Reincarnated With The Van Helsing System

Chapter 747: Showdown Devil VS Demon (part 19)

Having suffocated Daimon’s attacks with the massive amount of devil mana that was gathering with him as the center, Marcus glared at Daimon and a black current which materialized on the spot, hit him head on.

"Boooom!", a loud explosion could be heard as the black mana current landed on Daimon’s body which was instantly protected by femi’s twice amplified energy armor.

"Crack!", the upper part of the armor which covered the area of Daimon’s body that has already been tempered had some cracks here and there, but the lower part crumbled on the spot, in other words that simple motion from the devil ruler system user had as much power as his close combat spell from earlier.

Daimon who was forced backwards few dozens of meters looked at his surroundings, Marcus’s domain covered quite a large distance even while he was being restrained by the rules of the blood prison realm.

"Eight hundred meters of diameter while under suppression, it would have been a good achievement if it was obtained through effort instead of a ritual", said Daimon, which made the ghost-like Lezabel laugh.

"Pfft, you are right, the ascension ritual is blocking the repercussions of this place towards his domain~".

"On whose side are you, you bitch", just as Marcus was cursing Lezabel, she had a 180° change in attitude as she turned to glare at him to then add.

"I expected at least one kilometer of diameter though and what is up with that petty trick, do you think you can trick my eyes", she said, her bright red eyes made Marcus feel a chill running down his spine, Lezabel didn’t care about insults and the like, so Marcus was used to curse at her, however the coldness she radiated when her expectations of a devil king weren’t met, was terrifying, for her host at least, since Daimon found it amusing.

"Shut up, I prioritized control and intensity over covered area!", shouted Marcus after gaining enough courage to retort while being glared at by Lezabel to then look at Daimon who flashed from his current position.

Marcus’s eyes surprisingly managed to keep up with Daimon’s movement, probably because his mana sense was enhanced within his domain.

"There you are!", Marcus pointed his hand at his left which was empty just a fraction of a second after Daimon became visible in that same spot.

"Boooom!", once again black currents suddenly appeared out of nowhere, however this time the explosion produced by them wasn’t caused by they clashing against Daimon to then force him into the distance, but by Daimon’s tempered fists which blasted them away.

At the same time, Daimon skillfully twisted his body to kick Marcus’s stomach with his right leg.

"Clang!", a thick black plaque made out of devil shadow mana which was condensed into a material similar to that of what composed the black lion armor, manifested in front of Marcus just in time to block Daimon’s kick.

"Heh, are you trying to imitate me?", said Daimon, Marcus’s move reminded Daimon of when he created the energy shields to block his attacks.

"How pointless, you aren’t used to this fighting style", added Daimon, bright yellow lightning suddenly exploded on his leg.

"Booooom!", as always Dana’s lightning was incredibly fierce, upon contact with the shadow mana plaque it expanded as if it tried to devour it making the thing explode, lightning energy poured in every direction aiming to fry Marcus into a crisp, but he responded by snapping his fingers creating a huge black flame wall to cut the lightning that was advancing towards him.

In case you haven’t realized it, he was controlling wind mana to create those black currents which focused in surprise attacks, the shadow mana was condensed to make defensive creations similar to the black lion armor and the black flame mana was probably used to attack and defend, that was only Marcus controlling the mana of his domain, none of it was a spell.

"A triple, no, quadruple element domain, the first three conform the domain and the fourth one which is "invisible" is there to help its user control the others, it almost makes you pass as someone that has actually put effort or has enough talent to make up for a lack of training", said Daimon who had a bright green energy mask covering his face.

That was the mask creation from Tessa’s energy which granted Daimon an alternative special "sight" which made up for his infinity eyes which’s effect was lowered to the maximum by Daimon.

The previous was the "petty trick" mentioned by Lezabel, she was interrupted by Marcus before she could explain that this accurate control over the mana of his domain was not obtained by Marcus through effort or talent, he was simply using the fourth type of mana he had obtained for it.

