Chapter 49: Medici

Chapter 49: Medici

Lucas was terrified, no, it was too underwhelming to put it that way; just being close to the man paralysed him to the core, his thoughts slowing and consciousness clouding by the minute.

He desperately tried to use his remaining strength, but his illusions were quickly shattered as he felt the heavy aura pressing down on him like a mountain, rendering him unable to move any part of his body.

He felt his chin being grabbed, and his gaze met the red-haired man's crimson eyes.

Everything in his vision slowly faded into darkness, but the crimson eyes remained, haunting him.

In the crimson eyes, he saw reddish fires burning brightly like stars, illuminating the darkness.

He began to see visions in which the red-haired man left nothing but disaster in his wake, mountains of corpses of mythical creatures lay on the battlefield as the red-haired man sat on top of it covered in blood, yet the craziness and madness in his eyes and smile didn't fade despite the scene before him.

It went on and on, he saw innumerable battles of the red-haired man, and his mind went almost insane, unable to stand it any longer... The visions didn't end, though; they kept coming back...

The frightening visions repeated over and over in his mind, seeking to dismantle him into the last of his pieces.

His consciousness became blurry, and he felt as if he were falling down at the last moment, then his blurry vision saw the dark river flowing with no beginning or end, towards which he was falling.

'Is this it...?' His entire life flashed before his eyes in the last moments, finally focusing on three pictures, one of which was him swearing his loyalty to his lord, another was him dancing with Diana in the ball, and finally, it was him smiling with Diana, Blaise, and Edward while enjoying the holidays that we rarely got.

In the end, he felt regret and pain....

'I'm sorry, Diana. I broke my promise...'

When his figure arrived just before the dark river, a burst of pure light erupted from the void, illuminating the entire darkness. It also submerged him completely....

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In the battlefield, a terrifying aura of destruction erupted, freezing everything across the no man's land.

The blots of crimson and blue lightning that had been colliding in dark clouds against each other vanished as if erased, as did the majority of the angels' attacks across the battlefield.

The angels felt suffocating aura covers everything around them, as screams of the pain and terror sounded everywhere.

Medici looked up with interest, as he swatted Lucas away, causing the other to fly across and crash into the ground, leaving a trail of blood before stopping.

Lucas' eyes were closed, blood streaming from them, and his face was as pale as a corpse.

While, he was completely motionless, as if he died. But, his chest, on the other hand, moved up and down weakly, implying otherwise.

The sword in their hands broke apart into fundamental blocks of information, which immediately went to Medici's mind.

Diana, on the other hand, did not hesitate to attack again, she attempted to instil a vast amount of useless knowledge and miscellaneous information into Medici's mind.

She didn't hold back, either out of rage at seeing Lucas in that state or knowing she was facing a man who had fought side by side with her lord in the past.

However, all illusory information, whether it came from the sword or was sent by Diana, was set ablaze with crimson flames.

The crimson flames completely burned the information itself, destroying it.

Medici said with a grin, his crimson eyes glowed.

"It's my turn now."

While continuing, he looked up at the crimson sky.

"So, what are you going to do now to save your precious little lover?"

Boom!

A blot of crimson lightning fell from the sky, slashing right at the figure of Lucas, whose teleportation had been completely disrupted by Medici's tampering with the spirit world, which rendered all spirit world travel useless across the battlefield.

"No!" Diana screamed as she saw the lightning, her eyes filled with panic and fear. She didn't hesitate to use her most powerful move.

At that precise moment, Medici appeared in front of Diana, filling the other's eyes with horror.

Slap!

A resounding slap echoed across no man's land.

Medici slapped her away before she could even perform her supposedly powerful move.

Diana felt the entire world before her spin, and she felt light. Everything in her vision was moving so fast that it took her a moment to realise what had happened.

However, it was already too late.....

She felt her vision become cloudy and her mouth fill with blood as she used her last remaining strength to only see the crimson lightning descending on Lucas in the distance.

"Lucas!" Her heart-wrenching roar echoed across the battlefield.