chapter 91: [ HP: Zero ]

Deminic black magic is very powerful and unstable for those who don't have any resistance to it.

those who have a high resistance to it and can freely rain over it are called evil magus's, and that just means advanced magic users of the dark arts

then demonic black magic effects everyone differently but they all share a few things in common.

an extreme pain destributed throught their entire body from the DBM consuming their core mana directly from their mana pools and trying to eat away at the target.

another is that the target will start getting sicker and sicker untill their bodily functions start to act up and or blacking out occasionally just relying on pure survival instincts.

the third only applies to one group, and thats the Demon race, they have the greatest pros and anocs and are the only ones to have a chance of fully rejecting the DBM due to you already guessed it, its a form of Demonic magic.

most in this place would say well theirs diffrent forms of Demonic magics but that's where their wrong,

all Demonic magic originated throught their Demonic mana which originally formed of in their core mana pool as a crystal untill it slowly turned into its own separate pool,

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and then all Demonic arts can be used throught that mana,

but that also means that Demonic black magic had to go throught that process as well since its black magic but also a form of Demonic arts.

and the only way to obtain Demonic black magic is you'd have to one be a magus, seconds aquire a Demonic crystal somehow, and then the last part is you have to be a very skilled black magic user so you could be devoured by your own power.

but what happens and why Demon's can resist is because all of those DBM user's took the Demonic crystals and none of them actually were born with it,

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and that means that its just like their other elemental cores floating around there, their mana pools just weren't created to hold it or adapt fully to its power.

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and it's not in the center aka where the main core crystal is supposed to be which is in balance with the origin core mana around it.

(core mana just means like mana but its the core of everything, so eveything has core mana flowing throught them and to be able to manipulate other types of elements the core mana must go throught and be processes through a elemental crystal/core to be converted)

so those born with the original crystal has a chance to push it out of their systems,

but the process of resisting makes them violent and agitated easily while depending on the Demon race mental states then it could make them crazy or even turn them farel for a while.

and due to lotus being. . .lotus, and he had zero resistance to DBM, he's out for blood and he desires to fight to the death with anything that can kill him and he may have a chance to kill them as well.

and thats what led him to the roof of this building, he smelled multiple powerful entitys which he wished to challenged and which it lead him out of campus,

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even tho the Angel's and Demon's had a treaty, that didn't stop them from challenging eachother to see who's stronger and right now lotus was hoping to challange Johnny for that exact reason, also Johnny was really powerful but was forbidden from using that power for the most part.

as lotus walked out of the den his vision blurred and he fell to his knees as the voices he used to hear returned.

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they kept whispering to him and glyphs kept appearing in his head as he walked.

lotus got back up and he moved to between two buildings were he leaned against somthing and threw up a clear liquid mixed in with his own blood.

it was as if he was dieing, but at the same time he wasen't.

'hey you should just give up and die here' a voice echoed in his head "shut up!" he murmered as he started moving again.

'give in, come in just give in trust me all the pain will go away' they echoed again 'curropt, curropt, curropt' they kept repeating over and over again.

the voices kept talking but then one said 'how about you make me into a guardian and I'll make all of this go away' he said and then all of the voices turned silent.

'see, just like that, I can make the currution go away, I can make that DBM stop talking to you as well, just make into one, give me life' it said in a calm manner.

"no" he said raggafly as he stumbled on a tree root, but as he did the voice got upset and angry.

'you made and gave life to two guardian's that never even existed, their just beings of you're own emotions split in half, but what about me' he said the last part as his tone became more sad.

'they never asked you to create them, their only purpose was to stabilize you till those chains went away and then they'd simply dissapear forever'

'but I want to exist I've been with you for so many years, no matter how many times you've block me out, I didn't care about that because it's only natural,

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but unlike them I'll always be there and you'll never be alone if I'm with you, so why won't you just give me life' it said seeing as whatever this voice was wanted to become real.

lotus ignored him seeing as he was busy deal with his own stuff and the voice spoke one more time.

'I was the first and I never once hurt you, but even if you try to block me out again it won't work, you need me as much as I need you, so here I'll devour all of the voices but that DBM inside your system will stay, there's nothing I can do, but please consider making me one, I promise you won't regret it' he said as he mannafested onside of lotus's head as a being of green mist and then it started silencing eveythis their but one.

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loutus picked himself up and he started going on his way to follow this strange scent that's been getting to him.

after a few minutes of following it and consistant flare ups of darkness he was led out of the schools campus and into the city.

it was pretty empty outside today and after many more minutes of this he started blacking out consistently to wake up him circling an area.

but then in the corner of his vision he saw a skull Habuku which had a powerful scent to it and it started excing lotus and his mind cracked again driving his insanity as he switched targets to Chloe's group.

the Habuku then focused its mana into its legs and jumped multiple times scalling a three story building that was in between larger ones.

lotus had a malicious grin as his body kept flaring up into darkness and then back while he kept that same bloodlust.

