Nito Lord of the Dead is Dead.(Raw)

(Extra Long Chapter. These are rare and only happen when I feel it is better to keep going than to stop. Will edit tommor when I wake up.)

One good thing about flying on a mountain-sized dragon is she can cover distance like it is nothing. In just a few minutes Amara had already arrived over Fire Link Shrine scaring the shit out of anyone who called it home.

It was not every day that they could see even a drake or wyvern so a genuine dragon was something to see. Amara did not bother landing as she flew in the air over the graveyard. Adrian was on her snout and pointed at the graveyard.

"Burn it down."

She took a breath and rained down hell on all of the skeletons. Not even ashes remained so they could not be brought back. The souls were minuscule, but souls were souls. Artorias and Ciaran had to say that Amara was legendary even when compared to Everlasting Dragons.

Among her race, she might be the second strongest of her entire species. It made them glad that she was loyal to Adrian or they might have a real threat on their hands. Adrian patted her snout as he prepared to jump.

"Thank you, Amara."

The jump was huge, but he just jumped off and landed without a scratch. Everyone else jumped off as well as a fall from this height was nothing to them. The only one who would have struggled was Ciaran as she was not built like the rest so Artorias carried her down.

When they all landed on the scorched graves they had to respect the power of her flames. Adrian looked at everyone and gave them all a warning.

"Rember, the domain of Nito is full of undead and skeletons. Use anything to smash them apart or kill them permanently. If you have divine blessings use them, if you can use anything cursed use it."

August slammed his Swordspear in the ground and caused it to crackle in thunder. He was the next one who had his equipment worked in the dragon forge so he wanted to put it to the test.

"Well, let's descend shall we."

Everyone was ready as Priscilla had her Life Hunt which would definitely kill them permanently. Seraphine would just turn them to dust with pure brawn and many of the Fume Knights were going to do the same.

Artorias' sword and shield had a divine blessing which was perfect here so they were ready. Seeing how everyone was ready they entered the catacombs.

It was just as they expected and the swarm of skeletons rushed toward them in droves. There were hundreds of them or maybe more, but no one recoiled.

Adrian drew his swords and called on his soul energy to produce his miasma. It had the properties of Life Hunt, but it was much more volatile. He stabbed his sword in the ground and unleashed a wave of black mist covering the skeleton army in it.

In their eyes Adrian did not just look like a giant being, but a demon had come to invade their homes. That was not even the worst of it as it ignited in black flames that destroyed their bodies into dust.

Unlike normal Adrian did not get the souls of the skeletons, he drained the energy of their souls. All of it rushed at his body and he felt stronger than before, but it was negligible as the foes were weak. Once the army was dead his team looked at Adrian with awe.

He stumbled for a second as that took more soul energy than he expected. August and Artorias helped him up as he felt drained.

"Turns out soul-related abilities are draining."

Priscilla nodded as she understood.

"Be careful uncle, draw too much power and you could cause your soul to crumble. Soul power is what keeps it together, but what was that?"

Adrian trusted the people here and just knowing about it would not do any harm.

"Well, my soul ability relates to souls, fire, and thanks to Priscilla Life Hunt. All three mixed together to form this fire that burns the body and soul before I devour the energy of the vitality and souls."

Priscilla was happy that he had benefited from her ability so she was glad she gave him that soul shard. All of them Fume Knights wanted to know if they had any cool abilities like Priscilla, Adrian, Artorias, Sif, Solaire, and Seraphine.

They too did not want to be left behind so they would be bothering Logan for more training. Seraphine was the first to call out the issue at hand.

"That is good and all Adrian, however, we don't get souls like that. You drained all of the power from them so we don't get any. If you go and destroy all of them we won't be able to get stronger."

Adrian nodded as he leaned on the wall thinking about it.

"Well, I will just stick to using it on my weapons. Come on then, let's get Seraphine her lord soul."

As they walked down Artorias looked at Seraphine with a questioning look.

"Is there a reason he wants to give you the lord soul?"

She looked up at Artorias and thought about it.

"Well besides being his lover I guess because I am undead. I think it just matches me, why?"

Artorias said what was on his mind.

"Well can you contain such a powerful soul without going mad?"

Adrian looked behind him and smirked at him.

"Just you watch, I bet she will surprise you. Plus, she can kick your ass as she is now."

Seraphine was just happy that Adrian believed in her, but for now, they would start the main assault. They all jumped down and the first step was to open the path. To the left was a switch where a bonfire and a necromancer took home.

