you." I don't know what it was, but didn't bother about it. I carried her and got out of the room.

As I got out, I saw Alaster and Fanny fighting against Argus and Thamuz near me.

Lunox gained consciousness at the same time, I drop her to her legs, standing by herself, her eyes were in bright purple colour, with the dark orb giving out darker aura. The dark aura was so strong that I felt like I'm standing beside the existence of pure darkness, about to swallow me any second now.

She let out a huge dark aura which sends me flying through the air, near where Alaster is.

She started attacking the whole area with powerful balls of dark magic, heavily wounding Argus and Thamuz on the spot. Alaster protects himself and me with his shield, while Fanny flew somewhere safe.

"Don't worry, I can purify her." Says Alaster.

I shout, "NO!!"

"Why not?" he asks.

"Why would you?" I reply.

"She's a banshee, my purification will make her get rid of the dark soul."

Banshee, it's an evil spirit which gets on female soul to make itself live, while slowly corrupting the host's soul, and take over the body in fullest after sometime.

"She's not banshee, and if you do that, you'll end up killing her."

"How'd you know?" Alaster asks.

"I just know it.. I've seen an actual banshee before."

"If you're doing this just because of her looks, I'm going to-"

Alaster didn't get to finish his sentence, and due to too much force in Lunox's attacks, Alaster's shield breaks in half. I couldn't simply believe my eyes, a shield which have full immunity against magic gets split in half by the power of magic. Is this how powerful Lunox is?

There's no time to think about it now, we need to dodge her attacks or get cover before getting sent to our graves.

Then an umbrella appeared in front of us, blocking the attacks of Lunox. I must be dreaming...

Because this is Seimei umbrella..... and it belongs to...Kagura...

Another figure appeared beside us, unclear whether it's a man or a machine. He was covered entirely in enticing silver armor. His mask would remind you of a crown and his eyes are as red as rubies. Surprisingly, out of all his features, his beautiful golden hair stood out the most, shining more brightly than his silver plated armor and his crown embedded with giant ruby.

The way he wore his scarf and held his sword, this can't be.... it's Hayabusa!

Hanabi casted a purple smoke in front of Lunox, startling her for a while, Hayabusa used his ultimate skill, shadow kill on meteor of Lunox's attacks, dismissing all of them and appearing in front of Lunox. Making her lose conscious with another spell.

After that I saw Alaster recovering his shield with white magic.

Kagura came from behind and said,

"You've grown stronger, Lucifer!" In her usual cheerful smile. I couldn't believe my eyes, so many unusual event happening at the same time that I'm about to burst! I couldn't hold my tears anymore, and said "I missed you both so much!!"

"We missed you too! Glad to see you're doing fine!" Then she gave me a warm hug.

Then Hanabi rushed towards Kagura and hugged her with all her might, while crying out loud, "I'm so sorrrryyyyyyyyy!!!!"

Kagura hugs her back gently, saying "It's all okay!" In a cheerful tone.

I've never felt so happy in my entire life.

Hayabusa came towards me, "It's been a while. Hope you were doing well."

"Indeed it has, master. I thought you both died!"

"No we didn't, we can talk about it later. Now you have a task to finish, don't you?" says Hayabusa.

"Yes, thank you. See you again soon." I say as I quickly head towards Lunox.

Lunox seemed to have gained consciousness as I approached her, asking "Where am I?"

"You're at the V.E.N.O.M. headquarters, they captured you, don't worry we came to save you."

"Thank you." She said.

Then Natalia appeared saying "Leave her to me." Go to the 3rd floor from these stairs and you'll find Dr. Leo's room.

I entered a giant hall where there are lot of stairs, as I was going upstairs, something started to appear from the floor.

The ground started shaking and made me fall on the floor, as that demonic creature summoned itself and landed foot on the floor. It looked like a demon lord, covered in silver armors and holding a silver weapon, unclear if it's hammer or multifaceted axe. This thing is huge! Would be approximately 15 meters in height, there's no one we can fight this demonic presence.

S.A.B.E.R. appears in front of this demon. Telling me to advance to my destination and I did as they said.

Then two person appeared from behind S.A.B.E.R. which caught my attention.

One is Aiden, with his pet Cornelius. And another person.

He was wearing divine armor, which lit up the horizon with its brilliant light, equipped with heavenly weapons strong enough to crack the earth itself and embedded with crystals so beautiful that it will entice whoever takes a look at it.

It was the legendary Martis - God of war, known as the king of Ashuras, the only Ashura to have conquered the fabled three thousand world. With ambition and determination capable of shaking the very heavens, Martis trained every day of his life to become stronger, tirelessly advancing throught the secret worlds, each personal breakthrough against the legions of demons granting him a sense of unique personal satisfication. No one knows how many years passed before Martis reached the final secret world, but his desire for glory drove him onwards. After numerous defeats, he fell into despair, but even then, he refused to give up. He transformed his sheer thirsty for victory into twin blades of righteous fury, now known as the Ashura's Teeth, and for countless days and nights, battled againts the demons of the final world with strength and determination never seen before on the mortal plane. He became the first Ashura to defeat the three thousand secret worlds and has since been regarded as 'King Ashura', ruling tens of milions of aspiring Ashura.

Seeing them in this Battlefield, I have nothing to worry about now, I advance forward to the room of Dr. Leo.