Emperor's Reckoning

Karina leaped backward before landing on her two feet. Her jade eyes gradually diminished as her breath caught up to her. It was her first experience transforming into one, the great power that ran through her skin was enormous but it seemed she had a long way to go before she could utilize any of its special arts. She looked at the young man that courted all the attention as the moon revealed his face. She sat down on her butt as she had done her part.

"Thank you... Karina."

Shen's voice was deep and ruling but Karina could only respond with a smile as her eyelid starting to get heavy. 

"Get a good rest... he will take care of everything."

Russell's pupils went constricted as his jaw was slacked open. His adam apple slightly moved up and down as one could hear the harsh swallow. His feet felt like a noodle before one of them instinctively took a step back as his hand trying to reach out something to support his standing. His face slowly shrank away as his cold sweat moisturized it.

"He.... he's back!"

The tingling trauma on his neck suddenly pricked as he lightly touched it with his finger. Even though he was not being choked by his hand, the feeling of death was imminent at the time that his brain perceived it as an extreme experience that he must be cautious of.

"Gah!" someone crawled out of the crater with disheveled hair. His muscular body was on display but the slicing wounds that he had on still kept on pouring blood amidst its low intensity. Dust rest on his shoulders before he shrugged it off and blew it. He stretched his neck with a crackle to the left and then right. His bare feet slowly left the soil before he put his clasped hands behind his back.

"You must be the one that she spoke proudly about," muttered Weder as he put on a haughty look.

"Be careful father!" shouted Borton as he tightened his grip, his breath was unnaturally heaving heavily just from one look of that young man. (Why! Why am I trembling just by landing my sight on him? No, wait... it's my sword!) thought Borton as he saw the determination of his sentient weapon turned as frail as thin glass. 

"He could cast an immortal spell under a minute! His extreme aptitude is fire! Don't let your guard down father! That man! Has a killing intent that even surpasses our combined effort!" continued Borton.

Weder slowly furrowed his eyebrows as the wrinkles on his face started to curve. The young man in front of him didn't even turn around to greet him properly yet, with such an open back he seemed unfazed. Hundreds and hundreds of men below could pounce on him at any moment but he was unfazed as he freely hovered in the air.

His dark black hair fluttered as its length reached his shoulders. and some more. The bathrobe he was wearing fluttered as his lean arms carried a beautiful empress of war, goddess of war. Blood has dyed the empress's face red and bruises of black and blue were present on her body. However, the pain was minuscule compared to the euphoria on her face as her backhand cherished the young man's cheek. A speck of blood grazed his face but the young man didn't mind the stain.

"Look's like I'm taller than you now."

"Based on your smile, it seems like you are waiting to say that to my face," Lyon smiled brightly to her chuckle.

"I want to lay you on top of a bed for you to rest but it seems like you destroyed the whole thing," Lyon smiled.

"Well, I will leave the rest up to you then, as long as I'm beside you, my hero," Cecile put one last smile before she rested her eyes and breathe calmly on his embrace.

Lyon's eyes slowly opened as his smile was retracted. His eyebrows slowly furrowed as the sharpness in his gaze could penetrate one's soul and see through them. Veins started to bulge around his forehead and his forearms before he gently let Cecile go in the air. Rainbow magic brands immediately formed the moment she left his embrace as mana from the very world surged wildly.

"Immortal Magic: Nirvana Lotus."

Right after he softly chanted those words, a giant lotus immediately grew from the magic brand under her figure. Flowers of giant petals immediately formed as the size was comparable to a pond. The light pink of its color could contest even with the moon above as brittles of lights slowly floated from the base were Cecile comfortably rest. The giant beautiful lotus hovered in the air as the strong wind couldn't even hinder its movement. 

Lyon took one last glance before turning around. His sharp eyes looked at Weder and the rest before he crossed his arms as his back stood straight. 

"Hmm... I don't see how can you teach that lady to that height of a level but I will not judge you because you are just a Divine Realm since she proved to be more than what my son and his friends can handle," commented Weder.

"You are all act so high and mighty, you injured my wife, left her at that stage. Her nose is broken, her beautiful eyes couldn't open as well as before. Her skin is battered and bruised, as blood kept pouring out and dyed her face red. Since all of you want to die so badly, then so be it! I will grant your wishes, since that... what a god would do!"

Lyon gritted his teeth as his two rings lit up at the same time. The purest form of mana immediately engulfed his entire body under their frightful eyes.

"To be a god is to shed mortality, the burning will that cannot be extinguished! I will protect my loved ones! I will bury the fire pit of hell, the cocky heavens too, for God is... me."

His dark galaxy eyes turned sharp as the mana instantly dispersed from his surrounding body.