Adrian kicked the necromancer's head into the wall and lit the bonfire for them. As he did that Solaire pushed in the lever opening the path up. Before they continued they all drew their weapons in case they were swarmed by the undead.

Adrian knew the path, but he decided to be smart.

"Split up into teams of four. August, Artorias, Seraphine I want the three of you with me."

Artorias nodded as he and Lucian used a shield. When they slit up Priscilla, Ciaran, Solaire, and Sif would join together in a team. The Fume Knights split into two teams of 5 as there were ten of them.

Once the teams were set up they all wished the rest luck and split to explore the catacombs. Adrian was the one leading them toward Pin Wheel, but on the way, they would massacre skeletons and necromancers.

As they walked deeper August noticed that for every necromancer they killed the skeletons would not come back.

"It seems that those are keeping the skeletons up."

Adrian nodded.

"They do a good job at it if we leave them mostly intact. Smash them to dust or devour their souls and they don't come back."

Artorias swung his giant blade and cleaved an unfortunate necromancer down the middle

"I agree, they die easily, but they got many guards."

August raised his Swordspear and launched a massive lightning bolt at a small hoard of skeleton knights. There were not just skeletons, but knights and a higher level of the undead.

As they continued on the descent into the catacombs they ran into the wheel skeletons which Adrian hated with a passion. He knew they were close to Pinwheel who according to the lore stole the power of Nito.

Adrian did not believe it for a second and he felt there was more to Nito. He first wanted to see if he could talk to him, but he still was looking to kill him. Seraphine jumped down and when the skeletons spun at her she smashed through like a berserker.

"They are dead now."

The rest jumped down with her and walked toward the open giant casket. When they jumped in they laid eyes on Pinwheel who was working on a skeleton. When it turned around to see who disturbed it, Adrian threw his longsword like a spear and killed it.

All it took was one blow and it died which made all of them except Adrian confused.

"That was it?"

Seraphine walked up to the corpse and kicked it slightly. Adrian called his sword back to his hand as he laughed at her reaction.

"Disappointed?"

She nodded.

"Kind of. I expected a powerful necromancer."

August looked at the copse and incinerated it with lightning to make sure it stayed dead.

"Well let's continue."

Adrian nodded

"Before we go I got an idea. SIF, LEAD THE OTHERS DOWN HERE! WE WILL BE IN THE MAIN TOMB! Come on, let's go."

They all entered the main tomb as they knew Sif had heard them. A normal wolf had great hearing not to mention a magic one like Sif. As for the wolf he slashed his giant blade into a large group of undead as it glowed a bright silver. His special soal ability was that he could cut nearly anything with it.

His giant ears twitched when he heard the loud yell of Adrian. Ciaran noticed how his ear twitched and knew he heard something. He looked at Ciaran, Priscilla, and Solaire and motioned for them to follow him.

"Is it uncle?"

Priscilla was not worried one bit for Adrian as to her he was the strongest person she knew. Sif started to lead them down toward him. As for Adrian and his group they were tearing through the undead giants.

Artorias began to call on the abyss despite the fact that he was afraid of it. He did not want to fall to it, but it was a permanent part of him. The murky mist of the abyss empowered him and he felt the call to let loose to madness, but he controlled it.

August rained down lighting like he was the embodiment of the Nameless King. If anything using this weapon that once belonged to the First Born made him feel closer to his ancestor.

After another hour of battle, they made it to the bottom and the entrance to the abode of Nito. Adrian knew they had a lot more to explore, but for now, this was not about the items here. It was a boss run and that was it.

He looked at his group who were all pretty tired from the army of skeletons they put down. He sat down on a big rock which made Seraphine take her seat on his lap. Artorias and August both sat down on large rocks as well which made Adrian look at both of them.

"So August, when will you find a woman?"

Artorias glanced at him interested as well. As for August, he shrugged.

"Who knows. I, for now, have not found one to take my heart or interest."

Seraphine who was blunt as always asked the important question.

"Are you a virgin?"

August scoffed.

"Of course not. We just have never had what can be called wives or lovers. Us Fume Knights were mostly focused on-"

"Dragons and War."

August nodded at the words of Artorias. Only someone who was around from the start could understand them. Even he only got with Ciaran very recently as he was so focused on his mission.

"Well in the current state in the world finding a woman is rather hard. Not all are as lucky as you captain."

Adrian just smiled with pride.