Black flames, black wind and shadow devil manas, those were the three types of mana Marcus had control over, then after his royal ascension he obtained a fourth type of mana, one that was hard to detect as it had no elemental reaction.

"Looks like your "royal devil mana" is trash enough to be detected right away, well, while in a mortal galaxy you’ll be able to act as an important royal, in a decent place you’ll barely qualify as a middle range noble among the horned devil race~", added Lezabel.

The fourth mana affinity Marcus obtained was for "royal devil mana" which is an element-less type of mana that is used for the devil in question to rule over other devils, a quality exclusive for those of royal lineage, if one were to define its property then it would be "control".

"What a shame, if you had actually integrated it into your domain, you could have used your mind to directly attack me", said Daimon with disdain, instead of creating a true quadruple affinity domain, Marcus went for the easy and safe choice and created his domain with three elements and reinforced his control over it with the fourth one, externally.

The decision itself didn’t sound bad, the reason as to why Daimon disdained it is because Marcus could have totally used the fourth type of mana for his domain, at most he would have felt some pain due to the strain on his body, but it wouldn’t have really put his life in danger at all.

’I guess I’ll have to wait for Ivy to get a glimpse of what a domain with mind properties that can interfere with the physical world, can do’, thought Daimon.

Mind related affinities that can directly interfere with the world are as rare as space related ones, among all the people Daimon knows, there is no lack of affinities with mind properties, the charming fox girl Erin, Sarah who can "poison" her target’s mind, Jasmine who can ease the fatigue of someone with her support spells, Annette who can disrupt the enemy’s mind are good examples of it.

But only Ivy can directly use her mind to interfere with the physical world, how so you ask, well, that cheeky "Ivy" which she can manifest by using her nightmare darkness mana is created by Ivy’s mind, essentially, she is bringing another version of herself into the real world, one which is clearly affected by her lineage, in Ivy’s own words she is the Ivonne from the "dream world".

It’s not like abilities that simply make copies of their user like the "pride" that the lioness created with shadow mana or dolls like the shadow beast guards used by Marcus, that cheeky Ivy has a mind of her own and could act independently from Ivy, very much to her distress since as someone whose personality is the complete opposite of Ivy’s, she shamelessly flirts with Daimon openly at every given chance.

Daimon is interested in this subject because his Overlord’s Pride also has mind properties and he could feel that the next level of it will bring in a really important improvement something on par with the existence of core synchrony, but to advance he needed "something" which he was currently missing, unfortunately Marcus was a disappointment not only as an enemy, but even as source of inspiration.

"Keep your high and mighty attitude to yourself until after you take on my attacks without dying!", shouted Marcus who had a vein bulging on his forehead, he could endure Lezabel looking down on him considering the one or time he saw her take action which still haunted him in his nightmares, but the masked silver haired youth while obviously strong is not on that level.

"Royal Black Devil Hell Chasing Arms!", a huge amount of mana poured out of Marcus’s body to then be absorbed by his domain which made the area covered by it tremble for a second.

In response shadow portals appeared all over the place before mana gathered on them, one-hundred-meter armored arms with claws emerged from one of the portals and aimed to grab Daimon and crush him to pieces.

"Clang!", a giant red energy’s wolf frontal leg manifested in the air in front of Daimon using its claws to clash with the claws of the giant armored arm.

"Tsk, that red energy has grown stronger again, whatever, you can block one but what about a dozen!", shouted Marcus as he saw the wolf’s leg which he could blast away with his spells easily earlier, now blocking one of the arms on equal standing without showing signs of being destroyed, that was Femi’s energy tempering courtesy by the way.

A dozen of armored arms with claws emerged from some other of the shadow portals that surrounded Daimon and rushed towards him, in response the previously floating wolf’s leg grew the rest of the red giant wolf’s body, which towered to cover four hundred meters in total.

The red giant wolf stood in front of Daimon blocking all the devil arms with its body, naturally a dozen of spells thrown at the same time did damage it, the first six arms were perfectly blocked by wolf’s legs, fangs and even its tail, but the next ones directly landed on its body shredding big chunks of it with their claws.