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[ PoV of the Nineth ]

meanwhile ontop of the tallest building there sat a darkness with a bloody violet glow who was currently possesing the body of a femail werewolf surves woman (like a cafe worker).

"hey is that Ten? what's he doing over here? I thought One was watch over him" she said to herself as she was sitting on the edge of the building kicking her feet and her tail wagged happily.

"oh!..is he here to watch the turf war as well? haha I knew I wasen't the only one who liked watching these pathetic creatures fight with eachother~" she said as she was looking at him but then she noticed his body kept converting to darkness and then to his physical one in flare ups and pulsing of a incomplete aura.

she looked confused since she couldn't tell if this was normal for those who merged with physical body's, but it just didn't look right.

she then noticed his farel expression and darkness that started circling under his body as he started getting into a high jump motion.

she watched as the darkness covered him and then he jumped leaving behind a tail of dark, he traveled at a grater speed than if he was to use mana to enhance himself.

but the amount of force used was enough to scale a two story building so he had to kick off if a wall and hoped over to another before heading to the one he wanted.

but he almost missed but then he grabbed the edge as he got to the top and maneuvered himself to stop there and land on the edge roof.

she nodded in acceptance seeing as this was his first time useing a [dark jump] but even if it was half right he still managed to do it useing pure luck.

but then she looked puzzled as her little brother was on the building of the 16 magus's.

but before she could think of a reason they all noticed him and they got powered up by summoning their weapons and getting into their fighting stances.

she then looked in excitement seeing and wondering what he was gonna do, maybe he was gonna help them? but then she saw a redish black mixed miasma come and full the roof.

he was using a incomplete domain, this got her non existent blood rushing and she watched in anticipation now for the bloodbath to begin.

but then as she did she examined him and noticed his darkness wasn't even ay stage 1 and that was to be expected since the fastest one of them got to one was in 100 years of this realm.

now she wanted to see how exactly he was gonna beat them seeing as he was weaker.

but then her Ten attacked them and as soon as he met with the first one his physical body's arm turned into a blade as he swiped at them and this coght all of them off guard.

the magus dodge seeing as he was both physically stronger than lotus and he had the intelligence of a normal person unlike lotus who became like a wild beast which only one urge to kill.

but as it dodged it stabed lotus in the chest destroying one of his hearts.

he fell to his knees and and his DP and darkness started raging out as he threw up a thing of blood.

all of this came as a surprise to her and she jumped up as she was about to leave this body and kill all of them in her darkness state.

"I told them it was too soon for Ten to stay outside of the void but no one listened" but the as she got up father's voice echoed in her head "leave him he this is for him to experience, remember that" he said and she grinded her teeth seeing as she could stand seeing her only little brother get hurt like that.

she was the Nineth darkness and after finding out about Ten's location she stuck close by and even possed a few students in his class to freely interact with him and make sure he was safe,

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even tho Eve was there she had to worry about all of them and treated them equally, but nine was the youngest before Ten so she only had him to worry about.

she wanted to dissobay father like last time but then she'd have to listen to Marcel scolding her and that wasen't worth it, so she'd only interfere if he was very close to loosing.

she sat back down and the Habuku's just lowered their weapons seeing as he wasen't a threat and probably was only their to destract them from their enemy's who might of tried sneak attacking them.

but as they saw this one of them laughed seeing as lotus was corrupted and he knew it after licking his blade that he pulled out from lotus's chest.

but as he did they saw as lotus didn't die even after having his heart destroyed, and this confused them and it made the one who stab him weary.

lotus started flaring up in flashes making all of them jump back, he was continously flaring up like if he was a defective light bulb.

this made them put up their guard again and as soon as they did the one told them he was corrupted and they all immediately though he wasn't with their rivals, but he was just someone out for revenge.

but the currution made them grin seeing as he was an easier target due to its effects.

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[ lotus's PoV ]

as he felt a sense of pain rushing thought him and a taste of iron full his mouth, he looked down as he grabbed his chest and blood driped from his eyes, mouth, and chest.

one if his hearts were destroyed and it was the worst pain he's ever felt before, if his other eight hearts get destroyed he knew he's dead.

but then as he fell to one knee again "I got this one" he heard Chloe's voice and as he looked up he saw a skull masked magus walk towards him with twin violet blades of DBM.

he felt his hearts rush as he heard her but then she said "kid I'll end you're suffering for you" she the dashed at him ready to finish him off.

as he watched her ready to kill him he chuckled as he thought this was kinda ironic, but in the end the last one he ever wanted to kill wanted him dead now.

but he then smiled sweetly as all the madness, insanity, and voices dissaprared.

he looked up and said "I'm sorry Chloe" but as he said that and they all heard him she immediately froze.

she just stood there and looked at him before she yelled something "how do you know m-! ! !" but before she could say anything else something grabbed her.

lotus fully turned into a darkness and a giant hand grabbed her as he became larger.