"Well, not everyone is me."

Seraphine looked up at him and nodded.

"Thank the gods or we would be all dead."

At that moment they all heard the howl of Sif who was running toward them. They knew their break was over so they all got up and ready for the coming fight. When Sif stopped in front of them he went toward Adrian first.

Artorias looked at how his best friend for whatever reason seemed to want to follow Adrian more. Ciaran jumped and stood next to her lover as she looked into the entrance to Nito's domain.

"That is where the Gravelord makes his home?"

Adrian nodded.

"The one and only Nito is down there. Where are the others?"

Priscilla thought about it as they had passed one of the teams on the way here.

"They said that they were going to loot the place for you uncle. They know you liked to collect most of the valuables and do not like to miss a trinket."

Adrian sighed.

"While true did they have to make me sound so greedy. Well, let's enter."

Adrian pushed into the fog gate and walked forward as the rest entered with him. They stood over the hole in the ceiling where Nito had his coffin. He drew his swords and looked at everyone.

"Solaire, August both of you rain lightning on him. Seraphine, Artorias. Priscilla, Sif at the front with me. Ciaran attack when you find an opening."

They all jumped down and just as they expected Nito's corpse began to release a purple miasma and emerged from his sarcophagus. He screamed and began to cause skeletons of all kinds to emerge from the ground.

Adrian did not even get a chance to try to ask him anything as Nito was not one to be talked with.

"Fine then, do it."

"Thought you would never ask, Praise the sun Nito."

Solaire had improved his miracles even further and when he activated the powerful miracle 30 large spears did not rush at Nito. They were absorbed by the Swordspear of August who held it like a lance and threw it at Nito.

The death lord swung his curved blade at it, but the powerful weapon stabbed through his skeletal body. The power of lightning and fire that had been imbued slightly into the weapon dispelled a part of the miasma from his form.

Nito did not expect to suffer such a wound at the start of the battle. Using that chance Artorias boosted his power with the Abyss which caused Nito to recoil for a moment. His holy shield and the Abyss were opposites, but he forced it to work together.

Artorias realized that the current Nito was only a shell of his former self. As the lord of death, he needed beings to die to gain power. With the curse of the undead, his power was wanning, and after using his Lord soul for who knows how long he was running on empty.

He swung his sword and cleaved the sword arm from Nito, and using that chance Adrian cleaved his leg from under him. Nito ordered his undead to rush at the rest, but Priscilla's Life Hunt was deadly.

The Moonlight Greatsword was a deadly weapon in her hands that felt like it was made for her. It made her smile under her helmet as she ended up liking battle. As long as she could fight with Adrian all was okay.

Nito forced himself up and launched a huge explosion of death magic in all directions. Adrian coated his swords in black fire and created a firewall to stop the attack in its place. Using that chance he slashed upward with his greatsword cutting Nito from the pelvis to neck.

The Death lord felt his Lord Soul being ripped out of him which made him feel terror. Using the second of hesitation, Seraphine jumped from Sif's back and swung both swords diagonally cutting Nito into 4 slices.

Adrian did not even see this as a fight as, despite the fact that Nito should be powerful, Dark Souls was tragic. Once powerful beings and heroes would be reduced to husks of their former selfs Nito included.

Nito was still animated as he clung to his unlife by threads. Adrian stood in front of him and apologized.

"I am sorry, take your rest. You deserve it."

He slashed down and finally ended the unlife of Nito. When the Lord Soul emerged from Nito it was just as he expected, drained. The golden soul of Nito did not look like what he expected however it felt dark and like death.

"I knew it, most of the power of this has been drained."

All of them looked at the soul and it did not look as they expected. They expected a powerful soul of a Lord, but all they got was an ember of a once-powerful thing. He passed it to Seraphine who held it in her hands.

"Do not absorb it yet, we need to be sure."

She nodded and stored it in her inventory.

"Fine with me, now that Nito is dead, what is next?"

Adrian had an idea.

"We will need to take on the Witch and from them on consolidate our power. We got to make sure we are at our peak. Everyone agree?"

They all nodded as they knew if the fire would fade they wanted to be as strong as possible for it. Adrian did not tell them about DxD world yet, but he would let them figure it out. He also wanted to max out his stats finally and buy some system material.

"Let's get out of her then."

They all began the journey out of the domain of Nito, but first, they would have to find the rest of the Fume Knights. Adrian started to come up with a plan to first max out his stats and buy anything he needed.