"Royal Black Devil Hell Fire!", showcasing the improved energy manipulation capacity Marcus had gained thanks to the royal devil mana, the devil ruler system user casted a spell through the arms, earlier he simply added black flames to the hands of the beast shadow guards, this time he was using a spell at distance using a creation from another spell.

Which again would have been commendable if it was done by himself, rather than just letting the royal devil mana do all the job in his stead, because this way the result would be weaker than if Marcus could use his spell creations as casting spots by himself.

"Awoooo!", speaking of which, there was someone here to demonstrate said difference, the red giant wolf howled then in a fraction of what it took Marcus gather the mana to launch his spell which produced black flame streams that were shot from each of the armored arms, the wolf’s body shone in a dark copper colored light which Marcus knew very well at this point, as in it was what conformed that armor.

"Clang!", a loud metallic sound echoed through the battlefield as the black fire streams shot by the armored arms landed on the wolf.

"Boooom!", a loud explosion followed as the wolf was engulfed in black flames for a moment, once the energy cloud subsided, the sight of a heavily copper armored wolf which was perfectly fine was revealed.

And at the same time, Daimon who had used a movement technique became visible in front of the devil ruler system user who was taken by surprise, because considering the time the masked silver haired youth must have used both techniques simultaneously, one on himself and one on a target at the distance.

Now add to that the fact that lightning exploded around Daimon’s right hand forming a tiger’s head which opened its jaws as Daimon punched at Marcus, meaning that Daimon had casted three techniques at the same instead and he even timed the last one to activate with delay.

"Storm Breaking Roaring Fist".

"Rooooar!", at the same as Daimon’s punch released the lightning energy that had gathered on it, Marcus managed to beckon in front of him, black wind currents surrounded Daimon while black flames rained from the sky upon him, at the same time shadow chains emerged from every direction, Marcus was using all the elements of his domain to the maximum of his capacity, to block the masked silver haired youth.

In a rough calculation when the three elements acted together, even without a spell as a medium, Marcus could achieve the same result as him using a strong attack type spell with seventy percent of his mana output, it was nothing to look down upon.

"Boooom!", the three types of mana which Marcus gathered from his domain clashed with the expanding lightning explosion as well as with the shockwave of his fist, for a moment a blinding light filled both Daimon and Marcus’s eyes as they were both engulfed by the explosion.

A few seconds later, Marcus came out of a shadow portal a few hundreds of meters away from the area of the explosion, Daimon on the other hand remained in the exact same spot which was where the explosion originated, the dark copper energy armor on his lower body and head was destroyed in the explosion, but that wasn’t a loss but a gain on his side, since he had finished tempering the rest of his skin now, therefore completing the copper skin technique from Femi’s energy, so he obviously didn’t get out of the main impact range of the explosion on purpose.

As for Marcus, the chest piece of the black lion armor was destroyed and there was a tiger face shaped burning mark on his chest, that was the result of Dana’s lightning bursting through the last-minute defensive triple elemental barricade Marcus created to then leave him a little "greeting gift" before exhausting its power.

"Hssss!", that being said, the wound was superficial, for Marcus as of current it was a skin scratch at most and it healed a second later followed by the black lion armor being reconstructed as well, the humiliation that he was feeling pained him more, especially because the ghost-like administrator never missed a chance to kick him when he was down.

"Such short and multiple casting ability and energy manipulation capacity could have been yours if you weren’t such a wuss~", said Lezabel as she reviewed what happened in her mind, first Daimon made the red giant wolf use a technique to cover itself in armor, used a movement technique on himself and casted a delayed attack type technique all at the same time, what’s more he no longer needed Badr’s amplifying to create the red giant wolf.

"You bastards really like mocking me, so my domain at the peak of the Arch rank seems "lacking" for you, very well", said Marcus as he pointed his right hand at Daimon.