[Titan]

nine looked impressed as she saw a miniature titan and as he grabbed his enemy.

as lotus held her in his hand he litterally ate her whole and then he smashed the ground making spikes of darkness shoot up out of the miasma whiping out half of them which couldn't get react fast enough.

but as this happened the seven who died had monsters of the DBM come out of their bodies.

lotus shrunk back to normal because the DBM in him made his titan form unstable.

but as he want down the other's immediately attacked in rage seeing as their boss and comrad's have been killed by this monster.

lotus began dogging but only escaped by a hair.

he jumped back and his control started getting unstable and he returned to his physical body with both horns and tail already out.

he focused his DM and immediately shot out a demonic blast (new name...its called a seto)

[ seto (level 1) ]

the blast shot at them and without any hesitation they all jumped out of the way as the blast moved right past them and it hit the building nine was on.

luckily she prepared to watch this and put everyone in the city into a temporary sleep.

but after that blast one of the magus's appeared instantly right infront of lotus and slashed his sword down.

lotus managed to dodge it, but at a cost.

he shifted to the right but as he did the sword came down too fast, it cut his left hand clean off and he cried out in pain as his wings appeared and he moved away quickly.

he landed and they dissapered again as he grabbed his arm.

the appeared again without letting his pray go he started swinging his sword again and he used footwork like a pro making slashed appear all of lotus tarring away at his clothing and making cuttd appear on him.

but then fire pulsed off lotus like a force field but then as the magus dodged it by jumping away it fadded and lotus uniform was completely destroyed as it became ash and his incubus form showed fully.

lotus looked broken as he count even think straight, if only he summoned his soul armors he could of prevented some of the damage and if he used his magics he could of atleast semi defeated the magus infront of him.

lotus was currently losing alot if blood and seven beasts of the DBM circled him.

seeing a chance on jumped on his back bitting down on his sholdher and his right hand became a clawed as he plunged his head into its head strait into its brain.

but then six others jumped at him and they grabbed him with their jaws and all eight remaining magus's already had blast charging up.

be noticed them and before he could even do anything, they shot their blast at him and it hit him directly, it also killed the beasts.

the blast incinerated his body leaving two parts of him hehind.

his head and single foot was reveled after the miasma dissapeared and it was cleared.

[HP: 0/2,500]

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meanwhile nine just stood there with a pokerface as she had an angel under her foot.

"Rin!!!" Johnny yelled out but he was being trapped by this werewolf and was show being overpowered as he watched his partner die

and on another roof that was a little smaller than the one those two were on it held seven individuals and three of them held back their leader seeing as she was about to do somthing stupid.

"lotus! ! !" she cried out as she was being held down by Joshua, and two others.

they looked over their as well but they couldn't do anything, they couldn't save their friend no matter how much they wanted to.

and right now Chloe was about to get them all killed if she charged down there.

tears flowed down her face as she couldn't bare this feeling overwhelming her and the others just had silent tears come down their cheeks as that little flower was killed by their rivals.

they really did see him as one of them but when it came to their clan they had to put them before anyone else.

meanwhile back on campus Aurora was flooded with notifications by her system and then the last one appeared.

[name: lotus

HP: 0/2,500]

then another sceen appeared.

[ lotus has became farel ]

[ mission ]

< Reward: ? ? ? >

< Failure: ? ? ? >

[ lotus's hunger: -1000% ]

[lotus's location added]

[good luck]

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meanwhile over at were nine was.

two other figures appeared next to her on both sides taking Johnny by surprise.

and then six other figures appeared on the other buildings surrounding the magus's and lotus.

two of the figures also appeared in the building of Chloe's group making them jump.

but then the two darknesses with a sunset red and aqua blue glow looked at eachother.

"hiro? you heard his call as well?" the girl with an aqua blue asked.

"yeah, it seems as if Ten is about to-" he said and then he looked at the magus's behind them.

the smile on his face didn't go away "it seems we have company, I would of killed you all already, but it seems that three of you have marks of darkness on your bodies that belong to ten so I guess you can watch along with up, isn't that right hanurami" hiro said

he then snapped his fingers and a dome of darkness surounded the block.

"shhhhh~ its about to begin" hanurami playfully hit him as she looked down at the head and foot of lotus.

but then lotus's eye balls grew a dark green and he opened his mouth and roared viciously.

but then as he did both part flared up in darkness and both then fused as a ball of darkness raged ontop a pool of his own crimson blood.