Jumping down from the walls of the Arian Empire. The both of them landed on the ground one after the other. But before the ground could crack under their feet. It was in an instant. But the both of them vanished out of sight as soon as their feet touched the dirt.
. . . . .
Appearing on top of the nearest building. Asmodeus glanced behind to make sure that his son had stayed true to his words and stuck around. And seeing that Aster was closely behind him and not leaving him when he had the chance to. He leaped over to the next building, looking as if he vanished from the perspective of an ordinary person.
But as he leaped to that building, he leaped over to a few more in a zig-zag pattern to mess with Aster. Moving to each building leaving behind an afterimage of himself as he was moving at what humans would call a supernatural speed.
"Keep up! We're going downtown, its a long way from here, Asy!"
Asmodeus says as he leaps to another building but this time changing direction and leaping over to a few buildings to find an oddly tall one in between two smaller ones and then jumping at it and changing directions as he kicked off of it and turned to go in a different direction.
He was planning on having fun in the moment as he had never done this before with Aster. Actually, he hasn't really done anything with Aster since the last Era?
'Hm? How many years has it been since the last era passed?'
Not paying attention to his surroundings as they headed deeper into the town leaping from building top to building top.
Asmodeus started thinking to himself. And as he did they leaped straight into a market district surrounding this empire's one of many religious territories.
And as the two of them leaped from building to building like Shinobi, Asmodeus who wasn't paying attention landed on a church-owned shop, and when he did he automatically reacted to leaping to the next building,
But when he did. He leaped over Town Central; which had been this large open area surrounding around a cathedral-like building. And as he leaped, he leaped directly at the left-wall side of the large church building.
"Asmodeus Watch Out!!!"
But then he came back to his senses as he heard Aster's voice and as he looked up and saw the incoming wall, he balled his fist and a flurry of blue haze swarmed around his hand and he shot a bolt of haze at the building, causing frost to shoot all around from where the bolt hit and as the wall side was covered in frost, large shards of ice shot out from the wall and at Asmodeus.
Ice shards shot out at him and as they came fast, he grabbed onto the spike of the first spike that came in his direction and he twisted his body, planted his feet on the expanding ice, and then kicked off of it and jumping to a new one as he redirected himself.
Meanwhile, Aster who was still following and actually paid attention, jumped into the air, landing on top of the church tower above the bell as his father was doing all that.
Twisted and turning, dodging and shifting, Asmodeus then jumped off of a solid ice spike that finally formed and as it cracked as soon as his feet left it, he jumped straight into the air.
Jumping straight up the air, he heard, "Left or Right!" in his mind as someone had just used telepathy to speak to him, "Right!" so doing the same back, he then shot up into the air and as he shot up and got to the top of what seemed like a church bell tower, he was going to keep going due to how much force he put into his jump,
But then suddenly a hand grabbed his shirt and as he looked to the owner of such hand, he saw Aster, who then proceeded to hurl him in the Right Direction, and then leap after him as Asmodeus was hurled through the air by none other than him.
Asmodeus kicked the air and as he fixed himself in mid-air, he prepared himself to land and as he landed on the ground on an almost empty street, he rolled a few times but then bounced back up as soon as he felt that golden opportunity to ready up, and then he hit the ground with his only hand still attached to his body and as he was pushed back up to his feet, he leaped back onto the roof of a building to instantly be greeted by Aster who was back behind him.
"That was a close one!"
"Yeah, that would have hurt!"
"It would have been funny!"
Having Aster almost crack a smirk, Asmodeus fixed himself back into roof jumping conditions and leaped some more. And when he was finally back in the game, he looked back behind him to still see Aster.
And even further behind Aster. Large ice spikes hanging out of one of this empire's holy gathering places. Which he thought was hilarious.
Carrying on without stop as he kept changing directions to keep the game of roof jump ongoing, he looked back again to see Aster on his tail and he was shocked that he could keep up.
"Ah, so you can keep up with me? I'm impressed"
Picking up the pace he was impressed as Aster might have been just as fast as him. So without hesitation, he used his full speed to make the game more fun.
But he was wrong.
Because Aster was still right behind him and he wasn't even breaking a sweat as he followed directly behind Asmodeus.
'Is Aster faster than me???' Asmodeus Thoughts
'He's too sloppy' Aster's thoughts
Aster moved with speed and grace as every step that he took was like having a peddle float on a calm lake with little ripples.
Meanwhile, every step that Asmodeus took was heavy and rough. Every time he leaped from building to building he left cracks on the roof tiles basically saying to everyone that he had been there.
He was too messy with his steps unlike his son.
His son who might have been faster than him?
'Wait??? If Aster's faster than me. Than..."
But that also brought up the question. . .What the hell was Aster fighting inside of that dungeon?