"Royal Black Devil Hell Throne Guards!", with that spell, the armored figures that made a procession for Marcus to follow during the ascension ritual, made a second appearance, they were condensed by gathering wind, flame and shadow mana, unlike the shadow beast guards which only used the latter.

A total of twenty of those honor guards appeared in front of Marcus to then rush towards Daimon, turning into black flaming meteors ten of which separated from the group to distract the red giant wolf.

"Mmm, these guys are stronger than the previous ones, however you are not the only one who can call a "knight" to assist you", said Daimon as his body radiated wave after wave of bright green energy.

As always Tessa and Femi are inseparable, the moment Daimon completed copper skin, he gained control over his version of Tessa’s main technique, in fact it would have worked the other way around as well, but Daimon used more of Femi’s energy during the whole fight, due to its compatibility with Dana’s lightning and Arianna’s red energy as well, so his progress on it was faster.

As to what effect did Tessa’s energy had when Daimon reached control over its main technique, half of the bright green energy that radiated out of Daimon’s body formed, a set of armor, boots, gauntlets, helmet, weapons like a sword, a crossbow, a spear as well as a shield.

The remaining half on the other hand took an even more impressing shape, a female figure that looked like a mix of Tessa and Femi in terms of both face and body shape, that then wore all the energy equipment condensed by Daimon, the result was a full armored and armed to the teeth "wood thorn knight", made out of Tessa’s energy.

The green energy knight extended her hand, the shield that was mounted on her back expanded and blocked four of the incoming royal devil guards, the great sword which was hanged on her back was unsheathed and swung with her right hand, slashing at the claws of another two enemies, her left hand wielded the spear with which she stabbed at another two enemies, as for the remaining two, they were shot at by the crossbow which floated next to the knight.

"Boooom!", the black flames that were burning on the royal guards were immediately devoured by the green knight’s energy that resulted in wood growing out of the guard’s bodies damaging them, luckily only a third of the mana that conformed them was black flame mana, the black wind and the shadow mana were apparently not that extreme on the negative side of the spectrum so they could resist against Tessa’s twice amplified energy.

And in case you wonder how come Marcus wasn’t going mad over the fact that Tessa’s energy stole the control over his black flame mana having surpassed the "rule" over darkness of his royal devil mana, that’s because his mind was completely occupied with something else as of current.

Marcus black horns lit up in black flames which then formed a crown above his head, he then threw the sacrificial dagger used to craft the black lion armor, into the air.

"Crack!", the dagger which Narasha didn’t like in the slightest, cracked on the spot to then explode in countless small shards that dissolved into the air around Marcus, well, it would be more accurate to say that it dissolved into his domain.

The grimoire also made another appearance, its pages shuffled while looking for the ones that corresponded to each of the hellscapes Marcus had used, said pages were ripped off the book and burned in black flames.

Daimon felt the ground below his feet tremble and for a good reason, all the hellscapes which were positioned through the battlefield were suddenly unearthed and raised into the air following Marcus, all of the hellscapes then decomposed into mana currents of different colors that were then integrated into Marcus’s domain.

For a moment, the sky and everything within Marcus’s vicinity was dyed black and when things returned to normal, besides the now one kilometer and a half sized black semi-transparent elliptical area filled with the manas that Marcus commanded surrounding him, there were other things present.

A black and red castle on top of a mountain surrounded by a black water river, then an elegant garden full of thorny bushes and then after all that, defensive walls which were burning in dark pink flames, it was a perfect interpretation of how the residence of a "devil king" would look like and for a good reason.

"Battle Domain, Devil King Castle", said Marcus in a low voice as he snapped his fingers making the giant gates of the castle behind of him open before entering it, his realm took a step into the Stellar rank, so he was now a half-step Stellar, on the outside he could have completely reached it, but here more than that would trigger a direct retaliation from the blood prison realm.

"What do you think, this is the Arch rank trait of a battle mage!", Marcus voice could be heard throughout the whole battlefield, in fact a projection of him who was sitting on a throne could be seen above the castle.